Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 22, 9 August 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers, aud Hansard to July 21st. A simple remedy for neuralgia in the face is to place a mustard leaf on the elbow and another on the back of the neck. We learn from the Manawatn Herald that the Foxton Borough Council has decided to obtain a water supply for the town. Dr John Sorley has been gazetted j honorary surgeon of the Manchester Rifles. Date of commission, 14th Jnly, 1892. The customs duties collected at Wellington last month amounted to £6238 7s 9d. The beer tax only raised 7s 6d. Our Feilding Mrs Malaprop says that although the British capitalist may like a sweet per cent as a rule, yet the owe de colonials stinks in his nostrils. A meeting of persons interested in the formation of a Gun Club will be held in Hastie's Hotel on Friday evening next at eight o'clock. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day— Warnings for westerly gales and rain have been repeated to all places. A plain and fancy dress ball will be held in the Birmingham Town Hall on Friday the 19th instant, under the aus« pices of the Kiwitea bachelors. Mr R. J. Galway has sold out his interest in the new hotel at Pemberton to Mrs Stevenson, late of the Metropolitan Hotel, Wellington, at a satisfactory figure. The Maories at Awahuri are making great preparations for the reception of Te Kooti and his following, who will pay a visit to this part of the country in about four or five months. On Thursday last the Taranaki Herald reached the age of forty years. We congratulate our contemporary, and trust that he may continue to enjoy long life and prosperity. The Napier News says : "If Mr Felix McGuire is not preparing to * rat. ' we are grossly deceived." If he does he will be guilty of the basest political ingratitude because it is to the Government he owes his seat in the House. Mr Brent, of tho Manchester street furniture establishment, has just made to order a writing- table with drawers for a gentleman of the Hurbor Board Block. The workmanship reflects credit on tho establishment. Mrs Andrew Puncan, of Christchurch, reports to tho Auckland police the loss of jewellery valued at £23 while a passenger by the Talune from Auckland, on the 28th"ult., for the South. She missed the jewellery after leaving Napier. Little Boy (who has been prohibited from playing with his neighbour) -. " Freddy— l say, Freddy ; I ain't to come into your garden any more to play because ma says you are a wulgar, little beast ; but you can come over into mine, 'cause I ain't wulgar. We have had a look in at Mr Isaac Brent's show room, Manchester street, which is well filled with excellent furniture ot all kinds and descriptions, and we feel sure the most fastidious cannot fail to be satisfied. If we are to be judges in the matter the prices quoted to us are very reasonable indeed. Mr Brent invites inspection. Messrs Goodbehere and Richmond hare recently effected a sale to Messrs Greenwood and Fortong, Dentists, of Palmerston North, of Mr Hurst's inter* est in the lease of the premises at present occupied by Mr Edward Martin, situated on the Kimbolton Road, Feilding. We understand that it is the intention of Messrs Greenwood and For* long to build upon this site, with the view of .ohortlv opening a permanent branch of their business. The cricketers at Birmingham are taking time by the forelock. A meeting was held on Saturday evening when it was unanimously resolved to have a piece of ground cleared and ploughed so that a good wicket would be ready for next season. In another column tenders are invited for the work, and intimation made that another meeting of members, and those interested, will be he d on Saturday the 20th instant, to make final arrangements. It is not often that a newspaper is able to publish such a complimentary paraas that recently published by the Wairarapa Daily Times. It is as follows : — The action of the Masterton branch of the Bank of New Zealand in substituting new bank notes for the specimens of filth which have of late been in circulation, has already called forth expressions of appreciation on the part ot business people in the town. There is a relic of by-gone*days in the shape of an ancient canoe paddle at the Huketere pah, near Patea. It is long and of different shape to the modern paddle. It is named " E.autu ki to rangi," or, as interpreted. " The paddle of Tun, the commander of Aotea." This is believed to be one oi the original paddles brought by the first Maoris who landed at Patea, and is naturally much valued as a memento. — Hawera Star. m . It is curious to note that it is the bachelors in the House of Commons who interest themselves most persistently in the women's suffrage question. Sir Henry James is a confirmed bachelor of 64, and Woodall, an equally confirmed bachelor — not quite so old — on the other side. Mr Balfour is a bachelor of 44 ; and Mr Haldane, the philosophic Radical who wants to give the vote to all women, and make them eligible for all offices, is also a bachelor, hovering on the edge of 40. j A German doctor propounds a theory that the antidote to drunkenness is to be found in the simple practice of eating apples. Dr Tuplett, the physician in question, maintains that apples, when eaten in large quantities, possess properties which entirely do away with the desire which all confirmed inebriates haye for liquor. The doctor declares that in many bad cases which have come under his notice he has been able to effect a cure by the means stated, the patient generally losing all his liking for alcohol It has lately been discovered (says the Pahiatua Star) that farmers have an additional favor for which to thank the Labor members. A farmer who has four sons employed in dairying will require to register the milking shed as a factory, and to observe all the laws made and prescribed by the Factories Act. By this Act boys under fourteen are not allowed to be employed in a factory ; and those that are so employed must not work more than eight hours a day. By degrees the full benefits conferred by the Government on the country are beginning to be revealed. A claim made upon the estate 01 the late Mr John McKelvie, of Rangitikei, by Mr Arthur Amon, who managed the deceased gentleman's business for the last 20 years, has just been decided. As no provision was made for Mr Amon in Mr McKelvie's will, he sent in a claim to the executors for 20 years' services, and the matter was submitted to arbitration. The arbitrators (Messrs J. Ames and J. Stevens) nwarded Mr Amon L2OO a yenr for a period of about 10 years. Mr T. J. W. Gale acted as referee. Mr Hislop represented the execulors, and Mr Gully appeared for Mr Amon. A large number of witnesses were examined. —New Zealand Times.