LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 350, 22 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are 7834 permanent hands employed on the New Zealand Bailways, in addition to the large number of casual hands. Entries for the December examination with the Trinity College of Music, London, close with Mrs Slierwill, the local secretary, on Saturday next. Dr. Frengley, Health Officer for the Wellington Province, is at present in this district. He has visited Apiti, Rangiwahia, and the surrounding part, and will return to Feilding to-day. A most successful practice of the Liedertafel was held last night and, by the form displayed, everything bids fair for a vocal and musical treat at their initial concert, which takes place on Friday, the 6th of September. The train from the north this morning was very full of passengers, including a large contingent of pupils from Miss Taylor's school (Nga Tawa), Marton, whose personnel should prove a good advertisement for this excellent school. A magic lantern entertainment is to be given at Makino, in Mr Corpe's Sunday School room, to-night, at 7.30. The entertainment is free, and there will be no collection. All the people, old and yoyng, in the locality are invited to be present. We remind the public of th© social to be held at Awahuri on Friday evening. The committee wish to reduce the debt on their hall, so strong support is asked for. All arrangements have been made for a pleasant evening with games, songs, and dancing. "Colored rain," in the shape of millions of little red, green and yellow insects, fell recently at Angers, France. The phenomenon lasted several hours, and so numerous were the insects that they choked the water pipes in th 6 town and were shovelled up in the streets by the cartload. The Melbourne health authorities are prosecuting with great vigor a campaign against vendors of adulterated milk. A number of convictions are being obtained against keepers of fruit shops and refreshment rooms, who, it is said, skim milk to obtain the cream for strawberries. The skimmed milk is then artificially coloured, and 6old as the genuine article. In some of the samples analysed practically all the fat had been extracted. At Palmerston a boy named Sydney Carson, aged 12 years, whose parents reside in Rangitikei Line, shot himself with a pistol in his bedroom yesterday morning, the wound being in his forehead. The boy died in Mrs Freeman's Hospital last night. The pistol was purchased from another youth, and the father of the deceased instructed his son before the accident to return the weapon. An inquest is being held to-day. Bishop Stretch (Newcastle), who will be known to many persons as one of the most ardent admirers of I pure sport, and who, himself has been an athlete of no mean ability, was asked by a Sydney Daily Telegraph representative what he thought of the introduction of professionalism into football. "It seems to me," he replied, "that professionalism spoils every game it touches. But if the public make continued demands upon the people who give up much of their time for their amusement, then they had no right to complain of the action of the players. It's a deplorable thing, however, when sport is dragged into business, and is allowed to get n the way of both."

j As a siga of. their appreciation of | the great services rendered to the cause of technical education in the district, the Wanganui Education Board last night unanimously voted Mr G. D. Braik, the Superintendent a salary of £50 a year. The death is announced of Mr Allan M'Lean, of Te Arai, Gisborno, aged 77. The deceased was a wellknown sheep farmer and a prominent member of the Gisborne Caledonian Society. Nominations for all events at the Rangitikei Racing Club's Spring Meeting will close with the Secretary at the Office of the Club, Bulls, on Saturday, 24th August, 1907, at 9 p.m. The total amount spent on buildings in Dunedin during the last financial year reached £300,000. This includes £50,000 spent on the new railway station, and is the largest expenditure for the past nine years. An employee at the Marton Railway station, Alfred Marshall, was admitted to the Palmerston Hospital last night suffering from the results of being crushed between a locomotive and a coal bunker. One of the heaviest bullocks killed in Tauranga for some time was slaughtered last week, says tlie Bay of Plenty Times. The animal was of tho shorthorn breed and weighed 13001 b. It was fattened by Mr T. Lemon, of Te Puke. At the Auckland quotation of 23s per 1001 b, the bullock would be worth £14 19s. The Oroua Tennis Club members conducted a card party and dance in the Oddfellows' Hall last night. There were about 70 present, and the gathering was thoroughly enjoyable. During the interval th© trophies for the ladies' and gentlemen's championship and handicap singles in the past season's tennis matches were presented. A burglary was committed at Wai tara between eleven on Saturday night and early on Sunday morning. The Masonic Hotel was entered, and the cash register and safe containing about £30 was taken. It appears that duplicate keys were kept m the office next to the bar and that the thief used one of these to open the bar-room door and the safe. The keys were afterwards carefully puc back in their places, and nothing else was disturbed. The police have the matter in hand. At the beginning of the year the London Daily Mail, ever on the lookout for novelties and fresh blood, ira ported an American editor to show English journalists how to "hustle up | and do things." His salary was '. £5000 a year,it is said — enough to . encourage remarkably good work. Since then (says an exchange) the Daily Mail and other Harmsworth pa. i pers have had to pay damages totall- , ing £100,000 to Mr Lever, of Suni light soag fame, and Messrs Watsoi ; and Co., another big soap firm. It 1 would bo interesting to know whether this was the result of American methods. An undoubted attraction at the bazaar and entertainment, to he 1 held in the Drill Hall to-morrow afternoon and evening in aid of the 1 Maori and Melanesian Missions, will be Madame Korea, a clever exponent of clairvoyance, palmistry and phrenology. Madame Korea possesses many flattering testimonials from i people who have followed her advice regarding marriage, occupation, " changes, and journeys, and all