Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 114, 9 June 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

Sir F. D. Bell will retire from the position of Agent-general for this Colony in about twelve months.

The desired haven has been reached at last : Alfred de Bathe Brandon, of Wellington, has been called to the Legislative Council.

The Auckland Free Lance says that the names of the streets in Wellington and Dunedin are for the most part apparently purloined fiom a cookery book.

The man Jackson, who was recently sentenced at the District Court, Palmerston, to six months' imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretences, has received intellegence from England, that he has been left a considerable fortune.

As we go to press the football match — Halcombe v. Feilding — is proceeding. The animation appears great on both sides, and the contest appears to be a very close one. A full report will appear in our next issue. Our contemporary the Port Chalmers Watch is now issued as the Port Chalmers Independant. We are glad to notice that the success of this journal is of a marked description, and is entirely owing to its spirit of inder/endance.

Mr John Goodin has just had built a strong and very neat light cart or trap. The builder is Mr T. Hall, of Rakaraka, and the substantial workmanship displayed in the vehicle does him muoh credit.

We understand the New Zealand Insurance Company will make good the damage done by fire to the property of Summers and Mayhew, in Gladstonestreet, on the 24th ult, and will also reward Mrs Laing for her prompt action in putting out the fire, and preventing further destruction of property.

The Auckland Star, referring to the Irish approvers, suggests that "in the interests of the Empire they should have taken care to send such dangerous characters to some place where a sultry and unwholesome climate would speedily execute the just work which the hangman has failed in performing."

The Dunedin Echo says : — "As showing what a farmer may do, we give what a deferred payment holder has done this year on 2<t) acres. He had 110 acres in crop — 77 in wheat, and 33 in oats. The yield threshed was 802 bags of wheat and 435 oats ; or in bushels, 8208 bushels of wheat, 1748 of oats. He has been offered 4s 6d for his wheat."

A man named Robert Signal was arrested at Hawera on Thursday last, on a charge of doing malicious injury to a dwelling house, belonging to the Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation, at Halcombe, on the 16th of February last. He was brought before the Court at Hawera, and liberated on bail, to appear at the R. M. Court, Feilding, on Thursnext, the 14th instant.

In a private letter received from London, the writer refers to the frozen meat as follows : — " At a big butcher's shop j ust across London Bridge I saw posted up in gigantic letters 'New Zealand Mutton.' The sheep looked perfectly natural and we bought a fore-quarterand .some chops at 8£ pep lb, which would have cost Is 2d for English meat. It was impossible to distinguish it from fresh meat."

The 'posts for the lamps authorised by the Borough Council to be placed in various parts of the town have been prepared and erected in a substantial manner by Messrs Berry and He»ld. The lamps, now being made by Mr P. Thompson, will shortly be placed in position, and another sign of civilisation and progress will then be Been in our midst in the shape of the hovel sight of a lamplighter, the official appointed to that office being Mr James Morris..

As will be seen from our report of the the Borough Council meeting on Thursday the Council passed resolutions with a veiw'of getting a foot' bridge alongside 'the wiil waiy 'bridge OVer the OrOua/and 7 also' getting - 'a ; lamp placed at the bick of the railway station, and the road 'formed and metal from , the Kimbolton Road on .the west side of the line. The whole of these works are much needed, and we sincerely hope the efforts of the Council to secure their being effected will not be in vain*: i

A meeting of the Kiwitea Licensing Bench was held yesterday, Preserit.TMessrs R. Mcßeth (chairman), G. Death and 'Gi T. Currin. . A renewal ;q£ : Mr Stewart's license for the Cheltenham hotel was granted "without opposition. The court Vfor. Manchester District was held at the Town Board office, Halcombe, on Tuesday. . Present — Messrs,'. Purkis (chairman), Lash, Kiley, .Tompkins and Graves. . Sarah Child applied ior fa license for. the Halcombe Hpf el, ; and Wm Lowe; ior .the Ashurst Hotel: ; There being no objections to either of the applications they, were both. granted.

The Post commenting on the City Auditors says: — They content themselves with the mere mechanical discharge of their duty, with checking the Corporation accounts much in the same way that a schoolmaster goes over his pupil's suras. But the analogy stops short here, for, unhnppily, the Auditors are not invested with the authority to cane the Mayor and Council and Corporation officials if the accounts are wrong, or the expenditure illegal.or even to compel rectification, and so their " boys " receive their criticisms with derisive gestures, and heed them not at all.

According to the Newcastle Chronicle's Constantinople correspondent, during the recent commotion at the palace arising out of the alleged conspiracy of Fuad Pasha some suspicion waa cast upon the Circassian women in the Imperial Harem. An immediate order was given to send away all Circassian women from the palace and ship them off to Trebizonde. The order was executed the same night, aud 120 were put on board a steamer and despatched to the Black Sea. What these unfortunate creatures had to endure on the voyage may be imagined, and it is to be feared that many of them never survived to reach their destination.