Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 122, 12 April 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Band of Hope meeting in the Methodist Chapel this evening at 7.30 p.m. Hooping cough is now prevalent in Masterton. The Foxton races will be held to-mor-row. The special train will leaye Feildmg at 8.40 a.m. The usual half-holiday will not be kept to morrow as Good Friday will be a close holiday. Dr E. W. C. Wilkinson is gazetted a public vaccinator for the Eangitikei district. Colonel Humbert states that the position of the French troops in Soudan is desperate, and they are unable either to retreat or to advance. There is no man that itnpnrietb his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more, and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he gneveth the less.--Bacon. If the present rate of destruction by weasels of poultry is kept up, there will be none left in a couple of years. We hear complaints every day from our couutry subscribers. The improved outlook in the wool market in England just now is a source of much satisfaction to our local growers because their last clips should just touch the rising rates. The building formerly occupied by the Bank of New Zealand at Halcomte. is now being removed to the new site iv Fergusson street, Feilding, next door to Mr M. Keen, the well-known bootmaker. His many fnends in Feilding will regret to know that Mr J. Jensen, formerly in business here, but who now resides at Bunnythorpe, have been seriously ill for some time suffering from the after affects of influenza. The rehearsals for the show to be giyen on Easter Monday night in aid of the Feilding Football Club, are being actively carried on, and the entertainment promises to bo in overy way a complete success. The shooting season for both native and imported fjame opens in the Welling ton Acclimatisation District on Friday next, the 15th inst, and closes on the 31st July. Licenses to shoot and sell game can be obtained from the local Postmaster. A number of residents in Fiteherbort street, Paluieratou North, who have been complaining latoly of the depredations made by weasels have now come to tho conclusion that the " genus homo " have something to do with tho foray's, the work being too complete for the ordinary weasel. — Standard. The codlin moth is, the Wairoa Guar» dian is informed, making fearful ravages among.tt the Wniroa orchanlists, pears, plums, and even quinces having been attacked /is well as apples. It is also snid that the grub Lad entered the potato as well. The orehnrdists should— instead of talking about cutting their trees down — hold a meetinc and decide on a plan of action against the enemy. Mr W. A. Ellis, who has been engaged on the literary staff of the New Zealand Times and Mail for the past five years, and who is now severing his connection with those journals for the purpose of filling the position of editor and manager of the Marton Mercury, was on Friday afternoon presented with an electroplated teapot, suitably inscribed, and a pair of silver table napkin rings by the members of the literary and composing staffs of the papers mentioned. At tho. R.M. Court yestorday before Messrs Kirton and Sherwill, J.P.'e, Mary Cox pleaded guilty to being drunk on Saturday, but not guilty to haying used obscene language on tho same occasion. In consideration of her having been locked up since Saturday night, thoio was no ponalty inflicted for the drunkenness but she was ordered to be imprisoned until the rising of the Court for the bad language the use of which was proved by Mr Watts, stationmaster, and Mr Towlar, railway porter. There a>e four Irelands in the United States, Hibernins and JSrins are often found throughout tiic Bopublic. and towns called after Irish counties and cities are very numerous. There is a Donegal, a Carlow, a Kildare, an Armagh, and lios" common ; Gal way, Wicklow, and Longford are also to be found. There are seventeen Dublins, nine Tyrones, seven Limericks, live Clares, four Mayos, four Slijjos, three Corks, nine Derrys and a bewildering number of o'.hor Irish places, geographically remem bored in that way by the Irish settlers.

The R.M. Court will sit to-morrow. An apple-tree in the garden of Mr Hotchkiss, Cheshire, Con. (U.S.A.) yielded in one season 110 bushels of fruit. This is the world's record for apple-trees. Eyenifaboy is always whistling, "I want to be an angel," it is just as well to keep the raspberry jam and cheese cakes on the top shelf of the pantry. We have to acknowledge receipt of a ! complimentary ticket for the Foxton I races, from the secretary, Mr John E. j Ru9sell. The Premier, the Hon John Ballance. ! will address the electors in tho Assembly Rooms on Thursday the 21st instant. His Worship the Mayor will preside. The old steamer Oraeo, which for mnny years was employed in the trade between New Zealand and Melbourne, is now a four-masted barque. She recently made the passage from Newcastle to Honolulu in 45 days. Yesterday Mr Fair Bold Thompson, of Kimboltou road, received a handy donkey engine from the well-known establishment of !S. Luke and Son, Wellington. The engine will be used for working a cream separator, wood cutting, etc. The N.Z. Times understands that the convict camp at Milford Sound is to be broken up, aud the experiment of using prison labour on road making there is to bo abandoned. In more ways than one it has not proved the success that was anticipated. We (Post) are sorry to record the death of the mother of Mrs Jacob Joseph and Mrs Coleman Phillips, of Wellington, who died at her residence, Sydney, on the Bth instant. The late Mrs Joseph was a very old colonist, and was yery much esteemed. It was stated in Palmerston on Saturday that Mr G. Newth, widely known in athletic circles locally and otherwise, was in the Wellington Hospital, having injured bis knee so severely at Blenheim as to render it probable amputation will have to be resorted to. — Manawatu Times. Mr J. E. Henry, the well-known handicapper, is receiving great praise from the leading Southern journals for his admirable