Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 46, 20 September 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

We have to th«nk Mr Walton, the secretary of the Manawatu Racing i 'iub, for a copy of the programme for Boxing [ Day. I Tenders for £2,000 of debentures, being I a portion of the £6.000 Borough of Feilding Loan, will be received up to 4 ; p.m. on Monday next. We are sorry lo hear of the somewhat ■ severe illness of Mr H. Bo.vater, of Mt. Stewart, who is suffering from a, severe attack of bronchitis. An unfortunate calf was mutilated by the train near Gladstone street last ni^ht. It was allowed to linger in agony there until this morning | The next meeting of the Oroua County ' Council will be held on Saturday, tne 2i)th instant, in the offices of the Manchester Highway Board, Feilding. The Wanganui Herald says : The Foxites are beginning to attack Mr Stevens i virulently through their organ, hoping to undermine his position by the time of the general election. We would remind local contractors that tenders are invited for the formation , of Campbell street and portions of Kast i and Derby streets. Tenders must be lodged with the Town Clerk by 4. o'clock next Monday afternoon. Several Western Australian farmers ' have lately purchased land in this vicinity. They report a probably lan*e influx of land buyers from that colony in consequence of their having had one ba 1 season after another, for some yenrs. A chimney was on fire in Wirwick street last night and caused some little consternation. Several members of the feminine persuasion extemporised a fire brigade, and mounting the roof of the house soon prevented any further calainity. A brilliant reflection ot a beautiful pink hue seen in ihe sky every evening at sunset is said to be the refracted rays from the extraordinary quantity of snow on the ranges. If this is correct we have the cheerful prospect of very heavy floods in the immediate future. A movement is on foot to induce Mr Edward Shaw, J.P,. to stand for the office of Mayor of Wellington. If he acquiesces in the idea, there will probably be five candidates in the field — \Tr G. Fisher (the present Mayoi), Mi- Hutchison, M.H.R., Mr Andrew Youug, Mr John Maginnity, and Mr Shavr. We learn from the Manawntu Herald that the SaHson tramway works are being pushed satisfactorily ahead. It is hoped by the County Chairman, Mr Thynne, that the line will be opened to Sanson by next March. If this promise is fulfilled the tram will be completed just in time to pick up the grain traffic for tho coming season. Fees for baptisms are never charged and are very seldom voluntarily paid, but yesterday one of our local clergymen received a sovereign from a thankful father whose infant the former had given its Christian name at the baptismal font. Foreigners appear to have a higher appreciation of the value of Church rites than Englishmen, as this man was a German. Mr Prior having found it indispensable to secure assistance in his fast increasing business has taken into partnership Mr W. A. Sandilands, late of the firm of Warburton and Sandilands. Mr Sandilands has. since his arrival in Feilding made many friends, who we foel sure will join us in wishing him and his respected partner Mr Prior every success in their professional enterprise. An advertisement from the new firm appears over the leader. The attention of bushmen and others is called to an advertisement in anothei column from the Wangauui Harbour Board who require tenders for felling, stumping, and clearing about 482 chains of road-line in the Board's Manawatu Endowment Block. The work will be let out in separate contracts of from 29 to 97 chains. For the convenience of tenderers the plans and Hpecificntions for the work have been lodged at the office of the Stab, where they may now be examined. About a fortnight ago a man named Jensen, a settlor at Kiwitea, cut himself with an axe below the knee. The wound was a severe one, but Jensen, with the most determined resolution, put in a number of stitches and closed the lips of the incision. His courage and surgical knowJeJge availed iiim little, for a secondarj hemorrhage commenced yesterday, and wa3 so copious that Dr Lightbourne had to be sent for. On his arrival he performed the necessary operations and left the patient in an improving condition. The summoned meeting of the Court Loyal Feilding, A.0.F., was held last eveniig. There was a good attendance of members. A large amount of business was done, including electing a delegate to the next district meeting, to be held at Palmerston North in October. P.C.R. Bro. Foster was . elected to fill that position. There was a discussion on the | proposed alterations to the district laws, and the delegate was instructed to. use his discretion in the matter. Four candidates were proposed for initiation, and the meeting adjourned. Although many complaints Lave bfen made nt various times with reference to the drain in Manchester street, and notwithstanding that the matter has frequently been disenssed in' the Borough Council, and that offers have been mad* by residents to bear part of the expense of covering it in, no steps have yet been taken for an abatement of the nuisance. Unles* something is done very soon, we I should not be surprised if the filth and stagnant water which now lie in the drain were to result in^the outbreak of fever, and would ugain strongly urge the importance of the evil, being at once remedied. ; -■;-.- ;

