Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 33, 3 September 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next at 8 p.m. A meetiug of the United Oroua and Feilding Cricket Club will be held this evening at Mrs Hastie's Hotel at 7.30. Pirates on the Algerian coast massacred Professor Hermann and the crew of the yacht Astor, It is notified to-day that the High School Palmerston North will begiu the next term on Wednesday the 14th mst. For other particulars soe advertisement. There was a pleasant change for the better in the weather to-day. All business people hope it will continue fine to allow of some trade to be done. A correspondent to-day hints that the Feilding streets are dirtier tha'u those of either Marton or Palmerston. A bull-dog, was caught killing sheep in the Feilding Block last week, and was promptly destroyed. The attention of our readers is directed to the replace advertisement of Mr Roddy, who still carries on his great slaughter sale at " The Other House." The Telegraph oonstruetor was m Feilding to*day, laying out the pegs for the Feilding s ßirmiugham Telephone line. The Brisbane police have abandoned the charge against M. Perrelt, suspected of being a Russian spy, without assigning any reason. A very successful Ball got up by the bachelors of Bulls district, was hold at Bulls last night, at which over 50 couples were present. Dancing was kept up with great spirit till after one o'clock, and everyone spoke highly of the excellent music supplied by the Feilding String Band. A man named Crouch in the employ of Mr Lockyer at Kiwitea had the misfortune to break his arm on Monday last. He was boxing with a mate and struck the latter a very sharp flow on the head with the result mentioned above. He did not consult a doctor until Thursday afternoon, when he came mto town to see Dr. Moucktou, who reduced tho fracture. A meeting was held at the Wesleyan Church, Feilrhng, on Thursday evening last, to consider the advisability of enlarging tho Church, which is far too small for the requirements of the congregation. A Committee consisting of Messrs Carthew, Eyans, Cobbe, and Dixon (secretary), was appointed to obtain plans and estimates as to the cost» of the building, and report the result of their enquiries at a future meeting. The Customs revenue collected in New Zealand for August was £161,844, as against £121,743, for tho previous month, and £155.031 forthe corresponding month of 1 891 , For five months of the fiuancial year the total is £661,099, or £4849aboye the Treasurer's estimate for that period. Tho beer duty last month was £4301, against 3756 for the previous mouth, and £3955 m August, 1891 ; for five months tbe total is £24,166, being £2,692 under the Treasurer's estimate. At the monthly meeting of the Wellington Land Board on Thursday, Mr J. H. Baker, Chief Commissioner, said he had to bring to the notice of the board an infringement of the Land Act. An applicant for land had made a false declaration, which rendered him liable to 18 months' imprisonment. The applicant was registered as the owner of 1977£ acres, and he had put in an application for 436 acres more. Mr Baker stated that he had written to the applicant, who replied to the effect that he had not grasped the precise meaning of the declaration. He asked leave to withdraw his application, j as he was now aware of his mistake. A j letter was also read from Mr C. J. H. Brown, of the District Land Office, stating that the statutory declaration had been fully explained to the person iv question. The Commissioner said it was a case that could not bo allowed to drop, and action of some kind would have to be taken. The board decided to inform the applicant that his explanation was not satisfactory, and that if he did not appear before the next meeting of the board and give a more satisfactory explanation of the matter, the Government would bo recommended to prosecute him in the Resident Magistrate's Court.— Now Zealand Times.

