Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 25, 12 August 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The Makino Cheese and Butter Factory Company intend to commence operations next month. The Volunteer Fire Brigade in Napier contributed £5 5s towards renovating the cab in which the small-pox patient was carried to the hospital. Two hundred sovereigns have already been collected as a testimonial for Mr Thomas Bracken, the poet. We would sooner see people buying his poems. A number of persons were out shooting pigeons on Sunday last. There may be a kind of delirious pleasure in breaking both the law and the Sabbath, but it is none the less foolish and sinful. A pendant, or charm, attached to a watch chain, was lost on Sunday last by a Feilding resident. Anj person finding this and returning it to the Stab Office will be liberally rewarded. Among the many indications now to be seen of early spring, Mr Hopkins has in his garden in Russell street, asparagus fit for the table. He has also shown us some very fine forced rhubarb. The asparagus, however, is naturally grown. We are informed that money is being raised for John Howe, to send him to Sydney and give him a fresh start. Howe ii a brother to Fargeon, the novelist. How that can be we don't know. Howevert if the identity of the man is disputed, plenty of people can say that's Howe. Two Feilding residents, who happened to be in Palmerston on Sunday, thought they would go and have a look at the proceedings of the Salvation Army in the Foresters' Hall. During the " testifying" they got up to leave, but were peremptorily told by the officer having charge of the door that the role of the Army was that no one be allowed to quit except during singing. In vain did they make all sorts of pleas, among which was that they had just heard their horse and buggy run away from outside the door. The officer insisted on their remaining till the sinking commenced, and it was not until he was threa'ened with an information for illegal detention that the prisoneis were allowed to escape.

E. S. Thynne, Esq., has been appointed ' Coroner for the foxton district. The English znnil, via Snn Francisco, will close here on Friday next. Mails fur the Austrian colonies and England, via Sydney, per Tnraweni, will close at Auckland 10-morrow at 11 a.m. j A young man named Gibson, while out raJjbit shooting on Saturday at, Te Awa- j mutu, Auckland, was accident^ *hot in the leg by his companion. Tire leg was I amputated, but the patient died shortly after the operation. Mr Skipper, a solicitor, was charged at the Masterton K.M. Court yesterday with obstructing the police. The accused I appeared in an inebriated condition, and . when answering the charge was ordered j into custody till 3 p.m., as his state was equivalent to contempt. The schooner Cora arrived at New New Plymouth on Saturday morning last. She spoke to the schooner Energy, 16 daysfrom Auckland, bound toGrcymoulh. The crew had been without water for eight days. The Cora supplied the crew with 100 gallons. A sitting of the Feilding TI.M. Court will be held to-morrow at 10 am. A | heavy day's work is expected, as the interval since the last sitting has been three weeks, and a good mauy cases, • some of which are rather importaut, are down for hearing. JVlarwood, the late public hangman in ; the United Kingdom, once paid Dore £50 . to sketch him In the performance of his terrible duties. Now, a Maori would have had the sense to have reversed the position, and charged Dore for the privilege. Verily " the children ot darkness are wiser than the children of light." A Canterbury company is about to develope the resources of the Hokionga district, some 150 miles north of Auckland, by cultivating bananas, oranges and other sub-tropical fruits. This is the result of the visit of Mr Federli- Canterbury men will do all the work, and Auckland men will reap all the benefit. Division of labor. The members of St. John's vestry met at the Church la»t evening. After the usual prelimenary business, it was decided that the building of the new Sunday School be proceeded with at once. A committee, to conuUt of the whole vestry, was appointed to carry out the reso- , lution. They will meet next Monday evening at Mr Bray's office to make all the necessary arrangements. The objections which were rnised by the railway authorities against- the connection of the Carnarvon -Sanson tramway with the railway line have been removed by the influence of Mr Wilson, M.H.E., and the necessary orders to make the junction have been given. We also learn from the Manawatu Herald that the engine for use on the tramway will arrive per Jane Douglas shortly. Many of the Europeans and Natives in the Manawatu were much interested in the intelligence that Mikaere, who was sentenced to death about two years ago j for killing another Native at Oxford, and which was commuted to imprisonment for J lite, was released from confinement a few j days ago. We understand tbat the extenuating circumstances attendant upon the manslaughter have led to his pardon. The young man is well-known throughout Manawatu and Rangitikei. On the Makino R^ad near Mr Caldwell's residence, a gentleman was driving his trap on Saturday last when the horse shied and nearly precipitated the vehicle into a gravel pit immediately adjacent. As this man-trap is within the jurisdiction of the Borough Council, and that body would be liable for damages in the event of any persons suffering injury of any kind, .we would recommend that a protecting fence be place alongside the road to prevent accideuts. The person entrusted with fixing the season for taking native and imported game, within this district at least, must have been densely ignorant of their habits. la the first month during which | the native pigeon was shot every hen bird was found to contain a large number of eggs. The season for these birds has now closed, when they are just fit for use. Hares, on the other hand, were ready and fit a month betore the season ! opened, and now almost every animal is with young ; still they may be killed for another six weeks I , A new advertisement from Mr Samuel Daw and Mr J. H. Worsfold appears ] elsewhere. The former has recently j taken the latter into partnership with him, and tho firm has succeeded to tho proprietorship of the well-known first- class livery stables opposite Hastio's hotel nnd which were formerly known as Morphy's. Vehicles of various descriptions, and saddle and harness horses, will be always ready either for public or private purposes of pleasure or business. Mr Daw's old carving business will he continued as before by the new firm, ifhpm we wish all the success which thei^ enterprise and the long well-known courtesy and attention of Mr Daw deserve: \ The unfortunate man Mr J. W. Wells, who is at present in the Wansjanui Hospital, is we believe about to undergo the amputation of hi» injured leg. The secretary of the concert committee received a letter from him this morning, from which we quote as follows : — " I was put under chlorofoim on Friday last, and the doctors said it (the leg) was not yet ready for the operation, but they expect it will be ready by Thursday or Friday next. My wife informs me that a concert is being got up in aid of me and my family. I send my sincere thanks to the public, and I ask you to be so kind as to thank the public in a proper manner j through the Stab, as I cannot express myself as I would wish."

Mr Stevenson, F.K.A.S., Auckland, reports sighting a comet, probably identical with the comet reported from Sydney a few days ago. Speaking on the present 9tate of parties in the House the Post says : — He would be a very bold man who would venture to prophesy how the present difficulty will determine itself, or as to what political conibinntions may take place •within the nest day or two, but it may I safely be assumed that Major Atkinson will do his best to widen the differences already existing between the rival sections opposed to him, and unless the chiefs of those sections are prepared to make great concessions to each other, Major Atkinson will certainly win the day, and at the close of the session probably be found in possession of the field. The consolidated revonuo received during the June quarter amounted to ! L 781.588 11s Bd, and L 67.000 worth of deficiency bills were issued. The amount brought forward from the previous quarter was L240,5y8 Is sd, giving a j gross total of L 1.094,476 13s Id. The ordinary expenditure during the quarter was L 883.162 16s 2d, and L 2 11,313 16s lid was carried forward. The land sales were L 28,109 7s 7d, and the ordinary expenditure on this account amounted to 147,060 8* 3d . The balance brought forward from the previous quarter was j L 80.447 6s 6d and L 60.596 5s lOd was carried on to next quarter. On the 30th June there was a balance of ordinary loan in hand of L 448.385 18s.— Post.