Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 19, 16 February 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The Marton Rifles will have a church parade to-morrow. New uniforms ! Choir practice will be held on Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock (instead of Wednesday), in the Church of England. The spring of a carriage lamp has been found. The owner, by applying at the Stab Office, will be informed of its whereabouts. There will be service in St. John's Churcli on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, to commemorate the anniversary of the consecration of that church. His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington will prebubly preside. The Post says Mr John Duthie has "done for himself" as a public man :n Wellington. Evidently the Post is desirous of helping this gentlemen on. as it is well-known that "martyrdom makes men" in the Empire City. A local has been going the rounds of the Press for the last week or so to the effect that all stationmasters in the colony are to be supplied with uniforms. c now learn that the only foundation to the rumor is that some of the porters are to be put in uniform, and these only. Yesterday the schooner E. U. Cameron finished loading at Foxion. Her cargo consisted of 29,000 feet of timber from the mill of H. Adsett, Taonui Reserve. The vessel is bound f^r Lyttelton. This is her second trip for the same char terers. The attention of contractors is directed to two advertisements from the . ngineer of the Kiwitea Road Board. As will be seen, tenders for certain work on Bryee's Line, and also on Perry and Mcßeth's Line, must be lodged at the Board's office by noon ou Monday next. The weight of gold received for coinage at the Sydney branch of the royal mint since its establishment amounts to 13,633,5010z5, of the gross value of £51,943.992. lhere was an increase last year in the gold received for coinage of 7365 ozs. The Innngnhua Times of the 6th inst. says that the Rev Father Carew, who has just been appointed to the spiritual care of the important parish of Greymouth, paid a visit to Reefton on Monday last, and was warmly welcomed by his f >rmer parishioners there. He returned to Greyti.'outh daring the week. Our attention has been drawn to the fact that a resident in the borough drowned a dog in the Makino stream yesterday. The carcase is now swelter ing on the banks of the creek and is very offensive. In avoiding the dog tax, the ratepayer who destroyed the dog imiy find himselt put to seme expense for a breach of the Borough Bye-laws. We direct the Inspector of Nuisance's attention to the matter. It is seldom that such a large number of cases are down for hearing at the R. M. Court here as happened on Wednesday last. There were about 36 cases on the books, and the total amount of money involved was nearly £300. A good number of these cases were settled out of Court, but as it was, the number dealt with by the Bench was unusually large, and business did not conclude till nearly half past six. An appalling record of wickedness i< reported from The Hague. A married woman named Van der Linden, 45 years of age and mother of five children, has confessed at Lepdcn to have murdered 16 persons in the course of a few years. The victims were nearlj' all members of her family, on whose lires she had effected insurances in burial and life insurance companies, without their consent, with the intention of poisoning them, and receiving the money at their deaths. The settlers on the Wangnnui Harbor Board Block have long suffered great inconvenience from the want of roads, and correspondence on the subject lias at different times appeared in our col umns. We have ourselves, on several occasions, drawn attention to this important matter. We are glad to see that the ssttlers, together with the owners of property on the bfock, resident in Feildmg, are at last making a move in the matter. As will be seen by advertisement, a public meeting of all interested is to take place at Mr Pollock's. The Buckingham Palace, in Manchester street, on Monday next, at 1 1 in the forenoon. We heartily commend this movement, and hope to see the meeting well attended. The Daily Telegraph, of Napier, remarks that the timber trade of this provincial district is rapidly developing itself. There are now, to the south of Napier, twelve sawmills, eleven of which are in full work, and the twelfth is nearly completed. They are situated as follows: — 1 at Hampden, lat Waipukurau, 1 at Takapau, 1 at i'apatu, 1 at < >rmondville, 2 at Norsewood, 1 at Makatoku, 1 at junction of Makatoku road, 2 at Danevirke, and 1 at Woodville. There is more genuine work done towards developiug the resources of new country by the timber industry than almost any other, and it ii a pleasure to note that the forest laud in the Napier districts are bjinjj utilised so extensively.

