Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 8, 28 June 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The irrepressible Thomas Dwan will oppose Mr FilzGerald for the Hokitika se_at. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. The general elections will take place on Tuesday, the 22nd of July, and the new Parliament will meet on the 7th August. Sir Julius Yogel recently stated in public that State reasons alone prevents the Prince of Wales making a visit to this colony. We learn from the Adrocate that Mr Ark wright has consented to become a candidate for the Rnngitikei seat. He will address the electors at Marton tonight. ' The best remedy I know of for this foot and mouth disease," remarked old Mrs Blinker, as she looked up from the paper, " is for folks to stay at home more and talk less." And then she resumed her reading. — Peck's Sun. To-night Miss Georgia Smithson will make her first appearance in the Public Hall. We are pleased to know that the attendance will be large, the celebrity of this talented lady having preceded her, and raised great hopes of au exceptional nights amusement. Mr Bruce addressed the Rnngitikei electors at Marton last Wednesday. At the conclusion of his speech, a rote of thanks was accorded him, and the meeting expressed an opinion that Mr Bruce was duly qualified to represent the district in the House of liepreseniatives. The Auckland Star says that, in the case of Charles William Langs tone, charged with converting certain moneys to his own use which had been entrusted to him as a bailee, viz., £'6 ss, the property of William Taylor Davits, the evidence was taken, and judgniont reserved. A few days ago it was mentioned that two apprentices of the barque Examiner had been poisoned by eating a tin of jam with a Hobart label. One of them, Frank Trew, died last Tuesday at Sumner, near Christchurch. It is not certain that death is directly attributable to the jam, but was undoubtedly accelerated by it. We regret that owing to a stupid blunder on the part of our reporter in his notes of the last sittings of the R.M. Court held here on Wednesday last, a case purporting to be against Mr R. B. Fearon for £2 3s lOd was reported. We have since learned that no such case was put down for hearing, and we regret that the report appeared in the form it did. Complaints have reached us that the newly-appointed .Ranger is not keeping the streets clear of cattle and other live stock. One correspondent writes very warmly on the subject, and says that the roads within the limits of the ranger's supervision are freely used at night to " paddock horned cattle and horses," to the danger and inconvenience of foot passengers. Admitting that the centre of the street is properly the part which should: be used by equestrians, yet in the absence of footpaths or sidewalks in the Borough, we think horsemen should "go slow " during the hours of darkness. There is no occasion for them to go at a fast pace, unless they have been drinking when it may be considered excusable. Foot passengers are often put in considerable danger and terror from this want of consideration. History has shown that the Italian is far more gifted, both for intrigue and conspiracy, than most of the Northern nations— a fact which is probably in a great degree due to his sobriety. He is not addicted to drink, and he rarely, between his nineteenth and his fiftieth year, becomes the fool or the tool of a woman. He is thus protected against the two influences which the police find most useful when a plot is to be discovered. He in shrewd and cautious in business matters, too, and silent whenever he fancies that his speech would give you an advantage over him. — Saturday Beview. Instead ot the impossibility of a strong and friendly Afghanistan, the possibility of a strong and friendly Persia is what English politicians should look to now that both sides are at last awake— now that the farce of friendliness between England and Russia, of Russian trustworthiness, and of the insuperablenesn of the Central Asian desert*, is by consent of the principal actors played out ami struck off the bills. What we have now to do (teste David cum Sibylla,) by the witness of the Duke of Argyll as well as of Lord Salisbury, of Lord Northbrook as well as of Lord Lytton, v to mak* ourselves strong against Russia, knowing that Russia, whatever she say*, wi 1 lose no opportunity of making herself strong against us. - Saturday Review. At the Oddfellows' Hall,Christchureh, on Thursday, at the infant Blondin's exhibition on the tight-rope, the eldest, a girl of about 11 years, who had just completed fifty-two miles, having been walking all day, took her little brother, two and a half years old, on her back and mounted' the tight-rope. He was blindfolded, bat not fattened to her. Her stockings, wet with perspiration, caused her to slip, and she screamed,'" I | am falling," and immediately fell, fortunately from no great height, as she was over the stage. She sustained no further injury than a bruise on the arm and a considerable shaking. The Hi tie fellow was also somewhat' bruised. The police at once stopped the perfof minicc, and, the father ot the children jiromiaea uo.i lo continue the skuW.

The new Wellington evening paper, the Press, will be issued for the first time on Tuesday or Wednesday next. A writer in the Otago Daily Times, commenting on Major Atkinson's centralism, says he derives it from his " military training ?" The San Francisco mail steamer having arrived in Auckland this morning, we may expect the Feilding portion of the mail on Monday night or Tuesday night. The Wellington correspondent of the Australasian says, " Experienced pressmen in this colony from time to time have had their hair prematurely whitened by trying to ' condense ' the Knight of Kawau." The body of Mr Harper, who was drowned at the Wanganui Heads on Tuesday last, was recovered yesterday afternoon on the ocean beach on the north side of the Wangnehu River. An inquest was held this afternoon in Wanganui. On Thursday next, July 3rd, Messrs Halcombe and SherwiF will offer for sale a list of stock, comprising cattle and sheep of the priir. *- quality. The great reason for the success of the sales of this firm is that the stock is well drafted. In another column we publish an intimation from Mr John Stevens, that he is a candidate for the Rangitikei seat. We understand that Mr Stevens will address the electors at the various centres at dates which will be duly advertised. The Manawatu Times says: — The Mnnawatu Soap Company having been successfully floated and duly registered, the promoters are now taking the necessary steps to hand over the business to the new company. We learn that upwards of 700 shares are subscribed. At the Supreme Court sittings at Gisborne, Judges Gillies in charging the jury said few people suffered more from the lash of the Press than he. but when kept within bounds the Press had done its duty well, and should be protected ; as it should be punished when it overstepped legitimate criticism. The train from Foxton yesterday eveninc was nearly an hour late. We learn that it was detained at Foxton to await the arrival of the Hon John Bryce, who was a passenger by the coach fro» Wellington. About forty or fifty persons were much inconvonionced by the delay, but this is a matter of small consequence when Cabinet Ministers are to be considered. A celebrated Irishman was urged to write a "Life of Shakespeare" on very favourable terma. He refused, protesting loudly that his admiration and "rivirence" for that greatest of bards prevented him. " I couldn't do it — don't ask me ; my rivirence for the immortal makes it impossible." He then added in quite a casual was—" Besides I know very little about him." Before issuing the recent encyclical on the Freemason*, tlie Pope had elaborate reports furnished him by Cardinal Sacconi. Dean of the Sacred College, and by a renegade Mason. The Pope said, in the presence of several cardinals, "I have reason to believe that the Freemasons, and various societies which are affiliated to or result from them, are strong numerically among Catholics in both hemispheres." When the train from Foxton reached the Palmerston station yesterday, a deputation waited on Mr Donald Fraser, and presented him a requisition asking him to stand for the Manawatu seat. Mr Fraser expressed his sense of the high compliment paid him, but repretted his inability to comply with the wishes of the deputation, as be declined to oppose Mr Macarthur. We understand that Mr Donald Fraser will be a strong supporter of Mr John Stevens during the contest for the fiangitikei seat.