Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 52, 3 May 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

• ♦ Mr John Saxon was the purchaser of Mr Whi combe's land at €5 5s per acre. Mr Montgomery will aldres the j electors on Monday night in Christchurch. I The enormous sum of £150 per foot has been offered for a couple of business sites in Wellington. Councillor Thompson has given notice of motion as follows : — " That plans and specifications be prepared for the formation aad metalling of Derby street between Kimbolton road and North street. The Hawera Star says that Mr A. Laird, of Wanganui, has generously offered to give a numbor of ornamental trees for planting the grounds around the Masonic Temple. ST The application of the Feilding School Committe to the Education Board, Wanganui, to purchase the land adjoining the schoolhouse for a playground, has been refused owing to want of funds. The Hon. Mr Rolleston was nearly drowned in the Waiau River on Tuesday last. The front part of his buggy was carried away, and Mr Rolleston only got to the river bank alter great difficulty. The Bishop of Wellington and Mrs Had field left in the s.s. Hawea on Wednesday afternoon en route for England. The local clergy and a number of leading citizens assembled on the wharf to bid them farewell.— Post. Cr Fowles is to be commended for his kind offer to present a time piece for the Reading Room. He will receive the gratitude of all the patrons of the room, as he has already done of the Council. The clock has been placied in position in the "room. In the School Inspector's report on the Feilding school, the following remarks appear — "Class rooms fairly clean ; ventilation bad ; desk* satisfactory ; diary neatly kept ; time table satisfactory ; apparatus sufficient and neatly kept. A bullock driver named Pawson, in the employ of Mr Adsett, of the Manchester sawmill, was g red by a bullock on Thursday last. He sustained a terrible gash, about six inches in length, under the right arm. His injuries were attended to by Dr Lightbourne, nnd we are glad to hear he is progressing favorably. It was exceedingly gratifying to hear the Mayor, in his capacity as treasurer of the Benevolent Society, say on Thnrsd.iy night in the Council that for a long lime no appeal had been made to the society for relief, and that there were sufficient funds in hand te assist the unfortunate Wells family without at present coming oa the funds of the Borough for that purpose. Mr Gichard had on view yesterday the carcase of a very fine heifer, bred and fed by Mr Kidd of Kiwitea. It weighed over 900 lbs, and the meat was exceedingly fine, and shewed what the bush land of that district is capable of pro ducing. Mr Gichard's shop presented an unusuai'y gay appearance last night. Mr Rutherford had also on view last evening and to-day some splendid beef from the farm of Mr Kidd, aud also a fine show of well-fed mutton. A patient now in the Wanganui Hospital, writing to a friend in Feilding, says : — " Wanganui Hospital is very well for men (patients) with bad legs, and who are good smokers, hut for anyone that is laid up in sickness it is not worthy of its name. I should say that it is one of the worst hospitals in the world." This is severe, and appears to have been written in good faith. Constable Price took his departure for his new station at Bulls, on Thursday last, cairying with him the goed wishes of nearly every mem ber of the community. During the eight or nine years this officer has been stationod in Feilding be has been diligent in the performance of his publio duties, and as a private citizen he has been a worthy member of society. It may be attributed te him the stamping out of the larrikin element which began to show strength about five years ago. His firmness and decision of character, combined with a large experience in military as well as in police life, gave him advantages which he invariably used for the welfare of the people amongst whom he had made his home. While "speeding the parting, we welcome the coming" Constable Gillespie, who brings with him from Palmerston, the reputation of a painstaking officer, rigid in the performance of his duties, and estimable as a private < individual. . i

Tbe Manchester Football Clubare holding their opening match on the cricket ground as we go to press. Dr Sinclair was to have left Feilding to-day, but his patients have been so numerous that he has found it imperative to prolong his stay till Monday. The Nelson Mail of Monday last states that a very uneasy feeling prevails in Westport with regard to the Westnort Coal rompany's steamer Wareatea, which left there some 18 days ago for Melbourne, and has not since been heard of. It is rumored that Mr Barry, of gold exploring fame has been found, and taken prisoner at Punga-pnnga, a stream that runs into the Wanganui near its head. It is presumable that this civil detention on the part of the natives, is due to that regard tor the law which the trustworthy Barry expressed in town. — Herald. The Takapuna enquiry has ended and the court found that the damage to the vessel was done . off Cape Egmont, and was caused by the careless navigation of the master, Ca ptain Jones, and want of experience in the second mate. Judgment has been given in the Takapuna inquiry. Captain Jones' certificate was suspended for six months; and the second mate was cautioned, and was told he should have asked for a chart for safe navigation. On Tuesday evening last a Harvest Home Thanksgiving tea meeting was held in the Primitive Methodist Church at Halcombe. There was a very large attendance. After tea addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. Clover and several laymen, interspersions of sacred music being given by the choir. The proceeds, the object of which was the paying off of a debt on the church funds, were more than sufficient. The usual votes of thanks and the singing of the doxology closed a yery pleasant gathering. In our report ot the last meeting of the Oroua County Council, in the matter of Mr Linton's travelling expenses, it was stated that the Chairman ruled " that the matter having already been settled, could not again be opened np." This docs not give quite an accurate account of what passed. Cr Sly appealed to the Chairman whether the account could be passed in the face of a resolution of a previous meeting that it should not be paid. The Chairman stated that he considered Mr Linton's claim a just one, and that it should have been paid, but he had to rule that unless the Council was unanimous (which it was not) a resolution to pass the account could not then be brought forward, but that a notice of motion must be given. As it was the Council's last meeting this amounted to a refusal to pass the account.