Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 126, 13 April 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

The tender of Mr R. Ileald for the erection of a cottage for Mr Walter Bailey, of Tnoimi, has been accepted. Owing to the united efforts of the W.C.TU. Feilding is rapidly becoming the most temperate town in the colony. Lust week Mr John Wildbore, of Tugiiui, I'jst a horse, valued at £25, by being staked. This is the second similar misfortune that has happened to Mr Wildbore. I We have to thank Mr Maciiiillan, the courteous Secretary of the Foxton Racing ! Club, for a eomjjlunentary ticket for the j meeting on Monday next. | In reference to a statement recently made by the Wairampa Daily Star that Masterton is becoming intensely sohr.r, tho Bay of l'lenty Times s;iys : I)on't brng, Masterton. Ju Tuurang:i we don't have a drunk once a quarter, on mi average. The subscription-list nuisrtnee is be coining very marked in Wellington. It is stated that ' professional' subscript ion collectors in aid of families left wi'.hout bread winners make a practice of clung j iii£ coiuinisaiou on the " Takings, " souio-tiiui-ii us mucu us 25 per ccut.

Our local Mrs Malaprop says she objects to those superficial-area peoplo who hold their noses so high. The road between Birmingham and Apiti is now metalled, which is much appreciated by travellers. The bachelors at Apiti held a dance in McKenzie's woolshed a few days ago, the proceeds of which were handed over to the school committee. The loan proposals for the purpose of erecting Municipal buildings in Palmersi ton North were not carried. The absentee votes defeated them. The largest horse in the world, standing 22 hands high and weighing 2, 8001 b., died lately in Texas. His hide has been stuffed and prepared for exhibition at the World's Fair in Chicago. Captain Edwin telegraphs .- —Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect north winds have been sent to all places southward of Wancanui and Castlepoint. Today Mr Corpe went over to Campbelltown to mark off the site of his new butter factory. Next season Mr Corpe expects to be receiving the milk from a thousand cows in that rising district. Tho mutual improvement society now being promoted by tho RevMr Cloinent has overy prospect of a prosperous future. A good programme has been arranged for tho opening mooting; which will bo held in the Methodist Church to-morrow ovoning. A frog fell into a pail of milk, and in the morning was found sitting upon a roll of butter. The Egmont Settler says: The sole explanation is this, in trying to extricate himself, the frog had by dilligent and continuous strokes of his hind legs churned the butter. Tho Sydney Bulletin, in the latest issue to hand, says : The Bulletin gladly notes that Maoriland Premier Ballance is at last able to attend a Cabinet meeting. The splendid Democratic work of Mr BaJlauce and his colleagues is an objectlesson for lho world. A bonus of £'250 is being offered by the Government for the best means of eradicating the California thistle ; applications to be delivered to the Minister of Agriculture not later than tho Ist June. The bonus will not be paid until the remedy lies been proved to bo effectual. As showing the wonderful vitality of the Codlin grub, a correspondent informs the Waikato Times that he dosed one with spirits of salts, ammonia, and acetic acid, and " his grubship " survived the lot, being livelier than ever at the finish, and had to receive the coup dc grace in the usual way. Mrs Lane, wife of Capt. Lane, master of tho missing schooner Maile, died on Tuesday last at Auckland. She worried a great deal over the supposed drowning of her husband, whose boat is now fift\two days out from Launceston, Tasmania. Mrs Lane leaves a family of several young children. We hear that Mr Bradford, of the Feilding Horse Bazaar, has sold his plant to Mr Goldfinch, late of Poverty liny. Mr Bradford is in treaty with the trustees for the purchase of the property, and when a settlement is arrived at, the stables will be leased by him to Mr Goldfinch who enters into possession of the premises on the Ist proximo. A painful accident happened to Mr F. Dunderdale, manager of the Palmerston gasworks, on Tuesday afternoon, which will confine him to his room for a few days. It appears that while resting a pot of lead on the gasometer it tilted over, and a portion of the contents going through the laces of his left boot, severely scalded his foot. — Standard. The competitions for Mr McGee's medal were continued at the Feilding butts on Wednesday the 29th ult. and yesterday. This competition is now finished with the result that Corporal Aitken takes the medal, he having won the handicap three times during the season. The full scores of the last two competitions will appear in our next issue. At the sittings of the Supreme Court at Wnnganui on Wednesday before tlie Chief Justice, A. M'Sweeuej, for forgery, was found guilty, and sentenced to two years imprisonment, with hard labor. It will be remembered lhat M'Sweeney was arrested at Pemberton by Constable Tuohy, and when on the way down to Feilding he bolted, but was re-captured after a good chase. Pahiatua is one of the most religious communities in the North Island, Every other resident is a member or sympathiser of the Salvation Army — the remainder being about equally divided between the Episcopalian, Catholic, and dissenting churches. The very dogs in the street bark Salvation hymns, and the " moreporks " chant "Amen." — Wairarapa Star. The whole of tho Cheviot Estate, except about 1,200 acres, including a mansion and other buildings, has now boen leased for periods of sis and 11 months, at an average rental of 2s per acre, the total being at the rate of .£8,450 per annum, which is equivalent to to 4 per cent on the whole purchase money. Surveys will bo pushed on so as to open the land for settlement at tho termination of the leases. A curious fraud has been perpetrated in Vienna, where the Archduchess Stephanie gave a hundred louis for a parrot which could repeat the Lord's Prayer in six languages. When the bird was taken to the palace he proved to be absolutely mute. The vendor was proceeded against, and confessed that he himself was a ventriloquist, and had said the prayers himself, having taught the bird to open his beak while he did so. Of course the parrot and tho money changed bands again.