Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 79, 2 January 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Manchester Bead Board met this afternoon. At the Hawera Caledonian Sports yes* terduy A. W. Watts won the 120 yards hurdles. Mr Graltan Biggs the famous Irish Comedian will appear in the Feildirig Assembly, Booms on Monday next. Major Newall has b9en 'promoted to the rani' of ODieut.-Oolonel. . We con* gratulate him on attending this step in rank. , . ,The members.of the . Fire Brigade are requested to. m^et at the Brigade station on Monday at 615. p.m. to pick the team for ChristchurchV The weather yesterday was yary unfavorable for outdoor sport. The Feilding people and others who went to the Banjritikei Races had their fun spoiled by the rain. A small but vigorous baud of vocalists, aided by what sounded like a tin whistle, perambulated the town on the last night of the Old Year, They sang and danced for nearly half an hour at an untenanted house, and then wept empty away. They were more fortunate in several other instances, and reaped a tolerable harvest. . Wedding Bells ;! On Becember .^lsfc, at the residence pf J|r IJ. Maluno, Mr Egbert FitzHerbert, second son of the , late Mr H. H. FitzHerbert, of IWIFM, Wellington, was united in the bonds of ma'trimoriy with Miss Florence Grace, fourth daughter of Mr E. Gregory. The JJev, H. M. Murray was the officiating minister. 4f ker th 0 ceremony the happy couple left &!'■ Pjndflr Hill, the home of Jfv C. FitzHerbert, wfafir.e tljue hjOnpymoon will be spent, We join witb. the rela.ti,9n^ aud friends of happy couple in wishing them a Jpng life of happiness and prosperity.

The 'Frisco mail will arrive to-mght and will be sorted in to private boxes at 9 p.m. ■•■-.' It is said that during the attempt to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Panama 200,000 ounces of quinine were used annually in combatting malarial fever. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings; for northerly gales and rain after from 10 to 20 hours have been sent to all places. A well known American divine rebuked an ignorant preaebnr for exercising the office of priest. In defence the man said : "We are commanded to preach the gqspel to every critter." " Yes," replied the divine, " but every critter is not commanded to preach the gospel." At the Wellington Caledonian Sports Norton and Arnott tied for the handicap with 12 points, the former having won the 100 and 200 Yards Handicap, and the latter the 400 and 880 Yards. In the run off, at 440 yards, Arnott won, and the gold medal of the society became his own property, he having won the Handicap twice in succession. The wayward young man, broken in health, had gone to Walton to recuperate. He was in gaol for stealing a hindquarler of beef. In the loneliness of his cell he sat down and wrote as follows ; — " Dear Father— l have picked up some flesh since I came out here, but I am still confined to my room. Please send me L1O." Blue roses have hitherto been ranked among the things unattainable. By the most modern method of culture, however, all difficulties are said to vanish. For example, water a pure white rose-bush continuously with a solution of Prussian blue, and the ensuing buds will take on a sympathetic tinge, In like manner proceed with green sulphate of copper, and hope for a similar satisfactory; result. The respiration of insects has been the subject of study by M, Contejean, who has found that, contrary to what takes place; in vertebrates, the movement of inspiration is passive and that of expira-' tion active. The air is driven from the body by a contractile effort. 1 Hence, when the insect is wounded, the flow of blood occurs at expiration. The respiratory movement is not interrupted by cutting off the head, nor by. the absorption of curare, which produces an immediate cessation in man. There is a great controversy going on in the Oamaru papers over the sur» plus girls' question. The young men are writing .stating that they have no yices and are in every way marriageable, but the reason why they never turn their -thonehts -to love is- that the girls want to start housekeeping in mansions, with pianos and other ex« pensive accessories that the bachelors can't afford. They say tho are extravagant and vain, not only in their ideas of dress, but in other matters. Of course it is not true, and the girls replied, saying so very warmly. An English doctor, resident in India, claims to have discovered and cultivated the " leprosy microbe/ and even to hayesucceeded in neutralising it. Mons. Pas* teur denies the first of these claims, the possibility of the secondhand is sceptical anent the third. To Dr. Han* kel, of Sweden, Pasteur allots the honor of having revealed the leprosy microbe, which is remarkable for its infinitesimal size. The French savant' has no doubt that a leprous vaccine will soon be discovered, but to say that leprosy can be cured, he points out, is quite another matter. "We must," he sajs, " wait for results, which are often dissappointing." A Bulletin man who is just recovering from influenza wishes to offer to a suffering public the prescription which cured ! him. Here it is : Three liver pills, one shilling's worth oi quinine, 60 drops of eucalyptus oil, one assorted drank, four cold baths, a long walk in the sun, one excursion on the harbour, about 42 hard smokes, another pill, sixpenn'orth more quinine, a free fight. 20 more drops of eucalyptus oil, a Turkish bath, and a row with his mother*in-law. All of these things to be well shaken before taken. In the case of a patient who hasn't got any mother-in-law a row with some other female may be substituted. Yesterday when Mr W. G.-Haybittle, accompanied by Mrs Haybittle,- was driving .on the, Awalmri. road, to Bulls, the bolt holding one of the swingle trees broke. The horse on ; the near side, as soon as it felt the bar on its hind legs,: • macW an attempt ( to bolt, and to obviate this Mr Haybittle attempted to drive into the bank on his right band side, but seeing a ditch there he drove over to the, left. In order to save Mrs Haybittle he told her to get out at the back of the carriage. In doing so, her dress became entangled in a projection. Mr Haybittle released this, and a few seconds afterwards Mrs Haybittle said she had broken her leg; Mrs Haybittle remained until Mr ; Haybittle had got the horses out. Mr Hickford's coach from Campbelltown was passing, and he very kindly drove Mrs Haybittle home to Feilding, where the fracture . was set by Dr Johnston. We are glad to know that Mrs Haybittle is progressing yery favorably. "Civis"in the Witness says ;— There may have been a time when we supposed that a call to the Legislative Council descended upon the surprised and blushing recipient as a gift from the skies unsought and unexpected. Yes,— and there was equally a time when we supposed that me new baby was brought by the doctor in the pocket oF his great coat, or was dug oat of the parsley bed. Those days of innocence are past. We are wiser now; the eyes of our understanding have been enlightened. I don't say that unobtrusive merit has never proved a passport to the Upper House; the case of the late James Fulton is proof to the contrary. ' But as a rule, if you want to be " called" don'i rely too much on your unobtrusive merit ! Acquire the art of wire-pulling and get hold of the right wires to pull. If already an M H.R., sit on the rail, and stipulate your price fdr dropping down on fhe Ministerial side in a critical division. Ladies who have a difficulty in getting a real good article in kid gloyea are requested to read Mr J. B. Hamilton's new advertisement on bur third page, relating to a further shipment of kid gloyea just received direct from one of the most famous glove manufacturers in the world. As a guarantee that these gloves are what they are represented to be, every pair bears Mr Hamilton's name and address stamped inside. Ladies are respectfully requested to purchase one pair and give them a good trial. — Adyt.