Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 110, 6 November 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mrs Pearcey, an old Napier resident died on Monday last. The Wellington Land Board will meet on Thursday, the 28th inst. Mr R. E. Beckett will hold a stock sale at his Hunterville yards to-morrow. The Rangitikei Chess Club will shortly play matches with the Napier and Wellington Clubs. Additions are made to Messrs Abraham aud Williams Palmerston sale which takes place to-morrow. The meeting of the' Building Society appointed for yesterday, was adjourned until this afternoon. A general meeting of the members of the Bowling Green will be held at the Denbigh Hotel this evening. The deaths are announced of Mrs G. Polgreen, of Porewa, and Mrs Julius Simonson, of Campbelltown. By an explosion of blasting powder Mr F. Mickleson bad bis face and an arm rather severely burned at Fitzherbert on Monday. Members of the Feilding Football Club are reminded of tbe meeting to be held in the Manchester Hotel this evening at 7.30 sharp. A man named Edward Murfit was fined Is and costs, 9s, at the Palmerston S.M, Court yesterday for parading a stallion in a public place. The teachers in the State schools in this district will occupy the Volunteer Hall to-morrow for instruction in physical drill by Mr de Mey. Nomination of candidates for the position of Mayor of tbe Borough of Feilding must be sent in to the Town Clerk by noon on the 16th instant. We refer our readers to the advertisement of Te Aro House, Feilding. Special attention is requested to the dressmaking department. A doctor had to be called in to extract a piece of ruutton-boue which Mr Sidney Trask, son of the Mayor of Nelson, had swallowed at dinner the other day and which threatened to choke him. Sir Henry Parkes' eldest son Mr Varney Parkes, is a member of the Assembly and a strong supporter of the Reid Administration, which his father tried so strenuously to defeat at the last election. A number of lads paraded Feilding yesterday evening with effigies in commemoration of Guy Fawkes day, but the rain which commenced to fall early in the evening prevented a display of fireworks. According to a MS. written in 1544 by Brother Philippo Olivarius, of the Cireux Cloister, France, Monk, etc., the city of Paris is to be destroyed in 1896, and the end of the world is to take place in 1899. Ohvarus is dead, or perhaps he would extend the contract. In " Colonist's " letter published in our yesterday's issue, several words were omitted from one sentence which should have read ; — " Where wages are lower than in any other part of the world aynong civilised people." The words in italics were omitted. Under tbe new Belgian law, unmarried men over 25 have one vote, married men and widowers with families have two votes and the priests and other persons of position and education have three votes. Several penalties are imposed on those who fail to vote. We (Mercury) understand that the police have cautioned the officer of the Marton branch ot the Salvation Army with reference to holding their open air meetings at such conspicuous corners of the local streets as they have hitherto done and that if they persist in so doing a prosecution will follow. Dairying in Canada has grown rapidly in recent years. The butter industry alone has increased from £1,300,000, a few years ago, to L 3,000,000 last year ; and the Dominion Government offered a bounty of one cent per pound for all butter exported to Great Britain, and latest advices would seem to show that this bonus has now been doubled. Grasshoppers have appeared in great numbers in the Mildura district in Victoria. They are as yet only in the crawlinff stage. The settlers have organised parties for their wholesale destruction by various methods, including a traction engine to steam patches where the insects are thickest, firing the grass, and spraying with poisonous liquids. We understand Fitzgerald Bros*. New London Company propose visiting New Zealand again, in which case they will pay a visit to Feilding. Since their last appearance here they bave been around the world, and while in England secured the services of several leading entertainers, They are now playing before very large audiences and intend opening in Auckland early in December. Messrs Thomas Guild, William Guild, Harris Guild, James Jones, Joseph Jorday, James Buchanan and Sidney Longland (of Seymour, about 62 miles north of Melbourne), and Michael Hicker, junr. (of Tallarook) comprise the syndicate who won the St Albans estate. With the exception of Hickey, all the others are employes of Mr Thos. Guild, who is one of the oldest and best respected residents of Seymour. The thunderstorm of Friday last was felt very severely on the Upper Fernndge, Wairarapa. About, 6 o'clock a huge ball of fire was observed to fall with a crash at the foot of tbe Tararua rangesThe earth fairly bhook at tbe time, and the report could be heard for miles aronnd. The heat on the Fernridge as the thunderbolt fe)l was something intense, and there was a strong smell of sulphur. Immediately afterwards hailstones larger than peas fell in tbe neighbourhood. The following team lias been picked to play in tbe Cnp match against Pohangina on Saturday next at Colyton :— J. Entwisle, W. Entwisle, D. Entwisle, C. Miilen, G. Millen, J. Mexted, G. Simpson, J. Bramwell, W. Bragg, A. Wratt, W. Power. Emergencies -R. Woodman and R. Simpson. This match was originally fixed to be played at Pohangina but the ground having been found unsuitable the teams have arranged to play the match at Colyton. Mr Fake, of Palmerston North, claims to have invented a scheme under which it is impossible for any number of torpedoes to sink a warship. He adds : — "My scheme will also allow of much greater speed without any increase of s£eam power. Also our ironclads may be buijt w jth lighter armour and be perfectly safe from destruction by torpedoes. Tbe principal part of my scheme is that an ironclad may bo struck with, fifty torpedoes and not destroyed nor pat out of action. This scheme I have forwarded to the Admiralty as being of the greatest importance to our nation at the present moment." ._■ r~

We have to thank the stationmaster Mr Wilson for a copy of the Railway 4 ' time-table for the current month. Punch's definition of the New Woman : They dress like men. They talk like men. They live like men. They don't like men. The committee ot tbe Feilding Lawn Teuuis Club h«ve decided to postpone pone the opening of their courts from Saturday next till the 16th instant. An extrordinary general meeting will be held at 4 p.m. on Friday next at the Bank of Australasia. A Manukau resident one day last week discovered a hen's eggs which looked a bit out of tbe common, so he boiled it hard, and on opening the shell found that a considerable portion of the contents consisted of strands of horsehair which were interwoven with the yolk and white, and also attached to parts of the shell. Mr Thomas Hovenden, a well known American artist, met with his death at Morristown, Philadelphia, on August 14, in a distressing manner. He saw a little child wandering on the railway line, and directly afterwards noticed an express train approaching. He instantly dashed forward to save the child. He had it in his arms, and was almost clear, when the train was upon them. They were both struck and killed on the spot. The wineberry which grows wild in the New Zealand bush could, in the opinion of Mr T. Kirk, F.L.S., President of the Wellington Philosophical Society, be made a very profitable source of income to settlers. At a meeting of tbe Society he pointed out that France imports large quantities of a similar plant, found in Chili, for colouring wines, and he considers our mako mako, or wineberry, better suited for this purpose than tbe Chilian plant. A selector at Mangatainoka who pleaded for time to pay rent gave the following chapter of accidents as one reason for asking relief: — " First, cow I gave £6 for got in the creek and died ,* second, a heifer I reared died calving ,* tbird, a cow I raised was shot by the Government inspector when she was making 101 b butter weekly ; dogs killed my sheep, one of my pigs died and the other was smashed about in a neighbor's paddock in such a way that I had to kill it ; then I lost £2 4s in a fencing contract through a fall of earth, and my potato crop was a failure." Of course the relief asked for was granted.