Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 272, 21 May 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The apple crop in Nova Scotia was worth a million dollars last year. There will be mass in St. Bridget's Church on Sunday next. Morning services, S and 11 a.m. ; evening, 3 p.m. Captain Edwin wired at 11.50 p.m. today :— Strong N. to S. and S.E. gales, with heavy rain within 10 hours, glass fall. The Feilding Fire Brigade hold a social and dance in the Foresters' Hall on Monday evening next. A Press Association telegram states that Mr H. J. LeCren, one of the pioneer merchants of Timaru died there yesterday afternoon, aged 68. The Pokeno (near Auckland) fire is believed to be a case of incendiarism. There have recently been a number of suspicious fires in the district. A 12 furrow plough is pronounced to be a success in Victoria. It is worked by eight horses, and it is alleged that 17.1 acres arc being turned over in a day. We are requested to state that owing to Friday, the 24th inst, (Queen's birthday) being a close holiday the business places in Feilding will not be closed tomorrow afternoon. This is a verbatim copy of a playbill which was distributed in a San Francisco theatre not long ago : " ' Hamlet,' a play by William Shakespcrc, revised and re-writtcu by Abram Abrams, Esq." The death is announced of Mr Thomas Hill, senr., a very old and respected settler of the Waimea district. He arrived in Nelson in the ship Thomas Harrison, in the early forties, and passed away in his 90th year. Woman's work in India has made great success. There are now 711 women missionaries — foreign and Eurasian — in India. These have access to 50,513 zenanas and have G2.414 girl pupils in the mission schools. A Bill before the Missouri Legislature proposes to tax bachelors on an ascending scale, from £2 a year for bachelors between the ages of 30 and 35, to 25 per cent, upon the property owned by bachelors over 60 years of age. The saddest instance of misplaced confidence on record, is that of a man who rescued another from a watery grave only to find that instead of his long lost brother it was a person to whom he owed a £o note. In consequence of the increase of work at the Feilding Post office, Master Arthur Itoss has been appointed second messenger. Messenger Worsfold will now devote a portion of his time to assisting in the office work. There will be a meeting of the members of the Feilding Debating Society held at the offices of Mr Bray, on Monday the 27th at S p.m. sharp for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing season and the transaction of other important business. All members are requested to attend. Something like a quarter of a million sheep have been frozen by the (fear Meat Company during the season which is now closing. The works are chiefly occupied at present with boiling down operations, and large quantities of culls are being put through. The Chronicle states that among the sheep recovered with those stolen from Mr J. G. Wilson, are some supposed to belong to Mr Bruce, of Mingaroa, near Halcombe, and one purebred Lincoln ewe, with a metal plate through near ear, on which is stamped the letter " C " and the figures " 74." Captain Adams, of H.M.S. Pylades, states that the Admiralty declines to do anything to the old military cemetery retaining wall at Tauranga, and the consequence will be that for the sake of a few pounds spent now the whole cemetery and wall will go into disrepair worse than ever. Some of the words of the late Tim M'Laughlin, Eeefton mining speculator (who died last week worth .£40,000), indicated the ruling passion strong in death. " Let me have the latest quotations of Big Rivers," gasped Inangahua's richest man as he embarked on the dark river with the boatsrnan pale. — "Westport Star. There will be a meeting of the Manchester Rifles Shooting Committee tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Hastie's Hotel. The Committee acknowledge with thanks the receipt of prizes, to be fired for on the Queen's Birthday, from Messrs W. Pearson (special), James Scott. F. Petherick and J. S. Milsou. The Wauganui Chronicle says : — The Mount Stewart sheep stealing case is, we are afraid, not a solitary one, for since the publicity which has followed that affair various other losses sustained during the last j-ear or two have been reported to us, some of which - in which the hauls were said to be from 100 to 200— came very near home indeed. It has been truly said that the more force of character, the more originality, the more honesty of purpose and sincerity a man possesses, so does the bitterness of his detractors increase in force. A philosopher once remarked that the worth of a man should be measured by the bitterness of his detractors rather than by the number of flatterers he possessed. So it is with the Empire Tea Company's blended teas, they have acquired such a splendid reputation for their worth, that attempted detraction from sheer force of superiority has become ineyitable. The Empire Tea Company are perfectly willing to put their professions to the test, because they know they haye reached such a high standard of excellence in tea blending that no amount of detraction can blast their reputation. The Empire Tea Company's sales are larger now than they ever were because the public, the only judges, realise the fact that they are buying an article which defies competition. Surely •' in the multitude of Counsellors there is wisdom."