Local ana Generl News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 93, 26 January 1893, Page 2

Local ana Generl News

. _♦- . — A constable is to be stationed at Ohingaiti. Captain Campbell of Taonui, advertises for a good strong youlh for general farm work. Dr Monckton has reported two fatal cases of diphtheria to the chairman of the Manchester Road Board. The Manchester Rifles will hold a capitation parade this evening. After parade the annual meetina will be held. Mr J. R. Montague will hold an extensive sale at his Feildinti A.uct(oci Mart lo morrow ftfreruoon comtneaciaß at one o'clock sharp. No reserves. At the conference of the Metropolitan Jockey Club now sitting in Wellington a motion was carried that " Country Clubs should be represented by delegates at all future conferences." The me3ting of citizens called in Wellington last Tuesday evening, to consider " what steps should be taken to commemorate the public services of the late Sir Harry Atkinson," had to be adjourned owing to the meagre attendance. Mr J. B. Hamilton refers in another column to his monster clearing sale which is now being hrld at his well* known Emporium. Some remarkable bargains arc to be obtained, to which we would dratr the attention of our lady readers. The next term of Mr K. Wilson's High School I'aliuerston North, commences on Tuesday, January the 81st. Evening classes will be held on Tuesdays and Fridays nt 7.JJO. Parents who desire to give their children a sound education could not do better than send them to Mr Wilson. Mr W. F. Marsh has secured a fine block of three hundred acres of land situated contiguous to the Feilding Small Farm Block. Mr Marsh thinks a good deal of the ballot system, as the section is a very valuable one. All the old settlers in Apiti are glad to hear that MiMarsh is again about to reside among them. Mr Henry Duggan, Tailor, of ForgusMMi streot, haa a ro-placo ndvurtiseuient in this day's issue. His business, after this date, will be carried on in tho premises formerly occupied by Messrs J. Hi-oad and Co. Mr Uuggau offors tempting- inducements to fchoeo who wish for woll made tailor garments, as can bo seen by referring to his advertisement. The following is said to be an excellent means of preserving posts, and lias also the merit of being cheap: — Take boiled linseed oil, stir in pulverised coal to the consistency of paint, and with an ordinary paint brush give a coating to the portion of each post that is to be placed in the ground. It also acts as a preservative for timber that is exposed to the air. The cost of treating posts with this mixture is about 3d per dozen. A new rendering of the Scotch thistle motto, nemo me iwpunr /(ire.i.s-ii, was given at the Caledonian games, Oamaru. The flower of a real Scotch thistle, spines and all. was laid on the superintendent's table, and underneath it was written the above motto, below which again another scribe wrote as the interpretation thereof: — " No t one touches whiskey with so much impunity as a Scotchman " — Oamaru Mail. On Monday last the pioneer of Apiti, Mr W. F. Marsh, and the pioneers of the Pahnerston Small Farm Block, Mr Lundon and Mr Johns, celebrated the placing of the first load of metal on the Oroua Valley road, by a libation of old Scotch whiskey. Mr Marsh supplied the bottle and the other two extracted the cork — a fair division of labor. This road will be a great boon not only for the settlers, but the whole district at large. Apropos of the gigantic fossil foot which a cable message the other day mentioned as having been found in a cave at Yarrangobilly, an Australian exchange contains the following : — ' A new cave, ehortlv to be opened to the public, has been discovered, between the Jersey and the Castle caves, at Yarrangobilly, which eclipses in beauty of colours and in its marvellous strange formation all other caves. For a quarter of a mile one descends through subterranean halls of indescribable splendour.' Evidently the remarkable fossil was discovered in this new cave. — Waipawa Mail. A man named Rudolf Schribler had a painful experience iv the bush recently near New Plymouth. He was bushfelling, when a tree fell and jammed his legs. Fortunately his axe was within reach, and while suffering great agony he managed to cut the fallen tree through, thereby extricating