Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 4, 19 June 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

Tbe Canterbury Poultry Association are going to have a cat show. The Marton Boyal Rifles will celebrate their 2lst anniversary on July 4th by a ball. We have to acknowledge receipt of a second batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. A tea meeting and sale of work will be held in the Public Hall on Thursday, July 3rd. 'I he proceeds of the fete will be devoted to the enlargement of the school building fund. Power, the notorious bushranger, who is nearly 70 years of age, but bale and hearty, will soon be liberated from Pentridge Stockade. It is said that a benevolent lady intends to provide for him. It is not said whether a horse and a brace of revolvers will bo the outfit. We are glad to notice that numbers of persons who are qualified as electors are registering their names, as voters. Every man who has been in the colony for twelve months and in the electoral district for six months, is entitled to have his name put on the electoral roll if a natural born or naturalised British subject. The Wellington, correspondent of "the Hawke's Bay Herald says :— I have Mr Sheehan's authority for stating he; does not intend to contest the Napier seat, if Mr Buchanan seeks re-election. In that event Mr Sheehan will run for Auckland City North, at present represented by Mr Peacock. The latter will stand for Newton it the general election, as. Mr Swanson does not intend coming forward again." Tbe hangman who' officiated at O'Donoghue's execution at Hokitika - recently is not unknown at Hokitika. He is a prisoner named Levy, who was sentenced t<> some three years' imprisonment for forgery, and wa.-? an inmate of . .okitika gpii ■ for some time. Latterly he has beep at. Mount Cook helping to build the colonia. prison in course of erection there, and tb c remainder of of his sentence will be cancelled for acting as Jack Ketch on thi* occasion. Mr Micaiah Beid. lhe Governor of the Terrace Goal bere, superintended the proceedings.

Ashburton is said to be the most drnnken borough in the colony. Sir John Hall will leave England, to make a flying visit to New Zealand, on the Ist ot August. An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. The outward 'Frisco mail for Europe > closes at the Feildiiig Post Ofiice tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. Sir Julius Yogel will be invited to accept a seat front, a Wellington constituency. The Freemasons of Feilding will celebrate the installation of officers by a ball on Thursday, the 10th of July next. Sir Julius Yogel played a bad card when he declared Mr Robert Stout, the chief of the freethinkers, as his political sponsor. Seventeen loveletters, from Henry VI II to Anne Poleyn, are in the Vatican Library at Rome, 'lhe contents plainly indicate that the writer lived toe soon, and an ardent desciple of Brigham Young was lost to Utah. Messrs Berry and Heald have completed the erection of Mr W. Rapley's shop and residence in Fergusson street. The building is completed in first class style, and adds considerably to the appearance of the street. Mr William Rapley has moved into his new premise*! adjoining the Empire Hotel. His stock is entirely new and consists of saddlery, harness, riding whips, grindery, full particulars of which will appear in our next issue. The Palmerston Standard says it wns the only Manawatu journal which pub* lished,on Tuesday evening,thc final result of the political crisis. Our contemporary is "lightly in error, for the Stab published the item in its " Town Edition" on that day. Forging is, in proportion to the population, twenty times as common in this colony as at Home. This is in a great measure owing to the better education tn the colony, but also to the idiosyncrasies of many of the new chums who honor the celony with their presence. We learn from tbe Herald that the Hawera School Committee have voted for Mr Fry as a member of the Education Board. The Manaia School Com- | mittee are " in a pet" about something as they would not vote for any of the three candidates. ! A merciful interpretation — First young lady — " Oh! what do you thiuk dear? I hare just seen our Minister in the smoking car." Second young lady — "Ah! he is always doing good. He goes there not to smoke, of course, but to keep order : for he says the company in the smoking car is very unruly." The following nominations have been received for the Rangitikei Hunt Club Steeplechase meeting. Hunt Club Handicap- Bradlaugh, Demon, Aroa (late Brigham Young), Patent Safety, Ebony. Ladies' Bracelet— Abolition, Rangatara, Rambler, Demon, Omanuka, Aroa (late Brigham Young), Patent Safety, Spartan, Masher, Sueider, Ebony, Maminga, Gayboy. The electors of the Manawatu district are preparing in good earnest for the forthcoming election, if we may judge from thr large number of claims for enrolment which have been sent in within the last few days. We would recommend all who wish to exercise their votes, but whose names are not yet on the electoral roll, to have them placed there without delay. Mr Charles Wallace commenced his duties to-day as Ranger and Inspector of Nuisances. Persons in the habit of running cattle in the Borough will please note that tbe Ranger is authorised to impound all animals wandering at large on all formed and unformed streets and roads within the Borough boundaries, or on unfenced sections and public places within limits of North, South, East and West streets. It is quite evident that the fight for the Rangitikei seat will lie between Messrs Stevens and Arkwright. The friends of Mr Bruce the third candidate, are asking him to withdraw, and it is probable that in the interests of his party he will do so. Some rumours were circulated that *>!r Donald Fraser intended to offer himself as a candidnte, but '* the prudent man looketh well to his going" and Mr Fraser will not risk a certain defeat. We have heard several- complaints recently of persons having been bitten by dogs. In most cases these savage anduseless curs prowl tibout after .dark nnd snap at any individual they happen to come in contact with. Grown up persons alone are not the.fictims. snd.we hear of one little child being rather badly bitten by one of these vicious brutes. It is more than likely thnt some of them are no« registered, but whether they are or not, they should not be allowed to worry people in this way. The matter is already in the hands of the police, and one or two cases are likely to come before the R.M; Court at its next sitting. The Postal Department has added one more to the numerous contrivnnces nnd conveniences which exist, in New Z'emf'f land for the benefit of the public. L Strong! cloth-lined envelopes for registered letters may now 'be procured, either singly df'Ky l i he packet, over tlie counter of any k f"W Office in the colony, at prices ranging from a farthing to a penny each. The envelopes are of various sizes .and each , i as a blue cross, printed oyer ? the . back, , nnd face, withl the wo/ds , "registered . letter" across the latter, so that the; . •ender need have no. trouble for the i Future either sr to properly marking his j ••tter or seeing to the cover being safe— j I'ost. . ■

