LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 6, 5 July 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I There was no meeting of the Manchester Highway Board on Monday, a quorum not boing obtainable. Inspectoi James was a passenger from Wanganui to Palmerston yesterday. He will visit Feilding to-day. Messrs W. L. Bailey Bros' sawmill, at Taonui, is stopped for the current week. in order that some necessary repairs to the engines can be completed. Another suburban section on Kimbolton Road was sold on Monday by Messrs Haleombe and Sherwill, containing live acres, at £20 per acre. Mr John Whileombe, of the l.uahine station, has leased his property at Kiwitea, aud proceeds to England by Iho San Francisco mail boat. He will be absent about eighieen months. The total number of passengers that travelled on the Wanganni-Manawa.u Railway for the year ending 1882, was 12283, against 10493 for the year ending 1881. Cnc hundred head of mixed cattle were sold by Mr Fred Bryce on the Ist inst to Messrs < arlyle and Saxby, two gentle* men from Napier. The prices were satisfactory to both parties. The hop-poles used by Messrs B-mes and Ward in their respective hop-g.-rdens arc obtained at Mount Taylor. We understand these gentlemen intend increasing Lhe area of their gardens by (wo acres each. We ha\e no doubt but that ihey will reap a plentiful return for their outh.y. An Auckland tradesman informs the Herald that he has advertised for a boy nine times in succession. He has come to the conclusion that the youngsters don't want hard work, but Government billets. This would apply also to Feilding. Mr Jennins. near Awa Huri, makes the same complaint. Sir Julius Vogel was a passenger by the Ringarooma to the Bluff on the 3rd j instant. His reception by his old friends > in Dunedin will, no doubt, be a liearly I one, and his utterances will be ceriainly watched with considerable interest. and duly telegraphed all over the country. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the second number of Mr Ferguson's capital production, " The Settlers' i Friend." The number before us is quiie ;up to the previous issue in point of ex--1 eellence and general get-up. besides con- ; taining a large and varied amount of iu* ; formation on gardening and farming j topics. ! The Palmerston Ready Money Store ', has recently undergo ie extensive dUeraI ti >ns, and is now one of the mostcommoI dious places of business on the We .t ' Coast Uuder the al le supervision oc Mr | Fowler, the cour 'ejus and energetic manager, the business connections of this w. -11I known establishment are extending ;11 over the dis Iri ct. The works at the Kakariki Bridge arc | beingpushed on with all convenient speed. There are now three donkey engines at work pile-driving. As the men are working from both sides of the river, we anticipate that another month will see the job so far completed as to admit of liviins running over it, or at least carriages for the convenience of passengers, if heavy traffic is not permissable. It will be soon by a telegram published I elsewhere, that Cui'eau, the assassin of President Garfield, has paid the pt-mil.v for his atrocious crime. The trial of Guiieau is one of the mosc rema.'kablo on reoord, and notwithstanding the repealed attempts made by his friends to prove his insanity, and his irresponsibility for his monstrous crime, his sanity was clearly proved, and the prisoner sentenced to death. There vrtwmany who thought a respite would be granted him at the last moment, but justice was demanded, and on Friday last, at New York, his execution took p ace. We understand Palmerston is to have another brewery, preparations for ihe establishment of which we learn ave now under way. Mr H. Wollerman, the weilLnown w'ine aud spirit merchant, is tie leading spirit in the movement, and no moro energetic and capable man could be found for the successful inauguration of such a business. Mr Wollerman passed through by train on Monday night for Wanganui. to arrange certain preliminary matters in connection with his new venture. A srecial announcement in connection with lhe above will shortly appear in our columns. We wish Mr. Wollerman all the success his enterprise deserves.

