Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 205, 3 January 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Messrs Abraham and Williams' stock sale takes place at Palmerston to-mor-row. On Sunday next Mass will bo held iv St. Bridget's at 8 a.m., and Campbelltown at 11 a.m. A very heavy thunderstorm passed over this district yesterday afternoon accompanied by tropical showers of rain. The North Otago Times says that the person spoken of as likely to purchase Cheviot House and 500 acres of the surrounding land, is the nephew of the late proprietor. When this portion of tho estate is sold, the Government will require t > sell about £40,000 worth more oi the Cheviot to bring tho cash figures up to their estimate. The annual school picnic was held at Beaconsfield yesterday and although the weather was very threatening a large number of all ages and sexes attended in the afternoon. The usual games were indulged in and the chairman of the school committee, Mr Benson, distributed the prizes among the scholars. Mr John Cunningham called for three cheers for Mr Benson, wliicli were heartily given. Despite numerous warnings people will indulge in the foolish practice of jumping off trains while in motion, and last night, as the last train arrived at the Palmerston station from Wanganui, a young girl nearly lost her life through this practice. She attempted to alight before the train stopped, and fell between the carriages, when a fellow passenger with remarkable presence of mind seized hold of her clothes and held ou till the train came to a standstill. Beyond a severe fright, no harm was done. — bbaadtud.

The Wanganui Old Boys defeated the | Palmerston Tenuis Club on Saturday by i 94 games to 72. I Captain Edwin wived at 1.25 p.m, today : " Nortii to cast and south-east gale, with rain, and glass rising." The Returning officer, Mr G. C. Hill notifies that Mr Harry Woolven has been elected, unopposed, a member of the Feilding Borough Council. Tlie Auckland Observer is horribly indignant because the candidates at the recent general elections have neglected to pay their advertising accounts. The Rev T. W. Boys, of Timaru, and late of London, will lecture in tlie Primitive Methodist Chapel ou Friday evening next at 7.80, his subject being " London, within sound of tlie Bow Bells." During New Year's Day and yesterday the Plymouth Brethren held " all day " gatherings in the Gospel Hall at which a large number of visiting brethren were present. Open air meetings were also held, the whole being well attended. » ..* „.,n iw. „;,„„,; ,, _i,„ !__>___.»,__ field school house on Friday, January 19th, by the local amateurs. A farce is being prepared for the occasion, which is considered to be one that will provide no end of amusement. The Auckland Star, m its monthly BUtnmary for Europe, observes: — "In that bappy future when we are able to convoy our bodips at even oue tenth of tbe velocity at wbich we now send our thoughts to the ends of thp earth, New Zealand must assuredly be the favourite resort at Christmas time for the Londoner whether he be the jaded man of business or Arry on an outing with 'Arriet. A gentleman from Palmerston purchased a race-card at the Woodville races on New Year's Day. On opening it he noticed a mark against the name of one borse in each event. After a couple of races had been run he discovered that the tick was opposite tbe name of the{success« ful horses. So he followed the unknown •* tipster " and was rewarded by winning three races, the horses marked in the othor two races being scratched. 60, in the five races that the horses marked off started, the " tipster" was correct. A speaker at a meeting iv London, recently, paid that " one in every four dies in the workhouse or in a hospital, and one in every six dies in the workhouse. The money spent yearly iv drink — 140 millions — would pay all tbe railway companies all their earnmgß from every souice, and leavo 60 millions oyer. It would pay the rent of every building — palaces, cottages, and business houses— and allow every one to liye rent free. It would pay taxes, imperial and local, iv addition to all charges for post and telegraph service, and for gas. It would enable tho country to give to all old people £1,000 down and a £100 a year for life." . The perfect shoe polish has at last been discovered, and ju«t in time, too, for feminine patience with the prepared polish, wbich cracked the leather, was about exhausted. Tbie can be made at home and is as ridiculously cheap as it is simple. Mix coßtnoline and lump black in equal parts and apply lightly with an old toothbrush or so ft rag, then wtpe tbe shoe off with another rag, and you have a polish tbat lasts for days, and not ouly gives the shoe the appearance of newness, but actually preserves the leather. No one who has used itjever goes back to the manufactured polishes, which are disagreeably shiny and are ruinous to fine leather. — Wanganui Chronicle.