Mr Dundas is engaged surveying the Otamnkapua block, 17 miles from Feilding. It is reached via Kimbolton road. Whitebait are now plentiful in the M anawatu lliver. The first of the season found eager buyers here. A successful fisher and systematic vendor would realize a fortune in the trade. In reply to a correspondent the District Surveyor has kindly supplied the following information. The top of Kimbolton road is 1142 feet, and Cheltenham 335 feet above Feilding. The levels were taken with an aneroid to-day. The Alexandria correspondent of the London Times on August 16th says, " If the British troops should be withdrawn from Egypt, no European family could remain in the country a week after their dtparture. Egypt, he says, is incapable of self-government." All religious instruction, or even allusion to religion, in the schools of France is so strictly forbidden by the ne«v laws on the subject, that the name of the Deity is careiully expunged from the new text books. We hare received a copy of the Egmont Courier and Waimate Plains Advocate, printed and published by Mr Galvin, who is a well-known and highly-esteemed journalist. We wish the paper every success. When he had called the meeting to i order Brother Gardner rose and said — "Gen'lem, if wasn't for de wheels on a waggon the waggon wouldn't move. When de wheels is on, den what?" "Grease!" solemnly declared an old man. " Korrect," whispered the President, softly rubbing his hands together, " We hez de waggon and de wheels; we will now pass de hat aroun' for de grease." It is reported that Miss Josephine Green, who has just managed to escape rrom the meshes of the law at Hawera in connection with a charge of child murder, and who owed her escape from further prosecution to the fact that no corpus deliati was eve.* discovered, is about to marry a telegraphist at Palmerston. Seme people are no sooner out of one trouble than they rush into another. We hare been informed by Mr Gascvnie, of Awnhuri, that some person removed the cloths or covers from three ot* his horses on Friday night last. Mr Gnscoynt! will be much obliged if the offending person will return them before the warm weather sets in, otherwise he regrets that stern necessity will compel him to put the law in force for their recovery. Verbum sap. An English publican joined the Blue Kibbon Army, and to mark his sincerity pulled down his signboards and presented them to the ' army,' and then started all his ale and wine down the scuppers. The next day he was run in, and fined five pounds for neglecting to supply liquor when demanded by a traveller. Tho Army didn't pay the fine, and Boniface does not understand it at all. A Sunday-school teacher, in the course of examining his class, introduced the word "repentant," and asked one little boy what it meant. " Please sir I don't know." " Well, now, suppose I stole a loaf of bread, what should I be?" "Please sir, locked up." "Yes, but shouldn't I feel sorry?" "Yes, sir." "And why should I feel sorry P" "Please sir, because you was catched." The oldest man in the world is residing in Bogota. His name is Miguel Lollo, of Spanish Criollo race, and he is 180 years old .' Dr Hernandex, who heard of him, went to see him and found him at work in a garden. His skin ia like parchment and his hair as white as snow. He eats only once a day, and takes bis meal in a half hour, as be says that this system is j bost for digestion. He fast* on the Ist ! and 15th of every month, and he drinks a large quantity of pure water. He never tastes dishes that are hot or very nutritive, and such is the confidence that he has in his dietary system that he never diverges from it. The new Bankruptcy Act comes into force on the Ist January next. The appointments of Official Assignees in accordance with the requirements of tho Act will not be made until Ministers have reassembled in Wellington. As some surprise has been expressed at the smallness of the sum set clown in the Supplementary Estimates for Official Assignees, viz., £1000 for the whole colony, it may be worth while to explain that this voce is for three months only, there being only the last quarter of the current financial year to elapse when the Act comes into force. Consequently the appropriation is at the rate of £4000 per annum. Nothing has yet transpired as to the probable holder of that office for this district. — Post.