Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 63, 6 November 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

Potatoes are selling in Feilding at the rate of ten pound per ton. Tho Borough Council will meet this evening at a quarter past eight. The next English and European mail ' will close at the Feildiug post office tomorrow at 7 p.m. A gentleman (?) at Itunjjiora, Canterbury, is suing a lady tor breach of proiniso of marriage. Monday next will bo a Government holiday, to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales. Major Noake, who has been ill for many months, is now convalescent. Wo hope he will soon recover his wanted health and vigor. The three mile wnlking match, in Melbourne, between Lewis and O'Connor, of New Zealand, was vron by three yards by the latter in 23min. 22soc. ' The Goelong waterworks, on which £350.000 was spent, have proved a complete failure owing to incapable engineering. An information bns been laid against the propriofoi 1 of tho Endyrnion Hotel for encouraging a man named Ewing to remain drinking on his premises. Webbs' Royal Marionettes will appear in the Town Hall on Thursday and Friday nights, the 13th and 14th insts. Advertisement will appear m our next issue. D'Arcy Hyland did very wcfl in Gisbnrne. Ho tonTc a filly, which had never boon handled, and in 20 minutes laid full length, knelt, and stood upon its back. Tho next sittings of thoB.M. Court on Wednesday the 12th inst. l .w ill be a more than usually interesting one. An affiliation case, several criminal, and civil eases are to be heard, all being of greater or less interest. On and after the 15th inst. the rate of postage from New Zealand to any plnco in Great Britain or Ireland, via Brindisi, will be, on all letters one shilling per ounce, on all book pnekets and parcels threepence for every two ounces, and ou newspapers twopence each. Our local perruquier will again figure at tlio next sittings of the R.M. Court as defendant in a case of drunkenness. On Tuesday last tho powerful medicine he finds it nocessary to absorb for hyjjionic purposes so overcame him that it required the assistance of two J.P.s und the postmaster to calm him down. The land sale advertised by Messrs Haleombe and Shenrill tor Thursday the 13th inst. presents features of uncommon interest to the settlers of the Manchester Block. Tho whole of the properties are well-known and their value properly appreciated. We therefore expect to see considerable competition for the lots and good prices realised. The Auckland Herald says : — A gentle* man who has just returned from Wei lington, and who has considerable experi ence of new Zealand Parliaments, says that tho present House is the worst he has seen. In mere thirst after money, in disposition to perpetrate jobs, in contempt for all sound principles of legislation, the present House is worse than those of 1870 and 1871. On Sunday evening, at the conclusion of the parade of the Salvation Army, a considerable crowd, consisting of both sexes, was assembled opposite the barracks. As they interrupted the passage of other worshippers, who were returning to their homes, it would be well for the officers to give a hint to their followers to march off home at the conclusion of drill. Mr McElwain has just completed a comprehensive bird's eye photo of Palmerston and Gorge views, containing seven in all, and well executed. The picture is illuminated by Mr Hawkins very tastefully indeed, and should be a capital Christmas card to send to friends in tho Old Country and Australia. The following are tho scenes of the different pictures: — Gorgo bridge, Paltner.iton railway works, Lake Awapuni, Pastoral Nook, Entrance to Gorge, portion of Palmerston Square, Rapids of the Gorge. , Kill a snake in Egypt, a mere ten-inch baby of a snake, and leave it in the open desert, with a lifeless horizon of sand all round, and the spotless bowl of blue overhead ; within half an hour far up in the sky, a tiny speck grows gradually visible. Larger and largor it looms upon the eye, and at latt swoops to the base earth with a masficent expanse of twelve-foot wing power, closes his opinions, and lo ! a bird no bigger than a goose, with cruel, restless eyes, crooked beak, and loathsome, naked face and wrinkled neck, advances with ungainly hops towards the small but dainty meal, a decomposing reptile. — Globe. England is a free country, and old fools have aright to be as foolish as they choose ; but from the point of view of enjoyment, their folly is as grievous a mistake as the habit of drinking to excess. Does it never occur to them to argue that intoxication is a blunder because it minimises the opportunities of enjoyment, so the unnatural prolongation of vicious habits is a blunder, | because it disqualifies those who perpo- ( trate it from deriving from a period of life, that has in its way as much to commend it as youth, its idiosyncratic enjoyment P -eWorld. It is really wonderful how unpopular Mr Rolleston i» in Chris t church at pr--sent. Wherever half a dozen people are congregated, the mention, of hi» name exfiteu a burst of execration, and this in all ranks of society, from a gathering in a clnb room to a knot of navvies in a public house. The report of the " dress-ing-down " given to the member for Geraldine by Sir Julius Yogel on Friday, excited the heartiest expressions of satisfaction on all sides, and he will in future be more generally >poken of in Canterbury as MrTite Barnnrle than by his baptismal or paternal npi>ellations. Mr Wakefield \h aho intensely unpopular in Christchurch, and would, it is snid, have no chance of a Canterbury seat, should a disso ution occur. It is astonishing how large a proportion of modern unbelief is the echo of objection* made by thinkers, but tiukl-ng into the unintelligent ears of shallow fools who regard a doubt as a patent to intellectual nobility. With sincere, earnest unbelief it is impossible for any honest man not to feel profound sympathy ; for the unmeaning affectation of doubt equally it is impossible not to feel the most utter contempt. Sincerity commands admiration, but doubt from imitation, scepticism from fashion, receives and deserves only scorn. It in a disease of the present age, and one that attacks especially callow youth who have road a little, thought less, and talked— 1 stening seldom — a great deal. — Ex- ' change.

