Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 5, 21 June 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The new Catholic Church in Derby street will soon be completed. The contractors are making good progress with the interior, and the building when finished will be a great ornament to the locality. We notice that the deviation of the Makino and the clearing it of logs in order to prevent the undue overflow of the Btream on .to the adjacent public and private properties has so far had tindesired effect. Another step towards improving our streets is being effected by a culvert being placed in the lower part of Warwick street, so as to' carry away the drainage of that street and part of the Kimbolton road.

umj— i_li— !■■! ■■■ nil ETn~yi» *»ji.j*i-i~»BTT,.'ra__a: Rumors have been circulated that Sir Julius Yogel will be invited to contest the Manawatu seat. Messrs Chamberlain and Linton may be expected to arrive on Monday evening next, from their tour to Australia. Four of the seamen of the barque Androcles have been taken from Oneh unga to the Auckland Hospital.. Upwards of 200 persons, resident in Halcombe and Feilding, have had their names placed on the electoral roll, durthe last week. The business of the Feilding R.M. Court has been rather considerable of late, and the sitting to be held on Wednesday next is likely to again occupy the whole day. A bugler attached to the Salvation Army in Auckland, named Henry De Roy was arrested on Thursday on a charge of forging and uttering, with intent to de- . fraud, a bill of exchange for £20. An Auckland telegram informs us that on Thursday last a gumdigger, named Hardy, attempted suicide ut Lucas Creek by cutting an "artery in his arm. It is doubtless another case of hard drink- . ing. The insurances on Sutton's tobacco factory, Sydney, destroyed by fire on Wednesday last, amount to £'15,000. A New Zealand office is interested ro tlie extent of £'7000, part of wbich sum is said to be reinaurud. The'mretiug at Palmerston, held la«ti night, to which Mr Burr was invited to give'his lecture on political economy, was very rowdy. The conduct of the grown ii]) larrikins was simply unmanly, and discreditable to the town. On Thursday last at the City police Court, Dunediu, one of the local School Committees sought to " enforce tho compulsory clauses of the Education Act but the prosecution broke down, owin^ to the difficulties in the establishing tho technical proofs required by the Act. We are glad to learn that the petition of the settlers in Beaconsfield, ro a i>osi office in that village, is likely to be favorably considered. As there is already one postal station of the same name in Otago, it is possible that Mackay's Line will be *he name selected by the PostmasterGeneral for the Beaconsfield office. We have received a catalogue of the agricultural, vegetable; aud flower seeds > also fruit and ornamental tress grown and offered for sale by Mr Alexander Laird, of Wanganui. The list is a most complete one and not to be equalled by any other in the colony. The catalogue is open for the inspection of any one who applies at the Stab office. We direct the attention of owners of carts, drays, traps, &c, who are in the habit of letting their vehicles out to hire to the resolution passed by the Borough Council on Thursday evening. The constable is to be officially informed of the fact that vehicle, are plying for hire within the Borough without a license, which is contrary to the bye-laws. The appointment of the new Borough Ranger is having a wholesome effect upon the owners of cattle who formerly allowed their animals to wander at large. Although the Ranger only entered upon his duties on Thursday, the streets have since been remarkably clear of stray horses and cattle, compared with what they have been for some considerable time. We are glad to find that the mitter of the regulation of our street traffic, especially after dark, was discussed at the Borough Council meeting on Thursday. It is bigh .time the foolish and dangerous practice of driving "vehicles through the streets at nigbt without lamps was put a stop to, and the perpetrators made to pay the penalties imposed by the bye-laws referring to this matter. As Constable Gillespie's attention is to be directed to it, we have ho donbt he will reduce the danger of night traffic to a minumim. The Dnnedin Education, Board have resolved to suspend-for two months the schoolmaster at Dunback, who administered punishment to a scholar by the mode known as " riding the donkey:" The board's inspector, who made inquiries' into the matter, and handed to the Board the' statement of each person he examined, stated that in his Opinion no offence against school discipline or morality would justify a teacher in administering such cruel and heartless punishment ;, and added, that Mr Warburton had refused to see the unsusability of the chastisement.