Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 148, 19 December 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

There will be mass in St. Bridget's on Sunday next at 8 a.m., and on Christinas Day at 8 a.m. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for tho Colytou school concert to take place this evening. Last month thero were only six deaths recorded in the colony from cancer, as against 15 in October. Notice is given to-day by the agents, Messrs Barraud aud Abraham, that the s.s. Ruahiue will leave Wellington for London on the 29th instant. A sudden squall in Sydney Harbour ou December Ist, upset no less than 16 sailing boats. The occupants were all fortunately rescued. The next quarterly communication of tho Grand Lodge of New Zealand will bo held in Dunedin on Thursday, January 17th, 1895. Tho consumption of water in Adelaide during the third weok iv November reached 8,000,000 gallons a day - a rate unprecedented in the history of the supply. A Chinese doctor has taken up his residence with the natives at Greytown, Wairarapa, and is reported to be doing much good work among the sick Maoris. Dr Charlton informs us that yesterday he saw young Green in tho Palmerston North Hospital, where the patient is doing vory well. The pistol shot has not yet been extracted. The Hawera Star states that au information has been laid against Mr F. Hill for running the totalisator at the Eltham races without a permit from the Colonial Secretary. We havo to thank Mr E. Goodbeherc, tbo Feilding agent, for copies of tho very well got up pictorial almanac of tho Commercial Union Assurance Company, Fire, Life, and Marine. The Rev. W. H. Judkins returned to Feilding last evening. He is slowly improving in health, but is still far from being well, and is not yet able to sco visitors. Any friends having messages for him or wishing to make enquiries will please communicate with Mr Cobbe. At a meeting of creditors in tho estate of A. F. Laurensou, builder, of Palmerston, held yesterday, a motion to the effect that the D.O.A. be instructed to take the necessary steps to have the bankrupt criminally prosecuted was carried unanimously. A Christchurch woman indignantly writes to tho papers protesting against her sex being charged " half-price " for admission to Lancaster Park. She says women arc politically equal to ineu, and they must be equal to them in other public matters. It is stated that the proprietors of the Melbourne Age aro thiukiug of starting a daily evening paper in Wellington. If this rumour be founded ou fact we cau only say that Age does not always give wisdom — Melbourne or any other. A settler informs tho Hawke'a Bay Herald that having a horse which used to tftke trjpa ncross country regardless of all obstruction (not excepting barbed wire fences) he hearing that horses could not leap uolesß they put their ears right forward, punched the animal's auricles and fastened them together with a string with the rosnlt that ho has not attempted jumping since. A plan of growing peas aud potatoes siilu by side has lately beou adopted in Euglaud with great succoss. Tho peas aro sown at intervals of ouo foot among tho potatoes, and at tho end of each row a sprig of mint is planted. In their growth the potato stalks afford support for the peas, and the pea runners give shade to the potatoes, with the result that an excellent crop of both is obtained, while the mint affords an agreoablo j flavor to the potatoes. A little dog was by accidont locked up in a shop in Feilding on Saturday night. There wero plenty of fancy goods aud toys about, so to relievo the monotony he got up Heyeral interesting fights with woollen aud fur imitation canines. Getting tired of this, and, doubtless, after a short and refreshing sleep, he awakenod to find himself hungry. Equal to the emergency be searched about and having found a number of small sponges intended to be used for cleaning school slates, ho made a plentiful moal of them, and went to sleep agaiu. Ho was awakened, however, by an employe opening the shop, and iv an unmistakeable manner asked the said employe for water. The employe, who is rather "downey " looked about first before he committed himself to this liquid bospitality, and as from certain direct evidoncc he was able to '• locato " tho sponges, ho abstained from giving tho dog water from a very natural druad of what the inevitable consequences would bo from the oxpausiou of tho sponges. The dog is alive, but still exceedingly Uursty,

We understand a petition is being signed at Awahuri against the proposed alteration in the time of arrival and departure of mails. Word was received in town to-day that W. Morrison, telegraphist, of Blenheim, died this morning. Morrison was well known in the athletic world, and as a high jumper he had few equals. A Feilding man paid a short visit to the Palmerston North District Hospital a few days ago, and was so delighted i with the management, the appointments, and the great care taken of the patients, that he exclaimed : " By Jove, it's worth while getting ill aftor all." We take it no greater complimout could be paid to this oxcellent institution. At the Mount Morgan mine, Victoria, a man named William Kirkwood, aged 32, while workiug a circular saw, deliberately laid himself on tho saw and let it sevor his head completely from his body, The deceased had behaved in a very eccentric manner for a day or two. He leaves a widow aud five childrcu. Mr G. H. Saywell has lately built to order two splendidly -designed dogcarts. One for a local townsman, which has a pateut reversible seat, and is the best thing of tho kind we have seen for vehicles, beiug very comfortable, easily adjusted, aud the trap is balanced iv a few seconds by a very simple process. Tho ironwork, woodwork, paint, trimmiugs, &c, arc of tbo best quality, and the whole turnout reflects great credit on Mr Saywell's establishment. The other vehicle is for Messrs Bosher Bros., of Makino. Tho painting is somewhat out of the common, the larger panels beiug staiued a dark mahogany color, with two panels of honeysuckle, which makes a very pleasiug and harmonious distinction], tbo lines beiug of gold leaf aud dark vermilion. The trimmings are of the best leather.