LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 33, 11 October 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

«, — The next meeting of the Borough Council will be held ou Thursday, the 12th inst., at 8 p.m. His Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint W. E. Chamberlain, Esq., Mayor of Feilding, to be a Justice of the Peace. i under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1576. The addition of a verandah, with other improvements to the building, now make I Mr Gichard's butcher shop quite an or- : nament to the corner of Manchester ani Gray-streets. The side- walk in front also shows signs of improvement. Another special prize for the Manchester Horticultural Show has been promised from Wanganui. Mr Alexander i Laird will give 12 pot plants, value Is ■ each, to be delivered in Feilding. Alj though the schedules have been printed I we doubt not but the committee will find I room for the disposal of Mr Laird's kind offer. The Licensed Yietuallers of Dunedin have decided to recommend to the Association, the keeping of a register of all hired servants, with reason of their discharge, also of all defaulting boarders, to be open for inspection of members. Also to ask Government to appoint proper excise officers, with power to obtain samples of liquor from hotelkeepers. Mr Fry, of Makino, again offers his services to the ratepayers of the Manchester Riding, to represent them in the | Manawatu County Council. We are | convinced that if he is elected h ■* will be a most useful and attentive Councillor. He has considerable leisure time to devote to the interests of the ratepayers, and in his hands they will be well and faithfully protected. Until two pupil teachers are appointed to the Feilding School, to fill the positions hitherto occupied by the Misses Nathan, who have resigned, the head master, Mr Dowling, will find it a very arduous task to carry on the work of the school. We trust that these vacancies will not remain long unoccupied, as with a limited number of teachers some of the scholars must inevitably be neglected or overlooked. Mr D. E. Nathan, accompanied by his family, will leave this colony for San Francisco by the next outgoing mail steamer. Mr Nathan has been a resi- ! dent for many years on this coast, and is well-known and respected by everyone j who has had the pleasure of forming his I acquaintance. Mr Nathan was one of the pioneers of California in 1849, and as I such, apart from his own merits, he will | meet a hearty welcome in his old home. We with him a pleasant voyage, and hope that prosperity will always attend him wherever he travels. Mr Pollock, confectioner, has on view in his shop window a brides-cake of magnificent proportions. It weighs upwards of 35 pounds, and is 2ft. 9in. in height. It is beautifully decorated with the usual orange blossoms, &c, and the white sugar ornamentation is evidently the work of a master hand. We understand that the happy event for which the cake is provided will .come off to-morrow The intended bride and bridegroom are both well-known to tho settlers in and about the Borough, ai their parents were among the first settlers that came out under the auspices of the Corporation. We wish the bride and lucky bridegroom every successand happiness. An accident of a vt ry serious nature I occurred on Friday last, at the cutting in connection with Saunder's contract in the Kaiwana neighborhood, near Wellington. A gang of men were working there, when a heary fall of earth suddenly occurred, completely burying three men, named Fitzg raid, Drummoud, and Hayes. Fitzgerald and Druinmond were soon extricated. They were much bruised, and both had their legs fractured in several places. The men were promptly sent to the hospital. It was some time before Hayes was extricated, but he escaped without serious injury. The men are now progressing favorably towards recovery. 'I he Advocate gravely informs its readers that the comet is " moving westward and southward, and will continue to do so as long as it is visible." There is a profundity of thought in this statement sufficient to take one's breath away. It is about equal to an " editorial" which recently appeared in the same journal commenting on the action of France in the Egyptian crisis. Some of the " theories" in the article were found to be " all wrong," but the classic editor set matters right in a subsequent i issue by stating that " our French files : inform us, &c, &c. I" The question is, j who translated the French papers for i our friend ? This information must i have proved of great interest to the : sawmillers, amongst whom the Advocate " circulates extensively." These flights of imagination, if unchecked, will most certainly prove a source of trouble to our cm temporary and its ambitious editor.

A daughter of Robert Linton, E-q , ' died at Halcombe yesterday after a long illness. AYe have to acknowledge the receipt of a quantity of Parliamentary papers ' from the Government Printer. j The Union Company have agreed to issue return tickets at single fares to the | wives of competitors visiting the New j Zealand Rifle Association meeting at j Dunedin next month. I It is rumored (says the Chronicle-) that : the West Coast of this island is to witness the birth of two more newspapers one at Opunake, and the other at Manaia. The former is said to be a vent vie of Mr L\ Galvin, formerly of the Ifawera Star, j i Mr George Wheder, of Makino Road, is ulso a candidate for the honor of repre- . senting the Manchester I iding in the j County Council, as well as \!r Fry. We j have no doubt, from the personal pouu- ; larity of both gentlemen, the contest will ' be a keen one. | I There are now in the Colony of New South Wales G,540 aborigines. The number oi black children is 1,546, and of half-castes 1,271. The Native Protector, the Hon. G. Thornton, believes that the race is " fast disappearing —destined soon to become extinct." Mr Gichard, the well-known butcher, met with a nasty accident on .Monday last. He was working on a ladder, which suddenly slipped away from under him, and Mr Gichard was thrown heavily to the ground with the result of a sprained ancle and some slight bruises. He was fortunate in escaping greater injury. The Wanganui Heads Railway Company (limited), in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th instant, intimates that the said company proposes to construct a r ulway under " The District Railways Ac. 1 , 1877." Borlace and Barnicoat, of Wanganui, are the solicitors of the company. One of the most liberally patronised industries in Feilding is the coach-budd-ing business as carried on by Mr John L. Rees of Kimbolton Road, who has been established there some four or five years, having previously been eightyears in business in Wellington. Mr Rees secures a liberal patronage from the surrounding districts, and at the present time has in hand three new buggies, one of which is for Palmers on, and the other two for Sandon. The buggies are of a fine light build combined with strength and nicety of appearance, we'd calculated to induce custom. The repairs for a great portion of the surrounding districts are executed at Mr Rees' workshop, and as showing the extent to which he is patronised, he has at present on hand some work for Napier. — Wanganui Herald. The Wellington Post condemns the proceedings of the R.M. Court in Wei lington on Friday last. A youth and a young girl, each about 17 years of age, were caught conducting themselves indecently in the Botanical Gardens in the morning. They were arrested promptly, the youth handcuffed, and both marched through the streets in the most public manner to the R.M. Court, and forthwith charged with indecency. No opportunity was offered them of communicating with their friends or employing counsel. Crushed with shame, they made no defence. Yet these Draconian Magistrates sentenced each of the offenders to oie vionth's imprisonment with hard labor ! A most monstrous sentence. Why the magistrates passed such a sentence in such indecorous haste it is hard to understand. Their action has excited the deepest indignation in Wellington.