Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 67, 8 November 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

So far as we can learn, the peach crop j will be a complete failure in this district. An untimely frost did the misi-hief. A gang of men areeaopioyed overhauling and repairing the telegraph \int>.s. They passed through Feilding to-day. To-morrow, the 9th inst., the post and telegraph office will be closed. A nmil will be despatched to Wellington only, closing at 7 p.m. The Auckland Herald states that Mr Mitchelson, the nev Minister for Public Works, served an apprenticeship, as a carpenter. The Captain's parade of the Manchester Rifles on Tuesday evening last, at the Public Hall was not well ai tended, only about a dozuu, officers and men, being . present. We have been requested to temind players that the cricket match. Feildina v Halcombe, will take place to-morrow, when the wickets will be pitched at 11 30 a.m., at the Feilding ground. The Under-Secretary for Defence, Col. Reader, accompanied by Mr Anderson, storekeeper for the department, is making a tour of the Constabulary depots. He may be expected in Wanganui in a few days. Mr Oregrin has called on us with reference to a local which appeared in a recent issue giving an" aceouns of an operation performed on him, and desires us to state that the bones of the skull were not pressing on the brain in any way. A lady correspondent writes : — " Is it good etiquette or evidence of superior birth and culture for a lady, at a public entertainment, to be constantly turning in her seat, and staring at persons sitting behind her?" Perhaps some of our fair readers will vouchsafe an answer to this query. Several new coiners from Home have recently cast their lot in our midst. Among these we may mention some relatives of the Messrs Eade, of Manchester street, comprising, we. understand, their mother, three sillers and a brother. Tiiey arrived last nigh I from Foxton, having come out in the Wesi.Lind from London. Wo wish them prosperity in thtur ukw home. Persons should bo careful how th*?y handle property which doe*n't belong to them. A visitor from a neighboring township on Tuesday, struck by the novelty of Mr Sherwill's tricycle whicii was standing outside the latter'a office, got aboard, and assayed unauthorised, to have a ride. He had only proceeded a yard or two, when by some means he managed to break the mnchine, and had to pay 10s, the cost of Mr G. W. Fowles putting it to right 3. The Chronicle says : — We understand that another interesting divorce case has arisen out of the litlle eccentricities of Feildin^ society. The plaintiff is a disconsolate husband named Roberts, who seeks a divorce from his wife on the ground of her elopement with a strapping young fellow named Wilks, who, we believe, is not altogether unknown in Wanganui. The citation has been issued and served, and the case will come on for trial at Wellington very shortly. We publish in another column a full and interesting account of the race for the Melbourne Cup, which has not yet appeared in any of the district papers. We announced the result of lie Cup race by an " extra" on Tuesday evening last. We have to thank Mr Stevens, the posfI master, for his commendable promptitude in forwarding the Cup telegram, and aUo the l^ew Zealand >.'up result, at so early an hour — 6.12 p.m. — thus enabling us to place the results of both events before our readers at an earlier nour than was done by any of our contemporaries. We are sorry to have any necessity to again call attention to the fact that while several shopkeepers adhere most conscientiously to the letter of their agreement to close at 7 o'clock, this is not the case with all. We have sen doors open nnd customers being served some time after the hour. Only one night this week, a customer who was refused admittance at one establishment went straight, to another that should also have been closed, and got what was required. We must say that this kind of thing is manifestly unfair, if not worse, and cannot but create a good deal of unpleasant feeling. Mrs Browne, late assistant mistress of the FeiJding State School, left here yesterday en route for Wellington. .During her stay in our rnidsf, she had secured a large circle of friends, who will greatly regret her departure, 'ihe children who were under her tuition, will also feel sorry she has left, as she had greatly endeared hersel! to chem, as was evinced by the many farewells and little tokens of esteem she received froiu them. Mrs Brown had the progress and general welfare of • her scholars at heart, which added largely , to her other qualification* as a trainer of j tl'.e yon<'}f. We wish her much success J ia. her fulure car'ser.

