LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 119, 16 November 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

«. Oq page four to day will be found the prize awards of exhibits at the Show which were fudged on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday. An interesting batch of telegraphic news also appears on the back page. Train arrangements for the Wanganui A. and P. Show are now adver* tised. A woman who has a record of 159 convictions against her. was arrested for drunkenness in Gisborne this week. Right Metal, in charge of his owner, Mr A. Ra.yDor, arrived lust nijjbt to fulfil his Feilding engagements at (he coining meeting. An expert has informed ns that the cheese made at the Apiti factory wit) now compare favorably with any other in the colony, and beat a good many. Dr Makgill, District Health Officer for Auckland, was lately asked to report on a suppospd caec of iepropy at Kawa Eawa. He finds the disea>e is not leprosy. Among the visitors to the Palm«rstun Show >esterday were ibe fol'ow ing gentlemen :— Th» Bight Hon. R. .?. Seddon. Sir Joseph G. Ward, and the Hon. C. H. Mills, the trio taking a lively interest in the different competi tions. Thf> voting in Wellington in respect to Rating on the U improved Values, may be accepted as an indication t»at Mr George Fisher wli have a good chance of wiuuing the Mayoral election at the nex< contest for that position in the Empire City. Tbe Chief Inspector of Machine* , Mr Robert Duncan, intimates tha' examinations for land engine drivers, certificates will bs held in tbu Court Hou^e.Palmereton on Tuesday tbe 26th >ns>ant nt 9 a.m. For other particn lars see advertisement There were no fewer than seventeen reporters, or " pencil-scorchers " nt tb«A. and P. Show on Thursday and Friday They represented papers circulating in Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa, Wellington, ('noterbary, and tbe towcs nearer to Palmers ion. As giving some idea of tbe amount of money ihat is sent from New Zealand for investment in Tattersall's eweepi ou the Melbonrue Cup, it is stated thit from one country money order office in the Poverty Bay district, that at i c Karaka, eomethiug over L2OO is annually remitted. Directly the fine w»» impo-ed by the Lord Mayor of London on Mr Joshua Junes, of Mokau, for kicking a lawyer's clerk, a New Zealand gentleman f<>r whoa) Mr Jon s had done a " good turn " 20 years ago in Auckl tud stepped forward and promptly paid the fine on behalf of Mr Jones The committee of the A, and P, Asspciat ou enintamed a host of distinguished yisitors at a smoke c >nc»r on Thursday ev< nmn in Mr Beit's large show room, Rangitikei Line Mr J O. Ba cnelar, president, occupied the chair and a musical programme was goue through and a small toast list honored. Althou h the judging of the stock at the A, and P how was fair on a< average, yet in the case of the J^-rs-ys some of tbe people who kn >w consider that i b was not infallible. I' was : assered that although a man may be a good judge of Shorthorn cattle, it does not follow that he can judge Jerseys, for the simple rea on that he looks for • horthom points in the Jerseys— which is absurd. Feil.Mug w«« practically deserted yesterday, the m-j'rity of tie inhabitants makin . the j >urney to Palider«ton, while others bad priva c picnic of their own to engage tb< ir attention. The railway traffic was 6 jorojous and it in a matter for con g-atalation that there were no accident- Tbe authorities are de*erviug of great praise for th» imnntr in wbicf* the traffic was regulated Two shocks of earthquake were experienced in Feiidiug on Thursday, the first pbor-ly after three and ttuupcond just about 630 p.m. The latter was severe and prolonged and wan accompanied by a low rumbling. A thnnder storm followed and tbe prospect for Show day looked decidedly glnomy, however, toward - morning the weather wa- beautifully fiue,| and kept so all day. The secretary of tbe Feilding Chamber of C mmerce. Mr A G. Carty, who wrote to tbe Railway Department re tbe running of the mail train in regard to passengers from Bunnytborpe to Fetldiog and vice vti'-a,has received a reply from the District Traffic Manager, Wauganm. The latter st* ed i hit tbe m«il train time would not permit of it stopping at. flng stations, and tbe Department could uot alt. r he ex i stint; arrangements A second 1 tter was -eut by Mr «'arty i-kinu tr>at a passenger car be att-tched to th>- No tn goods tram, and the Traffic Manager has replied to the eff ct that the Chamber's suggestion woold rtceive consideration. Tbe new incandescpst gas lamp' presented to the boiough by the Feiid ing Gas t ompany, has been erected at tbe Council Chambers corner The lamp was ligh>ed for 'ho first time on Thursday night The lamp is of a novel pattern, bein« tbe only one of tbe kind in Mew Zealand. Tbe light is a brilliant one, and a decided improvement. Tbe thanks of the inhabitants of Fcldin are due to the Gas Company for its splendid gift. The delay ii thn erection of the lamp was unavoidable, there being an enormous demand for the services of the company's staff at present owing to tbe number of new buildings which have recently b^en erected, requiring gas fittings put in. In the Queensland Hutise of Assembly tbe ot>>er night Mr Wood introduced a Hill to allow cl-r«yraan to sit in Parliament According to reports in the local papers, a long debate pneued. the general opinion being that ministers of religion bad better stick to their gacted calling, and not r^sk contamination by entering politics. The labour leader Mr Price, Btated that only the scallywags of the clerical profession, who could not draw congregations or collections, wished to get into Parliament, ag they »b<>#gnt it a better game than that in which they were »ow enga^d. He added that ezperence showed that mpat plergymen who bad given up religion for pp|jtic» bad gone to 'be devil Mr Gilbert tb» father of the House, raised a great laugh by oracularly declaring that there arc wurtro places ttiao V^n^va^

There were sevt-ral complaints made at the Show yesterday that tbe Outeriug wa^ not quite up to the mark, and ■■ that a better meal could have been provided at the price, 2s 6d. This is a matter that the committee might give a little attention to next year. Mr James Barns, who is about to retire from tbe position of overseer of the Government Printing Office on a pen-ion of £197 16s Bd, ban been connected wnb the office for about 30 years. His numerous friends will wiwh him many years of leisure. The biggest m»n in Parliament, Mr Seddon, and the emallext man, Mr Pirani, tested their respective weightn during a chance meeting at a bazaar at Asburst the other day. According to a loctl newspaper, Mr Seddoo turned the scale with ease at 20 stone, but Mr Pirani found some difficul y io negotiating Bst 61b, Daring 'he Huutnrs' competition at Palcuprstou yesteidav a small boy of about 8 years of age fell from a tree np which he had climbed iv order to obtain a better view of the jumping. Two members of the Ambulance corps were promptly in attendance and did all that was po-tublefor tbe little fellow who was rendered unconscious by the fall No 6erious complications are expected. Ad English paper is responsible for a very carious story about the Damn of tbe crazy BcapegracH who murdered Mr McKinley. It is to the effect that his name is no more Czoiyosz than it is Brown or Robinson. If the legend be i rue, tbe Ad ire hist, when asked his I name, replied Niemaud, which every body recognised as a mere prevarication, Niemand, of course, simply meaning " nobody in German." Fur tber pressed, he answered, "' Czolgosz." This tbe paper eaya, is really a Polish phrase, meaning " shut your month."