Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1, 5 January 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

We are in receipt from the Government Printer of a number of Parliamentary papers* It is estimated thai Messrs Fraser and Tinne will net a profit of £20,000, at the least, by getting the steamer Triumph off the rocks. The Wanganui Herald hint9 that a candidate, hailing from Falmerston, Kill oppose Mr Macarthur forthe,Manavratu. Who can he be P A meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held at the Empire Hotel on Monday evening next, at 8 p.m., to arrange a programme for the ensuing race meeting in Easter. A shark 31ft long, 20ft in circumference with a mouth 4ft long, and with a weight of five tons is now exhibiting in Mel* bourne. It took two lorries to convey the monster. We learn from the Post that Ministers are expected to reassemble in Wellington next week, when it is understood several important questions, including Civil Ser* vice reorganisation, will be considered in Cabinet. . The poll for a special rate' for the disIrict of Kiwitea will be taken on Monday next at Mr Lewer'a store, Cheltenham. We may remind ratepayers that it is only to comply with the forms of the Act this Tote is necessary. It is not likely the rate will even be collected as the ordinary revenue will be more than sufficient to meet the payments. The Mayor (Mr Sherwill), and Councillor London, took their departure yesterday evening by train to Foxton, en route for Wellington, to interview the Commissioner of. Insurance, Mr Luckie, on the subject of a proposal from that official on the part of the Government, to take up the Feilding Borough debentures. We hope that these gentlemen will be able to conclude the business in a manner satisfactory to all parties. The Wanganui Friendly Societies picnic held at Matarawa on New Year's Pay was • financial suce**. The total receipts at the gates were £137 2s, half of which went to the .Railway Department. In addition £10 wera taken from persons who travelled otherwise than by rail. Judging from the above the promoters of the proposed festivities here on Anniversary Day, finishing up as is intended with a bali, need have no fear •s to the monetary results. Our many advertisers and clients generally. will be pleased to 'learn that wi> hare imported from Messrs Edwards, Dunlop, and Co., importers of printing machinery, Sydney, a "Model" platen machine. This will enable us to execute all jobbing orders with promptness and despatch at rates that will defy com petition. We may here mention th.it Mr j G. W. Fowles erected the machine, and put it in working order in a highly satis- ; factory* manner. ... = '..''. I New advertisements from the popular : ready money draper, clothier, milliner, Ac, j Mr J. B. Hamilton, of Feilding and Pnlj merston, appears elsewhere. One is headed j " Beward of running into debt;" and the other, " What the people say." During the present month Mr Hamilton is offering special ndvnntageu in the shape oi greater reductions than; erer in; the cjikK prices <>f his enormous ; and varied stock of goods. Visitors are assured (hat genuine cheapness is combined with good articles, and that nowhere else can' such vaiue be had for ready money as at the Main*street Emporium, Palmerstoa f or ♦he Peopled Shop, Feildinjj.

Prince Bismarck i> said to be one of the most considerable distillers in Germany. The individual wealth of great Britain is the highest in the world, France coming next and the United States third-. Mr Irving and Miss Terry have recentlj been the guests of Lord Young, the flower of the legal fraternity in Scotland, at his charming place on the Forth, about three miles from Edinburgh. - The town Council of Leeds has passed a resolution expressing the opinion that the establishment of a racecourse in the Borough would be very prejudicial to the interests of the town. The Rev. Stephen Gladstone draws a larger stipend — more than £7,ooo— from his rectory of Hawarden than his father receives as Prime Minister. But then he can't have so much fnn as the G.O.M. Those gentlemen win pat down their names for subscriptions towards the funds of the Feilding Sports, are requested to send in cheques to the secretary, by whom receipt will be gratefully acknowledged. Yellow ferer has been bo bad on the Mexican coast that a band of Indians was hired to bury the dead. The Indians .went from house to house gathering bodies, and carted away both dead and liring, many persons being buried alive. A woman, lately looking at a printingpress at work, turned to her companion, and in a most earnest manner inquired : " Well, Charley, aa' them's the things as writes the papers. Be' a them what they call the editors ?" A countryman, not long since, on his first sight of a locomotive, declared that "He thought it was the devil on wheels !" " Faix, an' yer worse than meself," said an Irish bystander ; " for the first time I see the craythur I tho't it was a sthame* boat huntin' for wather." Orders have been received at'Sau Fran* cisco by the captains of several vessels to the effect that if the charters they have been negotiating are not closed, they are to refuse to proceed with them except at much higher rates. It is stated that these instructions are based upon tlte expectation of an European war, which would cause a sharp advance in freights. The formation of North street has just been finished by Mr A . Diamond, con* tractor for the job. The work has been carried out not only faithfully, but in a most excellent and satisfactory manner. It is the largest of our scheduled works yet done, and the even and neat style in which the road has been finished off has certainly not been surpassed, if equalled. Mr Daw's new brake turned out for the first time on New Year's Day for conveying passengers to Palmerston. It was in the streets of Feilding again yesterday, and attracted a good deal of at. tention, as well it might, as it is the largest and finest vehicle ever made or owned in Feilding. Tt speaks much for the excellent workmanship of Mr John Belk, coachbuilder, of the Makino road factory. The Tichbourne Claimant will be liberated from gaol on a ticket-of leave in October next, as his license will lie due on that date in the ordinary course. Preparations are being made at Home by the believers in him to give him a hearty reception when he is liberated. Much regret is expressed in certain '. quarters that, from force of unhappy circumstances, he will not be eligible to represent Northampton in the English Parliament. A local which appeared in our Thursday's issue conveyed the impression that a certain respected lady and gentleman were married on Monday last. Although we have heard nothing from either of the ' parties themselves on the matter, we have ascertained that it was only rumor, and we hasten to make this correction, and apologise, if need be, to those concerned. Our explanation is that while we had and still have, every confidence in our inform* ant, he waft himself wrongly ad vined from what he considered a reliable source. One tittle girl who had lived in London all her life and had never seen a tree wa» recently taken into the country, together with many others, at the expense of a "fresh air fund." She dung to o»e of the teachers in dreadful alarm on seeing a tree, and could not. understand what such an immense, green thing could be. " Why don't it keep still P" she said, in a paroxysm of terror, at .the wind awayed its branches : and it was only after tome time that the, could be induced to go near enough to touch it.— Detroit Fr«« i'ress.