Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 4, 19 June 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

♦ Warden Taylor has been re-elected Chairmaa of the Kiwitea Highway Board. Mr Mansell, formerly of Greatford, has taken the house and shop next to Mr Lee's, in Manchester street, where he purposes opening up a business. The promenade concert in aid of the Church of England Sunday School build- J ing fund, advertised to tuke place in the | Town Hall on Thursday evening next, ' promises to be a great success.

According 10 Mr Justice Gillies, the avert! ge rain fall per annum in Auckland is 3 feet 5 indies. A patient being asked by his physician to put out li is tongue, said, " It's no use doctor, no tongue can tell how ill I feel." By a printer's error a company was recently advertised in a Home paper as being in " 10,0;X) snares of £10 each." The report of the local Blue Ribbon Army movement in our Saturday's issue was kindly communicated by a member of the the newly-formed society. We have to acknowledge receipt of the New Zealand Industrial Gazette for the month of June. It contains the usual amount of useful and instructive agricultural and other matter. A meeting of the officers of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held at the Lodge room on Wednesday evening next at 7 p.m., to arrange preliminaiies for a ball. Tn a cricket match played last month J at Lord's between Cambridge and England, Mr C. T. Studd, who recently visited Australia, playing for the former, made 87 runs in splendid style. A stump orator down South declared in the course of liis speech on Major Atkinson's insurance scheme, that if it was introduced in New Zealand "it would cause a resurrection." At Eaglehawk, Victoria, lately two youths brutally assaulted a man aged 70. The cries of the victim attracted the notice of some Chinamen, who captured the young rascals and handed them over to the police. There is a man in New York so mean that when he attends church he occupies the pew furthest from the pulpit, to save the interest on his money while the collectors are passing the plates for contri* bution. A summoned meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows will be held in the Good Templars' Hall this evening at 7.30, for paying contributions, appointing a bye-law committee, and general business. The burial place of those who perished in the ill-fated Tararua at Fortrose is now securely fenced and each group of graves neatly enclosed with a post and picket fence. There are three groups j with somewhere about 20 in each, and all numbered. A correspondent writing to the Otago Daily Times, under the signature of " Rachel," says : — " It would be of great benefit to many families if publicans would clear back parlors as well as the bar at 10 o'clock. In giving this hint to the inspectors, you will oblige." During the progress of the football match on Saturday, on the Oval, Mr J. W. Eade, a spectator, was seized with a fainting fit. After a plentiful supply of cold water he recovered and was assisted home by Messrs Watt and Keen. He is now enjoying his usual health. We learn from the Napier Telegraph that Mr Rawson, C.E., in the service of the Government, has been appointed an assistant to the staff of Mr T. H. Carr, district engineer. Mr Rawson will reside at Woodville, superintend the building of the bridge over the Manawatu Hiver, and complete the survey of the railway i line from Tahoraite. Messrs Atkins & Clerehave completed ! taking the preliminary levels required for the Bulls and Sanson Tramway, and we understand that the necessary plans are being rapidly pushed on in the firm's office in Wanganui so as to be down in Wellington by the end of the month as required by the provisions of the Bridges and Roads Construction Act. As announced in another column, I Messrs Lough and R. Hnstie have purchased the well-known Red Lion Brewery and plant at Palmerston, and have commenced business thereat. The extensive reputation of Mr Lough as a brewer of first-class ales and porters will be a sufficient guarantee that nothing but a realy good article will be turned out from the establishment, and we have no doubt the proprietors will meet with such patronage as will amply reward them for their enterprise. A company is being started in London entitled "The Blue Ribbon Beverage Company, Limited." The capital is set down at £50,000, and the object of the company is to supply Blue Ribbon Champagne and other beverages. Some bifi names are attached to the prospectus, and amongst them that of Baron E. G. de Smissen de Gortenberg,- as the president. We understand the affair has no direct connection with the Blue Ribbon Army or any other temperance society. Mrs Warne announces in our advertising columns that she has opened a private boarding house at Ashurft for the convenience of travellers, families, and bridal parties. This will be a great convenience to the travelling public, especially from Feilding, J'almerston, the Wairarapa, and Napier The well and favorably known abilities of Mrs Warne as a caterer and manager will be a sufficient guarantee that every comfort will be found in her establishment. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's sale of trees, shrubs, &c, from Mr Hull's nursery on Saturday afternoon was well attended, lhe bidding was pretty brisk, especially for fruit trees, and plainly showed that many settlers have made up their minds to take advantage of the adaptability of the district for producing I good fruit. The trees were strong and healthy looking, and comprised some of the best varieties, and on the whole fairly remunerative prices were realized. A large quantity of ornamental trees, roses, Ac, were sold at satisfactory ratos, but pot plants were not much in demand, and scarcely any passed off. We notice that the planting of various fruit, ornamental and other trees is being rather extensively carried out^in and around Feilding this season. Mr Roots is having a large orchard planted., surrounded by evergreens and deciduous trees on his property near the railway line, where the timb r is now being carted for building his new and commodious residence. The trees are from the nursery of Mr Lncas, in Denbigh street. Mr Jacob, of Kiwitea, was a large purchaser at the sale on Saturday, his trees forming a good load for Mr Morphy's break yesterday morning. Fruit should be plentiful in the district in a few years' time.

Amongst the passengers by the train on Saturday niglit was Mr Douglas, of Hiileombe, who was returning from a trip to tlie home country. A Bill will be introduced into the House by Mr Stewart to make other provisions for the election of school commit tees In the New Zealand Gazette issued last Thursday, the passing of the Feilding Borough £6,000 loan is duly gazetted in accordance with section 145 of the Municipal Corporations Act. Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt yesterday morning in Feilding. I he first was about 4 and the second 6.30 a.m. The latter was preceded by a loud rumbling noise that presaged a heavier shock than was really experienced. A member of the House has promised to move for a select committee to enquire into the Longhurst case. It is understood that Mr Dwan is not satisfied with the reply made to the petition forwarded by him to the Government on the question. There lias been a falling off in railway receipts for the first four weeks of the financial year, for the whole colony. The Wanganui-^'anawatu section shows a deficiency of £874 14s sd, as against the corresponding period last year. The items in which the falling off appears are firewood, timber and grain. Mr Hutchison intends to revive the question in Parliament anent the teaching of trades in gaols. He is evidently of opinion that it is bettter for the commonwealth that persons should le«rn a trade before they committed offences which would necessitate their incarceration. He also objects to skilled labor being employed in gaols. Messrs Pope and Pearson have just completed a larjje and substantial dwelling house for Mr C. Fitzherbert, on his property, near that of Mr Fry's, and facing Makay's Road. The design is, we believe, by Mr Sanderson, and is a very neat one, while the workmanship is in the usual first class style of the contractors. Several very respectable settlers in the town and neighborhood who had contemplated leaving the district, have, since the passing of the borough loan, made up their minds to remain, and are already improving their properties, and otherwise preparing for the enjoyment of the anticipated increased prosperity of the borough. The provincial directory of the Feilding Cheese and Butter Factory Company met yesterday at the offices of Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill, Fergusson street. The reports received were so far favorable, only a few more shares being necessary to be taken up to complete the number r quired to start the comptny. Another meeiing is called for next week when it is confidently expected that the required number will be subscribed for. Since the paragraph in which reference 's made to Mr Root's intended new residence was in type, the building has been commenced by Messrs Pope and Pearson. The house will be a very commodious one, and when completed will be one of the finest and best within the limits of the Borough, as well as very ornamental to t.iat part which is afc present a rather open locality. The design, which is a rather.elaborate one, is by Mr Pope.