Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 77, 1 December 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

There is a steady increase in the prices quoted for wool m the London market. A man known as " Old Tom " was locked up this morning for being drunk in the public streets. Property tax is due and payable today. Ten per cent will be added to all tax unpaid on Saturday, the 15th instant. We notice that our local athletes are daily training in good earnest for the decisive events of Boxing Day. i During the last decade 13 men hare died in Great Britain, each of whom left a fortune of £1,000,000 or more. The many friends of Mr James Linton will be glad to learn that his medical adrisers report a considerable improvement in his health. The Board of Education in Oswego are discussing the advisability of abolishing whipping in the public schools. AH the boys favor its abolition. It is intended to hold athletic sports at Cheltenham, and 8J as not to clash with those of Feilding it has been determined that they shall take place on the day before Christum s Day. Full particulars will be duly advertised. It is a significant fact that the introduction of the Adulteration Act has caused a rise in the price of bread all over the colony. There is this satisfaction, that people will not renlly hare to pay any more for the weight of bread purchased than before. The Canterbsry Press says — "We were never more forcibly reminded of that uncomplimentary proverb, ' Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,' than when we heard of Mr Mitchelnon's acceptance of the portfolio of Minister of Public Works." This, coming from a Ministerial organ, is not very complimentary. We are are glad to learn that Mr Child has so far recovered his mental health a* to be able to return home to Halcombe, having been already out of Wellington asylum for about four months. His in* tention is to settle upon his farm, and devote his attention in future to agricultural and pastoral pursuits. We notice several new buildings and enlargements in curse of erection. One or two are in the neighborhood of the Denbigh street and the railway line, and part of the timber is on the ground for a new house near Mr Belk's coach factory. Mr Chamberlaiu is making considerable additions and improvements to his private residence, and the erection of the new Catholic Church in Bowen street wa« commenced yesterday by Mr Spearing. A large hawk was observed yesterday circling near the railway line above the Makino Boad station. After a few seconds it swooped on a strong young leveret which had been the object of its .affectionate regard, and fastening its claws into the back of its prey, attempted to rise and fly away, with it; A passing train alarmed the bird and after » few frantic efforts it reluctantly loosed itt ; hold and flew sluggishly away. The young hare took a more harried departure 1

Warrants hare been issued to-day for the arrest of two men on separate charges of horse stealing. We withhold particulars for obvious reasons. 1 0,000 men, mostly colored men from Jamaica, are at work on the Panama Canal, and the statement; is made that the project will be completed in five years. A gentleman in Feilding has had a letter from Father Moreau, in which it is stated that he is rapidly recovering his health, and will probably visit Feildiug in a short time. Upwards of 50 horses were entered for Messrs Halcombo and Sherwill's sale to-day at the Horse Eepository. The attendance was very good, and the prices were quite up to expectation. A full report will appear in our next issue. Mr Justice Williams, the Victorian Judge, travels the Western circuit on a bicycle. His Honour goes at a good speed. The wig (says the Australasian) has to be transported in the ordinary way. The revenue of Fiji is showing elasticity, and there is the prospect of a surplus at the end of the year of £10,857 13s sd. The revenue of the colony is now about double that of four years ago, without any increase of taxation. In the beginning of September last, England paid, almost for the first time, a public tribute to Henry Fielding, the founder of the English novel. Almost on the same date, the founder of norel writing in Russia, or, at least, [Russia's first great novelist, Ivan Tourgenieff, died in Paris. The Government has granted the application of the Kinitea Road Board for the sum of £3473, under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act. As soon as the necessary formalities have been complied with it will be expended on Wilson's, Sinclair's, Perry's, and Mcßeth's lines. Constable McAnulty has been appointed Inspector, in the Manawatu County — excepting for the Foxton Town Board district — for the purposes of " The Adulteration Prevention Act Amendment. 1 883 " It would be interesting to know why the Oroua County Council has made no vimilar appointment. Mr Kdward Isaacs, of Auckland (says the Auckland Herald) received a letter by the San Francisco mail from bis daughter, Lady Samuels, informing him that she had used New Zealand mackerel and flounders for the table, which had been sent home from the colony in a frozen state, and that the fish were in excellent condition. Mr A. G. Taylor, a member of the New South Wales Legislature, is distinguished as a questioner. The other day he gave notice of about 100 questions. Among them was an enquiry with regard to the appointment of a Mr Morris as a lieutenant of artillery, and a wish on the part of the questioner to know whether he was a relation either by blood or marriage of any member of the Ministry; also, whether he had any hair on his upper lip, or whether he knew a cork-screw from a cannon. A cable special from London, October 13, says a newspaper discussion regarding Mary Anderson, an American actress, who refused to meet the Prince of Wales, waxes hot. The Catholic Times says the actress refused the proposition point blank, and upon being questioned about the matter said, " Yes, I was asked to meet the Prince of Waleß; but I perfectly understood the light in which he regards actresses, as a rule, and 1 refused. I have always maintained my dignity and self- respect, and would not place myself in a position where I might be compelled to forget them. The Wellington Post says :— Wo are pleased to learn that nearly the whole of the 10,000 shares placed on the market by the directors of the Wellington Woollen Company have been taken up in the provincial district The people of Masterton are anxious that the factory should be established in their district, and we are informed that they have offered to take up £20,000 worth of shares in the concern, provided their wish is acceded to. It is piobable that a deputation of settlers will wait upon the dircttors at an earlydate for the purpose of conferring with them on the subject. The Primitive Methodist congregation has been in the habit of holding an annual ("amp Meeting. This year they have invited the Wesleyans to join them, and to-morrow at 11, and again at 2.30, united meetings will be held in Mr J. C. Thompson's paddock, weather permitting. If otherwise the meetings will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church, where another meeting is arranged to be held at 630 Several ministers and lay preachers will take part, and a procession is included in the programme, full particular! of which will be found in the advertisement.