Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 111, 5 March 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

Parliament has been further prorogued till June. We learn that General Gordon was a Freemason. Messrs Jones and Haytliorn, Taonui, invite tenders for sixty-five chains of log fencing. An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held this erecting at a quarter past 3. i By the English mail, ex Rimutaka, -we have received the January- number of the Anglo-New-Zoalander. j Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale will be held on Tuesday the 10th inst., at Palmerston. j Messrs Prior and Sandilands advertise ; for tenders for logging and burning the : fallen bush upon a section containing : six acres in Feilding. Harry Hughes advertises a horse, saddle and bridle, lost on the 14th Feb., | and offers one pound reward to any one | who will return the same to R. Morphy at the Denbigh Hotel. The Standard says "A Feilding parfj of sportsmen on Sunday brought home no less than 20 hares." The Standard must have been misinformed ; no sportsmen shoot on Sunday. We have to thank Mr Hag-gen, the secretary of the Woodville Horticultural and Industrial Society, for a complimentary ticket for the show which will be held on Saturday next. A meeting of Stewards of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held on Monday next the 9th inst., at 8 p.m. As the business to be transacted is of importance a full attendance will be necessary. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill stock sale held here yesterday was well attended. Most of the numerous lots passed off at fairly remunerative rates. A full report of the sale will appear iu our next issue. It costs about £60 in fees for hangings man in New York, which fact greatly accounts for the economy observed in thiß respect in that city. It is also much easier and safer to shoot any person who injures or offends. J. Pettengell, who has gained some notoriety as a boxer, and who visited Feilding with Professor Bloom a few weeks ago, has made a match for a glove fight with T. Teague, of Chnstchurch, for £50 a-side, to come off in a month's time. At the K.M. Court to day Ann Jones was charged with allowing cattle to graze in the public streets— case dismissed. The same defendant was fined Ih without costs for rescuing cattle from the Hanger. Messrs Lethbridge and Fry were the | Justices. I The Napier Telegraph informs its readera that the average contribution from Presbyterians to the Maori mission is 2Jd. This may appear small, but it should be remembered that the Presbyterian Church never made a farthing out of native lands — to its honor be it said. We are glad to notice that our contemporary, the Mannwat j Daily Times has set its face against advertisiug bogus '• sweeps" or " consultations," and warns its waders who invest moneys in th*»« speculations to be careful and send it to those alone who are above suspicion. D. L. Smith, manager of the Manahou Station, Rangitikei Line, was fined £100 at the R.M. Court, Foxton, yesterday by Mr Ward, R.M., for breach of tne 41st section of the Sheep Act, in driving rams from Manawatu. He was also fined 5s and costs for breach of the 43rd section. At the quarterly meeting of the Halcombe Licensing Committee held yester* day, Messrs Biley, Kveriss. and Williams were present. Mr Crabbe wa« elected chairman of the Committee for the year. The license of the Halcofjibe Statioa refreshment rooms was transferred from W. T. Larsen to J. B Pybus. An Australian telegram says :— Cop. sidepable comment has been called forth by a book entitled "Religion without Superstition," by Mr Justice Williams, author of " Disbelievers in the Doctrine of the Trinity and immaculate Conception." He simply regards Christ as a "noble, heroic, unselfish, self-denying, pure, good-loving human man." We understand that when Parliament meets attention will, as a matter of privilege, be called to the reckless sweeping charge of drunkenness which has been made and repeated by a contemporary regarding hon. members. When the charge was originally made we pointed out how utterly unjustifiable it was aa applied generally to our Parliament or its members. — Post. Mr Bruce, the member for Kanf itikei, addressed his constituents at Makiuo on Tuesday evening last, Mr Fry presiding. Mr Bruce delivered an eloquent and carefully prepared address, which was already familiar to most of his hearers. At its coiicluaion a vote of thnnks wti proposed by Mr Peter Bartholomew and seconded by Mr John Bartholomew. This was carried unanimously^ A serious accident happened last Tuesday evening to Mr A. Johanson at Messrs Nannestad's mill Trondjeim, (Taonui), by which his foot was severely crushed. He went to Feilding and was recommended to go to the hospital which he did yes terday morning by train to Wanganui. Strange to say his eldest son Mr George Johanson while walking along the line yesterday morning narrowly escaped a serious accident through a wild cow attacking him and knocking him down, fortunately he was not seriously hurt but such cattle should not be allowed to wander at large. Friday's Post says:— "The Napier Telegraph notes it aa an innovation that the sittings of the Wellington Wast* Lands B<>ard are now open to the Press. We were aot aware that they were ever eU«ed." Why did not the Port, when reporting the last meeting of the Beard say, if they wished the Press to be present they should provide decent seeonv modatif>n, if it were not an innovation P We know of course, the Press firmerly copied the minutes of the meeting, but reporters were not present during the meeting*, neither were the members of the Board desirous that they should be. We cannot divine what the prospective issue of business generally is likely to be (remarks the Dunedin Evening Herald). There is a general prevalence of dry rot all over the world. In some specialities there has apparently been more produced that can be consumed. Chief of these is sugar, which is a drug everywhere. Beetroot growers in Franco are going to the wall ; the Mauritius is insolvent ; and now there are bad accounts from Dutch Java. Trade there is in a deplorable state, and if there is not an early recovery serious complications may be expected. One bank (the Bank of the Netherlands) is paid to be involved to the extent of three-quarters of a million. -