Local hud General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 271, 20 May 1895, Page 2

Local hud General News.

Mr Charles Carr advertises to-day that he will sell the remainder of Mr T. ]I. Brcdin's stock by auction on Saturday next, without reserve. Mr C. Carr held a very successful sale of store goods on behalf of Mr T. H. liredin, ou Saturday afternoon last. There was a large attendance and the prices obtained were very satisfactory. The Czar privately owns as much of Holy Russia as the entire extent of France. The rest he owns publicly. It must hurt a man like that to know he won't be able to occupy more than six feet of earth in the long run. In the football match on Saturday, Butler, who played half-back for the Pirates, had his shoulder dislocated early in the game. He, however, continued playing in his position until the conclusion of the match. — Standard. The Standard says :— Very little work is now" being done at the Longburn Freezing Works. The engines are, however, kept goiug while the manure is being worked up, and on one day of each week the freezing aparatus is set in motion. On Friday last when passing through New Plymouth, the Premier presented a gold medal to a boy named William Mclndoe, 12 years of age, on behalf of his school fellows, in recognition of his bravery in saving a little child from drowning. No better instance of the evil days on which bank officials have fallen in Australia could be given than a statement in the Argus, that out of hundreds of applications for the position of debt collectors at .11 10s a week the four finally selected had all been bank managers. Balfour and Roscbory were both so effeminate at school that the former was dubbed "Miss Clara," and the latter " Miss Primrose." llosebcry has outgrown his weakness, but the Tory leader is "Miss Clara" still, in spite of his Cromwelliau inclinations. — Truth. The Woodville Examiner says: — From a conversation we had with a Cabinet Minister, it is pretty certain that the present County Councils will be abolished and that there will be a return to Provincialism—that is large local governing bodies with the Road Boards and Borough Councils retained as distributing bodies. The weather at Pcinberton on Thursday afternoon . broke, and during the night there was a heavy downpour of rain. This morning the rain turned to snow. For some time the snow melted as soon as it fell. However by 15 o'clock there were some !j incheH of snow on the ground. After that it rained slightly and the snow in fast disappearing. The Pombcrton State School wan oxamined on W udnanthiy , J.Oth Muy, by Mr Milne. The following children palsied ; — Standard VI . — Florrie Me(irug<>r. Standard IV. — .John Carey. Mtandn.nl 111 -Arthur Stout, Ada Clark, Standard 11. — Frank Jiielnki, John JJiolrtJn. Standard L — Charles MeClonughiui, Clara Biolnki and Nellie Goodwin. Thoro worn two failures. The unemployed an; simply one of our undeveloped resources. When Ministers recognise this fact, along stride in the direction of solving the unemployed diflieulty will have been taken. Every man and women earning a living in the colony in one of itn most valuable assets, and every unmiployed j'h just so mu^h valuable material, from which the community an a whole should bencI jit, going to^Yattto.~Chr i iHtcliur.cb. Truth.

A woman named Wilkinson attempted suicide in Wellington! yesterday by taking poison. She is likely to recover. Captain Edwin wired at 12.25 p.m. today :— Streug N. to W. and S.W. winds, with glass rising, indications for rain. Last night the wind shifted round to the S.W. aud very heavy rain fell for several hours. The Feilding Brass Band rendered a capital selection of music in the Band Rotunda on Saturday night, when a large number of people assembled to listen to tbein. Tha " Dead March in Saul " was pl&yed first as a tribute to the memory of the late General Feilding. On Saturday evening a residence in Derby street occupied by Mr Hodge was in danger of destruction by fire. A little boy went iuto one of the bedrooms with a lighted caudle, which he allowed to come in contact with some wearing apparel banging on the wall. Mrs Hodge, ! with the assistance of two of her little boys, promptly removing the burning clofcliiug, but iv doing so received burns j about her hands. j The Times states that Messrs Levin j and Co. have received advices from. Sydney to the effect that the prospect, of a successful long-wool ram fair there are rather worse than they were in the early part of April, wheu somewhat discourag- j iug reports were sent from that market, j Under the circumstances Messrs Levin aud Co.'s correspondents suggest that intending shippers to Sydney would do well to wait for a more promisiug year. It is with feelings of regret and sympathy with the parents that we auuouuee the death of Robert Wilfred Lankshcar, aged six years, a son of Mr R. Lankshear, of the Fcilding-Ashurst road. The lad was kicked on the. bead by a horse ou Thursday last and he succumbed to the injuries yesterday morning. The funeral will take place ou Wednesday afternoon and will pass through iv time to hold a burial seryice at St. John's Church at 2 p.m. On Saturday afternoon a conflagration was narrowly escaped in Messrs Warnock and Adkin's local branch. It appears a stove used in the top storey by the dressmakers' workroom caused the ceiling to become ignited, but was fortunately noticed before the fire had obtained a strong hold and the manager, Mr Johnston, with the assistance of Messrs P. Thomson and R. Newman, members of the Fire Brigade, removed all danger. Three cures for chilblains — (1) Bathe them in lime water; use it both strong and hot, (2). Another simple remedy is to bathe them in saturated solution of alum, as hot as can be borne. (55) If broken, apply a little vaseline every night till healed. If unbroken, apply a little of this embrocation every night, till the chilblains disappc ir : —Break a fresh egg into n bottle, and add to it very gradually, a quarter of a pint of turpentine, shaking all the time. When thoroughly mixed, ad<l very slowly half a pint of vinegar. This embrocation keeps well, and should be shaken before use.