Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1, 12 June 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The Wanganui Herald states that a Masonic Debating Society has been formed at Ash burton* , the membership to be -confined to Masons only. 7 Church of. England servioe is now conducted i^the Kiwitea, by the Rev Joshua Jones; Curate of St John's, on Tuesday in each week; The first of the services was held on the 10th inst. '' Wo. learn from. the Inaugahua Times that the ca^aker of the Beefton race course grounds receives £2 10s per week, with house free, and wood and water available. The West Coast people still keep up their. reputation' of being the most epenhanded in the colony.

Our " Bullf /Items" are held over from press of other matter. The Inangahua Times informs us that a Volunteer Corps is about to be formed in Beef ton. We are requested to state that the auction sale by Messrs Halcombe and , Sherwill r>n Saturday next will commence i at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. At the Foxton Court on Tuesday a man named Samuel Rowley was fined 5s and "2s cartage," for drunkenness at Foxton on the previous day. When taken to the lock-up, the accused had the sum of £81 18s upon him. ; Edwards, the Ormondville murderer, i was tried at Napier, and found guilty. He was sentenced to death. Mr Lee, who ■ defended Edwards, endeavoured to prove i J that he was a dipsomaniac, and was quite ' insane at the time of the murders. Mr Ellery Gilbert arrived in town < yesterday, and is now " staying at the j Denbigh Hotel. Persons desirous of : having their pianos or harmoniums tuned , ' should call npon Mr Gilbert at once as . his stay is necessarily limited. ? The requisition forwarded to Mr Arki wright of Marton, asking him to stand as . a candidate for the Rangitikei seat, in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, is numerously and influentially signed. Mr Arkwrighl has invited the electors to meet him at the Foresters' Hall Marton, this evening. After a lengthy tour over some of the principal countries of Europe, Mr Hugli has returned to Feilding, where he will re-commence business. Mr Hugli arrived on Tuesday last and will open up a new ahd varied selection of jewellry and articles de vertu chosen from the best manufacturers on the Continent and in England. We learn from the Manawatu Heraldthat Mr W- L. T. Trarers, the well-, known Wellington lawyer, is going to have a "shy-in" for the Foxton seat. This makes the fourth candidate likely to stand. The Foxton seat appears to be one particularly sought for by candidates, and the probability is that half a dozen will run tor the seat at tho forthcoming election. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill advertise in another column their second sole "y-^o .«ike place at Ashurst on . Ay. 'As the fir*t ... ;-._;_:- , '• •' ♦ *lw> a- i : ■ * ...... y,,. . -;ify^ "■'"• pc.._.vii*.-. A ■'-:-, A,i man is well known on tn.. railway as a most obliging office, roughly conversant with his dutu While we regret the departure of M' Cleary, yet we must congratulate *' Feilding people on the arrival of one his stead who will be equally efficient In replying to Mr Dargp the House on T*~^Wr A|A -.;*e ister for Pulfoe V-7>.-ics skit 1 the Go- .»'"■ ; A'v; r. -malposition ■"-•• Ai... to the - wi che Northern _.__ jjiue. The Public Works .statement is to be made in about a fortnight, to which will be attached reports and maps. A football mateh — Feilding v. Palmerston — will be played on the Palmerston ground on Saturday next. . t. ollowing are the names of the Feildiag team :— Smith, Jamison, Webster. Halcombe, C. Halcombe, Bray, Goodbehere, Roe, Belfit. Booth, Thomson, Lethbridge, Poole, Godfrey, Mountfort. Emergencies : — Crichton, Innis, Jenkins, and FitzHerbert. In reply to Mr Hutchison, in the House, on Tuesday last, Major Atkinson said the Government did not 1 Consider a penally of £500 had' been incurred by the Bank of New Zealand, iii neglecting to send in a quarterly return of their 1 assets and liabilities to the within the statutory time. The detailed reports from the branches had been sent in in time, and it was only % question of ' whose duty it was to prepare the general • abstract. The Herald's Warrnambul correspondent mentions that a portrait of the son of Morgan, tho Panmure murderer, had been sent over to Tasmania, tlie son being the image of his father, at the time the parallel crime to that at Panmure was _ committed at Bridgewateiy about a quar- : ter of a century since. .'. Tlie.pOrt rnit,*it is ' said, was TBhown to the mother of the 1 girl murdered in Tasmania, and she at , once exclaimed, " That is the man who murdered my child." A *>: • ?; ; On Tuesday evening last the -platform at the raiiway station was crowded with ; the friends of Mr and Mr* Cleary. who ' had assembled to bid them farewell. on ! their departure tor Patea. vhichi will be - ■ their place of residence for some time. It must have been rery gratifying. to Mr Cleary to sco how high he and his family! stand in the estimation of the publio 1 ofi Feilding. This gentleman, during his j residence here. . has made -. Wiany , friends). I Tn his capacity of stationmaster -be- has j ' shown that- he is also aycourtiouW'ahdi painstaking publio officer. As a private i citizen he ; is equally^ festiinatle. 1 jX ' J ' '''■ •