Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 87, 9 October 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Committee of the Feilding Atb ©tic Clnb will meet at eight o'clock thi sveniug. A replace advertisement from the Nei Zealand Insurance Company appeal o-day. A reward is offered tor the return of imall parcel, lost yesterday, addresse o Miss Moncktou, Napier. Mr Jas. Wood calls attention to h Jaturday sales. He had a good sa ast week, especially for pigs. To-day a very beautiful ornament [lass window was placed in St Bridget Jhurch, in memory of the late Mr E even BeUve.

The S.M. Court was sitting as we went to press. Our report will appear bo-morrow. Captain Edwin wired to-day as follows :— Same indications as wired yesterday, and for much colder weather. The 'Frisco Mail will arrive at 4 p.m. to-day. Box holders may obtain their correspondence at 4.30. Counter delivery from 4.45 to 5 p.m. The bankruptcy of Patrick Mcllroy, of Pemberton, publican, is notified today. The meeting of creditors will be held in the Court House, Feilding, on 21st inst. Pickpockets are doing good business in "Wellington and Auckland. They are the only members of the alleged " industrial classes " in the colony who do not require to take out a license of some sort. The anniversary services of the Feilding Wesleyan Church are announced for Sunday next. The services of the Rev. H. Judkins have been secured for the day. A hearty invitation is extended to old and new friends. The Port of New Plymouth is gazetted a port for the shipment of dairy produce, and the buildings in the occupation of the Taranaki Freezing Works Company, used as freezing works, a cool store for the purposes of the Dairy Industry Act. The following anecdote has a Seddonian flavour : — " Well, my boy, what would you like to be when you grow up — a soldier ?" inquired a friend. Boy : "No." "A doctor?" "No." "Lawyer ?" "No." " What do you want to he then ?" " A syndicate ; dad says they make all the money now-a days." " One of the smartest railway swindles I know of," says a writer in a Home paper, is played by colliers who work in relays and who make one ticket do for a whole family. A man travels to the pit with his ticket, and then he sends this home by a carrier pigeon and a son uses it, whilst the old man goes home aud sends the ticket back by the pigeon, and so on." It has been calculated that in a fairsized room, hermetically sealed, a man might exist for one hour If he had a candle this would be reduced to threoquarters of an hour ; if a lamp, to half an hour ; while if he had two good gas burners and wanted to be really cheerful he would just live five minutes. Ventilation should always be increased when lights are burning. A ton of tea is a big order to ship to one firm in a single line, and yet this is what the Empire Tea Company forwarded recently to a well known house. The order was received, entered aud shipped (with other goods) within two hours. This not only shows what a demand there is for Empire Co.'s Teas, but also exemplifies the Company's capability for carrying out the largest order at the shortest notice. The marriage of Mr T. J. S. Evans, only son of Mr Thomas Evans, one of the pioneer settlers of the Manchester Block, to Miss M. J. Robertson, a daughter of Mr Alexander Robertson, of Awahuri, took place on Wednesday last in the Wesleyan Church, Feilding, the Rev Colin Harrison being the officiating minister. We wish the newly married couple every success and happiness. On the stonewalling of the Liquor Bill last week the liqnorists were in want of just a couple of votes in order to get progress reported. So they sent a note to two members who were at home asleep saying that the building was on fire and to hurry up and secure their traps. When the two bustled up they found that all was right with the buildings, but they voted to report progress so as to get back and wash and make themselves generally decent, and that, says the Woodville Examiner, was how progress came to be reported. Whatever is the world coming to ? A conference of dancing masters has been held in London lately to consider the alleged decadence of their art, and the means of reviving it. It was held that measures should be taken to discourage the vulgar style of dancing so often seen in the ball rooms of to-day, and to raise the status of dancing generally. The rowdy third figure of the once decorous Lancers was specially condemned. A sad accident occurred at Maori Creek, Nelson, last week, causing the death of an old miner named John Cherchans, working at German Gully. A Mr M'Donnell, who served him with stores, was on bis usual rounds, and noting that the previous week's bread was still in the box where he was in the habit of leaving it, he feared that some accident had happened, and proceediog on to the claim found the unfortunate man with a heavy log over him. He had evidently been dead for several days. It is supposed that while at work the lof< had rolled upon its victim, and that being unable to extricate himself, the old man— he was over 60 years of age — met a hard and lingering death. The Key. Mark Guy Pearse. who has lately been to Johannesburg mentions, in his latest letter to the Methodist Times, ilie dearness ot living there, but sets against that the rate of wages. The hard woik, is of course, done by the Kaffirs; the Englishmen direct it. Miners, he says, make their £25 a month. He ats u-nded a meeting at which a sister gave i report of h«*r work. She said she had visited one family where the woman of lie house hail to work hard at washing in.i ironing. The man was sitting at h me and she said to him. " Can't you you find unytliiug to do ?" " Oh, yes," -;ii>' lie, " bu' 1 can't get paid for it " • What do you mean P" she asked ■ Well," was the reply, " I can only get i pound a day and lam not going to a oik for that "