Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 48, 4 October 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

Mr Freeman E. Jackson has resigned his seat at the Wanganui Harbor Board. The fishing season for tr ut opened in Dunedin on Wednesday last, and in .some instances very good baskets were made. Nominations will be received up to the 16th inst. for a qualified person to fill the vacancy on the Wanganui Education Board caused by the resignation of Mr G. M. Snelson. Mr Ellery Gilbert arrived here on Thursday evening. He will be for about a fortnight in this district. Any letters or communications addressed to the Stab will receive prompt attention. A man named Merrett was arrested in Aucklund on account of his extraordinary conduct in a public street. A loaded revolver was found on him, and £162. Drink is believed to be the exciting cause. The clergy of Auckland hare started a counter petition to that praying the museum to be opened on Sundays. At a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery the action of the ministers was approved.

i Here is going to be a baby show in Wangnnui. 7.V? Auckland Star states that recently s. " fresh " brought down 2.000 ln^s to the Hokinnga sawmill. The examination of the Bunnythorpe school, Taonui, will be held by tlie Inspector Air Vereker-Bindon on Wednesday next. The To^vn T?nnd was not able to perform last Saturday evening iv consequence of tin- inclement weiither. It will, weutlier permitting, perform on 'he Square this evening, the programme being the one already published. It is understood that a suggestion will i bp made to the Government to hnve the Stella sent to Lyttelton and the Hinemoa to .Uicklnnd for the purpose of conveying Volunteers, who intend taking part in the Association prize firing, to Wellington. A country girl, coming from the field, being told by her poetic cousin that she looked as fresh as a daisy kissed by dew, said, " Well, it wasn't any fellow by that name ; but it was Steve .Jones that kissed vie. I told him that everyone iv town would find it out." Mr Lyne has in his garden a rather remarkable camelia. The plant has neither been budded nor grafted yet it hears three distinctly different colored flowers. Oh one branch might recently be seen a white, and a cardinal bloom, and on another a white, and a white with cardinal stripes. A meeting of the Taonui cricketers w.ms held last evening, Mr Walter Bailey in the chair. It was resolved that ft provisional committee be formed to arrange for forming a club, and that the meeting adjourn till Thursday 9th inst. A vote ot thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. \ The Auckland Diocesan Synod was opened on Wednesday with an inaugural address by Bishop Cowie, referring to to the question of religious teaching in State schools. His lordship denounced what he regarded as the illiberally and tyranny of the so-called unsectarian party. Mr Siietwill, who is one of the vicepresidents of the Rangitikei- Manawatu Poultry and Produce Society, is getting a good number of local persons to give in their names and pay their subscriptions as members. Any person wishing to join may do so at his office. The subseriptiou is only 5s per auuum. A young man named Grantham, recently working at Messrs Bailey Bros.' mill at Halcombe, had his hand badly smashed while at work on Monday last. He came on to Feildi- g where the injury was attended to by Dr Johnston. The sufferer is progressing favorably. We are indebted to Mr Samuel Knight, of Awahuri, for a copy of Mr Federh's book on silkworm rearing. We now publish some extracts which will be in structiveto those interested in sericulture, and will continue to do so in future issues. That was a fine piece of irony of Pugin's, when he had got out the designs, fora magnificent cathedral, to cost thirty thousand pounds, and the committee of the building fund wanted him to reduce tlie price to ten thousand : " Say thirty shillings more, gentlemen," he wrote, " tir.d have a nice spire !" The appearance of Gladstone street was much improved by the additions made to the residence of Messrs Summers and Maynew. We are glad to notice that Mr Bishop has followed their example and bus made his cottage nearly opposite quite a comfortable abode by enlarging it considerably. We are glad to observe that Mr M. Keen, has received his new stock of boots and shoes which he is offering at the lowest rates. From certain articles of gentlemen's apparel seen "fluttering in the breeze," we suspect he is also likely to offer keen competition to the drapers and clothiers well as the bootmakers. The Chronicle says : — Palmerston North was described in the Wanganui Supreme Court tho othei day as one of the largest cities in the world. His Honor the Judge was gravely assured by counsel that it covered an area of nine miles in extent. Another counsel, not to be beaten, offered to match it with a rival city in the district equally large— on paper. The annual general meeting of the supporters of the Feilding Boxing Day sports will be held to-night at 8 o'clock in the Public Hall. We Hope that the c will be a good attendance as the subject matter to be considered is of vital importance to every lover of honest athletic sports such as have obtained on the Feilding Oval during the past years. The advance to sixpence a pound on frozen mutton cabled a few days ago, says the New Zealand Times, will be good news to the colony, and the Gear I'ompany shareholders in particular, as that company were shippers of about 6000 carcases per the Coptic. Now that the winter is setting in at Home, there is reason to belieye that the present price will harden. The first cart manufactured inFeildinc adapted and intended for carrying milk has just been built by Mr Parr to the order of Mr Corpe. It is a small-sized Whitechapel, and will be used for conveying milk to the Makino Butter and Cheese Factory. A similar trap, but larger, by the same manufacturer, has just been completed to the order of Mr Butcher, of Campbelltown. Both vehicles are strongly built and neatly finished. At a full meeting of the Benen leal Society, held in Mr Bray's office on Thursday night, the following ladies and gentlemen were appointed a visiting committee : — Mesdames Jones, Bray, Kellow. G!loV' r, Bartholomew, Tompkins, and Linton, A'iss Emily Goodbeliere, Rev. H. M. Murray, and Mr C. Bray. The secretary was instructed to open subscription lists at the principal business places. Accounts passed for payment: — haybittle, £2 1O.»- ; Halcombe and Slierwill, £1 8s Hd ; Kirton and Curtis, 16s. The secretary reported having oommnnicatcd with the Colonial Secretary re I subsidy. If we rend the signs of the tunes aright there are better times ahead for men who insist on doing good work and getting ; good pay for the same. here seems to be a general feeling atnon* business men 1 that the'eheap business is overdone, ihe man who promises to do a fine piece of work for a very low figure is getting to be held at his proper estrmale. People are gradually learning that a man who 1 promises to give something for nothing is either a fool or a knave, and he generally is. It has taken a long time- for some | people to discover this fact; A few , specimens ot this class are to be found in i the paper trade, also in the stationery | trade, in printing, in bookbinding, and ' bookselling. — Exchange.

