Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Sharp frost this morning. Additions are made to Messrs Gorton and Son's Sandon sale, and entries for their Feilding sale, are advertised to day. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston sale, and additions to the Colytou sale of the firm are advertised to-day. The Hon the Premier has signified his intention of being present at the opening of the Apiti bridge providing Parliament is prorogued in time. The net returns of the recent Japanese concert were i'l6 15s, which amount has been handed over to the Young Men and Boys' Club. Mr E. T. Hamson has decided to contest the Mangaoue riding seat in the Pohangina County Council against Mr R. W. Brown, the present Councillor. A man named Parker, working at Lowes and Jarvis' sawmill. Birmingham, is dangerously ill with inflammation of the lungs, and has been delirious since Sunday, The shearing of MrG. Wheeler's rams did not take place on Thursday owing to the bad weather. However the work was done to-day and particulars will be published in our next issue. Notice is given by the Pohangina County Council that the road from the Apiti bridge to Apiti will be closed for wheel traffic on Wednesday and Thursday, the 7th and Sth of October. The Kumara Times says : — A few of the local Chinamen am becoming Christionised. Two have joined the Salvation Army, and another attended the Presbyterian Church last Sabbath evening. As is usual with tho Gear Meat Company at this period of the year, they arc prepared to deliver free to any town in Great Britain single carcases of lambs and sheep. Orders will be received uptill October 30. Sir Jamns Prendergasfc, the Chief Justice, tickled the ears of those of the Wanganui Court on Thursday, when he pertinently remarked that it was an accepted fact " That two lawyers thrived where one would starve." A Canterburj' politician (not yet in the House) condemning the Government for its policy concerning the income tax is reported to have said lately—" They'll keep cutting the wool off the sheep that lays the golden eggs until they pump it dry." Emily Soldene in the Sydney Evening News is an authority for the statement that the " Venus de Milo" waist is to be the fashion. No longer is one big brother to be called up to take in an extra turn of one's staylacea. The wasp waist is out of joint ; also out of date. Mr William Hateley, formerly sheep inspector, and well known in the Auckland and Waganaui district, died yesterday of paralysis. Deceased was well known in sporting circles, having been handirapper for several club«, and was formerly a racehorse owner. In trying to avoid collision with acarf. and a tram in Cuba street, Wellington, a cyclist ran into a Chinaman, who was carrying vegetables across the road. Neither party appeared to be very much the worse for the encounter, but the remarks made by the Chinaman were so strong that the cyclist was glad enough to leave the locality. The Hon John Bryce has given his decision on the unfinished games in the re cent match between Rangitikci II and Palmerston IV. II as follows : That Mr Black. Palraerston, wins from Dr Skerrunu, Kangitikei, and Messrs Cummins and Beatson, Kangitikei, win from Messrs George and Griggs, Palmerston. The Marton Club thus wins by 5 games to two. — Standard. A well known minister once preached in a church in Arran, and at the close of the service was strongly urged to promise a further visit, the collection after the sermon having been unusually large. "Dear me," said the minister, "what might your ordinary collection amount to ?" Last Sunday it was 2£d." " What is it to day, then ?" asked the minister, expecting to hear a large sum, "B|d," was the reply. " Woe is me," moaned the minister, " for I gave 6d myself." The Lyttelton limes had a leading article condemnatory of a proposal to give all the teachers in a school authority to inflict corporal punishment. A "practical teacher" had replied in a somewhat disjointed and wretchedly punctuated letter, and this is the footnote the cruel editor appended to it : — " We have followed our correspondent's punctuation in order to show the degree of education enjoyed by one certificated teacher who is anxious to enforce his authority, say on English composition, by the use of the strap." At the sitting of the Supreme Court at Wanganui on Wednesday a case was called on in which Charles Stevens, of Feilding, settler, and Wm. Stevens, of Feilding, were respectively plaintiff and defendant. Plaintiff claimed that the defendant may be ordered to execute a sufficient transfer to the plaintiff of a I certain lease and right of renewal — viz., 133 acres more or less, being section No. 14, Block XIV, Foxton Small Farm Block — and to do all other acts necessary to entitle plaintiff to obtain a complete title to the said lease, in accordance with an alleged agreement ; and .