Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 111, 7 November 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

— » " Agricultural literature " is the name given to whiskey in the Wairarapa. The continued wet weather is greatly interfering with shearing operations in this district. A flock of 40 lambs, raised on a farm near Danevirke, averaged 401bs each when killed and dressed. An exchange piously remarks that it is a sad fate for a self made man to be tied to tailor made girl. A thief was caught in London recently by a cyclist, who happened to be handy when the alarm was given. To-day Mi Walter A. L. Bailey wae nominated for the position of Mayor ol the Borough of Feilding. The Waipawa Mail reports that rabbits have been found near the river bank there. Bunny is progressive. The Scotsman says the Scottish Volunteers won prizes worth £4247 10s Id during the past shooting season. A new advertisement from the New Zealand. Clothing Factory, re the tailor- ■ ing department, will appear to-morrow. The Rev. Father Patterson has re--1 /&s.%£s. $ telegram stating that Michael Dayitt a lecture in Palmerstot ■■■■■■•■ ■ : - "■': '" \

Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : —Glass further rise. The Borough Council will meet this evening. There was a sharp frost this morning in the Makioo Valley. A bay mare has been impounded in the public pound at Cheltenham. There will be Mass at St. Bridget's, Feilding, at 8 a.m. on Sunday nest. Mr W. A. L. Bailey advertises a fiveroomed cottage to let near Taonui railway station. The annual cricket match between Christ church and Wellington takes place at Wellington to-morrow. Wool is literally pouring into Wellington just now, and the cheap rates of the steamers via Foxton have been a great success. It is rumoured that Mr Arkwright, of Overton, Marton, is to be called to the Upper House. We fear this is too good news to be true. The finder of a gold bracelet, lost on Tuesday, will receive a reward on returning same to Mrs Coote, Wavertree, or to this office. A variety entertainment to conclude with a dance, will be given in the Cheltenham Hall on Monday evening next in aid of the piano funds. The Manchester Rifles will be inspected this evening in the Volunteer Hall at 7.30. It is important that every member should put in an appearance. The opening of the polo season in Feilding has been indefinitely postponed. The annual general meeting will be held on the evening of the opening day. The directors of the Egmont Freezing Company have made satisfactory arrangements in connection with the opening of the works early this month. The weight of the five sheep used in the guessing competition at the Carterton A. & P. Show was 426,11b5, and the weight of the bullock was 1032£lbs. James Keen, a colliery manager, was fined £6 at Wjgan, for slandering a labor member of Parliament by insinuating he had misappropriated strike money. The privileges of the Feilding Jockey Club will be sold by Mr Charles Carr in the Assembly Booms on Friday the 15th instant at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Marion Starck, aged 47, was found dead at her sewing machine in her residence, Hackney. She had been working hard at boot machining to support her family. The Lawn Tennis Club will meet at the Bank of Australasia at 4 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. The opening of the courts has been postponed until the 16th instant. Prince of Wales Birthday, Saturday, 9th instant, will be observed as a close holiday at the telegraph office. A counter delivery of letters will be made from 7 to 8 p.m. Captain Faircbild is going Home to teach the benighted people there how to build a steamer. It is reckoned by those who know the gallant Captain, that he will make Europe "sit up." A Taranaki lawyer who is rather absent minded (says the Herald) went up to his own office the other day, and seeing a notice on his own door " Back at two," sat down to wait for himself. A gardener obtained a verdict in the Shrewsbury County Court of £1 from the vicar of Alberbury, Salop, for wrongful dismissal. He had been discharged because he was alleged to have " grinned defiantly." The Premier has under consideration overtures which the Maoris have made to disposed of their interest in the Wairarapa Lake to the Government. Some years ago they refused an offer of i'7ooo made by a former Ministry. A private hospital on the most modern principles is being erected at Christchurch for Dr Townend. The operating room is being made as perfect as posfible, every precaution being taken, and the latest scientific discoveries being utilised in its construction. About 10,000 trout arrived in Feilding to-day from the Masterton hatcheries, the majority of which were liberated in the Oroua river, near Mr Downes' property, by the secretary of the local branch of the Acclimatisation Society, Mr H. L. Sherwill. At St. Martin's London, recently a cor* oner's jury returned a verdict on the body an infant of death from inanition caused by vaccination. The child was healthy prior to the operation and the doctor said that Was the fourth case of eruption fol* lowing the use of calf lymph. The mortal remains of the late Mr George Watts were interred in the Feilding cemetery yesterday afternoon, a number of deceased's sympathising friends joining in the procession. The burial services were conducted by the officers of the Salyatiou Army. Messrs Spence and Spence of the Bon Marche are now showing a large and choice selection of the most fashionable styles in trimmed and untrimmed millinery, and a large assortment of the latest styles in ladies' blouses, suitable for the holiday season now coming on. The teacher of physical drill under the Wanganui Education Board, Mr de Mey, instructed the children of the Feilding State school in the Drill Hall this morning and afternoon. About thirty ' masters from the various country schools j in the district were present. | The directors of the Feilding Permanent Building Society met yesterday afternoon in the office of the manager, MrE. Goodbehere. Mr Walter A. L. Bailey was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year. In future the regular meetings of the Directors will be held on the first Monday in each month, instead of Tuesday as heretofore. Several ad* vances were authorised and the meeting adjourned. The British Government is testing a new plan for signalling at sea. It consists merely of an ordinary gong fastened to the bow of the ship below the water line. This acts as a transmitter and the receivers are gongs of the same tone and rate of vibration, one on each side of the ship below the water line. The receiving gong will take up and reproduce the sound of the Bending gong from a long distance. Signals rlready have been clearly transmitted ten miles. Old lady (at railway station) : " Oh, guard, guard ! I am afraid there has been a terrible accident, for I have seen the bodies of forty little boys carried into this train on stretchers 1" Guard : " Bless your heart, ma'am they are all right. You see it js breaking up day at the college, and (then? youngsters get excited, and make so much noise, that the head master has them hypnotised. He then labels them, and sends them to their homes quiet like." The Victorian Bowling Asssociation is bestirring itself re the intercolonial tour, oament. The Argus of a recent date states— "The retiring president, Mr Aitken, made a eporting offer of £50, provided fhat another £100 would be raised by the clubs generally, to take a team for a trip to New Zealand via Hpbart, and probably back to Sydney. Having had a specimen of the prowess of the New Zealand players quite recently, a team to make a show against them must be one of the first degree. The annual intercolonial engagement against New South Wales will be played in Sydney next year, when the home team will try hard to wipe of! the defeat they sustained at the b»ndt of Victoria (he Iml timt tiuy mt W