Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 234, 6 April 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

There was a slight frost here this morning. There will be mass in St. Bridget's next Sunday at 8 a.m i'iie Pohangina County Council will meet on Saturday next at 11 a.m. Entensive additions are made today to the entries for Mr Beckett's Halcombe sale. Additions are made to-day to Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston N. afcock sale. Mr F. Y. Lethbridge, M.H.R., left by the mail train yesterday afternoon for Wellington, to be present at the opening of Parliament to-day. Mr J. C Blackmore, Government Pomologist, who is at present in the South, inclines to Mir opinion that a disease which has made its appearance in the Southland vinery is phylloxera. Notice is given to-day that Crown Lands, as detailed in the advertisement, will be open for sale or selectioG on the 27th icstant at the office of the Cocacjissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington. A ■ plan of the sections may be seen at the Star office. i The shooting foir the selection of a Waugauui representative for Bisley was continued and finished oia JS.aturday. Corporal Strachan, of the Alexandra Cavalry, beiog the highest aggregate throughout the contest, is the fortunate ' representative.

Captain Edwin wired at noon today : — Strong N. to W. and S.W. winds, and glass fall. Mr T. A. Bryce, commission agent, has a number of enquiries for leasehold properties. At the sale to take place at Mr Jennins' farm on the Awahuri road shortly, a number of valuable dairy cattle will be disposed of. Marksmen's badges have been forwarded by Colonel Newall to Captain Kirton as follows:— Serg Aiken (3 stars), Vols Parker and E. G. Wilson <2 stars each). Color Sergt. Milson will deliver these on application. 1 The Primitive Methodist Church was i crowded last evening to witness the oxy ether light exhibition of views of ire land, London and New Zealand. The pictures were really good and those proI sent were delighted with their excellence declaring that they bad not seen better views, The following gentlemen have been elected to serve on the committee of tie Presbyterian Church :— Messrs J. Bartholomew, W. D. James, J. H. Stevens, Dr Sorley, W. Spence, K. J. Thompson, W. Watts, H. Wcolven. Mr Thomas Watson was unanimously re-appoiuted to the treasurership, A veteran broncho-breaker gives the following as a sure w;iy to cure a horse kicking:—" Tie one of his forelegs with a rope to his hindleg on the other side. As soon as lie starts to kick ho jerks his front leg off the ground, and goes down in a heap. Two or three doses of this kind cures the worst case you can find. Some terrible revelations of wife abandonment are being made in New YorkFifteen thousand men are under bonds to support their wives. The Magistrates ascribe this state of tilings to hard time?, still more to lax morals, but most of all to premature marriages. Fifty por cent of the deserted wives were married in their teens. An angry correspondent complains about " The quantity of gravel now being taken from the pit near Mr Fairfield Thompson's residence ou Kimboltou read. Not only is the safety of pcr.-ous riding or driving endangered, but the hole is absolutely ugly." No doubt pub lie attention having been drawn to the evil, the local authorities will take what steps are necessary to abac it. Karl Browne's Happy Hours Company will appear at the Assembly Booms ou Wednesday 7th. This is the same company who produced 'Slattery's Home' in Wellington so successfully. The corn, pay comprise— Miss Nellie Brownlow, jMous Sevini, Miss Moore, Karl Browse, tlio Laurer.ee Bros., Geo Boston Packer, and Prof. McMinaman. There should bo a large attendance as the company are undoubtedly clever. An ex-Dunedin resident, writing from Perth, says -. — Perth itself is a place of sand, smells, and bustle. New buildings are going up everywhere aud offices can not be obtained anywhere in the city. House rent is very dear, to to A"4 a week being thought nothing of, and houseare being run up in all the suburbs, but not nearly fast enough. Builders aud ironmongers are doing well, but in fact everybody appears to be doing well. The Directors of the Feilding Per ma neufc Building Society met yesterday afternoon at the office of the manager, Mr E. Goodbeherc. The usual amount of business was transacted. This society has now at its disposal a very large sum of money, which the directors are pre pared to advance on the most liberal terms to persons desiring to avail themselves of tins splendid opportunity to borrow at a comparatively low rato of interest, repayable by small monthly instalments. Now York has been agitated for some time by the details of a dinner given at a well known restaurant by a party of ;■> fashionable young men, named Herbert Seeley, Theodore Rich, and Jas. Phipps. It is alleged that performances of a very questionable character were given by women dancers, one of whom is an Al gerian known as " Little Egypt." After an enquiry by tho Grand Jury of the State extending over .several days, during which the dancers were called as witnesses, the three defendants have been sent for trial. The remains of Sir Isaac Pitman were cremated at Woking. Cremation (says the Daily News) has certainly grown much in favor of late. Within a few weeks the bodies cremated at Woking have included those of Mr Dv Maurier, Dr Langdon Down, Lady Malcolm, of Poltallock, Lady Rachael Nortbcote, Sir B. W Richardson, Miss Matbildo Blind, the Marquis of Sligo, Sir Henry Halford Dr Mouat, formerly a local Government Board Inspector, and others. In the first year after the crematorium was set up at Woking, 1885, only three bodies were burnt. Kight years past before a hundred bodies were cremated within the twelvemonth, but the number is now rapidiy increasing, and crematoriums have been set np at Manchester and Glasgow*. The Baltimore Herald tells a good story of Bishop Paret, of that city. Some time ago ho was the guest of a family in West Virginia. Learning from the Bis hop that he liked hard boiled eggs for breakfast hishostess went to the kitchen to boil them herself. While so engaged she began to sing the first stanza of the hymn, " Rock of Ages." Then she sang the second stanza, the Bishop, who was in the dining-room, joioing in. When it was finished there was a silence, and the Bishop remarked - "Why not sing the third verse 'i " " The third verse ? " replied the lady, as she came into the diningrooin, earryiug the steaming eggs. "Oh that's not necessary." '• I don't understand," replied Bishop Paret. " Oh you see," she said, " when I am cooking eggs I always sing one verse tor soft boiled, and two for bard boiled."