adjustments in connection with the Canterbury Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting. One paper suggests » handsome bonus should be made to Mr Henry. Merit always meets with its reward. The Premier has been in communication with the Priemers of the other colonies on the Royal prerogatiye exercised by Governors in extending mercy to condemned persons. The idea is for tho several ministries to retain that power in their own hands, no doubt to enable them to help a friend " of the right color " in his time of need. Sir Samuel Griffiths in a speech delivered at Maryborough on March 15, strongly commented on the fact that the labor leaders declined to allow white men to work on sugar plantations, and at the same time refused to allow black labor to be introduced for that purpose. It was j now evident, he said, that the power of the labor leaders was daily waning. The corrugated iron industry has now a good footing in Auckland. The Onehunga Ironworks are rolling the sheets, and Mr S. Parker has a zincing and corrugating factory working up the sheets. He has a plant equal to turning out 1,000 to 1,500 tons a year, and there is plenty of market for his output, as the import of galvanised iron in 1890, was 8,500 tons. Mr Popplewell, the Gore solicitor, has not yet received any requisition to contest Bruce, but has informed the ' Standard ' that the matter has beed mooted among his friends, who have offered to pay his electioa expenses in the event of him consenting to be nominated. The contest, we (Dunedin Star) fancy, will be confined to Messrs Lee Smith, and Allen. The promoters of the entertainment to be giyen in the Assembly Rooms on Easter Monday night in aid of the Feilding Football Club, are making every effort to achieve success. We are informed the committee have secured the services of Mr A, Clampett, tho well known and popular baritone singer, to assist at the concert. Other talent is also coming forward, and the entertainment Bhould prove a great success. The committee who have charge of affairs in connection with the Premier's visit met last night, and made further arrangements for the occasion. Extra seating accomodation is to be provided, and a limited number of chairs reserved for ladies who will be admitted by tickets to be obtained of Mr Morey or Mr Peter Thomson. The Mayor is to be asked to receive Mr Ballance on his arrival. After arranging other details, the committee adjourned till Saturday evening at 7.30. A lady correspondent writes to the Sydney Herald : — " Will you publish a simple but almost certain preventive for typhoid, which seems, unfortunately, to be somewhat on the increase. Let all mothers of families giye their children rectified spirits of turpentine in the following quantities every night on going to bed : Three to twelye years old, four to eight drops in half a teaspoonful of sugar; above twelve years, eight to ten drops. It destroys the typhoid germ, and much suffering may be prevented by this simple and cheap remedy. If a child is seized with typhoid, repeat the dose five or six times a day, and let no solids or meat in any form be given. I speak from certain knowledge, and hope this little information may prove of use to someone." The Commissioner of Police has addressed the following memo, to officers in charge of districts : — "The attention of the Hon. the Defence Minister has been called to the increase of larnkinism in the various towns in the colony, and the inefficiency of the police in dealing with this nuisance. In many towns groups of lads are permitted to collect and loiter about street corners, spitting on ladies' dresses, making use of disgusting and profane language, and eren insulting passers«by, whilst others amuse themselves by breaking lamps, unhanging gf.tes, and various other objectionable practices. The commissioner therefore directs officers in charge of districts to take such steps a« they may deem necessary to vigorously suppress these objectionable and annoying habits, and he is assured they will receive every assistance from all respectable citizens in carrying out this duty." New regulations for the sale of arsenic and strychnine are gazetted. These proyide that it shall not be lawful for any person to sell or dispose of strychnine or arsenic in any quantities unless such person shall, previous to making the entry required by the provisions of the twelfth section of the Act, obtain from the intending purchaser of such strychnine or arsenic a statutory declaration setting forth the particulars hereinafter mentioned. Immediately upon completion of the purchase tho seller of such poison shall forward such statutory declaration to the Registrar of the district oppointed under the Act, provided that this regulation shall not apply to the sale of the arsenic wholesale for use in the cure of diseases in sheep. Every such declaration shall state precisely (I) tho Christian name and surname of the intending purchaser at full length, together with his other occupation and address ; (2) the exact quantity and name of the poison required ; and (3) the express purpose or purposes for which such poison is alone intended to be used, and the places or localities where the same is to be used or deposited respectively. The new regulations come into operation on Ist May. —Post.

The banks will be closoil on Friday, Saturday, and Monday next for the Easter holidays. It is understood that a number of the Feeding brethren will assist at the Masonic installation, to be hold in Palmerston North, to-morrow evening. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- day — Warnings for easterly gaies and rain hold good at all places. The members of tho commit.too and subscribers to the presentation to Mr P. Bartholomew, are requested to meet at Mr Bray's office to-morrow evoniug at 8 o'clock. Sir A. P. Caron. ex-Minister of Militia and Defence in the Dominion Purl in merit, has been charged with applying £20,000, a portion of railway subsides, to the payment of his election expenses, and an enquiry is now bong held into the truth of the accusation.