Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 113, 10 March 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

A letter from " Observer" will appear in our next issue. We refer our readers to an alteration in the advertisement of the Jane Douglas. English Masonic chanties received no less than £48,747 in the course of last year. Irisa College of Surgeons have decided to admit lady candidates for surgical diplomas. We have to acknowledge receipt of a parcel of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. If every person would be half so good as he expects his neighbour to be, what a paradise this earth would be. The Manawatu County Council has decided to call tenders for completing the Sandon-Carnorvon tramway to Sanson. One pound reward will bo paid to any person who returns 215 sheep strayed from Haleombe and Sherwill's paddock. We direct attention to the additions made to-day to Messrs Thynno, Linton, and Co.'s sale at Foxton to morrow. Meiwrs Haleombe and Sherwill call for tenders for leasing sections Nos. 15, 16, and 17, sub-division B, m the Manchester Block. The wife of a railway official here invested a pound in four tickets in a sweep. She was lucky enough to draw three horses. There is a space of four inches reserved in our journal to-day. In our next issue will appear a most startling announcement. i Vanguard's victory in the Dunedin Cup ' this year makes the seventh occasion on which Traducer has sired the winner of that race. We have to thank Mr Loudon, the agent of . the South British Insurance Company, for a calendar and blotting pad combined for the year 1885. It is splendidly got up and a most useful appendage to the writing table of a business man.

The Manchester Rifles will parade at he Public Hall at 7 o'clock this evening. Mr Sanderson offers 10s reward for a >ay horse lost or strayed on the 6th inst. Only one in twenty-nine of the people >f Italy subscribe for a newspaper. This iccounts for the general poverty of that people. They don't advertise. The Bank of Australasia has declared a lividend for the past half-year at the rate )f 14 per cent, per annum, aud carried j forward and placed to reserve £26,000. ' Adam Bede's consultation appears in this issue. The name of H. N. Abbott ipponded to the advertisement is a good guarantee of the bona fides of this notice ! to sportsmen. At the end of 1883 there were 270.000 miles of railway in the world, which would make a line from the earth to the moon, with 20,000 miles sticking out the other side. Mr Bunny and party were in Feilding yesterday, whence they proceeded to the block of land selected by the Feilding Small Farm Association for the purpose of valuing the same. The District Engineer, J. T. Stewart, Esq., calls for tenders for cutting the Mangahuia outlet drain. The overseer will be ©n the ground on Friday, the 13th instant, to show the work. Mr Lowers with his usual enterprise is to the fore with his season's goods. In another column he intimates that his winter stock has now arrived and is open for the inspection of his clients. We refer our readers, and the customers generally of Mr J. C. Thompson, to the joint advertisement of the latter and Mr Fred Train with reference to the transfer of the business of the popular Cash Exchange to Mr Train. We have every confidence that Mr Train will ably fill the position of his predecessor. A daring robbery was eommitteed at Marton en Saturday night when Mrs Good here was robbed of £22. Mrs Goodhere has retained, for purposes of identification, a handful of whiskers vrhich she pulled ©ut in defending her« self. The police are on tue tracks of the offender. The firm of A. & F. Pears, well-known so&pmakers, spends yearly, in calling attention to its wares, from £30,000 to £40,000, and is regarded as one of the most extensive, as well us one of the most original, advertisers in the world It does an immense business, and employs over one thousand hands. Particulars of the following tenders will be found in our advertising columns: — Underscrubbing, logging-up and burning six acres of bush, tenders to be sent to Messrs Prior and Sandilands by Thursday next ; and for erecting 65 chains of log fencing, tenders to be sent to Messrs Jones and Haythorn, Taonui, by Friday next. The Canterbury Times says that Mr Ballance's refusal to take off the restrictions on the sale to native lands is greatly to the credit of his Government. It is called " locking up" the land. This is locked up against speculation — to be kept for bona fide settlement. Even for the speculators this is better. Neither they nor anybody else will be demoralised. "Yes brethren," says the clergyman who is preaching the funeral sermon, " our deceased brether was cut down in a single night — torn from the arms of his loving wife, who is thus left a disconsolate widow at the early age of twenty-four years." " Twenty-two, if you please,"' sobs the widow, in the front pew, emerging from her handkerchief for an instant. Miss Fortescue's doings still monopolise a good deal of space in certain " society" papers. The young lady has thrown up her part in " Our boys" at the Strand Theatre, and is about to " star" the provinces as Galatea. Gilbert has drilled her, and will, no doubt, take care that she is passably good. A strange story is current about the famous jewellery letter, the | good sense of which was so unanimously praised when it was read out during the Finney-Garmoyle trial. A man named Hunter was the recipient of serious injury on Saturday last. He and another man were riding up Kiinbolton Road on that day, when his horse fell over a cow which was lying on the road. Hunter made feeble efforts to rise, but failed. He was carried to Mr Currin's store at the Kiwitea, where he now lies, with his lower extremities paralysed from the waist downwards. The full extent of the injuries is not yet ascertained. Dr Johnston is in attendance. The Swedish brigantine Fraital, which sailed from Boston for Brisbane, put into New York on January 59th. A terrible mutiny had occurred. The captain wan attacked ia his berth at night by the carpenter with a broad axe ; but, aided by the mate, beat him off, and also the steward, who joined the assailant. The captain, after staunching the wounds, sallied out with the mate and faced the carpenter, steward, and three sailors armed with axes and sheath, knives. The captain and mate triumphed. The captain's son and second mate, after having been murdered by the mutineers, were thrown overboard. Finally, when the mutineers submitted, the captain, having no leg ironß or handcuffs to secure them, shot the steward and carpenter dead, and threw the bodies overboard. The seamen then agreed to obey orders.