Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 28, 9 August 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

Mails for Europe, via San Francisco, close in Feihting to-morrow. i Tlie Oroua County Council will meet in the Manchester R'.vul Board's offioe here to morrow al 10 o'clock. ; Mr and Mrs Bull entertained a large party of guests last night, at iheir residence, Aorangi. We regret toleirn that Constable Manning, of Bulls, is laid up with erysipelas in the head. The Manawatu Daily Times congratulates iis readers on the fact of tlie being a barber's shop empty in Palmerston. ! We have pleasure in welcoming another resident to Feilding in Mr W. A. Sandilnnds, who will represent the legal firm of Warburton and Sandilands in this town. I '! he est of the coronation of the Cznr will reach £2.0 K).OOD. Tliis amount' includes the money expended in keeping ' up the Nihilist excitement for the benefit i of the secret police. Captain Ldwin telegraphed at 3.45 p.m. yesterday : - Bad weather approaching. The glass will further fall, and rain, but there are indications that the glass witl rise after sixteen hours. The challenge thrown out by Elias Laycock, of Sydney, to row any man in , the world over the champion course, Australia, for £500 a-side (he allows £100 for expenses) has been accepted by Hanlan. The defeat of the local football team by the Manawatu team, will not be a surprise to the Wanganui people. The "Chronicle" complains that the Wanganui men are not taking enough interest in practice, to make a gocd appearance on Saturday when the match takes place. At an auction sab of Terawhiti mining stock held a few days asro in Wellington the prices showed a slight decline on previous sales. The initial retorting of amalgam is expected to take place at the end of the week. : xpectation is said to be on tip-toe as to tlie result. •" Thase who expect least will be the least disappointed." A few days ago a trivial charge was brought by a woman against MrNotman, a gentleman well-known on the coast, resident in Wanganui, in the R.M. Court, Wanganui. The case was dismissed and defendant was fully exonerated from nny blame. The decision of the Magistrate was received with applause. Some time ago the maintenance man greatly improved the surface of the road in Manchester street, from Grey street downwards, by taking up some In rge ugly boulders. We notice that similar attention badly requires to be paid to the same street upwards of Grey street, where there are a good number of large boulders, which interfere much with tho safety and comfort of traffic, especially after dark. We remind all in'erested of the meeting to be held in the State School house this evening under the auspices of the local Blue Ribbon society. The entertainment, for such it is intended to be made, will consist of singing and recitations, together with a lecture with diagrams and experiments, illustrated by means of an optical lantern. The admission being free the attendance will no doubt be very good. The Rev H. M. Murray will take the chair at eight o'clock. Feilding residents do not always en* courage local industry, nnd in too many instances seem governed by a wild desire to spend their money out of the place. This bad example has been followed by our only Chinaman, who took the trouble to go to Palmerston to file his schedule, probably thinking the lawyers in that " gay city " more experienced in bank* ruptcy business than our local practitioners, who have not had such a number of cases through their hands as their Palmerston brethren. The Budget says — The Inspector of the Wanganui Education District recently reported that a school mistress at Feilding was incompetent. A committee of the Board went to the school and investigated the charge for themselves, and report that the Inspector's charges are unfounded. The only opinion the outside public can arrive at from the two reports is that either the Inspector is not fit for his position, or the Committee of the Board were not competent to oxamine into the matter. When the noon train for Palmerston was leaving the Feilding platform yesterday a cow was observed near the Eyre street crossing, on the side of the line. The speed of the engine was slackened and ultimately the train was brought to a stand still, because the beast deliberately walked on the metals, and waited" until it was turned off by the fireman. Other cows belonging to tho same owner I were also grazing in close proximity, j The. sooner a Ranger for the Borough is appointed the better.^

Marriages at night lime are about to be celebrated in Paris. The idea hns no s.-ie.-e<) '\-isis, but it is due to the belief that the toile'lc will look best at ni;,dit. The unlucky bridegroom will be farther i • i off than ever from knowing what tie is about to marry. Tiie Clerk t.f t c D'.«Hct Court, Wanganui, dre-.v, at 2 o'clock to-day, at the Court House, Wanganui, the names of the -jurors to serve at tiie next sitting of the District Court, to be held at Palmerston on Monday, the 27th instant The names will appear iv our next issue. Many of our Feilding readers will join in congratulating Mr Harry Burr, of Foxton, on his promotion to the position of stationmaster at Marton. Mr and Mrs Burr went to their new home by last night's train. Mr Roche, the latf stationmaster at Marton, has been promoted to the Patea station. The amount of capital sunk in printing establishments in New Zealand in April, 18S1, being the latest date up to which, the staiistics have been compiled, was nearly £230,000. This does not include the Government Printing Office. Grain mills, breweries, timber works, collieries and gas works were the only industries absorbing more capital. The amount invested in sawmills, and sash and door factories, was far beyond any other, industry, being more than £'773,000. The quantity of timber sawn during 1880 was 15' ',000,000 feet. A free Kirk elder and his wife joined the Blue Ribbon Army the other week, " just to show a good example, ye ken," as the old woman put it. John brought in a good Glenlivet and handed it to his better half to keep "for medical purposes. " A week after being initiated into the mysteries of ribbonism he came home on Saturday night and told his wife that he was suffering from " awfu' pains in the stomach," and to "gi'ehimadrap o'yon." ' Ob,' replied the wife, "yon's dune twa days ago." " Crowded out of his grave" was the novel complaint which an " elderly man" preferred in a London police Court. He declared that his son, who had a large family, had insisted upon burying his deceased children in a grave which the complainant had purchased for himself. " The consequence will be," said the elderly man, " that by-and-by there won't be room for me ; and that's a very uncomfortable thought for a man who has taken the trouble to provide a last resting place for himself, as I have done. It's too bad, you know." mnasaazs sße_s3__,_j__oia_m_g-»--».^iU----_iJ-Mi m ~— w