Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 248, 24 April 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Rev Innes Jones will hold services on Sunday next at Birmingham at i II a.m. and St Agnes' Kiwitea at 3 p.m. I4> Mjlson, stationer, has just received his monthly parcel of new books, perioddeals, etc,' by $\e last English mail iSteawex. A Chinese gardener at Fo^tpn .expects toiaarrest Iso tans.ol onions thjs^ea^pn which. «t M par ton, represents £990 in bard cash. The t proprietor of the JSew Zealand Confectionary Works, Mautibestoc^eet, Feilding, advertises tor 1 a reapeetable lad to learn the bnsiness. The Cheltenham Public Library .will be opened to morrow evening with a social to which all residents in^he neigh- ' fcoj&PPd are cordially invited. '

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday nex%. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams Palmerston and Pohangina stock sales are advertised to-day. It is stated that the Eketahuna-Wood-ville railway will not be opened for at least eighteen months. A little boy named Geo. Graham was accidentally drowned in a bucket of soapsuds at Maidstone (Victoria.) It is alleged that over 100,000 bushels of grain are lying on the ground in Southland this season — the result of the high winds. Mr Boness gives notice that all persons trespassing on his sections on the Awahuri road in pursuit of game will be prosecuted. The piles of old London Bridge, driven 800 years before, were found to be iv good condition when the new bridge was erected in 1859. By a gun accident at Woodville Mr W. Ware had his hand badly shattered. He was in the act of ramming a charge home when the gun went off. The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times put the Colonial Treasurer's surplus for the financial year just closed at between £150,000 and £200,000. Mr J. G. Wilson, the member for the Otaki seat, addressed his constituents at Sandon last Wednesday evening, and \ received a vote of thanks and confidence. Messrs Spence and Spence of the Bon Marche, hold a large stock of warm woollen underclothing, stockings, gloves, etc., suitable for the cold winter weather which will now be in vogue. Mustard growing is going on in the Manaia district, and one farmer has just finished ploughing a 60 acre field which he has sown with mustard, an invaluable food for sheep. A Sydney paper in referring to the longevity of an inmate of a Victorian charitable institution who had attained his 100 th birthday, makes the ambiguous remark. " How long the indignant poor Hve''» The New Zealand Farmer says that the Styx Apple Company's orchard is one of "the largest and best in the South Isiaad. Its area is 32 acces, aad it contains 10,000 trees. Out of the 10,000 trees 9,000 are apples, Stnrmer Pippins being the most numerous variety. To day Mr J. A. Menzie showed us some specimens from one of the claims in Darliug Range reported to have been 11 salted." The stone would average about ten ounces to the ton and gives a flat contradiction to the report. The stone was picked by Mr Menzie himself. The result of the enquiry into the causes of the recent railway accident at Waiwera between Balclutha and Gore, is that the Government have decided to dispense with the service of Mr Coker, station master at Clinton ; Mr Bray, clerk at Balclutha, and Driver Wingham and Guard Hughes.— Times. A phenomenal sight was witnessed by the passengers of the steamer Wakatipu on the trip from Sydney. When about 120 miles east of Cape Farewell very heavy black clouds were observed drifting to the S.W., and waterspouts commenced forming in close proximity to the steamer. Eight distinct waterspouts were seen within the hour. A clergyman in a city church, says the Dunedin correspondent of the Clntha Leader, in the course of his Sermon turned to elder parishoners with " And you, old men, witn your hoary," and then speaking to the junior members, " and you young men with your blooming cheek." He endeavoured to change the phrase, but the utterance was made, and he was unable to alter it. As showing the value of lime, at the Edendale Estate (Southland) this year, 198 acres were treated with crushed lime (10 and 12cwt to the acre), and the manager of the Estate, Mr Thos. Brydqne, considers they were getting nearly all the cost backin turnips. Where there was no lime used there were no turnips, but where it had been used the turnips were almost too thick. Wood ashes are especially valuable as a fertilizer when applied to fruit crops. Their action, as John M. Stahl, an Illinois fruit grower,|explains, is to increase the woody growth rather than the fruiting, being the mineral remains of woody growth. Apparently wood ashes give the best results when applied to grapes and apples. They should be spaded iv rround the apple trees and some distance from the trunk. Barley as a horse feed ranks next to maize, though from prejudice it is not so extensively used for working horses as it ought to be. It contains 80 per cent of real food — 9*5 