Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 72, 20 November 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

* Hop gardens are being formed at ISTor— manby, Taranaki. Mr and Mrs Macartbur returned to Feilding on Saturday evening last. Mr A. F. Halcombe may be expected to arrive in Feilding from Patetere on Friday or Saturday next. A meeting of the Kiwitea Highway Board was called for yesterday afternoon, but it lapsed for want of a quorum. The number of illegitimate children born in New Zealand during last year was 546 ; Otago heads tbe list with 162. The M arlborough Daily Times advocates the establishment of a jam factory in Blenheim. ! A sale of orchids took place in London recently ; one plant was sold for ; £240. The Rothschild orchid, which is now in bloom, is valued at £450. The District Court will sit in Palmerston on Monday, 26th inst. Jurors and others are informed that they need not attend until Tuesday, the following day, at 10 am. The programme of the Feilding annual atbletic sports will be found in another column. The programme is a lengthy one, and some good prizes are offered, the total amount of which is Ll 50 We learn from our Auckland telegrams that information has been received from Waotu, that the tribe of Whataihio fired into Symonds people, who returned the fire. No casualities are reported. We have to acknowledge receipt of the November number of the New Zealand Industrial Gazette. It contains the usual amount of interesting and instructive matter, carefully collated and compiled. By a printer's error, a local with reference to the 3 farthings in the L property tax, due on Dec. Ist, is made to read three shillings and four pence. This item of news, as printed, had a rather startling effect on some of our readers. A friend one day asked Lord Palmerston when he considered a man in the prime of life. The immediate reply was " Seventy-nine ! But," he added with a twinkle in his eye, "as I h ave j ust entered my eightieth perhaps I am myself a little past it." Mr Brewer, the Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society, has written to Mr H. L. Sherwill, informing bim that he will send by train to-morrow morning some trout. We are informed that these l will be placed in the Oroua River, at the [ bridge, on the Ashhurst Boad. A lady taking tea at a small company, being very fond of hot rolls, was asked to have another. "Really, I cannot," she modestly replied. "I don't know how many I have eaten already" "I do," unexpectedly cried a juvenile upstart, whose mother had allowed him a seat at the table. " You've eaten eight; I've been countin' J" A witness at the Kesident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, was describing a conversation. The person he was talking j to had said, 'I am a gentleman.' 'Yes,' replied the other a gentleman wi.*h three outs.' The magistrate wished to know what the meaning of that expression was ' Well,' said the witness, ' I meant that he was a gentleman without wit, without manners, and without money. We regret very much to learn from the Wanganui Chronicle tbat father Moreau, one of the oldest Catholic Mission priests in New Zealand, and a gentleman as well known in Otago as in Manawatu, now lies very ill at Father Kirk's presbytery. The patient, who for some time past had, been stationed up the river amongst the Maoris, was brought down last week for medical treatment. He was reported to be somewhat better yesterdar. The following are the appointments tor the quarterly sittings of the various Licencing Committees for Feilding and surrounding districts -.—Oroua Saturday Dec. Ist, at Sandon School house ; Feilding, Monday 3rd, at the Court House ; Manchester, • Tuesday 4th, at Halcombe Town Board office ; Kiwitea, Thursday 6th, at Lewers' store. Cheltenham. No business has been submitted for transaction- by either committee, and consequently no sittings will be, held.

A mail for tbe United Kingdom direct per lonic, will close at Feilding to-morrowt at 7 p.m. Correspondence should be specially marked. We regret that pressure on our space compels us to hold over a number of advertisements, our Bull's correspondent's letter, a portion of R.M. Court report, and other matter. Mr Lundon, the Collector of Customs, Wanganui, is at present on a tour of inspection of the breweries in this district. He went by train yesterday to Palmerston. Lord Wolseley has formed one of a shooting party at Wilton House, the residence of the Earl of Pembroke. In two days the party killed over 300 brace, the sport having been remarkably good. Captain Rhodes has expressed his firm determination to swim the Niagara rapids. He declines to give the date of the attempt, and states that no one except his wife and brother will know the day and the hour. We would remind all interested in the Makino Butter Factory of the meeting to be held in the Makino road School house on Thursday evening next at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of electing a directorate, and taking steps to register the Company. ?*fessrs A. Kidd, C. McKenzie, and James Stewart, of the Kiwitea, all insured in the N. Z. Accident Insurance Company late in October. Since that time they have sll had practical experience of the wisdom of their conduct, for each has been the subject of accident more or less severe. Their claims have been recognised and paid. A cricket match— Feilding v Bulls — will be played at Bulls on Saturday next. The following are the names of the Feilding team : — Messrs Nix, Bartholomew, Hudson, Rowley, Taunt, Fowles, Thompson, Stevens, Jackson, Fearon, Roe. Emergencies: Halcombe and Lloyd. We are requested to state that a brake will leave Morphy's stables at 8.30 sharp on Saturday morning. A slight typographical omission was made in our report on Saturday of the Makino Butter Factory meeting. In Mr Corpe's estimated cost of the concern the words " old horse harness, LIO," should have read " old horse and harness, LIO." Mr Corpe explained this item by saying that a young spirited horse, and therefore valuable one, would not be either necessary or desirable for working the machinery, and that a suitable animai, together with harness, need not cost more than about LIO.