Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 210, 10 January 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

» Tablet soys Dr. Moran still continues very weak, and the state of bis health onuses much anxiety. Meteorological returns for past season •*tamp Auckland as the wettest district in tbo colony. They are getting a new tire bell iv Pahuerstou North. It will weigh nearly fifteen hundred pounds. The phonograph will be exhibited in Feildiug Assembly Rooms on Monday the 22ud inst. See advertisement. "We regret to learn that the editor of the Mauawatu Daily Times is laid up 1 with a severe attack of influenza. Au attempt is being made to reduce the wages of miners at Reef ton. The reduction is not intended to be enforced until next month. Methodist Trust property amounting in value to .£9,000,000 has been acquired in Great Britain in thirty years. A lad named Charles Webb, sou of Mr h\ Webb, of Hulls, was thrown from his horse on Sunday afternoon, near Carnarvon, and had his collar bone broken. The racehorse Van Diemen, when gailopin" on the training track at Gisborne on Monday morning, broke the fetlock of one of its hind legs, and had to be shot. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Birmingham Druids plain and fancy dress ball on the evening of the 18th instant. Mr J. H. Baker, Commissioner of Crown Lauds, passed through Feilding yesterday en route to Huntcrville, where he presides at the ballot for village settlement sections this evening. Christchurch " Truth " says that the Rev Mr Haweis, one of London's " fashionable preachers," who is always, like W. T. Stead, taking up some new thing aud dropping it when the blush is off it, iti vow writing iv favor ol'Moriuyuiaxn,

The Lancashire bcllriugers are coming this way shortly. The competition firing at the butts commenced this morning and was continued this afternoon. The scores will appear to-morrow. Swinburne, the poet, is on his way to Australia. He will prospect for new ideas in the Blue Mountains, and for new poetic phrases in Little Burke street. j The enemies of the French Republic who have so confidently pi'edicted its t downfall, point to the fact that since its existence of not quite twenty-three years it has had no fewer than twenty-eight Ministries. To-day's Wellington Times says : — There are rumours in the air of more election petitions, of special interest to the city, and perhaps the suburbs also. Of these something definite is expected to be heard to-day. The settlers and others in the Pembcrtou block will, no doubt, be pleased to learn that Mr Charles Carr intends holding a stock sale at Rangiwahia in March next. We congratulate Mr Carr on the exteusiou of his enterprise, and have every confidence he will receive the support he deserves. Advertisements anent tha sale of privileges, and acceptances for the Foxton Racing Club appear to-day. The saltwill be held by Mr J. R. McMillan, at the Auction Rooms, Foxton, of Messrs McMillan, Rhodes and Co., on Saturday next, and the acceptances will close on the evening of the same day at 9 o'clock. When children are observed to stammer, care should be taken of their general health, and those who are with them most should talk gently and slowly, carefully pronouncing each syllable. It is a great mistake to correct children for stammermg, they should be oucouraged to open their mouths and take their breath before beginning to speak slowly and softly. Trade accounts or invoices bearing priutod remarks or instructions to customers, 6uch as " terms cash," " ten percent, charged on oyerdue accounts," " when remitting return account to be receipted" and " exchauge must be added to cheques' ' are to bo regarded for the present by the Postal Department as admissible under the conditions of the commercial paper post An English doctor says he does not recollect himself to have seen any but fairlj he:ilthy persons sneeze. He puts the question with especial reference to the widely spread popular superstition that snocziug is a sign of health and good luck. It is possible he thinks, that this pay have had its origin in the fact that it is for the most part an act restricted to those in fuir health. The departnre of the Rev Father Patterson to Feilding is only temporary. It is the rev. gentleman's custom at Easter and Christinas to visit those members of his congregation who arc residing outside of Pnlmerston for the purpose of in strncting the children, and Feilding being in the centre of his parish he will stay there for a fortnight. — Manawatu Times. An advertisement appears in another column to-day from Mr W. A. Browning, of the FiXcelsior Steam Carriage and Factory Works, Pahnerwton North. Besides constructing any description of vehicle aud repairing, shoeing and general smith's works is undertaken at his premises near the railway station. MiBrowning is the winner of several prizes for his vehicles at various agricultural shows and customers can depend on being satisfied. The Birmingham Druids' Anniversary Sports on the 18th January promise to be very successful. A first»ciass programme is provided, and the nominations have been coming in freely, having been received from Dunedin, Wellington, and the surrounding districts. Athletes are reminded that nominations for all handicap events close with the Secretary at 7.230 this evening. The committee are sparing no pains in getting the track in first-class order, and with fine weather a good day's sport 6hould be enjoyed by all who attend. The Feilding Brass Band has been engaged to enliven the proceedings, and this should prove a great attraction. Mr Lowe, Government surveyor, told one of the settlers on the Salisbury Block that in all probabilities the first connecting road from Apiti to Norsewood would be that from Apiti through the Table Flat road of the Pohangina Farm Homestead Association, and thence by the Uiuutoi road to meet the road named Apiti -Norsewood road, running through the centre of the Salisbury Block and so to the Pohangiua river. The reason assigned for choosing this route is that there are several miles of comparatively level country from Apiti main road to Table Flat road, and also that the Coal Creek country (although much shorter in a direct line) is very rough, and the road necessarily winds about, and would be more costly to make. This will be good nc%s'H for the settlers ou all the Pohangina Association Blocks' as they will be connected much sooner than if the main road was carried through the Mongaoira Coal Creek Block.