Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 19, 24 July 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the July nnmber of tbe New Zealand Industrial Gazette which contains the usual amount of interesting matter.

The visit of the clairvoyant, Professor Hug, to 1 eilding has been very successful as regards the patronage he has received. He hopes to pay another visit in about six mouths.

A parade of the Manchester Rifles is called by Oapt. Macarthur for Saturday, the 2nd pros. The interest taken in the elections appears^to baye been greater in Feilding than in the other two principal townships on this coast. The votes recorded were as follows :— Feilding, 4<)6 ; Marton, 385 ; Palmerston, 355. Mr Young has shown us samples of his new early seed potatoes. There are about a dozen different varieties, and are in-splended condition. Persons wishing to start planting with some really good sorts will do well to obtain some of these. Says the Chronicle : — lmmediately after the declaration of the poll last night, and when Mr Ballance was preparing to thank the electors for his victory, theie was a sudden collapse of the platform on which he was standing, and on which a large crowd had collected. The scene was most amusing, as the candidate and hi.s supporters and others, suddenly, and without a moment's warning, disappeared from sight. It was fortunate that no one, so far as we could learn, was seriously hurt, although a lad was said to have received some bruises. To-morrow evening, in the Denbigh Billiard Boom, Mr J. Weiss will give an exhibition of Uis skill as a Milliard player. Lovers of the game should not lose this opportunity of witnessing the marvellous perfection to which this manly and scientific game can be brought by natural aptitude combined with moderate practice. The notices which Mr Weiss has received from the Press in other parts of the Colony are highly complimentary, and speak in high terms of his skill with the cue. South Australia is ahead of all the rest of the colonies in the matter of land administration. The newly - inducted Minister of Lands, Mr Jenkin Coles, has withdrawn from sal© by auction certain lands which had been advertised, and ! has given notice that in the near future the lands in question will be submitted for lease ; and it is understood that the change will apply to all the land- in that colony not alienated from the Crown. That is a pronounced step towards land nationalisation, which Mr Coles is understood to favor on principle. Some shocking occurrences are reported in our latest Sydney files to hand by the Wakatipu. At Cootamundra, in New South Wales, a man and his wife living in a tent near the railway works went out one night, leaving three little children asleep. They returned at 2 am. to find the tent burned to ashes, and all the children with it. On the 13tli a labourer, 45 years old, named William M alley, was found in his bedroom on his knees, with his throat cut in a dreadful manner. Only four hours before he had left the Police Court, after being acquitted on a charge of lunacy. The football match Oroua County v. Wanganui County will be played at Palmerston on Saturday, 26th rost. Match to start at 2.30 p.m. The following team will represent Orona : — Full-back - Webster; Half-backs- -Thompson, Templar; Quarter-backs — F. Smith, Halcombe, Uoe; Forwards— A. Smith, Jameson, Pratt, Morrison, Salmon, Say well, Seeker J. Moffat, StaHard; Emergencies— W. Moffat, H. Sherrin. Mr Sherwill will umpire for Oroua. The following players will represent Wanganui : — Hackett, Chubb, Gray, Roddy, Kitchen, Copeland, Turner .Walsh, Craig (2). Beechy, Coakley, Newman, Clark, Powell (captain) ; Mr C. S. Cross, umpire* A singular and very amusing incident happened at the entertainment in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening. So thoroughly realistic was one part of the farce being played that a man who was sitting in the front part of the hall instinctively rushed on to the stage to the assistance of an actor who was supposed to be receiving unfair treatment. It was not until he was whispered to and assured that what had apparently roused his sympathy and indignation was part of the play that he resumed his seat. It in needless to saj this little circumstance excited great merriment among the audience. A well-informed friend, writing to us from Wellington, says that Major Atkinson has signified his willingness to Sir Julius Vogel to take office under him should he be called upon to form a Government. Another correspondent from the same place confirms the statenvnt, and declares that it has been settled that nothing is to be offered Mr Bryce. Both statements carry in them strong elements of belief. Major Atkinson would take any colleagues or any policy giving him place and pay; and Mr i Bryce has made h-mself so offensive to his colleagues that his presence was only I tolerated in the hope of the Hnsden case demandisg his absence from New Zealand.—Auckland Labor. The entertainment given i» the Town Hall on Tuesday evening as a wind up to the election proceedings was fairly attended. The musical portion comprised some well selected songs, etc., which for the most part were rendered in capital style, and received well deserted appla me, some of them demanding a re-appearance of the singers. At the close of the first part, the announcement that Mr Macarther had been elected by a very large majority was received bv the.audience with rounds of enthusiastic cheers for the successful candidate./ The. farce which concluded the entertainment was exceptionally . good, and elicited .roars 'of laughter, and considering that the actors had not bad an opportunity of once rehearaing it in the hall, it was very well put on the stage. ' TTiir,ouglir.ut both portions- of the * " show " ' the various .ipt 'allusions to the election were well ap predated, and we believe everyone iresent throughout ;enjoyed the evening's! amusement. ' : :