Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

— -♦ The Rev. W. Dawson will preach ii* the Wesleyan Church to-morrow evening. One half of our worries we create foi ourselves— the other half are created foi us. The Sab;ation Army will hold a pic nic on New Year's Day in Mr Bull's paddock, Awahuri road. In the even ing a servj se of song will be held at tht Barracks.* The Sydney Daily Telegraph publishes a long letter from New Zealand signec by Mr Mark Cohen, of Dunedin, defend ing Women'g Suffrage in New Zealand and denouncing the detractors of Mrs Yates, who, he says, is a good speakei and a clear thinker. Some idea .may be formed of the cosi of accessories to tho billiard-table when it is stated that it requires the tusks oi three elephants to furnish a complete set of balls, viz., sixteen pyramid, twelve pool and three billiard balls. On Wednesday evening a horse and trap belonging to Mr C. Moore, of Yogel street, Palmerston were stolen. Information was given to the police about the matter, and the property was recovered next day on the Awahuri road, where it had evidently been left by the thieves. We have held the opinion since the Advances to Settlers Act was passed that it was the most sensible thing ever done by the present Ministry, and we aro now confirmed in such opinion by the fact that Sir Robert Stout, in a letter to a southern journal, has expressed his disapproval of the measure. Several employers in the large centres bave already reduced the number of tlieir employes so as to equalise with tho wages the number of hours worked duriug the five and a half days consequent on the compulsory half-holiday. To put it plainly, where twelve men were formerly employed only eleven are now required. Mr Gould will give his annual public garden party at his residence, Denbigb street, on New Year's Day. There will also be a sale of work in the afternoon, the proceeds being iv aid of the Primitive Methodist Church funds, and as every preparation is being made to make the party in every way pleasant and successful, no doubt thero will be a large gathering as in past years. Native women aro asserting themselves in sympathy with their whiteskinned sisters. A deputation of the women of Hinemoa waited upon the Premier just before he left Rotorua last week, and asked to be allowed to nominate a female member to sit in the House of Representatives. Mr Seddon replied that the privilege had not yet been granted to Europeans ; when it was, no doubt it would be extended to Maori women. In a few hours a pitcher of water will iijsorb all the respired passes in the room the air of which will have become much purer but the water utterly filthy, The colder the water is the greater capacity, to contain these gasses; At ordinary temperature a pail of water will absorb a pint of carbonic acid gas and several pints of ammonia Tbe capacity is nearly doubled by reducing tbe water to tbe temperature of ice, Hence water kept in a room awhile is unfit for use. Impure water is more injurious than impure air. The cinnamon cure for cancer is being exploited in the Taieri district, anu is said to have proved remarkably successful. A I man suffering from cancer of the throat, and so fur gone that the doctors had given him up, tried cinnamon, with the result that he was relieved from pain, that the cancer appears to be dying, and that the patient is able to walk about again. The treatment is as follows :— Take a pound of cinnamon sticks, and make a strong decoction by boiling slowly in a closed vessel in three pints of water uutil the three pints of fluid have beon reduced to one pint. This is to be poured off without straining and the sediment is to be shaken up eaoh time a dose is taken. The patient is to drink half a pint ot the cinnamon decoction every 21 hours divided into as many doses as may be found most suitable. It seems to agree best when taken after food,

The N.Z. Times says : — Two uou^^H representatives— Mr Gifford, of Bi^H and Mr Pleasants, of Colyton— are pl^H ing in first-class form at the Chess OoaH gress. Oscar Wilde said " Creeds are believed, not because they are rational, but be* cause they are repeated." Moral (says the Bulletin) : Advertise ! advertise t advertise ! " Well " ejaculated the good old man, " The Makino is dry ; so am I, if it comes to that ; but I don't fcare much so long as the Duuedin holds out." The usual motion for an adjournment was proposed and adopted neni con. Many of tbe up country residents iv this district express astonishment that no information is given them as to the running of the trains on the WellingtonManawatu railway line during the holiday seasou. Fishermen are not the ouly persons who " spin cuffers." A whiskey liar in the Wairarapa says that in Eketahuna oue of the local publican's net profit for tho past twelve months is £700. Pass. By traiu to-day Mr Fairfield Thompson received a fine young purebred Jersey bull by Runnymede— Perfection, by Dry Monopole— Buttercup, bred by Mr George Gould, of Christchurch. This is perhaps the finest young Jersey introduceu into this district for some years. For the first time since the foundation of tho settlement (at this season of tbe year), the Makino stream bas ceased to flow. Where the stream runs through Mr Holden's land a water hole, which has always hitherto been well filled, is completely dried up and numbers of eels from six inches in diameter downwards are lying dead. Tliere was a large attendance at the meeting of tho Oddfellow's Lodge, in the Foresters' Hall, last evening. The election of officers resulted as follows : — Bro. Alex. Watson, N.G. ; Bro. A. Wilson, V.G. ; Bro. W. Trevena, G. ; Bro. J. H. Mingina, W. ; Bro. Hewitt, E.S. ; Bro. G. Saywell, G.M. ; Bro. D. Macfarlane,, L.S. to V.G. ; Bro. Durant, R.S. to V.G. ; Bro. Groves, R.S. to N.G. One new member was initiated. Arrangements for the picnic on New Year's Day were advanced a stage. Mr Corpe having called a meoting of the milk suppliers of Campelltown on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of obtaining a reduction in the price of milk, stated that owing to tbe enormous quantities of butter now being shipped . from Victoria and other countries tho price had corae so low that it was impossible to make it pay at 8d per gallon. The milk suppliers seem to be willing : to meet Mr Corpe, and offered to take 2^d per gallon for the next two months ; at the end of that time they will probably buy out the factory.