Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

Experts pronounce a shipment of Fiji tobacco excellent. ' The Wanganui Education Board meets on Monday evening next, Mr J. H. Hooper, dentist, will visit Feilding as usual on Friday, but not on Thursday. Additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston sale. No person who suffers in any way from affections of the eyes should use tobacco in any shape or form. Recipe to avoid worry. Do not make promises yourself, nor believe the promises of anybody else. Cynical but certain. A social in connection with the Apiti Lodge of Oddfellows will take place in Guy's Kail on Friday evening, the 13th November. The quantity of cheese sold by the Apiti Dairy Company last season was 62,668£1b5, milk received 58,360£ gallons. 23 tons were shipped Home and 4£ tons sold locally. Mr James Linton, coroner, arrived by train this morning and went by coach to bold an icqoest at Fowlers on the body of Karl Pandrup who shot himself on Sunday evening. A device for freeing a runaway horse from the vehicle has just been patented. By moving a lever the shafts are released from the vehicle, and the vehicle can be guided by the same lever until it stops. Sawdust is turned into transportable fuel in Germany by a very simple process. It is heated under high steam pressure until the resinous ingredients become sticky, when it is pressed into bricks. James Trewin, of the well known Public Benefit Boot Depot, has opened up a very fine stock of bowling shoes, cricket shoes, boys best calf and E.I.X boots from the very best makers. Go and see. At the meeting of the Apiti Dairy Company Mr E. Nix, chairman, intimated that they had disposed of 15 tons of cheese (present season) at 4d per lb, which is the highest price yet obtained by any factory this season. We have received the first number of j the New Zealand Dairyman, edited by Mr John Sawers, and published in Wellington. It is a creditable production, and under such control, should be of great advantage to one of our staple industries. Mr Thomas Mitchell, the secretary of the Building Committee ot the Primitive Church, Rongotea, invites tenders for the erection of a church building. Plans and specifications may be seen at the post office store, Rongotea, and tenders will close on Tuesday, November 3rd. The Rev Father Devoy strongly ob jects to the throwing of rice in churches on the occasion of wedding celebrations, and said so in a sermon in Wellington on Sunday. Instead, he said, of showing reverence for a holy sacrament, the people appeared to treat the marriage ceremony as a mere exhibition to be stared at. Polite Doctor, cautiously : " Your husband is suffering from overwork or ex cessive indulgence iu alcoholic stimulants It is -ahem -a little difficult; to tell which," Anxious wife : " Oh, it's overwork. Why, he can't even go to the theatre without rushing out half-a-dozen times to send oft telegrams." Extract from a letter received by a Melbourne registry office : — " Will you please send me a respectable young man for light work. He will have a comfortable home and 19s 6d per week. He will be asked to wash the children and drive them to school, and to assist in kitchen, also to look after two ponies, and keep things tidy." The committee of the Young Meu and Boys Clab have decided to open the gymnasium on Wednesday afternoons, from 3 to 5, for the use of young women and girls. There is a good supply of Indian clubs, dumb-bells, etc. Two lady members of the committee will be iv attendance. Females who have not much time for healthy recreation and exercise cannot do better than make use of the gymnasium. During the last six years there were 16 appeals from the Chief Justice, Sir James Prendergast, and of these only three were allowed, the rest being dismissed ; 17 from Mr Justice Richmond, of which only four were successful ; 15 from Mr Justice Williams, of which six were successful ; 26 from Mr Justice Dennisron. of which 10 were successful ; 20 from Mr Justice Conolly, of which 12 were successful. On Saturday afternoon one of the messengers of the Government Buildings, intent only on the satisfactory performance of his duties to the very letter walked the rounds of the buildings and locked the doors of the various offices. When he came to the Premier's room he turned the key and passed on — without of course, being aware of the fact that the Premier was within. Presently when Mr Seddon wanted to go home to his dinner, he found that he was locked in. He forthwith made the best of a bad bargain, and resumed work, and kept at it till half past ten at night, when the door was unlocked and he was released. — Times, The rule of the road is not always adhered to by cyclists, says N.Z. Wheelman. Riders may be often seen passing vehicles on the wrong side. Such a practice cannot be too strongly condemned, as not only giving cycling an evil repute but also as being a great blunder ; for, should any mishap occur, the cyclist is in the wrong, has no remedy, and would have to suffer any loss. Riding after dark without lights is another re prehensible practice. Cycling has much to contend against in the way of prejudice which would have died out by now if wheelmen would show some consideration and obey regulations which after all are often framed in their own interests. ; Mr Woods, a storeman at Mr J. Darragh's, met with what might have been a serious accident this morning. He was harnessing a young horse to a brake preparatory to taking out a load of stores and having some difficulty with the animal tied its tail to the fore-carriage of the brake before fixing the traces. The horse then commenced to plunge and threw Mr Woods from the centre of the road to the kerbing, which he struck heavily with his shoulder, and was somewhat stnnned by the fall. The horse also fell with the first plunge but getting up continued to plange with its tail tied to the brake until he released himself. Mr Woods was ■ carried into the Manchester Hotel, where he was attended to by Dr Sorley. There was .a good attendance at the weekly meeting of the Young Men and Boy's Club Committee last evening, and the following business was gone through. The organisation of a drum and fife band was agreed upon. A committee was appointed to form a Draughts Ciab. Two ladies were appointed to take charge of the gymnasium on Wednesday afternoon when it will open to young women and girls. The Entertainments Committee presented a programme which has been aii:a#&e§ for the club concert to be held on Friday a£g£. The committee is de- i termined to make tbjtss,© goncerts popular and attractive and as the change is low it is to be hoped they will be sup- i ported by young and old. '

Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : —Strong westerly winds and glass rising. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' next Colyton sale, are advertised to-day. The annual general meeting of the Feilding Permanent Building Society will be held in the Municipal Chambers on Friday next at 8 p.m. A supplementary tangi will be held to-day and to-morrow at Aorangi in memory of the late Hoani Taipua- About two hundred visitors arrived to-day. A meeting of the supporters of the candidature of Mr Lethbridge for the Rangitikei seat, will be held in the Assembiy Rooms on Saturday next at 8 p,m. The annual general meeting of the Feilding Lawn Tennis Club is advertised to take place on Friday next, 30th inst., at the Bank of Australasia buildings, commencing at 4 p.m. " Drunks " are now so very scarce in Wanganui that it is mooted a good specimen will be caught, killed and " prepared " for the local museum before the rapid extinction of the animal makes it difficult, if not impossible, to secure a good specimen. Fact.