The Manchester Rifles will parade this evening at the Public Hall at 6.30 for Government inspection. The regular monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held to-morrow evening. There will be a meeting of the Benevolent Society this ovening at eight o'clock at Mr Bray's office It is expected that the Wanganui Heads Knilway will bo open before Christmas. The omprovoment9 to the Foilding Hotel, of which Mr Jamos Hastie is the proprietor, arc steadily progressing. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day: — Warnings for southerly gales and rain and very cold weather have been sent to all stations. Mr E. Young's new advertisement will appear in our next issue. "We observe that Mr Young has aomo splendid new potatoes on hand. Hani an, Laycock, E. Edwards, 8. Edwards and Matherson have entered for the professional sculling race at the Albert Park Aquatic Carnival. We are glad to notico that the whole of the stores and places of business will be closed in Feilding on Monday next to commemorate the Prince of Wales' birthday. Some of the sheep brought in to-day to Haleombo and Sherwiil's stock sale presented a fino appearance. Not only were they in splendid condition but their fleeces wero as white as snow. Messrs Haleombe and Sherwill's stock sale today was well attended. The number of lots offered was extensive. The bidding was brisk, and the prices obtained boing good and up to last quotations. A full report will be given in our next issue. If Tc Kooti visits the Mohaka on the Ea3t Coast, attempts will be made to kill him. As he h:is hitherto managed to keep a whole skin, even when surrounded by ho»ts of enemies, we do not expect to hear of him suffering much injury. Very little interest was taken in the anniversary of the great gunpowdor plot yesterday. A quantity of rockets were sent up and blue lights and roman candles burnt in the evemng.There wore no effijjies of (ivy Faux, the fashion of incremating those ot members of Parliament having vulgarised the custom. Tho marriage of Mr Summers of the firm of Summers and May hew, of Feilding, with Miss Sarah Jane Dowden. of Halcombe, was celebrated in the Anglican Church to-day by the Rev. Joshua Jonvs. After the ceremony tho happy couple departed by the noon train to Foxton en route for Wellington, where they will spend the honeymoom. Mr Mathers has opened his large and varied atock of religious works from the New Zealand Bible, Book and Tract Society, in the building nest to the Stab office. As Mr Mathers does not propose to make a lengthy stay in Feilding he invit'S clergymen of all denominations, schoolmasters, and heads of families to make an early call to examine the works; One man alone refused to sign the petition (sinco forwarded to J. G. Wilson, the member for Foxton) against the diversion of the Ashurst-Bunnythorpe line of railway to Terrace End. He did so on the ground that the engines running on the existing Wanganui- Manawatu railway had already killed more cattle than he could afford to lose, and a second line running near his unfenced land would utterly ruin him bj extirpating the whole of his stock. We regret to learn from the Wanjanui Herald that Miss Harding, daughter of W. J. Harding, died yesterday morning. The deceased lady was at one time a teacher in the Infant School, but the strain on her mental powers was too great, and she had to leave the position. For some time past she has been gradually sinking, and her death has not been altogether unexpected. This young lady was well-known in Feilding, where she leaves a number of friends and connections to mourn her untimely end.