Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 209, 9 January 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Ashurst is agitating for the services of a resident policeman. There will be shooting at the butts to-morrow uioruiug and afternoon. A man named Neary at Palmerstou yesterday, received two months' imprisonment for using obscene language. Messrs Abraham and Williams did not hold a stock sale at Colyton to-day. The next sale takes place on Tuesday January 23rd. A heat of the championship tennis tounnuent was played yesterday afternoon between Messrs Dyer and Coote the former wiuniug by 6-2 and 6-4. A correspondent of the Manawatu Standard writes that the Rev Father Patterson is about to take up his residence in Feildiug. The Rev gentleman, we may say, has a host of friends here to welcome him. Mr C. E. Levieu has determined to start a line of coaches to run between Feilding and Waituna. The first coach will leave Feilding this afternoon, after the arrival of the mail train. We wish Mr Levien every success in his plucky venture. Our readers will observe, by the notice in another column, that Mr Greenwood,, the dentist, has now taken up his residence among us. This will supply the long-felt want of a resident member of liis profession, who will be available on the spot whenever required. The natives of to-day have a pretty fair idea of the rules to be adopted at a race meeting. At the Kaipakopako sports held recently, the rules in force caused no little comment in sporting circles, and for the benefit df our local clubs we reproduce them verbatim i-t literatim :— 1. This races for hacks only ; hacks means a horse that has never won any races and is not nominated at the time of start for any race. 2. If a horse win paid half hour after. 8. If anyone see somethings wrong with the manner horse go to the seceartary in half hour time after the winning horse. Inhabitants of Framilode, a Gloucestershire village, were largely scandalised by the elopement of the vicar's daughter. The young lady formed a romantic attachment with the village milk-seller, a young fellow five years her junior, with the result that they eloped. Their whereabouts remained a mystery, but they have now returned, and it transpired that they had been married at Bristol. The young lady's father, although much opposed to the match, has resigned himself to the inevitable aud takeu a farm foe bib bou-iu-law,

Captain Edwin wired to-day—" Same indications as vesterdny." Amongst the pall-bearers at the funeral of Sir Andrew Clark, the famous London surgeon, were " the Grand Old Man," aged 84 ; Sir James Paget, 79, Sir Henry Acland, 78, and Sir Richard Quain and Sir Edward Sieveking, who acknowledge to 77 years of age each. Mr S. Thacker, who has closed his business in Feilding, notifies that all accounts due must be paid to Mr B. E. Watts, his late manager in Feilding, who will be at Mr Milson's stationer's shop to receive them every day until the 15th instant. The Amoneon journalist is always on the spot. Once a fearful explosion blew an American vessel to pieces. A great American journal in reporting the oc* currence stated that " Fortunately our own reporter was on board, and from his dying hps we have gleaned these detail*." The Hawera Star says : — It is a little curious that a comparison of diaries shows that the wet weather with which 1894 commenced is an exact repetition of that of 1892, evjen to the winds, the date of clearing up, and the quarter from which the clearing comes. The Hou W. J. M. Larnach writes to say that the rumour to which publicity was given by the Wellington Post connecting his name with one of the Railway Commissiouerships is absolutelj' without foundation, and that he has never had any communication with any Government in respect to any office under the Crown. - Standard. We are pleased to learn that the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union have been successful in striking a flow of water at the Bunnythorpo Creamery, at a depth of 72 feet, which flows to the surface at the rate of about 700 gallons per hour. This is, we understand, the first artesian water obtained at Bunnythorpe. The Pahiatua Herald says :— At the Pahiatua Chess Club on Wednesday evening Mr Sexton, of Ashurst, played six simultaneous games. His opponents were Messrs Godtschalk, Norton, Lee, Beaufort, Levin, and Turner. Mr Godtschalk was victorious in his game, but all the rest of the players were defeated by the Ashurst champion, whose play was much admired. Ruby Halcomb. the six-year-old child of a Sydney boilermaker, met with her death on Christmas Day in an extraordinary manner. While playing with her sister she fell on the floor. Her mother picked her up and found that a huge darning needle which she had in her hand, was broken, and part of it stuck in the child's forehead near the eve. The child died shortly afterwards. Messrs Edwards and M'.Voath, of Wellington, report wages fur last week as follow? : — Married couples, £70 to £90 ; carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers. 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 93 to 10s ; storemen, 42s to 60s ; draymen, 42a to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 35s ; garden era, 6s to 8s ; farm hands, Ids to 2os ; milkmen, 25s to 27s ; hotelmeu, 20s to 40s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; waitresses, Ids to 20s ; cooks, 25s to 40.4 ; female do, 25s to 355 ; housemaids, 12s to 20s; general servants, 10s to 14s ; nursegirls and boys, 7s to 15s. The demand for most classes of servants is still good, especially for country places. Bone manure — Make a fire of brush, rotten rails, knotty pieces of wood, and all sorts of rubbish, and when a good body of live coal lias accumulated underneath, pile on the old bones somewhat gradually, and some oyster shells if you have them. This will reduce the mass to a mixture of burnt bonemeal, lime, and ashes, and makes a splendid mineral fertilizer. It deprives the bones of what little nitrogen they contain, but puts the phosphoric acid in a shape in which plauts can make immediate use of it. A correspondent writes : — " A lamp hung in the lobby of the local Post Office of an evening would be of great convenience to those who have private boxes. At present the place is usually in total darkness after the natural light of day has vanished, and anyone wishing to clear their boxes who have not a match about them— and ladies, at least, do not as a rule carry those articles — have considerable difficulty in distinguishing one box from another. There are times, however, when a tallow candle is allowed to bnrn for an hour or so, and even the meagre flicker which this produces fills the necessary want, but the candle is not alwajs there." The Stock Inspector and Government veterinary surgeon have recently visited a number of farms in the Manawatu for the purpose of examining the tall fescue grass, which has been found to contain a poisonous substance. Wben the inspector has been completed a report on tne subject will be forwarded to the Government. In conversation with a wellknown farmer we were informed that people would be astonished at the mortality amongst stock through the injurious substance growing on the seed. It appears this causes a swelling to appear in the legs of cattle, irritation ultimatly finding its way to the hoofs and horns causing them to drop off. Quite a number of threcVegged cattle are to be seen in the Kairanga as the result of the rottening process mentioned. Those farm ers who baye fully ro<*ognised the danger of the fescue are taking every possible means to speedily eradicateit. — Standard.