The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 10, 11 July 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1895. Local and General News.

The Pohangina Count}' Council will meet on Saturday next. Mr C. Carr will hold his monthly stock sale at Feilding to-morrow. The Manchester Rifles will hold a company parade in the Volunteer Hall this evening. We are informed by the Mail that the Rev Father Power will arrive at Waipawa to-morrow. With the progress of Apiti, Mr B. Le Prou's blacksmithing business is being extended to meet the requirements of the district. A tea meeting and service of song, " Wreck of the Wairarapa," in the Salvation Army Barracks, last evening, were well attended. The Secretary of the Feilding Football Club wishes to acknowledge receipt of one guinea from Mr W. A. Sandilands, a Vice- President. The Masonic Lodge will meet at the Foresters' Hall to-morrow afternoon at G o'clock sharp for the installation of W.M. and investifcute of officers. The close season for pigeons should begin earlier up Ohiugaiti way. Some hen birds which reached Feilding a few days ago were full of eggs. The Government have decided to take under the compulsory clauses of the Lauds for Settlement Act, 4237 acres of the Ardgowan estate, near Oamaru. Mr W. F. Marsh has sold his interest in a 300 acre lease in perpetuity section at Apiti, to Mr David Waugh, of Birmingham. Tenders are invited for felling twenty acres of bush in the Apiti Block. Specifications may be seen at Mr Eagar's Hotel, Apiti. A medical authority asserts that cold and catarrh are most frequently caused not by cold, outdoor air, but by warm impure, indoor air. Tenders arc invited by Mr Bray, the Engineer of the Manchester Road Board for the supply and delivery of metal. For other particulars see advertisement. A social and dance will bo held in Mr Guys Hall, Apiti, tomorrow evening. An ctlicient musician has been engaged and if the weather is favorable there should be a large attendance. There has been an increase of 2i per cent in the number of dairy cows in the colony during the past year, and an increase oi 22 per cent in cattle, and 18 per cent in milking cows. There was a very good attendance at tie Excelsior Skating Rink yesterday afternoon and evening, The manager proposes holding a Novel Race shortly as an additional attraction. Among the articles received without sufficient address in the Wellington district post office last month were six scent bags " To Edith from Tommy," and a packet of tobacco " For Graupa." Mr A. Butler advertises to-day that lie has taken over the Manchester Hotel billiard room. He is also prepared to give advice on forthcoming sporting events, including the whole of the Wellington, Grand National and other meetings. When the Colonial Treasurer went Home the Government papers protested that his visit to England was entirely on his private affairs, now that he has returned we find that the business of the colony occupied his whole attention. There is a contradiction somewhere No man who has lived long enough to be wise in social wisdom can be certain that lie has a friend anywhere. Enemies then ? Truly that is possible 1 Enemies are more than luxuries ; they are necessities ; one cannot live strongly or selfreliantly without them. " The Silver Domino." ' The cheapest money in the market ' is advertised by Mr (jiesen, the manager of the Colonists Land and Loan Corporation, who is prepared to make advances at current rates on rural lands within the Rangitikei, Oroua and Manawatu Counties. No commission is charged to borrowers, nor expenses of any kind except for the necessary deeds. Mr A. Williamson, of Manchester street has just completed alterations to his business premises to meet the requirements of a growing trade, and patrons will find more convenience in the fitting room than formerly. He has an extensive supply of tweeds, worsteds and serges in stock for customers to select from. Te Aro House has gained a Colonial reputation for selling good reliable drapery and clothing at economical prices. This week and next town and country settlers will be afforded an opportunity of participating in a special cheap purchase of liannelettes, flannels, blankets, dresspieces, linings, etc, notice of which will be found in our wanted column. The following is given as a good recipe by Mr J. Mayo, Government pomologist, as a dressing for trees affected with woolly aphis, scale and other blights : — Take 41b of quicklime, 2 lb of sulphur, and lib of salt. Boil 21b of the former and one of the latter for an hour-and-a-half, which makes sulphate of lime. Then slack the balance of the lime and sulphur and then add the salt. Pour in the sulphate of lime to make a good paste. As a winter dressing this is found to be very effective, and orchardists need not be afraid to use the mixture on their trees. A feeling of uneasiness has been growing among North Island members as to the rumoured proposal in the Representation Bill that no rc-distributioQ of seats shall follow the census of April next. It is understood that there has been a large increase in the population of the North Island as compared with the population of the South Island since the last census. Taranaki claims to be entitled to another member, on the ground that there has been a large influx of settlers, consequent on the opening up of land, and it is contended that the revival of mining in Auckland, and land settlement in Wellington, would warrant additional representatives for these provinces. — Wanganui Herald. The Bulletin says: — Times are bad with Sydney barristers and solicitors. The evidence is the number of libel, slander, and malicious-prosecution suits — chiefly comprising the " spec cases" which the shark takes up in the hope of eating somebody, if only a brother shark. Ninety-nine per cent, of lawyers are mediocre men, and the only way for the mediocre man to succeed at the law is to have been born or marry into a Judge's fumily. "Witness the fact that in one court where it \«s uncertain which Judge would sit on a certain day, one solicitor secured no council until that clay arrived and the Judge's name was known. Then, len minutes before the caso came o.i, the attorney briefed the Judge's rela. tive. It's chiefly tho Judge that makes the " rising " Sydney barrister. " MAKING~BOTH ENDS MEET " is rather a difficult task in-life with many, but the household expenses are greatly j reduced by buying Crease's Al Coffee, i for ir, is the best and goes further than any other.