Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 58, 25 October 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

Our Bulls Items, a letter to the editor, and a quantity of other reading matter aro unavoidably held over. The Halcombe School Committee bave resolved as a body to vote for the election of Mr Fry as a member of the Wanganui Education Board. Tenders are invited by J. and N. Menzies for metalling Valley and Midland roads. Tenders will be received up to the 4th of November next. ; The. attention, of . our Catholic renders is directed to a "notice in our advertising columns,' stating that mass will be celebrated at the usual place on Sunday next, at 11 a.m. In our report of the assault case heard at the R.M. Court on Wednesday, Whiti Pekama -is -made by a typographical error to appear to have charged Arthur Wm. Whedenrith the offence, wherear the names should be transposed, as tlie latter was really the complainant and thc former the defendant. A Home paper recently to hand says Sunday afternoon lawn tennis parties were very popular in the suburbs of London during the past summer. Oldfashioned people were much scandalised at trains leaving London at mid-day on Sunday laden' with parties of young folks in tennis costumes. A well known bonifaceon the Waimnte Plains is said Co have lately dropped in for a good thing in the shape of a LSOOO legacy. The Hawera Star says:— "As the recipient is a fixture in the district, and intends to invest his money in it, it is to be hoped the windfall will prove ot advantage to more than himself." The Deputy Official Assignee, Mr G. J. bcott, notifies in another column that first meetings of creditors in the several estates of David Ehenezer Ames bury and William Campbell, both of Feilding, will be held at the JOovut ftouse, Feilding, on Thursday, the 30ttf instant. D. E. Amesbury's meeting is fixed at 12 o'clock noon, and that of W. Campbell at 2 o'clock Mr Edward Shaw applied on Friday last, at the I'istrict Court, Palraerstt n, for a re-heariug of the ease of J. H. Blackmore v Feilding Borough Council, on the grounds that the Judee had mis directed the jury. The application was granted, and after argument between counsel on both sides the matter dropped. Mr Shaw wishpd to re-open the whole case, but Mr Hankins, counsel for the defence, objected. The case will probably come up again next courtday.

