Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 178, 28 January 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Rain fell at Wanganui arid Kiwitea last night, but not in any great quantity. Captain Edwin wired at 1.40 p.m. today :— lndications for wind between N and W and SW ; weather fine. Suppliers of milk to the Cotyton creamery will be pleased to learu that the extra belting ordered by the Cheltenham Dairy Company has now arrived. It is probable the Feilding Cricket Club will promote a concert at the end of the present cricket season. The proceeds will be devoted to improving the ground and building a pavilion. We understand that a woman's paper is to be started in Wellington shortly. It is to be edited and managed by a woman. The paper will be of a political and social character ; and while it will permit the expression of all shades of opinion, it will be carried on in the Independent Liberal interest. At a Northern meeting to consider the local baths question : " Gintlemen you've all had your say, now here's moine. I'm 73 years of age and divil take me if I remember when I washed myself, but I challenge any of you washing coves outside to a rough and tumble, I'm dead against washing. It stops yer health." How circumstances alter cases. A few years ago people in business were always howling about the filthy condition of bank notes in circulation. Now they grasp them greedily when they come their way and sniff the foul odour emanating from them with gusto. Otto of roses has to sit far back. It is noticeable what large numbers of old ewes there are in different parts of the country. If, instead of continuing to breed from them, farmers would boil them down and procure a better class of young sheep, the mortality amongst lambs would be less, and farmers would not be subjected to such | severe losses. An impression is growing am£>ngs£ shareholders and dairy farmers supplying the Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Company's creameries and factory that the price paid for milk will-naVe $6 be reduced for the next two months to save the Company from losing money, owing to the low rates ruling in London for butter. The Company are at p?espn.t paying 3d per gallon for milk.

Mr J. J. Moynihan, solicitor, Westport, injured by a fall from a horse, is dead. A meeting of the shooting committee < of the Manchester Rifles will be held at i Mrs Hastie's Hotel at 7.30 this evening. 1 To-night, in Napier, Captain Russell ' will speak in reply to the address made in that town lvceutly by the Hon. Mr ' Seddon. Mr W. Heakl, who was entrusted with the work of improving the ventilation at the Feikliug school, has now completed J the work. The members of the Manchester Rules who were competitors at the lluahine Rifle Association meeting at Woodville, returned to Feilding yesterday, having had a very pleasant outing. To-day Mr Peter Thomson sent to Hawke's Bay a consignment on order of his milk coolers. These are rapidly growing in favor because they are not only a saving and a profit to dairy farmers, but they arc well made. It is expected that the new organ for the Church of EnglaDd will arrive shortly. The Rev. Innes Jones, who is now in Wellington, has been completing the necessarj' arrangements for the acquisition of a really first class instrument. A social gathering took place at Wellington on Saturday night to welcome \ Bishop Wallis to his diocese. There was a very large attendance, and great enthusiasm was shown. The Premier and Sir James Prendergast were among the speakers. The very dry summer we are now experiencing is commencing to be felt in the Manchester Block, as well as in otherdistricts, where the grass has dried up considerably. On some farms there is a shortness of water, no provision having been made for a dry season. The following lournameut games were played on the local tennis courts on Saturday :— Gent's championship — W. B. Gicsen beat W. Halcombe, 6 5, 5 6 and 6 — 2. Ladies' handicap — Miss Macarthur (owes 1.3 plus 2 bisques) beat Miss Fry (owes 15), 6 — 3, 4—6 and 6-3. A jilted lover brought an action against his faithless sweetheart for the recovery of certain jewellery which she refused to return. The Judge of a Michigan Law Court, in deciding the case, asked the lover if he had ever kissed his in--1 tended bride. After he had admitted that he had done so, the judge dismissed the suit, holding fchafc kisses and carefcsse.4 were a legal equivalent for presents. Vicar ; " Well, Hodge, I suppose you put something in the plate, according to your means, when it passed round . church yesterday ? " Hodge ; '• Well, no, Sir, I can't exactly say as I did. It 'appened as my 'ands was clasped so tight in prayer just then that I couldn't seem to get 'cm apart afore plate 'ad passed by." — Lika Joko. We would direct the attention of our readers to a new advertisement from A. N. Haync and Co., land agents, etc., ( Fcrgusson street. This firm have for sale English and Colonial grass seeds of all descriptions, and those who intend sowing would do well to call and inspect the stock. They arc agents for many i lines, including sheep dips, fire assur- ■ auces, etc., and in addition are prepared } to make advances on wool and hides , consigned to their Wellington agents. j Mention is made in a late number of | the Lincoln Gazette of a very valuable lougwood ewe, the property of Mr John , Pears, which must be a more valuable stud animal than most high-class stud mares. Last year she bred two ram y " lambs, which were sold, one for 200 I guineas and the other for 70 guineas. , This year her shearling lamb realised - 152 guineas, so that her produce for two . years realised the handsome sum of 422 I; guineas. Thus Max O'Rell : — ln the prohibition x States of America I have seen men drink r liquor, like castor oil, out of a little graduated glass in the drug stores. ' Everybody in America knows that this is ' so. Once a day after lecturing, I take a 1 little stimulant, a glass of hot £frog. la I the prohibition States I had to take it bel hind the counter of a chemist, or down in * the cellar of the hotel. On one occasion j it was sent to my bedroom carefully wrapped up in brown paper, with a label, . " The mixture as before." ( We announce with regret the death of ( the wife of Mr Henry Hickford which took place at Palmerston North yesterday. The deceased lady was highly re- ' spected, and the news of her demise will • be received with the most profound sorrow by a large circle of relatives and [ friends. We sympathise with the husj band and members of his family in the j loss of one who was a kind wife and good mother. The funeral will take place at Campbejltown to-morrow at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. An amiable idiot of the genus crank is sinking a deep hole in America in ex--1 pectation of obtaining a supply of 1 natural heat from the bowels of the ) earth. Already he has gone down to a } depth of 5000 feet, and the degree of temperature shown at this stage is 135 degrees Fahrenheit. He calculates that he will have to sink three and a half miles before a temperature equal to that of steam at 100 pounds pressure is , reached.