A meeting of the Band of Hope will be held in Short's Hall on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect frost to-night have been sent to all places. The district is being flooded with circulars from Walter Graham the Sydney Jockey Club's consultation. We warn the innocent and unsuspecting that the whole affair is a fraud. Mr William Bellve has a good specimen of brown sulky harness in his win dow. It is very nicely mounted in nickel silver, With. Oxford pat6ern buckles, and the whole reflects great credit on the maker's skill and workmanship. We are requested to state, that the Ladies of the Committee will be obliged to those parents and friends contributing to the refreshments for the Juvenile Ball to kindly forward same to the Assembly Rooms, Feilding, on Tuesday next. Mr Wright is asking Government to amend section 2 of " The Rating Act, 1882," which fixes the rateable value of pastoral leaseholds from the Crown at the original auction value, instead of their participating in the triennial valuations. Wirth's circus scored a big success in Wanganui. One of the chief attractions was the troupe of Arab Swordsmen, and the Japanese Jugglers. The audience— says the Chronicle — was deeply interested from the beginning to the end of the performance. The tender for making a bridle track on Barrow's road, in the Kiwitea Road Board District, was let to-day to \V. Beck, for the sum of £42 9s. The following were the unsuccessful tenderers :— John Marshall, £45 5s 9d; B. Poole, £49; Younger and Laing, £58; R. McKay, £67 ; and Marsh and Connelly, £2 4s per chain. The Home Mission fund, in aid of which special services are to be held in the Wesleyau Church to-morrow, is expected in assisting the small settlements and newly opened districts, also supplying preachers to the Natives. The preachers for to-morrow are both able and popular men, the Eev. J. 3-. Hammond having laboured amoßgst the natives for many years, aud the Rey. C. H. Garland, recently from the Auckland district, is well known and appreciated wherever he has been stationed. The recent heavy rainfall has caused Messrs Chamberlain Bros, considerable expense, owing to the water draining through underneath their mill, into the underground storey, which has been excavated and concreted in, prior to receiving the new roller machinery. This mishap will delay the fitting up of their new plant for some weeks, but it is expected that tho alteration will be completed in about two months. The oats crusher has been started again, after six weeks cessation of work. We have got a champion mean man hero. lam very sorry I'll have to be verbose ia telling my simple tale. There is a sawmill on the Beticonsfield-road and to it came a settler desiring some timber. "Phut might be the price of timmer like this?' "Ton shillings a hundred." " Mon, that's an awf u 1 price ; phat's the price of the white pine ?'' "Ten shillings a hunired," "Phat?" "Yes, it had gone up Is a hundred for 12in board ; anything under that width is 95." " Aweel. aweel, just cut me twa hunder, eleeven and three- quarters wide." You can't lick that. Egmont Settler. The fashion of giving the unemployed a free breakfast on Sunday mornings appears to have settled into a regular institution at Sydney. Lord Jersey j Tisited the rooms on a recent Sunday morning, and was so stirred by the sight of 300 hungry man at breakfast that he sent a cheque next day to pay for five meals for them. That servod for tlie mouth of July. The Primate visited the place on another Sunday, and paid for two breakfasts. The cost of a breakfast runs to between L 6 and L 7— Dunedin Star, An American contemporary says : — Andrew Carnegie was a poor boy when he arrived at Pittsburg with his parents from Scotland and began life as a tele* graph messenger. When he had earned and saved a little money he bought an interest in a small foundry, and he mad c his first million by the manufacture of steel rails. To«day he is the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world. He has a house on Fifty»first street Fifth ayenue, in New York ; a residence in Pitlsburg, a summer house in the south, a Highland castle in Scotland, and an English manor near the English Ascot racetrack, where he is living at present. He owns iron furnaces, mines, railroads, and a syndicate of English newspapers. It is said by scientists to be & fact that all our senses do not slumber simultaneously, but that they fall into a huppy state of insensibility one after another. The eyelids take the lead and obecure sight, the sense of taste is the next to lose its susceptibility, then follow smelU ing, hearing, and touch ; the last named being the lightest sleeper, and most easily aroused. It is curious that, although the sense of smell is one of the first to slumber, it is the last to wake. Hearing, after touch, soonest regains conscious, ness. Certain muscles and parts of the body begin to sleep before others. Com» menciug with the feet, the slumberous influence works its way gradually upward to the centre of nervous action. This will explain the necessity of having the feet comfortable warm before sound sleep is possible.