Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 36, 11 August 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Tbo Wairarapa Daily Times says hawkera and podlors me as plentiful as rabbits about Mastorton. I The Arrowtown correspondent of the Duuodiu Star wuos : — " Mr Larnach has definitely announce 1 himself for W»ka- ' tipu, and hie candidature* is very popular hero." Eutrica for Messrs Abraham and Williams I'ulinerston sulo on the 17th inataitt j are published to-duy. Additional entries j are also made to that firm's Awahun sale on Tuesday next. Professor Hickton, whose fame as a j horue- tamer is well known in New Zealand, has taken the Assetnby Rooms for Friday and Saturday in next week, when ho will Rive exhibitions of hia powers. We are glad to learn that Mr Bradford believes that Dr Sorley has succeeded in checking the diphtheric symptoms in his little girl, which set in on Wednesday night. The patient is apparently on the mend. We notice that the Paltnerston Borough Council have arranged with the Gas Company for the lighting of 50 lamps with gas. We hope it will not be long before Feilding will be similarly lighted, The meeting of members of the Manchester Cricket Club, called for Monday next, will be held at 7.30 sharp, so that any lof " Our Boys " wishing to attend the play of that name may bo present at the Assembly Rooms afterwards. A slight error occurred in our yesterday's issue in Messrs Rallitf Bros.' advertisement, referring to 104 acres of freehold land for sale close to Birmingham. The price at which the property is offered is £5 6s per acre, and not i's aa appeared iv the advertisement. A remarkable family of oight old women is living m the saino house ut Vexo, Swoden. Throo nro widows and fivo aro old munis. Their agos aggregate within ti jroar or two of 700 year*, each of the women beiug nearly 90 years of ago. In a few weeks Pans will have a restaurant where all the cooklug will be done by oloctncity, and in tho presonco of tho clieuts : no smoke, no dusf, no ho.itod atmosphere. Copper spirals, aud raised to whito heat iv a cement, roasts, boils, aud grille.

Captain Edwin wired today -.—There ire indications fora frost to-ni^ht. A Feilding man who stopped for a night ut a third-rate boardinghouse in Sydney, was asked by the proprietor if he had enjoyed a good night's rest. " No, I did not, boss," he replied. " for I was too busy bug-killing to think of sleep." Mr William Dickson, the holder of a license in respect of an hotel at Peraberton, gives notice that it is his intontion ou the next sitting of the Licensing Bench at Cheltenham, to apply for a transfer of tho said licence to Mr Jamos Mitcholl, his appointee. Everybody has been complaining of the long continuanco of the " wnrm and wet" northerly winds, «nd now that the wind has gone round to the south-east, with more wet, they ure no better satisfied. The weather we haye had lately is certainly far worse than that experienced Hokitika way in the early " sixlies." We specially direct tho attention of tbo public to an advertisement on our first page anout tho Mandarin or Tiger blends of luutao nnd Ceylon teas, which are guaranteed to be absolutely pure, aud unsurpassed for universal excellence. Messrs Davy nnd Mills, of th« Red House Kimbolton road, and Messrs Allan and Co, of Manchester street, Feilding, are the local vendors. On Wednesday afternoon Mr Ravenhill ou behalf of the Hospital Board, accepted tho tender of Messrs Ross and Sand ford for the supply of blankots to tho new hospital. Four tenders wore received from local drapers, and as tho Board did not feel competent In give an opinion on tbo quality and value of the samples offored, tho servicos of Mr J. B. Hamilton, of Feilding, wore oulisted as referee. — Manawatu Standard. Last evemug Messrs Abraham and Williams despatched to Hawke's Bay 425 head of cattle in a special train, consisting of 35 trucks. Tho cattle wore purchased by tho firm in tho Foxton and Huwera districts on behalf of a numbor of Hawko's Bay clients. The Hawke's Bay farmers of lato years have to a groat exteut stopped cattle-breeding, and vow they are compelled to go to outsido districts to obtain supphos,— -Standard. It was tho Prince de Ligno who said apropos of some blatant professions