Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 280, 2 June 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

*» Mass on Sunday next in Feilding at 11 a.m. Evening Service at 3 p.m. Mr Ziman is said to have already almost doubled the money he invested in Reefton properties. Mr Duthie, M.H.R., has accepted invitations to speak at Masterton, Danevirke and Palmerston North. Mr A. E. Judge, of Taonui, invites tenders, up to Saturday next, for stumping. Additions are made to the entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Sanson on Friday. The Monowai, with English mails, lef" San Francisco for Auckland at 6 p.m. on Thursday last, time table date. The Waipawa Mail has good authority for stating that Mr C. A. Loughuan will oppose Captain Russell at the next election. The Directors of the Feilding Permanent Buildinp Society met yesterday afternoon and transacted a considerable amount of business. The annual meeting of the Feilding Fire Brigade will be held at the Brigade station on Friday next at 8 o'clock when the election oi' officers will take place. The Manchester Rifles will hold a company parade on Thursday next at the usual hour, when the use of newly acquired Morris tubes will bo illustrated and explained. Extra assistants liave been engaged at the Skating Rink for the instruction of beginners. An interesting replace advertisement from tlie proprietors, Messrs Howell and Clayton, will appear tomorrow. We are indebted to Mr J. 11. Fry, of Makino, for the following register ol' rainfall during the month of May: — Rainfall 3*55 inches in 1896 and 301 in. for the same mouth in 1895, and 7.42 in. in 1894. An innovation — J. B. Beckley, of Sherborne House, intends introducing the system of fitting on gloves (kid or silk) before purchase is made so that ladies need never get tbeir gloves damaged when first putting on. The obituary list of last Wednesday's Nelson Colonist contains tho names of three old and much respected settlers, namely — Mrs Darby, aged 76 years ; Mr John Thomas, aged 98 years ; and Mr" Pettifc, aged 79 years. There was a good attendance of householders at Pukeroa school house, Spur road, last night, and a school committee was elected. The names are — Messrs Ryan, Burin, A. Pringle, J. Murphy and J. H. Ashworth, chairman. The craze for smokingcigarettcs made of tea appears to be rapidly spreading among the women of America. A tea cigarette is said to be equal to the tea for two strong cups, and, being inhaled instead of taken, its action is said to be ten times as great. In a replace advertisement Messrs Spence and Spence draw attention to the quality and value of their blankets, flanuels and flannelettes and rugs now iv great demand during the cold weather, other articles of household drapery will be found equally cheap at the Bon Marche. Mr F. Pirani, M.H.R., presented to the Minister of Justice, yesterday at Wellington, a memorandum signed by the Mayor, the Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, for the legal profession, and the member for Palmerston, asking for the establishment of Supreme Court sittings at Palmerston North. It is said an ingenious young man named Henry Lorenz has, through reading and experimenting entirely by himself, succeeded in generating electric light from chemicals in glass jars. By this means he supplies his widowed mother's cottage, at Hunterville, with a brilliant electric light. A new advertisement from the well known firm of Reid and Grey, farming implement manufacturers, appear in another column. The advertisement makes special reference to the firm's celebrated ploughs, of which 12,000 have been made, and in which further improvements have been effected. At a meeting of the Shooting Commit* tee of the Manchester Rifles last evening it was reported that two Morris tubes had arrived. Targets will be fitted up in the Volunteer Hall at once and will be ready for use on Thursday evening. It is probably a match will be arranged shortly between the Manchester Rifles and Napier "Rifles. The members of the Quoit Club met last evening in the Manchester Hotel,' Mr Kirton presided. Mr Reade, secretary, brought up the report of the committee appointed to draw up a set of rules. With a slight addition to the ef* feet that no quoits of greater diameter than 8 inches be used, the report was adopted. The ground will be formally opened to-morrow. A committee was pointed to receive and entertain visitors. Last summer Mr J. O. Batcbelor, of Willow Bank, erected a substantial silo. Sixty five loads of grass, etc. were placed in the structure, and the necessary pressure was obtained by iron levers, working on ratchet principle. The silo has just been opened and the experiment has turned out a grand success. The ensilage is being fed to the dairy cows, and these display the greatest partiality for the fodder, eating it with enormous avidity.— Manawatu Times. Mr Alex. Simpson, coroner, received a wire yesterday afternoon from Constable Crozier, stationed at Hunterville, to the effect that Wm. Downie Smith, dentist, aged 21 years, has been found dead in his room at his place of business. It is supposed that he had died while undress* ing to go to bed, and the cause is attributed to heart failure. The body was examined by Dr Smith, who found no marks of violence. Deceased was unmarried, was a brother of Dr Smith' 3, and had but lately started the profession uf dentist in Hunterville, after passing a very creditable examination in Dunedin. Mr Simpson holds an inquest on the body at Hunterville to-day.— Mercury. Advices have been received from Japan by tbe Sydney representative of Mr F. Kanemastu, merchant, Kobe, to the effect that a Bill .was successfully passed through the Houses of the Japanese Parliament in March last_ providing for the admission of Australian wool, duty free. This, remarks the Sydney Daily Telegraph, is certainly interesting, and even valuable, news for the woolgrowers here. . The Bill came into force on April 1. Prior to that date raw wool was subject to an ad valorem duty of five per cent. The export of wool from Australia to Japan last season was 5000 bales, and it is expected that this total will be donbled next season under the . new con* ditions. _^________