The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwiea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 24, 27 July 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwiea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1895. Local and General News.

The Debating Society will meet on Tuesday evening at 7.30. The Excelsior Skating Rink will be open at 7.30 this evening. A concert will be held in the Birmingham Hall this evening. Constable J. J. Tuohy is gazetted clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Feilding. Influenza and whooping cough are very prevalent just now in and around Marton. Mr R. E. Beckett's stock sale at Hunterville will be held on Thursday next. A concert will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church on Monday evening. A concert and dance will be held at Stanway in aid of the library fund on Wednesday, August 7th. The usual fortnightly meeting of Oddfellows was held last evening in the Foresters' Hall, when there was a fair attendance of members. Tbe Engineer of the Manchester Road Board, Mr Bray, senr., invites tenders for public works on Forlong's road. For oiher particulars see advertisement. Mr Svendsen, the well known boot and shoe importer, has just opened up a large consignment of of gents' and ladies' boots and shoes for the season. Perth, in Western Australia, is suffering from a brick famine, the supply having been completely exhausted owing to the extensive nature of building operations. A j T oung man named Edward Alfred Triggs was playing football at Ryde, Sydney, recently, when he was struck on the jaw by tbe arm-stump of a one-armed player, the result being a fracture. Yesterday, at Wellington, His Honor Justice Richmond made an order for the appointment of Mr A. MacPhersou, of Palmerstou North, as liquidator of the Longburn Freezing Works. News comes from San Francisco by the last mail that every iron ship in the port was under charter with one exception. This is a condition of affairs which has never before existed in the history of the port, Mr J. R. Montague held a sale of fruit trees and ornamental plants from the nursery of Mr Benefield, at Feilding yesterday. The lots submitted were well competed for and the prices realised were very satisfactory. A general meeting or members of the Feilding Cycling Club will be held in tbe ■ Club rooms at 8 o'clock on Monday ! evening, to elect auditors and transact general business. All members are particularly requested to attend. A fire occurred at Bulls yesterday morning, by which Mr E. J. Harrison lost a shed, near the dwelling in Hammond street. A considerable quantity of potatoes, onions and fruit, as well as harness, etc., was destroyed. To-day Miss Hall advertises that she has in her establishment, near the Bank of New Zealand, a complete and most beautiful assortment of silks, wools, and all materials necessary for embroidery and crewel work. Miss Hall also undertakes plain needlework. The Labour Report gives the experience of a manufacturer with large works in England and a factory at Wellington. He pays his girls 10s to 15s a week in England and 20s to 30s here, but considers the colonial girl's intelligence and physique makes her work worth all the difference. A lady shop-assistant at Rathmires was pronounced by the doctor to have smallpox and was taken to the hospital. Business fell off at the shop. It transspired the lady was not ill that way. The owner of the shop brought an action against the doctor, and was awarded LIOO damages. We are requested to correct an error in the advertisement re goods to be sold at the Makiuo Butter Factory on Friday next. The announcement should read a large quantity of drapery and boots will be offered, also a few lines in crockery and ironmongery. For further par- i ticulars see advertisement. Mr Robson's panorama of the JapanChina war was sbown in the Assembly Rooms last evening to a moderate audience. The views included different classes of war vessels, customs of the Japs, and incidents of the war, all of which Mr Robson explained. Other pictures were also shown for the amusement of the children. The Union Steam Ship Company have replaced the Mararoa with a less expensive steamer in the intercolonial trade, owing to the dullness of the passenger traffic. Other vessels are also to be laid up. These steamers will be put in good order for the summer, when j trade is expected to be brisker. Return tickets on the Government railways are to be issued after August, available from 1 to 10 miles till the following ! days, and from Saturday to Monday ; j from 11 to 20Q miles available for one month : over 200 miles for two months. Fresh regulations are also gazetted for excursion tickets, freights on fruit, vegetables and other branches of traffic. No wonder Mr Earnshaw is not too popular with his fellow members. He is reportad to have said that " For once I shall bo prepared to support a reduction of the honorarium at the present time so that for those men out of work we should find supplies to keep them going." He Hem smiled sardonically and asked sarcastically "What are you givin' us '?" A weird new disease has just reached Europe from Russia — whence the influ? enza came. Pathologists believe it to be the " foot and mouth disease " of cattle, probably transmitted to the human subject by diseased milk. It is a fierce fever which attacks the mouth, causing the loss of all teeth in a few hours ; after which it kills, or departs, leaving its victim toothless. " Woomera," in the Australian, writes — " John," said the minister of the Presbyterian Church, to a good-humoured Scot in his district, famed both for his good nature and quaint methods of expression, " all your people are good Presbyterians, and attend regularly at the lurk, yet I never see you there ; how is this now ? " Wec-J, meenister," was the reply, "te gie ye the solemn truth o 1 the matter, sittin' in a room w' nae fire and singin' wi' nae drink is no to my taste." Spiders have most pronounced cannibalistic tendencies. If two or rnpre bo placed in one box, it will probably b ( e found, a few hours afterwards, that only one remains, the dimensions of the lat- | ter having appreciably increased at the expense of the others" Sometimes, too, it is the smaller one that eats the larger. A spider periodically casts its skin by drawing it over its head like a sailor would a jersey. " Chambers' Journal " tells how whilst a large spider was do- ' ißvk this, and therefore had its arms iminisaiied, a small one has been seen to attackTELtfs^nd eat it.

To-morrow the Rev. J. Cocker will preach in the Primitive Methodist Church, both morning and evening, and strangers and non-church goers are heartily invited to attend. To-morrow's services in connection with the Wesleyan Church are announced by advertisement. At the evening service the Rev W. H. Judkins, will continue the subject of last Sunday evening's discourse. Horse breeders in this district will be afforded the opportunity of obtaining the services of a couple of good stallions during the coming season — one being a Clydesdale and the other a coaching stallion. The champion draught horse Lord Kilbride holds the champion star gold medal of the Taieri, having taken a first and champion three years in succession against all comers. Afc the Taieri Show he was awarded the star medal and owns several gold cups. Gold and silver medals were also awarded at other shows in the South Island The horse is one of the surest foal getters ever travelled. The coaching stallion Mazeppa is winner of the Lord Onslcw gold medal at the Wellington Show, and several gold and silver medals at other shows. He was first in his class at the last Palmerston North Show, .beating Sacramento, the American trotting stallion, and occupied the same position at the Woodyille Show. This horse has left some of the most useful weight carrying hacks in the Wairarapa district.