Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 45, 27 September 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The Hinemoa started on a pleasure trip to Kawhia this morning.

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

Mr Guinness, the member tor Greyir.outh, has giveu notice of v Bill to abolish c>V'nec's> juries.

Nevr sJeaii».nvl colts and flillies fetched ? (.. i-Ui under the hammer in Qneens-

It is iu'.! Tinted at the telegraph office ;••.' on and after the Ist of October : a.ips must be affixed to telegraphic iuesbageH in the same way as on letters.

Over 3000 girls are taught needlework in the public schools in .New Zealand, yet not ten per cent, of tho women in the colony know how to sew on a shirt button.

An earthquake shock travels about 25 miles a minute through hard materials, but soft substances such as sand, gravel, or clay retard its rate of progress, and in water it gels on slower still.

In reply to questions put it was stated that the Government would consider the advisableness of inviting tenders for railway stores in each district-, so as to enable local tradesmen to tender. This is a movement in the right direction.

The adjourned inspection parade of the Manchester Rifle Volunteer Corps was held in the Public Hall on Thursday evening. The attendance was not so good as it should have been. After the usual inspection Volunteer Pleasants was elected lieutenant.

We regret to learn that the infant son of Mr E. B. Gichard, after suffering for some time from a bronchial affection, succumbed to the complaint yesterday morning. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents.

In the new Parliament, Mr Richard Seddon has to " pale his unoffectuul fire " before several of the " newly imported " sons of thunder. Besides, as ihe worthy Richard is anxious to pose as a Minister of Mines, he is practising humility and modesty.

Mr Parr, of Kimbolton road, has. forwarded to our office a remarkably large egg, which was laid by one of his half Brahmah hens. The length of the egg is exactly three inches, its circumference is over six inches, and its weight throe and a half ounces. .It also contains two yolks.

The Presbyterian Church in course of erection on the Surrey Hills Estate, Auckland, was blown down by a strong wind on Thursday last. In the fall one of the contractors, Gavin Doroche, was killed instantaneously by the falling timber. Percy Lipscombe jumped out of a window and escaped.

We understand that Mr G. M. Snelson is about to resign his seat on the Education Board. This step has been rendered necessary from the daily increase in his private business requiring his whole attention. Mr Snelson has been one of t!iu most useful members of the Board, and his place will not be easily filled.

Mr Henderson, chief engineer of the Timaru, was drowned at Westport on Wednesday last. He is supposed to have fallen in the river accidentally, near the spot where the body was found. A sovere wound was noticed over the left eye. Deceased was not under the influence of liquor when last seen.

We learn from the Herald that Mr D Murray, of Wanganui, will read at the next meeting of the Industrial Society, a paper on " The capabilities of the district for producing machinery." As there are few men wLo haveauch a sound, practical knorrb .-. : 1 f^o of this subject, it could not have found a better exponent.

A very suggestive story is told by a bouiface on the Raniritikei line. A fewdays ago a couple of swagsmen called at the hotel, and on stating they were hard up and starving some meat and bread cut into sandwiches was baaded to them. The bread not having been properly buttered the " starving men" indignantly threw the food away. - Comment is needless.

During their early locomotive stage thp young fry of the oyster have each a pair of distinct black eyes to guide them in choosing a homo, but as. soon as they settle down- for a lazy life on some ledge or rock the eyes die away, and the animal pusses the rest of its existence in complote and contented blindness. The oyster is not singular in this respect, as the example of many retired business men shows.

We call attention to the following notification from Mr Stevens, postmaster, Wjhich now lies- on the counter at the post office :— 'To enable postra.^g its to comply with ins ructions as to the mode of deal ing with the daily cash balance, from the first of October it will be necessary to refuse small credits for stamps, telegrams, etc. The public are requested to bear this in miuJ, and to be prepared as far as possible to pay in correct change."

Mr Ker.-lulte. of the Temple of Fashion, next to the Foresters' Hull, at Palmersion, notifies elsewlipre the arrival of his spring and su-cmer stock of choice and fashionable goods, comprising Englsh, Scoicii, Canadian, Mossjeil. and Kniapoi tweeds, alao lilue anJ black worsted coatings and broadcloths. The whole of thi'se goods will well repay the inspection of gentlemen oVsirous of securing a really good article at a reasonable figure.

