Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 120, 19 November 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

i ■ ♦ • Mr Charles Carr is agent for the popular Handsworth bicycles. i Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Colyton stock sale are advertised to-day. , The privileges of the Feilding Jockey ! Club will be sold by Mr Charles Carr on Wednesday next. We have to acknowledge receipt of the schedule of the Spring Show of the I Patea Horticultural Society to be held Friday, December 11th. An advertisement from Mr Dustin, of . Wanganui, who has been appointed ca- ! terer for tbe Feilding Jockey Club's spring meeting will be published on Saturday. Members of the Birmingham Lawn Tennis Club are reminded the annual general meeting will be held on Saturday next in the Druids' Hall in that place.

The garden social of the Salvation Army will be held this evening at Mr R. Wood's residence, Denbigh Btreet. Services in connection with the visit to this part of his diocese by the Bishop of Wellington, are advertised to-day. The person who last night took an overcoat (by mistake) from the Assembly Rooms is requested to return the same to the Star office. Colonel Newall will inspect the Manchester Rifles on Thursday next, and Toiiey firing will take place on Friday morning at 5 a.m. Squads will be taken as usual. There is some mention made of a project being afoot to erect a bridge over the Manawatu river at Foxton. Such a work should have been completed thirty years ago. The Engineer of the Kiwitea County Council, Mr Charles Bray, junr., iavites tenders for public works as detailed in the advertisement. Tenders will close on Wednesday the 25th inst. The meeting of the Athletic Sports Committee appointed for to-morrow evening, has been postponed until Saturday evening at the usual hour, at the office of the secretary, Mr H. L. Sherwill. On Monday last F. Castle lowered the previous Wellington record for 1 mile (2.30) on the Wellington Exhibition track to 2.29., riding a " White Flyer," one of the machines for which Mr G. H. Scott, of Palmerston N., is the agent. Mr Woollams, chemist, has just imported from London direct a large stock of drugs, ebony hair brashes, silvermounted smelling bottles, perfumery, and rubber goods, seltzogenes, syringes, etc., and consignments yet to arrive. Today Mr Hodren, of the Standard steam works, Queen street, Feildiug, has a replace advertisement to which we direct the attention of our readers. We have received from Mr Hodren samples of his lime fizz and champagne cider and can pronounce them excellent in quality and flavor. The following team have been selected to play for the P.N»C.C. io the cup fixture against Feilding at Feilding on Saturday next : -Barclay, Cooke, Goldingham, R. Eyre, T. Eyre, Crump, Hodder, Hewitt, Oliver, Still and Wiffiu. Emergencies — Matheson, Andrew, Sim. Play will commence at 11 o'clock. Of all the seven Australasian colonies New Zealand stands lowest save one in the matter of drink consumption. By a well-known rule the quantity consumed is converted into gallons o f proof spirit and the annual consumption pur bead is 1.55 eal. Tasmania is the lowest with 1.30ga1, and the highest is Western Australia with 3.07ga1. The enterprise of the English papers is shown by the fact that the Norwegian papers were unable to publish particulars of Dr Nausea's voyage to the North Pole until it had appeared ia the London Daily Telegraph, as Dr Nanseu was under contract to forward 2000 words by telegraph for £1000, and also furnish the same papers with 4000 written lines for £4000. The Wairarapa Star says :— A young man named Garrat found the skeleton of a man on Brancepeth station, about ten miles from Masterton, the other day. The skeleton looked as though it had been exposed to the weather for a considerable period. By some it is thought that the remains are those of a man who has been missing from the Lower Taueru for the last twenty years. In to*day's issue we publish a corrected programme of the Apiti Ahhlekic Sports to be held on January Ist next. The Apiti Handicap has been made a contest of three distances with a first prize of £6, second £2, and third prize £1. A hop, step and jump has been added to the programme, which will be found to have been framed on a most liberal scale. Improvements have been effected to the ground since last year and the convenience of pedestrians and the public is receiving the attention of the committee. The Prohibitionists in Dunedin are very much offended. Two of the candidates are : — One a moderate drinker the second a total abstainer. The Prohibit tionists have promised to support the first because — he alleges he is in favor of Prohibition. The other said " Well I do believe if Auld Cloutie stood as a Prohibitionist ye wonld vote for him because where he lives there is ' not a drop to drink,' as poor Dives found to bis cost." It happens the second man is one who supports the three-fifths majority. Notwithstanding the crusade against the wearing of corsets, which takes place periodically, these popular and almost iiadispensible articles of attire are manufactured in increasing numbers every year. There are a few of the old and tried makers, who, while adapting every new idea, yet maintain that high standard of excellence which still enables them to easily distance all competitors, such makers are Messrs Thompson, whose corsets have won world wide fame, and whose goods in all the standard numbers may be obtained from John Cobbe, who imports them direct from the manufacturers. Mr Richardson, postmaster at Bunnytborpe, met with a nasty accident while riding into Feilding along the Kimbolton road yesterday afternoon. While going down an incline in the road to the Kiwitea stream his horse stumbled and fell rolling over him in the fall. Mr Richardson was severely bruised and rendered almost unconscious, while the horse received nasty cuts about the face and knees. Mr Richardson's mishap was witnessed by Mrs Jones, who quickly secured assistance and the unfortunate gentleman was driven to Mr J. Stevens' residence in Feilding, where Dr Sorley did all that was possible to relieve tbe sufferer. The Western Mail is responsible for the following strange story :— " A most singular growth has taken place this season in a small conservatory attached to Portcarreg Cottage, the residence of Mr Howell How ells, ex Mayor of Carmarthen. A vine branch, bearing a goodly supply of fruit, drooped down from the glass roof, and several of tbe grapes hung alongside some tomatoes which grew close to the wall, and one of the grapes appears to have fallen in love with the form of a tomato nearest to it — about a couple of feet off. Gradu ally the grape began to assimilate itself to the shape of a tomato, and persevered until it became the exact picture of it in everything bat eiee and colour. Every line of identification, down to the little cavity on the end furtherast from the stem, was faitbfolly copied. It did not, of course, reach the magnitude to which it aspired, bnt it is more than twice the size of the other grapes on the same twig." ___ _— __»