Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 235, 7 April 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

Entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Balls on the 18th instant are now advertised. Additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Palmerston sale. The annual meeting of the Feilding Qaoit Clnb will be held at the Manchester Hotel this evening. Christchurcb, says a frivolous exchange, is the nicest place in the colany for religious frauds to thrive and grow fat. Now that the winter months are coming on it would be well for the Harmonic. Society to commence to marshall their forces. It; is a matter for cangratulation thai the House oC Representatives re appoined Sir Maurice O'fiorke as Speaker without; opposition. Tint Standard says: — We have been informed that several families who proceeded to Auckland a short wkiie back to better their positions, have decided to return the Palraerston N. again perhaps , jjoorer and wiser.

Additions are made to-day to the enries for Mr Gray's sale of furniture at s Jolyton. Mr R. E. Beckett will hold a stock I ale at his Halcombe yards to-morrow ] ,t 1 o'clock. t Mr Oarr will hold a produce sale at tis auction mart on Saturday next when ] >otatoes, oats, onions, etc., will be dis»osed of. •' Specification and sample arms in con- ] lection with tenders for 20,000 rata elograph arms may be v seen at the post iffice, Feilding. Mr Charles Oarr will sell on Saturday lext, at 1.30 p.m., the privileges in con- ; lection with the Feilding Jockey Club [ faster meeting. We have to acknowledge receipt of a , somplimentary ticket for the annual linnet at the Primitive Methodist Parsonage on Good Friday. Messrs Gorton and Son will sell on i Friday next, at one o'clock sharp, sec> lions 185 and 186, Feilding, containing 34 acres, together with the buildings ihereon. The following are the statistics for the Palmerston Hospital for March : Patients in hospital Ist March, 26 ; admitted during the month, 16 ; discharged, 19 ; died, 1. Patients m hospital on Ist April, 22. Special services will be held in the I Gospel Hall, Warwick street, by Mr Hinman, who will follow up his lectures on Palestine with two evangelistic ad-, dresses on Thursday and Friday nights. " Ted " Bush, who was employed on the Hastings Star some years ago, and when last in the colony was "dummy clown" in Wirth's circus, is now reported to be playing the euphouinm in the orchestra of the Oxford Music Hall, London. Mr O. Wakelin, formerly in the Colonial Bank in Feilding, and lately teller in the Pahiatua Branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has resigned the position and gone into farming. His many friends in Feilding will wish Mr Wakelin every success in his new venture. To-day Mr Charles Carr advertises particulars of the sale to be held at Mr Jennins' farm, Kiverlands, Awahuri road, on Monday next. The milch cows reared by Mr Jennins have made a name for themselves as first class dairy stock, good milkers, and tractable, while being of the best breeds. For other particulars see advertisement. Photographs of the Waiotomo caves, near Ofcorohauga, in the Waikato, are to be taken by order of the Government, which has also given instructions for the preparation of a description of their beauties, the object being to draw widespread attention to a part of the colony concerning which comparatively little is known by the general public — Post. The very best disinfectant and deodoriser known is copperas. A double handful dissolved in a bucket of water, and used to wash drain pipes and receptacle of waste material, will keep such places above suspicion. The water in pitchers and flower- holders should be changed every day. On attention to such seemingly trivial details may hang a human life. The Rev. Joseph Clark, of Nottingham who has been appointed pastor of the Auckland Tabernacle, is now on his way to Australia on board the s.s. Narruug. Mr Clark was trained by the late Rev C. H. Spurgeon. His Tabernacle at Nottingham holds over 2000. He has success fully grappled with a debt of £7,000. He is a muscular Christian and an expert cyclist, quite an up-ta«date parson evidently. We have to acknowledge receipt of the first number of the Colonial Inventor, an illustrated journal of scientific and mechanical progress, published monthly at Christchurch, It is carefully compiled and neatly printed, including a wide range of interesting and useful information. The illustrations are a prominent feature and should assist in making the journal popular. The National Ball Nozzle Company is being sued, at Trenton, N.J., by the Columbia Horse Nozzle and the American Nozzle companies, for