Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 233, 7 February 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

— — • Payne Family to-night in the Assembly Rooms. Mr H, Simes, of Campbell town, advertises for sale six good dairy cows in milk. Influenza, says the local paper, has attacked seA'eral people in Hawera. Mr Charles Carr has made considerable additions to the entries for his Feilding sale on Friday next. Additions are made to-day to the lis* of entries for Mr R. E. Beckett's sale a* Halcombe to-morrow. At the local tennis court yesterday Mr Brabant (15) beat Mr Richmond (30) in the Gentlemen's Handicap Singles. The scores were 80 and 64 points respectively. Mr French, the Victorian Government entomologist, states that there is no reason for stockowners being alarmed about the bot fly. Salad oil rubbed on the affected parts is, he alleges, a certain cure A competition was fired by C class of the Manchester Rifles this morning, ouly two competitors turning out. Yol Ricliards won with the very creditable score of 68, Vol Card putting on 49. A new advertisement appears ou our third page from the firm of Mesrs Hogan I and Co. (limited), of Wanganui. Messrs Hogan and Co do a large commercial, shipping, and insurance business. Large numbers of trout have been found dead iv the Otaura stream, which ruus through Shannon. The Manawatu Farmer says it is believed that they were killed by poison from a sheep dip. At the Marton Police Court yesterday, Mary Ami Goldfinch, of Turakina, was committed for trial on a charge of forging aud uttering a cheque for £6 10s, alleged to have been signed by (}. Y. LethI bridge. 1 Many shrewd aud careful foreigners, including rulers and royalties, bave put large sums away iv English securities iv case of a rainy dav. Victor Hugo has the whole of his vast fortune invested iv England, and so has President Grevy. At au early date Messrs Abraham aud Williams will sell the farm of Mr Hopkins, at Pohangina, iujsuburban sections, aud in suitable dairy farms. The firm have made additions to-day to the list of entries for their stock sale at Palmerstou North. On Sunday uext, weather permitting, the members of the Feildiug Brass Baud will take a trip to Rangiwahia. They I will start at b a.m., from Messrs Berry and Trevena's stables, and be driven up iv Mr Sam Daw's coach. Mr H. Trevena will drive from Feilding to Birmingham, where the horses will be chauged aud the jouruey continued. Mr Wollermau will leave by the Gothic for London on March Ist aud will probably be abseut from the colony for a year. Mr Wollerman intends to bave consigned to him iv Londou, several carcases of sheep frozeu at the Lon^buru Freezing Works, which he will take with him to Westphalia (Prussia), to present to some of his friends aud relations there. He will also take home with him four or five cases of apples for the same purpose A London Exchange says : — The illtreatment of children appears to be becoming quite a fashionable craze. In* stead of being, as heretofore the pastime of the rougher substratum, it is catchiDg on as an amusement for the educated members of Society. Recent and well* known examples are fresh in everybody's memory, ond yet another epeciment is added to the collection. A solicitor should, of all men, be aware that cruelty to children is a punishnble offence, but it would almost seem that cruelty, like the overpowering desire for drink, is bred in the bone, and takes no cognisance of laws, human or dmno.

Captain Edwin wired at 1.15 p.m. to-day : — Strong north-east to north and west gale and glass fall. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the Government parade to be held to-morrow evening. Mr Saudemau. of Birmingham, solicitor, advertises .£3500 to lend on broad acres. The Returning Officer for the Kiwitea County, Mr E. Goodbehere, notifies that i Mr H. G. Shannon has been duly elected for the On go Riding. Some sheep sent by Messrs D. and W. Manson, of the Pines, Feilding, to the Longburn Freezing and Slaughtering Factory, were said to be the best the factory had received this season. In a telegram to Dunediu, the Premier states that the proceedings at the licensing elections are the same as at the elections of M's.H.R., and that candidates will have to deposit i'lO each. Turin has taken a long step forward in newspaper enterprise. It has recently produced a little paper printed with an ink that becomes luminous in the dark, bo that the matter may be rend at night without the assistance of artificial light. The work of surveying the village settlement at Levin, adjoining the State farm, has been entrusted to Mr H. J. Wylde, of Palmerstou North. The work is to be commenced forthwith, and is to be concluded in ten weeks' time. Last night as Mr Fred. Keen was returning home from the performance of the Marton Opera Company, a dog sprang on him. Mr Keen naturally put out his right hand to protect himself, when the dog seized it and severely lacerated the fingers. Mr Keen awakened Mr Galhen, the chemist, who dressed the wound and eased the pain, which was intense. The youug woman, Marian Allen, who attempted to commit suicide at Wellington by swallowing spirits of salt, wrote the following letter before taking the poison : " I am only a trouble here. I think lam too wicked to live. I never do things properly and it makes me mad when I know everyone has been so good to me. I would rather die than go into more trouble, for it is not only myself that suffers, but others. I know I shall not meet my dear mother." The sacred concert given by the talented Payne Family in Wanganui, on Sunday night after the churches were closed, was admittedly the best ever held there. The rendition of the several pieces -was simply faultless, but the singing, and playing on the bells, of the old Hnndreth Psalm was beautiful ;ind touching. One of the most pleasing unmbers in the entertainment this evening is a quartette by the four ladies entitled " Baby Treasures " which is quite new to the Feilding music loving public.