of j iufidolity :— " All this is very fiuo when | one does not hoar the bell for tho dying. Really, unbohof is so much a protence, that if a man honestly had it, 1 dou't see why ho shouldn't kill himself at tho first pain of mind or body. No one understands sufficiently what human nature would bo under tho lnilneiico of positivo irreligion. As to the atheists, they uro liviug uuder tho protection of religion.' Mr Robert White, phrenologist, delivered an address, in Mr Wilson's Buffet yesterday evening, on the advantages of a knowledge of the study of the human head and face. After the lecture, he gave a public display of his talents, by delineating several of those present, to the entire satisfaction of his auditors. Professor White will lecture on phrenology in Mr Wilson's Buffet to-morrow uight. In the meantime Mr White is giving charts of character at tbo Buffet. Mr R. C. Bruce's lecture on " Burns" to-night will prove a great success, despite tho weather and the epidemic of measles which ib in nearly every household. Provision will bo made for keeping the room free from draughts br dropping the curtain and having the doors closed. None should lose what may be the last opportunity of hearing this eloquent exponent of the beauties of his country's poet. His Worship the Mayor will take the chair at 8 p in. It will be remembered that some two years ago we drew attention to the fact that Mr Fergusaon, of Birmingham, had been attempting to grow the Assam tea plants on his farm. We are glad to find that so far his efforts have been suecesful. The plants are now from oto 15 inches in height. They have never been protected from the cold, and, in short, nave just received the same attention as any other trees grown from seed. It is I pleasant to hear of the successful cultivation ot these plants. The Empiro Tea Company bavo an interesting re-place advertisement in this issue, aud attention is directed to their 2 • Coy lon tea. All ovor the world the demand has sprung up for 2/* teas, and this enterprising firm smziug tbo opportunity and noticing thut finer qualities wore neglected, bought largely in those lines, thereby making a judicious blend of really choice teas for which a largo demaud is certain to arise. Householders cannot do better tb.au giro them a fair trial. Tbo Wellington correspondent of the Dunediu Star writes : — One of tho members of the House gives this ' tip ' regarding female franchise : That the Council will pass it, with a clause that tbo guns- ! tion should bo referred to tbo electors, and that if their plebiscite is favorable tbo women will bo enfranchised in ttmo to vote in 1806. Should the Electoral Bill bocotno law this session, provision will bo made for delaying tbo operation of female suffrage till after tho pending General Election. The experiment of extending tho franchise could then be tried at the first br -election in connection with tho now Parliament. Some very sensible remarks woro made by an K.M. at Te Aroha (Auckland) the other day in dismissing a case brought against a kcliool teacher by a parent for flogging her offspring. He said there was too much maudlin sentiment nowa. days about flognuc school children. It was this thnt was really tho causo of the larrikinifm that existed in the colony. Had one of his own boys told him such a lie as the boy in question told his mot her, he would have given him auch a flogging as would have made htm unable to sit down for a fortnight. If disci pline was not maintained in our schools larrikinistn would be the inevitable result. There will be no less than tbreo auction sales goiug on to-morrow afternoon in Feilding* Mr Franklin- Browne will hold a sale of fruit and ornamental troes iv the Mauchoster Hotel Sample Rooms, on behalf of Mr W. T. Bonofiold, of Aramoho. Tho Farmers' Alliance will conduct a sale of horses at Goldiiucb's Horso Bazaar, and Messrs Abraham and Williams, on behalf of Mr 8. K. Clark will submit v splendid assortment of furs and rugs for salo at Mrs Hastie'a Sample Rooms On account of the number of lots to be offerod at the troo sale of Mr Frunklm-Browno, tho proceedings will commonco at ono o'clock sharp, instoad of half past ono as previously notified. This is tho iinedt lot of troea ovorsontout of tho Atumoho nursery.