Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 39, 13 September 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The Fire Brigade meeting which was to have taken place last evening lapsed on account of the inclement weather.Mr J. Greenwood, dentist, intimates in another column that he will visit Feilding on Thursday the 25th inst.

It is stated that His Excellency the Governor will shortly deliver a lecture in Wellington on the defences of tie colony.

Some months a^o a champagne firm at Epernay offered prizes for the best five poems on champagne. No less than 1100 poems were sent.

The companies forming the Marine Insurance Association paid all claims against them in connection with the Lastingham, } f esterc!ay.

The manufacturing jewellers ot Dunedin have presented a petition to tho House, through Mr Stout, to increase the dutj on imported jewellery to 20|per cent.

The good and charitably disposed are reminded that a meeting, with regard to the Benevolent Society, will be held this evening at the Public Hall at 8 p.m.

The export of frozen meat from the colony between the 9th of January and Bth August, 1884, was 302.076 frozen carcases of sheep. Seven vessels took smaller quantities of beef.

The Palmerston branch of the New Zealand i lothing Factory has just been supplied with a large stock of new spring goods, all of which are first-class, and well worthy of inspection.

The new member for Rangitikei, Mr Bruce, has made his first attempt at legislation, in the shape of a Seamen's Represe tation Bill. The Post condemns the measure as unnecessary.

Through traffic to Foxton was renewed on Thursday evening last. The storekeepers of Feilding welcomed the advent for the goods laden train for some of their supplies were getting remarkably short.

We publish elsewhere the card of Mr A. It. Fletcher Johnston, barrister and solicitor, of Palmerston. His place of business is on the Square, next to the Bank of New Zealand, and he notifies that he has money to lend on approved securities at current rates.

The case of Loudon v Holland in our report on Thursday of the R.M. Court was an error as regard's the plaintiff's name, which should have been Lewers. The case was called on in the morning and adjourne-1 till the"' afternoon, when by some means the error inadvertently crept in.

A San Francisco paper advertises for " A minister who can preacli two strictly original sermons every Sabbath— one m the morning for saints, and one in the evening for sinners." It was remarked by a contemporary that all the men capable of doing this were employed in newspaper offices.

Mrs Collins, of New York, has just finished a silk quilt composed of 14,0 >0 pieces, each about the size of a sixpence The total number of stitches in the job is 420,000. It has taken Mrs Collins seven years to mate this quilt, workine at it during her spare hours, and Mr Collins has never a gray hair in hi* head.

Business is evidently very brisk in Palm>*rston at present. The Standard informs us that "Host Walklcy had no less than five samples' rooms in occupation this week, besides three of his own he had to charter Mr Lin ton's auction rooms and one of Gillett's rooms for the convenience of his commercial friends. .

It is said that Sir Julius Vogel . and Major Atkinson are apparently both believers in George's book of " Progress and Poverty," only with this difference — that whilst the fornier is always advocating '• Progress," the' latter has- for the past year or two been preaching " Poverty." .

The r special correspondent of the Wanganui' Herald at Oluki wired that on Tuesday night last a Scotchman and an Irishman were fighting at Paikakariki. The Scotchman was the better man, and another Irishman, Dan Mahoney, rushed up and bit the Scotchman's nose off. The piece was taken the next morning at daylight to the police at Pahautanui. Aluhoney has been arrested. He has recently served a sentence for brutally kicking a man at Foxton.

Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's stock sale on Thursday the 18th inst. promises to be the largest and most important that lias "yet been held in Feilding. Upwards of 2<X) head of cattle were added to the list yesterday. . Messrs Stevens and Gorton ha ve, with most commendable courtesy, granted the -use of their yards to assist to meet the requirements of the sale. The accommodation of both yards will- be almost to small to hold the number of lots.

A photographic revolver for amateurs has been broqght out. It is a true pocket revolver; with> barrel, stock, and cock. On pulling the trigger a series of sensitised plates succeed one another,- and the operator can thus suddenly take 10 success ve photographs without further touehinc what we may call the weapon. These photographs may be subsequently enlarged to any *ize. The instrument is intended chiefly for .. tourists. • The instantaneous views are obtained by the exposure of one-fiftieth of a second.'

"A Courj of. under the Weilingtdn district ' will be opened at ; Halcopibe on I uesday, t eyening. next at 7. 30 'o'clock,' the potirt '■ LAya!' . Feilding ibeing the opening court. P.C.R's Bro Foster and Bro H. Wbrsfoia have been appointed by the. district executive' as the r opening onicersr'^jt ; js • -expected « that '•"a' large ttarriber.of members of tho'ojie'ningjcourt will be pfresettt, likewise I '' the of the .courts at Palmers'tb'n, ' Marten; and Wa'nganm. ' Mr • Daw's break 'has becii engaged to take the officers and .brethren of the Feilding <?ourt to Hrtlcombe aDd will leave the Square at 4 p.m. !