Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 146, 7 June 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Tripe, dentist, will visit Feilding on Wednesday the 15th instant. Another stock Inspector has been appointed, Mr J. C. Miller. The Featherston Rifle Volunteer corps has been disbanded. Yesterday being Whit Monday tiie Banks wero closed.

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet at the Foresters' Hall on Monday 13th instant. After Mr Rutherford has given over his husiness to his successors, Messrs Woolven and Nesbit, he will take up his residence on his farm at Beaconsfield. A Constable is about to be stationed at Awahuri. The services of such an officer have beeu long needed in that rising little village. I&bert Butler, charged with the murder of Arthur Kettan at Helena Bay, (Auckland) was found guilty of manslaughter nnd sentenced to four years' imprisonment. The places and dates, where and when Mr R. C. Bruce will address the electors in this part of the Rangitikei electoral district are published to-day. He will open the ball at Pemberton. The deaths are announced to-day of the twin daughters (born January 34th) of Mrs and Mr Christensen, of Prince's street. We sympathise with the parents in their sad bereavement. Dairy farmers and others interested are reminded of the trial of the Alexander Cream Separator to be made to morrow afternoon at Mr Were's farm, Rangitikei Line. We have to acknowledge receipt from from Mr James, of a complimentary ticket for the Kiwitea Bachelor's Ball to be held on the lOth instant in the Birmingham Town Hall. The dance is notified in our advertising columns. Messrs Murray and Casey advertise for a smart boy. We are requested to state that the firm will move to-morrow into those premises nearly opposite recently occupied by Beale's Sewing Machine Company. Captain Edwin telegraphs -:~ Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-— Warnings for northerly gales and rain after from 10 to 16 hours have been sent to all places northward of Napier and New PlymouthWe are requested to call attention to some special announcements in our advertising columns of some wonderful parcels of goods which wili be forwarded carriage paid by parcel post from Te Aro House Wellington. Reefton is on the downward path. An organ grinder, we are informed by the local Guardian, arriyed there a few days ago and failed to knock out more than his tucker. The monkey fared no better, so the general opinion is that gold is hard to get, and the times are bad. We are to have a Tug-of^War contest in Feilding. Several gentlemea have already taken the necessary preliminary steps, and full particulars will be advertised in a few days. The profits of the undertaking will be devoted to the Palmerston North Hospital Fund. Good taste is to be admired m all classes of man, but we agree with the enterprising proprietors of the Empire Tea Company that good taste in tea buy me, although most difficult to attain, has been acquired in the preparation of their famous and popular Blended Teas. Read the firm's new adyertistment on our first page. On Friday next Mr J. R. Montague will hold his initial auction sale in the premises known as " The Other House " in Manchester street. The items advertised are drapery, clothing, etc. As everything must be quitted (there are no reserves) the 6ale should prove a success, and be an encouragement to Mr Montague for bis enterprise. We observe that the official record of the proceedings at the Agricultural Conference in Christchurch is published by our enterprising contemporary the Weekly Phess and Referee. It is a very full and accurate report, and must be valuable to all farmers who take an intelligent interest iv their business. The Weekly Press and Refeeee, it may be noticed, consists of 56 pages, and boldly claims the distinction of being the largest paper in tbe world, It is certainly the best paper in New Zealand. Tbe famous greyhound Fullerton was purchased when a puppy for 850 guineas, Colonel North afc the same time buying Miss Glendyne for 510 guineas, and Bit of Fashion for 200 guineas. This was in December, 1888, and Fullerton divided the Waterloo Cup with his kennel companion, Tbrougbend, in 1889, and won it right out in 1890, 1891, and 1892. In stakes and stud fees combined, it is computed that Fullerton has earned between .66000 and £7000. The attendance at the performance of the Calliope Minstrels last night in the Assembly Rooms was not so good as the occasion deserved. The singing was very good, but the lack of instruments — there, were only the * bones,' the ' tamborine,' and the piano — was . a great drawback. The speech made by Mr Bones, in which he introduced the names of most ofthe business people in Feilding, was really clever, and the same may be said of his lecture on astronomy. The show was for the benefit of the Palmerston North Hospital, under the patronage of the members of the Feilding Borough Council. One day lasfc week Mr H. Rutherford disposed of his butchery business to a firm from Kaikoura, inthe South Island. In this connection the Kaikoura Star of May 31st, said :— ' Messrs Woolven and Nes bit have determined to start business as butchers in Palmerston North, the " Chicago of the North Island " as it is sometimes grandiloquently entitled. Kai* j koura is losing two good men, and Pal- ' merston North gaining a couple of capitai citizens— good straight goers.' We are glad that they have elected to throw in their lot with Feilding instead of PaU merston. The " Weekly Herald " (Wellington) says that Miss Rounsevell, to whom the murderer Deeming willed all the money between two tombstones in South Africa, amounting to £11,000, has had three hundred telegrams from different parts of Australasia offering a barmaidship in hotels at a fabulous salary. Ten of these telegrams were despatched from Wellington, in N ew Zealand, and one man from more there, enterprising than the others, left last week for Melbourne to see if he can't treat with her to come over. Should he be successful, all the other pubs may put up their blinds, afc least for a month or so, until the novelty wears off. Mr W. Raeburn.a Glasgow shipowner in some evidence given by him before the Labour Commission, complained bitterly of the drunkenness ofthe crews supplied by tho seamen's and firemen's Union in Glasgow. One crew which they supplied were so drunk that they could not sign their names. Speaking from many years' experience, he declared that it was the rarest possible thing for a cargo boat to get away with her crew all sober. In nine cases out ot ten a number of the men were simply unfit to stand, let alone do any work. Many captains consequently pro ferred foreign sailors, who were less given to drunkenness. The following recipes for chapped hands have "been sent to us in reply *o tho recent enquiry :— No, 1. Melt beeswax and salad oil lo the eonsis'ency of vaseine, shaving the beeswax up fine first, and put into an old cup and melt in the oven. No. 2. Take a good handful of oatM meal, pour a pint and a half of boiling water on it, when cold add four or five drops of liquid ammonia ; wash hands as often as possible in mixture, |dry well. At night rub hands in dry oatmeal or prepared fuller's earth ; sleep in kid gloves. Handling coal often chaps skin ; leather gloves are a cure for that. Mixture will last three or four days, and still be effective. N0.3- Glycerine and tannic acid • the druggist will "mix.— Post.