Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 81, 2 October 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

— «. The Oddfellows Lodge will meet this evening at 7.30. Entries for the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Show close on the 15th instant. Mr R. J. Thomson advertises a seven roomed house to let, with three acre* Offend.

Archdeacon and Mrs Williams, of Hawke's Bay. celebrated their golden wedding yesterday. Mr J. H. Fry reports the rainfall for Makino for September as follows : — 1896, 2-67in ; 1895, 3-80in. News has been received of the death of Mr K. W Russell, Deputy Official Assignee at Greyruotb. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the ball at Colyton on the 9th inst. The following are the vital statistics for Palmeraton for September : —Births 23, deaths 11, marriages 7. Mr Patterson will address a meeting in the Volunteer Hall this evening on the subject of Prohibition, commencing at 8 o'clock. Anyone wanting good and cheap articles should visit James Wood's auction sales every Saturday. For particulars see advertisement. It is stated that cholera is rarely fatal to a system impregnated with tobacco. Many persons would sooner have cholera than the tobacco. It is a strange fact that the right hand, which is more sensitive to touch than the left, is less sensitive than the latter to the effect of heat or cold. The architect of the Wanganui Edution Board, Mr A. Atkins, F.R.1.8.A., invites tenders for the erection of a school at Taikorea. For other particulars see advertisement. "It is a well-known fact," says Mr Millar in the House, "that a great quantity of the jam sold in the Colony is not made from iruit, and yet is sold as being made of fruit. It is high time a stop is put to that sort of thing." Comparatively heavy snow has fallen this week in Pohangina, Rangiwahia, Waituna and other parts of the higher levels. The snow is low down on the mountains, and the Ruahine and Tararua ranges are very beautiful at sunset. The Secretary of the Young Men and Boys' Cub begs to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a number of periodicals from the Feilding Public Library Committee and a set of boxing gloves from Mr Burnett, of the Ashurst road. The war spirit is extending in Wel- ; lington and another volunteer corps is in course of formation. Employers of labor in the Empire City find it to their advantage giving encouragement to their young men employes to join the Volunteer force. A case in which coffee was made out of parsnips was mentioned by Mr R. Thompson when the Adulteration Bill was under discussion, and thehon member added that a great quantity of the coffee sold in New Zealand is made out of horse beans. Mr J J, Bagnall left for Wellington this afternoon to obtain particulars of the Liquors Control Act which bas just passed the Lower House, with the view of laying the same before two meetings appointed for an early date to be hold in Feilding. Freeman R. Jackson and Co.'s Wanganui stock report ; — The pntry at Wanganui today consisted mainly of sheep, only a few youug cattle coming forward. No alteration in prices can be reported. Very few pigs came forward. We quote : — Cattle Yearlings, 2,5s ; 18 months steers, £2 2s 6d. Sheep— Wethers, 10s 3d to 10s lOd ; fat wethers, 13s : fat ewes, 9s 6d to lls 3d ; ho»gets, 8s 4d. Pigs — Baconers, 23s 6d to 34s ; porkers, 15s ; small pigs, 4s 9d to 9s. A tradesman in Sunderland recently had a lad in his employ. The lad's mother was a widow in rather reduced circumstances, consequently the lad was poorly clad. The tradesman kindly offered to get the boy a new suit of clothes and the boy agreed to repay him at sixpence per week out of his wages. The first Monday after this arrangement had been made the lad did not come to work as usual, and on bis employer sending to inquire the reason, his mother said "he looked so respectable she was trying to get him a better job." The mortal remains of the Ngatiraukawa chief, Hoani Taipua, who died as already announced at Aorangi on Wednesday morning, were taken toOtaki by special train this morning, starting at 5 a.m. About fifty natives accompanied the remains of their late chief from Aoraugi and numbers joined the train down the line. It is expected that upwards of a thousand natives will take part in the tangi to be held at Otaki. Mr A. Eade was entrusted with the order for making a very superior coffin which was handsomely mounted and had a glass plate set in the enclosure and lid so that although hermetically sealed the natives can view the face of their late chief without disarranging the covering.