Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 243, 16 April 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mr J. 11. Hooper, dentist, lias altered the time of his visit to Peilding oh Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to lO.JiO to 0 ii.ni. " Tlicrc is no hope ! The ship is doomed. In an hour we will all be dead. 11 cried the sea captain. " Thank goodness,'" said the seasick passenger. Insomnia now rates as one of the most common and widespread complaints of the ago, whereas a generation ago it -was scared)' recognised as a pathological condition. The racehorse Carbine, recently purchased by the Duke of Portland, has, it is stated by an English paper, been insured by Messrs Malcolm, M'lnty re, and Co., at Lloyd's, for twelve months, inchid ing the voyage from Australia to England, for a sum exceeding A'lß,ooo at ten guineas per cent. In connection with tho auction .s-alo of Mr Samuel Knight's stock, to be held on the *22nd instant by Mr Carr, it has now been arranged that the farm, consisting of 126 acres, will be offered at the same time. This land is well fenced, grassed, and watered ; and is one of the best in the district. Luncheon will be provided. Sir Walter Buller has lodged an application for a new trial of the case in which he sought to recover damages from W. Jillett on account of the destruction: of his property at Papaitouga Lake by a bush fire. The ground of the application is that since the trial it has been discovered that one of the special jurors who heard the case was disqualified from sitting. — Post. A spechl settler sent the following to the Minister of Agriculture in Victoria : — "Kindly forw.-ird me at oncß, to Bank Town, a womnn not over '25 year.", must be c,ood looking, a g.nd housekeeper, and a good cook. If she suits me on arrival I will make her my wife. She must be health}-, as 1 am myself very strong and h-?nlthy. You will oblige iec VtTy much by attending to this mutter." In the opinion of Thoma* A. Edison all newspapers will eventually be set up by a combination of the phonograph and typesetting machine. Editors, he says, will read off into phonojjrnphs all the copy brought in, etTnirg as they go along. The compos-it or will put the cylinder with his " take " on another phonograph, and listening to the dilation of the machine, nil) set it up in l\ pc by working the ke,js of (.lie tneehiUiiciW t\pe set'.er. The Midland Road Sunday School picnic was held on Good Friday in Mr bnubnr's paddock, and dinner and tea in the garden of Mr liobcrt Curran. The picnic was most successful. Men, women, and children rolled up in great force. In the afternoon there were races for tl.c children, every one of whom received a prize. One and all were pleased with the day's outing, and i went home in the evening well satisfied with the outing. Objection has been taken by Home wool iuei chants to the uneven cutting of fleeces. A London correspondent of Me.-srs W B. Common and Co. explains that no fault is to be found with machine shearing, but what is strongly objected is the " double cut "- that is to say the shearer, after the iloece has beon shorn, running over any rough or uneyen wool; on the pheep's bach. This causes " noiling." " Noil "is the technical term for the waste wool which falls from the combins; machines. Messrs Mayo and Sons, nursery and seedsmen, of Palmerston, have earned a colonial reputation for the excellence of theiu seeds, trees, and plants, and since the firm's arrival m this district they have left nothing undone to still further enhance the good opinion formed by their customers. The descriptive catalogue (eleventh edition) just issued is a further proof of this, if such were needed, and we congratulate the firm upon, the marked advauce shown even upon previous years. Discussing the subject of cremation tho Ago says :—One of tho very slowest reforms has been that in connection with funerals, owing to the dread of survivors that they might be accused of showing disrespect to the deceased by any departure from the beaten track. Really notbiDO could be more absurd than the travesty of the medieval baronial funeral which the English people have clung to with such persistence. It is modified in our time. We still adhere to tho nodding plumes, but we have at least banished the mutes. Anything which would simplify and cheapen still more the funeral rite, without giving an appearance of levity to the disposal of the dead, ought to bo welcomed.

Mrs Frank Hyams, daughter of Mr B. Hallenstein, died at Dunedin on Sunday last. A tea and public meeting in connection with the Temperance Demonstration will be held in the Temperance Hall this evening. Tea will be on the table at 5 p.m., admission to which will be one shilling. Mr Trenwith, who is a member of the Victorian Tariff Commission, has rather astonished some of his supporters by his view on Protection A deputation of sawmillers had been urging that no timber should be admitted except in logs, when Mr Trenwith (says the Argua) rose in his majesty and expounded the glorious truth in a sentence which should be written in gold : — " A protective duty is i justifiable when it benefits someone and ! injures nobody, but unjustifiable when it benefits one man and injures another." Dr Gillon, the popular Wellington medico, recently underwent a marvellously delicate operation in London. He was "suffering from a floating kidney, which caused him no little suffering, and eventually jeopardised his life. He was placed under chloroform, and the \ organ was placed iv position and fastened i there by silken threads. The popular medico made a speedy recovery and felt so well that he at once entered on a course of special study, which enabled him in a few weeks to append a further complement of letters to his name. Mr Justice A'Beckett, in proposing the health of the English team at the farewell banquet in Melbourne, said that he saw as much of the final test match I as he could, and when he could not be there the bulletins which were handed up to him on the Bench— (laughter)— quieted the gnawing anxieties of his heart, and perhaps prevented him from paying proper atteutiou to what witnesses were sciying. (Laughter.) He was net alone either in this. (Laughter.) He heard that just the same thing was going on in the Banco Court, whore I counsel would hand up the state of the game under pretence of quoting Rule ij'2B or something of that sort. Owing to the unfortunate state of the weather on Monday the Great Temperance Demonstration which was to have been held on the Oval had to be abaudoned. Iv the evening a tea was held in the Temperance Hall and fol lowed by a concert, both being very largely patronised. Sixty-seven of the Napier and Hastings Volunteers put in an appearance and expressed themselves as extremely pleased with the tea. A number of the officers and men contributed songs and recitations to the concert which were much appreciated. The Messrs Bartholomew Bros, sang sonic ducts and, aided by Mrs J. C. Thompson and Miss Gregory, sang a quartette. Mrs Caldwell presided at the piano. The sum of ill 12s 6d was taken at the tea and concert. Announcement is made in our advertising column of a lecture to bo given by Dr Hulchinson on '' Athletics and bodily training considered in their bearing on personal and national well-being." Dr Hutchinson has for many years past devoted himself to the task of urging on the public, and especially on the young men of this Colony, the advantages and necessity of physical culture, and both in Wellington and Tcwanaki his unwearying and unselfish efforts have been thoroughly appreciated and highly successful in promoting the establishment of athletic clubs and athletic competitions on a sound basis. We hope that Dr Hutchinson's disinterested effort to nssist the Feilding peoplo also in t lie same direc tion will be rewarded by the presence on Thursday evening of a large and appreciative audience.