A meeting of the Kiwitea Road Board will be held at Feilding on Monday next, at 2 p.m. The Wanganui School Committee has nominated Messrs Watts and Greenwood for the Education Hoard Some of the ladies of Nice are now using parasols composed of natural flowers, their sunshades resembling gigantic , bouquets on sticks. !Nice ! In the Kiwitea Licensing District, Messrs J. Barrow, G. G. Death, R. Mcßfth, W. K. Stewart, and W. Tappin were elected as the Licensing Committee. The first meeting will be held at Mr Lewers' store, at Cheltenham, on Thursday, the 28th inst., for the purpose of electing a chairman. Tn Sydney it is suggested that a mounted patrol should be established, in the suburban districts, of well-armed mea, each with an appointed beat, and with power not only to arrest all evil-doers, but to break up street corner knots, wherein every plot, from robbing a clothesline to murdoring a woman, is hatched. Sydney is in a bad way. Mr R. Warner, of Tnonui. writes to us asking if auy man can cut a pile 12 x 12 ail heart, out of an 18 inches log of totara, as staled by a witness in the Court on Wednesday last, and which, if it can be done, our correspondent says " licks the Yankees." We will be obliged to any of our readers who will supply the desired information. Mr Browne, Secretary of the Wanganui Education Board, and Mr Clore, Architect to the Board, in company with Mr Sherwill, Chairman of the Feilding School Committee, made yesterday an inspection of the school buildings here with a view of reporting to the Board on the accommodation requirements of the school. There is a cry just now in and around Feilding of '" more pork !" A gentleman was in town yesterday enquinng.for pigs, and was prepared to pay v fair price for a hundred or two. He was understood to want a good number for the Wanganui Dairy and Bacou Factory, while ho had a demand for any quantity of surplus stock for the I'auterLury market. We learn from the Chronicle that Mr R. Winter, who has been for some years connected with that journal, has accepted the editorship of the Marl borough Express. We join in congratulating Mi Winter on his appointment, and wish him success in l>is new sphere. In Mr W inter the Marlborough people will find a jour nalist of experience and ability, also of unflinching courage in the cause of right. He is considered by Press men one of the best " all round" writers in the colony. A real life romance bas been developed nt the residence of a reputable citizen of Chicago with a very beautiful daughter. A burglar went through the house, collected a large bundle of valuables, came to the rooms of the sleeping girl in which the gas was dimly burning. Transfixed by the beauty of the slumbering maidi-n. he put his plunder on the dressing case, imprinted a kis.s on the ripe lips, and a> girl woke and screamed, escaped from the house, and rau into the arms of a passing policeman. He proved to be a harden, d and well-Lnown criminal. 'I here are Arabs among the followers of the Mahdi who habitually wear armour which ones adorned the limbs of the Anglo-Norman crusaders. Man}' of the gallant knights who followed the "Lion Heart Plantagenet" to fight against Saladin, left their bones to whiten the desert, and the armour of those who fell was eagerly seized upon by the successful Paynimry. The armour thus obtained has been handed down from father to son f>r generations and for centuries, with the greatest pride and care ; and so.ne of it, no doubt, was worn in those three terrible days of fighting which destroyed the army of Hicks Pasha. To-day's Chronicle says: — We notice tliat the boards for the Wanganui advertisements are now being placed on the stations between Foxton and New Plymouth. The lessees from Government for the sole right of advertising, Messrs Summers and Mayhew, of Feilding, are to be complimented on the style in which they are making up their advertisements. The printer (Mr Willis) has varied the colour of the inks used with very good effect. Several of the advertisers will be surprised at this, as without doubt they have received more for their money than they expected. The frams are made by Messrs Tingey, and the whole form a neat and ornamental medium of advertising, and one well calculated to catch the eye