Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 3, 16 June 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

O 1 There was a private assembly ball held ' in the Town Hall last night. The Freemasons of Foilding intend to 1 celebrate the installation of officers in July by a Masonic ball. When giving a list of the Feilding Football Team we omitted the names of Messrs Dawson and Taunt. The Jews in Spitalfields, London, are erecting a monster free school building, to accommodate 30,000 children.

Two men ou board the rlojimship lioina, while nff Thursday Island, were killed by swallowing nobblers of pure carbo'ic acid by mistake. The Hon. Walter Johnston has wired to Mr Macarthur that the proclamation of the separation of the Manawatu County will be gazetted probably on Thursday next. The Makino Brass Band is now attached to the Rifle Corps, and will hence- j forth be known as the "Manchester Rifle Volunteer Band." The members will shortly be sworn in and supplied with uniforms. I No traces of poison hare been found in the remains of July, the Dublin publican, recently exhumed by the police authorities. The Pall Mall Gazette says tliat unless the Government prove firm in regard to the annexation of the New Hebrides and New Guinea, Australia and not Downingstreet will have to decide the future of Oceanica. Notwithstanding James Carey, the informer in the Phrenix Park murders, being expelled from the Dublin Council, the Judges in Ireland have decided that he is still entitled to hold the position of councillor. It is proposed by a Wellington man to raise funds to provide a Post Office clock for that city by a twopenny subscription. The value of time in the Empire City appears to be at a low rate. The Palmerston v. Feilding Football Match is proceeding on the Oval as we go to press, and appears to be exciting considerable interest among both contending parties. Nothing is wanted in the state of weather or the ground to make the game a very pleasant one. It is understood that the Divorce Court, which is appointed to sit on Monday next, will be adjourned until the 25th inst., and even then it may be further postponed, inasmuch as the civil sittings of the Supreme Court (for which juries are summoned) are fixed for that date. The steamer Jane Douglas took shelter under Kapiti on Wednesday, and tried to make her passage to Foxton but the weather was too much for her, and she had to return to her anchorage. On Thursday a stiff wind from the south west again prevented her getting in. Mr and ?.Irs gvendsen proceeded to Wellington on Thursday. Mrs Svendsen has for some time been suffering from a cataract on the eye, and the object of her visit to the Empire City is to obtain professional ophthalmic advice, and probably to undergo an operation. It is now the opinion of medical experts that the sad death of Mr Firth by drowning in a northern lake was due to failure in the heart's action on the swimmer getting suddenly into water of greatly increased temperature. This is found always to weaken the action of the heart in the case of persons bathing in those lakes, and that the late Mr Firth had not a naturally strong physique, nor was he a powerful swimmer. A fine bullock was run over by the train between Makino and Halcombe on Thursday evening. The beast was so shockingly mutilated that a butcher who happened to be in the train got out and killed it. The two valuable horses referred to in our last issue as killed near the same spot on Tuesday night belonged to Mr Roberts, of Makino, who could ill afford the loss, having already been a loser to the extent of about £50 by the recent fire at Makino. A shepherd named John Oswald Stewart committed suicide on a run near Lake Wanaka, Otago, a few days ago. He was out mustering and funded he could see people running after him with spears. He ran and fell over a precipice, and becoming more frightened, cut his throat with his pocket-knife. He lay out all night in a severe frost, and next morning, being still alive, was taken to the hospital, where he died. He got remittances from Home, which induced him to drink, and a drinking fit is supposed to have led to the rash act. The licensing system is being badly muddled in Wellington. We learn from the Post that the Cook committee allow no licensed houses to keep open later than 10 o'clock, while the Te Aro committee determined to permit houses closely contiguous to remain open till midnight. It must be plain to everbody — except a Wellington licensing committeeman — that in this way an undue and unfair advantage is given to one publican as against a rival, and this on no clearly defined principle, but at the mere caprice of an irresponsible committee. In another column, Mr Stevens, tailor and outfitter, announces his removal to his new premises, which he has had erected adjoining the Buckingham Palace boarding house in Manchester street, where in future his business will be carried on. He has just imported a large stock of excellent British and Colonial tweeds, from which gentlemen who douire a really good article will be able to make their selections. The quality of the materials and his work of making them up are both guaranteed by Mr Stevens. On the ontry of the Right Hon. John Bright into Birmingham the other day, on the occasion of a week's festivities which are being held there in his honor, he was escorted by a procession of 50,000 persons.