Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 35, 4 September 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The English mail, direct per lonic, closes to-day at 7 p.m.

We have to thank MrTomlinson, secretary of the Sandon and Carnarvon Farmers' Club, for a complimentary ticket to the annual ploughing match to be held at Sandon on Tuesday next the 9th inst.

We regret that in our ' Notes from the Gallery' we misrepresented Mr Macarthur's views on the subject of coalition,as expressed by him in Friday night's debate. He spoke in favour of a coaliilion, and not against it.— Post.

The prevalence of smallpox in Melbourne haa led to the insertion in the Age of the following cheerful advertisement : — Avoid contagion.— Ask your undertaker for Brown's non-contagious coffin. No extra charge.

A hairdresser, named Robert Gower, attempted to poison himself with oxalicacid on Tuesday at Oamaru. A doctor was quickly called, as soon as Gower's condition was ascertained, and with the a«d of a stomach pump all danger was

removed.

On Tuesday last a yonng man named Jacob Hanson, employed by the Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company, attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself from a steam pipe in the factory. When cut down he was nearly strangled. He had been in a dispondent state for a day or two. He was remanded to the asylum for examination.

Considerable regret has been expressed on nil sides at the retirement from the Borough Council of Mr Higgin. This gentleman mnde one of the most useful members of the Council, and was indefatigable in the performance of whatever duties he undertook. We understand that he will be invited to contest for the Mayoral chair at the expiring of the present Mayoral term.

The wool exported from New Zealand in 1882 vdieiglKvl 61,4 ( )2.712 lbs. In addition to the exports 2,200,000 lbs was retained for consumption in the local woollen mills.

We have received from the author, ~STv Edward Tregenr, oP New Plymouth, a small volume entitled " Southern Parables," published by Mr Thomas Avery, printer, of the same place. The parables are very amusing, and under cover of a pleasantly told fable, " point a moral and adorn a tale." The author disclaims any attempt at personal allusion, or local in-

cident,

A trie-ding of (lie T3orou<jli Council will be liel-.l tli is evening »it 8p m. Tiie chief matter for consideration will doubtless be the damage dove to the bridges, roads, and other public property l>y tlie floor!, and the new works and repairs which it will be imperative to have done immediately, in order that the street traffic mny be resumed. The principal of these works will, or course, be the erection of new bridges over the Makino in Manchester and Warwick streets.

The trial of Mr V. PyVe by effigy at Tapnnui on Monday was not so successful as was anticipated, because when the court had assembled it was discovered that the prisoner bad escaped. Some one had .stolen the effigy, and it could not be found. However, a new image was set up and sentenced to be hanged and burned. Mr P3 T ke had telegraphed apologising and explaining but the court " didu't see it."

We wish to remind our readers of the excellent entertainment that will be given to-night at the Public Hall. "Chic" is the title of the entertainment, and wherever it has been performed it has met with great success. The Wantjanui Chronicle of Monday last says: — "'chic' was performed on Saturday last to a large and appreciative audience. Mr Foley's changes are performed with remarkable celerity, and in the character of Rooney, an Irish servant, he is all that could be desired. Mr Berkley's impersonation of Miss Maud Puffin was excellent. The laughable sketch Hallelujah Lasses literally brought down the house. ' Chic' is one of the best entertainments ever given in Wanganui." We expect to see a crowded house this evening.

In our last issue we mentioned that Mr Wilson, of the Collegiate School, in Wanganui, intended to lecture on " Old and New London " in the Public Hall, on Tuesday, September 9th. The following is a synopsis of lecture : — Part I — Introductory, Round about Westminster, The Houses of Parliament, St. Thomas's Hospital, Old Lambeth, Down the River, The Thames Embankment. The English Bridge of Sighs, London's Railways, A Brave Man's Tale, The Tower of London, A Fatal Spot, The Monument, A Gossip about Old St. Paul's, Round about St. Paul's Churchyard, Back to Westminster, Whitehall and its Ghosts, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross and the Strand, Some Fleet Street Memories, London's Taverns, The Age of Powder and Patches, London's Letters, Up the Viaduct, The Marble Arch, London's Lungs, The Iron Duke's House, Through the Parks, Royal Residence, Back to Whitehall. Part II — London's Amusements, Out for a Holiday, The Crystal Palace, " Appy Anipton," The Derby Day. Theatrical London, A Popular Actor, Old Drury Lane, Journalistic London, The Illustrated, The Graphic, Mr Punch, An Old Simile, The Rotten Core, How the Poor Live, The Bitter Cry of Outcast London, Down by the Docks, Where the Poor Live, How They Live, A Garret Scene, A Ballad of Babylon, Child Life in tlie East-end, Among the Gods at an Eastend Theatre. The London School Board, " A Beautiful Scholard," The Very Dregs, A Good Work, Lessons for Colonists. What We May Do, A Sketch from Life, The Lights o' London.