Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 39, 4 September 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

« It is probable that the postal authoritees will shortly arrange to forward two mails per Jimn between Paimerstoa and Feilding. Several farmers in Otago hare sent a consignment of turnips to Sydney, where, it is said, they command a ready sale at satisfactory prices. The Presbyterians resident in Halcombe are about to erect a Scotch Kirk. The local committee are working very energetically in that direction, and are much pneouraged by the success of their Feilding brethren. J.lr Rutherford had some prime lamb in his shop on Saturday, the first, we believe, that has been brought into town this season. It was from the farm of Mr P. Stewart, of Mount Stewart, and found a ready sale. An inquest was held yesterday at Halcombe on the body of the child Clement Matia^h, before I>. H. Macarthur, Esq, Coroner. After the eviednce of the mother •nd I)r Johnston had beeu taken, the jury found a verdict of accidentaly drowned. W. F. Russell, Esq., the Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Wanganui, was a visitor to-day in Feilding. He offers to send down some young perch if ! a suitable pond or lagoon can be found in which they can be placed. Perhaps some of our readers can inform us of such a locality. Mr A. Thompson, the captain of the Feilding team of footballers, leaves for Wellington to-night, to take part in the match Auckland v. Wellington. Mr Thomson was selected by the match committee, and from what we all know of his powers, he will no doubt prove a valuable acquisition. The following are the results of the principal events of the first day's racing at the Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting, held at Sydney on Saturday last : — Derby — Le Grand 1, Kingsdale 2, Copra 3. Epsom Handicap — Masquerade 1. Ascot 2, Stockdale 3. Spring Stakes — First Demon 1, Sardonyx 2, Pellmell 3. We understand that a deputation consisting of the Beys. Jones and Murray and Mr Wm. Bray waited ou the various business people to-day with a view to obtaining their consent to close all places of business at 6 p.m. The mission of t'aese gentlemen was only partially successful as that hour was considered too early. It is probable that arrangements will be made to close at 7 p.m. Another nuisance of long standing in Manchester street will soon be abated. The maintenance man and his assistant commenced yesterday the work of placing a culvert diagonal^ across the road from near Mr Xnox's residence for the purpose of carrying the drainage water to the ditch on the other side, where it will then find its way direct to the Makino stream instead of flooding after heavy rains the school grounds and other properties, as has hitherto been the case. The members of the Manchester Horticultural Society are reminded that the annual meeting of the Society takes place this evening in the Manchester Road Board's office, when a balance sheet and report will be produced, the officers and committee chosen for the ensuing year and arrangementsimade for the spring and autumn shows. We hope to see a large attendance, both of members, and of those who intend to be enrolled as such, and that such measures will be adopted as will result in another successful season. Messrs Pope and Pearson have completed t 1 c erection of the new residence for Mr Roots, on his property facing the railway, Makino road. The house is a large and substantial one, has been built in the usual excellent style of the contractors from Mr Pope's own design, and is very ornamental to the locality. Mr R. Bowler, junr., is having a good house erected for himself in Manchester street, and M essrs Berry and Henid have nearly completed one for Mr Wickham, in Den- i high street. Both these erections are substantial, and will be acquisitions to i their zespective neighborhoods- ;

The mail for Europe via San Francisco will close here on Friiay, the 7th inst. We have to acknowledge receipt of ' ansard and a quantity of Parliamentary puners from the Government Printer. There was not a single death in New Plymouth during the month of July. At one time Taranaki promised to be the Paradise of the Colony, and it still seems to work in that direction. On Wednesday evening last the Rev. H M. Murray held a service at the residence of Mr Neilson, on the Ashurst road. It is intended to hold service weekly in the same place. It redounds to the credit of his fellow employes that the whole of the men work, ing at Bartholomew's mill hare subscribed a day's pay each towards the assistance of Mr Wells whose leg was broken last week by an accident. The election on Saturday last of a Councillor for the Oroua Hiding of the Mauawatu County resulted in Mr James Bull getting 60 votes, and Mr F. Y. Lethbndge 37. Mr Bull was therefore returned by a majority of 23. The Wellington Post says— lt is understood that the firm of solicitors instructed by Madame Lotti Wilmott to take proceedings against a well-known mercantile man for defamation <of character have been unable to serve a copy of the writ upon j the latter,] owing to his sudden departure for thejNorth. A long debate on the now notorious Longhurst case took place in the House on Friday last. The House appeared unanimous in urging on the Government to grant Longhurst his release from gaol on the grounds of the doubt of his guilt. It is generally thought the moral effect of the debate will have the desired result, and Longhurst set at liberty. The prospects of the English hop crop are very favorable. The English brewers are doing their best to prejudice the market against Australian hops. They assert that recent shipments to hand are weak and illcured. The same tactics were followed in regard to New Zealand mutton by the butchers, but they were frustrated. The brewers will have to be pushed aside in the same way. When Handel once undertook, in a crowded church, to play the dismissal on a very fine organ there, the whole congregation became so entranced with delight that not an individual could stir till the usual organist came impatiently forward and took his seat, saying in a tone of acknowledged superiortiy — " You cannot dismiss a congregation. See how I can dismiss them." A wave of inten.se heat passed over the United States on July 22, causing the thermometer in some localities to approach 10U deg. The heat killed 672 infants in JNew York City during the week. It also caused many cases of sunstroke throughout the country, six persons having died at New York on July 7, three at Brooklyn, five at Philadelphia, and two al Jersey City. While the inhabitants oJ New York were thus sweltering, a cold wave swept over from the north-west, causing fires to be started and overcoats to be worn in Chicago. A Mormon bishop named Knudsoi was placed under arrest on 15 th Julj foi literally blowing up his wives. He resides at Ashley*3 Fork, Utah, whence h« weni to Park City, where he purchased som« giant powder, taking it home with him some say for fishing, others for the pur pose of getting rid of at least one of bi« wives. However that may be, he succeeded in blowing up his first wife, who was in bed, and fciie third wife, who was jusi coming into the room. He placed th< powder under the bed, and, it is supposed, exploded it by a fuse. The women were badly wounded.