Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 164, 14 January 1901, Page 2

Local and General News.

Apiti notes will appear in to-morrow's issue. There was a sharp frost here yesterday morning. The monthly meeting of the Fire Bri gade will be held this evening. The Hon. J. McKenzie, who is now at Duoedin, is making favorable progress. Dr Sorley advertises for a youth, or elderly man, to •make himself generally useful. Entries for Mr Beckett's sale at Hal combe on the 17th instant, are now advertised. Mrs G. A. Mountfort will commence her classes for drawing and painting from February 4th. We have to acknowledge receipt of the December number of the Government Insurance Recorder. Entries for Messrs Mor3head and Giesen's horse sale on Satnrday next are advertised to-day. The frost on Sunday morning cut down the potatoes io Eangawahia and Kimbolton very badly. Mr V. Laing, of Oolyton, ha 9 100 acres of cocksfoot to let on shares. Applications must be made at once. Mr Lyne, of Nonh street, 19 prepared to undertake well sinking and pipe driving for hand or windmill pnmps. Owing to unavoidable circums'ances the date of Messrs Morsbead and Giesen's sale at Mr Murphy's has been altered to Wtdn'esdiy 23rd mst. Mr G C. Wheeler, of Sfcanway, has disposed of all his this season's liomney Marsh rams at L3 3s each, to a Hawke's Bay buyer. There is a growing d a m »nd for this c'ass of sheep. Welling; on scientists suggest that the cause of the destruction of fish in Goldtn Bay may be sulphurous esha'aiions fcom the bottom of the sea following upon a Bei«mic convulsion. Mr P. Edge, of Cheltenham, has secured a place in the Sixth Con undent. He is the second member of the Cheltenham Rifle Club who has been selected for posi ions in the contingents. Tbe Wellington Museum authorities are of opinion th;u the sea monstTr found on tbe We-itralian coast m»y turn out to be a porpoise whale, of which there are some skeletons in their collection. In the small hours of Wednesday morning at Kaiapoi, the o'd Sneyds Arms Hotel, erected in 1862, and licensed up to 1884, caught fire, through a lad, who had been reading in bed, going off to sleep with the candle burning. . Dr Reynolds, of Manchester, to whom the credit of tracing the beer poisoning is due, publicly sbattd at an inquest that be had purchased some beer in Hulme in which analysis revealed the presence of "any amount of arsenic." Mr J. G. Wilson, who has property at Bulls and in the Mouat Stewart district, has this year a considerable area in cowgrass. The aftermath, which is being kept for seed, looks well, add thera is every prospect that a first class crop will be harvested. Mr F. G. G Couper, who left Rongotea eighteen months ago and settled in Dnrling Downs, Queensland, is at present on a "visit to this district. Mr Couper, who possesses 4500 acres of rich land on tbe other side, speaks highly of the prospects of tbose who have settled in Queensland- - Standard. On Saturday the Rev Father O'Meara met with a mishap. The horse ridden by Father O'Meara stumbled and threw his rider, who received a severe shaking and some braises. Dr Sorley's services were requisitioned and the reverend gentleman is now little the worse for bis accident. Owing to his being unable to devote the requisite tian to county affairs, Mr G. Watt (Coal Creek riding) tendered his resignation, on Saturday last, as a member of the Pohmgina County Council. Tbe resignation was accepted with regret, and the clerk was instructed to invite the nomination of candidates to fill be vacancy. The|Feilding bowlers had an enjoyable game o tbe Wellington green last Saturday against Drummond, ivfuir, N. McLean (Wellington), Binnie (Wnnganui, skip;, 25. Feilding— Dr Jo ns on, Wyllie, Sandilands, Saywdl (skip), 22. The Wellington combination was a very strong one, and ' our boys," b9ing new to the green, did very well. One of the most romantic episode of the recent Canadian election* was the defeat of Mr Nicbol*s Fiood Davio, the Irish-Canadian poet and orator, whose wit and fluency never failed to fill the Huuse with an overflowing audience whenever he spike. Mr Davin'a vanquisher w.is Mr Walter Scott, who some yeurs ago was his office boy. The late rains have greatly improved the grain crops in the Halcombe and oandon di-tnc s in common with other localises. In the former district; most of he crop* aie 1-tte and are fairly good, but the ea> ly-sown crops in the latter are very good «nd prxnise a bountiful return, On !• ome of the farms tbe straw will not be so long as usual but the " ears " are long and heavy. On the whole the prospects are much better than they were a few weeks ago The crops are mostly o 5 >p, very little wheat having been sown last spring. Already several piddocks around Mount Stewart are in sto >k. A sharp youngster made hi? mark in a Wellington Suuday schoo 1 , out Te Aro way, one Sunday afternoon. Ho was among tbe *m<\\ boy* of tbe most juvenile class, and the eye of the young Jady who controlled it suddenly snapped as she saw this particular small boy furtiyely munching an apple, Avd then, in peremptory tones, she called out, "Johnny— !*-, will you please put) that apple away quickly." Instantly the cul prit stood up and explained, " Please, teacher." he said, in an injured voice, 1 I've been putting it away quickly all the time." — Free Lance. The tourist traffic on the Wanganui river this season is the largest on record. Mess?* Hatrick and Coy , the pioneer ste.twbQaf owner-* on the Wanganui, have, with fchejr jyefl known enterprise, extended the steamer tra#?e some 20 iol!es beyond Pipiiki, which embraces all the best of th« beautiful scenery on New Zealand's Rhine, including all that magnificent part T* Wabi Pan ithe place of cliffs) Manganui-o-teao where tbe two i-iveps meet like two lanes io a great city, the bjg ¥# a PO r 9> the Papa-oa rapids, and the Cayes. J^ov/ that the part of the Wanganui ri.ver so ajbjy described by Jerningham Wakefield iq bis early history of New Zealind, can bs visited by steamers, his splendid dtscrip« tion of this, the most beautiful portion is well worth looking up by am one contemplating the trip. Only Me srs Hatrick . ii' Coy's, sts'iinsrs do this trip, and intv: ng tappers are requested to either >.-n ••( c with them or Messrs Co ok and . . passages, to ensure going by first lo. t oq arrival at Watigaoui. I