Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 54, 1 September 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

♦ I On Saturday last Mr R. E. Beckett ! sold sections 105 and 106, Oxford Street, Matton, the former for £88, the latter , adjoining Ll9. The tailor's shop and , 872 acres of land were withdrawn. We have received a telegram from the ! joint secretaries of the Seddoo Reception j Committee to the effect that train i arrangements are being made for the I convenience of residents in the country i districts who may desire to be present j in Wellington on the occasion of the j return of the Premier. At Mar ton, on Saturday last, Mr R. E. Beckett disposed of the privileges of the Marton Jockey Club as follows :— Licen- ! Bed booth, Mr Palmer, of Hunterville, j .£24 10» ; refreshment booth, Mr Nicoll, j Jt2 10s ; cards, Mr M. Marr, £24 ; horse i enclosure, Mr A. Siguall, £2 ss. The remainder of the privileges the Club | reserve for themselves. Owing to the long spell of dry weather we have had here, many persons are complaining that their water tauks are j getting low. As there is every pro- \ bability that the rainfall during the I coming spring and sumnipr will be but j moderate, extra tauks should be pro vided at once to save as much water as possible The Sydney Morning Herald say§ : — The pro«ppcts of raising the Tasmania are not bright. It would be an c-xpensive affair, a L' 20,000 iob to lift her from ber bed 17 fathoms below the surface, and the fact that the divers cannot stand upon her dpeks indicates the presence of an unsuspectedly ttrong current, one thai would have to be reckoned with in any salvage undertaking. If the Gas Company accomplish all that is expected of them, Feilding will toon be one of the best lighted towns in the colony. Already householders in the suburbs are making proposals to have tho mains still further expended bo that they may enjoy the convenience as well ns those nearer the centre of (ho town. Ii is highly probable tbr?e advances will be met in a liberal spirit by the company. The Rev L. M. Ititt, speaking at Melbourne, ihus referred to the Right Hon. R. J. Scddon : — " Able, determined, nnd unscrupulous," besnid, " wn have nothing to thank Mr Seddon for. The temperance legislation only became poepible because the voters of the colony took the Premier by tho throat, like a man tencliing a parrot to talk, and »Rid, ' Say prohibition, Richard ; say prohibition ' — and he eaid it. It is aaid that an uneasy feeling per vades the big Government building*, thht Ministers are a little pale about the gills and heads of departments restless. Is it (ask* the Wairarapa Times) because " something " as well as " somebody " is coming ? The hansom cab might reveal the mystery, but we cannot — there is thunder in the air and perhaps before I long the Colony may be in the throes of a political crisis. A gentleman whoso business has re> cently taken him on tho Tararua range, informs us that the rabbits are slowly but surely making they way over the bills from the Wairarapa into the Manawatu. Qui'e a number arc to be seen in various parts and in the neighborhood of Sky farm, four were destroyed in one night. It is to be hoped the scourge will be checked in time, as its injury to this district will be incalculable. The H.B. Heralds correspondent writes : — The Apiti Norsewood road from the West Coast ia progressing, and I learm only five miles at this end re j quire to be constructed. This road will not only tap the Te Ohu West block, but it will afford a main trunk road connecting Hawke'sßay with Manawatn and all the West Coast districts through WaDgauui and Taranaki. and eventually to Auckland, in lien of that by way of the Manawatu Gorge. To-day begins the first month of spring. Plant all sorts of seeds, shelter rhubarb, giving it all the light you can, gently rake off tho manure from the top of the asparagus beds, sow carrots, lettuce, parsuips, onions, leeks, radish, spinach, celery cauliflowers, and marrow fat peas. Plant potatoes, graft apple and pear trees. Note in your mind the position of last year's crops, in order to fill the same spots with plants of a different character, and ensure a wise rotation. From the Indian Daily News of July we take the following : - A new disease has made its appearance in some of the villages under the jurisdiction of Nowpura Thana, in Nadia. The victim, without any previous warning, is suddenly awakened at night with a painful sensation all over the body, particularly in the windpipe. Then the patient feels bis eyelids swollen. Next follows bard breathing, and ultimately death. The fell disease takes only about sixteen hours to do its work. When Lord Roberts inspected the colonial troops on the Saturday before Jubilee Day he made a critical exarnin atiou of each unit, and upokc to the surgeants. " How many men aro there in your regiment, sergeant '?" he aiked of Sergeant McNaughton, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles. '" A thousand, sir," " How are you off for remounts ?" "Wo have four horees for each man, sir." "Do you mean tt tell me that you all provide your own horses ?" " Yes, sir," " Then