per cent, of nitrogenous matter, 66*6 per cent of carbonaceous principle, and 2 per cent of fat. Consequently it is well adapted for fattening animais. During the Crimean war the cavalry horses had to subsist on barley sheaves for a considerable time, and they kept in good condition. The two lady doctors who have just obtained a footing in the Melbourne Hob pital (as recorded in our cable messages) have had a bard fight against the medical men to win the yictory. The Faculty of Medicine were apposed to the appointments, and the Medical Students' Society wrote to the Hospital Committee that the appointment of women doctors would, in the opinion of the society, seriously interfere with the clinical teaching of the hospital. But the women have won. Mrs Maud Balhngton Booth, late chief of the Salvation Army staff in America, lately performed the marriage ceremony between Staff Captain Ida May Harris and Adjutant Wallace W. Wincbell. This is the first record of a woman tying the nuptial knot, but the action is supported by the best legal advice in Now York on the ground that Mrs Booth is, on account of her position in the Army, entitled to rank with the Ministers of any other persuasion, and, as such, fully authorised to baptise, marry, or bury anyone requiring the benefit of clergy in these respects. According to the American Agriculturist, the export of cheese from the United States has, during the past fifteen years, fallen off more than one-half, while the exports from Canada have been trebled in the same time. In the United States the manufacture of what is known as " filled " cheese — that is, skim milk cheese filled with ojeoraargerine to supply the cream— is common, while in (Canada every care is taken not only to ensure the purity of the cheese exported, but to prevent the manufacture of filled cheese in the country. "Tricks of the trade " evidently do not pay in the long run. Yesterday morning Mr S. Daw was the recipient of a testimonial and puree of sovereigns from the settlers in the vicinity of Beef Creek (Peniberton), as a recognition of his general courtesy* and persistency, in regularly carrying the mails to Pemberton and Raasiwahia during the past five years. The presentation was made by Mr McKenzie on behalf of the settlers in the locality named. Carrying the mail, or in fact anything, to Rangiwahia is by no means an easy task for at least six months in the year, when several miles of the upper end of the road averages a depth of from two .to thjcqe feet of mud, ( which anyone not used to lpad roads would think it was impossible t t6 get "through. Notwithstanding ali tnese drawbacks Mr ' Daw has carried the mails through regularly and t^he setters appreciate his exertions in 'feeepjng up tjhe communication with the outer world. T£js igthe fourth occasion on which the ft&ttjexs fceiwjeep KirmingTiam and Roabine have substantially recognised Mr Daw's services aPFWg %c; past summer. , , (

Mr Edmund Goodbehere has money to lend in sums indicated in the advertisement. A party of Sydney sportsmen, who spent the Easter holidays at Marulan, j shot 1282 hares, 481 wallabies, 96 kan- , garoos, 60 kangaroo rats, 24 wallaroos, and 970 oppossums. Mr Charles Carr will hold bis opening sale at Mr Prince's woolshed, Apiti, on May 6th. We congratulate the settlers on tbe energy Mr Carr is showing to advance their interests. The Feilding Lawn Tennis Club will close their courts after to-morrow. As that is the last day of the season all tournaments must then be played off or they will be forfeited. Messrs Hayne and Lloyd, wholesale agents in New Zealand for -Lain her t and Butler's tobaccos, have just received a case of samples, including several brands of cut and cigarette tobacco. The Elsthorpe estate, . Hawke's Bay, which was acquired some months since under tbe Lands for Settlement) Act, is being surveyed, and will be offered to the public in about two months' time. A notification appears today from the Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, to the eflect that it is the intention of the Borough Council to light by electricity that portion of the Borough as defined in the schedule as advertised. ' Messrs Wood and Judkins will hold their usual auction sale at their mart tomorrow and will offer a quantity of unreserved goods for sale. Three good trap horses will also be offered. Particulars are given in the advertisement. The trial of the steaming capacity of the new battleship Texas of the United States navy, has not been completed owing I to defective drainage in the engine room. Tbe average speed was 17*82 knots per hour for 3 hours, this being the fastest battleship in the world of her size and description. The two Foster web-printing machimi for the use of Evening Post, on reinovirg to new premises are each capable of printing 20,000 four- page or 10,000 8- page papers per hour. Each machine will be feel by a roJJ of paper a mile long, will print botb Bides of the sheet at once, and cat fold and count ihe papers ail ready for use.