Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 21, 2 August 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The General Assembly will meet for the dispatch of business on Thursday, thc Sth instant.

mm**-—— —^ ■—— — —^ We have to acknowledge receipt of a number of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. Mr Arthur Falloon, late lessee of the Gorge Ferry, entered upon the proprietorship of the Junction Hotel, Sanson, yesterday. The Egyptian Diorama had the hall on Thursday aud Friday nights. The prices secured a better attendance than was i warranted by the show. The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to j-ress. A full report of tlie proceedings will appear in our next issue. The steamer Tui, while coming over the Foxton bar on Thursday, bumped and had her rudder and stern post carried away. She arrived in Wellington yesterday morning, and will undergo repairs. It is becoming the fashion with many English papers to hint that thc eccentricities of Chinese Gordon approach near to the line which scpurates them from insanity. An elderly min nimed Thomas Kin-3, of York-street, Wellington, was found dead in his house yesterday morning. He had been drinking he:\vily lately, and only on Thursday night drank off a bottle lof rum. He leaves a wife aad three ' children. I The belief in and practice of cremation ' are undoubtedly ou ihe increase, but we had not heard of any proposal to carry it out on a wholesale scale till Thursday i last, when tenders were sent to the Feeding Borough Council described as "tenders for clearing and burning the cemetery." The returning officer for the Foxton electorate has instituted proceedings against the Hon. C. J. Pharazyn for having voted at the recent election for Foxton. At the election in 1881 Mr Pharazyn was convicted under the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act and thus disqualified for three years. A want long felt in Feilding is at length likely to be supplied. Mr John Chamberlain, who has had many year's experience, has opened a cooperage in Bowen street, as announced elsewhere, and is prepared to supply cask*, kegs, &c, on reasonable terms. We have seen samples of Mr Chamberlain's work, aud can with confidence recommend it. A wealthy London Merchant is reported as having said — " I always feel happy when I am advertising, for then I know that, waking or sleeping, I have a strong though silent oratur working for me ; one who never tires, never sleeps, never makes mistakes, and who is certian to enter the households, from which, if at all, my trade must come." A new advertisement of the Feilding Furniture nnd Bedding Warehouse appears elsewhere. Mr Eade has a splendid stock of everything necessary for thoroughly furnishing a house of any description, and the goods are well worthy of the inspection of persons requiring really good useful as well as ornamental furniture of all kinds. A dressmaker, employed in one of the drapery establishments in Christchurch, has been driven out of her senses by religious hysteria, aggravated by Salvation services, at which she was an en thusiastic attendant. The break of her reason was sudden, and manifested itself in a form which was likely to lead to much unpleasantness had not restraint been immediately enforced. The unfortunate girl is now an inmate of tho Suunyside Asylum. The Wanganui Herald says " The | contract for the Heads Railway has been i accepted, nnd the work is to be proceeded | with without delay. The first sod is to be turned on Monday next. This will be j gratifying news to the public of Wanga- I nui. and will be accepted us the beginning of that prosperity which everyone is hoping for." Feilding will benefit more | by the opening of this railway than can possibly be estimated from the impetus it will give tho timber trade. Yesterday's Chronicle says : — The wool returns to hand by the last San Francisco mail aro more satisfactory than they have been for many a long day. Our people have been so accustomed (o find that tlie advances made on account of wool sent Home were in excess of the amounts realised ib the : nglish markets, that they could hardly believe thei- own eyes on Wednesday, when they, found that they had really a very respectable, balance in their favour, and that instead of having overdrawn on account of their produce tbey had a nice little.su ui to receive. If this improvement only continues, it will Ac more to restore confidpni'-e and bring about a return of prosperity than any possible political changes or combination^ that might be effected.