Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

♦- ■ — The Annual general meeting of the Feilding Athletic Club will be held in the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday, 4th , of September. ] Mr C. Carr will hold an unreserved sale of household furniture at Mr Joseph Gould's residence, Prince street, on Wednesday next. Tomorrow's sDrvieos in connection ■ with the Wesleyan Church are announced by advertisement. In the eveniug the Rev W. H. Judkius will continue the subject that he has lately been considering at the evening services. Mr Peter Thomson has now on baud a stock of tanks at prices to suit the times, and householders should take adTantaTO of this opportunity to I'lake titjicly provision io>: the dry f-utumcr T.-Lich v,o are certain to have this year. , Nominations of candidates will be received by the Returning Officer, Mr G. C. Hill, up to noon ou Tuesday, September 3rd, to fill the vacancies caused by the annual retirement of three councillors. The retiring Councillors arc Messrs G. H. Saywell, J. Cowic and G. W. Fowles. -The chess match between the Rangitikei and Palmerstou clubs takes place this evening. Marton will be represented by Dr Skermau, Messrs H. Richardsou, Kasther, Wilton jun., Coles, Armstrong jun., Wilson, Esani jun., Armstrong sen., and Whitelaw. A very peculiar disease is affecting the udders aud teats of dairy cows in Nelson. When affected the tcais of the cows become similar to those sucked by a calf. The udder begins to dry up, and iv a few days the now of milk ceases altogether. One large dairy owner iv Nelson iuforrood our representative that he had never heard of or seen anything like the disease before. It is to be hoped that veterinary surgeons will be able to grapple with the difficulty. — Exchange. The Rev. Mr Cocker writes as follows : — n g IK) — in your last night's issue you inform your readers that the Primitive Methodist Church will be re-opened on September 25th. This is a mistake. The labor contract is to be finished by that date, but as the painting, etc., will have to be completed after the other contract, the rc-opeuing will take place on Wednesday, October 2nd, when the Mayor of Wellington is expected to j proacb the re-opening sermon, to be J followed by a public tea." Dr Tanner, the Irish member who had to be unceremoniously ejected from the House of Commons the other night, is addicted to the use of expressions of an essentially unparliamentary character, and baa more than oncp before been the hero of one of those shindies which are supposed to be so dear tothe heart of a perfervicl Irishman. He is the son of an old and much-respected citizen of Cork, Dr Tanner, an eminent physician, and is himself a physician of repute. He is about forty-three years of age, and was educated at Winchester, and a.t the Queen's College, Cork. He is a Protestant. His Irish fellow members find his medical knowledge very useful and inexpensive, and it has been jocularly remarked that he had more patients in Westminster than in Cork. We have had the pleasure of inspectin" a very admirably finished little building by Messrs Simpson and West. It is designed as lavatory and consulting rooms for Dr Moncktou, and, forming as it does, an additional wing to his residence the builders have finished off the gable end iv the old English style to be in character with the house at " The Camp." The owner expresses great satisfaction wiih the work of both Messrs Watson Bros., the. painters, and the builders, aud the result most certainly justifies it. To a professional eye the library, the shelves of bottles, drugs reagents and testing apparatus might be more attractive, but we were more interested in the beauty of certain reduced anatomical models. One thing possesses an historical interest, it being an old mahrogany instrument case which belonged to an Army surgeon, which was carried through the Peninsular war. It was sold by his widow to the present j owner, who b<u'e it with him in the Bal- ' tic campaign, and then brought to New , Zealand, where it is resting in peace ; I awaiting future possibilities and adven- . tares.

Captain Edwin wired at 12.12 to-day : — North-west to west and south gale, with rain after 12 hours from now, glass rising. Tenders for painting the Apiti Dairy Factory close on Monday, Specifications may be seen at the Star office and at Mr Vicary's, Apiti. In the case F. Kite v. T. Wood, heard at the S.M. Court, yesterday, and in which a partial judgment was given for plaintiff, no costs were allowed. Of fifteen cases heard in the New South Wales Divorce Court, the other day, nine were applications of wives, and two of husbands, on the score of desertion. Iv each instance a decree was granted. Mr J. B. Beckley announces that his premises will be opened on Monday next, the 25th instant, with a large and wellassorted stock of new spring novelties. Mr Beckley's new advertisement will appear in Monday's issue. The preacher at the Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow is the Rev. J. Cocker. In the evening there will be an old-fashioned love feast. In the afternoon Mr Cocker will conduct a memorial service in the Colyton Church, iv memory of the late Mrs Wise. All friends invited. An irate fishmonger, fresh from the flowery fields ot Billingsgate, was winding his way up Stuart Street, urging on his tired steed with vigorous objuration and flagellation. A tender-hearted dame stirred to action by his apparent cruelty, stopped and thus apostrophised him. "Man! man! hao ye no' a soul P ll The fisherman with an eye to business, mournfully sighed : " Na, ma'am. I've nothing but cod left." Yesterday we published a local giving particulars of the result of a shipmeut of apples to London by Mr Menzies, and now we give details of the results of another shipment by him of sixty cases to llio do Janeiro by the Gothic. The gross proceeds were £45, less four cases in bad order Jl'6, duty and discharge paid £-1, insurance charges and commission £2 15s Gd, leaving the net proceeds at £H5 4s 6d — a far from unsatisfactory result. Early settlers will hear with regret of the death of Mr George Hart, which occurred at Christchnrch on Monday, his a&e being 74. Mr Hart arrived in Wellington on the 10th of August, 1843, with his brother, the Hon. Robert Hart, M.L.C, who died in Wellington last September. He was a member of the first Wellington Provincial Council, and lived iv this city' for some years before removing to the South. — Post. The father of the lad Felix O'Sullivan McCarthy, who was killed at Shannon, has little spare time on his hands. He arrived on Saturday by the morning train and left by the evening train. The inquest was finished at 4. H0 p.m. and the body of tho lad was placed in a coffin and called to the ceuietry and lowered into the gray.-<, without an attempt at any service. Mr. Gascoigne was present, and shocked nt the parent's method, read the Lord's prayer. The whole business showed a pitiful want of feeling. With this issue we publish " au inset " from the local branch of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, from which it will be seen a special opportunity is offered to purchasers of ladies', gent's and children's boots and shoes. Various articles iv the clothing department are also enumerated as being marked at reduced prices, while during the remainder of this month and September a discount of hen per cenb will he alloTrecl off several articles mentioned in the inset. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge was held in tho Foresters' Hall last evening. There was a good attendance of members. One new member was elected and initiated, P.D.G.M. Bro. Parker acting as Lecture Master. After the Lodge was closed, the members adjourned to the supper room, where refreshments were served out by Mesdames Jackson, Wilson, Parker, and Miss McAlister. A recitation was given by Bro. Taylor, and sougs by Bros. Belilt. -J. Watson, A. YVateou, D. ivlcFarlanc, and Lovejoy. A vote of thanks was passed to the ladies for their assistance. After singing " Auld Lang Syne," an snjoyabe evening was brought to a close. Heads of families who are uneasy on account of the recent advance iv the price of leather making an increase of about 10 per cent in the retail price of boots, will be glad to learn that Mr John Cobbe bought very largely just before the advance took place. He has this week opened up 485 pairs of sample boots and shoes, bought at a big discount off the original wholesale price. In addition to which he has, also, this week, received 252 pairs of two-strap sandal shoes, now so much worn, which will be sold at exactly the same price as before the advance. These are to be supplemented during the next few days, by the whole of the North Island, colonially manufactured samples of the noted Zcalaudia Boot Company, all bought before the advance.