LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 2, 21 June 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are glad to report the almost complete recovery of Mr John Hugbey from" his recent severe illness. The last bulletin from his medical attendant, Dr Johnston, was to the effect that He wo'_l*T soon be about to receive the congratula-. tions of his friends, who have displayed much kindly anxiety about him.

The station-masters of both Halcombe and Palmerston are absent on sick leave. | A new paper has been started at Te Aroha gold diggings, Auckland. j A company for the manufacture of | bacon and cheese is being formed at Te j Awamutu (Waikato). I The donkey engine for pile driving at the Kakariki bridge is now lying at the Feilding railway station, and will be forwarded to-night. The passenger traffic on the railway has been exceptionally brisk for the last j few days, especially to Feilding and I Palmerston stations. Considerable quantities of wheat continue to arrive in Feilding from Sandon, to the order of Mr Chamberlain, of the Feilding Steam Flour Mill. Mr Haultain, our respected Clerk to ' the Bench, is the fortunate possessor of a hen that has laid 100 eggs since the Ist i of September, 1881. She still keeps up the practice. The Jane Douglas leaves Foxton for Wellington to-morrow at noon. Intending passengers must go down by 8.30 p.m. train this evening. Han lan was recently reported to have died iv England.' ' A late telegram received says that Hanlan is recovering from the serious attack of fever from which he was laid up at Toronto. The number of agrarian outrages in Ireland in the month of May was not so large as has been the case in some previous months. The number returned as having been committed last month, however, reaches the large total of 390. According to reports which haye come to hand from different agricultural districts, the French harvest has been an exceptionally good one. The gross yield I is considerably in excess of the most favorable seasons of late years. I The Public Works Office managed to send the wrong plans to the County office for the 80 feet span in the bridge over the Manawatu river. The matter has since been adjusted. Under the new plans the road will be 12 feet instead of 18 feet. Mrs F. J. Harper, relict of the late F. Harper, Master Mariner, died on Monday after a long and painful illness. She leaves a family of grown-up sons, who aro all following respectable positions, to mourn her loss. The funeral took place to-day. Feilding was quite lively on Monday afternoon, the streets having quite a busy appearance from the number of traps and dog-carts driving about.^ We counted fourteen saddle horses hitched up at the various hotels, where, wo presume, the riders were doing business, and settling the affairs of the country. A comet with a very bright nucleus is now visible, nearly due west, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., about six degrees above the horizon. This .tranger is evidently the same which was seen atthe Melbourne Observatory about a week ago. It appears to be travelling towards the sun, and if so will soon be invisible in the evening, but will probably be seen in the morning as he recedes Irom that luminary. We must apologise to our Halcombe and Foxton agents for the non-receipt of their files of the 17th inst. The buddies were sent as usual to the Railway Station to be forwarded, but some officious individual carried them from thence to the store of Messrs Thompson, Bros, where they wore left without remark. We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr Samuel Thompson for their being returned to our office. The following is a list of members of tbe Feilding Football club, from which will be selected a team to play the Palmerston team on Saturday next. Messrs Low, Dawson, Sinclair, Greenwood, Halcombe, Godfrey, Roe, Goodbehere, Alfred Smith, George W heeler, Ware, Gregory, Fearon, Pybus, Price, Jones, Sherwill, Seaton, Haultain, Clarke, and another whose name we were unable to obtain. Intending players are requested to be on the ground at 2.45 sharp, as the match will begin at 3 p.m.

The diyision in the House of Lords on the Bill introduced into th^t ohamber for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister was 132 to 128. Tbe Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Cambridge, and the members of 'the Governmtmt in tbe Upper ' hamber, with the exception of Lord Selbourne, voted with the minority. The majority numbered seventeen, prelates. ; " ; M r Dudex, of the Kiwitea, informs us that the late rains did serious damage to the property of several of the settlers of that place. Small bridges erected by them for the purpose of crossing the Kiwitea stream to their property, were washed away; and in some places the course of the stream was altered by parts of the bank being carried a^ay. He says that it was the most severe flood he has seeu in that place during the last four years. Hospitality and delicate politeness are displayed by the dog at. the Denbigh Hotel, which permits a hen to come into his kennel to make her nest and deposit her eggs. He goes outside — to the extreme length of hit chain — until advised by the cackling of hit feathered friend, that all is well. He is very jealous, and guards the eggs carefully. In fact he must be taken off the chain before they can be removed. A Wagga, (N.S. WO. telegram, of the 2nd June, says that two men, giving the names of Campbell and Westmaa, were arrested there as being identified with those wanted for committing a robbery on an extensive scale .in New. Zealand some two months ago. When arrested a large quantity of watches and jewellery were found upon the prisoners, who had been offering them for sale. They stand remanded for one week. Bridget (says -Egles in the siiutt) is literal. Her predecessor had left he. hired service, owing to hard fallen ill of gastric ferer. Now, in that house cooking is effected by meant of a gas stove, with which Bridget toon fell nito "difficulties. Having alto heard why the last cook had left, she promptly gave notice to her mistress "to suit herself." ■v" But won't you remain until I c_n get some one' to take yonr place P" " Do jrou want me to get the gattric fever witn that nasty stove, like the 1 ist girl did P" '

The Feilding Borough Council will meet to-morrow night, at the Council Chambers, at 8 p.m. Mr A. P. Douglas has resigned his seat as Warden for No 3 Ward, in the Manchester Highway Board. We understand that Mr Capper will also hand in his resignation at the next meeting of the Board. Our parliamentary news is unavoidably excluded owing to prtssr.re of advertisements and other matter. Cetewavo is greatly discontented with the decision of the British Government not to permit him to return to his own country. His dejection is extreme, and he has ceased to express any pleasure in the idea of his projected visit to England. The County of Fife, Scotland, has just been visited by a severe snow-storm, which has seriously damaged the crops throughout the district. The event has l occasioned great astonishment, as snow i at this time of the year (in the Old Country) is quite unprecedented. The ( iicket scandel is still to the fore at Home. Messrs Shaw and Selby have addressed a letter to the committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club, emphatiically denying the truth of the scandalous pro- ! ceedings imputed to Shaw's team of i cricketers while in Australia. Immigration from Switzerland has become so great in late years that predictions are made that unless it ceases certain districts will lose the greater part of their inhabitants, if they do not become literally depopulated. Returns are at hand for Berne which show that since 1821 the ratio has steadily lncreaeod, and in the past three years at a greatly accelerated pace. Iv 1877 only 380 persons left the canton ; in 1878 the number was 477 ; in 1879 it was 941 ; in 1880 it was 1638, and in 1881, 2881, while for 1882 the number is expected to be larger still. Nearly all of them sailed for the United States. Only 180 went to other countries, and of these 150 went either to South or to Centrial America. Sydney is becoming famous for a new sort of crime. The recent International Exhibitions have brought into colonial existence a race of well dressed foreign loafers — comnts in disguise, or chevaliers wh ■ speak airly of their paternal estates, and the large firms in — Potacapetl or elsewhere — they represent. These gentlemen get on visiting terms with respectable people, do the " lardy-dah -" on mysteriously-acquired capital, and finally wind up by marrying the " daughter of the house." If there's money in it, they are set up for ever ; if there is not, they are missed some fine morning at an early date after the bliss of the honeymoon is getting washed, out and the bills are floating in. Patents should take a goodnatured hint, especially as several heartless cases of wife-desertion under auch circumstances have recently some under notice.