Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 55, 10 May 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

. «, The Mayor and Corporation of Feilding have been appointed truslees for the maintenance of the Feilding cemetery. Siberia now has a comic paper. But if common report be true the paper is the only comic thing in Siberia. The Duke of Manchester will visit Australia , shortly. It is probable that he will visit Feilding on his return journey. In order to add to hisr>f>p\ilarity on the East Coast Mr Allen McDonald, M.H.R., lias begun, through his solicitor, an notion for libel against the Poverty Bay Herald. Mr George Hutchison intimates to the gentlemen getting up a requisition asking him to contest Egmont that lie should not be able to accede to their request, as he has decided to stand for Wangaiiui town. The loss by drought in New South Wales is calculated at ten millions sterling. One-fifth of the entire number ©f sheep in the colony have been lost, and more than one-third of the cattle together with more than half of their increase. There are about 1,350,000 persons whose live ihood at present depends upon the brewing industry of Great Britain And as about tiie same number are calculated to die from drink, the account seems to about balance. We (Wairarapa Daily; hear that a son of Mr W. W. Corpe, formerly of Clareville, has erected a saw mill in a good bush on Mr J. Rennall's property near Gladstone. The many friends of Mr Corpe in this district will wish his son success in his new venture. We regret to learn that Mr Laing, of Gladstone street, who has been ill for some weeks, is not making that progress towards gaining strength after his prostration which his friends would wish. It is expected that a change for the better will take place in a few days. The new edition of Mr Domett's poem, " Kanolf and Amohia," with 120 pages added, describing Kanolt's education, was (says the Star) burned in the fire at the premises of Kegan, Paul and Co. Mr Domett had received 25 copies, and it is held in law that this constitutes delivery of the whole edition; so that the loss falls on the author. Of the 25 copies saved two are in New Zealand. We direct the attention of buyers to the announcement of the stock sale of Messrs Stevens and Gorton at Awahuri to be held on Friday next. It will be observed that a number of first-class sheep are offered, and as this will be the last sale of the season at which this description of stock will bo put up we commend the fact to the attention of those interested in order that they may not miss the opportunity. Teaching school in Texas, like every other vocation in that lively State has its monotony broken by interesting episodes now and then. According to the Br:izo< Pilot, a pupil, called up to receive a thrashing, while the hickory was raised over his head butted the teacher in the stomach, knocked him over a table and left him tangled up with a bench while the small school scampered off across the fields intent upon having a holiday. A new price list of goods kept at the Cash Exchange, Manchester street, is published elsewhere. Mr Thompson's prices are certainly low, but the articles he advertises are nevertheless of good quality, being mostly of colonial manufacture. The exceptionally sharp frost of last night will no doubt set people thinking about getting extra clothing and other comforts or necessaries, which will be found at Mr Thompson's shop in great number and variety. "I think (writes Truth) that Baker Pasha ought to be restored to his positi n in the British Army. He was an able and energetic officer. He found himself alone with a young lady in a train ; her conversation and manners were, to say the least, friendly, and he misconducted himself. For this he was tried, convicted, and imprisoned. Having served out his sentence he was dismissed from the army. His trade was soldiering, and although I am no great admirer of the soldier of fortune, who offers his sword to any country and any cause which is ready to employ it, Baker seems to me to have no choice m the matter. For years he has not only behaved honorably, but he has distinguished himself in his profession. There is general mourning over the news that Mr J. C. Firth, proprietor of the Matamata estate in Auckland, has decided to reduce his expenditure by discharging his hands. Mr JFirth attributes this necessity to the low prices of grain and wool. While we admit this may be in some measure correct, yet we decline to accept it as the real reason. We prefer believing that too much capital has been invested in machinery and improvements on the land, and the recuperative power of the soil was not equal to the demand on it. Much of the machinery is out of proportion to the amount of work to be done, and there - | fore an unfair charge on the proceeds from either grain or stock— the factors of the revenue.

Messrs Luke and Sons, founders, of Wellington, have received instructions to to bnild a 300-ton steamer for Captain Wiiliams, coal merchant, of Wellington. The vessel is intended for the West Coast coal trade. Professor Anderson, who is a son of the Great Wizard of the North, is receiving very flattering notices from the I southern Press. The professor will ap- ■ pear in the Public Hall, Feilding, in a j few days. The English theatrical Gritics cannot forgive Miss Lingard because she is abnormally stout (whatever that may mean). They call her a stately, elaphantine female, who undulates. We i should not be surprised to learn that this sort of criticism annoys Miss Lingard. Sir George Grey addressed a large 1 mooting at Oamarn last evening. His speech was in effect the same as delivered in Christchurch, and at its conclusion a number of questions were asked and answered. A vote of thanks for his address was carried unanimously, and three cheers given for the speaker. We loam from a southern exchange that the Victoria Minister of Railways and Attorney-General have pronounced the Grand Hotel of Dunedin to be the best in the Australasian Colonies. How in the name of wonder can these gentlemen know ? If they do they must have visited some queer cribs in their time. Gentlemen wishing to imitate the highest rank in the cut of their clothing can do so by patronizing Mr Stevens, of Manchester street, who has just received the exact pattern of the coat now being v. orn by H.Ii.H. the Prince of Wales. Mr Stevens has also a new stock of splendid material to choose from. The Dunedin Licensing Committees will meet shortly to decide upon a uniform hour at which to close all the public houses. The principal evil in the drink trnliic in that city is the issuing of grocers licences, which are only ouo stop better than sly grog soiling shop*, and are far more dangerous in their bad effects. We call attention to a now advertisement from Mr London, of the Cash Drapery and Clothing Warehouse, Manchester Square, iic has evidenlty determined to give the public an opport unity of preparing at reasonoijie charges for the cold weather, which has new set in " with a vengeance." JTis specialities in the shape of ulsters and overcoats are of first rate quality, which a visit io Mr Loudon's establishment will prove to anyone. The stock is also largo and various, and persons of all sizes may be suited according to their means.