Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 17, 12 February 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The inward Kuropean mail, via 'Frisco, is due at Feildinjj to-morrow. The council of the Manchester Rifles will meet to-morrow (Wednesday) even ing, at 7 p.m., at the Star Office. The secretary of the Feildinsi Jockey Club stales that the entries for the coming Easter meeting promise 10 be very numerous. To our readers and settlers in the Campbelltown district we co.umend the perusal of the advertisement of Mr J. R. Harper, which appears on our third page. Sir William Fox will leave for Canterbury in a few days. His visit to the south will be iv connection with the temperance cause. We regret to learn that Mr Edward Woods, of Bui's, is still Ling ill at that place. His many friends will be glad to know that every chance exists of his early recovery. Owing to a consignment of paper not having arrived in due time, we have bren compelled to fall back on a stock of J smaller size, which gives our present issue a somewhat diminutive appearance. The Kvening Post, of Wellington, has now entered upon its twentieth year of publication. The first number was issued on Friday, the Bth February, 1865, nnd was the first daily paper published in Wellington. The denth is announced of Mr Horace D. Monk, well-known on the West Coast and in Wellington. Deceased at one time kept the Post Office Hotel, and subsequently travelled round the colony with uatrnt medicine/}. He died in Sydney of typhoid fever on 26th January, at the age of 42 years. Some surprise has beon expressed in certain quarters that we omitted to publish the report of the Inspector of ■ Nuts-i aaccs, as read at the last meeting of the B trough Council. In explanation we! can only say that' as some of the report was ui.fii for .publication,, it consequently .could not find -a place in onr columns-

In Wanganui one shilling per head is [ offered for hawks ; in Napier a reward of £5 is offered tor conviction of any person destroying a hawk. To-morrow is likely to be a field day at the J{. VI. C<mrt here, which opens at j 10 a.m. The bill of fare is a rather I heavy one, and several of the cases are somewhat important. Mr Eochfort, the surveyor, has returned from Nelson to Wellington. We will know in a few days whether the Minister for Public Works will instruct him to proceed with the central line survey, starting from this point. The Feilding Brass Band, on Saturday evening last, performed on Manchester Square, the programme which we had previously published being gone through in a very creditable manner. The general remark svas that the band was making good progress, and was much improved in style. Tiie following players compose the team selected to play Ashurst on Saturday next, the 16th February, at Feilding, play to commence at 11 o'clock sharp : — iSix, Sherwill, Stevens, Rowley, Jackson, Taunt, Thompson, Fearon. Roe, Fowles and G. Bartholomew. Emergencies — Hudson and Filzherbert We are gad to notice that Mr Cleary, our popular stationmaster, has obtained a well-de-erved term of leave of absence. Ye understand that i;e will spend his holiday in making a driving tour of the Wwirarapa di>trict. Mr liobert*. from ihe Wanganui office, will iiil Mr Cleary "s position in the meanwhile. An important notice arrears in our advertising columns from Mr C Bray, jiuir . the countj' l'oileclo?. After reeapi!uniting the names of the places which he wiii visit, in order to receive all rates now due and overdue, he stales that all sums uupaid after February 23vd will be recovered by It-gal procedure without respect ot persons. We are informed that the temperance ; bodies of Feilding intend to use strenuous efforts to secure the return of two representative teetotallers at the forthcoming election of the Licensing Committee, and have formed a united committee for the purpose of carrying out this obj"Ct. Tiiis will no d'Hibt he satisfactory to " > hilos," whose letter appear* in another column. Mr Hutchison. M.H.R.. has returned t the field of journalism, in which he was once a shining light, and has been appointed editor of the Marlborough Express. His predecessor left tlue Express in high dudgeon and joined the proprietary of the Marlborough Times, and a bitier paper war is now raging in Blenheim. Mr Wagstaff. the Wanganui Education Board's Auditor and Truant Inspector, is now on an official visit to this district, tor the purpose of auditing the variou* school accounts, and reporting on the attendance, &c. Yesterday lie was in Feilding, and after auditing the annur.l balance sheet of the