Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 49, 26 April 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

- ♦ It is rumored that a newspaper plant has been ordered for the purpose of starting a paper at Bulls. The train from "Wanganui was one* hour late last evening, having been detained an hour to allow visitors to the Wanganui Caledonian Sports to return. Constable Price has been ordered to hold himself in readiness to be transferred to another district. Constable Gillespie, of Palmerston, will take up his duties in Feilding, Yesterday was observed as a holiday in Wanganui in consequence of the annual gathering of the Caledonian Society. i The delay which has been caused in the signing of the burgess list for the year has extended the term of grace allowed to defaulters, and has, we are informed, consideralby augmented the funds of the Borough. Two other of the most important and much needed of our scheduled public works are now completed. We allude to the formation and metalling of Bailway Line road from Eyre street to Russell street by Mr Lyne, and the metalling of Railway Line road from N orth street to Port's crossing by Messrs Fearon and Norman. Both of these works have been done by the respective contractors in a very creditable and satisfactory manner, and will be of immense benefit to the occupiers of the adjacent proper- \ ties.

The new advertisement of l)r Sinclair, the distinguished dentist, will appear in our next issue. A fatal prize-fight, took place at Randwick recently. A mnn named Agair was killed in the ring by a colored man named Lnwson. The men were very unequally matched. The Key Mr Simmonds, the newly 1 appointed Wesleyan Minister for this district, will preach in the Wesleyan Church, Grey street, to-morrow, morning and evening. Since the meeting of the Borough Council on I hursday evening Cr Fowles has given noiiee of a mo! ion as follows : ' "That tenders be called for the diversion of the Kimbolton road drain." To morrow the Rcr. J. C. Dodwell will hold service at Campbelltown in the afternoon and at Sandon in the eveoing. To assist in the service several members of the choir at Bulls will accompany the rev. gentleman. Some of the rest loss souls in this district (says the Hawera Sinr), are anxious for alitilcexoitement, and are considering the advisability of inviting Sir Julius Yogel to contest the Egmont scat With Major Atkinson. Campbelllown, Scotland, which belong to the Poke of Argj'le, contains 22 distilleries, each turning out an average of 100,000 gallons of whisky. The MacCnllum More thus owns the biggest dramshop in the world. He is a slauuch teetotaller, nevertheless. Major Atkinson addressed n very large meeting in the Queen's Theatre, ! unedin, on Thursday night. A motion of thanks for the address was met by an amendment that the meeting had no confidence in his administration of the Government. Only about half those presnet voted, and the mayor, admist come confusion, declared the motion curried. A witness in the Supreme Court at Wellington the other clay, alluding to his washerwoman, described her as the "lady who did his washing." His Honor Judge Richmond, who was subsequently questioning the witness, alluded to the same lady as the witness' washerwoman, bat apologised for his slip, and afterwards used the witness' own expression, remarking that nowadays there was -no such thing as a woman — they were all ladies. The FeiMing Brass B.tnd has just acquired eight new instruments, viz., a four valve euphonium, saxhorn, two clarionets, two cornets, bass trombone-, nod side drum. They are from the establishment of Mr G. Reiuhardt, of Wellington, and are of the latest and most approved make. The band will now consist of 31 members, and we understand it is intended to form an efficient siring band in connection with it. We learn from the Advocate that Sir William Fox expects to pass through Marton on the 30th inst. He will only remain a few hours at Wesloe to repack his carpet bag, and will go on to Foxton by the evening train, and thence to Wellington, to wind up his business as West Coast Commissioner, which will probably occupy all the time till the meeting of Parliament on June 5. The practical work is now finished, and he has only to write his final report and see it through the printer's hands. One of the first convictions in this police district for a breach or the 167 th section of the Licensing Act supplying liquor to a prohibited person — has just been recorded at the Thames against a man named John Smith, alias Keegan, he having given beer to a person with respect to whom a prohibition order had been issued. The penalty was a fine of £5 or one month's imprisonment. Smith failed to pay the fine, and was on Saturday brought to town by Constable Stapleton, and is now expiating his misplaced generosity in Mount Eden. — Auckland Star. We are glad to find that the Library Committee and Borough Council were of the same opinion as ourselves, as expressed in last Saturday's issue, as to the need of greater accommodation for the increasing number of patrons of the Reading Room. The Committee suggested the enlargement of the room by shifting the partition some three or four feet, but the Council wisely resolved to remove it altogether and so throw the two rooms into one. i This will certainly bea great improvement and will give all the accommodation required for some time to come. A gentleman who had recently been professionally engaged about the Bairn sdale district, informs the Gippsland Times that " some of the hop-growers at the Mitchell are pulling up the hop bines, and utilising the land for the cultivation of maize and ether feeding grain, the present price of hops not being sufficiently remunerative to return fair profit on the heavy outlay required to grow them, and future prospects of a rise in price not being considered sufficiently encouraging Bairnsdale is the oldest hop growing district in Victoria, and the crops have always had the highest Victorian average yield, so that the outlook must be bad indeed when such is the case. The adjourned special sitting of the Borough Council which was to hare been held last night fell through for- want of a quorum. The Mayor and Crs Powles and Rutherford attended, and after waiting upwards of haf an hour Cr Carthew was the only other member who put in an appearance, and the sitting was again ajourned till Monday next. No doubt some of the burgesses who have not yet paid their > ates will take advantage of this delay in signing the new roll and will square up with the Town Clerk, so as to save themselvej from disqualification this may be done any time before the burgess list is signed*