Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 105, 23 February 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

A polo club is about to be formed in Palmerston North. The recent Supreme Court decision involves the Wellington Racing Club in ! the sum of i-190, exclusive of costs. The Colyton Christy Minstrels will give their concert to-morrow evening, when a j large attendance may b© expected. i A Wellington wire says :— Telegrams J from any Bank remitting money col- , lected for the Queensland sufferers will go freo over all land and cable lines. The Standard reports that Captain Preece held his first auction sale at Palmerston yesterday afternoon, nnd scored a success. The individuals who robbed Mr Bellye's orchard last night are well known, and proceedings are likely to be taken against them. At the usual weekly meeting of tho I O.G-T. held la3t evening, nine new members were elected and the customary routine business was transacted. At Bulls on Tuesday last, a servant girl named Lizzie Hynds, was committed for trial on a charge of forging the name ofJ. B. Ralston to a cheque for £5 7s 4d. Master Arthur Murrell found a bank note in Kimbolton road on Tuesday last which he at once handed in to us. The owner has since identified and received the note. Mi" H. C. Wilson, of Stanway, is prepared to let, in one or more lots, about two and a half miles of fencing in the Otamakapua Block, about a ratio past Ridley's J. Nicholson, stipendiary magistrate at Adelaide, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for defrauding the Economist Building Society, to which he acted as solicitor, of £'20,000. Wo have been requested by Bandmaster Wood, of the Salvation Army, to thank the donors of contributions to the carol singers on Christmas Eve. Result a good cornet for the band. Settlers will observe by referring to our advertising columns, that Messrs Gorton and Son's sale tomorrow contains an exceptionally large number cf entries. Over 11,000 sheep and nearly 200 rams are already catalogued. To-morrow Messrs Gorton and Son will hold a ram and sheep fair in Feilding. As the entries are very numerous and the stock to be put up are of exceptionally good classes, a large attendance of buyers may be confidently expected. Says the Manawatu Times- -The much dreaded bot fiy has made its appearance in this district. This morning our representative examined several horses upon which were to be seen the egga of the bot fly. Do not judge a man by the clothes he wears ; God made the one, and the tailor the other. Do not judge him by his family for Cain belonged to a good family. Do not judge a man by his failure in life, for many a man fails because he is too honest to succeed. Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain after from ten to twenty hours have been sent to all places northward of Napier, and New Plymouth, and for strong northerly wind to all other places. The Dunstan Times states that during Mr M'Arthur's (Strath-Clyde) late shearing, he obtained from a number of Romney Marsh hoggets a shade over 131 bof wool from each hogget respectively. The wool from one of these hoggets actually turned the scale at 14^ lbs. In our report of the meeting held on Monday night in the Assembly Rooms in connection with the relief of tho sufterers by tho Queensland floods, we omitted to mention that Mr Bastings made a most interesting speech, and valuable suggestions made by him were adopted. A special telegram to tho Standard this morning informs ua that it ia stated in Wellington Mr Walter W. Johnston is an intending candidate for the Palmerston seat. Under existing cirenmstances the probabilities are in favor of Mr Johnston receiving considerable support. Mr Montague will hold tomorrow and on Monday next, the largest and most important sale of furniture and household requisites ever known in this district. ' These articles were imported direct from England, and reached this colony by the j last trip of the Coptic, and aro ail of the very best quality and description. They j will be Bold entirely without reserve. | The programme tor the concert to be held in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening, in aid of the State School prize fund, is published today. The items are all well selected, and those who attend, can be assured of a really good entertainment. Tho several performers are all of recognised ability which, combined with the circumstances of the occasion, should ensure a crowded house. Messrs Gorton and Son submitted at their auction rooms this afternoon, the following sections situated in tho township of Bunnythorpe, the property of Captain Vincent Eyre : — Lot 1, section 1468, containing 8 acres, waa sold to Mr John Fowler at X'lo 5s an acre, Lot 2, withdrawn. Lot 8, section 1520, containing 23 acres, 8 roods, 13 perches sold to Mr Henry Holland at £6 5s per acre. Lot 4, sections 1520 and 1529, consisting of 147 acres, 2 roods, was knocked down to Mr R. B. Smith at £§ 5s per acre. The Manawatu Racing Olub received capital acceptances last night for the . autumn meeting, and Mr J. E. Henry (lmndicapper) has cause to feel proud of ! the satisfactory result. The following I arc the races and number of acceptances -. J — Elying Handicap, II; Fvvst Hack i Hurdles, 13; First Hack Fiat, M ; Manawatu Racing (.'lub Handicap, 18; Borough Handicap, 15 ; Scurry Hack, 14; total for six races, 71. Fourteen nominations were received for the Maiden Hurdles, The Manawatu Standand, referring to the recent flogging case ia a Palmerston school, and the attempted justification of the master by the Hey Mr KeaW, of tho same town, says : — Surely, a minister ot religion, a disciple of He vrho said " Suffer littie children to come unto me," will not say that anyone with tho ordinary teeliogs of humanity would uphold the wripping of a child seven years old until his back and legs are one mass of swollen bruises, plainly visible a week after the offence, for the venial offence of talking ia school ! In the course of the argument on Wednesday, iv Christchurch, in the appeal case in connection with the walking totalizators, Mr Solomon, of Dunedin, made a somewhat startling statement, j It was to tho effect that all the Jockey Clubs in tho colony were liable to prosecution under Chiuso 11 of the Gaining and Lotteries Act for allowing their premises to be used for other betting than by the totalisator. Mr George Harper, who was on the other side, corroborated his learned friend's statement in this respect. — Manawatu Times. A rabbiter of many ycaro experience seeks an engagement iv tho Mauawfttu or Rangitikei district.

Two young roughs lately paid a visit to the Salvation Army Barracks at Brooklyn, and, making themselves as abnoxious as possible, exclaimed, " We're waiting to see some miracles — see !" A six-foot 11 soldier " took both the loafers by the backs of their necks, and, as he helped them out, remarked, "We don't perform miracles here, bat we cast out devils." I Of Jay Gould, the Bulletin says : — He made, probably, more beggars and more suicides than any other private individual of his time ; his history is written in the | gaol, the lunatic asylum, the morgde, the cemetery, the hospitals for incurables, and every other place of horror where ' the ruined victims of a soulless gambler could possibly be found. And finally he died and went to the place — wherever it maybe — that the sons and daughters of the horse-leech go, n.nd, so far as the world is aware, not one human being in all the numberless millions of the world's inhabitants would have him back again at any cost. A single and excellent remedy for bruises or wounds upon cattle or "horses is clay. The clay should be made as dry as possible by heating it in a stove, after which it would be pounded up as fine as possible nnd sifted through a haircloth sieve. When about to be used it should be mixed with water until about the consistency of thin mortnr. The wound should be washed out cleanly with Castile soap and warm water and completely covered with the clay, after which it should be bandaged up and not again disturbed till healed. If for any cause the clay must be removed, soak in warm soapsuds and carefully remote piece by piece The advantages of the clay are, being exceedingly fine, it knits tightly together when dry, excluding the air completely and allowing a new skin to form underneath, thus causing the wound to heal rapidly ; almost nny brick clay will answer. Aboriginals almost invariably use clay as a dressing for spoar and other wounds received in i figiits.— Leader.