Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Manchester Road Board met this afternoon. Last month the rainfall in Gisborne was 16*62 inches. The Rev. W. H. Judkins 1 subject for to-morrow morning is announced. A daughter of Mr E. M'Cleary, of Bulls, had a finger cut off on Thursday while playing with a sausage machine. A Kentucky woman recently brought a suit against a railway for killing her husband and her horse. She got ISOdol for her horse and one cent for her husband. Kecenfcly several settlers in the Pohangina Tost a number of cattle from j tutu poisoning. It is said that a bottle of vinegar administered to any tutu poisoned animal will give immediate relief and effect a cure. A special meeting of the Mauawatu Road Board will be held on Monday to consider the letter from Mr D. Grant in reference to a threatened lawsuit for alleged damage to his property by an overflow of water from drains in the Posted'!* district.

Amongst the reading matter on the fourth page to-day will be found a letter on Socialism. Farmers and others are reminded that the Land Tax must be paid in one sum on or before the 17th inst. Mrs R. FitzHerbert announces by advertisement to-day that she is now prepared to undertake dancing classes in Feilding and Marton. Several settlers went from this district to attend the late Rev. W . Stewart's funeral which takes place at Marton today. The election of Mr J. W. F. Halcombe as acting-lieutenant of the Manchester Rifles has been approved by the Minister for Defeuce. A warning to bicyclists is conveyed by the fact that two young men were yesterday fined 5s each, with 7s costs, for riding their bicycles on a footpath in Wellington. Mrs C. Snow, of Bunnythorpe, had the misfortune to run a needle into the palm of her hand yesterday. Dr Mclntire, whose services were called into requisition, deemed it wiser not to probo for the needle, as it would soon work itself out of the hand. — Standard. The man fonnd dead in the Kai Iwi Railway Station yesterday morning had committed suicide by cutting his throat with a pocket-knife. An inquest was held when a verdict was returned that deceased had committed suicide while in a state of insanity. Papers found on the body showed that the man's name was Henry Read, and that he was from the Marlborough district. The following tenders have been received by the New Zealand Dairy Union for the foundations in concrete ami brickwork required in connection with the erection of a butter factory at Wellington : Accepted, A. R. Muuro, Palmerston, .£249 10s. Declined, Norbury and Trevor, £'250 ; Peddie and Muir, £273 15s 6d; R. Spurway, £200 ; D. McLean, 1309 ; J. Russell, 1313 ; Dorwent and Barrou, i:313 ; H. Bennett, £240. A passenger by last evening's train from the North was walking up the railway platform last evening with several brace of pheasants, when the Argus ey« of Constable Watty detected amongst the collection several hen birds, and as a result, the passenger in question will probably be called upon to answer a charge at the Police Court of committing a breach of the game laws. — Standard. A correspondent ot the Wesiminstor Gazette has compiled a list of football casualties which he terms the football ■• butcher's bill ' for 1893-4. His list totals !o 311 Occident*. 24 of which end d in dea h, Broken c-'llar bonos tike fi si plac • I '4 vis ims b-.iken Let; " follow close up with 100. Cases inwiiith tho itrrn has been tho sufferer onlj nun*" ber 25 Miscellaneous injuries, which include driven io the abdomen and internal hemorrhage, are put down at 88. The farmors who were in town on Saturday, says the Ashburton Mail, who realised tho situation as regards the necessity they will bo under of paying their laud tax four mouths earlier than has been their wont, were in anything but good humor over it. They contend that longer notice should have been given them, as in many cases not a penuy has been received by them yet for either crop or clip, and the times are not such as to allow of any elasticity of the purse. A sensational development is reported in connection with the death of a man named Hay, ■who succumbed suddenly to inflammation of the lungs at Leichhardt, Sydney. Hay had for a long time lived the life of a miser, and appeared to be in very poor circumstances, but when his room was searched, documents were discovered showing that he was worth about £12,000, the money being safely lodged in different banks. The whole of this money is left to Hay's mother, who resides in Hobart. A London correspondent writes : Do you want a good "pick-me-up?" The following has been suggested to those suffering from worry aud brain-fag, as it has no depressive reaction : Bovril a tablespoonful, a new laid egg well beaten up, and a teaspoonful of genuine Lea and Perrin, a breakfast cup of absolutely boiling water, and salt ad lib, then a tea-spoonful of best brandy. That's the recipe as given to me. I've not tried it, but I hear it works wonders with those whose nerves are overwrought. A notice has been posted < n oie of the fashionable churches in the West End of London in imating that in future the stewards who go rouad with the offertory plates have received peremptory instru tioaa not to receive any coppers ' fbo*e who caii not afford a threepenny piece are welcome to worship here free." It is alleged that this edict baa been issued, not for the purposo of wounding the feelings of the poor, but to induce the rich, from whom most of tho coppers come, to be in ore generous, and give at least 3d in *ilver. it not for the sermon, at any rnte for the service We^rs Bindon and Spencer, the Inspectors of Schools, are j ust about to com mence the annual examinations in standards of the schools in this educational district. The schools to be examined during this month and tho dates f«f the examinations are — Mo-stown and War rennate, Wednesday 6tri inst. ; Denlmr, 9th; Matarawa, 10th, Tnrakina Volley, 15th; Taiak n^ "iGih; ParoekuretU and Upper Tutaenu , 2Uth ; Hunterville, 21et .md 22nd ; Three Log Wli-re, 22nd; On g . K.wid. 23rd ; Oh ngaiti, 23ni and 2lth; > .roaiford and Wasteru Kangitikei. 27tu ; Parawanm and South Ylakinkin. 28th ; Sinson, 30'h and 3lat ; aud Canarvou, 3l*t Agricultural depression seems to have reached somcthiug like a climax in the county of Essex. Already 75,000 acros of good land in that county, within easy reach of London, have gone out of cultivation, owing to the iuipoasibility of utilising the ground properly, and more will follow. Nearly the whole of that of that county will soon be waste ; not even in pasture, for that would mean some taxes, but absolutely idle. It is a sad state of affairs, for that was once a great wheat-growing district, the heavy clay soil being well suited to that sort of crop. But bad times, low prices, and crushing taxation have among thorn killed agriculture in Essex. Other counties arc but little better off. We aro indebted to Mr Sharpe for the following :— The alterations at the Feilding Hatchery have been completed. A better supply of water has been obtained, and a greater number of boxes have been placed in the Hatchery, 60 boxes being in use instead of 40 as last year. Consequently the Hatchery is able to accommodate a greater quantity of ova. 34,000 were received from Masterton on Thursday by the mid-day train. Messrs Sandilands and Haybittle met the train and took the ova to the Hatchery. They were placed in the boxes in good condition, very few having succumbed on the journey. The young fish should hatch out in a week or ten days. With a good season 20,000 fish should be turned into the Oroua aud a lesser number into the Kiwitea, Maugaone aud other streams iv the district.