Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 103, 29 October 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

A number of letters to the Editor are unavoidably held over. The Birmingham creamery will be ready to receive milk on November Ist. The 1.0. G.T. social will be held in the Foresters' Hall this evening. We understand Mr T. Clark has purchased 2,200 acres of the Carnarvon estate. Entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's sale at Waituna on the 6th November are now advertised. In Melbourne the wages now offered for domestics run as low as 3s a week. Marvellous Melbourne ! A tea meeting and concert will be held in the Birmingham Town Hall on Wednesday, the 30th inst. j Mr J. B. Beckley, of Sherborne House advertises a superb display of spring and summer dresses in all the newest shades and materials. The annual meeting of the Feilding Lawn Tennis Club will be held on Friday afternoon next, at the Bank of Australasia, at 4.30 sharp. A Swiss scientist has been testing the presence of bacteria in the mountain air and finds that not a single microbe exists above an altitude of 2000 feet. At a special meeting of the Rangitikei County Council on Saturday last, resolutions were passed condemning the proposed Local Government Bill. An advertiser has for sale cheap a six roomed house, with an acre of land. No reasonable offer refused. Applications to be addressed to Stak office. From the statement in bankruptcy of Oscar Wilde's affairs it appears that since July 1893 he has received about £4000 in royalties for his plays. Last Monday night was the anniversary of the wreck of the steamer Wairarapa on the Great Barrier Island, near Auckland, with the loss of some 120 lives. Tenders are invited by Mr Alexander Bell for carting timber from the two mills at Ohingaiti to Mangaonoho station, for a term ot two years. For other particulars see advertisement. Messrs Abraham and Williams advertise that on Saturday next they will hold a sale of sections and plant at Palmer st on North under instructions from the executors of the late J. R. Harper. A man named Henry was, on Thursday last, fined £5, or in default one month's imprisonment, for carrying liquor to prohibited persons at Waimate, costs amounting to .£2 16s to be paid by accused. Mr E. M. Smith, M.H. X., leaves on his voyage to England about six weeks hence. He goes to introduce the claims of Taranaki ironsand to the people of the Old Country, and takes five tons of samples with him. The sale of timber held yesterday at Kiwitea by Mr Carr, on behalf of Messrs Bartholomew Bros., was very successful and about 70,000 feet were quitted for the most part to settlers resident in the neighborhood. The prices were extremely satisfactory. The oldest New South Wales pensioner of any grade is perennial F. L. S. Merewether, ex-clerk of the Executive Council, who since January 6th, 1856, has annually drawn £900. Forty years on 6th January, next at £900 a year, is just £36,000. In a legal journal ycleped " The Brief" an article giving the profession the latest news of the Courts quotes an amusing anecdote. A well known barrister in concluding his case asked the medical witness " What was the cause of death ? " The reply was " Delirium tremens," "What caused the D.T. ?" " Why," said the medico, " It was a case of nip, nip, nipping — in fact a continual soak." The barrister said " That is my case " and sat down. It was some time before he understood why the Judge smiled, the lawyers tittered, and the public roared. The Band of Hope was largely attended by the young folk last evening. Mr James Stevens was in charge and gave two amusing readings. Pianoforte duets were given by the Misses Carthew, and Misses Robertson and Ranger, piano solos by Janet Bray and Florrie Cooper. Mr Williamson sang a solo in his usual acceptable way. Recitations were given by Reginald Williamson and James Bartholomew. There will be a reward competition next and the seating will be made more convenient for workers and the audience' The freights by mail and cargo steamers from New Zealand are to be increased as follows on and after November Ist :— Greasy wool, -§d to |d : slips, 9-16 dto 11-16 d; washed or scoured £d to £d ; sheepskins, £d to fd. There is, however, no new departure in these rates, which are the rates ordinarily charged during the summer months, and were the rates regularly charged during the year round until a few years ago, when the shipping companies instituted the practice of reducing freights during the winter months. A Melbourne story about the Dean case : — Mr Windeyer, on his way through Melbourne at the end of last week, had his hair cut at Lambert's in Collins street. The barber and he iell to talking of the sensational caße. " What's the feeling in Melbourne ?" asked the judge. "Most people thought him guilty." " Strange," continued his Honor, " that in Sydney so many believed him innocent." "Well," was the reply, " In Sydney, you see, they don't trust to judges. There's that Judge Windeyer " " Excuse me, I'm Judge Windeyer I" His Honor had to wait till his hair was cut ; but conversation flagged.