The examination of the Feilding Public School was expected to conclude this afternoon. A full report will appear in our next Tuesday's issue. The two vessels Waireka and Bannock burn have now completed loading with timlier at Wanganui for Brisbane nnd Normuntown. Messrs P. &J. Bartholomew, are the shippers. At sunset ou Friday last, according to the HVlirew i-l. neology, the earth and remaining numibi-rs of the solar system completed their 5644 th year of existence. The 5645 th anniversary of the earth's ere.ition commenced on Friday evening, but that of the sun, moon, and stars will not commence until Wednesday next. — We lington Press. Messrs Fairfield Thompson and Kllerm, who have just completed Mr Kiddiford's dwelling at Halcombe, have been the successful tenderers for the erection of St. George's Church, P.itea It is understood that the reasonable rate at which timber can he supplied from Feilding en-ibled this firm to successfully compete against the local tenderers. Mr Lewers of The Peoples' Store, notifies in fo-day's issue that he is prepared to offer his patrons the advantages of his having secured several extraordinary bargains in general drapery, millinery, mens' and boys' clothing, dress stuffs, boots and shoes, &c. All the lines are offered at low rates, and the stock being large, an extensive choice is afforded, and purchasers may depend on getting goo l value for their money. An amusing instance of a bad memory and a good one came under our notice recently. S >me years ago a gentleman connected with a banking establishment at Bulls borrowed a sword from a gentleman then resident in that village. The borrower left his employment and started for the South Sea Islands, taking with him the lethal weapon, with a view, no doubt, of spreading civilisation among die heathen, omitting the ceremony of declaring his intention to the owner. His adiress was, however, ascertained, and on the lust trip of the Wairarapa, a passenger, whose residence is in Feilding, undenook to call on the gentleman at Fiji, and being gifted with a retentive memory, did so, and recovered the lost stvcu.!. which was duly handed to the owner :; few days ago.