The patent stump extractor invented by Mr James Lintou, of Palraerston, i« gaining notoriety for the provision it affords of rendering bush farming a comparatively easy business. It removes the largest stumps out of the ground bodily, with only a smail expenditure of manual- power, which must be a great -desideratum to settlers on bush lands. As notified in another column, prices and particulars may be obtained on application to the patentee and proprietor, Mr J. Lintdn, the Square, Palinen>ton North. _ •

j Mr George Fisher, the present Mayor 1 of Wellington, has decided to contest the Mayoralty at the next election. The Anglican ' :jurch Assembly, Melbourne, has adopted a resolution in favor of creating a nss diocese in Victoria. Counterfeit il .:;:is are in circulation in Auckland, and are so perfectly east as to , command the admiration of even the sufferers. ; V new book is entitled " What can a Woman Do," An answer to the question can be found by askiug any bald headed man.

The newly-appointed assistant teacher of the Feilding State School, viz., Miss Lightboun, from Dunedin, entered upon her duties on Tuesday last.

In England it is estimated that there are nearly 25,000 women and girls who gain a part of their daily bread by the making of gloves.

The sawmill case of Munro v Bydder and others was concluded at the sitting of the Supreme Court, Wanganni, yesterday, and resulted in a verdict being given of L 822 damages for the plaintiff.

At the time of his death the Duke of Albany wore two gold bangles on his wrists, and Lord Wolselcy, " The hero of a hundred fights." is said to hide a jewelled circlet beneath his left coat sleeve.

The Feikiing Lodge of the M.TJ.1.0. Odd Fellows have appointed a strong committee to make arrangements to celebrate the establishment of the order here. We are informed that either a ball or a banquet will he the mode adopted.

We are pleased to learn that Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill have decided to erect new and more suitable premises in which to conduct their business as auctioneers and land agents. .Ylessrs Atkins and Clero, architects, of Wariganm, have had the plans in preparation for some time. The site selected is a central one.

We publish in our " wanted" column a notice from Mr F. Whitlock, of River Bank, Wanganui, respecting his celebrated Delhi Chutney. This sauce is too well-known throughout the coast to need^ any praise from us, and as several agents for its sale have been appointed in Feilding, persons will be nble to test its good qualities for themselves.

A resident on the banks of the Oroua wishes us to call attention to the fact that an individual, whose name is given, is in the habit of making both nocturnal and diurnal visits to a haystack belonging to the former, and helping himself. He states that if these predatory attentions are continued the constable will be put on to the track of the hay-lifter.

A man named Fred Davidson attempted suicide at Northcote on Thursday morning. He was tired of his life, because he was troubled with paralysis. He placed an iron pot in the ground, put in twenty pounds of powder, and having a heated soldering iron laid over, and stack the iron into the powder. A great explosion followecl, and Davidson was found with his clothes on fire nnd terribly mutilated, rushing about looking for pistols which he had previously loaded, in case the other effort failed. He now lies in the hospital dreadfully scorched and burned. He is not expected to live.

It has been suggested that the Borough Council should take np the matter of the miming some of the streets of the Borough. It is a fact that several of them have never been nimed at all, while others are only popularly known by certain appellations, no proper namos ever having been officially given to them, while others have simply been christened after one of their first residents. As showing the desirableness of streets having proper names, some amusement was caused at the Council meeting on Thursday by one of the tenderers for a certain work, describing the locality as " the parson's street."

We have been favored with a copy of the new prospectus of the Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria, whose head office is ia Collins street, Melbourne. This Society, established thirteen years ago, claims to have done a much larger business than any other colonial society during the same period. We need say no more than draw attention to an advertisement of the Society published in another column. Mr T. JR. Walton, of Palmerston North, is the agent for this district, from vrhom prospectuses may be obtained, and who is prepared to take proposals for assurance, endowments and annuities. Intending assurers are reminded that the profits are mutually divided, and that a division of the profits will take place next year.