Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Very sharp frost this morning. An English mail arrived here this morning. « Mr W. Carthew has an interesting notice in our wanted column. It is said there are " ouly " fourteen candidates out for the Clutha seat. The spieling industry is one of the best protected and profitable in Sydney at the present time. Additions are made to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' sales at Palmerston and Colyton. There were close on five million gallons of New Zealand brewed beer consumed in the colony last year. A man named John Smith committed snicide iv the town well at Toowoomba (Queensland) the other night. If Arbor Day is not " observed as sach " in the Borough, it is a farce giving the school children a holiday. The New Zealand bookmakers are afraid they will not get the Bill abolishing the Totalisator through Parliament this session. As an effect of excluding the bookmakers from the enclosures at the Wellington Racing Club's winter meeting the totalisator receipts show an increase of £2029 over the amount handled at the previous meeting. A dying Irishman was asked by his confessor if he was prepared to renounce the devil and all his works, " Oh, your honor," said Pat, " don't ask me that. I'm going into a strange country, and I don't ■pant to make myself enemies." A legal gentleman, who represented certain creditors at the meeting in J. Ry ley's estate in Dunedin, remarked that the directors of the bank had practically put Mr Ryley into a " golden shower bath and told him to pull the plug when he wanted more money." The District Court sittings have been abjourned until the 20th instant. The adjournment has been made partly because of the illness of Judge Kettle and partly because the business set down, bankruptcy, was not sufficiently important to take Mr Martin, S.M., away from his Wellington duties. Mr Krull tells us that the Echo (a German publication) of the 11th of June records the fact that it has been accidentally discovered tuat milk will at once extinguish any fire — such as that occasioned by the upsetting of a lamp, etc.— and that experiments have been made by scientific men, who confirm the correctness thereof. Water as everyoua knows, will not extinguish ignited kerosene. —Herald. At the inquest on George Lucre, who committed suicide in a Nelson church, rhe Rev. E. C. Isaac said that on enteriug the church he saw the body hanging lacing the door. He immediately went, without touching the body, for the police. He was under the impression a body so lound should be left till the arrival of the police. It has been often pointed out by coroners that it is a mistake to suppose a body so found must not be touched. The first thing a man should do is to cut the body down, and endeavor to restore animation. There are 5500 cheese- making establishments in Switzeriaud, almost every village having one, which is run by the hirmfcrg themselves on the co-operative principle.' la ,1894 21,589,000 kilos (21,---600 tons) of cheese WS£ 0-ported, of a value of £1,510,000 ; butter S-jO^OO kilos, value £28,440. The greater part of th£ cheese goes to France, Germany, and Ita!y r , and the butter to the former. Condensed milk is also exported to the value of £'768,000, nearly the whole of which goes Ao Britain ; also a sort of children's food, with a Jjasis of milk, is exported, one-third of waaicii $»oos to England. A good pig-pi'oof fence is an uidispenable adjunct to eyej?y i'arm where any number of pigs are kept, A fence capable of stopping ail kiwjs oi stpek i# thus described :— The fence consists pi posts wire netting, two barbed and two plain wires. Oue plain wire is woven through the wire netting and stapled to the posts right on the ground, while the other plain wire is drawn through the ueitiay jpu top, all being then strained as tightly as !#%y be wished. One barbed wire is then r«tt »J.oa« a cut 6in. above lijg ground, and the otiier^ i$ affixed to tue po^ts about Bm. or 9.v. uigner ijjaij. than the netting, the fence being tiien complete.

