Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 117, 23 March 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Thoro will bo mass in St. Bridget's on Sunday morning at eight o'clock. The local paper says there are now seven Maori children in attendance at Hawera public school. There will be a meeting of Justices of the Peace held in the Borough Council Chambers to-morrow forenoon, at eleven o'clock. A black sheep dog is advertised for. Finder will bo rewardod on returning tho same to Mr E. Wood, or to Messrs Abraham and Williams, of Palmerstou North. The London Association of Chambers of Commerce has, by a majority of 33, rejected a proposal for reciprocal trade with the colonies. The Napier News says .* The latest joke is that, since the Caledonian address, oatmeal has gone np £2 a ton. This quotation will probably remain in force till all the Sassenachs have left New Zealand. We would draw our readers attentiou to a much required article in this district which Mr Dunlop is now propared to supply his customers with, ho having j «ist recei vod from Auckland a consignment of sanitary stoneware, including cesspits, syphons, aud drain pipos. Tho Clarendon Hotel, Palmeraton North, had a narrow escape on Thursday afternoon. It appears that two separate bedrooms were discovered to be on fire at the same time. We learn from the Standard that little damage was done, both outbreaks being discovered before the Ihunes got a firm hold. A running match for £20 a side is shortly to come oft' on tho Feilding-Awa-hnri road, the distance being three miles. The contestants are a well-known sporting resident of Ashurst and a commercial gentleman. Considerable interest is being taken in the affair; and, as both men are in active training, a close finish is anticipated. 1 I don't see why I can't keep my husband at home,' said a distressed looking little woman. ' Why dou't you try to make homo attractive to him ? ' ' 1 have I've taken up tho parlor carpot, sprinkled sawdust on the floor, and put a beor keg iv tho room, but come way or other it doesn't soGin to mako any difference.' Mr Gilbert Carson will contest tho Wanganui seat at tho next general election. He has gone home to Eugland to ' ' get a few points from Mr Gladstone, which, if properly applied, will lovel the Ministerial candidature with tho dust. ; Mr Carson will bo ablo to give the 0.0. M. a wrinkle or two on tho subject of running an Education Board. Mr Holmes, survoyor, will start early noxt month upon an exploratory survey in connection with tho routoof tho North Maud Trunk Railway. Jt is tho Minister's intention to start another exploring party as soou as possible cithbt from Stratford or Waitara, tho object being to j obtain reports in respeot to both routes for submission to Parliament in accordance with the recomiuondatiou of tho special commit two of hist soseiu-j, |

Mr John Taylor, of Manchester street, has vacancies for one or two gentlemen boarders. An interesting article dealing with the bot fly will be found on the fourth page of to-day's issue. We publish to day as an " insot " plans of the Corporation properties to be sold here on Wednesday next, March 29th. The Government has granted another license for a Workmgmen's Club in Wanganui, which makes the second tbore. This is a direct snub for the local Licensing Committee who closed up a number of hotels. In a private letter, an ex -New Zealander now in Chicago asks why we should not send some of our frozen mutton to Chicago? He says the tariff objections are now about to be removed, and thinks we ought to do something, as meat is nearly as dear in Chicago as in England. The suggestion is, ol course, very acceptable, and I hope to hear something trom our enterprising exporters on the subject. Notice is giyen to-day of the dissolution of partnership of the firm of Messrs Cobbe and Darragh. It will be seen that all debts owing to tho late firm must be paid to Mr Josoph Darragh, while dobts owing by tho firm will be paid by Mr Cobbe. Mr Cobbe will carry on the drapory aud boot and shoo business and ho invites a continuance of the patronage of tho public. For other particulars see advertisement. The biennial session of the Order of Oddfellows of New Zealand (American Constitution) opened in Wellington yesterday. Representatives from all parts of the colony were present. Addresses of welcome were presented to the visiting brethren. Tho report of the Grand Master, which was adopted, shows at the close of last term (1891) the membership was 1505, aud it now stood at 1803. The total fuuds of the Order last term were £17,442, and were now £21,206. Simonson's Alabama Minstrels who aro now playing in Christchurch, are booked to appear in Feilding on the 2Sth proximo. Wood and Emerson the comedians appear in tbe fare© ''The trans oceanic telephone," which tho Weokly Press descri hos as " quite a novel sido splitter in these parts." Liliau, another member of the Company, ooly 12 years of ago, claims to bo the " Cham pion female rifle shot of the world," aud considering her age, is said to be a wonder with tho rifle. The children attending the Primitive Methodist Sunday School held their annual picnic in the Oroua river bed at Aorangi yesterday afternoon. Great interest was displayed in the affair, not only by those connected with the Church, but also by a number of visitors who were present at the opening of the bridge. The usual suitable outdoor amusements were indulged in. About 4 o'clock the young folks partook of an excellent tea, which ii is needless to say was done full justice to. After