Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 59, 20 October 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

♦ We hare to acknowledge receipt of Hansard and a quantity of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. The Chronicle says — A slight shock of earthquake was experienced in Wanganui yesterday afternoon, a few minutes after 4 o'clock. In the Dlroree Court, at Wellineton, held on Tuesday last, a decree absolute was granted in the case Johnston v. Johnston, of Feildiug. Woodyear's circus is drawing crowded houses wherever it shows. It opens in Marton to-night, Bulls on Monday. «•?&' Feilding on Tuesday and Wednesday. An entertainment w/ien in the .Albert Hall, London, ii* aid of the Royal Academy of M\i"s;c realized a net profit of €1005. The printing and advertising j cost £1500. We would remind the inemhrrs of the committee of the Horticultural Society of tl.eir meeting to-night at ii o'clock, fur the purpose of confirming the schedule, and making further arrangements for the forthcoming show. j At Yeadon, aear Leeds, a man named Alfred Luty, of Dennison, was killed while batting at cricket. Bising sharply from the pitch the ball struck him a severe blow on tlie temple, which proved fatal. Lieutenant Blackmore of the" Manchester Rifles and Lieutenant Carroll of the Pnlmerston Kifles hare successfully passed their examinations for commissions. Major Stapp, and Captain, Watts were the examiners. During the heavy rains last night the foul condition of the ditch along the railway line, between the station and llnssell street, led to the flooding of several sections of land adjacent and considerable damage to gardens has resulted. A meeting of Court Loyal Feilding, No 6768, A.0.F., was held on Wednesday last. There was a fair attendance, and two new members were admitted. The building committee was empowered to take steps to furnish the new Foresters' Hall when erected. Another horrible child murder in England. A labourer named James Cole, a resident at Croydon, who has been several times before the local magistrates, killed his child, three years old. He caught it by the legs and dashed its head against the floor with great violeuce.^The man was brought up at Croydon Policecourt and remanded. Some time ago Mr Eade purchased the house in Manchester street, standing between his furniture shop and Mr Cnohton's establishment. He has moved it nearer to his owu place, »nd it is now | being prepared for the reception of some I members of the Messrs Eades' family now on their way from England, and expected shortly to arrive. Mr Richard Proctor makes a very curious suggestion in a recent number of his paper, to the effect that the spreading of so large a quantity of iron upon the surface of the earth, as modern science it doing, is likely, in the future, to exercise a very decided influence of its own upon electric currents and magnetic storms, and in this way to exercise a very material meteorological influence. The Post says Woodville boasts of a blacksmith* who in his time truly " plays many parts." A correspondent; of a Wairarapa paper says ho is a blacksmith and shoer, veterinary surgeon, homoeopathic doctor, public vaccinator, dentist, local preacher, and buries people occasionally. This gifted man's better half also nets as nurse on certain occasions. Thp correspondent does not say whether the blacksmith or his better half will edit the Woodville Examiner. ' Persons desirous of decorating their flower gardens should pay a visit to the shop of Mr Morris at the Public Hall, who has a large and varied selection of seeds of some of the choisest, most beautiful, and favorite flowers from the establishment of A. Laird. A great advantage will be found in the fact that the packets have on the outside a perfect colored illustration ot each flower res* pectively, together with a full description at its habits, and instruct'ons for its cultivation, a feature which we believe is quite novel in the flower seed business in Feilding. The seeds are all new and perfectly reliable. Mr Peter Bell's sale of cheap goods at biß establishment, in Victoria Avenue, is ittracting more than usual attention imong the Wanganui people, and the nterest is being rapidly spread into the sountry districts. Intending buyers are. nformed that the goods, without exception, are all new, and Mr Bell is able to> offer ;hem at remarkably low rates, because he ras able to buy them for cash -in fact ilmost at his own price, and is ably conlequently to part with them at what ap»ars to be ridiculously low rates, but rhich really gives him a fair margin of )rofit also, which is in itself a sufficient [varan of the bona fides of the tale.

A meeting of the Manchester Road Board is being held as we go to press. A full report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. A terrible hailstorm, a Philadelphia correspondent says, raged in lowa a few days ago. The track of the storm was four miles wide, passing three counties. All vegetation was destroyed in its course. One woman lost her life, and many persons were injured. Twenty-one cattle were killed. The hail fell in some places to a depth of sft. On the Block Island, Chicago, and Wilwaukee railroads the trains were blocked ; and at Lonah station nine freight cars were blown from the rails. A printer having a man in his employ who left his work several times a day to get whisky, told his clerks to drop 10 cents in a drawer every time that man went out. In seventeen months he had drank himself out of his situation, and the drawer being opened, contained $409. This was loaned to a young mechanic, ' who, after a time, returned it with interest to the lender, saying that he had now j a wife and two children, and property worth 500 dollars, while the poor printer j was bunting for food. — What Cheer ? We lenrn from an exchange that the settlement at Patetere is progressing favorably, Messrs Halcombe and Rich will prob.ibly ere this have made all the rutcc-ssary arrangements for the commencement of the railway works at the Patetere end. This will give a great impetus to the advancement of the general welfare of the block, and be a means of attracting settlers from other parts of the colony, as well as the Mother Country. The club house, which has been erected for the accommodation of young English cadets, is now nearly finished. Some of these young gentlemen have already arrived, and are all impatience to begin their experiences as colonists. Mr Earle is employed with a survey party about 10 miles from Fernleigb, and is doing remarkably well. We are glad to be able to chronicle the success of Patetere, especially when it is remembered how intimate^ our own settlement is connected with the same founders.