Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 54, 11 October 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

Mr Sne'son has been elected Chairman of the Manawatu Ko«id B xird. An ordinnry meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. The surveying for the formation of the Railway road was commenced on Tuesday by the Borough Engineer. Tenders for sleepers For (h* Hurunui* Bluff Railway close ou Monday next at noon. A riding glove (loft, hand) has boon left at this nffi.-e. The- owrw-rcan have it on application. Owing to the inrV-m^nrv of the weather tilers was no p.iride of the 3<l<'.u-;:he.stL'r Riflo.* on Tuesday ev"i> : ni, f . A post, offi ■■•« loiter bot is likely to be attached to the Borough Council offices. T'lis will be a great convi-nioa c to the public. .•'••.'•fi»d : .-u.il-.! • in tli*> estate of Tiir.Ni's G-vr.hn, bl(:cksriii!h, of FeiU'.n-.», a haa!<nipt. The new stock a). ?<fr r iaroiltons' drap cry 13 aUnictnig a considerable amount of attention. The unpacking of the cases was completed yesterday and their contents are now on view. Mr Rule, the teneher temporarily appointed by the Boiird to the Feuding school until Mr Jenkins enters upon his permanent appointment, arrived ou Tupsday and entered upon his work in the afternoon. Shortly after seven o'clock on Tuesday evening a meteor of remarkable size and beauty burst over Feilding, with a report like the explosion of a cannon, which was heard at Foxton, Wocdville, and Palmerbtoh. Some evil disposed person took the bridle off a horse belonging to Mr Davies, of Kiwitea, yesterday evening, and let the animal loose. A.s it was not to be found this morning it was supposed to have gone home, whither the owner had to trudge on foot without it. The perpetra tor of this piece of " cussedness" ought to be brought to book. TVe ;ire glad to find that the canrassrr*. Messrs Corps *.<id Atnesbury,appointed ai the meeting of shareholders of the Cb.- i ti -8 and Butter Fr.etovy, are meeting wiih good encouragement. The firstunned gentleman informed us this morning that he had aL-<aly disposed of 10: t new shares, and received the necessary deposits. Massrs Parr and Bennett, coachbuilders, wheelwrights, &c, have opened their Feilding branch business in premises adjoining Mr Le wars' store. The workmanship turned out by this firm from their other establishments in the neighboring townships, has always borne a high character, and will doubtless be well appreceated on the Manchester Block. In large towns the namber of drunkards brought up by the police for punishment is universally believed to give a fair criterion of business activiiy and general prosperity. Accepting this as a ru!^ which may be generally applicable, FtuMing is at present in a most fl.mrishmtr condition, as although the number of persons w]\o have be> a arrested for this offence arn'oun's to nil, yet plenty of votaries to I'aehcus have lately been .yen " uuJer the influem.-; j ." The Wan2:irvii Jkvv.-vo'en:- Society imuch t'XLTci.so.l over th» qusftion of opening iis laeftinx'* wl-ii pr.jvr. Wo learn t-'iut n prayer . J.-'li v?r*>d by a c^-cv.y-man of one, in jl'ie niv-t % :i< - e of a c'ei'gy man of anoth-.'r, t'cn^'uinalioii, was mx.A - cient to the latter, :ind coir.pt-l his absence from (he me^tirjg.i of t)»t> Society. 'J'his means, virtually, t,hat n cK-rgyiaau can find an excuse for negiectmg liis obvious duty — charity — in a very small matter. It, is a remarkable coincidence and shows how little real difference there exists between the so-called civilised man and the savage — that the opposition offered by the land owners in England i about forty years ago to the cutting up of their estates by railways, was of a similar nature to that now presented by the Maories to their lands being taken for a like purpose. Let the doctrine of Compensation be taught the one savage as well as the other, and the difficulty will vanish.