The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1896. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 133, 4 December 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1896. Local and General News.

Tbe Manchester Eoad Board will ine,_t to-morrow. Tenders for alterations to the Feilding Conrt House close to-morrow. Tbe sheep is in its prime for the table when it is about four or five years old. Nominations for the Peilding Athletic Sports will close on Wednesday the 9th instant. / Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' sale at Palmerston North are now advertised. . Tenders are invited for formation aud metalling of the Mangapikipiko riding of the Pohangina County. ; 4u entertainment will be given in the Colyton Hall this evening in aid of the jColytoa school fund. Jamas Wood calls attention to his sale of fancy goods, furniture, etc. For particulars see advertisement. The Public Trustee has a notice in today with reference to tbe estate of Frederick John Knox, late of FeildiDg, deceased. To-morrow, at 12 o'clock noon, Mr Carr will sell the privileges of the Feilding Athletic Sports, at his auction mart, Kimbolton road. "I can uot understand ze language," said the despairing Frenchman ; " I learn how to pronounce the word ' hydrophobia,' and zen I learn zat ze doctors sometimes pronounce it fatal ! " The following are the Palmerston Hospital statistics for November .—Patients in Hospital on Ist November 2y, admitted during month 15— total 38. Discharged 14, died 3— total 17. Iv Hospital on December Ist, 21. Among tbe original stories in the Xmas number of the New Zealand Mail is one of Mr J. H. Kirby, of the Mercury, entitled " Strange Luck." A footnote by tbe editor explains that it arrived too late to enter the lists ,of the 'competition.' Mr D. Barrett bas disposed of his interest in the Colyton Hotel to Mr D. Nicholas, late of the Hutt, who took possession yesterday. Mr W. Evenson acted as valuator fotMr Barrett and Mr P. Zohrab acted in a similar capacity for Mr Nicholas. To keep pace with the demands of a growing trade, Mr W. Hodren, of the Standard Steam Cordial Factory, has just had completed by Mr G. H. Saywell another spring cart for the delivery of his cordials. The vehicle is painted in showy and attractive colors. At the Napier Magistrate's Court, William Meyer, a discharged prisoner, appeared to answer why he had left a quautity of tobacco about for the benefit of tbe gaol inmates. He was fouud guilty of this breach of the prison regulation?, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. Messrs Bramwell Bros announce in our advertising columns that tbey have received very large consignments of fruit preserving jars and bottles of all descriptions, also pure cane sugar and new raisins, currants, muscatels, figs, etc., for the festive season. We are desired to announce that the prices of all these lines are extremely moderate. An awful judicial blunder is recorded by the Siberian papers. Some years ago the Court of Omak sentenced a man named Shonklin to be hanged, under tbe belief that he was a convict named Loseff, who had killed two of his guards and escaped. Shonklin was executed despite bis protests, and now the real Loseff has turned up in the person of a tramp who is at present detained in prison. The movement which has been set on foot with the view of sending Mr John Holmes as an accredited representative to Europe and America for the purpose of ascertaining tbe best markets for New Zealand hemp, and obtaining higher prices for tbe staple, has beeu warmly taken up in Marlborough, and subscriptions have been freely made by the local flaxmillers, tradesmen, and settlers generally. It is hoped the Government will very shortly take steps to despatch Mr Holmes on tbe mission, as the industry is one of great importance to the colony, and this district in particular. A correspondent in tbe Palmerston Times writes : " Palmerston certainly does not need anything that will give its prosperity a fatal blow, nor do we who have to pay the rates and taxes want tbem to be increased. Therefore we should defeat this attempt of a noisy faction to force Prohibition on us, with all its evils of restraint of liberty, establishing the spy system, and increasing our burdens. What would be tbe result if Prohibition was carried here ? Feilding will certainly not carry it, and therefore Feilding would advance at the expense of Palmerston, for people would certainly not stay here to be faction ridden wbile there was a town witb liberty close at band. Let those incliued to inflict tbis blow at Palmerstou pause before tbey assist in striking it." Writing on October 9tb, Messrs W. Weddel and Co says that tha September rains in the United Kingdom have been most beneficial to root crops and to the pastures and if an open winter occurs the large amount of autumn grass will make a most useful addition to the short supplies of hay, while increased weight of mangolds, carrots and other roots will assist the production of a larger supply of milk than was recently anticipated. The above conditions apply generally to the butter producing countries of Europe as well as to the United Kingdom. Tbe j imports oi butter during tbe month of September were 3300 tons in excess of those in September last year. Of this increase 1050 tons came from Denmark and Sweden, and 1600 tons from America atl.d Canada. The imports for the nine months ending September 30 were 9588 tous wore than in the same period of 1895. Of tbis increase 3950 tons came from Denmark, 3500 tops from the United Sates, and 1680 tons fron? Canada. In some parts of New Mexico there grows a grass which produces a somniferous effect on tbe animals that graze upou it. Horses, after eating of it, in nearly all cases sleep wbile standing, ' while cows and sheep almost invariably lie down. It has occasionally happened tbat travellers have -topped to allow horses to feed in places where tbe grass grew pretty thick and tbe animals bave bad time to eat a considerable qnantity before its effects manifested themselves. In sftch pases horses have gone to sleep oa the *oa*« a*jd it was hard to rouse tliem. The escecJi pf the grass passes off ia att ho-jj? or _.\jjb, a»4l *w> bad results have ever beeo liotpeed #"J «WSW nt of it. Cattle on the ranges -fre^Me^y ,<#me upon patches of this grass, wfoer t e @&y feed for perhaps half an hour, and than fall asleep for an hour or more, when they wake up and go on feeding. The urogram me is repeated perhaps a dozen times, until thirst obliges them to go to w_Aec. Whether, like the poppy, the '■rass cont'dnß opium, or whether its sleep producic-g property is due to some otbe.substa_ijpe;-b*§_J9- ! £ e S? ?r® rm ' Joed.