himself. The accident occurred about two miles from his house, and as he was out of reach of all assistance, he crawled* homeward, and it took him two days and two nights to reach his house, as he had to traverse creeks and precipices. The poor fellow was brought into the New Plymouth Hospital, in a deplorable state, but the doctors have hopes of his recovery. One ot the new J. P., at Patea, .1 . A. McKenna, was, on Wednesday, fiued Ll and costs with counsel's fee for assaulting a man named Dempsey. Dempsey said the assault was committed when he asked defendant for payment of account ; McKennu said that he did not assault com. j.hiiiiunt. but put him out of his .shop for being rude to ladies, and as to the debt, Dempsey owed him money. After bearing a considerable amount of evidence i and examining defendant's books, the Resident Magistrate convicted on the charge of assault, and said the defend nut's books showed that complainant was not indebted to defendant. — Havvera Star. That welNknown novelist nnd very remarkable woman, who rejoices in the ■iwm dc plume of " Ouuln." thus dis. courses on Australian society : — l( Tho office-holder m a republic has as many toadies and parasites as an arenduko or a Iroiipri/iz. The mau who lives in a shanty built of empty meat and biscuit tins OH tha plains of Nevada or Now South Wales is by many degrees a more degraded form of humanity than his brother who has stayed amongst English wheat or Tuscan olives or French vines or German pmotreos ; many degroes more degraded, because infinitely courser nud moro brutal, and more hopelessly soaked in a sordid and hideous manner of life, i All the vices, meannesses, and ignominies of tho Old World reproduce thoinsolves m tho so-called Now World, and becomo uioro yulgar, moro ignoble, inoro despicable, than in thoir original hemiriphero. Under tho Southern Cross of tho Australian skies, cant, snobbism, corruption, vonality, fruud, tho worship of woiilth ixr se, tira iamo rampant, moro nuked, acid more vulgarly bedizened than beneath tho stars of Ursa Major. It is not from tho mixture of Methodism, drunkenness, reyolvor-shooting, wire-pulling, and tho frantic expenditure of rirhttrds who wore navvies or minors a wook ugo, that any superior light and leading, any nit oration for tbo bettor in social life can bo eyor looked for. All that America and Australia will ovor do will bo to i servjloly roproduco the folhos mid hopoli'».sly vulgaritio tho habits of tho older civih-sution of I'Juropo." It strikus us t Hut for absolute aud undiluted vulgarity " Ouida " would bo " hard to beat,"

Mr Milson is about to start a lending library in connection with his stationery and fancy goods business. Mr Charles Bray, architect, is preparing plans for a hotel building to be erected at Apiti, for Mr Ben Poole. In order to put a^ stop to the sly grog selling which is notorious at Ohingaiti, two hotels are to be licensed there. When a red-nosed man wanted his picture in a heroic attitude the artist painted him in thfe act of refusing a drink. There will be a meeting of the committee of the Manchester Horticultural Society at Mr Basting's Manchester Hotel on Saturday night, at 8 o'clock. Messrs Thackor and Pallant have this day received a large shipment of ladies', gentlemen's, and children's boots and shoes, all oi the best aud most fashionable makes. Mr G. B. Bradford has just completed the purchase from Mr ltotomeyer of section 187 on the Kimbolton road, consisting of cloven acres of grazing land, at .£22 per acre. Captain Kdvrm telegraphs : — WVatlipr forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Warnings for northerly gales with rain after from 12 to 20 hours have been sent to all places. Tho Agent Oenoral is to he instructed to choose two young and active men with the necessary qualifications and training for tho positions of Government veterinary surgoons, ouo for oach island. " Give us this day our daily beer," said Flossie," as she was repenting her niulitly prayer. *■ What do you mean by i hat Flossie? " sharply demanded her mother. " I was praying for pnpn. He doesn't care much for bread, anyhow." A enquiry is to bo held into certuin transactions in connection with lauds in tho Taranaki district, this course having been decided on as the result of the iuvestigations ninde by Mr O'llura