Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 8, 9 July 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

Tbe Feildiug Echool will re-open on Monday uext. A Wel.iugtou cooper has received an order io supply ten thonsand butter boxes foe tbe Argentine Republic

The senior football mated oeiweeu Palmerston and Feilding, which was arranged for to-morrow, has been postponed. The Tararua Ranges, with their first mantle of snow this winter, presented a magnificent speotacle at sun rise this morning. Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' next stock sale at Palmerston North, and additions to the horso sale of the firm, are advertised to day. In London each day 400 children are born ; 250 enter school for the first time; 200 begin their apprenticeship ; 150 persons enter married life, and 200 perions die. AH are invited to hear Miss Powell speak in the Temperance Hall on Sunday afternoon, ai 3.30 ; and to the Band of Hope tea and meeting on Tuesday evening naxt, in the same place. The fortnightly meeting of the Oddfellows' Lodge takes place this evening. The Foresters' Hall being otherwise en gaged, the meeting will be held in Mr C. Bray's office, Manchester street, commencing at 7 30. Mr Ceorge Gray, chemist at Lincoln College, calculates that New Zealand's exports of frozen mutton and grain in 1895 robbed the soil of tbe country of 5871 ton 9of nitrogen, 1205 tons of phospheric acid, 2438 tons of potash and 1006 tons of lime. In May last the French brig Vaillant, bound from St Malo to America, foundered after collision with an iceberg. Four of the crew were subsequently picked up, having suffered bo terribly from hunger that they were driven to eat the body of one of their dead com rades. The Apiti Dairy Company have re ceived advice from the Government expert in Wellington stating that the last three or four consignments of cheese from this factory were equal to any con signed to Wellington during the past season. This speaks well for the future prosperity of the Company under its efficient management. We would draw our readers attention to a new advertisement on our third pace inserted by Mr E. J. Chappcll an nonnciDg hia first half yearly sale of surplus stock commencing to day and continuing for twenty one days, during which bargains will be pleutiful at the Family Drapery Warehouse. A traveller from Hakaterernen reports (the Oamarn Mail says) that in the lower end of the Hakateremea Valley feed is so scarce that a number of farmers are feeding their sheep on straw which has hecn plastered with a thin solution of treacle and water. Tho sheep got to like the treacle and eat every straw At the Hastings School Committee meeting the other night Captain Russell expressed the opinion that there were far too many prizes distributed at the State Schools. It should be adutinction and a prestige for a scholar to win a prize, but it was absurd 1-resentiug the children with prizes who had failed to pass. In connection with the annual exaroi nations at schools, the Inspectors have arranged tbe following additional dates : Upper Tutaenui and Western Rangiti. kei, Monday, 2nd August ; South Maki» rikiri and Greatford, Tuesday, August 3rd ; Tikorea, and Parawanui, Wednes day, 4th August ; Sanson, Thursday and Friday, sth and 6th August, Mr R. McNab, ex M.H.R for Mataura writing from Glasgow to the Wyndham Farmer, says : — " At Wakefield, in Yorkshire. I saw New Zealand frozen mutton selling at 4£ per lb, and English live mutton selling in the market not 200 yds away, at 6Jd. Rather rough, is it not ? Our ideas of the price New Zealand mutton realised to the retailers are quite erroneous." Government having announced that the person to whose inclusion in the roll of Justices of the Peace of the colony prompt objection was very properly taken is not to be sworn in, it now becomes necessary to institute an enquiry with a view to establishing tbe identity of those who recommended the issue of the commission.— Times. At Birmingham (England) recently the presentation of a purse of lOOgns and an address was made to Guard Jen nes, described as the greatest railway traveller by rail in the world. Jennes had been in the employ of the Great Western Railway Co. for 40 years, and had travelled upwards of four million miles. During tbe whole of bis career he never had an accident. The address was signed by several noblemen and many prominent gentlemen. A little girl, five years of age, succumbed in the Melbourne Hospital last week from injuries received through her clothes catching fire, the result of set-, ting off crackers. The girl was wearing a dress of flannelette, and the doctor in his evidence said that people liked to dress children in dresses of this material because it was cheap, gay and attractive, but they might just as well dress them in gunpowder. As soon as it got hot it burst into flames. The farmers of this district have now a good opportunity given them of iinprov. ing and enriching tb«ir land. Mr John Dnnlop, (he well known coal and produce uif-rcbant, advertises that ha is now prepared to complete orders for Messrs Brooks Brothers, agricultural lime in any quantity of six tons or over delivered at the rtiilway station!", Feilding, Halcombe, Marton nnd Ihe tram station at Samon. The price is low and within the means of every agriculturalist. The Christcburch Press, writing on the subject of the disbanding of the F. Battery of Artillery at Napier said :— The treatment of the Volunteer force in this colony is really so contemptibly wring beaded, tKat it is amazing that there should be any Volunteers at all. The spirit animating the men is, however, worthy of all praise, and gives an indication of the fine defence force we should possess if affairs were differently mauaued," Since then, we learn from tii ■ Napier Telegraph, the corps passed a e-^lution to. disband, and to re form in ii a Rifle corps. This conduct shows th.' i;oud stuff they are made of.