Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 43, 23 September 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

A Jewish synagogue is about to be erected in Auckland at a cost of £3000;

The Premier, Mr Stout, is still suffering from the gout.

The San Francisco Mail arrived at Auckland at midnight on Sunday.

We have received from the Government Printer a batch of Parliamentary papers.

Mr Mark Cohen, sub editor of the Dunedin Star, is Speaker of tlie mimic Parliament iv tliat city.

It is said that the purchasers of the steamer Triumph will realise £20,000 profit out of their venture. •

A number of properties in tho estate of W. W. Taylor were sold in Wellington on Friday last and realised £26,000.

The member for South Wellington,. Mr George Fisher, has been 'granted three weeks leave ot absence from the House, owing to sickness.

It is confidently asserted that thfe whole of the Wellington- Manawatu railway Uue will be uuder coutract before the end of the year.

Beef is quoted in Auckland at from 26s to 27s per hundred. This is most gratifying intelligence for stock raisers on the Manchester Block.

The Borough Council of Blenheim has given the Sulfation Army notice to discontinue their not-turual torchlight processions through the streets.

Sir Julius Vo.^el placed the Hinemoa at the service >>f members for a pleasure trip from Saturday unLil to-day. The places visited were Picton and Nelson.

The Manchester Rifle volunteers will parade for Government inspection on Thursday evening next at the Public Hall at 6.30. Fines for non-attenJance will be rigidly enforced.

Some of the effigy burners at Ashburton have been fined £2 each for having lighted fires in a public place without permission from the municipal authorities.

On Friday last Constable Price, now stationed at Bulls, arrested a man named John Driscoll, who is charged with stealing a horse at Waipukurau. Dnscoll was remanded to Napier.

The many friends of Mr Frank Evans in this district, will be glad' to know that his hotel in Auckland, named The City, is said to be one of the best of all the new hotels, and creditable to Auckland.

The reduction in the price of H-msard has very much increased its circulation. Members will find, when facing their constituents, the popularity of this publication will not be.an unalloyed blessing to them.

Local contractors are reminded that tenders for forming 30 chains of Beattie street, and 9 chains pf railway line west sre invited by the Borough Engineer, and will be received at his pffice up till 4 p.m. on Thursday next.

Pears, the greatest soap manufacturer in the world, sends by post, gratuitously, to each of the babies whose birth is announced in the columns of the London. Times, a shilling cake of soap and a number of the firms pictorial leaflets.,

The Salvation Army in Wangnnni has now raised a band. The soldiers are provided with scarlet uniforms, in which they parade the streets. The playing of the band during the church services of other - sects has given some 6ffence already.

Mr Charles Gray writes to us from the Wanganui Hospital desiring us to express to the settlers on the Makino road, and the public of Feilding generally, his heartfelt thanks for their many acts of kindness to hira nnd his since he has been laid on a bed of sickness.

Since the victory of the non-smokers over the smokers, at Lords, the consumption of tobacco (says, a private correspondent) amongst Knights of the Willow has fallen off in such a marked manner that it is feared the revehue will be seriously affected.

After Mr, Pharaj-yh .jfond! been fined £100 by the Wellington R.M. for voting wrongfully at Uhd Foxton < election, rhe : said " 1 don't intend to pay the fine and I costs. I may tell you at t once that the fine won't affect me in the sliggtest. I , shall pay the amount" out of my hon\ovarium." ,• v • -.- ■

At the inquest held on Saturday last on the body of the young man McKekan who was found dead ojithiß. Flagstaff Hill, Otago, a verdict was returned that he died from. «eposu,re , consequent jon bring lost on thV ranees wftile search|for his father. The latter was in hiding jfrom the police, and is now serving a sentence in Dunedin for cattle stealing;

According to the Post a curious tele- / graphic blunder in a Press mcssrtge was made recently, which was discovered, fortunately, and corrected before it got into the papers. 'it occurred in the roport of a debate in the Legislative ,Cpu»cil on barmiiids, WwHich the expression was used *' barmaids lured yOtfng men to destruction.'' These words,' at the hands: of . a- young and impressionable operator,, (became tran«formed into /"; Barmaids, loyed young men to distraction/'... ; , .j,

The composition nf the present Government illustrate*: the religions egpabty and , toleration existjng in the politics ,of the country. The Hon. Mr Stout 'is the •President and the Hon. Mr Ballan.ce is the Vice-President of the NewZealancl'Freethought Association, Sir Julius "Yogel is ! a Jow, the Hon. & A. Toi&nnd the Hon P. Bncklry are Roman Catholics, the Hon. E- RioKard«*riri ikir member? bfc'flie jChurch of England, .and the, Hon. JN. iWyriolds isa Pre'sbyteriAiiV^ r '*- .«. A meeting pftbe Ne-w Zealand Leather iM"ariufaeturing ; Compaiiy tbok plateelnst • iThnrsday evening, when a resolution^ confirming: : the disposal, .of* the property-' •to the new compnny— was confirmed, on : the motion, 9f-Mr A/J. M;ja,V^h (chair!man), seconded by Mr Arthur Baker. The Chairman TepQrted.jtliat shares^ in the new concern were* b'erng "freely taken on all sides, J,h^re i was eveiy hope ithat the company 'would' be Abated and a sucpessM .}jmsfrf e«t^bli<jhe4 ,in iWelfingtion: ;_ >/ 1 "*-. . • '. j Countless rfeeiaantii, as everyone knows^ ■arise frfn&b'd vie dt niktehe«B.i*?Ti obtain light withont .flmplpyinfi^them, and so without the danger ot J setting things on fire, an ingepipuSj (-tpntr^vance is ; now used by the watchmen' of Pans ih" all the magazines i where 1 'explcfsiVe'.) OT' mflivpij mable matfe'nals (ar^k-? pt.G Anyone may easily make a trial of it. , Take an oblong vial ot --the whites* aiid cleai^st glass, and; put into it a piece of. phosphorous about the- size of a pea. Pour some olive oil heated ...to: tjiejioUJag .- V9WP uponj/tlie phosphorous ; fill jh_e vial about one . third full, and = then, c^jc it tightly. To . use this novel' light remove jthe cork, allow the air 16 enter tlie vial, and then' recork it.' ]ji

Mr Ellery Gilbert will visit Feilding on or about the 27th inst.

The next English and European mail, direct per Aorangi, will close at the Feilding Post Office on Thursday next at 7 p.m. All correspondence must be marked " per Aorangi."

The Feilding portion of the 'Frisco mail is expected to arrive at 8 o'clock this evening, and will be delivered from the counter at the Post Oifice from 8.30 to 5.45.

Mr Christopher Brown will open his new business at the Cash Drapery Warehouse to-morrow at noon. We can confidently assert that the goods displayed will be worthy of the reputation as a business man which Mr Brown brings wuh iiiin from other parts bi the colony.

A meeting of the Fire Brigade was held on Saturday evening at Mr Bray's office,. Mr H. Worsfold in the chair. About nine members were present, and several persons gave in their names to become ;members, making 28 in all. After resolving to carry on the brigade and to meet on Saturday evening next at the same hour aud place for the election of officers, the meeting closed. -