Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 164, 14 January 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

«. Apricots are being sold at per pound in Taradale, Hawke's Bay. " Truth" says the Premier will assist at the Christchurch election. Mr J. S- Milson received a well selected case of new books, ex Gothic, to-day. The Feilding Masonic Lodge will hold an emergency meeting on Monday next. The Manawatu Mounted Rifles will go into camp at Hokowhitu on Thursday next. The Manchester Rifles will be paraded on Thursday evening. A full attendance is requested. Additions are made to the entries for Messes Abraham and Williams stock sale at Palmerston North. Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : — N.W. to W. and S. gale with rain after 10 hours from now, glass rise. Mr F. Flavall has been appointed Registrar of Dogs for the Borough of Feilding and the tax is payable at his private residence, Hobson gtreet. The Manager of the Colonists Land and Loan Corporation, Mr Edwd. Giesen, advertises the cheapest money in the market. See advertisement over leader. Hawkers are invading this district in great numbers, and materially affecting the trade of legitimate business men. Not one half of these hawkers are provided with licenses. Mr J. P. Cowie, of the Makino store, intimates that he is prepared to supply groceries at the lowest Feilding prices for cash. For other particulars see our wanted column. Keir Hardie, in his farewell address in New York, said he had seen more poverty and degradation in the large cities of the United States than in any city in Great Britain. Messrs Bartholomew Bros, have a laree stock on hand of all kinds of seasoned timber at lowest current rates, also doors, sashes, architraves, skirtings, and mouldings of every description. The Loddon Hall estate in Norfolk, which some years since sold for over £30,000, has just been withdrawn at an auction, the highest bid being .£4460, of about £5 an acre. We direct attention to a replace advertisement from Mr J. S. Milson, on our third page, in which he announces the arrival at his shop of new books, annuals, journals, &c. Mr Rockfeller, the oil millionaire of America, has added £250,000 to his previous gift of £800,000 for the endowment of Chicago University. In addition he offers £400,000 more if anyone else will subscribe a like sum. Beneath an old house in Briton's Court off Fleet-street, a portion of the crypt of the ancient Whitefriars Monastery has been discovered. The monastery, five centuries ago, occupied the site of the present Whitefriars-street. The exodus from Brunnerton continues. A number of men from Brunner have found work in Auckland at mining, the pay beine 8s per day. The wives and families of those who have settled elsewhere are now leaving. -An idea of the loss of stock occasioned in the South through the severity of the winter may be gained from the fact that a lambing on the Omarama station in the Kurow district had been expected of 11,000, but the actual lambing was only 1500. No fewer than 7,000,000 bacterial organisms are declared to have been discovered in a halfpennyworth of icecream sold from a barrow in the streets of London. The Legislature is being urged to place these disease-breeding grounds under the control of the law. Tbe bi-tri-cycle, tbe latest novelty, rosembles a safety, only the front wheel is duplicated. These two front wheels are placed about 6in apart on independent axles. Tbe merits claimed for the bi-tri-cycle are immunity from slipping, increased safety, and more speed with less fatigue. Applications for letters patent have been lodged during the past week by Mr W R. Haselden, Patent Agent, Wellington, on behalf ot Mr H. C. Jensen, of Stanway, Manawatu, for an improved stump-jack ; and Mr G. F. Hawkins, of Palmerston North, for a composite syllabic typewriter. — Post. The following paragraph is from the Wairoa Guardian : — We hear that a Frasertown young lady is going to sue a Palmerston North resident for breach of promise of marriage. During the hearing of the case some startling revelations may be expected. The case will be heard at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Gisborne. An Act was passed in England in 1750 to tbe effect tbat at parties " ladies must < not get drunk on any pretext whatever, * and gentlemen not before nine o'clock." '. Presumably it is i n order to meet tbe : requirements of those wishing to get : drunk after 9 o'clock and to aid in the observation of tbis judicious statute that : the ingenuous publican opens his side : door anytime up to midnight to those : who "know the topes."— Oamaru Mail. '