school, he proceeded to Sandon on the same business. The gross receipts of the New Zealand railways for the four weeks ending otii ult., amounted to £82.432 as against £80,258 for the corresponding period of last year. The length of railway open, however, is 1392 miles this year as emu pared with 1358 last year. The working expenses for the four weeks ending sth January, ISB4, were £44,620 as against £43,860 for the corresponding period of 1883. The Melbourne correspondent of a contemporary says :— " We are not after all to have a female medical practitioner in our midst. The profession Ims taken the alarm, and the application of Mis 'Doctor' Potts for her icense to kill and cure has been refused by the Victorian Medical Board. Tlie body hav<- even gone a step further, and intimated to the enterprising American lady that if she does not at once drop the affix of M.D. to her name, she will be liable to a prosecution." In to day's issue appears a notice from Afkms and Clere, architects, calling fenders for the erection of a factory for the Miikino Butter and Cheese Company, Limited. The pluck and energy displayed by the promoters of this company, and the determination with which the movement, from its inception, has been followed up, reflect the greatest credit on the Board of Directors and the share holders. Where there is such a com bin ation oi the qualities which ensure success, and a splendid farming district to back it, this company must turn out a good paying property. The Melbourne correspondent of the N.Z. Times writes :— The rumor has reached us that Mrs Langtry has abandoned her intention of visiting Australia, and consequently much disappointment has been occasioned here. I am quite sure, were Mrs Langtry to appear ia this city, that the majority of the population would behave like a lot of maniacs in worshipping at her shrine. Melbourne is an awful place for fashion, folly, and frivolity — three vices I will call them —which, I think are, hanging on to Mrs Langtry's skirts wherever she goes. A correspondent of the London 'I imes writes: There can be little doubt that one reason why there is so little good reading aloud among English people is that many persons are afraid to trust themselves to prononnce words which have never heard pronounced hy others. This is one of the penalties we pay for our irregular spelling. We cannot of course be expected to remodel our spelling; to suit the Continental pronunciation of the letters, but we can see that there is some little justification for the l-rench lady (a genuine case) who, frequently discoursing of high life, pronounced the words so as to rliyme witling- leaf.

Eianlon is expected in Sydney next month. The total income of the London chanties last year was £5,314,200. Mr H. T. Flyger has been appointed postmaster at Terrace Knd, P:ihnerston. A N-.-w Y>>rlc man who vainly scratched his wife's comb on the wall thinking it a card of matches, says that " tooth is stronger than friction." "Greenland's icy mountains" is one of the latest delusions to go. Buron Nordenskjold has been all over Greenland and the Baron says it is a barren waste without any mountains, icj or otherwise. Now let the Baron turn his attention to " India's coral strand." Achibald Forbes, the press correspondent, has been through seven wars and taken part in 150 battles, but yet is not satisfied. We see by the papers that he is going to be married. That is easily explained. He has been a non-combatant heretofore and wants to know what active service really is. Such ambition is commendable. A Brisbane telegram in the Melbourne papers says : — '"Mr Jones, who was so severely injured at Roektnn by a circular saw is still alive. The saw cut through live ribs. The heart and left lung can be seen in full working order. Only one case of s:mi!ar nature has ever before been recorded." Education in England was made compulsory in 1870, but out of every 100 who jiigi'.ed tlie marriage register in 1877 there were 15 men and 20 woman who signed with marks. In Scotland, where ciiucalion has been more widespread than in England, out oF every 10!) signing ihe register in 1877 only 9 men and 19 women signed with marks. Tlie dedication of the new hall for the Hc-lford Lod_je oi : Freemasons, 46-1, I.C. Waipukumu, took place recently. There iras a large gathering of the brethren present. On the Lodge being closed the brethren retiied to the refreshment room. The usual loyal »nd Masonic toasts having been duly honored, P.M. Kennedy proposed the health of the Hon. H. Russell, who had so generously given the site for; the new Lodge. — Daily Telegraph.