Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 106, 21 February 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

The services of the Woodville Kifles and Napier Naval Artillery have been I accepted. The Palmerston Borough Council ha s decided to take a vote of the ratepayers on the question »f a loan for drainage purposes. Mr H. S. Wardell, R.M., has been ap- | pointed Judge of the Assessment Court i for Wellington, Kaiwarra, Petone, Lower I Hutt, and Jolmsoiiville. | I Several intending exhibitors at the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition 1885, liuve been supplied by the Stau office ■ with the necessary forms. I "I would die for you !" she exclaimed, ! pillowing her head upon his shoulder. " Oh, no, you needn't, darling!" wus his quick reply, " I like red hair." I " Oh, I so dote on the sea," she gurgled; "if you only had a yacht, Augustus, dear." " I have no yacht, Wilhelmina," ■ he sighed, " but I can give you a little ( smack." And then it sounded as if a cork had flown out of a bottle. It is notified that the title to the Waimanuka land, containing 14,270 acres, and situated in the Wanganui Native Land Court District, has beeu ascertained and that it can be dealt with after the 25th March. The headless body of a European (says the Napier Telegraph) was found on Sunday on the Moeangiangi beach. It is supposed to be the remains of the young man Stuart, who was drowned while out in his fishing boat some weeks ago. The sale of freehold property held at the Arcade, Wellington, recently was well attended, and bidding showed a great improvement on former sales. Several sections at Fitzherbert sold at prices ranging from 70s to 90s per quartor acre. The temperance party of Wanganui were most severely defeated at the elections lor the Licensing Committee on Thursday. The Chronicle has no doubt but that they will prove that they know how to bear themselves under defeat. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill notify in this issue that they will have a Bale of stock on March 4th. The list published is already an extensive one and several large additions will be made thereto in our next and following publications up to the date of sale. The Prince of Wales has recently granted warrants to seven new lodgos of Freemasons in the Australasian colonies. Two of these are in New Zealand — No. 2,072, The Zealandia Lodge, Whangaroa, Auckland ; and No. 2,073, The Duke of Albany Lodge, Helensville, Auckland. In his match of 12,000 up with F. Bennett, Roberts again managed to beat his own record break of 327 at the spotbarred game by running up 360. The break, however, was not begun and completed on the same day, Robert making 160 one evening and 200 more the next afternoon. The Railway Department on a recent occasion of an excursion train on one of of the South Island lines offered excursion tickets for sale up to but not on the day of the excursion. The plan was found to work admirably as was shown by the ease and rapidity with which the trains were filled with the passengers. It is expected by those who are most interested in cricket in England that next season will be a quiet one. There will be no Australian cricketers to make sensational matches with. The usual round of inter-county matches will be the chief events of the season. The following letter has been sent to the Wanganui Herald, and with it two pieces of quartz distinctly showing gold : — " Tokomaru, February 18, 1885. — Yesterday, as I was digging for water in a tributary to the Mangatukituki stream, and about four feet from the face, I came upon a thin layer of gold-bearing quartz, evidently a blow from a reef at no great distance. The specimens by bearer will show what I picked, and broke (a piece about the size of an hen's egg). Kindly mention in your columns, and obligo, yours faithfully, J. P. Macdonau)." The locality indicated is a few miles beyond Upokongaro. In reference to the recent murder of Union Bank officials at Roeburn, West Australia, a gentleman who has resided in the district says that the deed probably was committed by Malays, who frequent the place in connection with the pearl fisheries. A telegram says that the wounds were inflicted with a sharp instrument. The Malays are fond of sharpening up tomahawks as weapons. The safe can be opened only by two sets of keys, one of which was held by the manager, and the other by the accountant. The assailants tried only one set. Mr Anketell's body was found covered with tomahawk blows in the verandah, where he slept on hot nights. Burrup, the accountant, was killed in bed. The keys of the safe were missing but no valuables were taken. An ex-M.P. from England is creating quite a sensation among the King Natives, and has succeeded in raising the ire of the Wanganui Herald, which thus discourses anent him: — "If Mr Ashbury has not been guilty of something^ strangely like treason, in thus going into the King Country and advising the people there to perform an act of virtual rebellion, then all we can say is, that we are more ignorant than we think we are of the plain meaning of the word. We are so astonished at this reported speech of Mr Ashbury's, that even now we are loth to believe he ever made such an arrant blunder as to give utterance to it, and that the whole thing is a hoax. If this globe-trotting Don Quixote has come all this way to champion the so-called wrongs of Tawhiao, then all we can says is, that he is a bigger fool than we should have though it possible for even the ex-M.P. of a fashionable English watering place to make of himself, and that the sooner he takes himself back to the delights of Brighton the better." In the preface of Cumin's index to the New Zealand Statutes published at Wellington for the current year, the Author makes the following observation, " The" method of constituting districts for various purposes within the colony seems to be remarkable for an entire absence of system. The colony is subdivided into districts under about fifty, different statutes and no two districts are coincident in their boundaries, or constituted with reference to any other existing district. It is done in manner apparently as if fifty blind men had been set down to fifty maps of the colony to subdivide the same into' a certain number of sections haphazard. The Sheriffs' district* are not the same as the Supreme Courtdistriots; some Resident MacriHtjateß' districts and District Court, districts ran into two Supreme Court districts ; the Land districts do not coincide with the Land and Deed Registration districts ; the districts for the registration of marriages are not tlie same as those, for the registration of births and deaths ; and bo in other cases. • - . ; )

Mass will be beld in the Catholic Church Feilding to-morrow at 11 o'clock a.m. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 4.22 p.m. ■ yesterday as follows : — Every indication of very hot and drj strong northerly winds. On Monday next Mr Beattie, hon. secretary of the Manchester and Kiwitea Acclimatisation Society, will receive the mimes of gentlemen desirous of joining the society. L~etter3 of naturalisation have been granted to the lull. >« ing: Jens Prehensen, laborer, Powhntu West, Greytown, YVairarapa, Halfdan Jonsberg. laborer, Masterton; Heinrich John, settler, Stoney Cre«k, Palmerston North. Some alterations and additions have bren uinde in the scale of railway charges. On the Wellington, Wanganui. and New Plymouth sections, cheese, packed, consinned directly from cheese factories for foreign export, in consignments ot not less than one ton, will be charged at the classified rates lor Class D. It i» announced that Mr Sims "Reeves contemplates a professional tour in \natralasia and the United States this year. Mr Koeves has probably been aroused to this by hearing of the arrangement* mnde by George Augustus Sala with Messrs Rignold and Allison for a tour through the colonies. Cricket matches and cricket generally have been remarkably conspicuous by their absence in Feilding this season. There is no doubt that lawn tennis is principally accountable for this, as many members of the Manchester cricket club have shown themselves ardent lovers of tti is modern amusement, and have apparently shelved for the time the more ancient game. The next sculling events in Sydney are Beach and Clifford for £200 a -side ani the championship of the world, to come off on 28th February ; and Beach and Hanlan, for £500 a side and the championship of the world (if held by Beach) on 28t'h March : but should Clifford win the championship from Beach, Hanlan and Clifford will row for £500 a-side and the championship of the world on 18th April. '