There is nothing better than barley for fattening young geese. The barley brew puts flesh on the old ones. Flour is brought to Chri.itchurch from Ohakn, sixteen miles, by waggon, though there is a railway siding at the mill doors. At Ballarat a " magnetic lady " is emulating the achievements of Mr Miluer Stephen and curing " incurables " by laying on her hands. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's stock sale, to be held at Ashurst yesterday, was postponed owing to floods in the creeks preventing cattle being mustered and driven to the yards. The date of the next sale will be intimated by advertisement. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing you must buy ten more, that your appearances may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. At the inquest on Henry Malone, a gum digger, who died a few days ago in the Auckland gaol, a verdict of "died from exposure and excessive drinking" was returned. It is a well-known fact that the liquor supplied to gum diggers is even worse than the " Maori rum," made celebrated by Sir William Fox. In the correspondence column of the Advocate, "Observer" writes expressing a " wish that bakers in small towns were wise enough to have refreshment rooms for ladies and quiet people, who dislike public houses." Mr Pollock, of the Buckingham Palace Bakery, Manchester street, Fei'ding, is the only confectioner on the coast who supplies this want. Mr Watt has declared his intention to stand for Wanganui. Mr Geo. Hutchison is only waiting for a requisition to "raise his banner." Mr Ballance, who is the other candidate, will beat either of these, " hands down." The -Wanganui people have found out to- their coat the mistake they made when they returned Mr Watt in preference to the more capable Mr Ballance. " Have you seen it yet P" excitedly asked a fresh youth, poking his head into the reporters' room. "No what is it ?" inquired several scribes, as they felt for their note hooks. " Why, it's all over the town." "What is" ventured the youngest pencil-pushed. " Mud!" yelled the unsalted villain, slamming the door behind him with such force that it drowned the howl of rage which followed his exit. ' It appears that Mr John Stevens' motion for the reduction of the honorarium to 150 guineas to members of the House of Representatives, and 100 guineas to members of the Legislative Council ,is intended to apply to the present as well as future sessions. We suppose the Advocate will apologise for the stinging censure it passed the other day on Mr Stevens because the editor thought the motion was only intended to apply to future sessions. The Marlborough Time* furnishes the following curious information as to what nre considered by so-.-e applicants for employment in onr State schools sufficient qualifications for a schoolmaster: -"Somi-e of the grounds on which applicants for the position of master at our State schools are based are slightly peculiar. One says he is a serious Wesleyan ; another states he actual! v has three brothers ; another that he is(a believer in temperance; a fourth that his mother keeps • a flour mill; a fifth, that he studied (DV.) for the ministry, but gave np owing to a weak, nervous system ; and a sixth — most potent reason of all — that he ' devotes his leismre hours to playing on the piano."