Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 56, 13 October 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

♦ j Lord and Ludy Rosobery may be expected in New Zealand shortly. The Manchester Rifles will parade at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. English papers are expressing satisfacat the cool reception accorded to Redmond in Australia. The West ('oast Times says that Mr W. Redmond, M.P., hopes to remit Home £1000 as the result of his tour on the West Coast. We have to acknowledge receipt of th© October number of the Industrial gazette. It contains the usual amount of interesting agricultural information, and general news. We have to intimate for general information that the New Zealand Gazette will be open to the public for inspection at the Tost Office, and each number, as issued, will in future be filed there. A lusus natures is in the possession of a Wellington resident in tho shape of a kitten, born in a litter of two, without any tail whatever and only two legs, the front legs being supplanted by two incipient wings. Mr Corpe writes to inform us that he has been fairly successful on his canvass for tlio Cheese and Butter Factory Company at Halcombe and on the Stanway :()■'.! . He anticipates obtaining altogether one hundred new shares. A church in Bavaria, accommodating 1000 people, has been almost entirely built of of p-ipier m.'iche, which cm bo supplied at a cost little above that of plaster. It run be made to imitate t)i«' finest marble, as it takc;s a polish superior 10 slnle. Mr Love, the b'tswu»ss agt»ut of Woodyear's American Electric Circus, informs us that a special train will ie.-ive Hulcomi:e for Feildmg on Thursday night, calling at a!J intermediate station--, and returning the same night after the performance. The Murk Line Express, in aeknowlodginij the receipt oi' samples of Nc>v Zealand wheat, remarks* : — "Tr is d'in»crous to sow wheat from New Zealand or Australia in this climate. It may do remarkably well in a geninl season, but, as a rule, wheat from a warm climate does badly in this country." Messrs McDowell, Bros., of the Cash Warehouse, Palaaerston. are now showing their spring and summer goods, which are very recherche, and include a large variety of costly and beautiful fabrics suitable for summer attire. An advertisement in connection with the above will appear in a future issue. Mr Thomas Crosbie, a partner in the firm of Woods, Crosbie, and Co., Wellington, died of consumption yesterday morning at rix o'clock. He leaves a wife and family who are, however, well provided for. His early death will be regretted by his friende, and the employes of the firm, who lose in him an earnest fellow worker and an upright man. The Emigration Department of the New Zealand Agent-General' s office is just now rery busy indeed. In the *last week of July and the Srst week of Aug. no fewer than 1300 emigrants were despatched in four vessels, and, judging by all appearances, the colony will gain thereby some very desirable accessions to directly productive sections of the community. Unanimity in resolve to promote whatever will tend in any degree to advance the reputation of their township, is the ruling characteristic of Palmerstonians. The latest move, now on the tapis, is a proposal to establish a club on the same basis a» that of Oristchurch, which is admitted to be the best in .'the colony. We wish the promoters the success they deserve. To be in a railway accident in Victoria seems to I" 1 regarded as a stroke of good luck, because juries give munificent damage*. It is related t!i«t, after the late Newmarket accident, some of the passengers persisted in lying unnecessarily on the ground, and that one man said to another, who showodless caution, " Lie down, you fool ; I'll give you a Bpinixl shock fora fiver." "Anglo- Australian," in the European Moil, snys:— "The question of iitnd nationalization in New Zealand has cropped up in some of tho London papers, consequent on Sir Geonre Gn;y having writtpn a-letter to the Lmi Nationalization Society, in which he informs that J organisation that he hopes some advance iv that direction may b# made ia New Zeahn-.1. This is all very well and gracious, but the society had better mind iis own business 1b an seek to sow dissension in our colonies." We draw the attention of such of our i readrrn us ar« of un argumentative or ! speculative time of mind to an aovertise- | n»ent. which appears on our third page, j intimating that a Debating Society is | being formed in Pa!mer«ton, and that its j first subject for discussion will be presented on December 26th on Boxing Day. ! Gentlemen wishing to join the nooU-tj and take an active Dart in ?ls proceedings are requested to send in their aatnas to the interim secretary Mr S. Abrahams, accompanied with an entrance fee of £1. The election of president and other officers will take place on the day of meeting.

A ioti^w^y ietvr froia our Bulls correspondent will appeir iv our next issue. ! Riuden's "History of New Zealand" | has bf'rn s'nniy "slated" and shown up ! by the Atl.ptifflum, which is the greatest oi fill author ities on literary questions. A telephone between the Greatford Station and the Telegraph Office at Bulls is likc-iy to be erected, application having been inide to the Pos! master-General. One of th© heaviest gales experienced in Feilding for a long time past occurred this morning. The gale at times was accompanied by heavy showers of hail stones. Beyond the breakage of several shop windows and the over-turning of divers chimney pots, we have not heard of any serious damage being done. The extraordinarily rapid development of trade in " chilled" — not frozen — meat between Russia and England threatens to interfere somewhat seriously with, the New Zealand frozen meat trade. Ten thousand pounds worth of beef was imported into London from one of the Baltic ports alone during July.