Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 41, 22 September 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

. •»- — The Local Bills Committee recommend that the Palmerston North Hospital Vesting Bill be allowed to proceed We need hardly remind the Volunteers of the inspection parade to night in the Assembly Rooms, by Col. Fox and Lieut.-Col. Newall. We learn from the Chronicle that Major Purnell has decided to attend the Sydney Rifle meeting, and he will in all probability be accompanied by Messrs Foster and Kruse. The sale of the effects of the late Capt. Dalrymiple, will be held to-morrow at Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Feildmg auction mart. Other sundries will also be sold, all without reserve. The rehearsal for the performance to be given in the Assembly Rooms on Saturday next, which was held on Tuesday night was a very good one, and the show promises to be one of the most attractive held in Feilding for " many a long day." Mr Coleman Phillips wants a Royal Commission to enquire into his grievances in regard to his conflict with the Wellington Land Board, during the recess, as he is of opinion that his case cannot receive proper attention at this period of the session. We have to acknowlege receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Birmingham Leap Year Faucy Dress Ball. An advertisement appears elsewhere, and all necessary information anent the coaches, will be published in a future issue. The affair promises to be a great success. The proceeds will be in aid of the Palmerston North Hospital. A contemporary says that an egg may often be taken by an invalid in this form, when it can be mno other : Beat an egg, white and yolk separately, to a stiff froth, mix together, add one teaspoonful of brandy, ditto castor sugar ; stir well, and fill the tumbler half full of seltzer or soda water. Even a healthy person would find small difficulty in swallowing this kind of medicine. 4 Dick ' Roake, the huntsman, and Joe Hughes, the whip of the United Hunt, have received a month's notice that their services will be dispensed with. It is understeod that Mr D. H. Mackinnon, tbe secretary, will hold office until the end of the season. The club's prospects are at present by no means bright, and the committee are bent on carrying out a retrenchment policy of the severest description. — Exchange. Here is a French receipt for making in the simplest possible way a perfume " unequalled by the concoctions of the most famous perfumer ": — Take a few roses( white ones are best and their perfume is almost imperishable), put them in your clothes presses and drawers, and let ihem remain there for some weeks when every article of clothing will be suffused with a scent of new-iblown roses.— Waipawa Mail. Only conductors of newspapers know how intensely libellous a section of of would-be newspaper correspondents can be, or would be, at the expense of the newspapers, if the newspaper were foolish enough to print their libels. Ana the majority of such people are particular in insisting that their names shall not be made public. They evidently conceive that newspapers are published iv order to afford ihem a means of gratifying personal dislike. — Exchange. It was predicted at the time that the Victorian Government gave a bonus of 2d per lb on the butter exported, that it would be of little benefit to the farmers, as the lion's share would be pocketed by the Melbourne companies and firms. The return now furnished shows that fche total amount paid as butter bonus for the year ending June 3i> by the Victorian Agricultural department was £24.047, of which £16,979 was obtained by 13 companies and firms in Melbourne, and the remaining £7168 was distributed amongst 40 butter factories and individual producers in the country. Yet this was called en* couraging tbe dairy industry 1 The meeting of settlers at Levin on Friday evening last, at one time branched off into a discussion on the much vexed question of " thirds," one of the ratepayers present wanting to know what had beea done with the " thirds " from his section. Mr Davies, during the discussion, sail thnt in a case under the Board's jurisdiction one settler had a good metalled road in front of his place and the Board wanted to devote the " thirds " from his section to a bad place in the road just round the corner. He represented the matter to the Conimis- , sioner but that ofljicial 9aid the diversion , could not be allowed. "Then," snid Mr Davies, "what shall we do' witfy the thirds f" " Oh," said the Commissioner, " put some more mej^al op th,e roiid P" Continuing, remarked Mr Davies. " if the settlers were as sure of getting to Hekvet) as they were under Government rcgula* tions of having the thirds spent opposite their sections, they would most assuredly reach the haven of eternal rest !'' It is needless to remark this sally.' was received with roars of laughter.— Mauawatu Times.

