Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 50, 9 October 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

A meetings of the Feilding Borough Council will be held to-night at 8 o'clock. The steamer Triumph is now afloat in the Auckland harbor. She is in as good condition as when first launched. An officer of the Salvation Army (Col lingwood contingent,) eloped with a female soldier Both are married, and have a number of children. "Warrior," the Australian cerrespondent of the Otago Witness, writes that Beacb has been engaged for £500 to give a serif! of rowing exhibition* m this ! colony. | A new stove has been invented for the comfort of travellers. It is to be put under the feet, with, a mastard plasier on the head, which draws the heat through the whole syotrm. We regret to learn thnt Mr Kellow who has been for some time in charge of the Wesleyan Church here has resigned his position as home missionary. The R*»vd. gentleman gave a farewell addrest. last Sunday. ' ' The Makino Cheese and Butter Factory has commenced operation*. We understand that after a few necessary alterations to the machinery the factory will be ablet to do its full work. Plenty of milk has been arranged for. The Vfakino people deserve success for their pluck and energy. Upon being called up from the jury list recently a Swede pleaded inability to serve, as a juror from the fact that he had not been naturalised, although he had lived in the country for thirty years. His Honour remarked that; lie must of course excuse him, but that it was jyi disgraceful thing that a man should haW*. been earning his livelihood in the colony for so many years without assisting in ; any way in the performance of public business. Hia Honour advised tlie applicant to apply at once for letteri of naturalization. — Post.

The regular month 'y meeting of the Feilding Masonic L;dge, E.C., will be held this evening. Mr Campbell, o! "Feilding, a shoemaker, baa filed a petition to be adiudged a bankrupt. Mr Hammond offers one pound reward for the recovery of a mare " lost, stolen, or strayed." We learn from the Manawatu Times that a brewer is abjut to commence busiin Paluierston, Mr Johnston, of Hawera, having leased the old Palmerston brewery. Mr A. Fihner, of Wangunui, is pre- | pared, says the Chronicle, to give tobacco seeds, with full instructions as to growth, 1 to any body one who will call on him. She Bulls Horticultural Society is receiving -the ' most liberal support from Mrs McDonald, of Awahuri. who has donated nearly L 5 for prises. When Hamlet said : " But I have that within which passeth show," it is be!i j^cd he had in bis pocket a compiiineuLary ticket for a circus. At the Supreme Court, Wellington, Win. Smith for larceny, got 18 months ; Anna Anderson, for infanticide, was found not guility on the charge of infanticide, but was sentenced to one year on the j charge of concealment of birth . Mahoney for biting a man's nose off, got three months. j Bosa L- Smith who was charged with infanticide and tried at the present sittings of the Supreme Court in Auckland, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six months hard labor. She swooned on receiving her sentence. A poor fellow named Krhorn was severely injured by a fallirfg tree at Campbell town on Monday, having his thigh fractured and his jaw badly hurt, passed through by train last night for the hospital. Dr Froodjattemled the sufferer and did all that was possible to alleviate his pain. We are anxions to correct n wrons: impression which an allusion to Mr Baker's letter in our Jeport on Tuesday of the Manchester Road Board meeting mieht possibly convey. The letter did not adrise the Board to offer a compromise as reported, but to favorably consider any offer of compromise that might be made by Mr Adsett. We hear thnt Messrs Mitchell anil Richards, meat preservers and butcher*, of Wnnganui and Wellington, h-ire received an orJer from London for 200?) cases of preserved meat at a satisfactory price. We are glad to see that the enterprise of this firm is being recognised in such a substantial manner.— Post. A brutal murder was committed in Reverey, Australia, lately, when two men named Oarbury and Miller waylaid Constable Hackett anJ hammered in his skull. The remains were found in a terribly mutilated state next day. The ! constables and a number of settlers searched for the murderers nnd found them on Monday in the bush. The rascals immediately fired on the police, who shot dead an escaped convict named Brown, who had joined them. Miller was wounded during the uffrny, and it is reported that he is dead. Carbury, who escaped, is armed, and is still at large. A Fact Worth Knowing.— Are you suffering with Consumption, Coughs, Severe Colds settled on the Breast. Pneumonia, or any disease cf t--e Throat and Lungs? If so, go to your Druggist and get a bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. The people are going wild over its success, and Druggists all over our country are writing us of its wonderful cures among their customers. It has by far the largest sale of any remedy, simply because it is of so much value in all abectioßS of his kind. Chronic cases gui ck ly yield to do. Druggist, recommend it nnd physicians prescribe it. Jf you wi«h to try its superior virtue, get a Sample Bottle for 6d. Large size bottle 3s 6d. There doses will relieve any case. Try it. _^