Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 283, 3 June 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

Members of the Manchester Rifles arc reminded of the special parade this evening. The Commandant, Colonel Pole Penton, accompanied by Lieutenant.Colonel Newall will visit this part of his district next month. The Hunterville amateurs will give an entertainment in Assembly Rooms to morrow evening in aid of the Rangi. tikei Relief Fund. Mr Wollerman's prize for the Manchester Rifles consists of a handsome little clock. Mr Wollerman hopes the prize will help the winner to keep good time At the butts yesterday afternoon Vol Parker, of the Manchester Rifles, put up the tine score of 101. This equals the score which won the gold medal for the best shot in the South Island last year, and is 6 above Vol G. Saywell'fl score, which took the gold medal for the best shot in the North Island in the same ! year. A knowing traveller out Texas, who had chartered half a bed at a crowded hotel, and was determined to have the best half buckled a spar to his heel before turning in. Hi;; unfortunate sleeping purtuer bore the infliction as long as he could, and at last roared out : " Say, Btianger if you're a gentle- ' man, you ought to cut you: toe-nails."

The Pohangiua Couuty Council will meet on Saturday tbe 12th inst. Captain Edwin wires : - Wind betwecu South and East and North east at all places. Barometer, very little movement northward of Kaikoura and Hokitika but fall from thence southward. Frost at all places to-night. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Rongotea Football Club concert to be given in tbe Rongotea Hall on Wednesday evening, tbe 9th instant, in aid of tbe Rangitikei Relief Fund. Tbe body of tbe late George Richardson ( who was drowned m tbe Manawatu River recently, was discovered about a mile above the Longburu railway bridge. The remains were taken into Palnierston yesterday afternoon. Tbe soil in tbe Birmingham district is wonderfully fertile, judging from the crop of purple top mammoth turnips grown by Mr Sbapleski, as a great number of single turnips turn the scales at oyer thirty pounds tbe heaviest weighed turning the scales at forty pounds. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the entertain uaent to be given in tbe Assembly Rooms to morrow evening by the Hunterville amateurs in aid of tbe Rangitikei Relief Fund. During the eveniug songs will be given by Mrs E. James, Mrs M. Pickering and Mr A. Eadc. " As I understand it doctor, if I bolievo I'm well, I'll be well. Is that the idea." "It is." "Then if you believe you're paid I suppose you'll be paid." " Not necssarily " " But why shouldn't faith work an well in one case as in the other ".'" " Why, you see, there is considerable difference between having faith in tbe Lord and having faith iv you." One of tbe most marvellous printing machiups yet constructed is that used in the production of the San Franciso Examiner. The press turns out 48,000 12 page papers per hour, with the two outside pages printed in tour colors, The papers are turned out folded, stapled and counted in lots of fcwenfcy-iires and fifties, The machine weighs seventy tons, and takes up a space about 22 feet long, 12ft wide, and 18ft high. Mr W. S- Hart, the Palmerston gun smith, is now busy executiug a largo number of orders from sportsmen in the district. A feature of Mr W. Hart's business is tbe manufacture of gun stocks, which are executed in a manner far superior to some of tbo imported nrli cles of this class. A large stock of gune, cartridges, etc., arc kept on baud, and sportsmen caunot do better than place their orders with Mr Hart.— Mauawatu Daily Times. To Tiruaru bcilongs the honor and glory of being the birthplace of Fitz siruvuous, 'champion pugilist of the world.' Fitz was, once upon a time, a humble blacksmith, carrying on business iv tbe South Cauterbury metropolis. Nowadays he lives like a prince, rides iv bis carriage, and has servants to wait upon him band and foot. From which the Christchurch Spectator infers that its more profitable to hammer men than it is to hammer iron News from Karangabakc at tbe Thames states the Imperial mine has given a heavy yield. An assay of stone taken from this mine, No 4 reef, last weed gave tho following results, viz :— Gold per ton IjOoz lOdwt <l«rs, silver do, ■J9oz 15dwt 4grs, total \aluc per ton £V 62 Os 2d. Since which the mine manager has wired to H. Giltillan, junr, legal manager of tbe Imperial as follows viz. :— In breaking down No 1 reef to day, United section, rich ore has been discovered. Strong coarse gold can be seen in tbe stona, reef two feet thick. - Auckland Weekly News. An innovation at weddings is often now introduced into the bridal proces sion. The bridesmaids precede the bride up the aisle to tbe body of tbe church, where they separate, half the uumbei' going to the right, half to the left, so that tbe bride and her father pass through them, as it were, to the altar. The effect is tiood, giving somewhat more statehness to the ceremonial than the old method. Sheaf bouquets often replace the old forms, and many brides are abjuring them altogether in favor of carrying a Prayer Book or a satin satchel bag, with a bunch of orange blossom outside, and into this she slips her gloves before that part of the ceremony when she is expected to remove them.