Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 256, 4 May 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mrs Ellen Lloyd, a very old Hawke's Bay identity, died on Friday last. The Feilding Borough Council will meet on Thursday evening next. Tenders are invited by the Pohangina County Council for the lease of the Apiti bridge reserve. For raffling a mare and foal, valued at £5, at Foxton, E. T. Smythe has been fined £5, And costs £2 15s. We would remind the members of the Colyton Football Club of their meeting next Wednesday evening, Additions are made to day to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' sale at Palmerston North. We have to acknowledge receipt of the Union S.S- Company's pocket guide and timetable for the current month. The annual examination of scholars attending the Feilding State School was commenced today and will be continued to-morrow. Mr Dugald Henderson, butcher, will have a replace advertisement in tomorrow relative to " small goods " of which he intends to make a specialty. Mr Standford, S.M., fined a prohibited person named Wells, who was proved to have been drunk at the Shannon races, £5, and costs 15s.— Standard. Mr and Mrs Thomas Lowes, of Fowlers', sailed on Saturday from Lyttleton on board the lonic for England. We hope they will have a pleasant trip. Messrs F. Y. Lethbridge and Wheeler who were ballotted out at the meeting of the Manchester Road Board on Saturday, will offer themselves for reelection. The following are the Palmerston N. Hospital statistics for April : — In on Ist April, 19 ; admitted during the month, 14 ; discharged, 8; died, 1; in on Ist May, 24. We, Falmerston Times, understand that the appeal by Mr T. Nelson, of Ihe Post Office Hotel at Ashurst. against the decision of the Palmerston Licensing Comittee, is likely to provide some further unsavoury developments, in consequence of some extraordinary allegations filed by the appellant. An Odessa dispatch to the London Daily News, March 23rd, says the Novodo Vremya and the Novosti admit that England has a mission to protect the Nile Valley, and that Dongola, Kassala, and Berber, the three keys to the Soudan, must eventually fall into England's hands. Thomas Wood, Borough rate collector, was charged at the Police Court on Saturday with embezzling the sum of .£2OO, rate moneys of the Corporation, and remanded till to-morrow. Bail was fixed at two sureties of £100 each, and accused in his own recognisance of £100. It was forthcoming. — Standard. In France it is forbidden, under severe penalties, for anyone to give infants under one year any form of solid food, unless such be ordered by written prescription, signed by a medical man. Nurses are also forbidden to use in the rearing of infants confided to their care, at any time or under any pretext whatever, any nursing bottle provided with a rubber tube, Max O'Kell relates how a boy, reading from a play that was being translated at sight in class, came across the phrase, Cahnez-vous, Monsieur. He naturally translated this by| " Calm yourself, sir." I said to him, " Now, don't you think this is a little stiff ? Couldn't you give me something a little more colloquial ; for instance, what you would say in a like case?" The boy reflected for a few seconds, and said, " Keep your hair on, old man." A family living in Christchurch were accidentally poisoned last week, and one of the members had a narrow escape from death. They had tinned salmon for tea, and the head of the family, while at a friend's house afterwards, was taken very ill. He was at once removed home. As the symptoms became worse Dr Townsend was called, and he pronounced the patient to be suffering from acute poisoning. Other members of the family suffered, but only slightly. The first of a series of socials was held in the West Waitapu school room on Friday, and notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, there was a large attendance. A varied programme was gone through, after which various games were indulged in. Then followed supper (which was highly appreciated) provided by the ladies of the district, to whom great praise is due. The object of these socials is to provide funds to purchase a new organ for the Sunday services. The Wanganui Fruit and Vegetable Evaporating Company has made a start, and judging by the specimen packages of dried fruit and vegetables on view, their manager, Mr Daflefe, is thoroughly at home in the business. The locallyprepared article is really most creditably turned out, and would command a market anywhere. Next season's operations will be on a far larger scale, as it was impossible to make an early start this year owing to the works not being finished in time. The Company's exhibit in Wellington at the Exhibition will, no doubt, be a large and interesting one, and proof that we need not send to California for evaporated frnits and- vegetables. A " resident householder " in the North Canterbury educational district occupies the unique position of being in two School Committee districts at one and the same time. By some inadvertence the bounary line has been made to pass through his house, which thus has a portion in each of the two districts. The authorities are now met by such knotty questions for solutions as — Has the householder a vote in either district, and if so in which ? Is he a " resident householder" in either district? If so, in which is he eligible to stand as a candidate for a seat on the Committee ? The great rivalry between the householders in the neighborhood over school matters has led to the discovery of this peculiarity. Says the Otago Daily Times •;— " Puring the hearing of the case of arson at Clinton, Mr B. C. Haggitt wishing to demonstrate the effect of phosporous, cut off about a quarter of an inch of the stuff and placed it on the floor of the Courthouse, inside a piece ot paper with the effect that in about five minutts it broke into a flame and blazed rapidly. Mr Haggitt endeavoured to stamp it out, but this proving futile, somebody called for water, which caused considerable amusement to those who understood the effect of water on such a fire. The Beach, and those, in the Courthouse had to beat a hasty retreat until the flames had subsided— even 'the solicitors, who are supposed to b# impregnable to sulphurous perfumes, had to seek fresh air. Mr Haggitt will probably make a close i study of the uses and abuses of phos- 1 phorous. , ' _

Messrs Wood and Judkins will hold { an auction sale of furniture and effects on behalf of Mr Blackmore on Wednesday afternoon. The assets of the various banks doing business in this Colony for the quarter ending 31st March last 'were £16,621,687 7s lOd, and the liabilities £15,474,159 14s 4d. On the Queen's Birthday the Manchester Rifles will have some shooting at the butts with the new Martini- Henri Rifles. Several prizes have already been promised. Amongthe Bills which the Government will iatroduce next session will be one dealing with the question of infant life protection, so as to more effectually further prevent the state of things that prevailed in the Dean case. A young man named W. Routley was reported to the police last evening as lying ill in an abandoned house in Russell i street, where he had been for three or four days. The police at once attended to the sufferer and sent for Dr Johnston, who stated the symptoms were those of syphoid fever. Routley was taken to the Palmerston Hospital this morning. A meeting of those desirous of forming an Athletic Club in Birmingham was held in Mr Harrison's Hotel on Saturday evening last. The following were elected officers : — President, A. W. Harrison ; vice-presidents, Messrs A. C. Matheson, A. L. Pettigrew, A. Laing ; secretary, A. B. Pettigrew ,• committee, Messrs W. Chunn, H. Dorreen, A. McMurtrie, L. Hall, C. Goodwin. F. Jenkins. The membership is already large and there is every prospect of the Club being successful.