Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 219, 16 March 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

« Those interested are remindod that all long outstanding accounts due to the Star not settled or arranged for by the 19th inst will be sued for. Tenders are invited for wire and close batten fencing. For particulars see advertisement. A garden party will be held at Mr J. Gould's on Wednesday next to welcome the Rev Mr Cocker and Mrs Cocker. All are invited. The annual general meeting of members of the Feilding Football Club will be held at Mrs Oliver's Hotel this evening at 8 o'clock. We have to acknowledge receipt of leaflets for farmers from the Agricultural Department on "Thistles," "Bot Fly " and some tree pests. The Victorian Board of Health proposes to prevent influenza from entering the colony from Europe by disinfecting the clothes of persons who may suffer from the complaint coming out. Mrs Margaret Andrews, an Oamaru boardinghouse-keeper, has been fined £40 (and costs), or in default 3 months imprisonment, for selling beer without a license. A suit for £3,000 damages has just been brought by a Victoria man against a neighbour, who, by means of a sunglass, burned all the hair off the complainant's head while he was asleep. The number of newspapers and periodicals registered in the colony is as follows : — 52 daily, 31 bi-weekly, 17 triweekly, 60 weekly, 3 fortnightly, 24 monthly, total, 187. The Wellington district has 27 of this nnmber. Yesterday Mr Norman had on view at his shop in Fergusson street the carcase of a very fine young bullock which turned the scale at 1222 pounds, The animal was reared on Mr Stent's farm at Rangiwahia. One little boy was heard to say to another this morning, " I didn't go to Wanganui yesterday, but I stayed at home and had a tootli stopped which was better wasn't it "? ' The other boy looked dubious. China's Imperial Canal is the largest in the world, and greatest in point of traffic. Its length is 2100 miles, and it connects 41 cities situated on its banks. It was completed in 1350, after 600 years spent on its construction. Mr McMinn in partnership with Mr F. E. McKenzie, has purchased the Egmont Post, We wish the new firm all the success their enterprise deserves. Mr McMinn is well-known as an able and experienced journalist. A boy, the son of Mr Edward Hamilton, of Bowraville, iv New South Wales, has met his death under singular circumstances. He bit his tongue in falling, and the wound bled continuously for two days, at the end of which time the boy died. The excursionists from Feilding to Wanganui yesterday returned shortly before eight o'clock in the evening, after a most enjoyable trip. The great majority of them went to the Wanganui heads, the remainder staying in town. There were no accidents to mar the pleasure of the trip. The Chronicle, referring to the arrival of the train in Wanganui, says the youngsters, with their teachers, pareuts and friends made up a total of nearly 1200 souls. The first crushing machinery run by electricity in Australia was run at Hillgrove, New South Wales, the other day. The electricity has been for some time generated by the local waterfalls, and applied to lighting purposes. This is its first trial as a motive power. The current is conveyed seven miles to the battery, which is a3O bead one- So far the experiment has been perfectly successful.

Captain Russell, the leader of the Opposition is to speak in Wanganui on the 22nd inst. The tender of Rodert Young, for LBO 10s, has been accepted for the erection of the Manchester Rifles Drill Shed. Mr Flavall has handed us an apple, in perfectly good condition, which was taken from the tree exactly a year ago. Mr Hawke, inspector of dairies at Wanganui, says that of the 430 cows kept by the licensed milksellers in the Wanganui 'district thoir is not on. disQasQd. R. K. Bradbury, clerk, of Halcombe, has been adjudged a bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors in the estate will be held in the Courthouse, Marton, at 3.15 p.m., on the 25th instant. In 1889 the four colonies— Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland— together imported £9,087,---488 more than they exported. But in 1894 they exported £11,502,794 more than they imported. The swing of the pendulum for the five years is therefore to be expressed by £20,590,284. Mr Watson, land and produce agent, has on view at his office a new fodder plant which is likely to prove invaluable to fa.mevs and daivyists. It is claimed cows will yield 50 per cent more milk if fed on this plant, and land can be made to carry 50 per cent more stock. Full particulars may be obtained from Mr Watson. I At the Police Court this forenoon befoz*e Messrs W. A. Sandilands and Kirton, J.P.s, prohibition orders were issued against James Harrison, sauce maker of Makino, William Woolven, laborer, and John Wilkinson, seaman, to apply to all hotels in the Feilding police sub-district, also Halcombe, Sandon and Bunnythorpe. A terrific tug of war took place at the St Patrick's Cathedral fair iv Melbourne. One team was of Fitzroy lorry drivers, the other of men working on the city sewerage work. It began at 10 minutes to 10 p.m. In 20 minutes the lorrymen had gained 3ft, but neither side could afterwards gam au inch, and after an hour and a half, when nearly all the onlookers had gouo home to bed, the rivals agreed to Father Collins proposal to declare the contest a draw. The Bulletin, writing of the N.S.W. Fresh Food and Ice Company, the largest refrigerating company in Australia, says :— " The butter for export is packed by the solid half-hundred weight in square boxes lined with vegetable parchment, and is frozen as hard as a stone. These boxes, which arc received 50,000 at a time, are made of New Zealand white pine, and the wood, having been seasoned, kiln-dried and machine dressed gives off neither taste nor odour, and is not susceptible to mildew. Tho picnic at Pohangina yesterday was a great success, every arrangement being well carried out. Miss Duncan had most of the work eu trusted to her, and she executed the task in a way to give pleasure to all. The voluntary contributions amounted to three pounds. The school children had not a regular holiday on the occasion, but a large majority managed to be present. The others weut to school in the ordinary way. The three Misses Roberts rendered valuable help iv their usual kindly manner, doing everything in their _ power to make the gathering an enjoyable one.