Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 16, 17 July 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

The Manchesier i.ifles will -"-.-iraclo this at 7 o'clock iu thi* Feilding fo'.vu Hall. The county of Manawatu is still to be represented by nine members instead of seven as was generally supposed. We are glad to nonce that Constable Price is now sufficiently recovered from his recent illness to resume his duties. Captain Storm has been appointed Harbor master at Timaru, in place of the late Captain Rascand. The rumor that Mr Seddon, M-H.R., was to become the boniface of the new hotel at Palmerston is said to require confirmation. Mr Robert Stevens started from Awahuri yesterday with 115 head rf cattle en route for Masterton, in the Wairarapa. We learn from the Daily Telegraph that a bicycle club has started in Napier. Thirty members have already joined, and the club has every prospect of a good future. Mr W. M. Green has abandoned the "conscience" platform in the House, and gone in for dreams. He will now be cal'ed the John Bunyan of the period. On Saturday next at 3 o'clock, the H ''combe footballers will m- et on the Oval for practice with the Feilding team. Pla vers arc requested to roll up punctually. The cultivation of hops has been commenced by Mr Korlegast, a brewer, on the south side of the Hokitika River. Successful experiments in hop-growing were made near Hokitika in ISG7-8. Ma-jor Kemp is reported to be lying very ill up the Wanganui River. It is insinuated that if the gallant Major had -joined the Blue Ribbon Army at its inception in the Colony, his friends would have been spared much present anxiety on his behalf. The Wairarapa Daily says our constitution is sufficient as it stands, if it is fairly and honestly administered. It is the faith which the public have in the administrative capacity of t e present Ministry that keeps them in power, and of the doubt of Sir George Grey and Mr Montgomery possesing a similar aptitude for conducting public affairs which keeps them out in the cold. We have to acknowledge receipt of the following Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer, viz., Hansard, Sixth Annual Report on Education, Inspector's Reports on Schools, San Francisco Mail Service, Hospitals, Printing Department, two petitions from the Natives and the petition of the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company. It affords us considerable pleasure to q»ote the following from the report of the Inspectorof Schools forthe Wanganui district:— "l have great pleasure in noting the increased attention t-> manners. In my district the e -press ons, "G.*od morning to you, Sir,' ' Thank you,' 'If you please,' 'I beg your p:\rdon,' arc in daily use. Touching or lifting the cap is now the usual form of courtesy.' " If this is really the case Inspector Foulis has sounded the death kneil of larrikinism. A new rival brass band was hired to play at the funeral of a Connecticut deacon. They were playing a slow and solemn dirge at the grave, when suddenly the trombou" man shot out a blast that started the hearse horses, aud broke up the whole procession. The leader turning upon him fiercely, asked him what he was doing that for. He answered with a smile, '* Wall, T thought it was a note, and it wan't uothiug but a hoss-fly ; but I played it." The Wairarapa Observer says that limited though the extent of the transactions of the Greytown Butler and Cheese Factory were last season, we have been informed that so far satisfied were those supplying milk with the results that eager enqiries have already been made as to the date on which operations will be recommenced this Reason. This ought, to a large extent, satisfy dairymen in our own district. The industry is being pushed far and wide throughout the Colony, and we hear, of one gentleman in the Waikato who is cutting up iis station into paddocks, and starting a factory on his own private resources, so satisfied is he of the profits to be derived. The Napier Jockey Club has taken the initiative in forming a sub-committee to support the desirableness of forming an association, to be called tho Sevr Zealand Racing Association. Its chief objects to be — The preparation of a comprehensive set of rules for the proper conduct of horse racing throughout New Zealand, such rules lo include the necessary regulations for the guidance of hurdle racing and steoplechasing, as well as racing on the flat ; (2) to undertake, as soon as it may be deemed advisable, the monthly publication of a racing calendar, in which all programmes must be advertised ; (3) such other matters as may be deemed necessary, for instance, keeping a register of colours, jockeys, <&c, for the colony, also the annual publication of a Turf Register. Tho latest sweet thing in "blue ribbonism," is related of an enthusiastic temperance Hotspur, who, having joined, determined to be ou duty day and night. Proud of his daylight badge, the insignia of hiß order, he suddenly came to a resolution to sleep upon it, and issued instructions to whoever it might concern to decorate his nightshirts in a similar way. " What the dickens d'ye want a ribbon on your nightshirt forP" queryingly snarled an acquaintance. " For." replied the other, in an astonished tone of voice, " why to be seen to be sure in case a fellow is called out to a fire at night." " And have you decided what part of the slurt the blue is to be tacked on to ?'' sneermgly asked the cynic. The reply came not, but the look was unutterable. — Asmodeus.

