Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 118, 21 March 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

Sir Julius Yogel is to address a public meeting in Duuedin this evening. Mass will be celebrated in the Catholic Church, Feilding, on Sunday next, the 22nd inst., at 11 a.m. Next Saturday the match, Beach v Hanlan, for £500 a-sidc, will be rowed on the Paramatta course. Mr John Higgie died yesterday afternoon at the Red Lion Hotel. Wanganui. He had been ailing since the races. The Governor will arrive in Auckland on Tuesday. The Hinemoa will bring bim from Onehunga to Wellington. Our weekly weather report from Mr S. 'Goodbehere, and some other matter, are unavoidably held over uutil Tuesday. Remenyi, the great violinist, has discovered in the person of an Auckland girl named Maribel Greenwood, a grand tragedienne, who will rival the great Rachel in fame. The following additional event has been added to the Feilding Jockey Club's programme for Easter Monday's Races: — Hack Race, of 7 soys ; once around the course ; catch weights. For horses that have never won a race of any description. Entrance, 10s; to be run immediately after Winter Oats Handicap. When we learned from the columns of the Post that the Government were inviting tenders for creosoted sleepers we wired to the Engineer in Chief asking if the Manawatu sawmillers were to be asked to tender. In reply we were courteously informed that the contract for creosoted sleepers being a special one it was not considered necessary to advertise elsewhese than in large centres. We have since learned that miro will be the timber preferred, white pine having been discovered altogether unfit for the purpose. As there is very little miro bush on this coast we are therefore not interested. According to the Navy List for 1885, the German Navy is officered by one viceadmiral, seven rear-admirals, 71 captains, 92 lieutenants, 161 sub-lieutenants, 116 midshipmen, and 118 cadets. The fleet consists of 24 ironclads, eight cruisin«r frigates, nine corvettes, five cniisers, four gunboats, eightdespatch boats, nine training ships, two transports, and 12 vessels for service in the ports, making in all 81 ships. . In addition , to the vessels doing duty upon thp coasfc at home, there are U on foreign service, of which four are in' the East,, three in Australia, and one each upon , the. ooae-is of South America, the Mediteiranean, East Africa; and the North Atlantic. '• " ' ; *" ' ' " d! ; '*''' ''

The Timms-Spurdle appeal case will be heard this morning at the Supreme Court, "Wanganui. Duiing the last 25 years Russia has anuexed three millions of square miles in Asia. The advertisement of Mr H. I. Jones, of Wanganui, will appear in our next ; issue. I Messrs Halcombe and SherwilTs grand ' sale of household furniture and effects is now going on at the late residence of . Mr R. Loudon who ia leaving the colony, j The "Wanganui Regatta has been postponed until to-day to allow the crews to ' compete who were at the "Wellington Regatta, and who only returned yesterday by steamer. Excursion trains will be run from Wanganui to New Plymouth on Friday and Saturday, the 27th and 28th instants respectively, to enable visitors to attend the New Plymouth races. The Bishop of Wellington will hold a confirmation service in St. John's Church to-morrow at 11 o'clock in the ferenoon. We understand that there will be fifteen candidates for the rite. Mr Andrew Thompson, the Clerk to the Court here, left by the Huia for Wellington for a week's holiday last night. Mr Deighton, who holds a similar position in Marton, will perform Mr Thompson's duties during his absence. Russia in Europe. Since Waterloo'she is 840 miles nearer to Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Munich and Paris. She is 450 miles nearer to Constantineple than she was 50 years ago, and she is 350 miles nerrer to Stockholm than in Peter the Great's time. During the gale last Saturday in Auckland, a man named Walsh was killed by a sheet of lead ten feet square which weighed a quarter of a ton, being blown off a house and falling on him. He survived his injuries only a few hours. Messrs Gillies and Marchbanks hare now, we (Wood-ille Examiner) understand, completed the field work of the Gorge Line, and are engaged in ttie effice work, so that the plans nnd specifications for tendering may be ready, and the contract let at an early date. His Honor Judge Ward has coined a new phrase for the definition of an individual in a rather " elevated state." "Slightly sober" was the remark he interposed during the examination of a witness in. an appeal case recently as to the state of himself and others at a " jollification " some time ago in Methven. The members of the Manchester Rifle Corps are working hard at their drill in order that the company may make a presentable appearance at the Easter Encampment at Nelson. The recruits are smartening up very creditably, and will do honor to the corps of which they are members. We learned by telegram yesterday that in Napier an insolvent having drawn the first horse, and consequently the largest prize, in Jacob Faithful's consultation, now pays his creditors in full. All praise to the honest man, and may Jacob Faithful, who is also a true man, share in the reflected honor, and be " consulted" by everyone in the Colony who values an " honest sport," who conducts his business on honorable principles. Mr W. A. Ellis, President of the Psychological Society of New Zealand, will lecture in the Public Hall on Monday next on phrenology, or tha study of character, by means of psychometry. His Worship the Mayor will preside. The Wellington and Wairarapa papers speak highly of the powers of the lecturer. As this will be the first occasion, for several years, when this subject has been treated in Feilding, a large attendance may be expected. Sir J. Yogel, in his recent speech at Christchurch, referring to education, said: — Differences between sects prevented religious teaching in State schools at present, but it would be a bad thing if the people of no religion crept in between the quarrels of the sects, and children grew up believing in no religion. If the future population of New Zealand was to be like that, it would be a very unhappy population. It would be better for the European population of the Colon v to become extinct, and give place again to the Maoris, than for it grow up believing: in no God and no religion. (Loud applause.) Those who had the interests of religion at heart, no matter what their creed, should not let disputes between themselves interfere with those interests. If the children were taught religion at home, that was the best plan ; but if that were not done, it might be necessary to reconsider the subject in the tuture.