Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 91, 15 January 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

« «. The Jane Douglas is announced to leave Foxton to-day at 7 p.m., and oil Saturday at 10 p.m. Messrs Barton and Robinson of the Auckland team of crickotors were passengers by the north train on Tuesday evening last on their way homo. In the Finnery-Garmoyle breach of promise case, some of the lovclotfers read were sp carefully worded that they appeared to have been composed ' ' with, a view to publication." If your friend meets with adversity do not oifend him by asking into the particulars. His neighbors will bo glad to tell you all. Thus you not only avoid offending your friend, but you give pleasure to hie neighbor. Plans and specifications for the first section from each end of the North Island Main Trunk railway are now in sucb a forward state that it is expected the Public Works department will be in a position to invite tenders for their construction early in Februaiy. We direct the attention of our roalors to an advertisement which announces au alteration in the train service from Foxton by which it will be seen that on and after Monday next the train from Foxton which will leavb at 8.30 p.m. will run only as far as Palmerstpn, Saturdays excoptod, when it will come through to Feilding., . As contrasted with Cincinnati they aro probably, a little too radical in tho punish-' moiit of murder in Japan. Mure lor in th<j first degroo — at loast of a certain class that can hardly be lower than first degroo with vs — is punishable in that country witli tho doath of tho murdoror, all his family and his school master, llunian nature is prono to oxtromos. Fruit is -said to bo very plentiful on the banks of tho Thainos River thissnason,. sayH tho Aucklautl Star, and it. in ' tho custom' for tho Kteami'rs bmiml up ami down the rivor to ■ call in at f.lio clinfry 1 groves and allow (bo pas'songi-i's to gratify tlioir lasto for tootlinonio cliom'i'M. Tho jKiaohoH and upplu.S Hi'o ju-st ripening, so that, tho fun of travclloni ih not likely to CosiHO for Homo time yyt. Thci I)i itch havo a singular oonfrivamio to euro lii/.inosH. If ii pauper, who is abkt, rofuHos to. work, Uioy put him into a cistern and lot in a hluu-o of watosr. It eomns in just so fast that, by briskly plying a pump with which tho cistern is furnished, ho koops himself from being drowned. In Berwick -on -Tweod a similar affair was in existence thirty y.-arfi ago. It was railed " pump or die." and i Vms usocl ; for punishing vngrmits and ; common rogues. It was considered very mild torture. i

At :i mooting of the Borough Coancii will bo hold to-morrow evening. A new advertisement from Mr Taylor, blacksmith, who seems determined to keep pace with the times, appears elsewhere. We have to acknowledge receipt of a circular from Mr Charles St. Barbi, sec- ; retary of the Wellington Woollen Manufactury Conrpany. A diptheretic child in Baltimore recently coughed in the face of L>r Melville Taylor, and he died from diptheria himself a few days later. A considerable addition is beim* made to the convent of the Sacral Heart at Wangnuui. Messrs Atkins and Clere are the architects of the eular»emdnt. Bishop Hurifield was a visitor to Palnicrston yesterday, whence he proceeded to Martom in order to consecrate i St Stephen's and other churches in Kan^ilikei. John James, secretary to the Auckland Grammar .School Trust, was recently I found dead in Mason's batli, where* ho had taken an air bath, and it is supposed had a fit. Julius Dennier, a French-Canadian sailor, who was found ill at his lodgings, at Auckland, died shortly afterwards. A tumbler with sediment of arsenic in it was found in the room. A number of members of - tho Masonic body from Palmerston by train, and from FeildiHg. by Daw and • Worsfold's brake proceeded to Marton this morning to tako part in tho consecration and opening of the liuapehu jfrodge. The Hangitikoi Advocate of last-night pays : — An alleged indecent assault case, which, if common -rumour speaks true, would brand tho perpetrator as the greatest scoundrel unhung, is ' being investigated by the police at Bulls. As will bo seen by advertisement in another column the Anglo - Japanese Troupe will give a performance in tho Public Hall on Saturday evening next. This very clover troupe has gained good opinions wherever it has performed, and we expect do see its appearance in Feilding well patronised. Mrs J. Lightbourno, of Makino, was a day or two ago in a very critical state as tho