Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 64, 8 November 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

The Banks "-ill be closed on Monday next. On Wednesday, the 26th inst., the Mayoral election for- the Borough of ; Feilding wiil take place. We liave to acknowledge receipt from the* Government .^Printer, of a butch of Parliamentary -.Capers. The Marionette Company which will visit feiiding next weed, commence tlieir season in Christchurch in January next. We havo to acknowledge receipt of tho programme of the Martin borough Jockey Club race meeting to be held on Boxing Day. The post and Telegraph offices will be closed on Monday, but the Wellington . mails will be dispatched as usual by the evening train for Foxton. Tho Wellington merchants are talking of bavin*; tho junction of tiie Central ! Trunk Railway made seven or eight miles south of Marton township. The novel, "Jack's Courtship" by W. Clark Russell was published and sold at 20 cents in the United States. It is needless to say this was a pirated edition. A.H. Lockhart who was arrestrd m Wanganm, and remanded to JS'elson, charged with issuing valueless cheques, was sentenced to two meatus irupiiscnment. The minds ef the Legislative Councillors appear to be peculiarly const? Luted. They have displayed quite as much— if not more — interest on the vow uoronous cockfight r.t tho Grey, than thoy did on the District Railway Bill. According to a telegram dated London the 3th inst. Lord Wolseley oilA-i-d to withdraw the English troops from the Soudan on the condition that General Gordon was granted a free and safe passage from Khartoum. Messrs Haicomho aud Sherwill sold today privileges of the Feilding Boxing Day sports. The following arc the amounts and bin crs of the respective lots : Gates, Norman, £43; Booth IS T o 1, Belive, Ll3 ; Booth No 2, Mnyhew, L 8 ; Cards, Hastie, L 3 ; Games, Laing, L 4; Lawn gate aad dancing platform, passed in. Mr Park, stationer, &c , of Palmerston, has published some, exceedingly pretty Christmas and New Year's cards, admirably adapted for sending to friends nt Homo. Tbe cards consist of photos of local and district scenery reduced to cabinet siz?, and wero executed by Mr McElwain, pbvtographc-r, of tho Square. The total receipts and expenditure of the lat. 1 Awahuri Ploughing Match, wore —Receipts £49 9s Gd,— Expenditure £40 3s 6d, — leaving a balanco to carry forward of £9 6s to next year. The balance sheet was audited and found correct by Mr Honry Bennett. OwinE to the wet weather tho number of members who assembled for the parade of the Manchester liiflos on Thursday evening not being sufficient to constitute a regulation parade, the next Government inspection parade will be hold on- Thursday the 27th inst. It may be worth while to remind County ratepayers that whore r.^es were overdue after the 29ih of October, thej ! must produce a receipt for the payment j of such rates ratc3 before they will bo allowed to vote at the forthcoming Coanty election. Mr Wilson of the Collegiate school, lectured in Wanganui on Mark Twain aud his Works on Wednesday evening last. The Wanganni Herald says that during the reading tho audience was fairly convulsed with laughter. _ Tho lecturer is already a favorite in Feilding and we hope ho will be able to pay us a visit in the near future to repeat the lecture here. ' In the Legislative Council, during the debate on the Consolidated Stock Bill, the Hob. Mr Richmond said '• the Bill was a seedy little Bill," and he trusted the Council would not pass it. He considered it was high time that the position of tho colony should bo known at Home, aud the bubble of attempting to borrow on the assortion that the colony ■a as in a good financial position, should be burst. The Bill was passed for all that. Jensen's patent Boiler and Fire Bnrs. have been tried by an experienced person with the most satisfactory results. Economy of spaco is added to by economy in firewood. The peculiar shape of the boiler ennbliug tho water to bo rapidly brought to a boiling point, without any waste of heat. The bars aro so conveniently arranged that cooking utensiles of all kiuds and sizes can be I placed ou them according to the | temperature required for their contents. We Btrongly rocommend the invention to all householders. ( 1 Tlio following grand per centage of j " passes" for tho Petono school, Wei Hug- > ton.should wake up some of the masters of country schools:— At tho U9iial monthly meeting of the Petone School Committee held on Thursday last the result 3of the