The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883. A Letter Carrier.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 35, 25 August 1883, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883. A Letter Carrier.

Tt appears that the Government have laid down as a line of conduct in connection with auy request that may emanate trom Feilding 1 of any kind, that it should meet with either n flat refusal or a broad hint that the people of Feilding do not really know what they want, or what is g>ocl for ihern. His Worship the Mayor addressed a courteous letter to the head ot the Postal Department, asking 1 tha-t the Borough mi gut have the services ol a letter carrier placed at its disposal, in n order to put the townspeople on a footing of equality in this't respect with those of townships of even minor importance on the Coast. He pointed out that the appointment of a carrier would positively be a source of revenue to the department, instead of a loss, as might have been imagined. The renly received hy tho Mayor, and read at the meeting of the Borough Council last night is in perfect keeping* with all similar communications yet received from the Heads of Departments who are adepts in the " golien rule " of " how not to do it-" The concluding sentence ofthe letter ia instructive. The writer says — " And the business requirements of Feilding* do not, I find, yet warrant the appointment of a separate letter carrier." The writer does not explain where he obtained his knowledge of the a business requirements" of Feilding, Me could not have got it from the member for the district, as he knows nothing about it, and nrobably cares less than anyone in ihe Colony. 'Ihe Po-stamstev-Gen eral would probably have to re/er to the Postal Guide if he wos questioned on the subject, and we are quite certain that the writer of the letter, viz., the Under-Secretary, caonot be better informed than his superiors, and if he is, we bnlieve he possesses too much tact to flaunt his better information before them. The fact remains that the mere asking 1 for the favor by Feilding is a good and sufficient cause lor refusing it. We do not believe that uny reasons for or against the matter' were considered even for a moment, and the Secretary was merely told to decline the application as politely as possible. What we more particularly object to, beyond the refusal, is the assumption that an overworked ofliciai should pretend to know more ol a settlement and its needs than those who are resident in the place, and whose whole interests are bound up in it. This is addiug insult to injury. .Our readers will observe that the Council intend to ask the Government to have a pillar box erected iu a convenient situation. W<* doiibi very much whether the department will be permitted to ■"-'see 'ita. way clear to grant the petition,", a** the clearing of the said box .-mi*rht I *•" inteil«re with the. d«live'ry of-tele-grams." S&ve the mark I

