Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 22, 5 August 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

+ We regret to learn that the resident Magistrate, Mr Ward, is seriously ill. Mr Greenwood, dentist, will visit Feilding on Thursday, the 21st instant. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale of j the furniture of Mr C. L. Maclean will take place on Friday nest, at Bulls. Hares are very numerous near Kakariki. The train killed three in one week lately. Messrs Berry and Henld hive obtained \ the contract for building new premises for the Stab. There are 35,000 more women than men in Philadelpia. No wonder this is called the City of brotherly love. There are now 400 female medical practitioners in the United States. It is said that the death rates navo not materially increased. The British nations erpenditure upon intoxications drink, is decreasing at the at the rate of about three quarters of a million pounds sterling per annum. Withia the Manawatu and Oroua Counties hares may be killed unti the 30th September. The season for all othei game closed on the 31st July. The natives of the island of Ohileo use* the shell of a crab as a barometer. In dry weather it is nearly white, but on the approach of rainy or stormy weather it is flecked with red spots. In a wet season it is red. We know a man whose nose is just like that. Mr Kerr. the manager for Messrs Reid and Gray, agricultural implement manufacturers, Dunedin, was a visitor here yesterday. He is introducing, with other implements, the firm's newly-invented harrowing machine, wh eh is admitted to be fur superior . to anything of the kind yet. made. ' Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale ■at Palmerston on Tuesday, the 12ih instant, ought to be of more tlian usual interest. Besides about ioO head of cattle and .other stock, several sections in t'<e toyrn. ships of Palmerston and £<'eilding frill be offered. As the latter are respectively well situated, it is safe to expect that the bid- | ding will be brisk, and the prices realised satisfactory. . . . „, , i : The last Parliament wan, &a a whole, say* the Napier Telegraph, composed of : material too bad to -enable it to live its appointed time. ~ Its most graceful feature during it« existence was the manner of its death. It recognised U inability to carry on the business of the 1 country, hnd it preferred honorable sui-! cide to a natural dea£h after, a shameless life. :'i i The execution of Mary ]>flpy at Lincoln for : the murder of ;her fcuTabani wa«: a sickening afEair. The poor Wretch screamed with . horror while being pin-! ioned, continuing to bewail her fatty with. heart. rending lamentations a^ longl as she remained in the hangman's hands,* was turn carried to the scaffold, as the bolt was withdrawn gave a lon^ despairing cry." . ... , ■-•--■— j iai ln, Swedfn, itiai said, therms* la.w tak-j ing away the right of suffrage from everjj man who, ihas<" been : druoic 'three time*! But as it nev^r'hasyet. beendebiAed iE J Court of justice when a roan is thorougnlj' drunk in the eyes of the law, very few inert have been justly' deprivisd "of them rigHts as citizens. ' ',Sbtn^ ha'vfe heyn drunk, for years', 'and 'again .panic njen a^i ■ 'not Hober'uh^T they' are' jifO^ljiriink This law would'nt work in &ew Zeulaud.

Mr Mncarthur will leave by train this evening for Wellington to commence his parliamentary duties as member for M anawalu. Mr Ilochefort expects to have his report on the central route for the North Trunk railway ready by the opening of Parliament. The trial of the dynamiters, Daley and , Kgan, on a charge of treason and felony, hns concluded at Birmingham. The former was sentenced to penal servitude for life, and Egan to twenty years' imprisonment. A romantic incident occurred with the convict ship Lady Stiore, bound to Sydney 1798 with 60 female convicts on board, and a detachment of military. Tlie soldiers mutinied, shot tho captain and officers, and then married the female convicts. The ship sailed to Rio Plata, and was delivered to the Spaniards, the mutineers settling in America. The Manchester Rifles paraded at the Public Hall on Saturday evening last. There was a full muster. Captain Macarlhur was present, and in a brief speech stated what his future intentions were as regards the management and discipline of the corps. His remarks met with the approval of the men, for at the conclusion of the address the speaker was loudly | applauded. Lieut. Blackmore then took command, and put (he corps through some sharp company drill, atter which they were exercised with the sword bay- | onet. Lieut. Blackmore announced that on each Saturday evening an instruction parade would be held in the Public Hall, and all those desirous of attending were requested to hand in their names to the secretary, Colnr-Sergt. Nicholas. At the end of the drill a large number gave in | their names.