Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 112, 5 June 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

Applications for shares in the Feilding Cheese and Butter Factofy are coming in satisfactorily.

The Promenade Concert in aid of the Church of England Sunday School Building will take place on Thursday, the 21st instant.

On Saturday evening last Mrs Dowling tendered to the Chairman of the School Committee her written resignation as teacher of the Feilding State School.

The Councillors who retire from the Borough Council in September next, are Crs Lewera. Loudon, and Rutherford. Of course these gentlemen will be eligible for re-election. The charges brought against Messrs Malcolm and Gillett for larceny as bailees by Mr Tricklebank, of Palmerston North, were dismissed without entering into the defence.

Another entertainment in aid of the school prize fund at Taonui is to take place next week, further particulars of of which will be announced in advertisement.

The monthly meeting of the Manawutn County Council was held at Foxton today, commencing nt 10 o'clock. A full report of the business will appear in our next issue.

On Sunday last Messrs Sherwill and Dawson returned from their tour through the interior of this island. They had a good time, and were highly delighted with the scenery of the Luke country. They speak in most favorable terms of the Pateterc settlement.

A well-clad and respectable man recently created a great stir in London by promenading the streets sandwiched between two boards which bore these placards : " Geneivil Post-office — Discharge for not saluting a clerk. Twentyfive years Her Majesty's servant."

Tlie panic which occurred recently on the suspension bridge between York and 1 Brooklyn resulted in the death of twelve persons. Thirty-five were injured, and it is expected that a number of those will prove fatal. The scene that followed the cry that the bridge was unsafe is said to have been a terrible spectacle.

Tyro gentlemen, Messrs Harcourt and Langstone, formerly residents in this district, but who, from "the frowns of an adverse fate" were compelled to seek other fields in which to exercise their abilities as financiers, are now resident in the city of Auckland, and are sever ally flourishing — "like a green bay tree."

On the Ashurst Road, about half way from Hitchman's to the village of Ashurst, there exists a dangerous hole, caused by the decay of the timbers of which a culvert is made, or from the metal having fallen in during the recent heavy rains. Its position is marked by some planks, and it is a dangerous obstacle for pedestrians and horses, and should be seen to at once.

Mr Francis Berry intimates in another column that he has commenced business as a dealer in horses and general commission agent. He is prepared to select draught, saddle, buggy, or ladies' horses, and as he intends visiting all the breeding establishments, as well as the auction sales in the principal centres of the West Coast, Napier, and Wairarapa, he will have every opportunity of supplying the wants of his patrons, and of vending superfluous stock.

When the case of Wilimott against RUey,- as reported elsewhere, had been decided in the Court yesterday, and it was found that the prisoner had no money, and would have to undergo the alternative of a fortnight's imprisonment, Mrs Wilimott, wife of the plantiff, with true womanly instinct and huuinne feeling, volunteered to pay the 40s fine and costs, deeming that the ends of j ustice had been gained by the man being made a public example. She therefore paid the money, and the prisoner was liberated.

As many persons are under the impression that the ordinary sitting of the Feilding R.ivl. Court is held fortHightly we may mention that strictly speaking this is not the case. The Court is appointed for the second and fourth Wedr nesdays of each month, so that about once in each quarter there is an interval of three weeks, as will be the case between the last ordinary sitting and the next one, which takes place to-morrow week instead of to-morrow, as it would have happened had the court been fortnightly.

We understand that an individual, who made himself somewhat active in opposition to the loan proposals decided on Saturday, is not satisfied with the fact thatnbout 140 persons differed in opinion from him and had the courage to give expression to such opinions, a virtue thafwas not exercised by the individual in question, as, we understand, he did not vote; This discontendeil burgess has stated l>is intention of visiting Wellington and upsetting the c ectioi. We wish him a pleasant trip. • '