£2OO damages for withholding the same. The evidence of the plaintiff, who is the son of the defendant, was only concluded when the Court adjourned. The case will not be resumed until the special jury cases have been dealt with. Now that all injury aud disorders to milk are charged up to the account of some kind of a microbe, it is worth the while to read what the authorities of an American Dairy School say respecting the keeping of milk, and the precautions to be taken to prevent the ravages of some of these invisible foes to the dairy. As to milk vessels : — W T ooden ones cannot be kept free from germs. Use only metallic or glazed ware. Narrowmouthed milking cans are much to be preferred. Ordinary water, such as hydrant supplies direct from rivers always contains an abundance of germs which may sour or injure the milk, so that if a good keeping quality is desired, only scalding water should be used for rinsing. Direct steaming is found very satisfactory in dairies supplied with steam power. Light and air are detrimental to many bad types of bacteria, hence the advisability of storing auch vessels iv a light dry room. Night and Day for May emphasises strongly the need of "Dr Barnardo'a wonderful Homes for Waif Children," in the interest of which the magazine is issued Fire thousand " other people'? children " — all orphans, or of the waif und stray clhss - are n>w under the Editor's Cire, ani the tidal flow of new admissions is at the rate of eight or nine fresh Cisco of destitute boys or girls everyday lh.it passes ,4s the work has stood ttii? test of thirty years the public may woli f<>ol Unit their cannVleu'C is justified in 1 1. is social agency for the reclamation of the friendless aud forlorn, which h;is alre.idy rescued, trained, and placed o.:t in life thriiy thousand outcast children The contents of tins issue of Night ami D/ty include the usual interesting qioi i of • • Personal Notes," with numerous 'illustrations from photographs. Dr Barn >rl < i>!eads strongly for the ob* servanceof the principle of Proportionate Giving, v which he lends the sanction of his individual experience.

The weather at Birmingham has been intensely cold for the past three days, and the ice was a quarter of an inch thick this morning. The Dnnedin Star says :— Despite Mr Scobie Mackenzie's positive statement that he has no intention of re-entering the political areDa the Taieri folk say that he will be nominated against Mr Carncross. Fossilised remains of a huge animal have been unearthed by a party of prospectors, at Harden, New South Wales. The lower jawbone is 13ins in length, and is supposed to have belonged to a New Zealand legislator. The degrees in alcohol of wines and liquors are:— Ale 74, cider B'6, Rhine 11-0, gooseberry 11 - 8, champagne 12-2, burgundy 136, sherry 190, port 232, «in 51-6, brandy 534, rum 539, whiskey 54-3. Proof spirits contain 57 per cent of alcohol. The fog was so thick in London on Thursday last that an enterprising citizen cut our a quantity and packed it into woolbales. The fraud was only discovered when the men appointed for that purpose cut the bales and pulled out the samples ! Fact. The Co-operative News gives the following good advice :- •' Drink less — breath more. Eat less— chew more. Clothe less — bathe more. Hide less — walk more. Sit less— dig more. Worry less— work more. Waste less— give more. Write less— read more. Preach less— practice more. Mr Sherwill, the local agent of the Phoenix Assurance Company, of Lon don, has shown us the fac-simile of a fire policy taken out of this company's office in New York over the property of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fee Railroad Company for the enormous sum of 26,828,274 dollars or represented by our money as £5,589,223 10s. The premium on tbc risk is for 21 moufcbs and amounts to 332,365 dollars, or £'69,242 14s 2d. This is the largest risk ever taken by any insurance company in the world and shows the magnitude of the company's business and its stability.