LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1407, 11 April 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS.

«_ — A child at Fgaire has died from eating green quinces. A lady's pnrse and leather bag attached, have been found in Kimbolton road. I The sum of £ 250 is the actual profit derived from the SaDSon tram for twelve months. Owing to the high price of chick wheat a rise in the price of eggs is imminent. The General Manager of the Wei lington Manawatn Railway Company, Mr W. M Hannny, inserts a notice to shareholders to-day. The practice of placing horses in small paddocks and allowing them to slowly starvn to death ia said to be common in Wellington. A private in the army recently sent a letter to bis sweetheart, closiug with " May heaven cberiab and keep yon from yonrs truly, John Smith." A young man named Richardson Johnson, of Violet Town (Victoria), has died through eating a quantity of grapes, and swallowing the skins and pips. Sir Howard Vincent, speaking at the Royal United Service Institution on January 29th, pnt the total cost of the war at £350,000,000 to ±'400,000,000. Mr George O'Halloran. a member of the Feilding Mounted Rifles, has been accepted for service in South Africa and leaves Wellington with the Tenth contingent to-morrow. Captain Mostyn Jones, who is at present serving with the Sixth Contingent, has been appointed Captain in the Tenth. Captain Jones is a brother of the Rev. Innes Jones, of Feilding. Lord Roberts, in a letter dated from the War Office January 22nd, states that any person subject to military law who condocts himself in an unsoldierlike manner is liable to forfeiture of his medals. Two powerful locomotives mannfac tared for the Manawatu Railway Com pany at the Baldwin Works, Phi lade I phia, have come to band by the steamer Jupiter from New York. The engines possess several new features. The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge will be held this eveniDg at 7.30— n0t 8 p.m. as advertised last night. A good attendance is requested, especially of the committee appointed to carry out the social which takes place on the 23rd inst. Detective Cassels states that ten times more street betting goes on in Cbristchnrch than in Wellington, and that in the latter city the bookmakers are much more careful in tte r methods, and conduct most of their business indoors. —Press. In Great Britain between 1869 and 1899 no less than 4,000,000 acres capable of maintains 1,000,000 families went out of cultivation and became permanent pasture. In Ireland too the land in increasing areas is passing from village to pasture. In connection with the shooting of Australian officers for destroying Boer prisoners, an old veteran now living in Masterton says that when the Maori War was in progress one of the officers of the Imperial troops captured four Maous . and strung them up to. a tree. For this act he was court -mat tialled, but was only cashiered. Ten years ago the total export of sawn timber from the West Coast was less than 500,000 feet, while last year the total was over 17,000,000 feet. This year it will be over 20,000,000 feet, and the supply is practically inexhaustible. At present 300 men are employed at the timber mills, and four additional mills are in course ol erection. In the Dublin Recruiting District the year 1901 was a record one. In all 1209 men joined the Regular Army, and 1014 took service in tho Militia. The conspicuous bravery and success of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers' from Talana Hill to Fort Itala has evidently fired the enthusiam of their oompatriots in their native isle. At Itala the 11 Royal Dnblins " had the proud dis tinotion of meeting CommandantGeneral Botha at the bead of his commandos, and fought for hours with odds of three to one against them. They gave no qnarter, and sent Botha flying from the field. " There is not much in it," said the Chief Jnstice at Wellington on Thursday concerning fan-tan, when Mr Jellicoe was speaking about somebody's expert knowledge of the game. •• It is amazing to me," continued bis Honor, " that anyone can take any amusement ont of it. You have to decide whether an even or an odd number tarns up, and if you select the right number you win ; if yon do not select it, you lose." His Honor said that he had seen the game played, but only thirty years ago, and he admitted that it might have changed since then. Mr Gully observed that it was as simple as " toss-up " Mr Jellicoe : " That is a game I do not understand." According to the Post, Mr Wilford recently performed the unusual feat of appearing for the wrong client and winning bis case, He was retained for plaintiff in an affiliation case, and it happened that plaintiff's name sounded very like that of another female plaintiff in Court. This other plaintiff was a wife suing for a separation order, and when the name of Mi*B Affiliation (who was not present) was called Mrs Separation answered it by mistake. Mr Wilford did not know his client, find Bet about proving her confioement espeoses as io affiliation. The lady innocently answered them out of her marital experience, and after an order bad been granted by consent left the Court. When her own case— separation— was called on it was struck ont as one of no appearance. A statement which had been by her that she had not engaged Mr Wilford led to the subsequent discovery of the mistake. The separation application was reinstated for a future day.