The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwita Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 192, 13 February 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwita Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13, 1895. Local and General News.

HiUropeans are unueiseinug vjiuuu,l_cu : n vegetables in Masterton. ( Mr Long has been appointed Postmasier at Ruahine near Rangivvahia. Four head of deer are to be turned out an the Forest Reserve between Pabiatua and Palmerston North. Mr 11. E. Beckett will sell stock at Halcornbe to-morrow. On Friday he will hold his annual ram fair at Marton. At Palmerston to - morrow Messrs Abraham and Williams will hold their annual ewe Fair. Large entries have been received from various well-known flockowuers. A bic5 r cle imported at Melbourne from Sydney, and invoiced at .£ll, was sold by the Victorian Customs Department for .£lB. Mr James Scott, jeweller, has just imported some of the most beautiful and excellent silver watches ever seen in the colony. The election of members to the Wanganui Harbour Board resulted as follow : _ Hatrick, Wixcoy, Stevenson, Carson, aud Peat. Despite the efforts of the West Coast mines, New Zealand last year took 160.254 tons of coal from Newcastle, or 6000 more than in 1898. To relieve tooth-ache chew cinnamon bark. It destroys the sensibility of the nerves and suspends pain immedtately, besides being pleasant to the taste. Mr Sveudsen, boot and shoe importer, has just opened up a consignment of ladies' and gent's boots and shoes of various patterns. He invites inspection. In the conservatory of a gentleman settled on the Feilding-Ashurst road there is a pineapple growing vigorously, which is expected to i>3ar fruit next year. A man named Win. Touks, a brickmaker, of Wellington, while driving a dray on Monday, fell to the ground, the result being that he received concussion ol' the brain. An invention has been brought before the Victorian public by which thousands of rabbits cau be caught alive. It i.s a portable apparatus, and can be worked easily by four men. The Mauawatu County Council hold their usual meeting to day. and will decide as to whether they will rebuild thoir offices at Sandon, or remove the locale of their Chambers to Campbelltown. A man named Eric Nielsen, living in Haiuing street, Wellington, who was employed on the sea-wall contract at Clyde Quay, fell in a fit there, and died afterwards in the hospital. A 3 r oung man named S. Kennedy, employed in the Government Life Insurance office, Wellington, had a narrow escape from being poisoned through taking a large dose of chloroform in mistake for a sleeping draught last evening. A recent bankrupt was in the unique position of having four doctors as his only creditors. That is the sort of individual who would owe the newspaper imn for his death notice and the undertaker for his funeral expenses. Messrs Gorton and Son's sheep and cattle sale at Bulls yesterday was well attended, but the bidding was anything but brisk, aud prices were very low. Out of 7000 sheep penned some 8000 | were quitted, aud all but 10 bead of cattle offered were disposed of.--Mercury. Tax -payers are reminded that the if days allowed for payment of this year's Income Tax expires on the 14th instant. Any amounts outstanding after that day will be subject to the addition of 10 per cent., in terms of the Land aud Income Assessment Acts. Messrs Gorton and Son advertise today entries for their annual sheep fair to be held in Feildiug on Friday, the 22nd inst. The entries include a class of sheep bred by some of the best breeders on the coast and should attract a large attendance and keen competition. An official circular has been addressed to the officers of the Railway Department directing them to make known to the workmen under their control that in case they should at any time feel aggrieved they may address their complaints to the General Manager di^ct. The cash statement for the month, as shown at yesterday's meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, was as follows: General Account, Net Credit, i' 2023 lls lid ; Building Account, Credit £2687 Is; Asset, Oroua Bridge, .£176,---£2862 Is ; Liabilities, £.'6SI Q 7s ; balance, £285 14s. A party of men mowing grass near Cape Lambert, not far from Havelock, found a human skeleton on the beach at the foot of a cliff lift}' feet high. Appearances indicated that the man had fallen over the cliff and broken both legs. He had scratched a few disjointed sentences on a rock, but all that was decipherable was the date 1800. A case of some importance was heard on Saturday last at the Auckland Police Court, John Leigh being charged with having sold milk roixod with water to the extent of 10-4 per cent, and not declaring such to J. W. Moore, the purchaser. The analysis of the milk was proved by Mr Pond. Mr F. Cooper, who defended, took u|> the line that it was • iai-1, of the agreement; between Mr Leigh md the person who supplied him with rhe milk that it should be cooled to a certain temperature, and the cooler has bt-ou found, on examination, to be leaky. The cooler was produced in Court. Mr Northcroft, S.M., adjourned his decision. A social was held at Bunuythorpe on Friday, to welcome back the teacher of the State school, Mr Espiner, who has been away on a wedding tour. Mr L. Larsen, who occupied the chair, presented a duchess pair to Mr Espiner, on behalf of the parents, as a token of their esteem. In acknowledging the gift, Mr Espiner said he was unable to express in suitable terms his gratification for the gift and the uniform kindness with which he had been treated by the parents during the nine years he had been in charge of the school. A very pleasant evening was spent, and with the small charge made at the door the sum of M was raised towards the school c jmmittee fund.