Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 202, 29 December 1893, Page 2

Local and General News.

« The banks iv Feilding will be closed ou Monday and Tuesday next. A notice from Mr A. A. Browne, the secretary of the Wanganui Education Boatd appears elsewhere. j Mass will be held in St. Bridget's Church on New Year's Day at 11 a.in., and Evening Devotions at 6.30 p.m. A poll will be taken on Wednesday, January 3rd, at Halcombe, on the proposal to borrow itfOO for No. 2 Ward in the Manchester Road District. A silver watch and chain, found yesterday on Kimbolton road, may be had on application at Messrs Berry and Trevena's Carbine stables. A garden party will be held at Mr GoukPs Clairville House on New Year's Day. In our report of the cantata " Jesus of Nazareth " we accidentally omitted to mention the name of Mr J. S. Milsou, as a solo singer. There is nothing new under the sun ! Over two hundred years ago there was a penny post between England and America. Masters of sln'ps used to hang up bags in coffee-houses and any single letters dropped into these bags, they carried for a penny. Tbe Wairaropa Standard states that artesian well borora at Mr Bidwill's new homestead at the Lower Valley, Wairarapa, brought up a quantity of different coloured gold quartz from 65 feet below the surface. Mr Bidwill has sent it to Sir James Hector for inspection. The Woodville Examiner says :•— " The Maharahara copper mining project is evidently ended, as the owners have thrown up their mining leases. Thus ends the prospect of what once promised to be an important mining industry in the district." Speaking of a recent incident in the New South Wales Parliament the Sydney Bulletin says—" Still it is gratifying to learn that most of the legal element in the House approved of the attitude of the two gentlemen who were paid by both sides, and considered it perfectly in accordance with legal etiquette." Among the handicaps for the Palmerston Caledonian Sports to be held on New Year's Day, the following names of local interest appear : — 100 yd s: A. W. Watts, scratch ; I. Watts, flyds. 220 yd s: A. W. Watts, scratch ; I. Watts, Byds. 440 yd s: A. W. Watts, scratch ; I. Watts, 10yds. A". W. Watts is ou scratch in the 220 yds hurdles, but has 80yds in the half-mile. A. Hall is ou scratch iv the mile and half-mile. We have received a copy of the following resolution passed by the Mar ton Bor ougli Council :— " That the best thanks of this council are duo to all tbeso managers or proprietors of newspapers who so kindly forward their publications iree of cost to the public reading room of this town ; and that as some recognition of the trouble and' ezpeuse which those gentlemen tberebj inevitably bear, such thanks be tendered by the Clerk to them with tbe compliments of the season." We highly appreciate this thoughtful act of acknowledgment, and cordially reciprocat© tbe good wishes of tbe council.

Captain Edwin wired at 1 p.m. to-day '• j Glass rising, and easterly winds. i Mr W. A. Sandilauds advertises for • sale a six-roomed cottage and an acre of land, with a good orchard. Price, £'300 on easy terms. A German band of musicians arrived in town this morning, and have been discoursing sweet music in tho principal streets. Property is changing hands at Bunnythorpe. Mr F. Kite has sold out and removed to Waituna. It is stated that Mr Dick is intending to move to Apiti and carry on his business of brick-mak-ing there. Mr Greeuhow, of Hiwinui, who has been on a trip to the Old Country, returned by tho Rimutaka yesterday, accompained by his newlj-wedded bride. We wish the young couple every happi* ness. This morning when Mr S. Knight was delivering his milk to Mr Corpe's butter factory at Campbelltown the belly-band of the harness broke, causing the trap to tip up, and capsizing two cans of milk. No damage was done to the trap. Several members of the Manchester Rifles will practice at the butts on the morning of New Year's day. Competition tiring will commence on Wednesday the 10th, in the morning at 5 o'clock, and be continued at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows, wiU be held this evening at the Foresters' Hall at 8 o'clock. A full attendance is requested, as a large amount of business will be transacted, including electiou of officers and their installation. On Boxing Day two men, who had some difference of opinion, while travelling on the Manawatu line, alighted at Shannon, according to the Manawatu Farmer, and fought it out on the platform. It took eight rounds to convince one of them that he was in the wrong. Journalistic enterprise ! The Post says : — " The demand for our Christmas Supple ment on Saturday evening was extraordinary. An edition of 10,600 copies was printed, and before 6 o'clock there was not a copy left in the office. Over a ton weight of paper was used in printing Saturday's issue of the Evening Post. Mr E. Goodbehere, land agent, advertises a farm for sale in the Waituna. This is au excellent opportunity for a bona fide settler to secure a valuable property on very easy terms. Mr Goodbehere also advertises two farms in Pembertou for disposal, particulars of which are detailed in the notice in our advertising columns. " The Two Doctor Girls " is the title of an exciting tale which will appear in our illustrated supplement to-morrow. In addition will also be found some interesting reading on scientific matters, dairy items, fashion notes, short tales, etc. Under the heading of "The Puzzler " there is much which might claim the attention of both young and old, and serve to pass a pleasant hour or two. A Parisian telegram informed us yesterday that a public subscription was got up in that gay city to send away a theatrical company of Russians which had got stranded 'there, and were said to be literally starving. Russians don't know everything " down in Paree " whatever they may have known " down in Judee." Now, had they been in New Zealand they would have made a tour of the colony, lived on the fat (and tallow) of the laid, bilked the hotelkeepers and newspapers and had a high old time generally. As to starving— it is too ridiculous. A swagger, who had been imbibing too freely, a stranger in these parts, made things very lively for about half on hour at Mr Tremewan's store, at Bunnythorpe last Saturday evening. He tendered a Ml note in payment for sonic articles purchased, and then went away. He returned after a while and said that it was a five pound note that he had given and he threatened to " smash things up " unless he was given another Mi m change. The note had passed through [ two or three hands by this time and they ! ail agreed that it was a Ml note. As we have no police protection here, we were relieved to see him depart by the nine train.— Standard. Two German physicians have arrived at the conclusion, independently of one another, that in many cases where perrons have falleD victims to lightning, had artificial* means of resuscitation to life been brought to bear on the:r behalf the majority of these lives would have been saved. For the doctors contend that being struck by lightning is not necessarily fatal, in spite of appearances to the contrary. The means to restoreilife in this in stance being the same as those which are employed to the bodies of persons rescued from drowning, and the promolgators of this new theory, whilet they point out the wide difference between the causes of the apparent suspension of life in each case, yet assert that both yield alike to the same restorative .methods. Mrs Mary Margaret Lissington, of Wellington, a widow, aged 47, died suddenly last night at 9 o'clock at the Awahuri Hotel, the residence of her daughter Mrs Drury, The deceased lady had been attended by Dr Charlton who gave a certificate as to the cause of death. Mrs Lissington had been residing with her son-in-law, Mr Drury, in the Awahnri Hotel for the last two years. On Boxing day she had a paralytic stroke. The deceased could claim to be a very old colonist as her birth took place on the voyage out, and she has resided in the Wellington province ever since. We understand that her father is still living. Tho funeral will leave Awahuri for the Pahnerston cemetery to-morrow (Saturday) at 2 p.m. Mr A. Eade is the undertaker.