Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XX, Issue 62, 12 September 1898, Page 2

Local and General News.

A reward is offered for the return of a lost sheep dog. The Kiwitea County Council will meet on Saturday next. An advertisement re sale of Crown Lands will appear to-morrow. The annual meeting of the Feilding Athletic Club will be beld on Wednesday evening next. We have to thank the Railway Department for a copy of the time table for the current month. The best Labor Unions in the world 1 are the Oddfellows and Foresters Benefit Societies. I Some alterations have been made to- < day to the advertisement of the Waitara Jockey Club wbich appears on our fourth page. A reward is offered for the return of an iron grey horse, saddle and bridle, lost ' from Cheltenham on Saturday evening last. Mr T. Watson will sell a large quantity of drapery and clothing absolutely without reserve on Wednesday next at ewo o'clock. Mr Watson holds an unreserved sale of household furniture, removed for convenience of sale, at his auction room on Wednesday at 2 o'clock. De Beer's diamond mine, South Africa, for the year ending June 30th produced diamonds to the value of £3,651,000, at a cost of £1,458,000, which left a profit of £2,198,000. Through onr advertising columns tenders are invited by Mr W. Dickson for felling 150 acres of bush in the Awarua block. Tenders close on Wednesday, the 21st inst. Further particulars are included in the advertisement. Mr J. L Le Breton, who is well and favorably known in connection with theatrical companies, arrived in Feilding ,o»day with tbe Cowan Dramatic Com pany, who appear in tbe Assembly Rooms tbis evening. The great secret as to keeping down the gas bill, is judicious economy. When leaving a room turn down the light, if it is only for five minutes. Mosfc people will will remember the story of the wealthy mustard maker. He was asked what profit he made on the mustard consumed. His reply was " I do not make any profit on the mustard eaten, the profit comes from what is left on the plate." That is — the waste. Tlie following inquires for missing friends and relatives appear in Lloyd's Weekly newspaper : — From St. Louis, U. S. A. : Harry Keith, of Sydney, N. S. W., who was last heard of in Auckland, New Zealand, is requested to write to Ins old Sydney friend " Peto " (P. D. Moya). From Hamilton, Ontario; Martha Ward left ber borne in New Churchstreet, Bermoudsey, to go to New Zealand as a domestic servant, about 1876, Her sister Elizabeth (now Mrs Blake;, vvho went to Hamilton 15 years ago, is very anxious for news of ber. Joseph Bennett left England in June, 1880, to go to Australia. His poor widowed mother can gain no tidings since. So far from the days of tight lacing being past, as optimists would sometimes ; have us believe, it is asserted that there ' are some whose ambition for a small waist is not sufficiently appeased even by i tight lacing. Tlie Women's Life saya ; — i Positively in America the ultra fashionable woman is undergoining a surgical < operation, which serves to reduce her < proportions to the desired size ! Another idea indulged in, is said, but not vouched j for, is that dancing during dinner has i been introduced, the guests rising between ; the courses to indulge in a waltz. This, ] it is contended, prevents the food par ] taken of from forming undesirable adipose j tissue. If this is the way the fashionable < woman of to-day behaves, what will become of the next generation ? The evidence of Mr Lawson Tait, the " famous Birmingham surgeon, before the ' Liquor Commission was interesting. Here 1 is one extract : — " A drunken woman was I a different creature from a drunken man, " and required special treatment. The cases of female drunkenness which had j c mc under his notice he had, almost _ without exception, traced to mental or < or physical suffering. There were female j drunkards of all classes, even the very ( highest. As to the lowest class of women there was infinitely less drunkenness i among them than there used to be thirty c years ago. Pie thought that drunkenness c among women generally was not increas- _ ing." On the latter point many authori- c ties are against him, as also iv tlie opinion 1 that the evils of grocer.' licenses have t bteu grossly exaggerated. i

Captain Edwin wired at noon to day : — Gale from between north cast and north ancl west at all places. Barometer further fall everywhere but rising after 10 hours in the South. A " dead heat " in a race is always unsatisfactory, not only for the onlookers but also for the competitors. Everyone likes to be first, and to carry off the prize — that is why the proprietors of the Empire Co., Wellington, are so pleased that their Royal Blue has won the " Popular Stakes " on its merits. For making linen white, it cannot bo beaten. There arc other matters connected with the conduct of business in Parliament this session which it is unnecessary to mention, but which must, bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every New Zealander (remarks the I hristchurch Press). It is a fact that several members have so given way to drunkenness as to be unable to attend to the business of Parliament !