Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 248, 23 April 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

• — A man uarned Joseph Hammond, aged 82 years, dropped dead in Cuba street, Wellington, yesterday. The trouble with the natives in the Uriwera country is over and the surveys are now proceeding. Members of the Union Football Club will meet at Mr Ross' to-morrow evening at 7.30. The committee of the Gymnasium Club will meet at the Feildiug Hotel this evening at 8 o'clock. The members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the Government parade to be held on Thursday night. Through traffic was resumed on the Palnierston- Napier railway line yesterday by means of transhipping in the Gorge. It is expected that the line will be wholly repaired by Thursday. Mr Wilson, tho Victorian expert, estimates that next year 20,000 tons of butter will be exported, and that before long the trade in dairy produce will be worth £10,000,000. By the capsizing of a fishing boat off the Wanganui Heads last Sunday evening a fisherman named John Clirno was drowned. His two companions were rescued by a passing steam launch. The deceased leaves a family of six children. The Commissioner of Crown Lands gives notice that on Wednesday, May Isth, certain sections, enumerated in the advertisement will be open for application. There will also be sold by auction ou the same day a few sections in the village of Coss' Creek. The Grand Lodge of Scottish Freemasons has brought under Lord Kimberley'B notice the fact that since Japanese law forbids secret societies it will, five years hence, when the new treaty comes into focce, dissolve tho Masonic lodges established in Japan by the British residents. Mr J. Kinus announces to-day that he has now opened The Royal Restaurant in Manchester street, nearly opposite Mr Carthew's, where he is prepared to supply meals at all hours, also tea, coffee, pies etc., at very moderate pricesMr Kinus is a first class chef and he de. serves the patronage of the public. When Dr Nansen returns from his visit to the North Pole, it will be the mode amongst the gilded youth and the new women of England and the United States of America, to wear chips from that rare piece of timber on their watchguards, or set in bracelets. It will be a profitable " line in timber " for the gallant explorer. The Rev. D. Smalley says of Chicago : " You may search the world in vain to find poverty more abject, vice more leprous and shameless, crime more bold and defiant, or avarice more sordid and unpitying than in this city. Our Police Courts present the veriest travesty upon justice, while our aldermen are frequently too drunk to attend to business." The Feilding school committee met in the school house last evening before the meeting of householders. Present — Messrs W. Carthew (chairman), W. G. Haybittle, J. Taylor, H. Worsfold, W. G. Shearer, R. J, Thompson, J. Gould, Dr Sorley. The minntes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Accounts amounting to £2 2s 6d were passed for payment, and the meeting adjourned. Messrs Houlder Bros, the well-known shippers who dealt largely in the live cattle trade of America, are of opinion that the boats now employed in the American trade are not suitable for conveying cattle from Australia, and the only way which is possible to bring cattle at present from the Antipodes 13 on the deck of steamers regularly engaged in Australia. They consider, however, if sufficient cattle offer, special boats will he built 10 bring a thousand head or over at a cost of L 7 per head.

Captain Edwin wired at 12.23 p.m. today : North-east to north and west gale with rain and glass further fall. A young woman, 25 years of age, named Fanny Cadwallader, was found dead in her bed last Sunday in Carterton. Ladies will please note that Mrs Matheson's cooking lessons will be given in the Assembly Rooms instead of the Forester's Hall. In our report of the Assessment Court sitting held on Saturday last we omitted to mention that Mr A. Richmond appeared for Messrs D. J. and M. Man son. Owing to the daily increasing work at the Feilding post office, it is high time more hands were employed. Telegraph work cannot be pushed through too expeditiously, Great fun was caused at the banquet to the Premier at Marton on Saturday night by Mr "Wirihana Hunia's new name for the Conservative leaders, namely " wild dogs." The Palmerston Campbell street, Terrace End, and College street school committees have cast their votes in favor of Mr F. Pirani, M.H.R., for a seat on the Wanganui Education Board. The Marton school committee also yoted for Mr Pirani. The Kiwitea chmmittee did the same. The Australasian says that the low price of butter is causing farmers to bestir themselves in the way of preparing to grow various green crops and feeding their cows more liberally than hitherto. They recognise that it is only by increasing the yield from each animal in the herd that low prices can be successfully met. An esteemed correspondent sends the Waipawa Mail a simple plan for clearing a house of rats, which may not be generally known. He says ; — " If you put a spoonful of chloride of lime into a rat-hole the vermin will never use that hole again while the smell lasts, and very I often tbey clear out of the premises altogether. A tin of chloride of lime can be obtained from any chemist. It is proverbial that jokers can never take a joke at their own expense. Max O'Rell joked at the Americans on the subject of their ancestry. Mark Twain replied with a bitter jest on the subject of the parentage of the French. Max was touched on a raw spot, and now wants to fight poor Mark with dagger or pistol on "the field of honor." This shows how touchy arc these two men who have jibed and laughed at all the world. Suppose the Australians, who treated Max like a prince during his visit to them, had resented his remarks about their habits and customs, which were not only unkind but untruthful, he would have been — well, we don't know what would have happened, but Max would have had a bad quarter of an hour before he got into blue water again.