Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 94, 21 April 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

«. Me^rs Haleombeand Sherwill report they have sold seefiou '2-0, in the Kiwitea, containing 300 acre-*, at £2 5s per acre, toMr Da*rid Kilgour, of Greatford. The Bey Joshua Jones will act as chaplain at the consecration and dedication of the new Scottish Masonic Lodge, at Palmerston, on Thursday next. A building 36x14, is to be erected on Mr Fowles* property, Makino Boad, for the joint use of the Terpsichorean Club, and the Brass Band. The Reverend Jeremiah Murphy, who has been missing for some days from Wellington, and who it was feared had committed suicide, has been discovered working as a farm hand at Team. Mr Spurgeon disposes of Peter's infallibility thus : .— "Peter had a wife Now no man wbo had a wife could believe long in his own infallibility, for she would soon convince him of his mistake." We call attention of our sawmillers and others to the advertisement of the Wel-lington-Manawatu Bailway Company, for tbe supply and delivery of 15,000 sleepers. Specifications and conditions may be seen at tbe offices ofthe company in Wellington and Palmerston. There is some prospect of a meet freezing and storage factory being established at Aucklaud, the Harbor Board resolved, in reply to an application from a projected Meat Freezing Company, to offer by auction allotments for a lease of 50 years for a refrigerating store, at an upset rental of £20 per acre. Labor is still very scarce in Feilding and its neighborhood. We were informed yesterday, by the contractor for three miles of fencing, for Messrs Lethbridge and Downcs, that he could not get any men to do the work. Skilled, as well as unskilled labor, is fully employed here at the present time. A daughter of Mr Butherford, aged about two or three years, while playing with some other children on Thursday last, had the misfortune to injure her arm. She is under the care of Dr Johnston, but it is not yet certain whether any bones are broken. At the Borough Council meeting on Thursday, tho Town Clerk presented a report of 300 town sections, the frontages of which are U" fenced. He also reported having ascertained the cost of the street lamps at Palmerston, which am ounted to only £3 14s each, including cost of erection. The date given in our Tuesday's issue of the polling of the ratepayers in the Manchester Biiing re the Boads and Bridges Construction Act, should have read the 25th instant instead of the 15th. The polling will take place al the Manchester Highway Board Office, Feilding; Bussell's Boarding House, Ashurst; and the Corporation Office, Halcombe. According to an exchange, the office of Mr W. Bromfield, solicitor, practising at Tauranga, was entered by two ladies, who gave him a sound belaboring, for which act Mr Bromfield charged them with an indictable offence, but subsequently withdrew it in that form and instituted ono for common assault. We are inclined to think, however, that cases in which the weaker sex assaults the stronger in this way, arc not, after all, very " common," but tiie reverse. If brighter days are not in store for Feilding, there is at least a prospect of getting a trifle brighter nights, as will appear from a resolution passed at the Borough Council meeting, on Thursday, to erect four lamps at as many principal corners of the streets. The light thus to be provided will not be before it is wanted, and will be greatly appreciated by persons having business to transact in the town after dark. We hopo it will only be the first instalment of a geueral illumination.

°" 1 ' .'%'i+ir^~iir;ir~ , ' mi " """-B—zatsesanmßmma wai*mm*Baaa*t The rivers on the West Coast of the South Island are unusually low this year. The Timaru Herald thinks that party politics just now in yew Zealand is " an unmitigated piece of humbug." Wylde, the defaulting Town Clerk at Jfumarn, was recommended to mercy because "the business of the Council was so loosely conducted." Wiggins, the storm prophet, has confessed to an interviewer that he made a slight mistake. It sjeins that he mistook one side of the world for the other — that was all. We regret to learn that Mr Hitehman lost a valuable cow during the recen* flood in the Oroua. She was crossing the river when a snag rolled over her and so injured her that she could not recover herself. The cow was consequently drowned. Mr • O'tella, an old Auckland settler, wlto.se de.iih has alre.tdy been an. nouueed in our columns, left a munificent sum of money to be divided among the pr ncipal ch-irilable institutions of that city. The public revenue will also be augmented by his bequest to the tune of about £10,000. Our readers, especially the burgesses themselves, will be interested in the schedule of works proposed to be done by the £6,000 loan, a copy of which schedule they will find advertised ofi our fourth page. We would recommend each ratepayer to carefully study this list of proposed works, and retain a copy of it for future reference. Business must be pretty brisk just now among the various tradesmen of Feilding and Palmerston if one may judge from the number of "commercials " that have recently been visiting the two places. Only yesterday there were 10 of these gentlemen to be seen m the sister township, while Feilding was honored by the presence of at least seven or these ambassadors. We are glad to learn that the directors of the Wellington and Manawatu Bailway Company have received very satisfactory and encouraging advices from London as to the negotiations now going on with reference to the floating of the company's loan, and on the faith of their probabilities of success have advertised some large additional contracts. The Mayor has called a meeting of the Borough Council to be held on Thursday, the 26th inst., to hear and determine all claims and objections relating to the Burgess List and Defaulters List of the Borough of Feilding. Ratepayers will do well to avail themselves of this opportunity of adjusting any errors in their rates. Mr John Bartholomew left by the 6.30 p.m. train yesterday for Wanganui en route for Rockhampton. He will sail in the Sarah and Mary, which is loaded witli timber for that port. There was quite a crowd of relatives and friends on the railway platform to wish him " good speed" on his voyage. We wish him a successful trip and safe return. We are sorry to hear of the sad accident which befel Mr Patterson, of Ashurst road, a few days ago. He was squaring timber in the bush, when the broad squaring axe he was using, by some means, slipped and inflicted a frightful gash on one of his feet. The wound has not healed so well as was expected, and violent inflammation has set in. We understand that Mr Patterson was suffering from feverish symptoms last night. j We have pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to Mr J. B. Hamil- ] ton's new advertisement, which appears on our first page. Mr Hamilton has , found the "Beady Money" trade of Feilding so remunerative that he has purchased — for c_sh — the building in which his drapery establishment in Feilding is now carried on, and is consequently now a permanent proprietor. Mr James Linton, of Palmerston, negociated the transaction. The Feilding branch of the business will still be conducted by Mr Patten. The lines offered in the advertisement are specially attractive both for quality and price.