Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 44, 25 September 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

Mr Lewers' spring and summer gocds have arrived and are now on view. The Auckland Foresters hare built a hall at a cost of over £4000.

The railway tariff is likely to undergo a close examination and revision during the recess.

The Makino Cheese and Butter Factory haa purchased a~centrifugal cream separator. It is probable that the factory will be in full work in about a fortnight.

D. H. Macarthur, Esq., M.H.R., will be a passenger by train to Wanganui this evening. He goes upon business connected with the case Adsett v the Manchester Bond Board, which comes on for hearing in the Supreme Court to-morrow.

An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening at eight o'clock.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the j British Mail for August and the New j Zealand Industrial Gazette for Sept.

A woman named Kate Smotzey. at Fort Plain, New York, is at date in her 170 th day of fasting. She takes no nourishment, and desires none.

The Government has stated that provision will be made for licensing patent medicine vendors and dealers in tobacco when local government is re-adjusted.

A beautiful meteor was seen from iVdding lust evening at about 10.15. ft fl ished across the sky iv a northerly direction, aud exploded with a brilliant flawe.

Arrangements have been made by the Government w.th the Bank of New Zealand to obtain half a million of mon<>y in anticipation of the million loan of next year. A friend of the family asked an editor recently why he allowed his wife to beat him. "Well, what am I do?'' was the reply, "the doctor has ordered her to take plenty of exercise !"

B Pettit, cattle . purchaser for the West Coast Merit , and Produce Company, was thrown from his horse on Saturday night and sustained concussion of tiie brain. He is now at Patea in a precarious coadition.

At the festivities of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls, in London, May 21st, 1884, two hundured and eighty-five stewards reported contributions amounting to L 13.0**7 lis' Oue provincial and four London lists are to be added to this.

To-dny's Chronicle says :— Tn reply to a letter forwarded by Mr Filiner, secretary of the Okoia Dairy Facto ay, the Hon. Mr Ballance regrets to say that the Kailway Department cannot see its way at present to make any further reductions in the rute of milk for dairy factories.

It is stated, says the Dunedin Star, thai the Hon. G. M. Watcrhose declared his opinion tliat !Sir J. Vogel's Budget speech was the best ever made by any Treasurer in the Australian colonies, and was superior to the Budget speech of 1870, when the Public Works policy was enunciated.

A curious case is reported from Damascus, Pennysylvania. A merchant named Conddeback, who had been lying helplessly paralysed for three months, was cured in an instant by a stroke of lightning. He was hurled across the room by tbe shock, and immediately rose with his limbs strong and flexible.

Mr Ballance, in the debate on the Financial Statement, said the Government were convinced of their ability to restore prosperity to the colony, a prosperity to wbich it had ol late been a stranger. No doubt this hope will be realised, if assisted by a rise in the price of wool and beef, and a good harvest.

Redans, a labouring man employed on the s.s. Triumph, attempted suicide by flitting his throat at a boardinghouse iv Wyndham- street, Auckland, on Tuesday. He cauie home for dinner, went up to his bedroom, and was Found a few minutes after with his throat cut. He has beeu sent to the bopital. He had not been drinking.

A notice is published elsewhere from the Palmerston North Tannery and Fellmongery Company, whose factory is situated in Fitzroy street, Terrace Knd. Mr A. Peterson, of the Square, has au hority to transact business for the company, who ate prepared to buy wool and all kinds of hides, also to scour wool on commission and to dye wool mats any color.

The altered tenders for the erection of of Mr Park's new warehouse and residence Palmerston, were opened on Tuesday and that of Messrs France and Stuhbs accepted. The contract price being LIOH4 14* 6d. We understand the extras in connection with this building will be the laying of concrete flagging iv front of the new establishment also the fixing of hot water apparatus. — Standard.

In the House of Representatives, on the Hon. Col. Brett asking whether the Government intended taking any steps against the Hon. Mr Pharaeyn, who had been convicted nnder the Corrupt Practises Act, Mr Pharazyn, in moving an adjournment, said that he had been advised to appeal, and such appeal was now in the hands of hi 3 solicitors. He asked members to suspend their judgment until they saw the result of his appeal.

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttleton Times says: — A curious thing has been told me concerning the wrecked vessel the Lastingham. She and two others, the Kilmeny and Waitara, were here together the summer before last. The Kilmeny foundered between this and Newcastle, the Waitara came to terrible grief in the English Channel, as evety one knows, and now the last of the unfortunate trio lies, smashed to pieces, in fathoms of water, under the steep, ironbound flanks of Jackson's Head.

While to deal with the Sinking Fund as proposed is probably one of the most sensible things the Goverument can do in connection with our loans, would it not hare been more conducive to the prosperity and happiness of the whole population if, instead of reducing the property tax by one-half, the Customs duties on the necessaries of life had been relieved to the extent of L131.000P And if the Treasurer's consideration for the people at large, if his liberal statesmanship, were equal to his financial ability, surely the necessaries of life and not property would have been selected by him for relief from taxation. Comparatively only a few have to pay property tax, while all are consumers of food an'l clothing, and to have lessened the taxation on these would hare benefited the whole population. — 'North Otago Times.'