The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1895. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 159, 8 January 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1895. Local and General News.

This being Leap Year—comment is needless. The recent gale did damage to the New Plymouth breakwater to the extent of £1000. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the Government parade tomorrow evening. Colonel Newall wili bs present. Additions aro made to day to the advertised entries for the Pohangina and Palmerston stock sales of Messrs Abraham and Williams. A man named Robert Kiick has been fined 40s at Hunterville for disturbing thes service at the Presbyterian Cburch ion New Year's Eye.

Major Neill, of Wanganui, is reported to be seriously ill. We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of " The Dairy Industry Report for 1894-5," from the Department of Agriculture. The charges made by an ex-patient of the Mount View Lunatic Asylum have, on enquiry before Mr Martin, S.M., fallen to the ground. The piece of land advertised for sale yesterday with cottage and orchard, should be half an acre and not quarter of an acre as then stated. The Standard says:— We learn tha* an action for breach of promise is pend* ing against a Palmerston resident, dam ' ages being assessed at .£IOOO. A private cablegram received in Hawera announces that the Aotea butter is fetching from 102s to 105s, and that the market shows an improving tendency The Commissioner of Taxes notifies that by an Order in Council made on the 21st of December last, Income Tax should be paid on Friday, 31st January, 1896. As soon as the weather becomes suitable one settler in Pohangina will be in a position to employ forty men at grass seed cutting. This will mean an expenditure of £20 per day. The Manawatu Farmer reports that a settler near Levin in sinking a well came on some gravel and blue clay. He panned off seven shovels full of the stuff and got a few specks of fine gold. Last night during the thunderstorm a lady was asked " Are you frightened ? " the startling reply was " I haven't got time for my sister is in a fit, and she takes all my time to look after her ! " Messrs Barraud and Abraham, of Feilding and Palmerston North, have accepted the agency of the Royal Insurance Company, which claims to be the wealthiest and most liberal Fire Insurance Company in the world. An advertisement appears in another column to-day from Messrs Hayne and Lloyd, wholesale agents for this district drawing attention to Llewellj'n's Bee Ointment, which may be obtained from any of the storekeepers throughout the district. We direct attention to an alteration in Messrs Barraud and Abraham's advertisement announcing the arrival of their stocks of new seeds for autumn sowing, as usual the firm are at present carefully testing the germinating power of each sample. The following team will represent Feilding against Birmingham, at Birmingham, on Saturday next :— Levett, Benson, Wilson, Broughton, Smith, Bryant, Hunter, Stewart, Clayton, De Lisle and Hill. Emergencies— Gibson, Ward, Dickson. Thomas A. Slater, for having obtained by false pretenses, cheques to the value of £6 from J. F. Hathaway, of Bulls, on 19th of December last, and havißg been convicted oi two offences of a similar kind in New Plymouth, has been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. We direct attention to a new specific for the cure of foot rot in sheep for sale by Mr T. Watson. The Government Inspectors on this coast and elsewhere have supplied testimonials as to its thorough efficacy, as well as numbers of flock owners throughout New Zealand and Australia. Mr R. J. Thompson, of the Cash Exchange, has just opened up a large consignment of English and Colonial boots and shoes in great variety which he intends offering to the residents of this district at reduced prices. He is, also, clearing at low prices the balance of his summer goods of all descriptions. Dr Findlay, Wellington, in the course of a recent lecture on " Sentiment in Socialism " declared the woman herself was responsible for the evils under which her sex snffered. Her rage for cheapness contributed largely to the starvation wage paid to so many of her sex. Mr E. J. Searl informs us (Wairarapa Times) that he intends instituting an action for damages against Mr T. Hutchison S.M., for refusing to issue a permit for a publican's booth at the Caledonian Society's gathering on New Year's Day, and that Mr W. B. Edwards has been retained for the prosecution. The results of the scholarship examinations in the Wanganui Education district are to hand and in the junior scholarship Arthur M. Gould (of Feilding), has secured the highest marks with 77 0 per cent, and Arthur Curteis (of Apiti) is second with 76-5 percent. There were thirty-three competitors in this class. In the senior scholarships twenty-three were examined. At Hamilton West swimming baths on Sunday last, the Rev. T. H. Long had just come out of the water and was drying himself when he broke a blood vessel and vomited blood freely. Medical assistance was sent for, but he died in a very few minutes. The deceased was a son of the Rev. J. Long, the well-known Primitive Methodist Minister, and had long been in a most delicate state of health. Our readers will be pleased to learn that although the Rev W. Judkins has, through lack of strength, been compelled to leave ministerial work for a time, he intends to settle down in our midst. Mr Judkins and Mr James Wood will commence business as Wool Brokers and General Commission agents in the office lately occupied by Mr T. H. James, Architect, Kimbolton road. The business will be carried on under the name of Wood and Judkins.- We wish the new firm every success infheir venture. An amusing scene occurred recently, when a swarm of bees settled on a man standing in one of the streets of the Borough, choosing for the point of settlement a part of the body which a brave man never turns to the enemy ! Shortly afterwards a person from whose premises the bees had started came to claim the swarm, and the nice little question which arose between these two as to ownership was complicated by the claim of a third, who had, we suppose, seen the bees in transit and followed them. The contest had not, at latest advices, ceased. — Exchange. If elder brothers were to follow the example of those in the " good old times " there would be fewer drowning accidents. For instance, when a lot of boys, attending Wheeler's school in Wellington 40 years ago were bathing off the beach at Te Aro flat the younger of two brothers went out too far and " let a yell out of him " as he sank. The elder brother swam out, lugged the offender ashore and gave him such a thrashing as he never will forget in his life. He was always a good swimmer afterwards and saved life — but he never was reckless. They were practising with the fire brigade reel and hose on the beach in a northern town recently, and the spectators included a number of open-mouthed Maoris who, upon occasion, got too near to preserve themselves absolutely from moisture. It is apparently easy to hold a branch and shoot water into the air. At least thought an aboriginal who, at the invitation of a fireman, seized and held a nozzle much to the envy of his dnsliy brethren. His triumph was short iiyed, however, for just as he had struck a magnificent attitude, the pressure was turned ou at full. Immediately there was a spectacle of a somersaulting Maori, a writhing branch and water, a daylight Catherine wheel, Maori on top one moment, branch victorious the next, and the wheel enshrouded in a deluge of vrater. When they turned off the water something gathered itself together and crawjed away without » V9F i-