Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 215, 16 January 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Feikling Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next, the 22nd inst. Somo valuable horses have died in the Onrtertou district within the last few days the cause beiug attributed to the bot fly. Ad epidemic of ringworm has broken out amongst cats in Wellington, and numbers of children have caught it from handling their feline pets. Ink spots can frequently be taken from white clothes by rubbing on common tallow, leaving it for a day or two, and then washing as usual. A meeting of the Provisional Directors of t'ic Feikling Permanent Building Society will be held to-morrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at the office of the Manager, Mr E. Goodbehere. A start has been made by the concontractor on the new building about to be erected by Messrs Brennan and Marshall, at the corner of Manchester and Fergussoii streets. The Primitive Methodist Conference, now sitting at New Plymouth, have unanimously voted for the re-appoint-ment, for another year, of the Rev. G. Clement to the Feilding station. The Mount Morgan Company, Queensland, employed last month 1200 men, who raised SHOO tons of ore, producing BOOOoz of gold. This averages about i.'2C per man. A heat of the tournament Handicap Singles was played on the local tennis ground yesterday afternoon between Mrs Ma-jarthur (half 15) and Mrs Hill (30), resulting in a win for the former. The scoring was 0-1 and 7-5. As Mr, Mrs, and Miss Goodbehere were driving along Kimboltou road yesterday in their pony carriage, one of the fore wheels came off the vehicle. The horse took fright and bolted, but the animal was stopped by Mr Berry before any damage was done. "They've raked in a pretty toughlooking lot this morning, haven't they ?" said the stranger to the reporter in the Wanganui Police: Court. " You are looking at the wrong lot," answered the reporter. " Those are not the prisoners ; they are the lawyers." — Herald. There will no doubt be a large gathering at the public tea meeting which takes place in the Wesleyan Church tomorrow afternoon. The meeting is beiny held for the purpose of welcoming to the district the Kev. Mr Judkin, who takes charge of the Feilding circuit. Tea will be on the tables at 6 p. in., and the addresses will commence at 8 p.m. In Sydney Harbour, on Christmas Day, while a dog was in the water closeto a sloping-stone landing place, a monstrous shark seized the poor animal, who | [ with a load scream .seemed nt hint toes--1 cape its clutches, but the shark fairly rose out of the water, and seizing the j dog a second time disappeared " Neath i ' the blue " to enjoy its Christinas dinner. '

Twenty-years ego three miners owned a block of African mines. One has siuce been hanged, another is a beggar, and the third miner is Premier Rhodes, reputedly the wealthiest man in Africa. Mr W. T. Bowater, the Secretary of the Gladstone Block Association, has been informed, officially, that the Commissioner of Lauds will arrange about a township for the Block during his present visit to the district. An Auckland boy was recently asked to give a school inspector "a rough idea ; of how instruction is imparted in the schools." He thought it out and replied : " They ax you once and then they hits you." Orchard thieves were very busy in a garden at Makino last night. They were so reckless in their movements that they awakened the owner and a neighbour. Both turned out and gave chase, but the depredators escaped with a fright. A child of Mr Jan. Donnelly, of Feilding, who has been in the Palmerston Hospital for the past rive weeks, under treatment for spine disease, has returned home greatly relieved. Mr Donnelly is highly pleased with the treatment which his child received whilst in the institution. " Have a good look at the face of a Melbourne larrikin of the lowest type." says a Sydney paper, " and then say honestly whether or not Darwin was near the mark. " We (Christclmrch Truth) consider the foregoing the most outrageous insult ever offered to the monkey tribe. Messrs Stevens and Wood, who are erecting a sawmill plant on their bush section near Awahuri, are making good progress with their work. They have their site fenced, dug up, and most of the plant on the ground, and are in hopes of commencing operations iu about three weeks' time. We wish the firm every success in their undertaking. Referring to one of the candidates for the Education Board, the Napier Telegraph says :— " We have no hesitation in saying that no man, be he who he may. that patronises the totalisator or indulges in any other form of the degradiug vice is a (it person either for the oflice of a teacher or of an administrator of our education system." A beautiful cold soda water spring has made its appearance quite recently at the base of Tarawera mountain, just at the landing place (writes the Auckland Heralds Rotorua correspondent.) The water, which is effervescent, is much relished by visitors, especially on a hot day alter a fatiguing climb. Mr Warbriek has promised to bring a supply of the wat-er to Rotorua for the purpose of having it analysed. It seems somewhat curious to find a cold water spring at the foot of a hot mountain. Cecil Rhodes, the great mystery man and uncrowned King of South Africa, went out there as clerk to a second rate mercantile firm some twenty-two years ago. Now he is the wealthiest mau in the whole of South Africa, bosses diamont mines, railway companies, theatre specs, and wants to mop up a country bigger than France for himself and his brother adventurers. Rhodes lives in a quiet way — spending under .