tea the outing was kept up with spirit till dusk set in. The iollowing item from the Woodville Examiner will be interesting to some Feilding business people : — E. J. Davies, late watchmaker at Danevirke, was brought, before Messrs Clayton and Hawkins, J. P.s, yesterday morning, and charged with the larceny of a gold watch belonging to Mrs Brighouse. Davies took the watch to Palmerston and pawned it for £1 with Mr S. Abrahams. He said he intended to redeem it next day. Mrs Brighouse, in the information, stated the valuo of the watch was £10, but the Justices reduced it to £5, and sentenced Davis to two months' hard labour Take a lemon. What is it good for? Here are a tew of its uses : Squeezed into water, and a little drank every morning, you haye almost a specific for incipient dyspepsia. A lemon decoction applied to the scalp when your hair is falling out will tend to stop this difficulty. The juice added to milk and applied to the hands on retiring at night will whiten and soften those useful appendages. Applied to the face the effect will be the same. A little pure glycerine added will do no harm. Apply a few drops of the | undiluted juice to the sting of a bee or hornet, and ready relief will be found. Au interesting story of the " course of i true love " comes from a little up-country I township. They were both in deep mourning. He had lost his wife. She had not long buried her husband. And it was their wont to meet each other in the grave yard, where they spread with gentle hands the flowers brought to keep the mounds bright. Somehow an acquaintance sprang up. That "good lellowship " gradually ripened, and bix months after their first meeting in this strange spot they had plighted their troth. Settlers relate the story of this little romance as showing how the " shining hours " can be improved. — Napier Telegraph. Mr G. Adams, a young married man, resident of the Makino road, was loading a dray in a gravel pit near Mr Wilson's, at Waituna, on Tuesday last, when a large fall of earth nearly buried him, driving him against the dray with such violence as to tear the left ear from tbe scalp behind ; also causing several lacerations and contusions in other parts of the body, and making an opening trom the back into the cavity behind the liver. Dr Monckton has the case in hand, but the extent ofthe injuries cannot be ascertained for some little time, nor can the wounds be closed, owing to the amount of gravel and sand in them. We are pleased to hear that the latest reports are to the effect that the suiTerer is making most satisfactory pro* gress towards a speedy recovery. Somo of tho scholars at tho National School (writes an Irthliugborough corrospondont) thought thoy could porform tho last act in tho Mcßao tragedy ; so a willing prisoner was found in a lad named Jackson, who was fouud guilty aud condotmiod to bo hanged. Nocossity being tho mothor of invention, a copper had to do duty as a scaffold, ou to which the condomued prisoner was placed ; and as Billiugtou (a lad named Hill) had for gottou to bring his rope, a piece of wire was placed round tho prisoner's neck and fastened to a beam overhead. When all was ready, the copper lid was withdrawn and tho prisonor fell with a " thud " into the copper. Fortunately tho wire broke, and so prevented what otherwise might proyed a fatal termination. Interviewed by a representative of the ' Queenslander' on his return from New Zealand to Brisbane, this is what Mr Gordon, Inspector of Stock for Queensland, had to say about the pasturage iv this colony : — "Nothing astonished me so much as tilt richness of the New Zea land pasiuns, Through a large poriion of Taranaki trom four to six sheep per acre is common, while in the Hastings Valley, near Napier, nine sheep to the acre was quite a common sight. Indeed, the sheep wero so closely packed in the paddocks that at first I could scarcely divert myself of the idea that they had been mustered for shearing or some other purpose, In the Gisborne district — which, however, wa wero unable to visit — wo were informed that the cultivated grass lands there carry nine sheep to the acre all the year round, with, of course, ! the usual supply of turnips or rape in the winter." Mr Gordon als-o remarked : — "On the -nhole I was yery highly delighted with bow Zealand. The English grasses, trees, and flowers, the neat furze and broom hedges, and above all the air constantly filled with the song of numerous skylarks, made me feel that New Zealaud Was only my native Scotland transplanted on to a new aud more gcuiul climate" — Puacdiu 'star.

The s s. Monowai arrived at Auckland to-day from Sap Francisco. Through a trap accident at Invercargill yesterday three men were killed. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. today— Telegrams to oxpect strong easterly winds haye been sent to places north of Auckland. Mr Morey, of the Bon Marche, has had some extensive alterations made to | his premises. The office has been moved to the far left hand side of the shop, and the mantles, millinery, and underclothing department will be on the opposite side. The back part of the building will be giveu over to tbe dressmaking and fitting room under Miss Scott's able management. The alterations have been carried out by Mr Valentino, and the paiuting and decorative work by Mr Gosling in their well-known capable manner. Business will be resumed by Mr Morey on Saturday next, when an entirely new stock will be displayed, and no doubt our enterprising townsman will meet with the patronage and support which his energy merits.