Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 46, 22 August 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Excelsior Skating Rink was well patronised yesterday afternoon and evening. Tbe New Zealand Shipping Company's direct steamer will sail for London from Lyttleton on September sth. ) A Christchurch publican named Thos. Clapham has been fined £5 for failing to '. admit the police without unnecessary '. delay. The colony should be profoundly grateful. Under the Local Government ' Bill no new inspectors will be appointed. Selah. - Professor Schmidt will give phrcnolo- \ gical entertainments in the Beaconsfield school house this evening and at Makino to-morrow evening. The funeral of the late Mrs Mary Coleman will leave the residence of her brother, Mr W. Stevens, for tho Feilding cemetery, at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow. It is estimated that for the year ended April 30th last there was a decrease of f 78,349 in the number of sheep in the " Wel lington -West Coast district, as com- i pared with the previous year. At the Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Messrs W. A. Sandilands and H, L. Sherwill, J.P.s, an elderly 1 man named Richard Henry Pope, of Halcombe, was committed to the Wellington Lunatic Asylum ou the certificates of Drs Johnston and Sorley. A doctor has discovered the curious „ fact that the skull of a man who has died from delirium tremens contains an aleo- ] holic gas. A small opening in the skull soon after death premits this gas to es- l cape, and it can be ignited arid burns with j a bluish flame, to the surprise and terror of all beholders. * Whatever my hearers might do I my- ] self always learned something by lectur- ] ing. And to those who have experience " of what a heart-breaking business teach- j ing is — how much the can't learns and t won't learns aud don't learns predomin- ] ate over the do learns -will uuderstand ] the comfort of that reflection. — T. H. Huxley. Tho Standard says : — Several farmers in the district have stated tb us that thoy would very much like to see a cider press on view at the forthcoming A. aud P. Show. Last season tons of apples i were simply wasted owing to there nob 1 being sufficient local demand for tlu_i, < and naturally the growers consider if j 1 they can turn the apples into cider it jJ would be a more profitable way of utili.s- J 1 ' ing the fruit. - £

Business will be commenced at the S.M. Court at 9 a.m. to-morrow morning. Specifications for painting the Apiti Dairy Factory may be seen at tbe Star office. The poll for tbe Ongo .£6OOO loan, Kiwitea County, was carried by a large majority. Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : — Indications for N.E. to N. and W. winds after 12 hours from now, and rain ; glass fall. We purpose publishing to-morrow a precis of the new Local Government Bill. The measure ia oue of exceeding importance, and the Premier has consented to furnish copies thereof to all local bodies for their consideration. The second reading of the Bill will be delayed for a fortnight. It is stated that the Longburn Freezing Works will not long remain idle as several companies in England bave been making inquiries about tbe property with a view to purchasing. There "is also a proposal to form a new company to carry on the works. It is stated that tho Hon E. Blake, member of the English House of Com mous, and formerly leader of the Liberal Party in tbe Canadian Parliament, has accepted the position of umpire in the dispute between the Government of New Zealand and the Midland Railway Company. The distress amongst New Zealauders iv Sydney, we have beeu informed, is simply appalling. It is stated tbat on ono occasion several New Zealauders, including an ex-Wellingtoniau, were seen to be eating from a pig tub at tbe back of a hotel. This, it seems, was tbe only food they could get. — N.Z. Times. A bakery business in a rising country township is advertised for sale to-day. The locality is in a prosperous district and tho business done by tbe present proprietor is entirely casb, so that a splendid opportunity is offered to any person desirous of securing a really good businessWith this issue we publish an attractive pictorial " inset" drawing attention to the popularity of the " Suratura " tea which is grown aud packed in Ceylon. This tea has only recently been brought prominently before tbe public, but its superior quality is rapidly creating a very considerable demand. In another column will be found a replace advertisement from Messrs Kirkcaldie and Staius, the well kuown drapers, in whicli attention is drawn to a recent shipment of novelties in dress fabrics of English ancl French manufacture. Paterns of dress goods and washing fabrics for spriug wear may be obtained on application. The Wanganui Meat Freezing Company bave made a net profit of £3211 4s Id for tbe year ending July 30th last, out of whicli it is proposed to pay a dividend of 5 per cent, write off £1500 for depreciation and carry forward the balance of £502 18s 4d. The works bave been fully employed since the season commenced on November the 19th last year. A Scotch law court has decided that a prosecution against certain persons for setting game cocks armed with steel spurs to fight was not an offence against the Act for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, because a bird is not an animal within the meaning of the Act. The Christian World says, "If a bird is not an animal, it is pretty certain that the law— Scotch law — is an ass." The death is announced at Auckland of Mr Reader Wood, at the age of 74. He arrived in Auckland in 1844, and commanded the Artillery Volunteers at the disastrous engagement of Ohaeawai Pah in the year 1845. He was a member of the Provincial Council, and in the General Assembly in IS6O for Parnell, Colonial Treasurer in the Fox Ministry, and in the Domett and Whitaker Fox Ministries, and went Home and floated a three million loan at the outbreak of tho Waikato war. Of late years he lived in retirement.