Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 190, 14 February 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

_. — ♦ A new shipment of books has been received by Mr J. S. Milson. Additions are made to Messrs Abraham aud Williams' Awahuri sale. Cattle iv the Cairus, Queensland district, arc still dying from the thick plague. At the Theatre Royal, Ashurst, tonight, Mr Fred Pirani' will address the electors. At the Masterton A. and P. Show, Miss Mander was awarded the prize for the best lady rider. The Lazern aud Dalton Compauy opened last night iv Palmerston North to a packed house. The Palmerston Cricket Club have definitely withdrawn Irom the contest for tbe championship for this season. Messrs Wood and Judkins will hold a clearing saie at the residcuce of Mr Henry Tolley, of Fowlers, on Thursday next, the '20th inst. Lazern aud Dalton, the well known Excamotcurs (Illusionists) will appear on Saturday aud Mouday next, at the Assembly Rooms, Feildiug. A telegram from Brnnnerton states that the linr.iucr News has ceased publication, chiefly owiirgto exodus of population from the district. A meeting of tliose interested iv the formation of a co-operative building society will be hold at Messrs Wood aud Judkies office -at 8 o'clock this evening. Mason's improved fruit jars have now arrived at Alforcls's Novelty Depot, Kimbolton road, and aro beiug offered for sate at ', -gallon 6s Cd and i- gallon Bs Gd per dozen. Miss Nation notifies in our advertising columns that she has commenced business in Birmingham as dress and habit maker. Miss Nation assures her patrons that orders left with her will receive prompt attention. Entries are advertised in to-day's issue fora great clearing sale to be held by Messrs Gorton aud Sou at Pine Creek farm, on Friday, the 21st instant. Messrs Edwards and A'Court are giving [ up their leasehold therefore the stock i farm implements, hay, oats, household furniture, etc., will be sold without reserve. Ou Wednesday evening last the Fcildin" " Tuis " gave a minstrel entertainment in Bulls, the Hall being well filled with an enthusiastic audience and almost all the items were encored. Tho entertainment was so much appreciated that the '• Tuis " were invited to give another entertainment at Bulls. In Chambers yesterday, at Palmerston, before Judge Kettle, Mr Hankins made application to allow the liquidator of the Longburn Freezing Company to be joined with the mortgagees in the sale of the property. After argrument had been heard the application was hsld over indefinitely. Messrs Sykes Bros, announce that they have commenced business at Cheltenharoj and are prepared, to undertake shoeing, and any kind of iron or wood work on moderate terms. The members of the firm are experienced tradesmen having been employed in tho railway work shops in Melbourne, where only the best men are taken on. The mortal remains of the late Mrs James Hugli, of Palmerston N., were interred in the Feildiug cemetery yesterday afternoon, a large number of settlers from all parts of the distriot joining in the mournful procession as a mark of sympathy for the husband and relatives of the deceased. The Rev Mr Thomp- | son (of Palmerston) assisted by the Rev ! H. M. Murray, conducted the burial ser- | vice in an impressive manner. A lecturer on the " Actor-Musician" told an anecdote of a violinist who received a command to play before a reigning European sovereign. The perI formance, in which the virtuoso displayed considerable energy, being over, he was summoned to the King, who remarked, " I have heard Paganini, Spohr, and Vieuxtemps, but"— the -violinist here bowed, believing a great compliment was coming, " you certainly perspire the most !" With reference to Routgen's discovery in photography, described in a recent cable as enabling pictures to be secured through opaque substances, a London correspondent of a New York paper says ; It is announced that Professor Routgen of Wurzburg University, has discovered a light which for the purposes of photography will penetrate woodj flesh, or any other organic substances. The professor has succeeded in photographing metal weights which were enclosed in a wooden case, and also has made a photograph of a man's hand which shows only the bones the flesh being invisible. S.cme 5000 totara posts have just been floated down the Rangitikei river from Hnuterville to itojver Rangitikei to the order of Mr James McKelyie, Flock House. These posts left Hunterville about a fortnight ago in charge of three men and arrived at their destination yesterday, a distance of about 50 miles, and are to be landed at the homestead at X' 2 10s per 100. This way of shipping posts is quite novel to this district although it is done a good deal in the Aucklaud district, and whether it pays better or not will be looked forward to with interest. The funeral of the late Mr J. R. Black, of Making, took place yesterday afternoon, when bis _o;rtal remains were interred in the Church c-f England .cemetery at Stanway. A large niiUjib^' of settlers and sympathising 'friends joined in tlie procession, including about eighty of tbe Makino school children, the late Mr Black having been headmaster of the school. The children marched in procession after the hearse for about half a mile and were then accommodated id tho numerous vehicles. On arrival at Stanway the first portion of the burial service was conducted in St. £_&%&&'$ phiu'cb by the Rev. lanes Jones, who alsb'r&aaiJ,:,©. concluding part at tho grave. The attendance ■$&# so great that a large number could uot gain admission to the church.

j Additions are made to Messrs Abraham and Williams Colyton sale. Dr Johnston invites tenders for the erection of 76 chains of fencing in the Oroua Coal Creek Block. The Hon. G. F. Richardson has been asked to contest the Mataura seat at the general election, and has replied that he will do so if there is a general desire to that effect in the constituency. In another column we publish an apology from Francis Berry, of Makino, lately a butcher, for having made certain aspersions on the character of Edward George Wells when in his (Mr F. Berry's) employ. So destructive did the winds prove to the crops in the Campbelltown district a few weeks ago, that a threshing machine this week was threshing three days and only threshed 1,000 bushels of oats, or about a fourth of what it should have done if the crop had not been destro3*ed. Mrs Dr Nausen, wife of the Arctic explorer, appears iv an iuterveiw as follows : " I asked her if she had no desire to accompany her husband. She answered promptly: 'No, indeed; that would be outside the sphere of a woman. That would not have been the proper thing to do. I ventured to mention that Mrs Peary accompanied her husband on an Arctic trip. ' Yes' she said, ' and so much the worse for the expedition.' " The following curious oath was uutil recently administered in the'eourts of the Isle of Man : " By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, and by the wonderful works that God has miraculously wrought in Heaven above and the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I do swear that I will, without repect of favor or friendship, love or gain, consanguinity, affinity, envy, or malice, execute the laws of this Isle, and between party aud party as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the middle of the fish." When the telegram reached Christchurch giving an account of the discovery of the North Pole by Dr Nansen, poor " Sydenham " Taylor approached Mr Seddon and said cheerfully — " Well Dick we lost one pole but we've got another anyhow." Mr Seddon "looked him over " and said " Look here old 'nn you aint in the House now aud what's more you aint going to be, so stop that foolishness. Some fool said it took nine taylors to make a man - and be hanged if I don't begin to believe it." There ip a coolness now between these erstwhile " comrades" both arctic and antarctic. The member for Wairarapa, Mt Buchanan, tells rather a good storj agaiust himself. Lately he was travelling ou the Hawke's Bay railways, and had not with him the gold ticket which denotes that being a legislator he was entitled to a freedom of the lines. So as the guard was a new hand, aud did not know him personally, he introduced himself, but intimated that if it happened that there was no one else ou tlie cars whom he could ask to vouch for his identity, he would pay nr like one of the ordinary rank-and-file electors. This was agreed to. Along tht line the guard came back to him beam ing with satisfaction. " It's all right, sir," he gleefully explained ; " Mr Garvcy tells me he knows you well." N.B — Mr Garvey is Governor of the "Wel lington gaol.