Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 81, 11 December 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

A concert will be given at Taonui , Seliool on Friday next (14th insr.) in aid , of the school funds. , We bare received a letter bearing the ] initials, " A..P.," but as it is not accom- ] panied by the signature Of the writer, it* , cannot be published. ( The 48 hours' walking contest between ] Edwards and Scott concluded on Satpr- < I day last at Wellington, <* cott being the 1 I winner. Scott walked 191 miles, and i Edwards 18$. - i

The aunual general meeting of the the Feilding Jockey Club is called for Saturday evening next at the Denbigh Hotel at 8 o'clock. It is requested that all members and others interested will attend withouL fail. There will be a "Service of Song" in the Presbyterian Church, Feilding, on Friday evening next, the 14th inst. We understand that about 30 persons will assist in the performance. On Saturday night someone "borrowed" the best door mat from the FeildiDg Hotel, and has not yet returned it. As the weather is wet and dirty \lr Hastie wants the mat, and would like to negotiate the acquaintance of the party who removed it. In the State of Maine the penalty of death was abolished in 187 b", and the crime of murder made punishable by life imprisonment. After 14 years experience the crimes oF violence having inucli increased, the death penalty has been restored. The question of the drainage of the properties of Messrs Wright, Lucas and others in Denbigh street has at last been satisfactorily settled, and a long-standing uuisance of stagnant water done away with, the maintenance umn having put in a good 2ft 6m culvert across the road to carry the water into its proper channel. In his official meteorological report for I September last — only just published — Dr Hector appends the following remark. — " A vivid colouration of the southern sky after sunset and before sunrise was observed during this month, due probably to vapour being suspended at an unusually great altitude." We have to acknowledge receipt of the first number of a paper entitled " Lxnd" published in Auckland. The journal is intended for the information of all interested in landed estates and house property in Auckland and its county districts, and will be a monthly register of exchanges in real estate. The proprietors are F. J. Moss and Co., of Auckland. The putting in of the three large culverts along Railway road was finished yesterday by Mr Smith and his staff of workmen. There is an enormous quantity of filling in to be done, and then the whole formation will be finished, a-d when this road and North street are metailed, two of the. most important and useful of the scheduled works will have . been done, and a very large amount of property more enhanced in value. Messrs Watts and Bilderbeck have just completed the erection of a substantial 4-roomed dwelling house for Mr Ranald Cameron on his 40-acre section, Makino road, formerly owned by Mr J. C. Thompson. Mr Cameron removed from his late farm at Mount Stewart to his new abode on Saturday last, thus forming another addition to the practical farming settlers of the Makino district. Improved facilities have now been given to persons loading, or unloading horses, cuttle and sheep at the Feilding Bailway Station. At the cattle yards, staging and leading ways have been erected for placing sheep in the two decker trucks, and immediately north of the passenger platform, a ramp has been formed to be used in loading orunloading|horses, which will be a great convenience for sportsmen bringing horses to the races. The marriage of Mr John G. Bishop to Miss Kate Fraser took place at the residence of the bride's father, Kimbolton road, on Saturday last. The ceremony was performed by the Rev H. M. Murray. The bride and bridegroom are both much respected, the former being always very popular at local concerts at whica she has frequently and most willingly assisted. We are quite sure that all who know them will join us in wishing the happy young couple much happiness and prosperity. With singularly bad taste the New Zealand Times, in a recent issue held up to ridicule a member of the Wellington Borough Council, Mr Pejbherick, because that gentleman protested against the money of the ratepayers being squandered in drink by certain councillors while visiting a portion of the public works now in course of completion by the Borough. The opinion of Mr Peiherick is perfectly correct that the appropriation of the Borough funds for such a purpose is not only morally wrong but is illegal, I and, if the case was brought into court, the councillors who voted for the passing of the amount objected to would be compelled to refund it with heavy costs. Borough councillors in New Zealand should remember that their aldermanic functions do not extend to " gorging and guzzling" at the expense of their fellow citizens, as in some of the Boroughs in England. Mr John Turner has been holding a dancing class for juveniles, and on Friday evening last invited the parents and friends of the young people to wtivi up assembly of the season. A large number attended at the Town Hall, and much satisfaction and even surprise was expressed at the proficioney and progress displayed by the pupils. We are. how- j ever, sorry to have to report that this otherwise pleasant gathering was not allowed to pass off without interruption | from the larrikin element. A number of " promising" youths haviug been refused admission without payment, commenced to bombard the place. Some good sized stones were hurled not only at the door, bat " permiscuous like" at any one who happened* to be near it. Several persons' were hit, while Mr Morris, the hall- keeper got a nasty cut over the left eye. Such proceedings as these are certainly very: disgraceful, and the miscreants should be brought to book, and made to softer . for Buch practices, which are not only most idiotic, bat even criminal.

We learn from an exchange that the daughters of the Prince of Wales are becoming very graceful. They are no longer treated as childreu, but are allowed to sugar their own lea, and butler their own bread, quite like grown up persons. School Coinmitteenian (examining a scholar) " Where is the North Pole?" "I I don't know, sir." " Don't know ? Are you I not ashumed that you don't know where the North Pole is?" "Why. sir, if Sir John Franklin, and Dr Kane, and Captain Delong couldn't find it, how should 1 know where it is ?" In the year 1766, we are told by a lady writer for the Hampshire Telegraph, "that a lady of distinction at the West-end of the town took the following method of testifying her sorrow for the loss of her husband : She dressed herself entirely in black crape, had two black servants to wait on her, eat nothing but black puddings, and drank nothing but black cherry brandy, for one whole year."