Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 105, 17 May 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

«, . We have received a copy of Mr Monrad's Illustrated Catalogue of Modern Dairy Implement"). Mr Larson is having a large new bakery, shop, etc-, erected at the corner of Tiie Square, Halcombe. The Auckland Star strongly urges on parents the duty of acting with the police in putting down the use of catapults by the young. The Adelaide Register's estimate of the late wheat harvest in South Australia discloses a terribly poor result The average for the colony is set down at 4 bushels 321b5., or a trifle over 4 J bushels. It is rumoured that steps wiil be taken towards the arest of Mr William Dale, the Patea levanter. It would indeed be a surprising thing if the confiding sureties were to submit quietly to their loss and make no effort to bring the offender to justice. Messrs Wratt and Henderson's sawmill closed last week, the lease, we believe, having run out. The whole plant has been removed, the whares abandoned, and the place now resembles a deserted village. The agent for that valuable work, the Royal Path of Life, was in Feilding today, distributing the volumes to the various subscribers. Lively satisfaction has been expressed on all sides with the book and the punctuality of the agent. The cemetery road is still in a very bad state. Much of the formerly metalled part has been ploughed up by carting on to that now newly done, and there are forty or fifty chains still unformed, presenting a perfect quagmire. We are glad to learn that Mr 'Child, of Halcombe, has greatly benefitted by admission to the Wellington Asylum, and it is expectid his mental health will soon be sufficiently recovered o allow of his return home. It will be evident to readers of our report of the loan meeting, that the statement that only five persons voted for the "amendment" was a typographical error, and that it was the original motion that was intended. We regret to learn that Mr James Bowater, of Sanson, was taken seriously ill on Tuesday evening. Dr Frood was wired for, and on his arrival, discovered that the patient was suffering from internal hemorrhage. The usual remedies were applied, and we understand that Mr Bowater has experienced considerable relief. A man in gaping dislocated his jaw. A Burgeon restored the bone to the proper position, and made his charge, which the man thought too high, and refused to pay. The surgeon changed the conversation, and soon told his best story. The patient laughed so heartily that the bone became displaced, and the surgeon reset it after receiving payment in advance. A terrible scene was witnessed recently in the alcoholic ward at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. An Irish machinist of exceptional size and strength, during an atta-k of delirium, killed a patient with repeated blows from a stool, having first fractured his skull. There was a fierce conflict between the maniac and 7 keepers, fragments of furniture being used, until the maniac was finally lassoed and subdued. The election of a member of the Wellington Harbor Board, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Mr W. V. Jackson, took place on Tuesday last, and resulted in the return of Mr John I luthie, by a majority of nearly two hundred. Mr Duthie is a high-class man and will prove an acquisition to the Board. The election of Mr Duthie oyer the heads of two old Wellington fossils, shows that the Empire City is desirous of an infusion of young and vigorous blood. It has been proposed by some influential residents at Bulls to run a line of tramway from the Rangitikei River to Greatford. A meeting was held at the Criterion Hotel a few days ago to discuss the question. Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., was present, and after making some valuable suggestions, proposed the following gentlemen to be a committee to confer witb the Carnarvon-Sanson Tramway Commictee, viz., Messrs McLean, Dalziell, Bull, Regg, Remmington, Munro and the mover, with power to add to their number. Their report will be laid before a public meeting at an early date. We hope the movement will be carried out to a successful end. In Sandon, tke Rev Mr Worker has inaugurated a pleasant means of spending a portion of the long winter evenings now obtaining, by holding, in the schoolhouse, on each Tuesday evening, a meeting of ladies and gentlemen who afford each other mutual amusement and instruction by readings, recitations, and j music. Mr Bircham, who is a host in himself, takes an active part in the pro ' ceedings, and contributes largely to the increasing popu arity of the assemblies. Mrs and Miss Worker are both excellent musicians, and their duets and solo performances on the piano are highly appreciated, while their accompaniments to the songs area great assistance to the vocalists, among whom Mr John Sanson occupies _ foremost place. We would like to see something of this kind established in Feilding.

The English mail, via San Francisco, closes at Feilding to-morrow night. In Victoria 50.000 people are members of Friendly Societies. The whole issue of the Dublin United Irishman was seized on March 24tb. Tiie increase in banking advances during 1882 in Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand amounted to ten millions. Amongst the immigrants to Wellington by the British Queen, w;is an Irishman, 6 feet 8 inches high, and only 22 years of age. Delegates of the Irish societies had -m uproarious meeting in New York, a few weeks ago, and declared " dynamite to be the policy of the future," Mrs Nuker, the first woman ever sentenced to public execution in New England, U.S.A., was hung at Windsor, Vermont, on March 30th. Archibald Forbes has been a guest of Sir \V. J. Clarke, at Kupert's Wood, in Victoria. He will visit Queensland, and rt-'urn to England in June by the 'Frisco M-r-.U Steamer. We are glad to learn that the canvassing has been most successful in the Kiwitea by the sub-committee, formed for the purpose of promoting a cheese and butter factory. From Timaru we learn that the amount of damage done by the late floods is now found to have been considerable, and large sums of money will have to be spent by the local bodies and the railway department to make repairs. The Lyttelton Harbor Board have passed a resolution authorising their chairman to again urge upon the Government the necessity of the work of the port defences being at once put in hand. We regret to learn the death of Miss Kitchen, a young lady well known in Wanganui as a brilliant singer, and who favored a Feilding audience on one occasion. She died at her parents' residence, in Wangauui, on the loth instant? deeply regretted. It is said that in England -luring the twelve years that have passed since Charles Dickens' death, more than 40,000,000 copies of his works have been sold. " Pickwick " heads the list in popularity, while the " Tale of Two Cities," perhaps his best, takes the lowest, or next lowest place. An unusual incident occurred at the Epsom parish church recently. The curate had read for the third time the bands of marriage between a youth named Badcock, residing at Sutton, and a young woman named Hooker, living at Epsom, when the father of the former arose, and in a loud voice exclaimed, "I forbid it." He was requested to go into the vestry after the service had ended to explain the nature of his objection. The Executive officers and members of Court Loyal, Feilding, A.0.F., are displaying most commendable energy in futhering the objects of their order. At a Court held last evening one member was initiated, and three proposed for initiation. It was intimated that a section of land had been purchased on which to erect a lodge room. A Building Committee was appointed to carry out the arrangements. It is piobable that a reading room will be attached to the building. A Parliamentary return gives the number of evictions in Ireland which have come to the knowledge of the constabulary during the year ended 31st December, 1882, the number of families readmitted as caretakers during the same period. The number of families evicted is givtn at 5201, representing 26,836 persons, of which 198 families, or 883 persons were readmitted as tenants, and 2331 families, or 122,338 persons, were admitted as caretakers. In Ulster there were 1176 evictions; Leinster, 1091 ; Connaught, 1457 ; and Munster', 1477.