Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 75, 5 June 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The death warrant of O'Ponoghue the West Coast murderer, was signed by the Governor on May 30th. Forms of claim for enrolment on the Electoral Roll for this Electoral district, can be obtained on application at the Stab office. Mr Justin M'Cnrthy la writing " A History of the Four Georges." Vol 1 is nearly through the press and will be ready for issue in a few weeks. Hugh Shortland, arrested on a charge of murdering his wife, has been discharged from custody, and the charge withdrawn. At a recent meeting of the unemployed of Manchester, England, it was asserted that there are now in that city 40,000 idle persons. A joint-stock company, owning the largest iron foundry in Hungary, lias decided to admit their workmen to a participation in the profits. By reference to an advertisement in another column it will be seen that a reward is offered to the finder of a stray horse belonging to Mr Hughes, of the Kiwitea. Whatever may be true of harmless luxuries in the way of driuk, the Lancet maintains that health, happiness and work find stimulus enough in the unsophisticated well of nature --pure water. At the Resident Magistrates Court on Wednesday last before H. L. Sherwill, Esq., J.P.» Lizzie Morgan, a colored woman, was charged with being drunk in FeUding on Tuesday last. She pleaded guilty and was fined ss, in default 48 hours imprisonment. The fine was paid. On the dining table at the Buckingham Palace Restaurant yesterday was a fine roasted joint of frozen mutton, which had been to England and back per the lonic, It is pronounced to have been very tender, delicious, and even superior to that which has been freshly killed. The old building which adjoined the Feilding Hotel, and which was formerly, used as a carpenter's shop, has been removed by Mr Has tie to the back part ot his premises- As it waa rather unsightly i its removal has somewhat improved the I appearance of the site it formerly oecu- I pied. ...-.•■ ■

The Feilding School will be closed on Friday next, when the alterations to the building will be commenced. The Manchester Rifles will parade at 6.30 this evening at the Public Hall, for Guvernmrnt Inspection. The Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of j the Admiralty, and 37 of bis relatives fill 6>3 places, and have received £7d7,000 of public money. The Ofßgo Daily Times says that too much reading of " Progress and Poverty" has made both sides ot the House mad on the land question. We regret to learn from the Standard that Mr Patterson, of the Railway Department, is in a very critical state. He was attacked with a paralyiia stroke last week, and his recovery is extremely doubtful. The new store of Messrs Fraser Bros., at Awahnri. is now all but finished, and being a good sized building, of very neat appearance, it is a decided acquisition to the place. An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held tins evening at 8 o'clock. Among other bus ness the applications for the combined office of Ranger and Inspector of Nuisances will be received. Messrs Haleombe and Sherwill's stock sale this afternoon was well attended. The bidding was anything but brisk, and a good number of lots were passed in, while those sold where on the whole at a considerable gain to the buyers. Mr Postlethwaite, in addressing his constituents, said : — " No conntry in the world was equul to New Zealand, and no country handed by God to man hnd been so much damaged by man as New Zealand had been by waste of money on railways and other works." The confirmation service, advertised to be held in St. John's Church List night, did not take place, owing to the non -arrival o3 the Bishop, who was detained en route by the breaking down of the train. The service will take place this evening at 8 o'clock. Some objection has been raised in Napier to the custom of ticket clerks at therailway stations giving postage stamps for change. As this practice is perfectly illegal, and the stamps are not :i le^al tender, the sooner the practice is dropped the better. The Variety Company will repeat their Queen's Birthday entertainment, with two slight additions and improvements, in the Town Hall on Saturday evening next. We need hardly say again that the entertainment is worthy of a good house, which it is hoped wi-1 reward the company's efforts on this occasion. Tn another column will be found a new advertisement from Mr Pollock, of the Buckingham Palace Restaurant. At this old-established and well-known Temperance Hotel and Private Boarding House every comfort will bo found, and the greatest attention to the wants of travellers and boarders is always given by the popular and genial proprietor. The settlers of Beaconsfield have forwarded a petition to the PostmasterGeneral, through the local Postmaster, Mr J. H. Stevens, praying that a weekly mail service be inaugurated between that township and Feilding. As the number of inhabitants in that district is now assuming fair proportions, the Minister may grant the prayer of the petitioners. The Wanganui Herald says: — We hear on good authority that the Government have decided on recommending the central railway route, Mr AJitchelson being prepared to stand by this route and recommend its adoption to Parliament. The Taranaki mute may therefore be considered as knocked on the heud, and we believe this is the best thing that could have happened for the colouy. The funniest stories, says Truth, are current about Miss Fortescue's behaviour in the bosom of the Cairns household. They say that she would insist on addressing the ex- Lord Chancellor as " old chappie • " that she opened her eyes with surprise when Lady Cairns presented her with a Bible, as though she was a heathen; that she broke off in the tvords of a music hall song when a curate was playing a hymn tune on the piano ; that she came down to dinner with her hair down, and in a piniifore ; and that she generally dpera-bouffed the serious family into which she was introduced. The following incident of the Soudan campaign is giving by a correspondent of Daily News, writing from Trinkitat : — " A young Arab spy was discovered outside our camp lying on the sand. Although only a boy of 15 years, he fought desperately when surrounded, and wounded one man with his spear. He was himself bayonetted, and is not expected to recover. His gallant behaviour excited the admiration of the entire force. When asked if he wanted anything, he replied, ' Let me spear one Kgyp'ian before I die.' This is a good example of the spirit animating the people w ;om we are going to! fight with our inferior troops.'! . - . ■ ■ To-day's Chronicle says: The train which left. Wanganui at 4.15 yesterday afternoon for Fox ton was brought to a standstill near Fordell, something having gone wrong with the engine, r After about an hour's delay a start was made, and all went well 'till between Wangaehu, and Turakina, where the train had again to stop for the purpose of the engine being put to rights. Turakina was not reached till 8.23, two hours and twentj-fife minutes late. From that point apparently all went well, and the north' and i south trains crossed at Marton instead of Haleombe. The train from the south reached Wanganui at 11.15. one hour and ten minutes behind time. j