Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 53, 31 August 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr John Cobbe is now offoriug for a few daya only, some wouderful bargains in plain and faucy dross goods. For full particulars <>oo advertisement. We havo been requested to intimate that the Mukino school is closed on ac count of sickness. Notice of tho date of re-opening will be given. Mr W. lluntor id again in Feilding, and is likely to settle down here, he having disposed of his hotel at Haw era, at a good profit. Several Foilding sport&mon are complaining that tho Raugitikei Hunt Club have fixed the charge for admission to tho enclosure at the forthcoming meeting iu Mar to a far too high. Certainly 10a is a bit stiff. Mastor Rudolph Boddy, of Bunnythorpo, whilst sitting on a rail one day last \rnek, was shot in the hand by some nor>on who was firiug in tho adjoining I>iißh. Fortunately tho wound was not vory snvoro, though tho lad had a narrow escapo from what might easily havo beon a most serious accident. Today we publish the notification that the " Merry Bachelor " will travel this district for the season. His pedigree gives the fullest particulars aB to the ancestry of this valuable horse. The dates of his visits to the several towns and villages are also given, with terms, etc. For other particulars we refor our reader la the udyertibeiiieut.

A teaspoonful of whiskey in milk, to be administered every half hour, was prescribed by a nipdical man, up nnrth, for (i patient sullerin<; from diphtheria. A number of spurious halfsovoroigns are reported to be in circulation in this district. Tradesmen aud others should be on their guard. Tho Marton club havo appointed Mr Stevens to be thoir umpire in tho chess match to bo played by telegraph between Foildiug and Marton clubs ou Saturday next. Mr Joseph Darragh has just rocoived soyeral cases of tiuned fish, spices, meat extracts, marmalade, jams, jollies etc., direct from London and Lowestoft j shippers. Tho attendance at tho Foilding Public School has only been moderate since tho re-opening on Monday last, tbo nvom«;o being about 180 daily, out of a total number of 350 children ou the roll. Mr H. L, Gallieu notifies that he has taken the shop formerly occupied by Mr Garrat iu Muuchestor street, whoro ho will carry on the business of a chemist, and druggist. M r Gallion is a registered pharmacoutical chemist. The following pricos woro received for tho pnvilegos in connection with the Rangitikei Hunt Llub meeting: -Gates, O. E. Churtou, £29 ; grandstand. B. Johns ton, £30 ,* saddling paddock. I{. Johnston £9 2s 6d ; 1 icon sod booth, E. J. South, £15; cards, M. Marr, £11 ; rofroshmnnt booth, H. Tartahni. £3 ; horse enclosure, C. E. Churton, £2 03. Tho Rev W. J. Watkins will deliver a lecture on " Weslevnn Missions," in tho Wesloyau Church this eveniug. The address will contain some account of the roverend gentleman's personal reminis* cences, and is certain to be most interesting, as anything he uudertakes is always treated in a most happy and entertaining tnannor. A large section of tho electors of Inangahua have become rather stuck up since they got Sir Robert Sout to represent them in the House, and nothing less than a knight, or other " bloated aristocrat," will suit them. They have turned on poor Dick Reeves now, because he is not so well off as his friends would like to see him, and won't have him at any price. Dick says he will have a run for the seat no matter what happens. " Dick WhitUngton and his Cat." will bo nliijed by the Misses Ivcss (4), Master Ivesft, nnd Misses Hamilton (2). in aid of tho funds of the Feilding Fire Brigado • n Wednesday text. Tho porformanco will also include a " Fairy song and dunco," with Miss Bellvo as Queen, a "Maypole Danco" by six fairies, the wholo to conclude with tho Tableaux, " Rule Britannia," with limelight effects. The full programme will appear 10 our issue of Saturday next. A most important discovery appears to Imvo been made by Professor liudolf Emmerich at Munich and Dr Z:ro Tsuboi, u Japanese collcaguo living there. Thoy state in the medical papers that they havo found cholera Asiatica to bo a nitric acid poisoning caused by tho Koch comma bacillus. The doctors, by making expoi nnents on guinea pigs, rabbits and dogs fouud that poisoning with nitric acid took tho same course with these animals, and showed the same symptoms us inoculatod cholera with guinea pigs. They further point out that tbo symptoms exhibited by persons poisoned with nitric acid aro exactlv tho same as thoso attending cholera.