Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 69, 20 November 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

« The Borough. Council meet to-night at a quarter past 8 o'clock. The increased postage rates for outward correspondence via Brindiii are now in force. The Jews on the Sea of Galilee are to be the objects of a mission of the Jewish Committee of the Free Church of Scotlnnd. Woodyear's circus will soon be in Foxton from whence it will work overland to New Plymouth so as to re.ich Auckland in Christmas. The great question agitating the public mind in England just now is the condition of the British Navy as regards its weakness when compared with other maritrine powers. Archbishop Moran cautions Good Templars against being made the tools or intriguing politicans. Sunday closing of public houses has not deminished drunkenness in New South Wales. A Sydney paper states that there is such a demand for bricks in Melbourne that they are taken away from the yards while hot, and water has to be thrown on them to admit of their speedy handling. Mr George Fisher is opposed for the Mayoralty of Wellington by Mr George Allen and Mr Petherick. The hitter has protested against the nomination of the two other candidates, on the ground that their nomination papers contained too many signatures. The following tenders for the supply of coal on the New Zealand railways during 1885 have been accepted ' — W. B. Williams, for Wanganui, Foxton, and Oatnaru railways ; Kennedy Brothers, for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Timaru railways ; and the Westport Company, tor the Bluff and Napier railways. Some individuals not many miles from the Makino Bond have been amusing themselves lately by hunting hares. Now as these are out of season, and huuting game of any kind is punishable by law, we do hope that this hint will be takes, and the unsportsmanlike practice discontinued, otherwise unpleasantconsequences will follow without fail. A Nelson paper the other day announced the birth of triplets in a happy family when there were enly twins. In apologising next day for its error our contemporary expressed its desire to " rectify the mistake." We do not quite see how this is to be done under the circumstances and the happy parents would, we imagine, prefer things left as they are. Mr Thomas Bracken gave his popular lecture on the Irish humourists in the Public Hall on Tuesday last. The attendance was not so good as the occasion deserved. Notwithstanding this Mr Bracken went through the programme, and delighted his hearers with his brilliant elocutionary powers and humourous rendering of selections from Lover, Banim, and Whittier. A writer says:— T discovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the process was so simple that it was not well to make a stir about it. This is the receipt: Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverised coal to the consistency of paint ; put a coat of this over the timber, and there is not a man that will live to see it rot. The employe's engaged in the shops in Wansanui are endeavoring to get their employers to concede them a half holiday each week. These men are able to show that under the present system they do 52 hours work during the week, instead of the legal 48 hours, done by other trade laborers. If the concession be made in Wanganui, wo understand that a similar movement will be started in Feilding fur the same end. B amours of gold finds still continue to come from the Wairar.-ipa. The last locality discovered is at the head <-f the Waipawa. A singular thing in connection witb a good many in the Wellington district has been noted by vs — which is always " a gentleman has seen the specimens, which are very rich and so on." No one else ever sees the gold bearing stone but this fellow ! Who is beP A Care for Toothache. — A correspondent of the London Electrician gives the following as as instant remedy for toothache : — " With a small piece of zinc and a bit of Rilver (any silver coin will do), the zinc placed on one side of the afflicted gum and the silver on the. other, by bringing the edges together, the small current of electricity generated immediately and painlessly stops the tooth* ache." There is at last a probability of two of the most important works m the district being carried out, viz., a bridge over ' the Oroua at-Aorangi, and also over the Manawatu at the Lower Gorge, as the Chairman intimated at the meeting of the Mancheiter Boad Board on Monday that the grant of £5,000 under the Eoads 1 and Bridges Construction Act for these works, would be granted on the vote of tlie ratepayers being obtained.

We learn from the Hawera Star, that Mr Norman of the Bank of Australasin, Putea, has been appointed to Dunedin. Mr Norman was for a short time in charge of the Feilding Branch of the Bank, and made many friends during his stay. We understand that concerted action is being taken by a number of members of Parliament to get those boroughs and town districts that hare no endowments, placed on an equal footing with the municipalities that were fortunate enough to obtain grants during the short period that the endowment clauses of the Municipal Corporations Act of 1876 were in operation. Over leader appears the business announcment of Messrs Fraser Bros., of Awahuri and Campbeltown. This firm has made special arrangements for a direct supply from Scotland, of all the best brands ot Scotch whisky, guaranteed to be sound and free from adulteration of any kind whaterer, and selected and bought by the best judges. All other liquors, whether wines or spirits will be found equally good and purchased with the same care. An information for misdemeanour has been laid against W. Waring Taylor by Mr Jellieol, an English solicitor, at the instance of Jonas Arundel, residuary legatee, for embezzlement and misappropriation of monies received for sales of Bank of New Zealand shares left to Ernest Arundel, brother of the legatee. Taylor is now at Bulls. It is understood that a firm of solicitors in Wellington have also been instructed to proceed against him by the legatees under a will, of which the bankrupt was trustee. The Post's London correspondent, writing on September 26th, says: — The Hon. Cecilia Clifford, niece of Sir Charles Clifford (who is so well known in New Zealand), was married on Wednesday to Viscount Feilding, eldest son of the Eail of Denbigh. The wedding was cplebrated by Bishop Clifford and the Bey. Walter Clifford, 5..1. Miss Emily Clifford, Sir Charles Clifford's daughter, was one of the six bridesmaids, and looked charming in pink silk, veiled with ecru muslin and lace, with a lace bonnet to match. Amongst the guests were several Anglocoloms>ts, notably Mr Charles Clifford. Mr George Lane Fox, Mr G. Pulford, and Mr Marcus Hare. A horrible occurrence is reported from Dunedin as haying happened at Curries farm, Swinburn, three miles from Lower Tyebura, in Maniototo County, on Tues day last. William Renie and his tather, who were working about a mile from Neil Curries house, saw smoke rising, and at once rushed to the house. • They found it enveloped in flames, and the two daughters of Neil Currie, aged seven and two. were missing, and their remains were found in the ashes. Previous to the fire only the two children had been in the house, the father and mother being 1 absent in another district. The EJwitea people have given up for the time being their intention of forming a Public Library, and will devote the funds they were arising for that purpose, to the support of the Kiwi tea School. To meet the requirements of those in need of books, for amusement or instruction, we would suggest that a few of the families join together, and make an arrangement with the Feilding Public Library, under which a box of books could be sent up periodically, and the volumes distributed to be read, after which they could be collected, returned, and their places supplied by others. This system has been found to work admirably in other places. TheEevJ. Clover writes :—' Sir— By some means an error crept into your report of Stanway soiree, occuiring in your issue of the 15th inst. In its closing sentences it is made to appear that the members of the School Committee were very fastidious and exacting in their demands upon the promoters of the soiree, whereas the reverse is the truth. The larger part of the committee were among the chief donora and workers, and the whole committee obliged us in very way. Absence from home has prevented me making this correction bofore. 1