The English Parliament was opened . on Thursday last. ' It is stated that no less than seventyseven ml-ions of pounds are " lying dormant in Chancery," and calmly awaiting claimants. ' t is proposed to raise a loan of L50,""i00 for the Borough of Pain, rston in view of its development by early connection with Wellington by the Manawatu Railway Company Ts line. j A soiree will be held on the 20th November uext to celebrate th* anniversary of tho Loyal Mancjif*ster Lodge oi Odd Fei lows. A large.-, committee has been appointed to carry oul. the arrangements. Mr Macarthur has given notice that lie iu.ends to ask tlie Government if they will, during the recess, bring in a Bill to reform :lie constitution of tlie Legislative Council, limiting the number of its ■ members, Mr J. Carter, recently an assistant to ( Mr J. C. Thompson, of the Cash Exchange, is now busy taking the valuable ! ijrps of our confiding and unoffending • citizens as an agent of the Australian j Mutual Provident Society. | The tenderers for the erection of War- j wick street bridge, ai tlie .Borough Coun- j cil meeting on Thursday, included representatives of the following " professions" — laborers, carpenters, builders, blacksmiths, contractors, engineers and clerks. It was found that the horse power hitherto used at the Makino Dairy Factory would not snffico to do the work satisfactorily. The Company have therefore m-eurcd ft S-horse power steam engine, which is now being fitted up in the factory. .We notice that Mr Carthew has just got in a large new stock of goods, consisting of books, stationery, toys, crioket material, and fancy and useful goods of various descriptions, too numerous to detail. Buyers can have plenty of choice at his establishment just uow. - A trial shipment of hops, grown by Mr J. Saxon, of Motucka, Nelson, realised the top price, beating the English article, in the London market. They fetched 150s per cwt.' A report received by the Brindisi mail speaks highly of the quality and condition, and states that they are admirably suited for thc English market. The installation of "Worshipful Master aad investiture of Officers of United Manawatu Lodge, 1721, E.C, took place at the Hal), Palmerston North, on Thursday evening, at 8 p.m. A number of visiters, inoluding several trom Feilding, were present. The uiu*. banquet followed the installation. •Enquiries are being made as to what has become of the projected Feilding Eire Brigade. One person wonders how'it is* that "Old Grumble" doesn't grtMuble about the slow progress of the movement. Another says that nothing mon. will be done in the matter till a big fire has taken place, and destroyed some valuable property. It is a pity that such an important institution is not taken a greater interest in, and that it has not long ere this been in thorough working order. The caso of Risk r Dove was again called on at the R..M. Court on Wednesday afternoon last. Plaintiff sued defendant for half the cost of repairing and trimming a dividing fence, as the latter had refused to obey a notice to dohis share of the work. The dofence was that tho notice did not specify the nature of the work to be done. Several witnesses were examined, after which His Worship said he did not seo how he could make an order, and the application would be dismissed. A rather awkward accident befel the stage manager of the Girola party before the performance took .dace ou Thursday evening. Whilo engaged in some part of his work in which he was using tin tacks and had some of them in his mouth, he had occasion to laugh rather heartily, when some of the tacks slipped down his throat, causing him great pain and necessitating his return to his hotel and being put to bed. The affair considerably in- J trrfered with the success of the perform- I ance, but we aro glad to hear no serious results followed to the sufforer. Our worthy Mayor, Mr Sherwill, was driving a buggy from the Kiwitea on Thursdty with two other gentlemen aboard. Near the top of the hill above the hotel the horse took fright at tho unloading of some goods from a Feilding tradesman's cart, and bolted off down the hill but was stopped by someone near the hotel. The other two occupants managed to keep their seats, while Mr Sherwill was thrown out on to the road but fortunately, as we are glad to find, without any serious injury. The performance by the Girola Yacht Party in the Town Hall on Thursday evening was fairly patronised. Wo must confess to a feeling of disappointment at the show itself as a whole. The dramatic portion of it was simply dull mediocrity, while the "sword feats " with the carcase of a shrep were scarcely worthy of a butcher's apprentice. The only redeeming feature of the affair was the display jof ventriloquism on the part of Mr Fred. Millis, who, as a rentriloquist, is without his equal in the colonies. In the farce concluding the performance, Mr MiKiß'i} Negro, comicalities were very funny, and saved the piece from becoming ".flat, stale, aud unprofitable. ' . An amusing circumstance^ occurred, ( a . week or two ago in a central town of the I Manawatu, the two leading characters in which are reported to be a member of tho .; long robe, whose regimentals comprise a black gown and flowing wig, and the other a dispenser of ojst.ra and red her. rings. He who lived by the saiu of the " treasures of the deep" found it necessary, as most mortals do vometiu.es, to take legal advice, and employed his "learned friend" in tliat capacity. Being, however, rather, _th»r£ of the ready, the other wil_ingly*con*iented to **takeii out, you know." On balancing accounts, the professional's bill riih tuus. — To advice and conference, 6 dozen of oysters ; to writing a letter, 12 bottles of "ginger ale;" to attendance at court half a guinea, 5s in cash and thc balance in mutton hams and fish. The Borough Council meeting on Thursday evening was an unusually long one, as not only Had some fery important ! items to be discussed, but the debates were more than ordinarily lengthy and ( animated. One Councillor suggested that' they expedite the business, and get home and eb to bed, or they would soon have; it midnight, but was reminded by the! Mayor that they were there to trans&ct public business, and must, do their duly if they had to stay all night. At last one. and another began to drop out: until it; seemed doubtful whethei there would be a quorum left to carry the motion for ad - ; journment. The meetings have now been: arranged to commence a quarter of an ; later than- heretofore, so that punctuality and despatch will now be more. than ever necessary in order to do away -witli the objection soriie ot the Councillors evidently have agaiust late meetings.'

One pound reward ia offered for tlio recovery of a black gelding, belonging to Mr li. FitzHerbert, of Feilding. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day : — Warnings for southerly gales have been s^ni, to all places south of Thames and Manukau. Tlie English wool sales opened in Eondon on Thursday last. The attendance \ was good, and prices active. Greasy Merino, lid, scoured wool ls 3}d. Tiie ni'xt English and European mail per s.s. Doric will close at the Feilding post office on Wednesday evening next at 7 o'clock. Correspondence must be marked " p»r Doric.'" At the District Court at Palmerston on Thursday, the bankruptcy cases were dealt with as follows : — \V. Crawford, James Morris, O. Berkefield, H. J. Lloyd, and C. L. M '-clean, discharged ; Francis Brady and PL J. Jfayns, application for discharge to be mado uext court day; D. E. Am«\sb.iry, and J. P.. Harper, orders for adiurlicntion made, and debtors to be examined at next sitting. A display of the larrikin element was made at, the performance in tho Town Hall on Thursday night, which very much interfered with the comfort of the audience. It is a pity " promising youths" cannot attend an entertainment without spoiling the pleasure of everybody else with their idiotic pranks and noises. Some stringent measures will yet have to be used to put a stop to such an intolerable nuisance, and some of the apostles of the gang ought to be made an example of before the R.M.