The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwiea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 23, 26 July 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwiea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1895. Local and General News.

The Financial Statement will be delivered on Tuesday next. A concert will be held in the Birmingham Town Hall to-morrow evening. , Latest advices state that flax is rising in value in the London market, and is quoted at £13 a ton. The usual fortnightly meeting of Oddfellows will be held in the Foresters' Hall this evening. Batter is so scarce iv Feilding that a local storekeeper has to import sufficient to supply his customers from Wellington. The rate collector for the Manchester Road Board, gives notice to-day that he will be in Halcombe on Wednesday, July 31st. We have to thank the Secretary, Mr G. AnyoD, for a complimentary ticket for the concert to be held at Binningbam oa Saturday Best.

Of the £10,000,000 paid in England last year for beer duty, nearly one tenth, or £969,763, was paid by the two largest brewers, Messrs Guiness and Bass. Messrs Gorton and Son's sale of fruit trees and ornamental plants, in Feilding yesterday, was well attended and the prices realised were satisfactory. The golf season will be opened in Feilding to-morrow afternoon, when play will commence at 2.30 on the old racecourse, on Mr Lethbridge's property. Messrs Hubner Bros., the contractors, are pushing on with the additions to the Feilding State School. The new room will be 26 feet by 28 feet, and will accommodate about eighty children. Because people in England only eat geese at Christmas, we in New Zealand do the same. This is a mistake. The proper season to do so is midwinter when the birds are in the- best condition for the table. Prince Bismarck has served three German Emperors, he has fought in three wars, he has signed three treaties of peace, he has arranged the meeting of the three Emperors, and established the Triple Alliance. The Government are evidently taking preliminary steps towards tho purchase and sale of the Carnarvon estate, as MiBell, the Government valuer, and Mr T. Wilson, the late manager, have, during the last day or two, been engaged in valuing the estate. A correspondent of a contemporary complained that the weather was injurious to the lambing and wanted it put off. The editor is on the horns of a dilemma because he doesn't know whether it is the lambing or the weather which ought to be postponed to please his correspondent. A burglary was committed at the railway office at Eketahuna on Tuesday night. Fortunately nothing was taken. Evidently the burglars were disturbed, as only a poor attempt was made on the safe. The station-master found the books and papers strewn about the office. A youug lady while walking in Fitzberbert street had a startling experience yesterday. A man was engaged in blasting tree stumps with dynamite in a paddock abutting on the street, and just as the young lady passed a charge went off, and a large piece of wood carried away her hat. — Standard. The death of Mr Matthew Arnold, of Westmeon, Hants, one of the most successful breeders of Hampshire Down sheep and Jersey cattle in the country, is announced. Mr Arnold was frequently a judge at the shows of leading agricultural societies. He was sixty-seven years of ag ■>. The Government is sending to England and America a number of large framed photographs of New Zealand scenery, to be placed in public resorts and the saloons of the Atlantic* liner.*. Illustrated leaflets are also being sent to members of the English Parliament, leading hotels, clubs etc. Mr J. E. Montague advertises to-day that he has received instructions from the proprietor of the Makino store, to sell by public auction a large quantity of drapery, clothing, ironmongery, boots etc., on Friday next. As the proprietor is desirous of quitting his surplus stock there will not be any reserve on tho goods offered. The Danevirke Advocate has been shown specimens of gold-bearing quartz found in that district. The gold was distributed through the quartz, and the locality of the find should be well worth testing. As to tho latter point however, the finder is very reticent, but it is understood that the specimens came from the Ruahine ranges, where quartz is plentiful. June 30th closed the wool year for New South Wales, which has again exhibited larger figures than tho proceeding ones in respect of the size of the clip and the volume of the trade, if not in regard to the prices. The total shipments from Sydney and Newcastle amounted to 755,502 bales as compared with 720,---676 bales in 1893-94, being an increase for the year of 34,826 bales, or nearly 5 per cent. The London City Press says : — " Great is the power of advertising. The other day, from a bold and well- placed advertisement in the papers, one firm received in the course of a few posts, orders to the value of no less than £6000. The entire stocks of two of the principal articles advertised were completely exhausted in a few hours. Yet there are still more traders who are too blind to realise that to make money they must spend money." Parades of the Manchester Rifles for August are advertised to-daj\ The corps had a very good muster last night, Captain Kirton and Lieutenant Bray in command, The men were exercised in various movements by Color- Sergeant Milson, Sergeants Aitken, Petherick and Boyd. After the parade a meeting was held to make certain arrangements for the opening ball. Efficiency badges have arrived and those entitled thereto will have them issued on application to Color-Sergt. Milson. A curious cure for colds is described by a correspondent of Science Siftings. He writes : — " The moment I feel a cold coming on, or have a chilly feeling, or begin to sneeze, I lay down before a hot fire, with the face to it as close as I can, and inflate my lungs with the hot air for a minute or two and repeat it several times, holding in the inhaled air a short time, then gradually exhaling it. Since adopting this method, I have never had a cold settle in the throat or lungs. I believe it will prevent pneumonia if taken in time and faithfully carried out."