Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 33, 7 August 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Wauganui A. and P. Association bold their annual show on 12th November. The monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board commences ou Monday evening. An unusually sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Marton on Wednesday night, shortly after P2 o'clock. A solid naggct of gold, weighing eight ounces, has been picked out of the King Solomon mine, Mahakipawa, Marlborough. Messrs Wood aud Judkius announce the sale of a large quantity of furniture and sundries at their mart to-morrow at 1 p. in, The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows will be held in the Foresters' Hall this evening, commencing at 7.30. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' sale at Palmorston North on the lyth instant arc advertised to day, aud additions are made to the linn \s sale at Colytou. 'I ho Mauawatu Fanner renortH that Mr Peter Bartholomew of the Wcrcroa sawmill, is busy completing an order of 80, UUU feet of timber fur shipment to Bombay. The throwing of rice and old slippers is descended irom antiquity, rice meaning fertility and plenty, while the old shoe is supposed to invoke the favor of the h'ekic goddess of for;uue. A Bulls correspondent writes to the Mercury :— We are iv great heart re thu Max industry. Humour hath it that K isal and hemp arc a failure, and we are looking forward to a survival of our local industry. "What two beautiful children I Are they twins'?" said an old bachelor to a lady with two childreus. " Oh, yes, they're twins, '" replied the lady. " Excuse my curiosity, madam, but are you the mother of both of them '. ) " The following is from the Melbourne Argus, re the debate on the Companies Bill : — Mr Shiels : " Roguery won't pay in commercial .undertaking." Mr Outtrim : " But. it always does." Mr Shiels : " How do you know?" (Laughter.) The generosity of Miss Edith Walker* of New South Wales, will result in a team of four mounted riflemen proceeding to England to compete in the tournaments there. Miss Walker donated 1:320 out of the i'4oo required for the purpose. Three of those who met with accidents on Monday night at the Marton Theatre, through the collapse of stairway at the Theatre— Mrs Theed, Mr F. R. Bishop, and Master Gilbert Armstrong — are progressing favorably towards recovery. - Mercury. A young man named Dave McEwen, a resident of Palmerston, had his leg broken while bushfelling beyond Hun terville on Wednesday. He was brought down by yesterday's train from Hunterville, and forwarded on to his home by the Palmerston train. A fatal accident occurred at Ngapara (Oamaru) on Saturday by which Mr John Todd, of that township lost his life. The unfortunate man was out shooting, and while dragging his gun through a fence, about a mile and a half from the township, the trigger caught, and the piece exploding, blew the top of his head off. Rough on the ladies ! The chairman of the Temperance meeting, on Monday night, expressed the opinion that if the young ladies of Masterton were on one side of the river and the young men on the other, half of the ladies would be drowned. Does this not show the necessity for the establishment of swimming baths '? A London paper states that there is much trepidation among bicycle makers in England over reliable reports that the American manufacturers had decided to cut down the prices of machines by one quarter. If this is done, the English makers will also have to come down, and, of course, the benefit will wheel right out here to us. Very soon we may get the £20 machine for £15. The Feilding Golf Club are sending a team of four to play Colonel Gorton's team the return match at Raugitikei tomorrow. The Feilding Club will be represented by C. 11. Coote, H. P. Lance, S. Strachau aud C. A. J. Levett. A match is bting arranged between the Manawatu and Feilding Clubs for Saturday 15tb, ou the Feilding links. The District Court was opened yesterday morning and formally adjourned until the 20th instant. A large number of shareholders were present from all parts of the district in connection with the list of contributories in tue Longburu Freezing Company. After the adjournment of the Court the persons present, many of whom had come long distances, met at Messrs Abraham and Williams' Far- , mer's room, where the situation was discussed. — Standard. A suggestion Las been ras.de by a practical man which appears to be a good one. It is this — that the Government should select men from the unemployed who are able to fell busb, and send them upon the Crown lands, where they could use the axe iv felling, burning and logging ap. The increased value of the land, after being cleared, would pay for the labor spent upon it, and many of the unemployed, who are bow a worry to the State, would have work.— Wairarapa Star. The Government have brought down the Juvenile Depravity Suppression Bill. Under its provisions, when a constable finds a girl loitering about the streets after 10 p.m. for an apparently improper purpose, he shall have her examined as to name, abode, and parentage, aud then take her home, and baud her over to the person in chaiL'e. It' he finds her again, he shall take hoc to the police stution, and it uo satisfactory excuse is forthcoming, the Magistrate shall send her to an industrial school or otherwise deal with her. Power is t_'iven to the police to search houses where girls are supposed to be harbour ■«( for unmoral purposes ; also, to searc . (or boys under 17 years in such piaces. it iuuud, su'-h boys may be dealt wit <><, u>>: Magistrate as the girls are deal with, aud the Magistrate may, in addition, order them to be whipped*