Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 59, 20 May 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

» Mr John Turner's dancing class will be !held' on Wednesday, the 21st inst., instead of Friday, the 23rd;. We regret to notice that VTr W. G. 'Haybittle has for the past few days been -laid up with a somewhat severe indisposition. ■We received some green peas to-day, grown in the garden of Mr Henry Holland, of King street. They are of most excellent quality and full in the pod. Mr Rapley's new shop in Ferguson Street is now rapidly approaching completion under the hands of Messrs Hcald and Berry, tho huilders. Mr Rapley expects to- take possession in ! about a fortnight. ; Mr J. C. Watson intends standing for the Ashburton seat, vacant by the resignai tion of Mr G. G. Wright . He addressed •the electors at Christchurch on Saturday night. He received a vote of thanks. In our report.. on Saturday of Mr Stevens' meeting of electors at Kiwitea an important typographical error was made. The words " a vote ef thanks to and in" should have read *'a vote of thaßkstfo;snnd confidence >in.V '.»•.-* The Hope of '^eliding Tent of the Independant Qrder.of I^echabites will hold a tea/jpljeting- in the jTwnaperajace! Hall on Saturday next, the gith^instl i An> otf^iWeetintf of the. . sauVe boity; *iH be held on the same eVeningin the, jFo^csterV Hall atß p.m, - v ■'*■■'" 'X I v Pressure is being brought to bear on Ac Minister df -.Public? Works, tb eseot a foot bridge ,on > tlie Rangitikei railway bridge'nejy Kakariki. > 'This 'would? be a great boon to residing on both sides of the river, and as the- member for th'? district, Mr John Stevens, has undertaken to interest himself in the matter, no doubt the work will be done. Elsewhere will be found an announcement of the dissolution of the partnership hitherto existing between Messrs Parr and Bennett, coachbuilders. An advertisement also appears from Mr Parr, who takes over the sole proprietorship of the business at Feilding. Mr Parr, although not fully recovered from his late accident, is sufficiently so to be able to personally superintend the efficient assistance he has engaged, thus enabling him to complete all orders. We can only wish him that success in his business which he is capn bie of and deserves. - One of those melancholy instances of the brutalizing effects of drink occurred, in Peilclmg on Saturday night, last. A man had been summoned; .by urgent telegram, from his work, some eighty or ninty miles from Feilding, to come to the bedside .of his wife, who is not expected tolive for many. .more days; He promptly i started. for. limine in response to* the message, hiit. unhappily he "drowned his sdrrows "'.m'-flrink, and shortly after his arrival Tiiy train was found lying accro'ss • the road--.helple.ssly drunk. Some* good Samaritans dragged him aside, I' out of the way of any passing horses or vehicles', aiid left him to sleep off' the effects of the dibit. The poor wife was forgotten. • ■ ;

The English mail via Snn Francisco will close at Feilding at 7 p.m on Friday. The Queen's Birthday will be ob- a served on Saturday, the 24th inst., by the I Government Departments. The Stab B will not be published on that day. a Tho last Gazette contains a notification that it is His Excellency's intention to T remove the restriction against the aliena- v tiou of the Kawakawa Native Reserve, at the expiry of sixty days. We con- c gratulate Mr Whisker upon the prospoet of obtaining the fee simple to one ] of the finest estates in tho province l r On Saturday last two children strayed f away from Pnlmerstom " As soon as they j were missed proper search parties were j j organised and sent out. Their labors ' j were unsuccessful for the little ones had j wandered up the railway line' as- far as Bunnytherpe when they were put on the train and brought on to Feilding, when f they were taken charge of by a member of Mr Chamberlain's family. Informations have been laid by Con- i stable Gillespie against several grown up I larrikiins. who wi I"*,,1 "*,, quprr^Uing; and, ' fighting in Manchester., Street opjSn&ur-, i day night last. Tbgy. will havo an op- - portunity of! explaining, tHeif. o6p4uW in 1 the presence of Mr Ward,- R.M,., on thc^, ] Ktb''inirf.;HrnVA they 'Will -a fed probacy 1 , make involuntary contribntibns towards* ' i tho failing revenue of *the country at tho 1 same lime. ' .' ' A *" Working Mail ".writes to the Advocate denying that" working men are dependant on" the colony for.a living" as stated by Mr J. Stevens in his speech on Monday last. " Working Man " considers he has been insulted. If he is not dependant on the colony for a living then he is no " working man," but probably a " remittance man " depending on his friends at Home. We call attention to Mr Cottrell's great slaughter sale of mens,' boys,' and youths clothing as advortised in, another column, and ulso announced by . large posters. . -The sale will take place at tho premises known as tho old Borough Council' office, next door to Cottrell's Working Man's Store in Manchester street. About £500 worth of goods aro positively to be disposed of at great sacrifices, and we doubt nvot'the sale will be largely patronized. „. ' The Wellington Benevolent Institution at a recent meeting passed a resolution to the effect that poor houses or work houses should be established in that city to prevent the spread of pauperism. If this resolution is acted on it wdl be a means of creating an establishniemt, the . maintenance of which will bo so heavy, that the actual amount which will be ex'pentVed in the relief of' poverty and distress will be say, at the outdide, ten per cent of its revenue. At the inquest on the body of the man Falvey, whose death from pois6ning was reported in our last issue at Rakaia, John Mann, by the advice of his lawyer, refused to give evidence; Imt another witness showed that he had acknowledged having mixed strychnine with vinegar in the jug some time ago, for the purpose of killing rats and birds. He had subsequently thrown the contents of the jug away, but. had not washed it. When taking whisky from the jar to put it into a bottlo he used the same jug. Tho medical evidence was. to the effect that if t]?c vinegar was weak it would not dissolve ci'ystals of strychnine, which would adhere- to th|o jug. bnt strong spirits would at once dissolve them. The opinion of . llie vmen < who *drank the whisky was at first that Mann had played 'a practical joke. The jury returned an open verdict.