LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 43, 15 November 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

«. The Wanganui Regatta will be held on the second Friday in February, 1883. Captain Edwin wires as follows : — Bad weather approaching between west aud south and south-east. Glass rising. The Napier Harbor Board offers a premium of £500 for the best design of a harbor to be constructed at that port. A new telegraph station has been opened at Motupiko, County Mangopiki (Nelson.) Larrikinism is rampant in New Plymoulh. About 50 individuals appeared before the R.M. on Monday last, for creating a disturbance the other evening. In the timber yards of Messrs P. & J. Bartholomew we noticed a quantity of T. j and G. white pine boards stacked to be seasoned, prior to shipment for Australia. The Kiwi tea Stream continues to encroach on the Kimbolton Road, and the sooner the Public Works Committee set men on to make the necessary preventive works the better for the Borough finances. Mrs H imps on is at present the guest of Sir Wm. and Lady Fox at Westoe, where she wi'l remain for about three weeks. Thence she will proceed to Napier, where her mission commences on December 11th. \lr Chamberlain is still confined to the house by his illness. We are glad to state that Dr Johnston is able to afford him considerable relief, and that there is every chance of his being about in a few weeks. It is rumored in well-informed circles that Colonel Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, K.C.M.G., at present Governor of South Australia, will be promoted to the Governorship of Hew Zealand. The Feilding Dramatic Club has decided to give a popular entertainment on Boxing Night. The programme will consist of the well-known "Box and Cox." to be followed by the extravaganza " Bombastes Furioso." The Victorian Railway Department have reduced the rates of passenger tickets between Emerald Hill and Melbourne, and Sandridge and Melbourne. This reduction has led to a very considerable increase in the revenue returas from those lines. Mr J. Jensen, wheelright and general smith, Feilding, has turned out a first class tip dray to the order of Mr J. Belfit. 'I he general workmanship is firstclass. The carrying capacity is 3 tons, and the tires of the wheels 5 inches. Mr Jensen has another dray in hand of a similar kind for a settler in Carnarvon. We beg to call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Mr J. B. Hamilton, draper and clothier of Palmereton. The ligt of new goods presents a varied and choice attraction to all. Mr Hamilton is determined to be ahead of the times. A new feature in his advertisement is where he allows for railway return fare to his clients from adjacent townships. Mr D R. Lewers, storekeeper, Feilding, has been appointed sole agent for j the Marble Leaf Saw Works, owned by Messrs Shurley and Dietrich, manufacturers of Refined Silver and Cast Steel Saws. The above is a British North American firm, whose wonderful success in their particular line has seldom been equalled. In our next issue will appear full particulars in advertisement. There is a good opening in Feilding for an industrious master cooper to commence business. Such a one would find profitable employment in making and supplying tierces, casks, kegs, &c, &c, for packing tallow and butter for export. There now exists a considerable export in these articles, and all coopers wares have to be imported from other parts of Lhe colony. Al flic very le.ist there is a xmit'ortable livelihood to l>e made.

Ti'.e Maori chiefs Sidney Taiwhanga j ami liore I ianghuka arrived in Auckland Dii Sunday last. It is understood that an attractive prize will be offered for the bicycle race j at Ike Boxing Day sports. The schooner Ocean Bird, which is daily expected at Foxton from Canterbury, Trill be laden for her return voyage with a cargo of timber consigned by Messrs Corje and Son. of Makino. The San Francisco mail will reach Wanganui and be delivered between 8 :\nd 9 p.m. We may expect the Feilding mail lo arrive to-morrow evening with the Wellington mail. It will be delivered iniuiediaiely on arrival. The comet (says the Melbourne Age) owing to bad weather, has been seen only I'ecasionally during the past week or two. As seen in the telescope the nucleus now gets much fainter every day, and becomes quite obliterated soon afler the appearanee of dawn. The comet is at present about 133,000.000 miles from the earth, and 100 000.000 from the sun ; it is receding from Ihe earth at the rate of about 400,000 miles a day. The " pretty barmaid" controversy has been occupying considerable space in the Melbourne papers lately. The Australasian says: — -"Justification would be wanted very much stronger than is given by the miserably weak pretext that men will drink for the sake of enjoying the company of barmaids. Men who will do this are bound to drift to ruin in some way; they '^ay as well do so this way as any other." The Wanganui Herald says : — Mr A. E. Lewis, agent for New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, informs us I lliat within the last two months he has paid away £50 in claims, and the company has just received intimation from Sydney of the accidental death of a farmer who had his life insured with the Society for £500. This is the second claim of a similar amount which has been paid since the institution of the company. The society thus appears to be becoming a very popular one. A canny Highlander (says iEgles in the Australasian) who had taken up a selection got rather behind with his payments, and asked the nearest squatter for the loan of £10 till after harvest. The latter was neighborly and good-natured, and lent the money. After the wheat was sold, the farmer wrote a letter enclosing his cheque for £0 10s in repayment of the advance. The next time tlie squatter met him he said, "By tho ■way, Mr Macdouald, I lent you £10, and you only repaid me £9 l(Js." " Certainly, Mr Sherwool ; I only took off the usual discount. The hardest Jew I ever had to deal with always allowed me 10 per cent, for cash !" The committee of the Horticultural Society have, we think, made a good choice of judges for the forthcoming show. The Itev W. Worker, who has already acted as judge at several shows in the district, has long been not only a student of botany, but is also no mean floriculturist, while Mr Parker's longstanding experience as nurseryman, and producer of all kinds of garden stock, should entitle him to give a fair judgment of the various exhibits. Ihe decisions of these two gentlemen, will, we believe, be both just and impartial, and with Air Lethbrid^e as referee, we doubt not general satisfaction will be given. The two ladies, .Vlesdames Hoe and Bartholomew, should also be able to give an indisputable verdict on all the exhibits under class E.