We have to ru-kitowleJ^e ihe receipt, | w-iili thanks of a complimentary ticket j to thf WVsleyan Church, Annual Picnic fr>r to- morrow. Mr rl'ttcmr.oH. M.11.1v.. hos consented to con rest, the Mayoral cK-cti-jn of Wellington Kgsiinst tlie present Mayor, Mr (>e;>. Fifjljc-r. The upper classes in Paluiorston have j •ifiiiy completed nil i»p arn'njroTuents ' necessary for tiic forai.mon of a Club. It is reported that the entrance fc^fi and auntml subscription will be such sums that few but persons of the best social and financial standing wil be tempted to rink a black ball. A party of bushfcllers, engaged at work on Constable Price's section at Tasini, recently discovered a perfect '• j«i:int of tlir forest." in the shape of an enormous white pine, measuring 60ft in circumference, and 150 ft high. Out of respect for its antiquity. Constable Price has nliowed his " woodmen to spare that tree." A scandalous sconn wni witnessed in OMhnm, when a woman offered to sell fiiit'lren, one in arms and the other three years old. A sale was effected of the elder child, who was disposed of for sixpence, and went off in a cab with her chaw. Ihe mother offered the baby for a penny, but as there was no offer the lot was passed in. Mr McG-lashan. baker and confectioner, ha* removed to the shop next to Mr Huron's, in Fergusson street, where he intends to supply household and fancy bread, wedding, birthday, and christening cakes, general confectionery, and summer beverages. His new advertisement appears elsewhere. The loose stones, some of them very lar^e ones, which lie about on the surface of the road in Fcrgusson street, more especially the approaches to the railway station and post office, are not only very unsightly by day, but very annoying at night to passers to and from those places. They might well be utilised in filling in holes in certain places where as yet traffic is impracticable. Tho Society of Friends in England has just repealed the prohibition of the marriage of first cousins, which has been in force for nearly 200 years. It is believed that this will have a most beneficial result and that in another generation the Society will have more than doubled its members. For many years the increase has been very small owing to tho obstacles the barrier, now removed, raised to marriage among thoir limited numbers. We have again to draw the attention of our readers to Mr Hamilton's new advertisements which appear over leader and on onr first page respectively, in our isaiie to-day. It is quite evident that Mr Hamilton is not to be intimidated by competition in his npecial lines of goods. The quality of the goods he offers, combinei with the very reasonable cash prices, ought to emsure him a large and profitable sale. A man will die for want of air in five minutes, for w«nt of sleep in ten days, for want of water in a week, but authenticated f aacs ar» on record m the Govern! mint Service of men living for a respectable life time, although suffering permanently of wane of brains. Of course this could not possibly apply to New Zealand. There is no 'TeJ tapism." and never was — oh ! no ! — in New Zealimd. Tlir railway authorities have decided that tourist excursion tickets, first clasg, will be issued at any date, Sundays excepted, between the Ist December, 1883. and the 29th February, 1884, available over all New Zealand railways, private companies not included, for six weeks from dale of issue at a charge of £8. The tickets mnj be obtained on application at the booking office, at Wanganui, and all other booking office- in large centres. The railways open for traffic measure 1358 miles. The New Zealand Government Life Insuranre Department is circulating a refutation of an anonymous circular, which made some seaching attacks on the management of the said department. It is interesting to notice that only those journals which are direct supporters of the Government have been used as vehicles for distributing them to the public. If the Government Life Insurance Department desires to retain the confidence of the public, it should try and persuade people to beliove that it has no political bias. A dress is to be exhibited in London embroidered with fine white thread, so arranged as to form myriads of tiny incnndc«cent lamps, and connected with conducting wires terminating at the heels of the wearer. The dress does not attract j | attention until the wearer places her heel j upon one of the small buttons in the floor contrived for the purpose and connected below with an electric geenrator. The effect is magical : the whole costume bursts into a dazzling brilliancy, and remain so long as the wires continue in contact with the e'ectric current. The patentee hopes to have this costume, or some modification of it, adopted for the stage. L**t night's Herald says: -The Rangi- | tikei Advocate- hu» already decided Ihe i election for Manawatn. It first states iLai. Mr Xifillance is 1o be onr oP the Ciinoidates, and then pronounces authoritatively the uopelr.'K!»nK« i>i his chance against another of its candidates, Mr Macarllivir, who has become its favorite, though a very *hort time since he wan the subject of constant abuse on the part of this arbiter of the denlmies of Manawatu. We cannot say we know anything about who are the probahle candidates i for Manuwatu ; but it is hardly probable that the electors of that district are going to tnfec tfeejr cue from the organ of Sir i William Fox-

The Borough Council will met this evening at 8 o'clock. We are sorry to tear of the very serious illuess of Airs ISe-wunin of Manchester j street. If the Courier is to be believed, says a contemporary, the Episcopalian Church | in Tayanui is in a very bad way fiiian- i ejally and spiritually. It is rumored j that the congregation intend to dishonor ■ some bills they hnve running, and to j allow twb or three tjentlemen whose 1 names are affixed to the bills to be sued for the money. It is said that only Peers and their sons and Privy Councillors can marry at any hoar of the day they choose in Great Britain. Lesser worthies have to ask permission of the Archbishop to marry Inter than noon, and sometimes he refuses it. This is a relic of the dark ages, and as the people in England become more enlightened they will refuse to submit longer to such a silly piece of officialism.