Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Bulls are advertised to-day. The Birmingham Rifle Club will fire their third match for prizes on Saturday next. Additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston sale. Compressed bay for paving is reported to be under trial by the Amiss Pavement Company of Philadelphia. False teeth made of papier mache have lately been tried, and, it is said, with great success, by some London dentists. The Manager of the Wanganui Sash and Door Factory, Mr F. M. Spurdle, invites quotations for condemned sleepers in any quantity. To day the Mercury came out in a partially restored form, but it will take a day or two to put the advertising columns in proper order. Dr Bakewell, of Auckland, asserts that "the vast majority of Prohibitionists are either reclaimed drunkards or persons who have drunkards in their families." Mrs Chippering : 'So these arc your children, are they '?' Mrs Marrow : 'Yes, and everybody says they're just the image of me.' Mrs Chipperiug : 'So they are, poor little things !' Yesterday afternoon Miss Johnston, of Cheltenham, was thrown from her horae, with the result that one of her shoulders was dislocated, Dr Sorley, who was sent for, reduced the dislocation. The Feilding Permanent Building Society met yesterday afternoon and favorably entertained several applications for loans. The annual general meeting of the Society will be held on Friday the 30th instant in the Borough Council Chambers. A preliminary enquiry has been before the Collector of Customs, Mr D. McKellar, concerning the fatal accident to a seaman named Frederick Crouch, on the ship Westiand and the drowning of a passenger named Colhy, on the voyage from Loudon. Tlie evidence has been forwarded to the Marine Department. Tbe secretary of the Feilding Library reportsjthe following new books and magazines have heen added to the Library : — " The Right Hon Joseph Chamberlain," J eyes ; "The Roman and the Teuton," Kingsley; "Where Highways Cross," Fletcher. Magaziues— Oas.ell'H Saturday Journal, St James' Budget, The Graphic and Punch. The numerous friends of the Rev W. H. Judkins, of Danncvirke, will be glad to learn from our advertising column that he is expected to conduct the anniversary services of the Feilding Wesleyan Church on Sunday next. Mr Jud kins' ability as a preacher is widely known and doubtless large congregations will gather to hear him in the Church, which was built mainly by his energy and during his Ministry here. Mr Hermann Olsen, the dairy expert, representative of the De Laval Separa tor Company, has returned from the South, and will leave shortly on a visit to the principal dairying centres in the North Island, intending also to be present afc the various agricultural shows. He leaves in December for Australia, where he will remain for about two years. Many people, including Lord Herschell, an ex-Lord Chancellor, were puz zled as to the exact meaning of the phrase " trial at bar," used at the recent trial of Dr Jameson. The present Lord Chancellor explained that it meant a trial in the Queen's Bench, at which all the judges may attend, though three only preside, and at which no points of law can be reserved, thus making the decision final. Max O'Rell evidently has a strong objection to compulsion of any kind. He says: — '• Ah ! how I remember admiring in the hot days of blue-nbbonism in England, that free Briton I once met who hud a yellow ribbon m his button -hole. ' What's that you have on, V" I said to him. ' That's a yellow ribbon, ' he replied. ' I belong to the yellow ribbon army.' 'Ah ! and what i 9 it the yellow ribbon army do "?' he said ; why, we eat what we likes, we drink what we likes, and we don't cars a for nobody." While cutting hay from one of last year's ricks, on a farm at Harrow, Eng land, the haycutter struck through a human arm. The body —which was that of a man of the working class — must have been in the rick since it was made, a twelvemonth ago. Whether he had crawled in during the night and been suffocated, or been covered up and built in without being observed by the farm hands, must remain a mystery. An inquest was held, but the man was not ■liVnnfied, and an open verdict was returned. An artificer on H.M.S., Rapid named Charle-s Miller was knocked down by a tram on Jervois quay yesterday afternoon He was walking along the sleepers, and, owing to being deaf, did not hear the warning whistle of the approaching train. Ele was picked up and taken to the Te Aro'i d.a.ion, bu.Jbevond a cut on the back of the head and a somewhat severe shaking he was none the worse for his experience. The train was going at a slow pace when the man was struck, otherwise the consequence might have been serious. When first picked up the man remarked ihat, he thought he was haunted.— N.Z. Times, The sheep returns for the Hawke's Bay district were laid on the table at the annual meeting of the Chamber ot Com inerce yesterday afternoon. From these statistics it appears that on the 30th April last, there were 3,240,490 sheep in the district, as against 3,238,425 in April, 189f>. The increase by lambing from 1,190,995 ewes at 65 per cent was 843,045. Exports, 108,948 ; exports, frozen and local consumption, 354,487 ; preserved, 12,715; boiled down, 73,339; mortality, sty 7i per cent, 291,491 ; total 840,980, net increase (or year, 2065. The sheep depasturing in the counties are as follows : _ Hawke's Bay, 1,399,067; Patangata, 716,364; Waipawa, 655,679; Wairoa, 469,380; total 3,240,490.— Napier Teleuraph.