Mr J. U. Thompson is erecting a new verandah at the Co-operatiye store, ( which will be a great improvement to the i establishment when finished. It is asserted by a Napier exchange i that sometime next month there will be 1 an alteration in the Napier- Wellington Railway time table. Mr J. P. Leary is mentioned as another probable candidate for the position of Mayor of Palmerston North. If tbey all come to the scratch there will be a big fight for this honor. The Auckland Volunteers have decided to send four or five men to the Intercolonial Rifle Meeting afc Sydney ; each man to receive Ll2, as far as the funds permit. A veteran's match has been arranged between two very old settlers for £2 a- side to run a mile on Saturday the 24th instant. The money has been posted. There united ages make about 150 years. A vessel from Hamburg is expected to arrive at Port Chalmers very shortly, and the Duuedin people are urging for a strict quarantine. A slip came down in the Mauawatu Gorge on Tuesday last. The train was delayed for only half an hour. Next " tourist " season it is expected coaches will be running between Hunterville and Tokaanu in the Hot Lakes district. An African Circus is working its way down, and a Surprise Party is working its way up the coast. Plenty of fun for the amusement loving public. Mrs L. Brown has purchased the two acres of land in Manchester street, near the State school, where she will build a private residence, plans for which are now being prepared by Mr J. D. Valentine. Dr. Brown gave a very interesting lecture on New Guinea, at Short's Hall, on Tuesday evening last. There was a good attendance aud the lecture was rendered doubly interesting by the aid of magic lantern views. Mr Seaforth McKenzie has signed the contract for erection of the Campbelltown Longburn Bridge, the price being £825. The other tenders received were:— Messrs Ihie and Grigg, £977 12s 4d ; Younger and Laing, £1003 lis. —Manawatu Times. The Rev Mr Coffey, in the course of his sermon at Wellington on Sunday said he had not, since he had been in Wellington, seen so much distress through lack of work, since he had left Ireland, as in his parish. He attributed it to the lack of confidence which now characterised the monied class, from what cause he was not prepared to say. A rude Napier person, writing to the Telegraph said :— '" One half of the people who attend church do so from a busiuess point of view, and the other half for the sake of show. A small portion, if any, go for spiritual good. It is not fashionable to be early ; some like to go late, so as to be taken notice of." However true this may be (only in Hawke's Bay of course) it is not polite to say so. We (Palmerston Times) regret to have to record the deaths of three children at Karere from diphtheria. The children had been ill for some days, and died early this morning. Their names were Elizabeth Maria Maud Head, aged 5 months, Frederick Head, aged 4 years, and John Darby, aged 1 year and 2 months. The two first were children of Mr Head, who lost his son by the accident at Oroua Bridge, and the last named was his grandson. Three other children are also seriously ill. In all the periods of depression through which New Zealand has passed, there has always been some district which has escaped, and though commerce may have suffered in one part of the colony, there has been reasonable prosperity in another. Thus the towns have not all been in straits at once New Zealand possesses a larger proportion of rural population to the whole than any of the Australian colonies, and to this may be attributed the fact that she has been able to struggle on and pay her way under an enormous burden of debt. We have too many distributors, but at all events we are better off in that respect thau our neighbours.— Nelson Mail. Captain Russell has presented a petition to the House of Representatives from thirty barristers, solicitors, engineers, inventors, and members of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawke's Bay which sets out that copies of specifications of letters patent granted in New Zealand are not printed, and can only be obtained at a prohibitive cost, whereas in England they are printed, sold at cost prices, and distributed to the free libraries and other institutions, where they are of value for legal and educational purposes. The petitioners pointed out that there is an excess of £1367 of revenue over expediture in the Patent Ofiice for last year, and there is no place where models of patents can be placed on exhibition in Wellington. A singular revelation was made at an inquest held on the body of a female inmate of the Kew Lunatic Asylum, near Melbourne, on September 2. Dr Mullen, who made the post mortem examination, said that in the internal organs he found three German silver teaspoons, which had been missing a month prior to the death of the deceased as well as a spindle of a doorlock (the piece of iron connecting the two handles), and two triangular pieces of glass. It was also stated that three days previa ously Dr 0. Ryan had abstracted a flat piece of steel five inches long and nearly an inch wide from the throat of the deceased. Yet noae of these strange articles of diet had anything to do with her death, which was caused by disease of the brain. Which is the best off class in the colony at tha present time. A " Tradesman " writing on the subject to the Christchurch Press expresses his opinion on the question as follows :— " This 1 know, 1 cannot do more than pay my way. I see no prospect of making my pile, but I know a good few farmers in the country who once hyed in sod houses now have fine houses, lawns, their daughters well dressed, a beautiful piano in the front room, and receiving lessons, etc." The reason is plain enough ; the farmer is a producer, while the chances are that " Tradesman " was only a distributor — which makes all the difterence. If " Tradesman " began by living in a " sod hut " and worked as hard as the farmer, there would not now be so much to choose between them as "Tradesman" alloges. On Thursday evening Mr C. 0. Montrose lectured in the Assombly Rooms to a small but appreciative audience. Mr Montrose spoke for an hour arid three quarters, and for the whole of that time he kept his hearers interested. His descriptions of the battles and skirmishes during the native wars in 1880 to 1886 were vivid and entrancing, while his sketch on the famous battle at Rangiriri was a splendid piece of word painting. Mr Montrose has a strong sence of humor and some of his military anecdotes sparkled with fun. In the course of his lecture Mr Montrose remarked on the indifferent treatment the volunteers had received from tlje Government qf the colony. Hes^idhe did nofc mean the present one, but all the Governments. He a}so spoke of fche good seryice they had done during the native troubles, when thoy had displayed all the best and most noble qualities of citizen soldiers. He considered they ought to ba " patted on the back " a little more, because no one could tell when their services might be . required against a foreign foo.

A meeting of the W.C.T.U. was held in the Foresters' Hall this afternoon. A report will appear in our next issue. We direot the particular attention of I the ratepayers in the Kiwitea Road District to a notice re strike rates under the i " Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1586," to pay interest on loans indicated in the advertisement. Mr Svendsen, boot and shoe importer, j Manchester street, has just opened up j some splendid good 9in the following lines — men's, youths' and boys' shooters, ladies' walking and dancing shoes, child- j ren's patent straps and lace shoes, running shoes, &c. The following notice of motion bas been given by the Mayor for consideration at the next meeting of the Borough Council : — " That all rates unpaid on the 20th October be sued for without further notice, and a post card embodying the above resolution be sent to each ratepayer in arrear*" The reason of this is that the interest on the loan matures ou October lst, and the bank overdraft musfc also be reduced, and fcbe necessary funds are not in hand.