Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

TLg Commissioner of Taxes inserts a notice to-day re the Land Tax Act for 1894. We have received a, couple of very handsome roses from William Stevens. These are the first of the season. We hp.vo to acknowledge receipt of a coniplinieutaiy ticket for the Bachelors' Ball to he held at Apitj qu Friday, the 10th iustaut. The Chrjstchmch Poultry Society have received 1101 entries for the champion poultry show to be held next week. The trustees of the Primitive Methodist Church met at the Parsonage, Fcildiug, last evening.. Th# tender of Mr J. H. Dillon, of Palmerstou, vv^ls accepted for the erection of a church at AwaUuri. At Toniuka the otlicr day a party of three ladies driving met a pack of hounds. The horse backed to the side of the road, fell, and died instantaneously, presumably from heart disease. One of the ladies \yjlj spyerely hurt. The total number of permits l^sufed for thb use of tho totalisator iv the year 1693-94 waft 247, according to a return submitted to Parliament, and the total number of days on which tho machine was used was 318. The total sum paid to the Treasury in that year under the totalisator tax was .£10,377 2s sd. Au jwportant eyeijt in the anuals ,of the Catholic Church iij Feilding wijl take place on Sunday next, in tlu; form of a "general mission" for the >yh#J.o district, conducted by the Rev. Patiiet' Lynch, of Sydney. The Rev. Fathers Hanlou and Lynch have just completed c fortnight's mission in Palmerston, and #f,b were well attended. The mission in Fo/kljng will be opened by Roy. Father Lynch &i 11 o'clock taaHH an Si^day iv St. Bridget's 01iur«t|. It will be g&ntJDued every day until Wedueaday eyeijiijg.. 'fV;?i"c will be mass every morniwg at seveii ati^ niiii-'t C^cchism for the childre9 at %re»,-, a^(f rosary missionary sermon and be-ucdic- * tioa at 6.-5O p.m. The Palmcrstop cli9ir j will be i# atjien^an^e during the mis

The vital statistics for Feilding for the month of July were — Deaths, 2 ; births, 18 ; marriages, 2. i Captain Edwin wired at 12.20 p.m. to-day — Indications^for strong north to west and south west winds, with rain ; glass rise within twelve hours. The following are the vital statistics for the district of Palmerston North for mouth ending July 31st : — Births, 26 ; marriages, 7 ; deaths, 10. " A Book of Strange Sins," by Coulson Keruahan, received at the Public Library to-day, is a work of great merit. The " Literary Gent " depicted in it is equal in power to Charles Lamb's " Drunkard." Abe eighteenth anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Church, Feilding, will be celebrated on the 12th and 13th of August. The Rev. Mr Quintrell will preach the sermons on Sunday, the 12th, and the annual tea and public meeting will be held on Monday, the 13th. The Victorian Minister for Public Instruction has informed teachers who are 30 years of age, and have been 25 years in the service, that owing to their numbers beiug largely in excess of the requirements they should voluntaril}' retire in accordance with the provisions of the Superannuation Act. At a meeting of delegates from Volunteer corps, held at Woodville last eveuing, it was decided to form a Rifle Association, the first meeting of ■which will be held at Woodville. Tlio necessary preliminaries were arranged by the delegates present, and the Association is on a fair way to become a recognised institution. Mr Woollanis, chemist, has a •wonder ful invention on view at his shop for the use of deaf persons. The instrument, which is termed an " Audiphone," enables persons who suffer from completes deafness to understand what may bo said to them. This is undoubtedly the finest aud most complete instrument for those who suffer from that affliction. The Inangahua Times states that Mr McKin'ay's homestead, on the Grey Valley, was struck by lightning while the family were at tea. Ihe nails were drawn from many parts of the buildings. A large bullock chain was fused in parts and the links clean cut in others. A treo was felled by tho lightning, being cut through as if by a saw. No injury is reported to human life or live stock. A correspondent of tho London Live Stock Journal, writing from Chicbester, says: " When on a farm in this neighbourhood last week I s-iw a owe witb twin lambs about three works old' and Wfts tol.l the owe was thirteen years old, and during that period she had had twenty-two lambs, nineteen of winch she i a.i brought up. She was cross bred bo« tween a Southdown and West-country Do^n, wiihout a to.»th in h^r hrad : but no doul>>, being a pot, she ob tuned plenty (f soft fiol" Wo call attention to an advertisement appearing in another column to-day, by which it will be seen that Mr Harold Bagshaw desires to obtain employment in connection with dairy factories. We trust that this district will be so fortunate as to retain Mr Bagshaw among us. His credentials, which he has nllowed us to peruse, are of the highest, for he holds the silver medal and diploma of the British Dairy Farmers' Association, | which is the highest honor that body confers, and as ho is a young, active mau, with practical working experience both in England and the Colony, his presence hero in the infancy of our dairy business cannot fail to be valuable to those sottlers who are investing their money in that industry. A fatal glove fight took place at Aberdare, near Cardiff, in May last. A boxing match for heavy stakes had been arranged between two Aberdare men named David Keen, a blacksmith, aud Thomas Roberts Edwards, collier, and there was a crowded attendance at the hall where the exhibition took place. The first six rounds were fought iv a determined manner. Rees being severely punished, but he came up pluckily in the seventh, only to be knocked senseless by Edwards, who was declared the winner. Rees was stunned by the fall, and, as he failed to rise, doctors were sect for, but before there arrival he expired withput haying regained consciousness. Death was due to a fracture at the base of the skulj.i Five-ounce gloves were used in the contest, and the ring wan thickly laid with sawdust.