Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 185, 8 February 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

The ordinary monthly meeting o! the Feilding Fire Brigade will be held this evening. Capt. Edwin telegraghed to day : — N.E. to N. and W. gale with rain, glass fall soon. Mr C!arr will sell the privileges in connection with the Cheltenham Sports on Wednesday next at 12 o'clock. Mr G. P. Church, of Fowlers, advertises for a strong boy to work on a farm and to milk cows. Christchurch " Trnth " Bayi Colonel Stuart Newall will probably take the contingent of New Zealand volunteers to England for the celebration of the record reign. Mr Carr will hold an unreserved sale of household furniture and effects on behalf of Mr J. Smith, who is leaving the district, on Wednesday afternoon, commencing at 1.30 p.m. The programme of the RangiwahiaPemberton Athletic Club meeting to be held on St Patrick's Day, is advertised to-day. The events are numerous and the prizes on a most liberal scale. Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, the well known Wellington drapers, announce a sale at their popular establishment for twenty-two days. Substantial reductions have been made in the various articles of drapery, clothinp, etc. During last year 17,236 people arrived in the colony and 15,764 left, a difference in favor of thecolonv of 1472. For the five years from 1892 "to 4896, both inclusive, the number of arrivals exceeded the departure by 19,996. Messrs Abraham and Williams report on their Palmerston horse sale as follows : — An upstanding draught made L 2 3; unbroken light draughts, L 7 10s to L7 l7s 9d ; unbroken hacks, good sorts L 5 14s to L 6 10s ; hacks made from L 4 to £1 ; crocks, 10s to 22s 6d. For the purpose of the Registration of Peoples Claims Act (old age pensions), Palmerstou North has been constituted an old age pension district, comprising the counties of Pohangina and Manawatu, while the Feilding district comprises the counties of Kiwitea and ■ Oroua. i A splendid opportunity now offers to all those economically disposed, to get a new dress at a mere nominal price, and have it niado much less than usual at Sherborne House. Ladies should see fresh notices in our wanted column for Mr Beckley. The rumor is revived that not only will tho Chief Justice shortly retire on his well-earned pension, but that Mr Justice Williams is contemplating an early withdrawal from the Bench. Fail ing health is attributed in the latter case as the reason for retirement, while age and infirmity are adduced as the moving causes with Sir James Prendergast. Sergeant Major Scanlon has received instructions to forward to the Customs Department the names of local tobacconists or dealers using tobacco cutting machines or making hand-made cigarettes and it is incumbent on the trades* people to at once obtain warrants permitting them to use the machines or make cigarettes. A fee of 5s is payable on the warrant. The following somewhat novel form of tender was (says the Bush Advocate) received at the last meeting of the Norsewood Road Board : — " We, the undersigned, hereby tender for the above work at 19s llgd the lineal chain, and will do and complete the road in the time specified, five (5) weeks, weather, accidents or tho will of God not preventing the same, to the satisfaction of the overseer." Buyers of boots may not be aware of the fact that by far the largest stock in Feilding is kept by John Cobbe, who makes a point of importing his English boots and shoes direct in big quantities, thereby saving all the warehouse profits. Owing to the large and increasing business which he does he is also eoabled to place large orders with the best Colonial factories, thereby securing his goods at bottom prices. A South American lady is quoted as stating that some time ago, in the absence of water, which there was a great dearth at the time, she washed her face with some of the juice of a watermelon. The result was so soothing that she repeatedly washed her face in this manner, and her astonishment was great a few days later to find that there was not a freckle left on her previously befreckled face. A wrinkle like this is worth knowing. A celebrated English lawyer was charged by his Circuit Committee with having degraded the'profession by taking a fee in copper, whereupon he thus defended himself : " I fully admit that I took a fee from the man in coppers — and not one but several, and not only fees in copper, but in silver ;but I pledge my honor that I never took a fee in silver until 1 had got all his gold, nor a fee fro en him in copper till I got all his silver; and you don't call that & degradation of my profession, I hope." Mr R. Jarrett, senr., the marker at the | Wanganui rifle butts, received a nasty hit on Friday morning while marking for the Wanganui Rifles. Either Mr R. Jarrett forgot to close the butt, or was in the act of doing so, when a splinter from a bullet rebounded from the target and struck him on the check. The shock dazed him for a few moments, but he was sufficiently conscious to put out the danger flag. The firing party hurried to the butts, when it was found that Mr Jarrett had received a nasty cut. Dr Connolly was sent for and promptly attended the sufferer, who is not seriously injured. — Chronicle.