Smith, of the Lands audit. In the Brewers' Directory, Maine is conspicuous by its absence. England makes baronets of brewers ; Maine sends them to the penitentiary. May the Maine type of civilisation speedily spread over our colony ! Mr William Bellve has just received a splendid selection of saddles, bridles, breastplates, Acme silver, crown all, and nickel silver bits, horse shoe stirrups, and many other Hues, and invites an inspection of his stock. Lord Jersey has resigned the Governorship of New South Wales, and will leaye for England in March, lie succeeded Lord Carringtdn in July 1890, and in July 1891, was installed Grand Master of the Freemasons of New South Wales. Additions are made to-day to Messrs Gorton and Son's list of entries for their Feilding sale to-morrow, and Sandou sale on 81st instant, and entries for their Ram and Sheep l-'uir at Bulls, on February the 14th, are also published. Professor Liehtwark will give a free lecturo in the Coiyton Hull to-morrow eypning, at S o'clock, on his methods of educating tho horse. Our reporter has attended his classes in Feilding, and would strongly advise all who have to do with horses to make au effort to be present on this occasion, A detailed advertisement of the annual Ram Fair of the United Farmers' Alliance is published today, and very numerous additions are made to tho entries for the Birmingham sale of the Alliance. Mr R. B. McKenzie, the auctioneer, invites further entries. The Agent-General informed the Premier by cable on Tuesday that he has shipped 100,000 salmon ova per s.s. lonic, which makes Wellington her first port of call. This is the first instalment of a shipment of some 2.j0,000 ova which has been obtained for distribution to acclimatisation societies.- -New Zealand Times. A well known settler in this district, Mr John Melton, of Apiti, met with an accident whilst bushelling in the Sandon Block yesterday. He bad just fell a tree, when itjeame back on him, and severely crushed his left ankle. The sufferer was brought down to Feilding, and sent to the Wanganui Hospital by train last night. Rev Newman Hall, writing in the Home Messenger for September on " The Drink Question," relates how. in 1840, he was led to sign the pledge, and goes on to show how, apart from the benefits which accrued to him personally', it enabled him to deal more effectually with cases of intemperance which he met with in his ministerial experience. Rumour has it, that an interesting cricketing match will come off shortly. An old enthusiast at the game has undertaken to form a team of fifteen veterans and challenge the best eleven which the Manchester Club can put into the field. We shall anticipate this match with a great deal of pleasure, and expect the veterans will be able to give a good account of themselyes when the meeting takes place. The following rule will give as near an approximation to the weight of hay in a stack as you are likely to obtain. Measure the length and breadth of the stack ; then take its height from the ground to the eaves, and add to this last one third of height from the eaves to the top ; multiply the length by the breadth and the product by che height, all expressed by feet ; divide tho amount by 27, to find the cubic yards, which multiply by the number of stonos supposed to bo in a cubic (viz., in a stack of new hay, 9st ; and if old hay, list.) and you have the weight in stones. By reducing the number of stones (141 b) into tous (22401 b) you will have the figures required. There is a terrible scandal in South London. Tho Church people, and even Dissenters, can hardly eat their meals for excitement. Clergymen leave their beatific smile in all kinds of odd places, and drink hot whiskey and lemon in mistake for Jordan water in their agitation. Landladies eat their own meat instead of tho lodger's, and all is tea, gin, nerves, standstill, horror, consternation, doubt, dust, and fly-spots; and no wonder, for we hardly dare mention it in print, in case the ma of the editor or publisher of some other paper resides in a workhouse in tho agitated district, and should comI plain to the ollice boy of the Lord Chamberlain's Blacking Manufacturer. Well, we will whisper it if you stuff your ears with wadding afterward. "It is rumoured that Adam and Eye's marriage certificate cannot be found !"