Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 129, 30 November 1899, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mr Greenwood has for sale a bath heater, in good order. A lady's cape and a buggy wheel ::aj • re lying at the Star Office awaiting tbe owners. A general meeting of members of the Cheltenham Rifle Club will be held in the Cheltenham Hall on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. During the thunderstorm on Wednesday {says the Gore Standard) a little girl, tbe daughter of Mr .T. Shivaa, borough surfaceman, was Btruck on the left arm by lightning. She was engaged drawing water from a tank at (be - time, and was partially stunned at the shock, No serious consequences are anticipated. At the '■■.Feilding Police Court this morning, before Messrs E. Goodbehere and J. H. Graham, J.'sP., Joseph Keen was charged with being drunk on a licensed premises (the Denbigh Hotel), and with refusing to leave when requested to do so, last evening. Mr Reade appeared for defendant, who pleaded riot guilty. Mr W. T. Hook, licensee of the Denbigh Hotel, Constables Gleeson and Twomey gave evidence in support of the charges. The accused denied . offering any resistance. The accused was convicted on both charges and was\fined 5s and costs 2a on the first chtrge of being drunk, and £1 and 2s c is for~ refusing to leave licensed &smm>

The Pollard Company will yisit FeilcU ng on December *7th. Mr D, Grant has retired from the ionieafc of the Palmereton seatMe9srs Watson and Morshead will sell io-morrow fruit, potatoes, farnitnre, etc, Mr Lefchbridge will address the electors n the Assembly Eooms, Feilding, tonorrow evening. Watson and Morshead will hold a special sale of high class furniture at their rooms to-morrow. His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington will preach at Kimbolton at evensong on Dec Ist. On Saturday next be will address a meeting in St. John's Sunday Schoolroom . We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket from the secretary of the Masterton Racing Club ; also for the consecration of St>. Andrew's Church ot England, Colyton. Mr Pirani will address the electors at Taonui to-morrow at 3 30 p.m., and at Bunnythorpe at 7.30 pm. He will speak at Mr Sanson's residence. Middle Aorangi road, on Saturday, and ,at Ashhurst on Monday. A3 is usual at this season all departments are stocked full to meet the demands of a large and increasing trade, and buyers visiting Feilding for their summer goods will find it to their advantage to visit Sherborne House. The Spectator says: — The doctor remains the only man who is habitually swindled, whose charges excite a pre posterons amount of annoyance, and who is put upon by " clubs " in a way which, if they tried it upon tradesmen, would produce an angry strike. For some unaccountable reason the coachman failed to call for the parcels of " Star's " last evening with the result that no papers were delivered along the Makino road, at StaDway, Waituna or Cunningham's. The papers will, however, be forwarded this evening and will reach the subscribers a day late, and we trust they will overlook the coachman's oversight. The nomination of Mr Fred Pirani for a seat in the House of Representatives for the Palmerston electorate was handed in yesterday. The list of nominators is as follows:— Mesdames M. A. Matheson, L. L. Gillies, Janet Phmmer, Messrs A. E. RusseU, Percy A. McHardy, Hugh Gillies, M. C. Ryan, G. S. Rumble, H. Bryant, L. Wallis, R. Matheson, T. R. Hodder, and J, O. BatcheW. Fred Hunt, the cyclist, has won another wheel race in Australasia. Competing at Bendigo Cycling Carnival last week he won his heat, semi-final and final in the Bendigo Wheel race of two miles. In the one mile champion scratch race run the same day. Hunt finished second, only inches separating the placed riders. Next Saturday thp Great Austral Meeting eomuaences, and the Marton cyclist will be a competitor in the £500 event, Ladysmith, where Sir George White's forces are encamped, derives its name from the wife of Gen Sir Harry -Smith, whose marriage was a romance of the Peninsular War. One evening two young officers in a Spanish town which the British troops had occupied, were visited by two young and beautiful Spanish girls of high degree, who begged their protection in the alarming circumstances under which they were placed. It was, of course, given with the utmost gallantry, and in a very short time Captain Smith found himself desperately in love with one of the young ladies, who in due time became his wife. The marriage proved a most happy one. A great rumpus has been caused in a section of the Liberal camp in Wellington by the discovery that Mr Edwards, the Premier's paid Liberal and labour or ganiser, is identical with Mr Edwards, the organiser of the Conservative Association at Home. Some very pertinent inquiries are being made as to who is paying Mr Edwards. The Liberal organisations in Wellington are not finding the wherewithal. Numbers of them, in fact, resent his interference in their political affairs. Others, again, regard him as a kind of fly in the amber, and wonder how he got there. They know that Mr Seddon had a great deal to do with his appointment, but in this, as in other matters which are being done by the people's patriot for the public preservation, it is deemed advisable that they should not get to know too much.— Exchange. The programme of the inter - club bowling tournament at Auckland next year, has been published. The tournament commences on Monday, 29th January, and will be played on the Auckland and Ponsonby greens. The New South Wales Association purposes sending over at least four rinks, and an endeavour will be made to have a match, or series of matches, Australia y. New Zealand. Messrs Stewart, Dawson and and Co,, of Auckland, have presented to the Association for rink competition after the tournament, four handsome marble clocks, the game to be winners against winners to a final. As the Palmerston Club now hold the Association's banner at least two rinks will be sent to Auckland !o defend the flag. Two rinks will be sent from Feilding. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail learns that patents have been taken out in seventeen countries for Heir vloniag's artificial coal. " From the point of view of hygiene," writes the representative of the inventor, "artificial coal is preferable to ordinary coal, as it loes not develop poisonous gases, creates but little soot, and leaves no slag and but a small amount of ash. Further, there is no danger of explosion or conflagration. L'be fuel which is composed of 92 to 94 per aent of ordinary earth and 6 to 8 percent of chemical ingredients is cheaper that i-oal. Any piece of land, eyen if unfit for agricuture, can be used for the purpose of producing the fuel, and the cost of the necessary plant is very low, the price of a machine being only £750. The French newspapers are extraordinary. One day they accuse the British of cruellies that not even a Mercier would be guilty of, and the next day they solemnly announce the capture of Mr Rhodes. The " Temps," however— and this is a •• respectable " paper— has outdone all its competitors. It has published a letter from Johnnesburg of the most extraordinary nature. "It seems," wrote their correspondent, " that when the lant reinforcements of young British soldiers were landed at the Cape, it, became necessary to use force in order to get them ashore. They were crying, •md they pretended that they had been ■n listed in order to relieve the troops in Africa, and not to fight the Boers. They were roped together in batches often, and the stick was freely used to make them leave the ship," It will be remembered that a few weeks ago grea'. quantities of dead fish were seen in Cook Strait and off the East Coast by masters of steamers. A possible explanation may may be found in the following extract irom a letter sent by Mr F. T. Bullen to the Spectator : — "Let a violent storm displace any considerable body of warm surface water, and Lo! to take its place up rises an equal volume of cold undertakers that have been resting far below the influence of the sun. Like a pestilential miasma these chill waves seize upon the myriads of the sea-folk and they die. The tale of death is incalculable, but one example is mentioned by Sir John Murray^of a case of this kind off the eastern coast of North America in thn spring of 1882, when a layer of dead fish and other marine animals, six feet in thickness was believed to cover the ocean floor for man; tnilest"