an infringement of patent. The defendant answers that the essential and substantial features on which the patents are baaed were known among others, to " One Herod, now deceased, but formerly of Alexandria, Egypt, living at said Alexandria and elsewhere, 1000 8.C." To remove a tight ring from the finger, take a long thread of silk and put one end under the ring and draw it through several inches, holding it with the thumb in the palm of the hand. Then wind the long end of the silk tightly round the finger down to the nail. Take hold of the short end of the silk, and, holding it toward the finger end, unwind it, and the silk presing the ring will withdraw it. Writing to the Auckland Star, W. E. Kessell says :— " Last season at Hast ings, Hawke's Bay, I saw a crop of grapes about an acre in extent, superior in quantity, if not quality, to any I ever saw in South Australia, and I have seen hundreds of acres. The vines were trained on trellis, and were literally black, for they were of that well-known sort, the Black Hamburg. Now, if grapes are not grown here for wine, they surely could be grown more extensively for dessert, and pay the vigneron handsomely at 6d per pound, as I have pur chased them in Hastings at that price." The people of New Zealand are absurdly extravagant in some things. Owing to the abundance of food which is available as well for the poor as for the alleged rich, the waste which is allowed to go on is marvellous. In the item of potatoes alone something very like £75,000 a year is wasted in peeling this popular tuber. Just think of it, a population of 700,000— 0r thereabouts— with that money saved every year would in less than half a century pay off the nat ional debt. Boil or roast your potatoes in their jackets and save money. Yesterday Mr John Watson, of Messrs Watson Bros,, narrowly escaped from what might have been a very serious accident. He was painting the front of Mr G. B. Bradford's stables and was standing on the top of a twenty- two feet ladder, when he caught hold of an ornamental pinnacle to steady himself at his work. The b&se of the pinnacle being rotten it came away And Watson fell backwards, but as he felt himself going he sprang away from the ladder and landed on his feet and one aide. Mr J.. Watson subtained a sprained ankle besides a very severe shaking, and but for bis presence of mind in jumping clear of the ladder he might have met with a more serious accident. The Railway Commissioners in Victoria have beea b&dly " had " over the publication of their ' Bradsbaw.' Finding that the publication of the time table involved a serious loss, the department invited outsiders to tender for it, with the result that a Mr Kominsky ofieredj if he were given the exclusive right for Q3y en years to supply the advertisements, <jQ publish the thing. But ne'er a word was said shout printing the book, and Kominsky declared that that was outside of his bond. So' tjU&fc the department, instead of making a profit o£ ££50 a year as it had hoped, had to face a jva^rlv loss of L4OO through having itselt fy undertake^ the printing. Tiio outcome of &s Jbnsiness bas been I that Kominsky lias _ slendered his j rights for a substantial con^ide^tion, ' but wha-t amount of compensation he j received has not transpired. Smart man Kominsky.

The Feilding SM. Court will sit at 10 I i.m. tomorrow. j J Notice is given by the Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, that the Burgess aud Defaulters' lists are now open for inspection, At a general meeting of the St John's Ladies' Sewing Bee held yesterday, the Vicar presiding, it was decided to resame work at the Vicarage on Tuesday r next, with a view to holding a sale of t work early in December, the proceeds * to go towards painting and renovating 1 the Church and Sunday school room. At a committee meeting of the Young j Men and Boys' Club on Monday even- } ing, Mr J. Greenwood in the chair. It was decided to call together at an early date all interested in the matter of pleasant Sunday afternoon gatherings. Mrs Harrison, Dr Sorley and Mr Brunette were elected members of the committee. The matter of a night school was discussed and the secretary was instructed to receive the names of all willing to attend. The President, on behalf of the committee, took the opportunity .to welcome the secretary, the Rev C. C. Harrison, back and presented him with an illuminated address and bag of silver . made up of subscriptions limited to one shilliag, collected amongst members of the society, iv recognition of the valuable services rendered to the club since its foundation. Mr Harrison suitably thanked the members of the club for this recognition of his services.