result of a riding accident, she met with recently. Hor father-in-law, Dr Lightboumo, of Ilawora, was telegraphed for, who found it necessary to consult with Dr Bichards, of Feilding, and wo are glad to learn the patient's health is now improving. Kissing, in England, was certainly known and practised in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and practised with an easy familiarity which shows the custom was general. Indeed, so general was the use of the kiss that it was as usual as the bow. A gentleman taking n lady -to her seat from the dunce invariably kissed her, and if ho had not, would have been roted a very badly bred fellow. Some half dozen strange men being seen about town on Tuesday last elicited considerably enquiry as who they wore. Wo since learn that the fame of the Manchester Block and tho Manawatu District generally which had reached them in Now South. Wales had brought them hither. Yesterday they made tracks for tho Harbor Board Block, where wo understand they are engaged at .some of tho works now going on in that neighborhood. The water was so clear and bright that quite far out one could see the bottom. Shells there were none to speak of, but frageinents of rock lay about, jasper, agate, and cornelian. As usual, wo gathered a pocketful of mementoes, to be — again as usual — discarded when the collection had assumed gigantic proportions, and consigned to the tender mercies of a clianibennaid, whoso sympathies with such collections are seldom developed. — C. W. Wood, in the Argosy for February. Says tho Marlborough Express: — Orders from head-quarters have beeu issued that the Blenheim soldier of tho Salvation Army arc to discard their jewellery and trinkets. They aro fobiddon. absolutely to wear thorn, and are urged to throw them into tho coffers of the army to aid tho expenses of tho campaign. Groat is tho consternation in consequence, and it is not unlikely that a few faint-hearted wavcrcrs may abandon tho colors, and return to tho pleasures of a world that revels in smart bonnets brummagem ornaments, and richly mounted meerschaum pipes. Hero is a good story of the Duke of Wellington. A lady much interested in a certain church for which, subscriptions were needed, wrote to the duke, telling him that fooling sure sho might 'count on his well-known liberality, she had put him down for £200, and hoped he would send her a cheqne. The duke courteously replied that he was glad to know sho thought so much of him, he too was building a church and was equally convinced that he might count on her wellknow liberality to assist in the good work. He had therefore, put hor name down for £200, " and ho," he concluded, " no money need pass botween us." Information respecting an extraordinary occurrence transpired at a mooting of the Auckland Hospital Coinmittoo. Tho members of that body wore electrified by receiving a requisition from the house steward for provision of lightning rods for tho hospital, tho reason for 'thb request being that a patient, had boon struck d6ad by lightning last Sunday fortnight. As tfiis was the first intimation the committee, the Press, or tho public had received of' the occurrence tho astonishment of tho committee was considerable. On turning up tho report of tho house surgoon it wasfound that tho death of tho pationt (named Spago) was recorded as being tho result of concussion of tho brain. A ralhor important case— or rather two, for they woro connected— camo before tho K.M. Court, yesterday. Tho first case was a quasi criminal one, in which tho defendant was charged by Constable Moohan with keeping a- ferocious and dangerous dog,, .which ho allowed to bo at largo without being muz-" zlod. Ah ono very important witness for tho prosecution was not prosont, having lfccqu .summoned; away by tologram on ui^ont lmsinoss, tho caso was dismissed without prejudice, but it was understood that it would coiuo up again next court day. Tn tho second charge, tho result of which virtually proved tho first one, tho Hiinifl defendant did not-, oven temporarily, fiirt> ho well, an ho was mulcted in tho Kiuii of Hi) For damages and injuries inflicted by tho ..said animal. This should bo a caution to any person who keeps a dog of thu description named. Tho law, as was pointed out on Wednesday, is very clear and stringont on the subject, and the owner of any such Ravage and dangerous bruto as tho one in question, is | liable not only to havo it destroyed, but \ also to give substantial compon.sji.tion for any damage or injury it may inflict while I at large. v