Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 62, 4 November 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

4» The siekn >ss at Parihaka has now completely abated. A concert in connection the ( 'hurch of England Sunday School is on the tapii. There is some likelihood of the Colonial Bank opening a brauch in New Pijni'juth. Mr W. S. Staite, solicitor, has taken one of the offices attached to the Public Hall. There is an Apple Farm| established in Auckland, which plamed 47,000 trees last year. Lady Jervis and family left Wellington for Christchurch on Saturday last. They will reside in that city for a few weeks. On the recent excursion trip of the Triumph in Auckland grog to the valu* ot £1(50 was consumed, and only one woman was killed. Certain changes have again been made in the nomenclature of the schools in this district. Tha school on the FeildingAshurst road is to be called the Man gaone, and that at Bunnythorpe is to bo so called. The following gentlemen have been appointed Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also Vaccination Inspectors. Jarnos Purkiss for Halcombe, and James Beattie for Feilding. The Victorian Crown Solicitor has docided that chui'ches can legally charge for admission to Sunday services, and the Attorney-General that concerts and lectures can be legally given in licensed theatres on Sundays. Mr Carthew has now received his assortment of Christmas cards f»-r persons wishing to send Home by this 'Frisco mail. Tho cards will reach England on Dec. 20th and will be distributed all over the United Kingdom by the following day. A young man asked the lady of his affections recently how she liked the look of his new style standing collar. After critically surveying him and the collar, she replied, " Very nice indeed. It looks like a white- washed fence around a lunatic asylum." In answer to Mr Ormond on Friday, tho Hon. E. Richardson said that their seemed good reason for altering the direction of the railway route via the Gorge so as to provide for the railway running between Woodville and Palmerston. The matter would be considered. It is a very singular that a package containing a bottle of whiskey, which was lost on Saturday last, should be found and returned to the owner in a few hours after the loss was discovered. Yet a purse belonging to a poor servant girl lost about the same time has not yet been handed in. Replying to a question in the House on Friday the Minister for Public Work.* • tated " That the alteration of the railway lino from Napier to Palmerston via the Gorg«* instead of from Woodville to Bunuythor, c, was under the consideration of the Government, and the concession would probably be grauted. Tbe flooding of the properties of Mr Beattie and others after heavy rains, so much complained of hitherto, will now, to a great extent be obviated. A culvert has been put in across Grey street, which will now convey the surplus water under the road instead ot running over it and washing away the metal, and doing other damage as before. Sergeants Shepherd and Myles, with ten men of the Armed Constabulary, arrived from Taupo on Thursday night (says the Napier Telegraph.) Their destination is Wellington, leaving by the steamer Rotomahana. They will be drafted into the Colonial Artillery Force now being formed for the purpose of colonial defence as suggested by Sir W. Jervois and Colonel Scratchely. Those who are really disirous of having a first class article In the shapp of *' good ale" will have their wishes gra ised by an early application to Messrs Strachan and Chaldicott who have now takgn a lease of the Bell Brewery, Wanganui. Mr Chaldicott is well known on this const as a good business man, and one who will not risk his rpputation by sending out any other than the best quality of goods. The following are the names of the team inelected to play Halcombe on Monday tho 10th of November, at Halcombe. I'lay to commence nt 10 o'clock sharp. Messrs Nix. Fulton, Fowles, Staite, "R. c. Rowley, Bartholomew, Gilmer, Thompson. Hudson, Sherwill. Etnerg.neies — 11. Halcombe, Eade, A. Parr, H. Fowles, C. Halcombe. This team, as selected, will play all comers at Feilding on Saturday n^xt. During a debate in the Upper House on Thursday last' on the loliee Offences Bill, the Hon. Mr Waterhouse said that he thought '* bnrning in eflljy" should be mad.c an indictable offence. The hon. genihnnan mus- have got a hint of the intentions of *the Westport people to incinerate an effigy of himself, for his opposition to the Westport Harb r Bill. He should get it made an " off en w" to execute in effigy members of the Upper House only. Doctors' dinners are generally very s od, but not one whit more wholesome than other people's. Doctors have the gout and dyspepsia, and even die, like i heir patients, of that fashionable finisher of existence called embolism. Doctors* children are as often ill as the offspring of lawyers and parsons ; and it is on record that one of the most unsanitary houses in all London was owned by a celebrated sanitarian, and tenanted by a surgeon who never tired of talking sewer a?, pai hie germs. Listerism, health .■xlii; uiiun-;, .->nd the turpitude of made dishes — World.

M»ssrs H.'iieoaibe and Sherwill will sel! rhe privileges of the Feilding Sporta on Saturday next. The petition forwarded last night to Mr Wilson, M.H.R, forFoAton. con-t-imed 205 signatures and was eight feet in length. The Melbourne Cup will be run for to-day on the Flcinin^ton i?aee Course. Tm'nfdijtfely o:x receipt of telegrams an extra will be issued from this office. The entries for Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's stock salo on Thursday nest, are very numerous and the attendance of buyers may therefore be expected to be largo. Tho formation and culverting of Beattie street, from Grey street to Camden street ! was completed to-day. Tho work has beon well done by the contractor, Mr John Smith. In another column Mr Peter Stewart publisher his address to the electors of tlie Oroua Riding of the Manawatu County, in which he announces that he is a candidate for their suffrages at the eujiuin.-. election. Wo have been favored with a riew of two photographic groups of Feilding residents, taken at the studio of Mr Martin, photographer, Wanganui. The style and Guisli are excellent an.l indicate the high • state of perfection to which Mr Martin has brought his art. To-day Mr Becthnm is to ask tbe Minister of Lauds if the Gorernment will, during the present session, take any action to carry out the recommendations of the Waste Lands Board of the Wellington : 'ist rict, relating to the advisableness of falling timber on road-lines previously to tho blocks being thrown open for sale. In the House on Friday morning, Sir J. Yogel said that the action of the Legislative Council when throwing out the District Railways Purchasing and Tjeasmg Bill had been quite unconstitutional, as the Bill was a money Bill, which the highest Parliamentary authorities had long ago ruled could not be thus treated by the Upper Chamber. The following gontleman who are members of the Welliugton Diocesan Synod will attend the next sittings which will be held on Tuesday the 18th inst. — For Marton and Turakina, F. Arkwright. Bulls and Sandon, Levitt and Harper, flawora, Mr McKsllar. Wanganui, Captain Medley. Patea, Mr Marchant. Foilding and Halcombe, Zohrab and Clere.