Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 177, 30 January 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

• I The Manchester Road Board will meet i on Saturday next. j Several letters to tbe Editor are un- j avoidably held over. | Members of tbe Manchester Rifles are reminded of tbe Government parade tbis evening. Mr W. A. Sandilands returned to Feild- j ing last night from his holiday trip to j Australia. i Tbe guessing competition at Mrs Coppen's fancy goods store will close tomorrow evening. Mr J. R. Macmillan will bold a sale of furniture and effects on behalf of Mr T. Hammond, at Hinau, Pemberton, to morrow. Tbe Wanganui School Committee last night decided to vote for Messrs Robbins and Lefibndge for the vacant seats on the Roard. Captain Russell states that he intends to stand for the Hawke's Bay seat against all comers and not lor the East Coast seat as rumoured. The New South Wales Department of Public Works is now spending about i' 50,000 a month on the construction of roads, bridges, and other works. Mr R. E. Beckett has beeu nominated for re-election on the Education Board. Mr Beckett bas been a very useful member and we hope to see bim re-elected to bis old seat. Messrs Wood and Judkins announce tbat another consignment of apricots is to arrive immediately. As this will be the last, intending purchasers should lose no time in calling. An enthusiastic Feildiug bowler fell out of bed last night. When he felt himself going he murmured " Too much green ! " Wlien he struck the floor he yelled out— "Ditcher, by jove." Fact. The Commissioner of Crown Lands advertises sale of forfeited sections in the Awarua Block. Plans may be obtained at the Feildiug post office, or by application direct to the Commissioner in Wellington. A man named P. O'Connor was charged this morning with being without visible lawful means of support. He was ordered to leavo Feilding within 24 hours. Messrs Sherwill and Kirton J.P.s occupied the Bench. An alteration has been made in the dates on which Mr John Stevens will ad dress the electors in Foilding and in other parts of the electorate. Mr Stevens will start his series of addresses in the Assembly Rooms on Tuesday, February 4th. Owing to the vacancy on the Land Board, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr Thomas Fisher, the Minister of Lands has been pleased to recommend the name of Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., and that gentleman has accepted the offer. On Sunday next the anniversary services will be held in the Colyton Primitive Methodist Church, the preacher in the morning will be Mr G. Grant, of Palmerston, aud in the evening the Rev J. Cocker, the tea meeting will be held on the following Wednesday. On Saturday next the Feilding Lawn Tennis Club will play a match with the Palmerston Club, on the latter's courts, when a team of eight will be selected from the following to play for the former club : — Messrs Barton, Dyer, Richmond, Lance, Coote, Brabant, P. Giesen, Bryce and Stewart. Yesterday afternoon as Mrs Sorley was driving along West 3treet the horse took fright at a dog and ran off the road, its career being stopped by a deep ditch. The vehicle was overturned and Mrs Sorley thrown out, receiving a severe shaking and a few bruises. A boy, who was also in the vehicle escaped unhurt. To-day Mr William Smith, Feilding agent for the raspberry vinegar manufactured by Mr Hall, of Christchurch, inserts as an advertisement the report of the analysis, by the Colonial Analyst, of a sample of the vinegar forwarded by Mr Smith from F.ilding. It will be seen that the analysis is very favorable to the extract as a drink. The figures given for the cost of using the great ordnance lead to a calculation that ihe Benbow, whicb carries two 110---ton guns and other smaller arms, would in two ordinary engagements use up guns and ammunition to the value of £130,000. A modern naval engagement on the scale wbich more than one nation is ready to engage in, would cost many millions. A very severe shock of earthquake was felt in Napier at 7.8 o'lock on Tuesday night. A peculiarity in connection with the shake was that the sea, which was calm and glasslike prior to the shock, gradually became agitated from the Kidnappers to the Marine-parade with a peculiar dark ripple. Then tbe tremble was felt, and a light wind immediately sprang up. About fifteen years ago a wealthy Liverpool merchant of fifty was on a homeward-bound steamer from the United States. A young American girl was on board. She stumbled on passing down the companion-way to the dining-saloon, and the gentleman— Mr Maybrick by name— caught her in his arms. A lovematch followed. Now Mrs Maybrick isi serving her sentence in iail for poisoning her husband, A couple of days have yet to run to end the first month of 1396, but already 19,000 bales and 458 pockets of Hawke's Bay wool, says the Herald, have left our shores for London, the world's market. Reckoning present London values as atleast Hd per lb higher tban this time last year, this month's wool output alone should mean for Hawke's Bay an addition to our income of over £57,000 sterling and provide us with what we so rarely get - a busy winter with full work for everyone. In another column will bo found an announcement from Mr W. Reid, of Makino, who has accepted the agency for this district for Thomas Hulm's Santonine Balsam. This balsam was introduced into this district last season as a drench for lambs and proved very effective as may be seen from the testimonials of Messrs E. Smith (Colyton) and E. Bosher (Makino), and from a number of prominent farmers in the Wairarapa. Mr Reid is prepared to give a free trial of the drench with any small numbers of sheep. By request we, (Manawatu Times) publish the following recipe for feeding young calves : —A good and cheap food for young calves is a mixture consisting of 41b wheat, 21d peas, and lib linseed. Mix and grind into fine meal. Make into a thin, well-boiled gruel. The quantity will depend on the age and strength of the calves ; begin with lib per head' per dav, and what skim milk you can spare, anjj increase lhe quantity as soon as they become accustomed to the food. Feed at a uniforn) temperature, not lesp tjhan 60 deg. ——I nii>ii.iiii>«wa!g