recent examination was received. Tho following results of examination show v per centage of 97 passes : — Sandard I, presented 14, passed 14; 11, presented 18, passed 18 ; 111, presented 17, passed lfi ; IV, presented 6, passed 6 ; V, presented 11, passed 11 ; VI, presented 1, passed 0. A case of considerable interest came on for trial at the R.M. Court, Palmerston, on Thursday. Mr A. Gram mor, represented by .Messrs Staite and Warburton, suing Messrs Halcombe and Shorwill for £40 damages for soiling by auction a buggy placed in their hands for site hy a person whom the? R.M. had decided was not tho legal owner. Mr Hankins appeared for tho defendants, and churned a nonsuit ou the grounds that the plaintiffs purchaser was aware of tho principal by whom the defendants wore instructed to sell. Numerous authorities wero quoted on each side, and ultimately the Magistrate, in view of the importance of the question, and in tlio absence of tho defcDdantf, reserved his decision, ordering tho defendant to pay £5 4s, the costs of the day. At a pablic mooting held in Palmerston o» Thursday evening lust tor the purpose of taking further action with regard to tho junction of the Gorge Railway at Palmerston, the Mayor, in tho chair, J read a telogram from Mr Macarthur, ' which as it stated the matter, made ! further discussion unnecessary. Mr J Linton proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr Maearihur. He thought tlio action of the Feilding people was discreditable, and was likely to place Mr Macarthur in a awkward position, knowing as they did the promise that, gentleman had made wilh regard to the'] ii notion quos- j tion. Mr 'Macarthur had exhibited j downright sterling quulities in the matter! and proved himself fully entitled to their ; confidence Tt was decided to give a ' public dinner to Mr Macarthur on his retura. — Standard.

S:iys the WoodviUe paper: — Messrs ! Stevens raid Gorton's yards now lying . erected on the Masterton-road will contain eleven pens to hold 200 head of cattle, and seven sheep pens to hold 1,000 sheep. The New Zealand Time* sarcastically nr^es that W. Waring Taylor should be given an opportunity of showing the ! falseness of the charges which have been ' mado against him. Not only ho, but the oonxumru Ly at large demands that there i shall bs a trial. The following important bills, which have passed the House of Representatives, bave also passed by the Legislative Council. — Consolidated Stock Bill (abolishing the Sinking Fund J, Beetroot Sugar Bill, New Zealand Loan Bill, and Property Tax Bill. The picnic in connection with tho anniversary of the Wesleyan body, which will be held in Mr Hen sen's paddocks on Monday next, promises to be as successful as on previous occasions. It is notified that Mr Daw's brake will leave the Square at 12 o'clock iv tho afternoon, conveying passengers and pleasure sc-okers. From the report of the Post and Telegraph Deparim'-nt we glean the following : — Feilding, number of money orders issued, 1080; paid. 644; Saving Bank deposits, £8,339 ; withdrawals, £3117. The only other sub-oiSocs in the districts nf Wanganui and Wellington reaching these total* are Hawera, Palmerston, and Masterton. The heavy rains of tho last few days have had the effect of considerably raising the streams all along the coast, and doing a certain amount of damage both to private and public property. Railway traffic was intern r>tou yesterday and today, the consequence being that there lias been no noon train from Wanganui. The trains from South have only been able to run as far as Turakina. The trains from North do not appear to have been able to communicate with those from tho South, as neither mails nor papers have arrived. This appears somewhat singular as ii would havo been very easy for the postal authorities to put on a coach ns far as Turakina to convey tho mails to the train for the South. Tbo Wellington Post in au articlo dealing with the case of Mr Stanford, an ox-clergyman, of Dunedin, makes the following pertinent remarks : Our opinion is very strong that much of tho'lukowaimnoss aud carelessness about church matters so prevalent in Christian communities is accounted for by the unfitness of many of tho spiritual guides to incuirate any better feeling. If more clergy - raea voluntarily doffed their cloth, or if bishops rxereised their authority of ceremonial degradation iv cas°s which call for it infinitely more pressmgly than that of Mr Stanford, wo are inclined to think our churches would attract larger and more earnest congregations.