Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 87, 6 January 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

An Adelaide solicitor has been arrested for personating a policeman. The Waipa-wa Mail will now be published three times a week.

Tenders for the extension of Awahuri ' Bridge will bo invited in a few days. ; There is no established religion in Japan, and missionaries are regarded as I harmless curiosities. ' Ada Mantua lias got into tho hands of the pawnbrokers in Dunediu. This will be a death blow to her popularity. I The quantity of sawn timber exported from New Zealand has risen from 6,655,558 ft. in 1874 to 23,783,621 ft. in 1883. A largo number of men left Feilding yesterday to pursue grass seed harvesting operations in the Wanganui Harbor Board Block. I "Fancy" bread is quito a trouble with Sydney bakers. Tho Bench have decided that a tin loaf is not " fancy broad." It is the weight which is " fancy." Mr J. C. Thompson calls attention by a ! paragraph advertisement to tho stocktaking sale now taking (place at the Cash. Exchange. Tenders for the New Zealand loan of one million will be opened in London on Friday next, the 9th inst. The minimum has been fixed at 975. The attention of local contractors is directed to a notice from the Town Clerk cailing for tenders, to close at 4 p.m. on Thursday next, for formation, metalling, &c. Mr Edward Hardcastle, tho Kesident Magistrate of ' Wellington, is seriously ill at Nelson. It is expected he will resign his appointment, in accordance with the desire of his medical attendant. A prospector named Collins is reported to have discovered a gold-bearing quartz reef in Hawke's Bay. He is now in communication the Minister of Mines, and if a leaso is granted he will float a company to work the reef. In another column appears a preliminary advertisement of the celebration of the Feilding Anniversary, which is to take place on the 22nd instant. The full programme, which, we understand, will be a particularly attractive one, will be published in Thursday's issue. There is a good demand just now for decent dwelling houses in Feilding. We know of at least two respectable families who are waiting to take up their abode here, but they cannot do so at present for want of accommodation. The erection of a few desirable residences in town would be a good speculation. Last night's Herald says: — We were glad 'o see Mr John Lees, an old and respecte I settler, back again in Wanganui to-day, after a six years' absence (during which he has been travelling all over the other sido of the globe), and to note that his absence has evidently been a pleasant holiday trip. A gang of Italian laborers were recently cut down 6d a day. Instead of striking, they cut an inch off their shovel blades at night. They were asked what it meant. One of the men replied, " Not so much pay, not so much dirt lift. All right, job last tho more long. Italian no fool, he no strike !" The latest device of a Paris paper for attracting readers is the engagement of two eminent physicians to attend gratuitously upon its yearly subscribers. Recently the manager of the paper notified one of the physicians " not to prescribe for X any more, his subscription has expired." The doctor replied, ' 'So has X. " It is once more stated that Miss Fortescue, now that she has secured her £10,000 compensation for breach of promise, will bestow that snug little sum, together with her hand, upon her early admirer, Mr Harry Quilter, a well-known art critic. The gentleman has remained constant throughout the Garmoyle episode. Colour is lent the rumour by the lady's retirement from the stage. Here is something curious about the hop market — when Nelson hops have been sold in England they have fetched as m\uch as the Home grown, but when English hops come to the colonies they realise half as much again as ours. In the face of this Nelson hops took farst and second prizes against the world at the Sydney Exhibition, and yet the Australian papers quote our hops one penny less than Tasmanian. — Telegraph. Several milk cans which the Makino Cheese and Butter Factory Company had imported from Wellington were found to be defective, and had to be sent to Mr Peter Thomson, tinsmith, of Feilding, to be put to rights. The company have very wisely and properly given Mr Thomson the order for the cans that are further required for the factory. Some dozen or so have already been turned ont, and these are in every way better than the imported article, and are giving every satisfaction. The material and workmanship are first-class, and the articles themselves could not be beaten. Two local "leaders of society," who are well-known for their bibulous proclivities, met the other evening near Manchester Square. Both were considerably under the influence of the cup that is capable of doing something more than merely cheer. One inquired the way home, and the other considerately offered to conduct him thither, and taking his arm, the twain had proceeded only a few yards when they found themselves at the bottom of the ditch in Kimbolton road. They at last managed to scramble out, and beyond the fact of their clothes being soaked with water and covered with mud, they were none the worse for their involuntary baptism. The rewards for discovery of new goldfields are gazetted. No reward is to exceed £500. If an alluvial field is discovered it must be 15 miles, and if a quartz reef it must be 10 miles, from the nearest workings. To entitle to the reward, 20,000 ounces of gold must be extracted from the field within two years if the workings are alluvial, and within three years if they are in quartz. No prospecting is allowed upon native land without the approval, in writing, of the Native Minister, or of some one appointed by him in that behalf. Prospectors going upon native land without the consent of the owners are liable to the penalties imposed by the Acts relating to goldfields, and will forfeit all claim to reward. Applications for reward must be sent in through the Warden or Eesident Magistrate of the district. The following advertisement appears in a Southern paper : — ' 'Wanted, by a young lady, aged nineteen, of pleasing countenance, good figure, agrreable manners, general information, and various accomplishments, has studied everything from the creation to the crochet, a situation in the family of a gentleman. - She will take the head of his table, manage his household, scold his servants (if he has got any), nurse his babies (when any arrive), check his tradesmen's bills, accompany him to the opera or in walking or riding, cut tl c leaves of his new books, sew on buttons, warm his slippers, and generally make his miserable life happy. Apply in the first place to Sarah Jones, Taranaki, and afterwards to her papa, upon the -premises. 1 N.B.4— The wedding finger is size No. .4 (small).. No Irish need apply;"

' The Borough Council invites tenders I for supplying and painting a notice board ' for the Borough Pound. ! All efforts to make hay by gaslight have failed ; but it is discovered that wild oats can be sown under its benign and cheerful rays. I "Jacob Terry" (MrR. J. Creighton) writing to the < >tago Daily Times, says that the cultivation of beetroot for sugar manufacturing purposes has proved a complete failure in California. It was found that making the sugar did not pay. The White Island sulphur industry seems to be going ahead. The Bay of ! Plenty Times, of the 23rd, states that the working party have got 130 tons . during the last three weeks. The sulphur is shipped to Auckland. A horse hitched up in Fergusson street to-day took alarm at a dust cloud and bolted. The broken bridle, wliich acted as a lash, flogged the animal into a state of blind terror. Ultimately it trod on the bridle and detached it, so that the cause of alarm being remoted it allowed itself to be caught. On their way to Wairoa, the Uriweras were stopped at the Mohaka river by the natives of that pah who lined the opposite bank armed with rifiVs. The Mohaka men demanded whether TeKooti was with the Uriweras, and on being told that he was not, they said. " then you may cross the river ; but you must not stop here; go straight on. " The visitors then went on to Wairoa where they were hospitably received. — Napier Telegraph. An audacious thief whilst on his knees in the confessional, filched the watch ot the priest to whom he was confessing. 'Father,' said he, 'I steal.' 'What! my son,' * Father, I hare stolen, (the watch was now in his poi-ket) but I would restore. To you, father, would I give back what I have stolen.' 'It isn't to me that you should but to him from whom you stole.' ' But, father he from whom I stole won't have it. 1 • Ah, well, you may keep it yourself.' The N.Z.L. & M.A. Company report, under date January 1 : — Nelson hops — Late news from England has caused .prices to recede somewhat, and large quantities have now changed hands. Heavy shipments have been effected during the past ten days, but at rates more nearly agreeing with the opening rates of the season. Stocks are rapidly diminishing. New crops are looking well, but it is much too early to foretell the probable out-turn.