Local and General News. I

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 109, 5 November 1896, Page 2

Local and General News. I

The finder of a small photograph frame is requested to leave the same at the Star office. We have to acknowledge receipt of the Volume of Statutes passed last session of Parliament. Mr Charles Wickham advertises for sale a five-year- old gelding which was highly commended at the Manawatu A. and P. Show. A meeting of the Ground and Executive Committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association is to be held at Palmerston North on Saturday next, to consider several urgent matters. Foxton is improving. The local paper records that at the last Borough Council meeting three Councillors succeeded in getting resolutions carried to metal the roads near their own properties. — Standard. A post mortem examination of the body of a lad who died in Wellington re cently revealed the fact that death had been caused by the perforation of the bowel by a loquot seed accidentally swallowed. Notice is now given that Mr F. Y. Lethbridge, a candidate for the Eangiti kei seat at the forthcoming election, will address the electors in the Assembly Rooms on Tuesday evening, the 10th I inst., at eight o'clock. Mr H. Sanson gave an address to the children in the upper standards at the Feilding State School to clay explaining by practical illustrations and on Dr Yaggy's anatomical studies charts, the effect of alcohol on the system. Six hundred consumptives out of eight hundred, who had been pronounced incurable, aresaidto have been cured by Dr Crottc, of Paris, with the aid of electricity and antiseptics. A commission of medical experts will investigate the doctor's method. Further important deliveries of new goods have just been received at the Bon Marche. A grand selection of the most fashionable materials for summer wear is now on exhibition. Messrs Spence and Spence's popular establishment will be found up to date in every department. An election of Councillors to represent the Otamakapua and Eangiwahia ridings of the Kiwitea County will be held at Mr J. Powell's house, Pakihikura, and the Rangiwahia school house on Wednesday lllli Noyember, 1896. The candidates are Messrs T. Moffatt and F. F. Pemberton for liangiwahia riding, and Messrs A. H. Atkinson and N. J. Paulin for the Otamakapua riding. In reference to that portion of the report published in the Marton advocate of last night of the meeting held at Mangaweka in connection with the candidature of Mr Walter A. L. Bailey, which said " Mr Johnston voted himself to the chair," Mr Johnston informs us that he was appointed at a previous meeting as chairman of Mr Bailey's election committee and therefore merely acted as is usual in such cases. The meeting was not, properly speaking, a public one. A writer lets out a secret regarding the way in which young women read novels It was in the tram-car, and two girls were talking of what they read. '* Oh, I choose a novel easily enough," one said. '• I go to tbe circulating library, and look at the last chapters. If I find the rain softly and sadly dropping over one or two lonely graves I don't have it ; but if the morning sun is glimmering over bridal robes of white satin I know it's all right, and take it, and start to buy sweets to eat while I read it." Inspector Bindon's examination of the Hawera Catholic School is anything but satisfactory, especially after the good re j port of last year. No pupils passed in Standards VI- and V., and tbe work is described as from " very bad " to shocking." In Standard IV. only one pupil passed out of five, and that one being | described as a " weak pass." In Standard 111., only three passed out of nine ; in Standard 11., ten passed out of thirteen, and in Standard 1., seven passed out of nine, these two classes being the only creditable ones. It is stated by the New Zealand Herald that school teachers receiving i'l9o aad .£2OO a year in Auckland would receive £268 8s 8d and £304 3s 5d respectively in Hawke's Bay. A position worth .£l3O a year in Auckland is worth i'22o in Wellington, and one worth £150 in the Northern city would be worth .£230 in the capital. Even in Taranaki salaries are higher. The large expenditure on administration in Auckland and the multiplication of small schools seem to be respensible for the small salaries of the teachers in Auckland. A concert was given in the Temperance Hall, Rongotea, on- November 4th, by Mr Grace and his choir in aid of the Primitive Methodist Building Fund. There was a fair attendance. The Rev Mr Cocker presided. The programme was as follows : — Anthems by the choir ; songs by Miss Malcolm, Mr W. Grace, Mr Hunn, Mrs Mowlem, Miss Brogden, Mr Walter Grace, Miss Anderson ; cornet solo, Mr Williams ; reading, Mr Grace ; recitation, Mr Mowlem. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Grace and his choir. Mr Cocker moved a vote of thanks to Mr Mitchell, which was carried for the loan of his organ. This brought a pleasant evening to a close. Speaking at the meeting of the Dairy Regulations Committee recently, Mr Lingard referred to the habit of dairymen, when they had dried oft their cows, turn ing them out to live as best they could. When these cows had calved they were then fed up on artificial food for the purpose of making them produce large quantities of milk. The calves itom these cows, Mr Lingard said, when first born clearly showed how the mother had been starved. More than half the diseases among cattle and sheep were caused by overstocking and starvation, and until some stringent measures were taken to enforce the better feeding of all animals disease must be transmitted by unhealthy milk and meat to consumers. — Times.