£'soo a year — at a country house of unpretentious style near Capetown. A London correspondent writes to the N.Z. Times:— The Bank of Now Zealand, as you are aware, is offer* ing its Carnarvon estate, of 7000 acres, cut up into allotments of 150 acres and upwards. As well as disposing of the laud the object is to attract suitable immigrants of the farimug class with large and small capitals. Two blocks are sold and some farming people with money are on their way out to "view the land " be fore purchasing it. Wise men and practiruli The editor of the Christchurch Truth has been shown a letter received by a Cliristchurch resident from his brother, an engineer in business at Halifax, England. Following is an extract : — " Trade here has been very indifferent for some time, and it does not look like improving. We are just getting over a great coal strike. These strikes are the curse of the country — or rather the paid agitators are. I can assure you the position of employers in this country is not a ' bed of roses,' They never know what is going to turn up." Messrs Edwards and M'Beath, of Wellington, report wages for last week as follows : — Married couples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers, 12s ; black* smiths, da to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 10s; plumbers and gasfitters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 42s to 60s ; draymeD, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30a to 35s ; grooms, 25s to 35s ; gardeners, 6a to 8s ; farm hands. 15s to 255; milkmen. 25s to 275; hotelmen, 20s to 40s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; waitresses, 15s to 20s ; cooks, 25s to 40s ; female do, 25s to 35.s ; housemaids, 12s to 20s ; general servants, 10s to 14s ; nurse girls and boys, 7s to 15s. There is still a very good demand for ail classes of servants. We hare been exceptionally busy with country orders. Messrs Richter, Naiinestad and Co., of the Mauawatu Flour Mill, Palmerston N., have justly earned a name for their produce in the district, as it is acknowledged to be of the best quality. The firm, not so long ago, erected expensive machinery in order to manufacture flour of the purest quality. Their enterprise was crowned with success, and therefore a very large demand for the article set in. To meet this the firm were obliged to import further machinery from Mr A. Simons, Manchester, which arrived on Saturday and will be immediately fitted up at the mill. When this is accomplished the firm will be able to turn out twelve tons of flour per day. A. G. Taine and Co report as follows of the horse market for the week ending January 12th : — On Saturday we held our weekly *ale of horses in the central horse Kaleyards. The entries were small and consisted mostly of inferior hacks and harness horses. A fair number found purchasers at ruling prices. There was a demand for good young sound active horses fit for lorry and spring-dray purposes, and any of this sort coming forward would find purchasers at full market rates. We refrain from quotations at present, as they would only tend to mislead, and we hope to be able to announce shortly the sale of some fresh country horses for hack and harness purposes, aud draught horses from another colony. A paragraph appeared in the Stak recently of a young lady who, having several admirers, and not knowing which to accept, wrote their different names on separate eggs, and placing them under a hen determined that the name on the egg which was first hatched should be the favoured one. Well a Feilding young lady read this and being sorely , troubled as to whether she should accept George, Jack, or Harry, when they proposed -which of course in her mind they were going to do — she decided to try the egg trick, hut to make it more interesting she placed an egg marked "old maid" witli the three hearing the names of her " lovers," under an old clucking hen, and anxiously awaited results. As the hatching time drew near anxiety was depicted all over her countenance, and when yesterday she heard a chirp, and hastily rooted the mother off her iiest, .she swooned n way on discovering that the empty shell was branded " o!»l maid." The young lady is now in bed, .supposed to be suffering from a sun stroke.

A lad named Tippler was drowned at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington, yesterday through falling out of a boat. Lyon's Operatic Company will appear in the Feilding Assembly Rooms on Thursday and Friday next. Mr G. Smith, in charge of one of Osborne's patent artesian well-sinking machines, arrived in Feildiug yesterday. Mr Smith is going to sink a well on Mr Wilcock's property, near Awahuri. In our advertising columns Mr Henry Penberthy, of Makino, apologises for and withdraws any statement made by him iu reference to the position or character of Mr F. Mclntosh. The following satisfactory prices were realised for the privileges in connection with the Foxton races which eventuate on Monday next (Anniversary Day) : — Outside gates .£'sl, Mr Campbell ; lawn and saddling paddock .£'6s, Mr Hillary : No 1 booth £28, Mr J. Smith, Feilding; No 2 booth £19, Mr OHalloran, Bulls : refreshment booth i?3, Mr McGlashan ; cards .£"l9, Mr Bradcock ; horse paddock 11 os, Mr Millard. Total, £187 6s.