-■ .-.i 'ii.^Y-»_iKßai*g_~a~3— —^gg »iKiWi»<ti'_fcg**awi~?"?>g'-~~ Tb.ere are sevouteen females employed in t*ie binding branch ot the Government Printing Office. Mr John Cotter, of Ashnrst, has been nominated as a candidate for the extraordinary vacancy (N"o. 6 Ward) in the Mancheser Road District. It is notified in the Gazette that his Excellency the Governor has been pleased to cancel the c- mmission held by SubLieu'eniVit R-bert Johnston in the Royal I (Martou) Rifle Volunteers. 1 A liiihtuing tube or fulgurite nearly I seven feet long, with a lateral branch, was recently found in Germany, formed hv tin' fu.-iou of the particles as the lightning struck a sand hill. Five " violent deaths" were registered in the four principal boroughs of New Zealand during the month of June, viz., 2 " overlain by mother" at Dnm-dm. I drowned (Wellington), I suicide (.shot) at Christchurch, and I sutcido (poisoned) at Auckland. ! Mr Potts, who lost everything by the i destruction by fire of the Makino Sash and Door Factory informs us that Messrs Roots and Co. have generously handed him the sum of £30 out of the insurance, j towards tbo replacing of his valuable ! tools, the whole of which were destroyed. | Professor Sample has forwarded from j Wellington 25 books for his Feilding Class. When they arrive, Mr Morphy will notify the fact by advertisement in I our columns, and the books will be delivered on application. The VVanganui ; Chronicle speaks in high terms of the Professor's book. Mr Gwynne, the licensee of the Rail- ; way Hotel, at Turakina, which was re- ' cenily burned down, is about to erect a I new building to be completed in about four months. It would be a great | advantage to travellers by rail if the new ! premises were placed closer to the railway station. The old hotel was inconveniently placed. We have now in the House of Representatives two Wilsons, two Buchanans, two Johnstons, two Whites, two Greens, and two Browns. If this sort of thing continues (says " Frank Fudge") we she.ll soon require a Parliamentary " Who's who?" in order to distinguish the gentlemen bearing similar patronymics. Unless this is done, we are likely to get mixed up like little Buttercup's * babies. Although the general characterestic of our local tradesmen may be called a dignified leisure, yet there are occasions when they rise to circumstances where energy is needed. A case in point occurred the other, afternoon. Mr M. Keen, a local follower of St Crispen, received an order to make a pair of boots at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and completed and delivered them at 7.45. Under three hours making a pair of boots was fast work, especially as the workmanship was good. The transfusion of blood was successfully employed a few weeks 6ince in New York in restoring to consciouness a man who had been found in his room unconscious from inhaling illuminating gas. Two physicians being called, one of them suggested the trial of the transfusion of blood. A coloured man attached to the hotel consented to furnish the blood necessary for the operation, whieh was succesfully performed six hours after the man had been found, during all of which time he had been perfectly unconscious. The chief priest of San Lorenzo, at Rome, having annouueed his intention of holding a special service for the benefit of " sinful editors and journalists, their wives, and children," the editors of Fanfulla thanked the reverend gentleman for his attention to their calling, and expressed their sorrow at not being able to assist, as they had to attend au oyster luncheon on the morning of big preaching, Ihe service came off, and the offended priest tor.k his revenge by starting that " the devil had invented a special torture-fork for those journalists, to scorch them in the eternal fire 1" When the Rev. Phillips Brooks was in Italy (he was last heard from in Palestine, by the way) he met two other American clergymen of mighty stature, the three together woighing half a ton. One day Mr Brooks went to a famous bathing establishment. The proprietor looked at him, and then despairingly declared that he had no bathing suit big enough for him. At that moment, withont any pre-concert, up came the second of the trio and nsked for a suit, and received a similar reply, which had hardly been uttered when number three came " with his stately stride," and with a cry of horror and dismay the bathingmaster took to his heels before what he conceived to be an invasion of a new race of Titans. Bgg3--_-------*-Br-_B----