Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 59, 7 September 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Captain Edwin has boon ill for some days, but we have had " weather " just tho same. Entrios for tho United Farmers' Alliance salo at Birmingham on Wodnosday the 13th instaut, aro published to-day. Mr John Gould has consented to he nominated for one of tho vacancies in the Borough Council. "We are informed by the Wellington l'ress that a shipment of 150 ferrets arrived from Kaikoura by the Wakatu on Saturday eyening, and wore forwarded to-day to Mr F. Moore, Glenburn Station, Wairarapa. The following is said to be an excellent remedy for clearing fonl wells : — Take equal parts of unslaked lime and charcoal mixed together, and throw a shovelful iuto the well whenever the water is foul. It is a 6iuiple remedy, perfectly hanuleee.

On Tuesday September sth, 1851, gold was first discovered in Ballarat. We aro requested by Mr Smith, of the Colyton store, to contradict the report that he bad sold out. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Wil* Hams sale at Palmerston on the 14th inst are published to-day. Owing to so many other counter at* tractions this woek the usual fortnightly j Cinderella Assembly is postponed till | Wednesday the 13th September. Mr David Younger has leased tho Manchester Hotel stables, and will commeuce business on Monday. Full particulars will bo advertised to-morrow. Mr T. R. Chamberlain has been nominated for one of tho vacancies in the Bor. ough Council. Mr Worsfold has also been nominated for the Council. To-day several useful breeds of fowl, and carrier pigeons, wore brought up by the Mail train for Mr Vickera who has recently acquired Mr Laiug's farm on tho Feilding-Ashurst road. Tho Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Company haye ordered one of J. and E. Hall's carbonic anhydride refrigerators for uso in tho factory. Tho directors expect it to arrive about the middle of October. Tho Sydney authorities have discovered that fining as a moans of putting down private totalisators is a failure. Therefore, rocently,aman was sentenced to a month's hard labour instead. The gentleman fainted when be heard his fate. Mr Brace, M.H.R., was in Pahiatua a few days ago whore he has promised to givo a lecturo to the Burns' Club. A wish has been expressed by others as well as by ourselves that he should stand for this electorate and there appoarsto be a chance of his domg so. — Wairarapa Times. A meeting of tho Foilding Jockey Club was hold at Mr Light's hotel last evening to consider the programme which has been drawn out by a sub-committee. The programme was approved of and adopted, and it was decided to ask Mr R. G. Edwards to act a.s Clerk of the Course. In yesterday's report of the prohibition meeting at the Foresters' Hall, in referring to the •' Direct Veto Bill," by a printer's error, the expression defeated, was substituted for the word drafted, in the paragraph relating to the introduction of that Bill by the New Zealand Alliance. An eminent Q.C. in England who ro« cently inherited a large fortune, it is said, now undertakes all his cases " for love." Briefs are marked in tho usual way, but tho fees aro returned. Ho makes a point of only espousing the causes of those uot able to pay fees. The Post says : — The case of Captain Kerr, of the Salvation Army, at Milton, came before the cabinet yesterday after, noon, but Ministers state to-day that the matter has not yet been definitely settled. It is understood, however, that the sentence will not be carried out. The shareholders of tho Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, in the Colyton district, aro notified in another column that tho secretary, Mr R. C. Templer will be in attendance at the Colytou post office on Saturday, September Oth, from 1 p.m till 8 p.m., to receive calls. Two farmers in the Mount Gambier (South Australia) district are said to have grown nothing but rape seed during tho last two years, and they both declare that they have made 100 per ceut more than would have been possible had they grown cereals or hay. One of tho farmers referred to states that ho fattened 200 sheep on tho green stuff, and afterwards obtaiued seed which roturned over £20 to the acre. By this morning's train from the south a pair of pure- bred Langshan roosters ar rived from Nelson for Mr T. A. Bryce, of of Kiwitea. Tho buds are eleven months old and one is the winner of throe First Prizes, ono each at Greymouth, Nelson, Wellington ; tho othor won a First Prize at Nelson in a largo class. The birds were purchased from Mr J. A. Harkness, of Nelson. The representatives of the Manawatu and Hawke's Bay Rugby Football Unions meet in friendly rivalry at Palmerston to-morrow afternoon. The following team has been selected to represent Manawatu. — Full-back, Orchard ; three-quarters, Jewoll, Robinson, and Cameron ; halves, J. Manning, Leys, and Bhannon ; forwards, Cockroft, Mowlem, Matravers, Aldworth, Sanson, Woou, Johnston, and Johnston. Emergencies, Iveson, and McDonnell. We (Post) have received from Mr George Robertson a copy of an " O Salutaris " composed by him, aud just published by Marriot and Williams, of London. It is dedicated to Mrs D. H. Macarthur, of Feilding, and has been sung and favorably pronounced upon by leading church-singers in London. The melody is an exceedingly pretty one, written in the key of D major, with transitions into G minor, and a range of 2£ octaves, from D to G. Mr Robertson is to be complimented upon what should be a very popular composition. In tho June number of Harpers', Mr Julian Ralph has a descriptive article on Wyoming, in which State womens' franchise has beou in vogue for over twenty years. Ho states that the great majority of the women there are in the habit of yoting, and all good men pride themselves on not influencing their wives' votes. Women literally flock to the poll. In Cheyenne, out of 133 voters who were present, at least 80 were women. In fact it is said they go avoting on election days just as they go shopping on other days, and there is no doubt that the womens' franchise has an improving effect on politicians and their manners. When the geyser was recently discovered at the foot of Mount Egmont, or thereabout, it was naively stated that steam had been observed arising in tho direction of the locality, for about seven or eight years, but no notice was taken of it because it was thought to arise from an illicit still. Evidently some one had good grounds for thinking such an institution was at work soinewhero within a radius of ten miles of tho Mount. The old proverb says " wliere there is smoke there is lire ; " the new proverb says " where thero is steam there is whiskey." In this case so far the saying is wrong, but the still may be not far off for all that.