Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 23, 31 July 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

• ''. - The game season for pheasants and native game closed to-day. MrCottle, dentist, will be in Feilding Wednesday, August Bth, andean be consulted at Bellve's Empire Hotel from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tlie present session of Parlinnient will terminate in about three weeks time. The Government have apparently determined on appointing a Minister of Railways. Tli« next sitting of the Supreme Court in Wellington will commence on Monday the l:.tli August. The death is reported of an old Wellington settl >r, Mr Sutherland, of Pahaua and formerly Lyell's Bay. The train from Foxton last evening knocked over a young bullock at I rond-h-im. Wild dogs arc becoming a nuisance in the Ivwitea, several settlers having to complain of sheep Deing killed by them. Steps have already been taken for the erection of one or two new substantial dwelling houses in Denbigh street. 1 red Bryce, Esq., was married to Miss Campion to-day at the residence ot the bride's mother. Now that the Wellington football team has beaten < 'anterbury and Otago, there will be a probability of a team being sent from Wellington to play Sydney. _ . Mr J. E. Brown is spoken of as the probable new minister for railways. Mr Wright, M.H.R. for Ashburton, is aLo anxious for the appoinment. The Wellington Manawatu Railway Company has repaid to the Wellington Loan and Investment Society the £3' »,000 advanced. We have received fiom the Government Printer copies of the Public Works Statement, Immigration, Friendly Society returns, &c. 'I he temporary repairs to the Awahuri Bridge are being rapidly prooeeded with. Light traffic, such as horsemen and buggies, will probably be able to pass over to-morrow evening. The swamp which has delayed the completion of the railway line to Manutahi for so long, has now been successfully mastered. Tbe line will be open to Manutahi early in August. A well-knpwn former resident of Feilding, and «ho still foilows the occu* pation of a laborer in a neighboring township, is likely to become the possessor of a very large fortune. The Volunteer Brass Band played a number of selections in the Town Hall on Saturday evening, and their performances were much appreciated and admired. A well-known local horsebreaker has been showing us some of the advantages he has derived from Professor Sample's mode of treating horses. Yesterday he rode a young horse round town barebacked a few hours after it was first caught. A child belonging to Mr Foster was knocked down and run over by a horse in Grey street on Sunday. As several persons have enquired about the matter, we can state that no fault attaches to the rider, and that the child almost miraculovsly escaped unhurt. Mr W. Clark Russol, the auther of " The Sailor's Sweetheart," "The Wreck of the Grosvener," and other popular naval novels, is a son of Mr Henry Russell the well known composer, who used to sing his own songs in London, thirty years ago. Mr Stevens has shown us a telegraph instrument made by Master George Bevan, who is employed in the Wanganui telegraph office. It is well put together for an amateur and reflects credit upon the genius of the boy, who even wound the coils of the electro magnets by hand. It works admirably, and has been used at tho Feilding station to receive a message. Mr Mackay, the king of the " Bonanza" mines, with Mrs Mackay and a party of friends, were among those present at the Moscow fetes on the occasion of the coronotion of the Czar. They left Paris in Mr Mackay's private car -dark green, with a silver "M" paiuted on it. It consists of a smoking-room, tastefully decorated in Cordovan leather, a saloon in velours frappe (viel-or), Mrs Mackay's own room, with two sofas in crimson .silk, and the usual conveniences insisted on by a travelled American. Mr J. E. Evans, saddler, of Lambtonquay, has been the victim of a somewhat peculiar transaction. He informs the Post that on Wednesday last he purchased a cake of beeswax, weighing between 17 and 18 ponnds, at lOd per pound. He split open the cake, and found it consisted mainly of two bricks, over which a mere shell of wax was moulded into the usual shape of beeswax cakes. Mr Kvans has placed the matter in the hands of his legal adviser, and it will probably form the subject of a criminal prosecution.