Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 81, 29 September 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

According to Mr Meredith, M.H.R., there are 14,000 hotels in tho colony. Fear of what may happen from the outcome of the deliberations of tho Tariff Committee has had the effect of paralysing business in Wellington. To-morrow evening the Rev. G. Clement will preach in the Presbyterian Church, and the Rev, H. M. Murray will occupy the pulpit in the Primitive Methodist Church. The Otaki Maori Brass Band passed through Feilding by tho mail train yesterday on their return journey from the Waikato, where they attended tbe tangi over the late King Tawhiao. We liave to thank tho Secretary of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society for a copy of Schedule of Prizes for the Summer Show of stock, implements and New Zealand manufactures, to be held on November 2tttli and 29th, 1894. No definite date was fixed at the rneefc. ing re a creamerj' for Feilding on which the canvassing committee were to send in their report, but sufficient time has elapsed, and those who signed the undertaking to subscribe for shares would like to know results. Mr A. R. T. Haultain, clerk of the Auckland Police Court, formerly of Feilding and Palmerston, was presented on Wednesday last with an illuminated address and purse of sovereigns by his fellow officials and members of the legal fraternity ou tho occasion of his retirement from the service. There are on view in My I. Bruftt's showroom two " occasional " table tpps which are a fair sample of the work one of Mr Brent's employees, Mr J. Williamson, is capable of turning out. The tops in question are of the star pattern of veneering. There are ten different kind* of New Zealand timber and 408 separate pjgees of Avood in the pattern. Last evening tho Feilding Oddfellows' Lodge, M.U., held a damsfi in the Assembly Rooms, which were nicely (Jeeprated for tbe occasion with nikau and other evergreous. There were fifty couples present, including visitors from Wangauui and Palmerston, and dancing was kept up till an early hour this morning. The gathering broke up with all present joining hands and singing 1 "Auld Lang Syne." Mr R. F. Haybittle's string batui supplied the music, and Mr C. Aitkcn made an efficient M.C. The refreshments were supplied by Mr D. Humphries, of Bunnythorpe. Much of the success of the gathering was due to the energetic secretary, Mr A. W. Parker, and the committee who were appointed to make necessary preliminary arrangements. The much talked of war engine of M. Turpm, for destroying c hostile army wholesale, is not tbe only scheme 0/ defence which h'iß recently been submitted to the Fneaeh Minister of War ; for a prof«*sor of ou« "f <he principal college * in Paris has proposetf tj/#t larae blow flies should be bred and krp: i# l/i-ifff. cages, j being fed upon blood placed beivpzif fjie artificial skin of Uy Jigu.es dressed up m the German uniform. When war wan declared, taese flies would |»c rendered Vbnomoux by feeding them 00 tfoa nap of tropical plants, and tokan tp tho front in ' their cages, from whtuti they trould be released and make short work of tbaeaomy. Another patriot'.suggeststhut dogs should be trained to bile lay u'gures weuringtha German uniform, and that each soldier should be ace«>a) pan ied by a dog in time of war. Tfce&o .doga ipould at onco " go" for the euesa?, •thqw udyauae being iavi sable by netting liglit to some s#b*tance which would ew\> » e\w& of m°&<

Mr W. W Corpe is now receiving 1100 gallons of milk per day at his Campbelltown butter factory. To-morrow's services in connection with the Wesleyan Church are announced. It is stated that the young Earl of Dudley holds' the largest assurance ever effected on any one life, the amount being £1,200,000. The Parliamentary correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald hears on pretty good authority chat the new president of the Bank of New Zealand is to be Mr Watson, at present Inspector of the Colonial Bank. The salary attached to the presidency is £^2000 a year. (Mr Watson has declined the offer.) One of the tho secrets of the fine physiques of the people of Japan lies in the universal use of the massage treatment. The blind men are the masseurs of Japan. They are known as shampooers, and the trade of shampooing is given entirely over to them. An enterprising Welshman has discovered that the steamer of the future will travel at the rate of 60 miles an hour, aud that the passage to New Zealand will be shortened to twelve days. Uuluckily if the present state of affairs coutinuea in the colony, very few people will be in such a hurry to gel here. We again remind our readers of tho address to be delivered in the Temperance Hall to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. P. R. Monro. The reverend gentleman's mission, as well as his capabilities as a speaker, should attract a large gathering. Mr Monro will also deliver a temperance address on Monday. In the District Court, on Wednesday, an applicant for discharge from bankruptcy said he had a " growing family " to which His Honor replied that many of bis creditors probably bad the same, and the matter appeared rather onesided, as applicant, during two years of insolvency, had uot paid a single penny to his creditors. — Wairarapa Times. The difficulty experienced by tradesmen in getting in their money is leading many to seriously consider the advisableness of selling only for cash. It would be a good thing (says tho Manawatu Farmer) if business men would combine and put trade with their customers upou a different footing, for tho wear and tear upon the man who has to book almost everything is too much to endure. Here is a story of a schoolmaster who promised a crowu to any boy who should propound a riddle that he could not answer. One and another tried, and at last a boy asked " Why am I like the Prince of Wales ? " The master puzzled his wits in vain, and finally was compelled to admit that he did not know. "Why," said the boy, "it's because I am waiting for tho crown." A little hero named Clinton, aged 10, after rescuing a sm filler boy from drowning near London Bridge, fell back into the water and was drewned. Clinton some time ago saved the life of a baby when the room caught fire. The Fire Brigade sent a wreath for the little hero's funeral, and a card bearing the wards " May heaven be his reward !'' The little boy whom Clinton rescued also sent a wreath with the tender inscription, 11 He saved me." On Saturday evening last (says the Dunedin Star) two femalos — mother and daughter — were walking down tho George street pier, Port Chalmors, when the daughter suddenly took a fit of insanity, catching hold of her mother with the intention of throwing her off the pier. In the struggle the old lady managed to get her arms round one of the pile heads, and her screams soon brought assistance, and the lunatic was overpowered and conveyed to Dunedin in charge of a constable. Thus the Bulletin : " The new Maoriland Legislature is said to be, in the aggregate, younger, rather better- looking, and much better dressed than its predecessor. This is obviously one of the first results of female suffrage. The old Legislature was an elderly, slovenly, and hard-faced congregation, aud about as different from its successor as a bull-dog is from a bird of Paradise." The people are sick of the " bird," and begin to pine for the moro useful dog which safeguarded their interests. Write* a Wellington correspondent : — There i« said to be n considerable number of abe bodied men out of employI mi- ui in Wellington. It is stated that the families of some of the married men employed ou the Queen's Drive are ia great distress. The wages of the men range from four to fiyo shillings per day, and owing to the bad weather of late they hare averaged three days work per week It is a common thing for them to walk four or fire miles out to the works, and then find that no work can be done aud (heir journey has been fruitfess. To pa; rent and support a family out of twelve or fifteen febilliugs a week is a problem that the necessitous ones have been vainly trying to aolye, and thejr are Riven up the enigma in de«pair. The Bruce Herald says : —More sheep than could be spared have died lately from a peculiar disease that has been obseryed before in Tokomairiro. First, there is scouring; then stupefaction, frothing at the mouth, and death. When skinned the carcase presents a peculiar appearance, there being pronounced extravasation of blood in the forequarters and head. The circulation soon becomes sluggish ; for when bleeding has been attempted as a remedy the blood came as thick as treacle, and would scarcely run. In one or two instances cutting the ears drew no blood at all ; the cut was quite wtyite. Sheep are still suffering on a few farms, but t ue trouble is by no means general, An Auckland medico, when being interviewed by a reporter, said with reference to treatment for the prevailing epidemic, la grippe : " A hot bath first— as soon as possible. Having had the bath something hot should be taken to affeot the skin — so secure perspiration i* tbe mam inf'tß.. The head, too, should not be negleoted — th»t should be made t* perspire, if possible When I was caught I wrapped up my head before I went to bed. Of course, if tbe ximple remedy I bave given does not suffice, the doctor nhould be called in next day. Then when the patient is getting better, gui nine should be taken, for it is a caudid fact that quinine is the only thing to pull you together after la grippe — with of course, a cough mixture." In reply tp an application made by a settler at Birmingham to have the tenure of a section converted from Small Grazing Run Lease to Lease in Perpetuity the Commissioner of Lands wrote : " It will be necessary to execute a declaration under the Lease in Perpetuity system, to show you are eligible to hold the iauj under that tenure. You must also writo the word ' surrendered ' on the face of your present lease and sign it before a witness, the lease tq be then forwarded to me together with ' Slty, jbeing surrender fee aud new lease fee. $he ue\y lo^go will bo dated from the date of surrender of tho old bue, and I presume you fully underhand 'that the jtsutal on lease will bo 4 pei ! cent p,n the capital yalue instead of 2J per cent, a^ at present. 1^ fyas been decjded, hpw<syei? that the increase \u t>ho rental will not be ftifcosnsctivc, but wijl only datq feotu the «GittinonceniGnt of the new leaso. The land will Lavo to be put up to application in terms of Seotion 160 of 1 The Land Act, 1892 ' but will not be I notified as open for application by the j 1 public.'

The meeting of the Cheltenham Dairy Factory Company's shareholders will take . place at Cheltenham this evening. Mr Matheson received a telegram at noon to-day, from Woodville, declaring ] the Bush Union football match off, owing to tho team being unable to get away. The Rev. Mr Wallis, who has been appointed to the vacant Bishopric of Wellington, is a bachelor. He is young and energetic, and is reputed to be a very able man, and moderate in his church views and practices. The starlings ordered by the local branch of the Acclimatisation Society arrived in Feildiug to-day by the mid- \ day train. The birds will be liberated . this afternoon at the respective farms of Messrs P. Burrell and G. Wilks. ' Up till now the principal thing which ; has enabled the colony to retain vitality under the influence of the continued wild : cat schemes of professional politicians has been the frozen meat trade. This has saved the country from bankruptcy. It is therefore with feelings of regret that we observe indications of a limit to progress in the task of a complete capture of the Home markets.— Waipawa Mail.