Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 27, 6 March 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The Borough Council will meet this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr Bindon, the Inspector of schools for the Wanganui district, arrived in Wanpanui yesterday. The Traffic Clerk, Railway Department Wanganui, is authorised to frank letters | and telegrams on the public service. The members selected by tha Wanganui School Committee for the vacancies on the Education Beard arc Messrs Watt, Greenwood, and Sergeant. There are more than 1000 immigrants (says the Star) nominated and on the i waj to Auckland at the present time. The great majority have beea nominated from the Country diatrieta*

The average cost of railroads in the Uuited Kingdom is £41,728 per mile. London has 700,000 houses, and nearly 5,0'K),000 inhabitants. The Fisher Company played in the Tow a Hall on Tuesday night to a moderate house. We have to thank Mr Walton, the secretary for the Palmerston Jockey Club, For a copy of the programme for 21th Mar next. The Prince of Wales, in his cnpaity of Grand Master of Freemasons, has consented to issue a warrant for a tota» abstainer's logde in London. The celebrated Dr Tanner is still living and is languishing in Washington goal the penalty of having practised medicine centrary to law. Tenders are invited oy Mr Larcomb, aichitect, Palmerston for the erection of a two story building, to close on Friday the 14th inst. There will be a meeting of the stewards of the Feilding Jockey Club held at the Denbigh Hotel at 9 o'clock on Saturday evening. The business will be to receive nominations for the Easter Races. The sum of £1800 was yesterday lodged to the credit of the Feilding Borough Council, with the Bank of Australasia, by the Government Insurance Department, as a first instalment of the Borough Loan. It is computed that 680 persons perished through the foundering of vessels on the fi>heries during the gales on the coast of Now England, Nova Scotia, and New Foundland in November last. Mr J. Chantry Harris, journalist, is delivering Sunday evening lectures in the Freelhought Hull, Wellington on "Spirilualisem." This appears to be an easy subject which may be grasped by almost any mind. The Waipuwa Mail is now the property of Mr Johnson, former proprietor of the Marlborough Express. Mr Johnson is an old and highly esteemed member of the press, and we wish him every success in his new venture. It is stated that a South Austr Han Bank is about to apply for a charter to trade in New Zealand. Should this be a fact, it will prove "a great boon" to the older banking establishments, and enable them to get rid of their "troublesome" accounts. The ceremony of consecrating the Masonic Hail in Wanganui will take place on Friday the 4th of April. A ball will be held the same evening Train arrangements will be made for the convenience of members of country lodge s and their families. During 1883 not less than 130,000 human lives were lost in various parts of the world by disasters on land and sea, including earthquakes, cyclones, shipwrecks, fires, <kc. This does not include casu.-ilters in war or (he deaths by pestilence. This ought to satisfy the most bloodthirsty soul. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's stock sale this afternoon was well attended. An unusually large number of cattle and sheep were yarded, but the bidding was somewhat sluggish, and some of the lots were passed in. The breeding rams and ewes as advertised were being sold as we went to press, and a full report will appear in our next The return cricket match between the Fielding and Ashur^t Clubs will be play° d «t Ashurst on Saturday next. The following are the names of the Feilding team: — Messrs Kowley, Bishop, Hudson, H. Halcombe, C. Halcombe, Eade. Bray, FitzHerbert, Fowles, J. Bartholomew, and Taunt. A brake will leave Manchester Square at 9 a m. The upper house of the Prussian Diet has passed a resolution forbidding hunting on Sunday under a pen illy of heavy fine and imprisonment. In New Zealand there is a somewhat similar law, but it is more ''honored in the breach (loader) than in the observance." More hares and pheasants die on Sunday than on any other three days of the week, during the shooting season. The Ellesmere Guarden says : — Dr j Bakewell writes from Christchurch to , the Southland Times, stating that leprosy , is not communicable except by actual contact, and not then unless the person is in a fit state to receive the poison nnrl reproduce it in his own system. Dr ' Bakewill himself has had charge of a leper hospital, and never suffered through touching his patients or dressing their sores. He makes the astonishing statement that there is a gentleman, known in Canterbury and throughout the colony, who has for years been afflicted with (he disease, but who goes about and mixes with other business men as if there were nothing the matter with him.