The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER. 5, 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER. 5, 1896. Local and General News.

Tiiei e is some talk of forming a Hockey Clui) at Shauuon. I he J>h-eetor* of the Feilding Permanent Buiidiiig Society met this afternoon. l.i our wanted column Miss Saxon not. ;ies she is prepared to give lessons on the pianoforte. Fully 200 visiting bowlers are expec:ed in Welliu^Lun at the tournament to be held at the beginning of the New Year. An information has been laid against a Baunythorpe resident at the instance of the Acclimatisation Society for shooting ducks and pheasants in the close I season. A bad beginning. — Gentleman (to loafer) — " It strikes me that you will end your days in the workhouse." Loaf er (coolly) — " Very likely. That's where I began them 1 " The Manawatu Farmer states that Mr Peter Bartholomew, of Wereroa, Levin, will stand as a candidate for the Wirokino seat on the Horowhenua County Council at the coming election. If the Seddon party is returned with a majority at the coming election the Premier will introduce a Labor Bill providing tbat employes will not be required to work between meals. In some portions of south-western Otago the losses in sheep through snow are far heavier than last year, and the snow is heavier than ever before known in mountainous country. On one station a hundred dead sheep are keing skinned where on the same area last year only one could be found. The Public Works Statement was laid on the table of the House on Saturday morning at 2 a.m., but the estimates giv* ing details of the votes were not circulated at midday on Saturday. A rumour was current tbat a mistake ot £30,000 hid been made in tbe estimates, and the 1 ingenuity of the Minister for Public Works (Mr Hall Jones). and tbe Under* Secretary was being exercised to discover u e error when the mail left on Saturday,

Tenders are invited hy the architect of the Education Board, Mr A. Atkins, F.R.1.8.A , for the erection of a schoolmaster's residence at Marton. Mr R. E. Beckett, auctioneer, has been instructed by the mortgagee to sell on the 19th instant, at Marton, section No 26, Block IV, Marton Small Farm No. 1. For other particulars see advertisemsnt. A local angler had good sport in the Oroua river between Birmingham and Apiti last Saturday. He bagged about lOlbs in weight of trout, among them being a magnificent fish 2 feet 1 iuch in length and 41bs loz in weight. The machinery at the Longburn Freeze ing Works is undergoing a thorough overhaul preparatory to the resumption of freezing operations, which, it is an* ticipated will be started next month. A start will also shortly be rnide with the boring for the aitesian well. — Standard Apropos of the paragraph we published recently as to the cost of the Horowhenua Commission, it has been suggested that the word " Horowhenua." which means " swallow land," should have been " Horomoni " — which means " swallow money." — Napier Herald. The following tenders were received on Saturday last by the Chairman and Engineer of the Kiwitea County Council for forming and culvcrting 42 chains of Mangatikei road : — L. Connell, £64 14s (accepted) ; A. McCullum, Jt'74. Another tender was received, but it was informal. Here is a glove wrinkle used by a well known society lady, and which is vouch- ! ed for by her as infallible in its effects : — She procures a tin box or a jar with a tight close fitting cover, and puts into the bottom a lot of lump ammonia. Then she suspends the gloves in the box or jar, closes it tightly, and allows it to remain this way four or five days. At the end of this time she removes the gloves, and every spot will be found to have vanished. Our harbour defences have been pro^ ceeding slowly during recent years. The amount voted last year was L4OOO only, and L3314 was expended. It is desirable ho%vever that these works should be proceeded with somewhat more diligently, and this year a vote of LSOOO is asked for A yote of LSOOO was also obtained last year under the head of " Contingent defence," for the purchase of Martini-Henry rifles for our Volunteer forces. The amount voted was only an instalment on account, however, and this year we ask for £2;3,OOO to complete the equipment of ordnance and other warlike stores. — Public Works Statement. At the District Court, Palmerston N., on Saturday last, before District Judge Kettle, in re Herbert Lance Jackson. — Motion to review or vary a decision of the Registrar adjudicating the debtor a bankrupt on a creditor's petition. Mr Cooke, instructed by Mr Guy, appeared for the debtor, and Mr Fitzherbert lor the petitioning creditors. His Honor stated the Registrar should have given notice to the Assiguee and in the absence of such service he would adjourn the application uutil next sitting of the Court to enable the necessary notice to bo given, and he did not see any reason for rescinding the order at present. Instructions were given for notice to be served on the Assignee and the debtor. — Standard. A few years ago whilst makiug alterations to one of the Monasteries in the Sierra Nevada, important manuscripts were discovered written by the famous Llorente, Botanist and Physician. These manuscripts proved to be of the greatest value in medicine, and the different preparations made by the order of Monks of which he was a member have gained notoriety throughout the Spanish provinces and colonies. Their use has become so universal that one of them inthe form of a pill has recently been in troduced into New Zealand. They are prepared from the choicest vegetable products and are free iwm mercury or other minerals, aud are delicately coated with sugar so as to please the most fastidious taste. There died in the Greymouth Hospital on Wednesday last probably oiie of the last survivors of the famous Burke and Wills expedition. Sandy M'Pherson, the person referred to, was settled in Bendigo in 1860 He was invited by the Inspector of the Police to join the expe dition as saddler. He accepted the invi tation, and at once set out to overtake the party at Campaspie, and travelled on from there as far as Mendindoe, on the Darling. Here he was left with one portion of the party in charge of provisions while the leaders went on with Gray and King. A few days later, when a trooper arrived at this camp with some despats ches, M'Pherson and a blackiellow volunteered to accompany him in his attempt to overtake Burke. These three, however, lost their way and after suffer* ing great hardships, fell in with a tribe of blacks, with whom M' Pherson lived for three months. H« was rescued by on6 of the search parties sent out, and was the first to give an account of "' Nar* "loo." a plant much used for food in the interior. He came to New Zealand with one of the earlier rushes, and has for many years been a much respected resi* dent of Maori Creek. The Rongotea Dairy Company have sold the whole of their output for the next three years, excepting sufficient for local requirements, to an English buyer at a minimum price, without recourse, which will return 3d per gallon to suppliers. The same buyer purchased butter during last summer from the Rongotea Company and was so pleased with i the quality that he has entered into a ■ contract as utated. The shareholders and milk suppliers in this company have every reason to be congratulated on the result of the working since the factory was purchased from Mr Corpe, not a little of their success being due to the careful management of the directors. They have worked from the commencement with a credit balance in the bank and intend to i>ay off (this month) the balance of the mortgage on the plant and factory. Hie cost of producing the butter for the past year has been l : j-d per pound, and an average of 3^d per gallon has been paid to suppliers for milk for the past six months, for which period it has taken 22£ lbs of milk to make a pound of butter. The milk supply at the present time is 2000 gallons I er day and it is expected it will be iurreased to 4000 gallons daring the summer months.