Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 258, 6 May 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Harmonic Society will meet tomorrow evening. The Feilding Borough Council will meet to-morrow evening. Mr Cx. H. Saywell has an important notice in our wanted column. A meeting ef the W.C.T.U. will be held in the Temperance Hall to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. A lady's sunshade found on the Awahuri road a few days ago, has been left at this office. Entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Bulls on the 12th instant are advertised to-day. The great sanitary authority Sir B. W. Richardson, places bananas and apples among the best fruits for food. The cover of the Fire Brigade well in Grey street is at present in a very dangerous conditions, and requires immediate attention. Gentlemen interested in thefojmation of a quoit club are reminded of the meeting to be held this evening in Mr Reade's office at seven o'clock. Mr C. Carr will hold his first auction sale at Apiti on Monday next. We understand vendors will assist purchasers to cross the Oroua river with stock. Extensive additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' sale at Palmerston, which include some first-class dairy cows from the farm of Mr Godwin. The largest sheep owner in the world is said to be Mr S. Caughey, of the Coonony Station, at Jerildeiie, New South Wales. He has 3,000,000 acres of land, and last season shore 1,000,000 sheep. Mrs Stewart Menteith, wife of Mr A. ' S. Menteith, barrister, Wellington, and cousin of the Countess of Glasgow and Major Elliott, died yesterday morning 1 at Auckland. The remains will be taken i to Wellington to-morrow. The mortal remains of the late Mrs J. W. Bramwell will be interred in the Feilding cemetery to-morrow afternoon. ; The procession will start from Mr J. W. Bram well's residence, Beattie street, at 1.30 p.m. Mrs Harris, wife of the Rev W. Harris formerly of Feilding, is conducting a weeks special evangelistic services in the Primitive Methodist Church and will be pleased to see old friends and new at the meetings. The most plentiful thing at Coolgardie just now is sickness. The hospital I is ao full of typhoid cases that as soon as it is apparent that a patient cannot recover he is removed to the dead house to make way for a new victim. ' A meeting of the Managing Committee of the Manchester Rifles will be held in the Orderly Room to-morrow (Thursday) evening at 7.30., to consider the advisableness of holding a social and dance on the day appointed to celebrate the Queen's Birthday. A Lyttelton resident, Mr O. Bradley, obtained some potatoes from an American barque lying at the port, a crop from the seed has given the extraordinary yield of 35 tons to the acre, some of the tubers weighing over" two pounds. In the Assembly Rooms this evening the Riley-Carol Minstrel and Variety Company will give one of their humorous entertainments. The members of this company are said to be very clever ' in their Irish impersonations and a ( laughable and attractive programme may be expected. I Messrs Wood and Judkins are initiati ing a new departure by a sale of new colonial made furniture, bedding, etc., at Birmingham to-morrow (Thursday), when a stock of really good new things will be offered. As they will be sold without reserve and there will be no carriage to pay to Birmingham the several lots snould readily find purchasers. The sale will commence at 1 o'clock. Miss Jane Douglas Roleley, who has j jnst died at Swansea at the age of 96, was a daughter of the Captain Roleley who served with Nelson on board the Victory. A relic in her possession was the breeches worn by Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. Her grandfather kept the Mackworth Hotel at Swansea, where Nelson stayed, with the result that younp Roleley entered the Navy, and ultimately became possessed of the breeches. The Governor in visiting the Clarence j district, in Sydney, met with a somewhat romantic experience. During his stay at a wayside inn the cuisine attracted more than passing attention, chiefly owing to the cooking of some omelettes. Enquiry elicited the fact that an old man who went by the name of " Count " was responsible. Lord Hampden, in the course of a conversation, discovered that the Count was a brother to Prince Batthyanay, a Hungarian noble, the cook's title being Connt Dious Carlo Casimir Batthyanay, for long years exiled owing to the part he took in a political agitation. The President of the Women's Temperance Union in Adelaide has communicated to the press that society's views i of the women's influence at the ballot box on the occasion of first weilding the privilege of voting. She says : — Viewed from the standpoint of social reformers, the elections were a decided gain. While they did not till called upon publicly announce any candidate they could not approve of, they made careful enquiry as to the character, as well as the political views, of those in the field. On the score of character they in some cases voted against men with whose political views they were in accord, which cost them no little self-denial. The following intimations as to missing friends are from Lloyd's Weekly of March 15th and 22 -.