Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 42, 20 September 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

At the Supreme, Court, Wanganui, on Thursday, James Richards was charged and found guilty of sheep stealing and sentenced to 18 months. Archibald Campbell was charged with stealing £8 from a Maori. A verdict of not guilty was found.

As a Roland for an Oliver, some of the North Island members wanted to be appointed as a select committee to consider the East and West Coast Railway of the South Island. Sir Julius was equal to the occasion, he said private enterprise would do the work.

We call attention to the altered advertisement of Mr Svensden. boot and shoe maker, Manchester street. His stock of goods for summer and autumn has just arrived, and several lines are to be sold very cheap.

The Government has promised that colonial coal will be usod in institutions under its control. It would have been a " great boon" for the Manawatu if this rule had been made to apply to New Zealand timber during the past few years.

A granary and stables at Four Peak Station, Canterbury the property of Lancelot Walker Esq., was totally des. troyed by fire on Wednesday last. Two valuable thoroughbred horses perished in the flames. The buildings were insured for £1250, but the loss is £800 over that sum.

Last night at the conclusion of the important business of stockstuking in connection with the transfer of the stock and business to Mr C. Brown, Mr Loudon presented Mr William Bray with a handsome watch pendant and seal, as a token of the high estimation in which he held him, also as a memento of six years good service, with Mr Loudon and the late firm of Loudon and Haybiitle.

Henry George began life as a printer ; later he became a sailor, then a reporter on the Sacramento Becord, then owner of the San Francisco Post, and afterward a lecturer. He is forty-five years of age. His wife is of Irish pareatage and Australian birth.

Sir George Grey has more tricks than a monkey. He has been trying very hard to get a Bill passed compelling the mem* bers to refund half of the honorarium paid last session. This is especially funny seeing that he voted for these payments. :■-..-..,. ■ • | ,

One of the stories told about General Gordon is that his military operations are directed by a method similar to what in .olden times was known as the sortes

Virgiliana, with the Bible substituted tor the ./Eneid. If the General in his morning Bible-reading chances on a warlike passage, such as the exploits of Joshua or David, there is warm work round Khartoum before nightfall. If, on the contrary, the morning lessons suggest peaceful thoughts, the rest of the day the garrison, like Dan, abides in its breaches.

We have received from the Government Printer a batch of Parliamentary papers. We have to thank the courteous secretary of the Manawatu Racing Club for a copy of tin racing card for the Palmerston races on Boxing Day. A meeting of those interested in the i formation and organization of a Fire I BrLadtt will be held at Mr Bray's office Hiis evening at 8 o'clock.

The adjourned meeting of the Benevolent Society will be held this evening at the Public Hall, at 8 o'clock. The attendance of all the well meaning and charitably disposed, who can make it convenient to be present is earnestly requested.

The Press libel case, Russell versus Mi-Kelvie and McMinn, is set down for hearing at Wanganui on the 30th instant. Startling revelations are anticipated, and no doubt His Honor Mr Justice Richmond is competent to deal with an action of this nature.

We understand that Mr Blackmore ha& issued a summons against the Feilding Borough Council for L2OO damages. Messrs Staite and Warburton are retained as counsel for plaintiff. The case will be heard before a jury at Palmerston on the 23rd of next month.

A photographer has taken a group picture of Queen Victoria, her daughter, the Crown I'rincess of Germany, and her gr:ind-daughter, the Paincess of SaxeMeiningen, aged five years. The group includes four generations in the female line.

The announcement of Mr Lewers that his annual consignment of spring and summer goods will arrive and be opened early next week will be welcomed by his numerous customers. Mr Lewers invites a prompt inspection of the goods, by which intending purchasers will be amply repaid in securing an early choice.

Tlie Anttlo-New Zealander mentions that Sir hldwrard Stafford will shortly visit the colony on private business. The same paper states that Sir John Hall was to have left Liverpool about the middle of August intending to pay a short visit to Canada and the States, and then join the steamer to New Zealand at San Francisco on 27th September. Lady Hall and family remain in England.

ltumnur has it that General Booth is organising a " Hallelujah Bicycle and Tricycle Corps" with " glory bugles" and the othor paraphernalia of Salvation Army warfare. The bicycles are for " hallelujah lads," and the tryicles for " halleluiah lasses." General Booth's idea is probably to dragonnade the villages and hamlets with " flying squadrons " detached from a " flying column " which is to more from town to .town along the high road.

We have received the August number of the European Mail, which is accompanied by a supplement with the portraits of the representatives of our Colonial and Indian Empire. The only Agent-General absent is Sir F. D. Bell, who, with a modesty for which those who knew him best did not give him credit, refused to supply the manager of the paper with a copy of his photograph from which to take a copy for the steel engraving.

Two houses in Dublin, the property of the notorious James Carey, were sold a few weeks apo, m the Court of Bankruptcy. They are let in tenements, and yield a profit rent cf £105. For some time there was no bidding, and it seemed as if nobody would touch the traitor's possessions. Then some miserably small bids were made for each house separately which were refused. At last the two together were bought in trust for a lady for £150.

Recently the sensation in London wa9 that the police had discovered a man living with a West End family as lady'smaid ! The horror of the revelation may well be imagined. It recalls an authenticated story of some years ago, when a robbery had taken place in a large establishment, and the thief was searched for in all directions. The household were assembled at the detective's request, and going up to Lady E - 's own maid he said, " Wby, Charlie, who'd have thoughtrof finding you here in this disguise ?" The confidential post of lady's-maid had been for two or three years filled by a man.

The Parliamentary correspondent of the? Mount Ida ( 'hronicle wires : — From the persistent whipping now going on in the lobbies, I judge that an attack will be made on the Government after the delivery of the Financial Statement. Should this come about and the Government sustain a defeat, my prediction is that there will be a readjustment of parties. Vogel will throw Stout overboard in order to make way for a coalition with Atkinson, and the Stout- Grey parties will unite and form an exceedingly strong Opposition — in fact, so strong, that the existence of a Vogel- Atkinson Ministry would be very precarious.

General Forrest was once approached by an Arkansaw man, who asked—" General, when do you reckin' we're to get something to eat P" " Eat !" exclaimed the General* " Did you join the army merely to get something to eat P" " Wall, that's about the size of it." "Here," calling an officer, " giro this man something to eat, and have him shot." The officer understood the joke, and replied, "All right, General." The Arkansaw man, exhibiting no alarm, said, " Bile me a ham, cap'n ; stew up a couple o' chictens, bake two or three hoe-cakes, fetch a gallon o' so o' butter- milk, and load yer guns. With such inducements, the man what wouldn't be willin' to die is a blame fool !" A hearty meal was prepared for the soldier, but he still lives.