all I can say is that you must bo a very peculiar people." Mr Satnncl Goodbcbero reports : — August weather, 1807 : — Tho total rain fall for the past month was 1 00 inches, by far the greater part of which fell between the 18th and the 22nd. Rain foil on 12 days during the mouth, the heaviest fail in one day was 0 10 inches, registered on the 22ud. I have never registered so light a rainfall for the month of August since I commenced my regis ter in 1883, during which time the average August rainfall has been 3 011 jncheß. There wore 5 frosty nights and 6 degrees of frost were registered on Sunday the Ist, and Sunday the 29th. The maximum temperature was 63 deg. registered on tho 31st. The moan temperature at 930 a.m. was 42 92, the mean maximum was 51-00, and the mean minimum 36 35. The corresponding means for August, 1896, were 43*35, 52 51, and 35 09. In view of the many narrow escapes from drowning in the Racgiiikci rivor at the Bulls ford and the apparent im possibility to keep a punt there in working order, it would be well for the local bodies wlip have the control, of tho I bridge, to push on with its referee ion as rapidly 86 posgiblo. The road on which tho old bridge wan has been the connecting link ou this coast fcr many years and is still largely used by travel j It rs and drovers from the llawko's Bay to \Vfln«;auui and the northern districts. ; We understand the Goveruineut have ' promised to favorably consider Iho re ,' ! r|ti«st for a subsidy when they are dealI ing with timiUr applications, but in the ! meantime it would be wise for the Raugitlke^ County Council, under whoso ! imiEtdiate control tho bridge is, to have : the plans prepared, the <jLue*£jon of site settled and other necessary details atcrn,u^*l so ?,s< to avoid any unnecessary delay.

Members of the Manchester Rifles are j reminded of the parade to-morrow . sveninp. Some people are never satisfied. Complaints have been made that the weather is " too jolly fine altogether." A meeting of the general committee of the Feilding Bowliug Club will be held at the Secretary's office this evening at « o'clock. No bankruptcies were Tecorrtpd in the ; Wanganni district last months, as ' against three for tbo corresponding '• menth in 1896. The quarterly tea meotiug will be held j in the Primitive Methodist Church this evening at 6 o'clock. Public meeting at 7 30. Miscellaneous programme. Mr Sam Daw has undertaken the task of forming and instructing tho drum and nfo baud in connection with the Yonn« Men and Boys Club. Captain Edwin wired at noon to day : — The depression approaching from tho westward will probably bring northerly j winds with rain and falling barometer j within the next 18 hours. j A number of Christchurch "cranks " arc said to be raisirjg funds to bring hack tho notorious A. B. Worthington. They havo met with but indifferent monetary support even from his nicnt rabid former desciples. A fashionable gathering attended at the c)cliu£ gymkhana held recently at the Raneiauh Club grounds, when the Duke and Duchess of York and rnauy members of tho aristocracy gave their patronage. Among tho events were a foursome race, in which two riders lean iv« on each other rode backwards. Apart from theso exhibitions of trick ridiug skill, there were games such as ridiDg up to a .sketching block and making a more or less artistic drawing, and another amusing competition consisted of riding up to a \ ile of balls and fetching them back one at a time to a basket. The professional burglars have in* creased enormously of late years iv the colony. Id every large town and village hamlet thrir industry finds profitable employment, therefore the whole claf-s may bo described as thriving and pros perou?. But as there arc numbers of amateurs who are attempting to emulate tho skill of tho expert, something should bo done to protect those who buIoDR to tho leyitiroat" line of this noble profes* pion, Government should interfere and demand that only licensed meu be &U lowed to practice. Of course, it goes without saying, an In°pector would have to he appointed — but that is merely a j detuil. A profit of a thousand a year on 55 cows is the kind of return which makes the dairy farmer anxious to know how it is done. This was <howu at a meet j ing of a Farmers' Institute iv Canada recently, when Mr C. D. Telsar read a report of the returns from his Holstein i cows for the year. One cow nave 150 yftlloun of milk, which at 6 cents per qaart made 300dols Teu cows averaged 11,6001 b , 40 cows averngeH 00001 b , and .15 cows avern^cd 80001 b. From his description of tho methods of care and the buildings emp'oyed to attain these. re~ suits, it was evident that consideration for the comfort and well-being of ihe animal is the primary object of atteution at this place at least. The diet used consists of bran, 61b; peas, 2lb ; corn, ground on the cob, 81b: cnsilayc, 501 b; clover, 8!b, which, with otlur ingredi ents, brings tho cost per cow per day to 14 cents. Taking the average yield of tho whole 55 cows, each cow mode a not profit of 109dols after allowing for cost of keeping at 14 cents per day, or a total for the whole herd of 5995d015.