Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 254, 30 April 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Tlie shcotiug season in this district opens to-morrow. The Good Templar social to be held in the Foresters' s Hall this evening promises to be very successful. The annual meeting of the Primitive Church Mutual Improvement Society will be held on Friday night. The examination of the Feilding State School will be commenced to-morrow by Inspector Bindon. A Service of Song will be held in the Salvation Army Barracks this evening; also Captain Kenshaw's farewell. Melbourne Age gives the population of the various Australasian capitals as fol lows :•— Melbourne, 441,801 ; Sydney, 422,312 ; Brisbane, 107,480 ; Adelaide, 141,606 ; I'erih, 1-1,063 ; llobart Town. 35,319 ; Wellington, 85,500. The Liverpool Town Crier has retired after 60 years service, and the office is pr.ictically extinct, the nesvspapers having suporeeued iVib bellman. In bis lime the Liverpool crier had restored 1 30, Ol)D stray children, all the lost; little ones beiag taken to bis house. Mr Bak or, tbo woll known confectioner of Manchester street, advertises his Peerless Baking Powder which can now be obtained from all grocers. We are assured by those who have tried it that this powder is invaluable. A few days ago tenders were invited in the advertising columns of the FkildIX(; Star, by a settler who resides near Colyton, for some fencing. The advertiser received eighteen applications from all parts of the district. The Rev T. H. Richards, of Birmingham, is about to take a month's holiday, which he will spend in Victoria. He will bo relieved of bis duties in the Kiwitea circuit by a brother (also a clergyman), who arrived in Feilding yesterday from Victoria and proceeded to Birmingham last evening. Last week a valuable draught horse belonging to Mr James Johnston, of Aniseed Valley, Nelson, was gored to death bj r a big stag. Another horse had a narrow escape from a similar fate from the same anituaJ. Mr Johnston wicnessed the occurrence. The stags are very fierce just now. Mr Johnston states the country is overrun with deer. At a debating club in Wellington during a discussion on Labor and Capital a young man, who had been listening to the speeches of bis friends, arose, and thus explaining his views on the matter : " When you have to hold your sweetheart on your knee for an hour and a half — that's • capital ' ; but when you are married and the wife asks you to hold the baby five minutes— that's ' labor. 1 The number of factories registered in the colony are as follows : — Cbristchutch, 628 ; Auckland, 468 ; Wellington, 430 ; Dunedin, 425 ; Invercargill, 127 ; Napier 106 : Timarn, 101 ; Wanganui, 96 ; New Plymouth, S9 ; Nelson, 73 ; Blenheim, 61 ; Ashburton, 61 ; Palmerston North, 54 ; Thames, 39 ; Greymouth, 31 ; Gis« borne, 29. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society have a stock of 5490 fish in the Mastertou ponds, including 940 brown trout, 800 Loch Levin, 500 American brook clear, 3150 American rainbow, 250 burn, 50 salmon, 40 perch, and 10 goldfish and carp. The aviary contains 13 pheaseuts (English, Silver, and Golden), and 49 ducks (Mallard, Pochard, Gadwall, Carolina teal, New Zealand Paradise, and New Zealand gray.) Telegrams were received yesterday by the Premier, which afford assurance that the TJriwera trouble has completely vanished. The korero which has been proceeding for some days between the Hon Mr Carroll and the Chiefs of the Tuhoe or Uriwera tribe ended on Sunday. The result is that the Tuhoe having finally agreed that the triangulation survey shall go on, and they promise that there shall be no further unpleasantness on their part in connection with it. " Easter " in the W 7 ellingtion Post said :— " But when it was evident on Saturday that the tents were inundated it became the duty of the Chief of Staff to submit a scheme for housing the troops, be it ever so crude. Goods sheds, railway carriages, schools, etc,, could have been requisitioned, but this was not done." "Easter" has erred here because the men were housed in tho Court House, Sunday schools, Glasgow House, Foresters' Hall, Salvation Army Barracks, Primitive Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church and all other available places. Although not infallible yet the following decoction has a beneficial effect in destroying the woolly aphis on apple trees. Take