Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 74, 25 September 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr James William Rauson, has been gazetted postmaster at Waituna West. The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet this evening at the Foresters' Hall Bowen street. Our Choltonliam aud Kiwitea readers aro reminded of the entertainment to bo given in the Cheltenham School this ovouing. Messrs Abraham and Williams will hold their usual monthly stock sale in tho Colyton yards to-morrow ufternoou. Tho entries comprise several largo lines of hoggets and other stock. We are mform«d that Dr. Johnston and Mr Sandilands have purchased irom the Colonists' Land Corporation, the section opposite Mr Carthew's shop in Manchester street. A scientific gentleman has hud the blood of a live lamb introduced into his veins as a remedy for general dobility. It is probable that there will be no unusual effect save an abnormal fondness for all girls named Mary. We are informed by the Chairman of tho School Committee that he, accompanied by Mr Carthew, also a member of the Committee, examined tho tanks at the school today and found that the water was quite as good as could be expected where such water was drawn without being filtered. It will be of interest to farmers, sporting men, and others, to know that " Lochnugar," by " The Painter," dam " Mayfly ;" and " Rungatira," by " Somnus," dum "Fugitive," will be at the Colyton Bale on Thursday next, for tho purpose of affording breeders in that district an opportunity of seeing these two excellent horses. The following is a cheap as well as a most effective disinfectant : Sulphate of iron, commonly known as green vitriol, and can be obtained at any chemist : lib to 8 gallons of water. It dissolves very readily. If this mixture is poured into cesspits, drains, closets, or other places where necessary, the effect is marvellous, and it kills all disease genus. The rainy weather at Ilouia has greatly improved the appearance of the hops, and week after week since it commenced the reports have become more favourable. At one time it was predicted that there could not possible be half an average crop of hops ; but now if we get favourable weather for the rest of the Beason the results will probably be much iv exeesi of the early expectations. Rather a good thing is recorded att having occurred in the R M. Court at Napier. A much respected J.P. was prosiding, and he had to deal with a rogue and vagabond, as the statute in such case made and provided puts it. " Prisoner," suid tho unpaid Beak in solemn tones (inoro in sorrow than in anger) " your record ifl a had one — very had indeed." Tho rogue and vagabond rather thought he had, but didn't even whisper. " Yes, a very bnd record, 1 ' repealed tho Justice, " you have been K7 months in gaol in seven years !" Tho rogue and vagabond was so taken aback that he asked that he might bo allowed to sit dmvn and recover, while tho police and public looked perfectly apopletic for the remainder of the eittiag. — Napier News.

Captain Edwin wired to day :— Glass 'urther rise. Mr Hooper, dentist, will visit Bir«uiugham to morrow and Wednesday jntil noon. The publication of weather predictions is of great benefit to the community. It enables the mean man to appear generous by promising to take his wife out on a pleasure trip the day when it is certain that a heavy rain will postpone the trip. Mr Franklin-Browne held a very successful sale of drapery gcods at Halcombe on Saturday last, the property of Mr Cook who is Riving up business. There was a large attendance of buyers, and good prices were realized. A Napier paper says : — " The lambing in Hawke's Bay, which is now general, is semething very remarkable. In conversation with several of our sheep-farmers, they declared that never yet had they seen such an increase. Twin lambs aro more common than single one." It is probable that the business of the sossion will be got through by Tuesday or Wednesday in next week. The Public Works debate is to begia to morrow. Complications between tho two Houses over the Government Railway Bill are frooly predicted in tho lobbies, howovor, as likely to lengthen the session. V man who married a widow has in* vented a device to cure her of " eternally praising" her former husband. When she begins to descant on his noble qualities, this ingenious number two merely says, " Poor dear man. how I wish he had not died 1 " and the lady immediately begins to think of something else to talk about. English apple buyors do not accept tho fruit ou the appearance of the top row in a packago, but one barrel of each lot on tale is emptied on a platform in plain sight of purchasers. This circumvents tricky applepackors to some extent, and it is a practice which might be adopted with profit by fruit buyors everywhere. The man who packs big" apples and big strawbomos on top is a deceiver and a fraud who should be most ruthlessly exposed. When recently, a Sussex lady seized a pickpocket and held him until he was officially arrested, she met with no more tangible reward than tho compliment of the magistrates and publicity in tho pa pel. "3. AtCopeuhngen, however, a young lady who performed an almost similar fent has been presonted with a diamond brooch and a flattering letter of thanks by the Director of Police, and has received an offer of marriage from a Danish journalist. The man who invents a method of joining the leather of machinery bolts so that it will be as strong at the point of uuion ns elsewhere, has an euormous fortune in waiting for him. A machine bolt three sixteenths of an inch thick will sustain G'olb of weight por inch of width. At tho pphces — after the bolt han been fastened with rivets— this is reduced to 3801 b ; lacing reduces is still furthor to 2001 b, while a safe working tension is only about 501 b por inch. If the belts could bo mado solid and as strong at the joiuts as elsewhoro, tho working tension might be largely increased. In the R.M. Court, Wellington, on Friday, George Hescott, describing himself a tenor singer, sued E. H. Lough, proprietor of the sixpenny concerts, for £2 2r for singine at a concert on September 13th. The defonce was that plaintiff was encaged on the understanding that if he were not a success no pnyment would be forthcoming ; and that far from being a success, his failure had injured the prospects of defendant's business. Several witnesses were exam ined, and judgment was given for defendant, with cost« 6s, witnesses' expenses 10s, and solicitor's fee Ll Is. General Lord Roberts has met with many a gratifying display of enthusiasm in England since his return from India ; but it may be questioued whether any reception yet given to him appealed to his heart more strongly lhan that on the occasion of his visit to Glasgow to receive the freedom of that city. There was a guard of honour of the soldiers who served under " Bobs Bahadur " in India and Afghanistan, and more especially of men who followed him in his famous march to Kandahar. Upwards of seventy veterans were present m attendance on tnoir old general. They appeared in plain clothes, but displayed all their medals and other decorations.