Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 45, 18 September 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

qp We have to acknowledge the receipt of a number of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. In another column an esteemed correspondent writes re the projected Cheese and Butter Factory, and we commend his letter to the 'perut-al of the Provisional Directors, and all 'other's interested in '.seeing the Company, success; fully floated.

A brilliant meteor of unusual size was seen on Saturday evening iu tiie eastern sky. Dark shadows were cast from its reflection. During and after the quarterly inspection of our volunteers on Thursday evening, the members of lhe band played a selection of airs. Their performances, which were much appreciated, showed that the band is making good progress. We learn that it is intended to hold a temperance demonstration in Feilding shortly. There is to be a procession of the Blue Ribbon and Good Templar bodies, headed by one of the bands, and it is probable that the affair will wind up with a lecture by Sir Wm. Fox. The Minister of Railways purposes to introduce a special staff of porters whose sole duty wili be to attend to the transfer of all luggage to and from trains at the direction of the passengers. They will wear distinctive uniforms, with badges on the caps bearing the words "Luggage porter." The chairman of the School Committee has received intimation from the Secretary of the Kducation Board that Mr Marshall, whom the Committee at their last meeting recommended for tho post of asMstant teacher, and will, after all, not bo available for tho appointment, and that the Board is still advertising for a suitable t acher. A Wellington lady vouches to us for the truth of a story to the effect that every Sunday morning, at Church time, Captain Edwin's wife is carefully watched and if she carries her ulster or umbrella, the whole street follows suii. " Indeed," says our informant. " I have frequently trusted her husband's knowle ige, as indicated in this way, against my own judgement." On Sunday a trap containing a gentleman, his wife, and four children, was by some means or other precipitated into the Mangaoue stream at the bridge just past Major Liddle's residence on the Awahuri road. We have not been furnished with full particulars of the accident, but from what wc learn it did not, we are glad to say, result in any serious injury to any of the occupants of the vehicle. Mr J. C. Thompson has been appointed sole agent in Feilding for Nelson, Moate and Co's celebrated pure blended teas, which obtained gold and silver medals at the International Exhibition. He has i also just received a large importation of splendid Geelong tweed clothing, which for cash he can sell at low rates. A tall ! advertisement of these lines, with tinvarious prices, will appear inuurneii issue. We have received from Mv Loudon a pamphlet giving a description of a patent for fire extinguishers of a novel description. Ihe engines are not charged with any chemicals, but simply with pure air and water. They may be charged in three or four minutes without expense, and may be kept always ready for immediate use, so that the moment a fire is discovered, that moment the engiue is ready. A correspondent writes : — " From a personal knowledge of Major Kemp's characteristics, I should say thi~ wily dark-skinned 'pakeha' will, in spite of the negotiations now supposed to be proceeding satisfactorily with Mr Bryce, do absolutely nothing. He will pose as a hero or martyr, with a preference for the former, and show bis people that thc all-powerful influence of our clever Native Minister is nothing to him." The steamship Doric has been anchored off the quarantine hulk at Auckland. She has been 49 days out from Plymouth. She has 42 saloon, 74 second, and 464 steerage passengers, of which 464 are Government immigrants. Three children died on the passage. Measles broke out among the immigrants, there being 75 cases, of whom 7 now exist, but there were no deaths from this disease. The cases of measles are to be remoyed to the quarantine station, and the vessel fumigated and admitted to pratique. A Maori woman known as " Hookey Bella," living near the Oroua River, makes a periodical drunken debauch in town. Ou Saturday last her hideous howls were heard all over Feilding. It is clearly the duty of the police to sav« this woman from herself. These, and such as these, are the objects for whom the prohibition clauses of the Licensing Act were intended. It is sad indeed if a comely and intelligent woman like tbis must be allowed to go to perdition without any attempt to save her. Mr Eade has on view in his shop window a very pretty piece of ornamental furniture. It consists of a bracket of 3 shelves, made of figured rimu. The j fronts of the shelves are decorated with ' Jeatherwork, consisting of representations of various leaves and flowers, including the passion-flower, fuchsia, rose, convolvolus, &c. Ihe woodwork is Mr Eade's, and the making, putting on and finishing of the leaves and flowers is the work of a Makino lady. The whole is a beautiful piece of art, nnd is very unique. It has been made to the order of a resident of Palmerston. On Saturday evening the members of the Feilding Town Band met at Mr Good beh ore's office, and formally transferred by deed the instruments and property of the band to Messrs Goodbehere, Macarthur, and Sherwill aB trusted for the citizens of Feilding. Mr J. W. Eade, as secretary and treasurer, thanked, on behalf of the band members, the trustees for the great interest they had taken, and especially Mr Goodbehere for gratuitously preparing the deed. That gentleman replied to the effect that it had, and still would give him much pleasurf in do'-ng what he could '-for the pros. perity of the band.. •

The S:in Francisco mail will probably arrive in Feilding to-morrow evening via Wellington. The freezing operations at the Wellington Meat Export Company's works is ~>ing 01. most satisfactorily. About 500 i carcases have now been frozen in readiness for the s.s. Doric, which is expected here about a week after her j arrival at Auckland. — Post. The members of the Volunteer Band have, with praiseworthy kindness, determined to get np a popular entertainment in aid of the unfortunate sufferer Mr John Wells, who was so seriously injured a short time since by an accident while working in the bush. A more worthy object for such an effort is scarcely existing in our midst at the present timo. nnd we are certain that no difficulty will be found in getting tho required assistance as well as a vtry large public patronage. The Graphic says it was a woman wbo stumbled and fell that caused the first fatal block at the Brooklyn theatre fire in 1876 ; it was a woman who stumbled and fell that caused the block at the fatal panic in the Sixteenth-street Roman Catholic Church a few years ago ; and it was a stumbling woman, so far as it can be known, that started the panic on the Brooklyn Bridge The Graphic might have added that it was a stumbling woman who " brought death into the world, and all our woe." The Intorprovincial football match — Wanganui v. Nelson — played on Satur<biy Inst, passed off very unsatisfactorily. The first bout of three quarter, of an hour ended in an apparently even match, and without a score for either side. In the second spell a dispute arose between the umpires. There having been no referee appointed, and neither umpire giving in, the Wanganui men walked off the ground, and the Nelson captain claimed the victory. The affair ended in shouts of " sling him down," and some confusion. This is what John Fowerman, Captain of the Salvation Army at Auckland, reports concerning his campaign: — . "Wednesday — The hall full. Had a good inarch. The devil at work all around. Mud aud clay very plentiful. .\s we neared the hall, our larrikin friends assaulted us with rotten eggs. There were ' some good shots among them. One ■ caught the Lieutenant in the eye. We 1 wished they would bring fresh cooked ones ; then we could make good use of them. Hallelujah! We got the victory ! I-iside, powerful meeting. The soldiers I <«?oke well, aud sinners were forced to | jield.