Local & General Hews. . _© At the Adelaide I'olice Court, a man •viis fined £5 for shouting "Hallelujah, Amen !" at the wrong moment during a Salvation Army Scrriee on a Sunday. The Government, have t* ran led the sum ■>£ £3!0, (ijeiuj; equivalent to two years' pay) to the widow of Warder Adams, who was murdered at Gaol recently, hy Davidson. The Horticultural Societies of the neighboring lown.hips are holding theii* annual meetings, and arranging their forthcoming exhibitions. We hear the Manchester Society will shortly follow the example. Genius is not encouraged in Russia. ' A man of tliat couutry who invented a ' contrivance to make a snorer consume his own snores was arrested, charged with ' concocting an infernal machine to blow up the Czar. Mr Feasey, the' well-known genial driver of the Fairlit engine, has been j absent from his post for some days past, i the cause being his baring received an j , injury to hi. back by a fail. We aru* j : glscl to hear lie is better, aad will prob- j I ably resume duty on Monday. j The Sevr Zerdand Ti_ne3 says :— Mrs 1 Ann Woouldom, the wife of Mr if. ' Woouldotr*, of Ghuznee-stifiet, died on Tuesday night, at the rips agu of SO years. The deceased o.rne to Wellington 1840, i in the ship Martha Rid g way, and ha* !; since then resided in that place, where ; she made many friends. , We draw attention of our readers to an , advert i.t-'ment which appears in another s column, calling for tenders for 500,000fl ; of white pine io*-;.**. The tir„her can be l delivered at any railway siding most ) convenient for the successful tenderer ; betweeu ..-Wanganui nnd Foiion. The , i Wangauui Sash, Door, and Timber Company are the advertisers. The House has passed a motion declaring the Evening^Post guilty of a breach of privilege in publishing a garbled rei port of the proceedings of the Dargaviile Committee. Major At kin son' 11 has also I mo red that John. Henry, and Louis Binndell, the publishers of the paper. » ho called to the bar of the House on Monday. The affair has. since ended] in smoke. We have several times called attention to thedilapidated state ofthe bridge on the Makino road facing Mr Oliver's property. Not only has one of the hand-rails been clean gone for a long lime, but"; the deck is well-nigh worn through, and the bridge , generally needs overhauling. The authorities will do well to attend to the matter as soon as possible before an accident occurs. ' A slight error appeared in the article 1 in our Thursday's issue, referring to the ' property sale by Messrs Halcombe and ' Sherwill, to take place on tho Ist prox. " Instead of certain intervening "lots' being already bought and settled upon, it [ should have read " sections," these being j. section __, 45, and 47, wiiich are resided (. upon respectively by the settlers named in the article. ' To-day's Chronicle says : — lnspector Foulis, the merits or demerits of whose examination questions are still agitating scholastic circles, was induced a few days '• ago, by his thirst for information and ; zeal for the Education Board, to visit -. the pleasant locality of Waitotara. Here s he encountered a mob of cattle, wiiich so , distured the customary serenity of his noble steed that Mr Foulis was thrown on to the grassy roadside. He received a severe shaking and various bruises on 1 his arms, but there can be'no doubt his - know edge of tbe " fauna" of the district, ii derived whilst gracefully reclining on a ' portion of the " flora," has very considerab'y increased. We are glad to find that our City j Fathers have apparently at last made up r their minds not to meet, time after time and engage in mere talk, shelving matters of important interest to every burgess, and coming to no decision about ' anything. More actual business was ■ transacted on Thursday evening than has I been done for a long time, and the Coun- j ■ cillors nre now evidently determined to ; do their level best to meet the general , wishes of;.their constituents, and as far as lies in their power to place the borough in a fair way to prosperity. Rainer's p._nor_,ma was again exhibited on Thursday evening. The night was bitterly cold, which probably had most ' to do with the audience being not quite so large as on the previous evening. • Those present, however, were much pleased with the entertainment, and we i were informed by Mr Stuart, the manager, that he was very well satisfied with . the financial results of the two nights' show, and that the company's , stay in Feilding had been a pleasant one. We are glad to be able to mention that the back part of the. audience behaved moderately well each night, and we have now good hope that anything like rowdyism on such occasions will be known' only in the past. That part of tho Ashurst-road near Mr Jeffries' farm is in a very bad condition, and was yesterday nearly the direct cause of mortal injury to three of Mr Jeffries' children. These boys were returning from school, aud were mounted on a horae' which was carrying them through the mud, when it hitched -its hoof in a root, and full, throwing the riders heavily. One had his leg' severely cut, another had his front teeth knocked * out, and the third fell in the creek underneath the horse. The accident was witnessed .by.. Vir Beazer, who ran to the assistance of the lads nnd put 1 hem on another horse and conveyed them to their parents' residence where! their wounds and bruises wereatiended to. Fortunately, none of the injuneb were serious.

The scratch football match-Palmer-tor v Feilding— is proceeding as we go tpress. The farm of the late Dr. H. J. Glenn, in "California is thu* described by Mt il. I_. Dow:— "lt has thi. s*seion, out of a total area of SI ,OOO acres, 35,000 acres of growing crops, and 25,000 aeres ■ ilonghed np for summer fallow, tnukin/.-; 60,iK)0 acres which have been cultivated since la3t harvest. Last season 55,000 .Acres were under crop, and had tin? season been favorable Dr Glenn's ambition to produce 1,000.000 bushels of grain would have been attained, but owing to the dry season which was experienced little more than, half o million was produced. With the aid of a fieldirlass nearly th» whole of the vast wheat hVlds can be seen from the top of the water-tower, one paddock alone containing 10,000 acres oE grain. __wo-t_.v_-__-*Bas**!* , j-g*a