Mr R. O. E. Carey, of Taonui, offers £2 reward for a stud Lincoln ewe gone istray. The Committee of the Feilding- Cycling 31nb will meet in the club room at 8 p.m. ;o-morrow. The Legislative Council Banking Comnittee have made such good progress ihat it will probably report to th« Council ay the end of next week. Glorious weather in Wanganui. The willows are coming into leaf ; peach, cherry, and other trees are also coming into bloom. The Maoris predict an early spring and a hot summer. Thn Rangitikei-Manawatu Quoits Association has been practically formed, the Feilding Club being the latest to join, they having appointed as delegates Messrs Graham and Valentine. A Trilby Assembly has been formed in Feilding, and the first; dauce will be held in the Forester's Hall on Wednesday, August 12th. This Assembly is sure to become a popular one. The Secretary of the Feilding Public Library reports the following new magazines have come to hand : — St. James' Budget. The Graphic, Punch, Illustrated London News, Cassell's Saturday Journal. The number of cycling companies that have been recently floated, or aye in process of Hotation on the London market, is extraordinary. To enable all of them to pay dividends, every man. woman and child in the world will have to purchase machines. A meeting of the Wanganui Liberal Association is to be called at an early date for the purpose of selecting a candidate and making arrangements for the coiuing struggle. The sitting member, Mr A. D. Willis, is the favorite. Messrs Poat and Carson have both decided to contest the seat. On Wednesday next Mr Carr will sell by auction section 214, containing 1 rood (opposite the State School), with a sixrooined house ; also, section 4, Kimbolton road, on which is erected a new sevenroomed house. The sale will be held in the Assembly Rooms, and will commence at 1.30 p.m. To keep pace with the times the enterprising firm of W. and J. Staples and Co , of Wellington, arc manufacturing boots in large quantities from the new " Kaugarette " leather, aud their " Kangaratta " brand is fast forcing itself into the public favor. For comfort au'l ivoar ifc is oJahned that those boots ami .shoo? wiii compare most favorably with any yet placed in the market. The '• Kaugaratta " brand of boots and shoes may be obtained from all leading boot dealers and storekeepers. The polo match on skates was played at the Skating Kink, Palmerston, last evening. Feilding was represented by Messrs Sears (captain), H. Flyger, Reade, N. FJyger. Dernier and Jennins, and Palmerston by W. RandalJ, Batfen, Purser H. Meynck, McMinn and Bedford. The game was very fast and interesting and resulted in a win for Palmerston by three goals to nil, Feilding during the last spell, were without the services of H. Flyger who received a severe kick on the head and retired. Mr Haybittle acted as referee. Next week a football match will be played if teams can be got together. Messrs Carson and Baker, the Executive Committee of the Education Boardmet yesterday, when the following busi, ness was done. Particulars supplied by Mr Blair as to the number of pupils in attendance at the Technical School were ordered to be forwarded to the Education Deportment, with a view to the Board obtaining its share of the grant for technical education. The secretary was also instructed to apply for £ for £ up to i'soo for the purpose of enlarging the Technical School building. It was agreed to allow the transfers of pupil teachers at College Street, Stoney Creek, and Ashurst to stand over until after the Stoney Creek examinations at the end of August, It was agreed that plans and specifications for a school to be erected at Wairaki be prepared at once and forwarded to the Department, with a view to getting a grant therefore. — Chronicle. There was a fair attendance at the meeting of the Feilding Debating Society last evening. The Rev A. Innes Jonea presided. The subject under discussion was " Would it be right to exclude undesirable immigrants (such as Asiatics, consumptives and lunatics) from New Zealand." Mr T. West led in the affirmative and Mr F. F. Haggitt opposed. Tne subject was also discussed by Mr G. E. Johnston, S. Andrew, W. Frank-lin-Browne, J. Wood, J. H. Stevens, J. C. Thompson and J B. Beckley. At the conclusion of the debate a vote resulted in favor of the affirmative. It was decided that the next meeting, August 18, should be devoted to a journal. Mr Haggitt was appointed editor and will receive short articles (not to take longer than ten minutes to read) from any member whose name will not be disclosed and the paper will appear as from an anonymous writer. Mr Haggitt will receive articles at any time before the meeting. In the Chairman's report, to be presented to the third annual meeting of shareholders in the New Zealand Farmer's Dairy Union, it is stated the past year's working has proved successful, leaving a net profit of £1126 6s. According to the report the balance of tbe profit for the year's working was equal to 23 per cent on the paid up capital of the company, but a large proportion was absorbed in paying interest on borrowed capital, which it was now proposed to reduce. In addition to the above profit, a surplus on butter taken over from the year has enabled the directors to reduce last season's deficiency from JE4028 15s 8d to £3142. Tbe mortgage account and bank overdraft have also been considerably reduced durin? the year. The plant has been added to at a cost of i! 774 7s Bd. During the year the directors took steps to reduce the deficiency by reclaiming from suppliers amounts over-advanced against the preceding year's milk ; this proposal was, however, eventually abandoned, and the directors now propose to refund the amount so recovered, and allow the deficiency to be extinguished from future profits. It was proposed to dispose of the profits as follows, viz., .£2OO to be written off preliminary expenses account, and .£926 to be credited to deficiency account.