Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 123, 2 April 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

• Hot cross buns to-morrow ! It is proposed to establish a military school in New South Wales. Serious fighting is imminent between the Central American Republics. A hack race meeting will be held at Sandon on the Queens Birthday, May 24th. The French Parliament hare increased j the'duties on imported cattle, and also on , corn and flour. The post and telegraph office will be closed to-morrow, and will be open froih 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Monday. Darins the month of November, 190,000 copies of " Dark Days," by Hugh Convray. were published in London. It is notified in the Gazette that white ; herons and crested grebe shall not be taken or killed in the colony. A great sale of soap will be held at Mr Snelson's Auction Mart, Palmerston, on Saturday next. The case Adsett v Manchester Road Board, which wa,s concluded last night, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff with. £546 damages. The Mayor of Sydney has offered a prize of 25 guineas to "the man who most distinguishes himself in the Soudan campaign. To-morrow being Good Friday will be observed as a close holiday. The usual services will be held in the" various places of worship. Mr John Bishop calls for tenders for the erection of his new business premises. Plans and specifications may be seen at his private residence. Trains will arrive in Feilding on Monday at 10.5 a.m. And in the afternoon will leay« Foxfcpa at 5 p.m., Palmerston 6.30 p.m. and Feilding 7.15 p.m. Mr W. Akers has entered into partnership with Mr G. ,M. Snelson, auctioneer. The name of the new firm will be G. M. Snelson and Co. We wish the new firm success. At a Sunday school in Hokitika a teacher asked a new scholar, a little girl, what her name was. She replied "Helen French." An urchin in an adjoining seat sang out " What is it in English ?" A detachment of police sent from Manitoba have succeeded in ousting the rebels from Fort Saskatchewan with the loss of ten men. The rebels lost eighty men. " : Last nignt two stacks of hay, the joint property of Messrs J. Newman and E. B. Gichard, were totally destroyed by fire. The hay was valued at £80, and was uninsured. It has been discovered in Cape Colony, the Colonial Mail states, that insects shun land on which tomatoes are grown, and some efforts wi|l be made to turn the fact to ad vantage for the preservation of growing fruits, etc. The fireworks display on Easter Monday will be held in the cricket ground below the Denbigh Hotel. The show will commence at 8.30 p.m. The public are requested to keep outside the enclosure during the display. . There was not sufficient inducement offered for the Jane Douglas to take the proposed trip to Kupiti. Tho counter attractions offerred by the Easter Encampment at Nelson were too strong'ior excursionists. In the appeal case of Spurdle-Timms, heard in Wanganui, the appeal was dismissed. This means that the decision arrived at by Mr Ward, R.M., was a correct one* notwithstanding tho outburst of popular feeling it excited in Wangauui. Lieut. -A. J P. Douglas, ofHalcombe, an officer of the royal navy, has been appointed to take charge of all port defences. Lieut. Douglas, who will enter upon his new duties almost immediately, has had large experience in naval warfare and the use of torpedoes. ' The appointment will be of a permanent nature. In March, 1843, Ivan Golorine, a Russian exile resident in. Paris, wrote the following:—'' 1 Petersburg cannot remain the capital of Russia'; it is an advanced camp-r-the founder of which never intended to make It a permanent residence, i Constantinople or Calcutta are the natural capitals of the Empire." Mr Bry.oe[is now in Auckland to give evidence before the commission which :is appointed, to take evidence in the libe^case,. Bryce V ltusderi. Mr F. D, FeritoiK and the Hon. MrTole have been .appointed commissioners to act on behalf of Mr Ruaden, and Mr Bryce has appointed Mr James Russell and Mr A. £. Wbitaker. A serious conflagration was prevented last night in Fergusson street. We understand • that although : the flames had a good held of the floor and lining of the room where it occurred,, jet the, presence of mind displayed by a young gentleman who was present enabled him to extinguish the fire before any material damage was done. : The Palmerston Rifles, tw&nty-five officers and. men, went up by train to. Wanganui this morning. By the same opportunity Lieut.- Blackmore took up a sergeant and ten men of the Manchester Rifles'. to look after berths onboard the steamer and take .care of the cases { &c. The remainder of this corps, viz., thirtyfour officers, and men, will go up by the train this evening. ■ ; A London hop report of January 28 state's that «f English hops the stock unsold is not large, and better prices were expected. The report addi that Australian boos ate very difficult to sell. Those English brewers who have tried them complain of their deficiency of strength and flavour, being, ho great that they can only b 6 used to advantage in the combination with otliorfcinds. Thenominal price of New Zealand hops is quoted' at £1 15s to £2jlo* per owt. ; ■•• : . ' ' Prince Bismark disclaims any personal antipathy to Mr Gladstone. He merely despises ljim. In; ,a, con ver sa^ipn with an American journalist at Berlin, bri the Ist of Jan nary last, the Chanc'ellpr slated that he regarded with the, utihofct equanimity the party streeles in England. So long a* the EarK of Beacons field lived, he could rely upon his keeping Great Britian in accord with the re*t of hiiropr; but' whatever Mr Gladstone's policy or no policy might be, it was a matter of the' smallest possible concern to Germany. "'■■■ Alfred George MantheK traveler for Gheymol and Co., of Wellington, was raj i mandedfor a week, £y/ M r, R.M;., on a charge of jal|eee;d false pretences, having given mii A upland jhotej,.ke«pk>r a cheque! signed as hj,,Cheymol. which wjas: smacked ,??, not, (provided, Jpt;" ;W,hen } pre-' sented for .payment/ Cfieymol stated ,Mo»t}iel had authority for issuing the clieqiie which would ■ tiave : ; Keen* paid had he (Clieymol) nofc"?e'eh absent wh«*n it !was presented in Wellington; lies R.M. said to mark his dmapproval of the procpertings, he wouJd/ allQfr Jbe^Hgcused out on i -Jwil'M his owu recognisance in £&. --.v