LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 27, 16 September 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New Zealand cheese realised Is Id per 1b at a recent sale in Brisbane. The- total number of Burgesses who voted at the election on Thursday was 72. We understand that during the summer months the regulations against tobacco smoking on the railway platforms and buildings will Be rigorously enforced. The appropriations passed in the House j for the current financial year are as fol- | lows.;— Consolidated: Fund, ; Public , Works, £1i810,i84 ; total, £6;379,774. „ .Replying to a question in the House on Thursday last, Mr Dick said that, with a view of giving encouragement jfco Jjh.e. growth of. wattle bark, the Government would take steps to introduce the right variety of wattle «eed for distribution, and that the planting; of _the railway reserves with wattles would be attempted. According to the Bishop of Lincoln all Good Templars are heretics, and the Temperance pledge js/unscriptural. The Bishop seems fond of his tipple, and stands up for it manfully. We think his condemnation of Good Templarism somewhat sweeping, and very unlikely to goocl or harm. -" ( V - ■'<■ * - : - v " The following it a list of the Volunteer Corps that will f send competitors to the prize- firing \o •be held at Dunedin in November. Alexandra Cavalry, 6 ; 'Wanganui Rifles, 6 ; Wanganui Naval Brigade. 6; Wanganui City Rifles, 6. The Martort 'Rifles and Wairoa Light Horse will also send ' members. The Manchester Rifles will not be represented. ■ " * ■■' ■ •'" '.''■ ■*- '■ We publish Mr Robert; Linto&'s aidjires to the County electors of the Manbhestet Riding: in another: column. > < Mr Linton is a much respected settler, residing near Halcombe, and would' 1 make an. excellent councillor. ; We,; however, think that his chances are limited, as his opponent, Mr Fry, is' strongly sup. ported by * most influential committee, aad his i||urn i» almost a certainty.

A firm in Pittsburg, U.S.A., is erecting a factory for the manufacture of glass shingles. ■ A son of ]\frs Lovogrove, of Xew Zealand, has become a claimant for the Dorwent water estates in England. A meeting of the Feildins: Jockey Club will be called during^the ensuing week, i Business of importance will be trans- j acted. Mr Shailcr, of Pnlmerstnn, hat kindly promised to give a photographic view of ' Feilding, neatly framed, as a special ! prize at the forthcoming horticultural , show in Feilding. j I The Eoyal Australian Circus will visit Feilding on October 3rd and 4th. It is highly spoken of by the Press, and will, no doubt, be well patronised. Mr Love, the advance agent, was- in Feilding today, making the preliminary arrangements. The McKenzie Bros, drove a large mob of cattle through Feilding early yesterday morning, on the road to the estate lecentlv purchased by them from Mr Bryce. For the most part the mob consisted of store and breeding cattle. The proprietors of the Hawera and Normanby Star announce that at the commencement of their new quarter the Star will be issued daily, its pscsent size being maintained. We congratulate onr contemporary on the success it has achieved. The continued indisposition of Mr Chamberlain, prevented him filling the mayoral chair at last night's meeting of the Borough Council. We sincerely hope that Mr Chamberlain's former good health will soon be restored to him. Mr R. W. Cary, of the " Pirates of Penzance" fame, (says a Melbourne paper) is once more back with us, and is carrying out a series of suburban concerts very successfully. . Wherever he has appeared he has met with a most cordial reception. The members of the 1.0. G.T. at Palmerston, are about to erect a handsome and commodious Templar's Hall. A site has been purchased near the Masonic Hall, and part of the, timber is already on the spot. The funds are being raised entirely by shares of £1 each. In London there has been founded a national society for the suppression of juvenile smoking. Dr B. W. Kichardson, the promoter, said the use of tobacco by the young was a gray* and increasing evil, and the effects of it on them were destructive both, to mind and body. Three cottages in Sydenham, near Christchurch, were destroyed by 6re on Thursday night last. The fire commenced in the house of a laborer named O'Donnell, a man with a large family, who lost everything. The iniuranees are Victoria, £300; and a small amount in an office unknown. We learn by telegram that the Melbourne doctors have agreed in their ;diognoses of the body of the body of Mrs 'S tent, which had been exhumed for the | purpose of holding a coroner's inquest. ;It was proved that deceased w]as eui-eiAte. The verdict of the jury was that there was no evidence to show tke cause of death. The lady died under suspicious circumstances. The cricket match at Leeds between the Australian!) and Shaw's team, which visited the colonies last year, was resumed on Tuesday,. September 12th, and resulted in a victory for the visitors by 88 runs. The teams tied with 79 in theiriirst innings. The Australians in their second innings scored 125, and Shaw's eleven only succeeded in putting together 37 in their second innings. - • ■ ■ » • The announcement of another three million loan is sharply criticised in Truth, (says the Post's London correspondent) which reviews, the financial, of t^ie colony when the Jf all Ministry took office, and says that New Zealand cannot make the two ends meet and 1 provide fox currant expenditure without borrowing. It denounces the loan, and says that the n^oney should not be subscribed. j We learn from the Wanganui Chronicl ethat a strike occurred last Wednesday, among the workmen- of*- Bfr Anderson, cabinet-maker, of Wanganui,.. caused by Mr Anderson employing a foreman who was not selected from the men already in his emptoyy JEe "men" struck "at ,the dinner 'hour* arid on their 'return they found themselves, locked out. In the. afternoon one of their number waited on :,M* Anderson, and expressed regret at had taken place, and made an abject apology/-' The^rtngnjadeii Was''dismissed. Mr Anderson deserves great credit for his resistance to this, species of tyranny on the part d*f "his employes. Tasmania !is progressing with rapid consequent, upon; the develope■Jnent, of its natural resources. It was stated in .Pa^ispaent. ; foe : other day thfctl .carpenters were getting 12s 6d per day/ and agricultural labours were not' to be bad. Tfyrep or fpuß years ago carpenters and other mechanics could only command 7s or 8s a day, an<f laborer* ;re;ere as plentiful as blackberries at a little more than half the wages. A good all-round farm hand could readily be obtained at £1 a week, or 12s and found. !he "tight little island "owes it* 'present prosperity to the opening tip'cf tfo'depa****, »ud the discovery of rich quart* rh^k

The average cost of collection per cent, of Customs revenue for the colony i during the past financial year, was £2 15s The cost in the United Kingdom ! during the same period was £3 12s.^ [ j At the inspection parade, of the Manchester Rifles, held at the ToSrn Hall, on ■ Thursday evening last, there were about '■ thirty members present. After parade Captain Lethbridtte announced that all members who attended the next three pai rades would receive half, and those who : attended the next six parades would re- : ceivc full, capitation allowance, either in I money or in ammunition. i