Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 117, 31 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Grass seed sowing is being pushed on at Birmingham. Spurious £1 Bank of New Zealand notes are iv circulation in. Wellington. There is an increased demand for young cattle in this district, and prices continue to harden. We learn from the Standard that the Hon. It. Seddon will give an address in Palmerston North this evening. The bachelors in Birmingham proposo giving a bull early in April. Great preparations tire beiug made to ensure success. With rcforonco to the bumble bee traces of which have now been found in many parts of tho district, Mr Rayouhill, of Bunnythorpe, states that a vest containing about 50 bees and a great quantity of eggs was found in some ploughod ground at Stouey Creok recently. — Times. Yesterday morning a man named Jobson attempted to jump the fence near the Empire Hotel, and his foot striking the top mil Jobson fell and broke his right le" in two places. He was carried to Halley's Shamrock Boarding House, where he was staying, and Dr Charlton set the fractures. Jobson was sent to the Wauganui Hospital by the mail train iv tihe afternoon.

We understand that Mr Macarthur. will not address bis constituents until just before the coming session as he is ordered by his medical adviser to take as long a rest as possible in order to re-establish hie health. Mr Tripe, dentist, will visit Feilding on Tuesday, April 19th. Some very interesting notices appear in our Wanted Column. Miss Kirk and Mrs Shepherd will address the meeting in the Forester's Hall, in connection with the Women's Christian Temperance Union, to-morrow evening. Ministers in Cabinet yesterday decided to defer for the present the question of fixing a date for bringing the penny post into operation. Wo understand that Mr J. S. Milson is about to commence business in Feilding as a stationer, in the shop adjoining Mr Svendsen's boot warehouse, Manchester street. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 2-4 hours from 9 a.m. to- day— Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all places southward of Napier and New Plymouth and for colder weather to all northern stations. A building is now in. course of erection opposite Mr Worsfold's Buckingham Palace, for Mr Rhody Sheehy who will carry on the business of a blacksmith and farrier. Mr Sheehy hopes to make a start about next Wednesday. In consequence of the prevalence of influenza in the diocese of Dnnedin, Bishop Moran has issued a circular to his priests dispensing with the fast and abstinence usual during Lent for the remainder of that season. The average cost per head of the the military forces of New South Wales is over £29, being the highest of any of the colonies ; South Australia comes next with .£l7 lls ; Queensland, £16 14s ; and New Zealand, .£lO 16s. We learn from the Manatvatu Stand nrd that Mr Kenneth Wilson has been very successful in establishing evening classes in connection with his High School in Rangitikei street, Palmerstou North, a large number of pupils now being on the roll. A storeman at £2 a week was advertised for in the Age the other morning, and a crowd of 400 gathered in front of the premises mentioned. When thry found it vms a hoax the crowd marched to the Age office and demanded the name of the advertiser. The paper refused to give it. Mr C. M. Crombie, Commissioner of Taxes, announces in another column that " every person and company who have derived lucome during the year ending March 31st, 1892, are required to furnish to the Commissioner i-eturns of such income on or before the 18th of April next." Forms of statement may be obtained at an}- post office. A man named Frederick Richard Millman met bis death in a shocking manner near Waipawa on Saturday last. A pair of horses, which he was driving in a buggy, bolted, and the pole of the buggy came in contract with a telegraph pole on the road. The shock of the collision threw deceased head foremost against the telegraph pole with such violence that his head was smashed, death being instantaneous. Carrots make an excellent food for horses, particularly during sickness. They improve the appetite and slightly increase the action of the bowels and kidneys. They possess also certain alterative properties. The coat becomes smooth and glossy when carrots are fed. Some veterinary writers claim that chronic cough is cured by giving carrotd for some time. The roots may be considered au adjunct to the regular regime, and if fed in small quantities are highly beneficial. Our local amateurs purpose giving a grand variety entertainment at the Assembly Rooms on Easter Monday night, in aid of the local Football Club. No efforts are being spared to make the show a big success, and as the object of the entertainment is a good one, we hope to see a crowded house. The various items on the programme (which will shortly be published) are in active rehearsal, and the performance will be closed with the amusing comedy of "Aunt Charlotte's Maid." 'I he Russian navy consists at the pre* sent time of 30 first-class vessels, 48 second»class ships, 88 third-class ships, and 20 vessels of the fourth class, or a total of 192 vessels. Government have just ordered two vessels from Herr Schi ehau, of Elbiug, and preparations ore being made at the yards in St Petersburg for the construction of two ironclads of 4,020 tons. The St Petersburg yards are also oeing considerably enlarged to enable them to undertake the construction of eight vessels during next year, — In« dustries. There are two ways of farming— the one to make a living, the other to make money. In farming to make a living, a man may have 320 acres of land and but little cnpital. Then he grubs along, with poor stock, poor tools, and little help, and by close managing and rigid economy he manages to hold hie own. With 100 acres of land and capital enough to buy good stock, such implements and laboursaving machines as would enable him to give the best cultiatiou with the mini* mum of labour, with the ability to hire such help as was needed, and to hold his crops for advantageous sales, he could farm to make money. Which plan do you adopt ? In one of his lectures on Japan, delivered recently in America, Sir Edwin Arnold said : — " I was led to Japan by grammar. No guide book took me there. I had read all the guide books, and most of them are not very good, None of them lured me to Japan, but I picked up a grammer once, and there I read — 'The Japanese language has no imperative mood. The Japanese lauguage has no form of oaths and no words of abuse.' I rubbed ray eyes, but there was the positive affirmation that one could not swear in Japanese, and could not abuse anybody in Japanese, and you could not tell a person to co, rudely or roughly, in Japanese : and I found it to be really so. The worst thing you can say in Japanese is ' fellow !' Or if you are very much put out you say, 'There ! There !' It sounds like exaggeration, but you can» not find a bad word in a Japanese dictionary. Tilers are those who might find that a great privation."