—William lovey left Bath 39 years ago, and was last heard of in Marlborough, New Zealand, in 1873. Brother James enquires. William Innson lived in Montague Street, .Newton, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 years ago. Sister Eliza asks, Robert Brown, blacksmith of Plumsted, was last heard of from Auckland, New Zealand. Sister Jane enquires. Henry Coopy Dowding, left Gravesend for Melbourne in November, 1878 ; brother George in New Zealand, Son Harry and brother Treadaway ask Louisa Sarah Gardener nee Deane, left " Heaths 25 y^ars ago 's '.•••la»t-j • ; heard of 2(K years" since f rqtxj Chcistchurcb. -:•;' NjSwtZißalanci^ Brother Itojjerfc aeka. ;

Entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's Feilding sale are advertised to-day. J An enquiry is to be held towards the latter end of" the week, before Mr Brabrant, S.M., into the circumstances surrounding the late fire at Marton. The Spectator tells of a curious inscription on a gravestone. A husband ' and his wife were interred in the same 1 grave, and the inscription read : " Their warfare is ended." Dr MacCarthy, of Marton , has decided to commence the practice of his profession in Feilding. He may be consulted at the dispensary of Mr Woollams on and after Monday next. Celebrated Liawyer (to burglar client) : " Now, tell me honestly, did you rob that bank ? " Client (in disgust) : "Of course I did. Do you s'pose I should be able to retain yer if I hadn't ? " The Feilding State School Committee will meet on Friday evening next at 7.30 for the purpose of selecting an assistant teacher to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Hayne. Mr Gladstone expressed his sorrow, as an old friend of Italy, at the reverse at Adowa He said he feared that if the present adventurous policy were persisted in it might cost Italy the loss of her constitutional unity. A Yorkshire butcher, who sold only English-grown meat, had an Australian frozen meat man open on each side of ' him, so he painted on his shop front in huge letters, " Help ! Help ! ! Jammed between two icebergs." The Pohtische Correspondent states that for the ceremony of Tsar's coronation ! at Moscow 83^ battalions of infantry, 36 squadrons of cavalry, 7 sotnias of Cossacks and 14 batteries will be concentrated in j that city. The command of the troops [ will be held by the grand Duke Vladimir. | A distressing occurrence took place at Gunnedah, when the members of the I family of Mr Thomas Hay, an employe of Mr Arthur Jarmain, coachbuilder were seized with severe vomiting fits, caused by eating preserved pork, and resulting in the death of a son aged 9 years and a daughter aged 13 years. The father and one child are still seriously ill. [ A debate in the Imperial Parliament recently on food adulteration brought out some startling facts. In analyses made during the month of October last, 69 samples out of 146 were found adulterated. Butter, lard, and cheese coming from other European countries were found to be largely adulterated. I cannot sympathise with the Londoner much when he has the remedy in his own hands. Let him buy our New Zealand produ«;s. — Exchange. Strange as it may seem, the farmers of some parts of Scotland still suffer from the depredations of the sheep stealer^ The last Scotsman to hand states that in Perthshire bo many unpunished thefts have taken place in recent years that farmers have formed a union to protect their interests. They determined to ask Government to make it illegal for any unauthoised person to remove sheep from one place to another without the written permission of their owner. Steel coated rifle bullets for the magazine guns cause very little pain, says Dr Delorme, surgeon in-chief of the French army. During the riots at Fourmies, one man was wounded so badly as to be paralyzed, but chel not suspect; that he had been shot until he saw bloodstains on his clothing : one shot through the log only felt a slight shiver ; Another shot through the arm, felt his elbow twitch and closed his fist mechanically. At short range the bullets are apt to explode and do serious mischief. Professor Laws says the following conformation among cattle indicate weakness of constitution, and a susceptibility to tuberculosis : Head narrow between the horns, sunken eyes, depth of cavity (temporal) back of the eyes, thin, narrow ewe necK, chest small, lacking in both depth and breadth, hollow flank and tendency to pot belly : a general lack of muscle, bo that the limbs seem loosely attached to the body. In breeds that show a variety of colors, animals of the lighter shades of brown and yellow. If, however, such animals are of high yalue to the dairy, and can be kept free from infection, they need not be rejected, even if they have the above characteristics. It may be remarked here that the finest conformaeions of Shorthorns, Devons, Holstein-Fries-cians, black or red polled, or any breed furnish no protection in the presence of of the germ.