these who have consulted her freely admit that she has a wonderful knowledge of the three subjects mentioned. Advice will be given for a small fee. i Mr C. H. Poole, M.H.R., for Auckland, is generally acknowledged as one of the wits of the House, and his ' lecture in the Drill Hall here on Monday next, on the subject of a trip through the United States, under the title "Making Friends with Uncle Sam," is bound to be rich in Irish humour and wit. The lecturer is a keen observer, and having a wide kuowledge of life and affairs, his remarks are certain to be interesting. Mr Fred. Pirani will take the chair at the. lecture, which is to be in aid of the Wesleyan Church pipe orgon fund. A local medical man has added a new epidemic to his long list of diseases, etc. He has called it tangiitis, on account of its prevalence during the Maori tangis. The complaint, which is caused by over-eat-ing, over-drinking and over-sleeping, is far more serious than one would imagine. During the recent tangi at Waiwetu, quite a number of natives were seriously ill with the complaint, and it is possible that some of them will not recover. It is a common ocourrenca for natives attending tangis, to contract the complaint, with fatal results. We are sorry to sny that tnngi-itis is not only confined to \he natives, but is often contracted by the pakeha. — Wairarapa Age. The American correspondent of the , London Chronicle states that the . University boat race between Harvard and Yale, which was rowed at Gale's Ferry, Connecticut, in which the Yale crow won, was notable for the ; | arrest of Mr E. H. Harriman, the railway magnate. Though warned against doing so, Mr Harriman insisted upon following the racing shells in a naphtha launch. This being , against the regulations, Mr Harriman was arrested and his launch seized. He was not personally detained, "but on the following day was | fined, it is reported, in the maximum amount (£100) because he disregarded i lie orders of the officers keeping the 1 course. The searchlights to be fitted to his Majesty's battleships now being built ' on the Clyde are of extraordinary 1 power. The Glasgow Evening News says it would be possible to read a newspaper by the light of one at a distance of about 18 miles. The projector of these wonderful lights ie i no less than 48in diameter, and the illuininant is the electric arc. The ' apparatus is directed by means of electric motors instead of, as previously arranged, by hand. One curious fact about these and similar pro- | jectors is that a man standing quite (lose in front of the lens is not dazzled by the light, whereas one standing 20ft away is so blinded that he would | be unable to see that the first man was standing in the light at all. The rearer man, however, would find his position untenable, as the heat from the projector is intense- [ The exclusion of a representative >! the Pope from The Hague Peace Co iference is described by Archbishop Farley, of New York, as a great blunder (says the London Tablet). Speaking at the commencement exercises a\ Manhattan College, His Grace said: "It was a grave, serious Blunder this leaving out of the council of the nations the all-important head of the Church. He is the head and director ot 300,000,000 men. This mistake wi'l be realised later on. The time is coming when the Holy See will be call- : ccl in to aid this movement for uniI ver.sal peace. He exercises a miglij tier power than all the combined heads of nations represented at The Hague. He rules the heart and not j the body. He is a great agent fP 1 ' j peace, for when Peter speaks all Catholics bow down." The 'annual sale of work of the St. John's Girls' Missionary Guild will | be opened in the Drill Hall to-mor-j row, at 2.30 p.m. These annual, sales are so well known to the public of Feilding and district that it is only necessary to say that the sale tomorrow will be -up to the custorary high standard. Among the attrac- ! tions will be a bran tub. One of , the principal stalls is the work stall, at which is offered a multitude of articles which are constructed . for the special purpose of pleasing the artistic and critioal eyes of lady patrons, ; care being taken at the same time, to see that the articles comprise a great Variety of useful things. Other stalls are the produce, curio, sweets, «tc., and the v«ry necessary refreshment stall. In addition to this group of attractions, there will be a bevy of fair girls, to the number of 40, who will attend to the requirements of visitors. The beauteous army will be dressed in pierette costume, which are described as being very striking, attractive, and win-^ ning. In the evening, a programmer: comprising music, dances of a kind new to Feilding, and tableaux will be put upon the stage. Altogether, the members of the Guild have endeavoured to make this aale excel in every particular.

i The Beautifying Society are having erected a summer house, in Manchester Square, in the centre of the plot 1 nearest the Postr Office. ! At the meeting of the Board of . Governors of the Wanganui Girls' ' College last night, Messrs G. Carson . and 6. D. Braik were appointed ofi ficial visitors to the College. The essie McLachlan Scottish Concert Company will give a concert at '. the Drill Hall on Monday, September 9th. Since Miss Jessie Maclachlan's last visit to New Zealand she has travelled through the length and breadth of the colonial empire, and | wherever she has been she has met i with the greatest enthuiasm. Her | singing of the Scottish Folk Song and ; the Border Ballads have created quite as much enthusiasm as on her former { visit. During her stay in Edinburgh ; Miss Maclachlan secured the services of Mr Douglas Young, who bears the j reputation of being the finest tenor : that Scotland has yet produced. His 1 voice is said to be of beautiful quality and extensive range, and he sings with a full sense of the beauty of the words and music, yet with such , artistic simplicity that he never fails to get into sympathetic touch ' with his audience. A most pleasing feature of the concert programme is ' the duet singing of Miss Maclachlan : and Mr Young. In addition to the two principals, the other members of the company are Mr John McLinden, . the eminent young Scottlish cello player, and Mr Robert Buchanan, | the latter of whom acts as accompanist and musical director.