Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 3, 8 January 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

» Mr W. R. Waters has been appointed secretary of the Northern Land, Loan, and Building Company, Wellington. Mrs Emma Jane Dixon, aerated water manufacturer, of Wellington, has applied for the registration of her trade mark for derated waters and cordials. The Makino Butter and Cheese Company, limited, has been duly registered, and a certificate issued to the directors dated January 3rd, 1884. There is every probability that a curate will be appointed at an early date to Phlmerston. The Her J. Jones visited that place yesterday to settle certain preliminaries necessary to that end. At the regular monthly meeting of the Standing Committee of the Wellington Diocesan Synod, held a few days ago, the committee authorised the allocation of a stipend of £250 for Palmerston North, provided that district raised £200. The polling for a special rate held at Kiwitea yesterday, resnlted in 51 for and 10 against the proposal. The property value of the supporters of the proposal exceeded that of its opponents oy upwards of £20,000. The Rev Father McManus will leave Christchurch to-day, eu r ute for Feilding, where he will take up the duties of the Rev. Father Carew, who will take his departure for Greymouth a few days after the arrival of his reverend successor. Every subscriber for a papor can do much for the paper by becoming a reporter for it. Thafc would greatly help the editor in getting out a readable sheet. The trouble with the average subscriber is that he is not content with being a reporter. He wants to write the editorials. " Have you given electricity a trial for your complaint, madam ?" asked the minister, as he took tea with the old lady " Electricity ?" said she. " Well, yes, I reckon I has. I was struck by lightning last summer and hove out of the window, but it dida't seem to do me no sort of good." There was a meeting of the officers of the Feilding Jockey Club held at the Empire Hotel last night. A programme was drawn up wkich will go far to make the Easter meeting most successful. The money value of the various events was considerably advanced. Full particulars will be published in a future issue. There is said to have been an amusing mistake in the draft bill for constituting a federni council that has been sent home for the inspection and criticism of ths Crown law officers. The preamble, it is reported, states that the bill is to be passed by the Queen " with the advice of the Lords, spiritual and temporal," and all mention of the House of Commons has been omitted. And yet there were seven lawyers members of the Federation Convention J 'iEgles/in the 'Australasian' is responsible for this :— The worthy Laird of Warrock was some little time ago, a passenger to Melbourne by rail. There were several other travellers in the same carriage, and all but himself were either members of Parliament, contractors, or others with free passes. When the tickets were culled for a~d produced, his was thtonly ordinnrymoney-obtained-ticket. Moved with righteous indignation and casting a look of scorn at his follow passengers he impulsively exclaimed, 'D it, and hare Ito pay for the lot Vye? f ■ ' ■■-■■■■-.■ ' ■' .. The exact site of the. notorious Black Hole of Calcutta has just been identified during home . excavations inside the gate of Dalhousie Square. Part of the walls 'hare been laid bare, and show -^hat the. diniensoin nf the miserable chamber were pxactly recorded, while the walls themselves are well' preserved, the plaster being, intaet on the inner side. The Hole occnpies a portion of w hut was once -'■ the nbrth-easierh portion of the old fort, and is now on tli { e '.'..north .'.side s of the, General Post Office. ' It is proposed to/ erect here, a monument: to: tlie victims ( who perished during the nijjht of June,. , 3ptu,;l7sGr'^ ; '. v ''" li1i! k *-■?*:■■ =■' "^Vj

An ordinary session of the Feilding E.M- Court will be held to-morrow at 10 a.m. We regret to record the death ot Mrs Geo. Wills which took place oa Sunday last. Deceased had beeu an invalid for some considerable time. We are informed bj wire, that the interview of the Mayor, Mr Sherwill, and Councillor Loudon with the i ommissioner of Insurance in regard to the Government taking up the Borough loan, has proved highly satisfactory. In another column appears the announcement that Madame Moller and a talented company of artistes will appear in the Town Hall on Friday evening next. The criticisms on the part of the northern papers are all highly favorable, and as Madame Moller, her daughter, and Mr Gilbert are already well-known to many of our residents, we anticipate a bumper house. The programme, as published, contains many charming and exquisite pieces. To-day may be called the first summers* day we have had for the season. As is always the case in this colony when, nature condesends to give a fine day, there are no haif measures about it. The heat of the sun, tempered by gentle and cooling breezes, appear to have awakened in nature a cheerfulness, that has been quiescent during a period of nearly nine months, and which was communicated to all who were able to get out to enjoy the sunshine. We devoutly hope the fine weather may continue and give the crops a chance to ripo. With this issue we enclose to our subscribers as an " insert " full particulars of Podo-Euonymin, a word which when it first appeared caused much speculation as to its meaning. The marvellous curative and preventative properties of this newly-discovered medicine have forced it forward far in advance of any other nostrums of the age. Already Mr Higgin who is the agent for Feilding, has been almost overwhelmed with applications for it and after some unavoidable delays he is at last able to supply his clients with this wonderful medicine. On Saturday last there died suddenly at Wellington Mr Jacob Monteith, who had recently followed the profession of a chemist, but who for many years was the dispenser at the Wellington Hospital. He was a son of Dr. Monteith, who will be remembered by the older settlers in Wellington. We learn by telegram that the deceased was supplying some medicine to a customer when he suddenly complained of pain and retired ; on his not reappearing search was made, and he was found in the yard vomiting. He was removed but died in a few minutes. He was high'y respected as a citizen, and in his profession he had few equals. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. A few nights ago some persons, whose tastes for well grown ripe fruit were not ruled and governed by the restraining influence of honesty, made a raid upon a somewhat well stocked orchared here. They showed some consideration for the feelings of the proprietor and themselves, inasmuch as they were provided with a powerful lantern, the bright rays from which enable them to successfully gather the fruit, without injurin? the tree's or themselves by falling over any obstructures or into any of the dangers that are apt to beset roving adventurers on strange premises at night. As the stolen fruit was both sweet and ripe, no evil consequences are likely to befal the rogues in the flesh, but time will come when the agonies of remorse may far exceed the racking pains of the colic— at least we hope so. I The newly - appointed Anniversary Committee met in the Templars' Hall last evening, and drew out a programme of the intended festivities for the 22nd instant, the Anniversary Day of the Wellington Province. The programme will be found elsewhere, and plainly shows the intention of the committee as expressed at the meeting, viz, not so much to invite competition of talent, by giving heavy prizes us to get competitors to go in " for the fun of the thing," and provide real amusement for everybody. Sou e of the events will be 'quite novel as fur as Feilding ii concerned, and will be sure to create interest and much rnerr mrMit. The committee added the nnrnis of Messrs H. Worsfold, Daw, Gosling, Malcolm, and Reading, and appointed the latter secretary. The next meeting will be I" eld at Kxeter Hall on Thursday eveuing at halt-past seven. We understand there is likely to be a torch lignt procession and some fireworks, although these are not officially a part of the programme.