Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 14, 12 July 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

Dull times, surely ! A horse, saddle, and bridle were sold at Buckland's sale yards, Auckland, recently for 7s. The Magistrates in Wellington have intimated that in future, where assaults were proved against persons who interrupted the Salvation Army services, heavy fines would be inflicted. This example is about to be followed by the Feilding Bench. Several small boys have begun the game of discharging stones and other missiles from catapults or sbanghais. lt will be remembered that Constable Price made a raid on them in the school house > a year or two ago and we hope Constable I Gillespie will follow his example, and put - a stop to this dangerous practice*.

It is probable that in response to a very generally expressed wish of Rangi tikei electors who reside in Feilding, Mr Arkwright will address a public meeting in the Town Hall. We have to thank Mr N. G. Lennox, of Auckland, for a copy of The Electors' War Cry, which is a pamphlet containing an appeal to the electors on the burning question of the day, " Tax the land and spare the people." Two men (says the Telegraph) were caught in the act of robbing the hospital box placed in the bar of a Xapier hotel. The hotelkeeper did not give them in charge, but meted out to them what they deserved, a sound thrashing. Madame Sarah Bernhardt has recently again bren offered an engagement for the United States. But her terms were too high, and no business was done. At the Porte St. Martin she gets £60 per night and half the profits, and the takings exceed L3OO per night. The finest specimen of lace in the world is said to bo one that was exhibited in England last year. It is a magnificent rose Venetian point flounce, six yards in length, and nearly three quarters of a yard wide. It is valued at more than one thousand guineas, and shows what art can do with a little thread. A boy named Wm. Belfit had a narrow escape of being killed during the galo the other day. He was riding on a dray laden with metal along the Ashurst road, when a tree was blown down across the road. Some of tho limbs fell on to the dray and smashed it, but the boy escaped [ witli only a slight scratch. Captain Stephenson, of the Glenelg, i *■ " has shown us (Auckland Star) a fine ■ sample of Whnngaroa -grown oranges from bearing tress on the farm of Mr Knee. They are almost equal to the imported article, and would probably command nearly the same price. Charles Bradlaugh, the infidel member of Parliament, has a brother who is actively engaged in evangelical work. The latter disclaims any differences with his brother, except in religious opinions and though there is no fraternal companionship between them, ho says he loves him as ever and confidently looks for his conversion to Christianity. We aro glad to notice that the increase of larrikinism in Feilding has had the result of inciting the leaders of the various religious bodies to increased exertions in the promotion of larger attendances at the Sunday Schools. There is every hope that the extension of moral and religious teaching which will be there imparted to the young of both sexes may have a beneficial result in quelling the growing evil. Messrs Robertson and Co., of Wellington, are the successful tenderers for the supply of forty iron girder spans for the various streams on the Wellington and Manawatu railway. These spans are designed by Mr Higgiuson, the engineer of the company, and may be characterised as being a vast improvement on the old, unsightly, and cumbersome wooden bridges which prevail on the Government railway lines. During the last few months upwards of 800 casks of the New Zealand butter have been sent to London. E:ich cask contains from 90 to 100 lb rolls, neatly packed in muslin. During the voyage the casks were kept in refrigerating chambers at a temperature of 38deg The butter is considered by the trade to be of good quality though a little salt. It has been selling in Leadenhall Market at 103s per cwt., or lid per lb. — Leader. We understand that Mr Weightman, of Awahuri, is about to move in the direction of obtaining a daily mail service between that village and Feilding. As the " one thing needed" is a petition, signed by the residents in the village and tbe surrounding settlers, to tho Post-master-(>eneral, forwarded through the officer in charge of the post office, Feilding, no great difficulty stands in the way We believe the petition would be granted at once. The programme for the celebration of the first anniversary of the Feilding Brass Band on Tuesday next will comprise a special selection to be performed on the Square in the evening, afterwards a torchlight procession through the principal streets to tho Foresters' Hall, where the banquet will be held. At this His Worship the Mayor will preside, and ' several other leading citizens have also promised to be present. The banquet over, tho evening will be spent in tho customary enjoyable manner. Our Bulls correspondent writes: — ! Mr Arthur Amon has made a lucky find. j While out on his run on Wednesday he saw what appeared to be the hull of-a vessel on the beach, but on closer inspec- j I tion he discovered il to be a huge whale. He at once took formal possession, and , 1 is now arranging to get the necessary ; appliances to extract the oil. Thp stranded whale lies about four miles on the north sido of the mouth of the Rangitikei River. It is 45 feet long, and estimated to produce £150 worth of oil. The best reason that we have seen in pr nt for. taking the 200 guineas is that given by Mr Turnbull. During his answers to questions after his address to the electors at Timaru he is reported by the Herald to have said he had almost forgotten the honorarium question, which he was surprised nobody bad referred to. Tt was whispered everywhere that he had n<>t voted against the honorarium. Well, all he could say about it was that he had earned it, and he wanted it badly, his creditors wanted it (applause),* and further, it gnve him the opportunity to bring L2<<o to Timaru to spend, nnd Tim.iru needed that badly.

j The Key. James Treadwell will lecture jon " Babylonian Legends and Bible Story " to morrow evening in the Presbyterian Church at 7 p.m. Messrs Berry and Heald aro the successful tenderers for the rc-ereetion of Mr Rees' Couch Factory in Kimbolton road. The building will be commenced on j Monday next on the site of the ono which was burned down. Mr VV. H. Watt, late member for Wanganui, addressed the electors last evening. He made an exhaustive speech and spoke strongly in favor of the Atkinson Government. A vote of thanks and confidence was proposed, but the meeting rejected it. There is hardly anybody with any pretensions to intelligence who has not ut some time or other in his life thought hewas able to account for the milk m the cocoanut, but it has never been so fully explained as it is in a three- page article in tho Coruhill Magazine. This ought to set the question at rest forever. We learn that several Kiwitea settlers and Feilding tradesmen have been making anxious enquiries to-day as to the whereabouts of an ex-clerical gentleman who recently took up some land in the former place. He took a sudden departure a few days ago, accelerated, it is believed, by a knowledge that he was " wanted " somewhere else. The formation in Germany of registered credit associations, or peoples banks, has proved to bo a great success. The especial objects of these associations. aro to give advances and credit; to acquire* raw materials, and to op- n stores ; to manufacture and sell commodities ; to produco tho necessities of life and of production wholesale, and to sell them in retail ; to build dwellings for their members ; and to cultivate land. Members of each association being liable for tiie debts and obligations contracted by it, peoplo who would not think of trusting any individual member are willing to trust an association, tho members of which are responsible for each other. Thus the man who alone could get no credit, if of respectable character and antecedents, is admitted a member of an association, and at once obtains an advance iv proportion to his moans. __u___!im fin\3jrjw.i.mwr.n

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