Yesterday was the glorious 4th of July — tlie anniversary of the Declan-t on of Independence by the Uniied States of America in the year 1776. It is always a pleasure to chronicle the arrival of new settlers in our district, more especially when they are old and experienced colonists We notice that Mr Hay has taken up a house and land i nt Kiwilea, Mrs Campion has settled on her property on the banks of the Oroua iver, Messrs Wratt and Carter have settled at Bunnythorpe, and two families ; nimed M.ixwell on the Ashurst road. The whole of these settlers have been for some years residents at Bulls. We understand a movement is on foot for starting aßeehabite Tent in Feilding. A meeting is called for 8 o'clock on Saturday night next, to be held at the Good Templars Lodge Room, Manches-ter-stir t, for the purpose of forwarding an application for a dispensation. Rechabite Lodges are becoming numerous all over the colony, and like all other benefit societies, are of incalculable benefit to sreiely at large. We wish the movement every success. In another column will be found correspondence between the Colonial Secretary and Mr F. G. Bryce, of Kiwitea, witli ref.-re oe to the new Highway District of Kiwitea; also Mr Bryee's reply. in winch lie requests that the election for members should be held on one day at Mr Lewor's store, Cheltenham, and that the Returning Officer be H- L. Sherwill. Esq. The creation of this Highway District will be of considerable benefit to Kiwitea settlors. Rumor is already busy witb the names of probable candidates to fill the present vacancy in the Mayoral chair, caused by the resignation of Mr Macarthur. The name of Mr Frank Leth bridge is mentioned, a gentleman who possesses the respect and esteem of his fellow townsmen to a large degree. The names of Messrs Chamberlain, Lewers, and Higgin are also spoken of, so that the burgesses will have some difficulty in making a choice where there are so many able men to select from. We hope in a few days to be able to announce definitely the names of candidates. We are informed by a resident iu the Kiwitea that re. enfly he walked over tbe intended continuation of the Kimbolton road, for abouc seven miles beyond the boundary of the Kiwitea Block. He found the couutry level with the exception ot' one or two gentle rises. The soil is first class, and covered with light bush. There is also plenty of splendid water. The grade is very easy, and every way suitable for the purposes of a railway line. This is part of the route known as Barton's line, and we trust that the Government will consider the superior claims of this above all other rouies proposed for connecting the Auckland and West Coast Railways. Captain Bur! on and Commander Cameron bring to l.ngl.uid such accounts from the Gold Coast of Africa that geographical and scientific circles are interested. They report the presence of £old in such quantities that Eastern Africa must repeat the auriferous history of Australia and California. A profound sensation has been caused in diplomatic circls throughout Europe by the statement made by the Imperial Chancellor in the German Reichstag. Prince Bismarck took occasion to avow his conviction that matteis were rapidly ripening for a crisis, and predicted a general upheaval throughout Europe at an early date. The Seligums, influential Jewish financiers in New York, have been advised by cable that Count Ignatieff intends presenting to the Czar a Bill to confiscate ail the property o' the Jews in Russia, and the sender of the telegram urges that the American Government be begged to use their gooo offices to prevent the signing of the decree. Apprehensions are felt for the health of the Pope. His solitary confinement in tlie Vatican is evidently telling disastrously on his health, and causing great prostration. His digestion is greatly disordered, and his medical adendant* advise some immediate change of air. It is feared that he will absolutely refuse to leave the Vatican. One rather curious petition now before Parliament (says the I'ost) is that of Mr J. L. Wilson, produce merchant, of Christchurch, who complains that a telegram sent to him, ordering 10 tons of potatoes, was incorrectly transmitted as an order for 60 tons, which he accordingly sent, and of which delivery was refused to be taken, thus causing him a loss of £164, for which he prays Parliamentary redress. Major Harris, the recently-elected member for Franklin, may be looked on as the wit of the House. Of an agreeable manner, possessed of a smiling countenance, he cannot enter into conversation or make a speech without making a joke. In fact, he picks up wit as pigeous peas, and undoubtedly may be aptly described as altogether the funny man of House On one occasion, when Sir George Grey stood silent on the floor of the House for over an hour, and declined either to speak or sit down, Major Harris, with inimitable seriousness, asked whether all this silence would be reported in Hansard. This joke abne is enough to hand the * Major down to posterity. — Saturday Advertiser.