one pound of cherry or peach stones, pat them in an iron vessel (an old camp oven is the best) cover them with two pounds of salt, cut fine a two ounce plug of tobacco, and spread on the salt, pour on two quarts of stale beer and then place a slow fire under the pot. Put on the lid, cover with a sack which is to be kept wet to keep in the fumes. After four hours simmering let the fire die out and allow the decoction to cool without exposing it to the air. For use mix with hot water, two ounces to the quart, and apply with a spray or brush. The following new books for the Feildin<* Library have arrived and will be on issue on Thursday next :— ' The White Company, 1 Conan Doyle; 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,' idem ; ' Evelyn's Story,' Emma J. Worboise ; • The DarIcys of Dingo Dingo, 1 J. C. MacCartie ; ' Story of a Modern Woman," Ella Hepworth Dixon; 'Catriona,' Robert Lewis Stevenson ; ' The Gates of Eden,' Annie Swan; 'Peg Woffington, 1 Charles Reade ; ' Griffith Gaunt, 1 idem : ' The sale of Chtoe and other stories,' George Meredith ; ' Tales of Travel, 1 Henry Kio»sley ; ' Sibylla,' Cunningham ; ' The Gates of Dawn,' Fergus Hume ; ' Shafts from an Eastern Quiver,' Mausford ; * That partner of Mine,' GreviUe,

Paper stockings are coming into extensive use in Germany. They are said to prevent colds. It is expected the bridge across the Oroua river at Awahuri will be completed for traffic in about a month's time. A man named John Dixon has been sent to gaol for twelve months bj r the Wellington S.M. for using obscene language. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary iieket for tbe 1.0.G-.T. entertainment in the Foresters' Hall this evening. The bankruptcy of Anders Fredsberg is announced. A meeting of creditors will be held at Danevirke, on Wednesday, May Bth. Housewives should try Baker's Peerless Baking Powder. It contains nothing injurious, and those who have tried it speak very highly of its qualities. One of the most curious effects of Jightning happened at Dijon, in France. A pond was struck, aud ihe electricity killed all the L fish therein, numbering over 1000. The Rev. W. H. Judkins is expected to return to Feilding at the end of May and resume work in connection with the Wesleyan body here on probably the first Sunday in June. Notice is given that any persons trespassing in search of garao on the respective properties of Mr C. Pharazyn and Mr G. E. Little, at Makino, Taonui, Kimbolton and Ashurst roads, will be prosecuted, A man was sued for the cost of bis wife's funeral. He resisted the claim on the ground that his marriage vow only made him responsible for his wife " until death us do part." At the last meeting of the Directors of the Halcombe Co-operative Dairy Company, the secretary stated that their first shipment had been sold in London and realised top price for New Zealand cheese. The average expenditure by the settlers of the Wharcama district on rabbit destruction is ilo,ooo. One stationholder's expenditure for some years has been between L7OO and LftOO a year, and another quite .1:1200. A meeting of ratepaj-crs within the Feilding Borough will bo held to-morrow evening fit H o'clock, in the Assembly Rooms, to consider a proposal to borrow £900 for the purpose of constructing municipal buildings. An accidcut happened to the train from Wauganui to Palmerston last night. When near Halcombe one of the carriages became derailed, thus causing a delay of over two hours, the train not reaching Paimerstou till 11.30 p,m. A Commission is now sitting in Wellington taking evidence in connection j with a suit pending in the High Court of the South African Republic to test the validity of the patent rights held in the cyanide process of treating gold. At a general meeting of the Rangitikei Cycling Club held at Marton last nighfc, it was decided to wind up the season by holding two road races on the Queens' Birthday, a five mile maiden and ten mile open. Several Feildiug riders will probably compete. A correspondent of the Wellington Post, from knowledge gained in London recently, and conversation there with a gentleman from Brazil, is much iinpres sed with the necessity for combination in the frozen meat trade, and considers Mr D. J. Nathan's proposal the most practic- i able and feasible yet put forth. All in« terested in the trade and the colony should assist in bringing the proposals to a practical issue.