Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 20, 24 July 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

Tho S:m Fr'.ncisoo mail was delivered in Wanganni last night. As we suggested, tlie Turakini Hotel will be erected nearer the railway station for the convenience of passengers. Mr Charles Bull returned on Saturday last from his trip to liie Australian olonies. Mr Cotter was duly elected for No. 6 ward of tho Manchester Road Board yeslcrday. Mr R. T. Seddon, M.H.R., will take possession of the Palmerston Club Hotel on the Ist October. The Catholics in Palmerston nre tnk''ns; active steps in the direction of erecting a residence for the pastor in ihat town. The Resident Magistrates Court will sit here to-moTow. There are no important cases set down for hearing. There was not enough timberat Manutahi to make a coffin fvr the man who recently committed suicide there. Patea was able to supply tlie deficiency. The costs in the Hunt v. Gordon case already amount to £1500. It is understood that the decision of the jury will be appealed against. Mr Leigh, the Palmerston representative of Messrs Stevens and Gorton, will conduct the auction sales of the firm during the absence of the principals. The Rotorua left Manakau on Sunday morning at 10.10 with the 'Frisco mails on board They will arrive from Wellington to-night, and be delivered at 7 p.m. From a statement recently made in the House by a southern member, it would appear that since 1881 tho expenses of the Civil Service of the colony had been increased by £400,000. ! Wo are pleased to learn that Mrs | Browne lies so far recovered from her recent severe attack of illness as to be able to resume her duties yesterday morning in the Feilding State School. Sir George Whitmore, in a recent speech in the Legislative Council, stated that the colony is now sending Home to foreign creditors, as interest on loans, the j nice round little sum of £3,000,000 annually ! In our last issue we pointed out that aa a northern borough had received from the Government the concession of a letter carrier to deliver town letters, our City Fathers should move to obtain a similar concession for Feilding. Since then we have learned that Palmerston also is to have a postman. We believe if the Mayor made the necessary application it would be granted at once. We regret to learn that the illness of Col. Gorton assumed such a formidable aspect on Friday last that his friends deemed it advisable to wire to Canterbury for his brother, inviting him to come up. Since then the colonel has experienced a favorable change, and his ultimate restoration to his wonted health is now beyond doubt. Mr Stevens, his partner, who has also been an invalid for some weeks, is rapidly improving. [Mr Stevens passed through Feilding, for Wellington, last night.] The pupils of Professor Sample, as well as others of our readers will be gl-id to find that Mr Jensen has commenced and will in future pursue the new mode of shoeing laid down by the Professor, for all who may desire it, with no difference in the charges. The method claims to be the safest, most humane, economical and in every way the best, requiring less irou and nails than in the ordinary style. We have no doubt that many will experiment on the Sample style of shoeing, as advertised by Mr Jensen in another column. There will be a special meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday evening next to consider certain alterations to be made in the form of debentures and coupons for the £6,000 loan. We would suggest to the Councillors that they might at the sometime have some conversation on the subject of the sanitary condition of the borough ; also, re the Public Library. Although these matters cannot be introduced as regular business yet some notice may be taken of them as an assurance of an intention to act at next meeting. For unblushing impudence commend us to a resident not a thousand miles from the Makino. This " influential settler " has been a subscriber to the Stab from its inception, and has always been remarkably particular as to the proper delivery of Ids paper. On Saturday last he told our runner that " unless his paper was left at such a place" out of his run nearly a mile "he would stop taking it altogether." It is almost needless to say that this man has never paid a cent of contribution or he would be a little more wodeal, or at leaat considerate.

Sine? the departure of James Carey, the imformer, from Dublin, it has transpired that is esfale is bankrupt. Captain Webb, the champion English smimmer, undertook to swim through the Niagara whirlpool on the 21st July. JS orris Greenirali, of Melbourne, has concluded arrangements witli vlrsLring- j try for a sixteen weeks' engagement j there. Sulinnan Sami, who was proved respon- , sihle for burning of Alexandria, was ' hanged on lOih June. He died a thorough ; coward. It came out in evidence that he looked on, smoking a pipe, while the city was in flames. A German paper has a rather good story about a lady who, not feeling as well as she liked, went to consult a physician. " Well," said the doctor, after looking at her tongue, feeling her pulse, and asking her sundry questions, " I should advise you — yes— I should advice you — ahem ! to get married." "Are you single, doctor ?" inquired the fair patient, with a significant yet modest smile. "lam, niein fraidein ; but it is not etiquette, you know, for physicians to take the physic they prescribe." In a few hours a pitcher of water will absorb all the respired gases in the room, the air of which will have become much purer, but the water utterly filthy. The colder the water is the greater capacity to contain these gases. At ordinary temperature a pail of water will absorb a pint of carbonic acid gas and several pints of ammonia. The capacity is nearly doubled by reducing the water to the temperature of ice. Hence water kept in a room awhile is unfit for use. Impure water is more injurious than impure air. Last evening a social tea party among the members of the Wesleyan congregation took place presided over by Mr Kellow, in Mr Thompson's old store, Manchester street. The object of the gathering was to raise money to make up a deficiency existing in one of the funds of the Church, which object was gained and a small surplus remained over. After an excellent t a, provided gratuitously by the ladies of the congregation, various parlor games and amusements I were engaged in and a very enjoyable ' evening was spent. At Chester Assizes, lately, Elizabeth Roberts was charged with attempting to murder her child, aged 14 months, at Chester. The evidence revealed a most horrible and unnatural offence. On Sunday, 4th March, the prisoner had been drinking heavily, and returned, during the afternoon, in a state of intoxication. The prisoner took the child up to suckle, but after a few minutes she put it down, saying, " I may as well begin, as I don't intend to give you any more." She then threw the child on the fire. It was rescued by two neighbours who were in the room, and a second and third time the poor child was flung on to the fire by drunken parent. Foiled in her attempts to burn the child to death, the woman seized a saucepan of water and scalded her offspring severely. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor.