Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 144, 17 December 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Birmingham school concert will be held this evening. The Feilding Athletic Club Committee meet to-morrow evening. The share list of the Feilding Gas Company will close to-morroir the 18th instant. Shares will be allotted on Monday next. The newly formed rifle corps in Auckland in connection with the New Zealand Native* Association has 50 per cent of its members Oft in height. The Palmer tton Bowling Club are inviting the Wellington Wanganui, Feilding and Dannevirke Clubs to visit their tournauaent on Boxing Day. At the conclusion of the hearing of the charges of perjury and forgery against Amos Burr at W ellington recently, ac cused was committed for trial, bail being altovrid. A luxt»ti«vw« and enjoyable smoke is within the react. £f all by using Cameron's New Venus ToU^?, which is reckoned nowadays to be the l*csu ideal of pure and fragrant tobaccos. Summer is well upon us and cooling drinks are in gre at demand. For a very ple*ski#, gitytifyiflf.*. non -intoxicating beverage there jn «othfng which up. proaclusr. that made from i'^upitc Company's Cordial** The sawmills Co the Auckland district cut about 80,000,000 ft of timber yearly. It ie estimated that all the Uiiurf b»*h will be cut down within 20 years trout the r«y£n.t time. The Kauri Timber C'out< pany'fi profits ipr tbe past year arnounl to £37,500.

We have been requested to state that Mr C. t'arr's list of stoch sales for 1898 will be circulated shortly. Entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Rongotea on the 21st instant will be advertised to-morrow. At the conclusion of the Masonic ceremony yesterday contributions were laid on the stone for the benefit of the workmen employed on the structure. We are a sporting people. The preßs agents devote a whole column to the account of a cricket match, while they only give five lines to a big fight in India. Yesterday a farmer, not a thousand miles away" from Feilding, said, reflectively, "Well I've got my bit of hay in, and ray wool is at the station, so any sort of weather will suit me now." Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : —Wind between N.W. and W and S. at all places Barometer rise slowly. Moderate to fresh westerly winds and fine weather are to be expected in all parts of the country. " The greatest good to the greatest number," is one of the leading axioms in political economy. Dragon Coffee, which is specially prepared, will <lo the grpntrst good to all because it i* pure, cheap and refreshing and is therefore well worth a trial. The Returning Officer for the Borough, Mr G. C. Hill, notifies that lie ha» appointed Tuesday, the 28th instant, as the day on which he will receive nominations for the vacancy in the Council made by the election of Councillor Edmund Goodbehere to the Mayoralty. The Manchester Rifles held a company parade last evening, Lieut Barltrop in i command. The men were drilled in the manual, sword-bayonet, and firing exercises by the non-commissioned officers. The Financial Committee met after parade and transacted formal business. The following remedy is sv\id to he effectual in removing warts from the teats of cows: — Common washing soda, dis solved in water, as much soda as the, water will dissolve, applied two or three times, a week or oftener, it desired. The warts will begin to scale off in three or four days. Keep up the applications and the wart will gradually disappear. Kerosene will accomplish the same result. A brake will leave the Square at 12.30 p.m to-morrow for Fahnerston with the Feilding Tennis Club. There will in consequence, on account of the attraction of the Kale of Japanese good-, be no afternoon tea on the Feilding Club's ground tc-morrow. The following will represent Feilding against Pahnerston : — Messrs Barton, Dyer. Brabant, Richmond, Miss L. Macarthur, Miss Fvv. Miss May Fry, and Mrs Hill. The Grtenwood Company gave rh entertainment in the Assembly Rooms last last evening to a small house. The piece staged being "A cup of cold poison " or " Romeo and Juliet up to date." The company, who are a clever combination, succeeded in creating much merriment, their singing and acting being much appreciated by the Audience, who liberally applauded the clever performers. The play abounds in wit and merriment and ii was pity the company were not greeted with a crowded house. The following is an extract from a letter received from a gentleman living in England by a former resident of New Zealand : — " Just now we are enjoying New Zealand lamb, but I fur prefer the ditto mutton which, if properly cooked, is as good as the best Welsh, and, in fact, sold as such deeieves ''the very eleet^' themselves, whence arises the exceeding bitter cry of the producers for distincive compulsory marking of the imported art- - icle, which perhaps will get itself parliamenfcecl. and after much of that sauce legislated." Says the Waimate Times: — The strawberry season has, as usual, had a disastrous effect on the school attendance. No fewer than 113 children were absent on Monday " strawberry picking." The truant officer (Constable Gough) hunted up those on whom attendance could be ! enforced, while other step* were also taken in the way of serving notices, but the only result was that the number of absentees was reduced to 106. It has been therefore decided to close the school a week earlier than was intended — a very wise course, we should say, for the school , and the parents, and also for the strawI berry growers. A touching and poetical custom prevails in vYelsch Tyrol. When a young 1 maiden is about to be married, immedi 1 ately before she steps across the threshold of her old home, on her way to the 1 church, her mother solemnly gives her a , new pocket handkerchief. The bride holds it in her hand throughout the ; marriage ceremony, using it to wipe away tears. Soon as the marriage i festivities are ended the young wife lays her handkerchief aside in her linen closet, and there it remains as long as she lives. Nothing will induce a Tyrolese wife to use this sacred handkerchief. It may be half a century, or longer, before it is takeu from its place to fulfil the second and last place of its mission. When the wifo dies, perhaps as a grey old grandmother, the loviuy bands of the next of kin place the bridal handkerchief over the face ot the dead, and it is buried with her in the grave. ___^________