LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 86, 3 April 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Manawatu County Council sits to-day. The Rev. T. Sadler preached in the Primitive Methodist Church, Sydneystreet, Wellington, on Sunday last. Some splendid pieces of totara timber are being forwarded from Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew's yards to Palmerston, for the Manawatu Bridge. There will be a meeting of the stewards at the Feilding Jockey Club at Roe's Denbigh Hotel, on Thursday evening next, at 8 o'clock. The San Francisco mail will arrive in Feilding to-morrow evening. The post office will be open for the delivery of letters from 7 to 7.30 p.m. The Borough Council will meet this evening at 8 o'clock, when we believe some further steps will be taken with reference to the matter of the proposed loan. The Supreme Court for the dispatch of business under "The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867," will sit at Wellington on Monday, 21st May next, at eleven in the forenoon. Mr Thomas Sexton's chess problem, which took second prize at the Tasmanian all-world tournament, is published in the chess column of the New Zealand Mail of last Saturday. A few days ago a Maori cut down another Native at Pipiriki, and without further ado Kemp and his council tried the offender, and would have hanged him, but it was considered advisable to delay execution for the purpose of seeing whether the man recovered. We have not heard the result. — Chronicle. The season for native game has not begun well for our local sportsmen Several parties have been out, but the bags obtained have been very small, and disappointment has invariably resulted when well-known favorite spots have been re-visited, and game — which in former years was found in great numbers — entirely absent. Apparently native game is being driven farther back each succeeding year.

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 3.50 p.m. yesterday :— Pad weather approaching between west and south and south-east. The glass will further rise. The illicit still cases were again before the R. M. Court, at Palmerston, yesterday morning. They were remanded to Thursday next. Mr Wakefield has been very favorably received by the electors of the Inangahua district, and very little doubt exists as to his probable success. We have to apologise for the insertion of a paragraph in which complaint is made of the Press Association having omitted to forward a report of Mr Montgomery's speech at Akaroa. The fault did not lie with the Association. European papers state that a Mme. Tamblez, living near Baden, has distinguished herself at the age of seventyfour years by giving birth to male twins. Her husband is eighty-six years old. They have had before but one child, a son. who is now fifty-one years old. Mr Lyne informs us that he has lost a valuable cow which cost him ten guineas The cow he states died from injuries received from getting into a bog in North street last winter. The only consolation we can offer him is the prospects of the Borough loan, by which, means the said road will be put into proper order. Two pairs were joined in the bonds of matrimony yesterday in Feilding with the customary rejoicings. One happy couple whose residence is in Gladstone street, received quite an ovation. About fifty youngsters assembled with kerosene tins and other noisy instruments of music, and made " night hideous " until Constable Price dispersed them. The following roads are gazetted as main roads for the purposes of "The Roads and Bridges Construction Act, 1882." Cheltenham Cross Road 2 miles. Fitzherbert Block to Manawatu Gorge, 3 miles. Foxton via Elkin's corner, to section 98, Motoa Block, 7 miles. Bunnythorpe, through Ashurst and Pohangina Valley to Block. Pohangina Survey District 16 miles. A painful accident occurred to one of Mr Arnott's sons this morning. He was riding on Mr Smith's dray when by some means he was thrown or fell out in front of the wheel which passed over both legs, one of which was broken, and the other badly cut and bruised. Dr Johnston was called in and the leg is now set and the other wounds dressed. It is not anticipated that the results will prove fatal. Only postmasters who are specially ordered are permitted to issue licenses for shooting imported game, and as our l cal postmaster is not so authorised, great inconvenience is experienced by persons desirous of taking their sport legally. It is to be hoped that this piece of ridiculous red tapeism will be promptly done away with. As the matter stands at present, local sportsmen are compelled to proceed to Palmerston to procure licenses. This matter should be rectified at once, and Mr Stevens empowered to issue licenses as in former seasons. A sample of the article manufactured by the Ashburton Cheese Company was brought up from the South on Tuesday last by Mr King, editor of the Industrial Gazctte, and deposited at the Evening Post office, Wellington. The cheese is possessed of a full and rich flavor, and is undoubtedly one of the best samples yet seen from a colonial factory The cheese from which the piece in question was cut, was made in November last on the Cheddar principle, and since that time about 32 tons of the article have been turned out of the factory, which is situated a few miles outside of Ashburton. The company are working hard to secure the bonus offered by Government for the first 50 tons of cheese produced in the colony, and are confident that they will be able to claim the amount. The Budget quotes as follows : — " Referring to Mr Archibald Forbes' lecture at Feilding, the editor of the Star says— 'Never have the Feilding people had an opportunity of enjoying such an intellectual treat as that afforded them last night by that prince of war correspondents, Mr Archibald Forbes, and certainly never has such a large, quiet, and thoroughly appreciative audience assembled in our Town Hall for the purpose of listening to any single speaker.' This is really too bad. Did the editor expect his readers would march to his sanctum for the purpose of asking, 'What, never, Mr Star?' so that he might perpetrate the old Pinafore joke of 'Well, hardly ever !' "— Very clever for the Budget. A curious incident occurred at Drury Lane Theatre recently. Charles Lauri, the pantomimist, made up as a poodle, runs entirely round the theatre on a ledge on the dress circle at every performance. One night the Prince and Princess of Wales and their two sons being present, the question arose in the managerial mind whether their Royal Highnesses would approve this part of the performance. The Princess gave her consent. Whereupon the poodle came round to the royal box. sat up, begged, held out his paw, which was shaken by the future King of England amid the hearty laughter and cheers of the audience, especially the pit and the gallery, crammed with the denizens of dingy Drury Lane and soapless Seven Dials.