Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 127, 11 April 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

Tho Prince and Princess of Wales ar r rived : in Dublin \<m/. T^wsday/' Tbey' were met by, a yaafc or9.ylrd.of people wbo displayed much loyal 'enthusiasm.

The attention of volunteers is invited to advertisements to-day. The poll for a loan of £50,000 will be taken in Palmerston to-day. We sincerely hope it wiil be carried. The programme of the concert in aid of tbe Catholic Church has' had some new attractions added to it. There are several additions made to-day to Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at Palmerston on the 14th inst. Ten good pick and shovel men are wanted at O'Hara and Gordon's contract, Watershed road, near Ashhurst. We are glad to learnt that Mr W. H. Lash has returned to Halcombe from the south, much benefitted in bealth. •■.-.. A meeting of tbe Feilding Jockey Club stewards wUI be held on Monday evening at tbe Denbigh Hotel at 8 o'clock punctually. Particulars of stock to be offered/ at Messrs Halcombe and SherwilTs sale' at Ashhurst on Wednesday, tbe loth inst., appear in another column. Signor Qtto Hug, the Swiss medical clairvoyant will arrive in Feilding shortly, and may be consulted at the Denbigh Hotel on Wednesday, the loth inst., until 5 p.m. Sir Julius Yogel has arranged for the Government to purchase the Kakaia aud Ashburton Forks Railways, subject to ratification by the Cabinet, Parliament, and shareholders. The police have received instructions from the Defence Minister to prepare a first-class militia roll, and are enrolling all male residents (not exempt under the Act) between the ages of 17 and 30 years. The woman Carrie Fleming, who was found guilty of inhumane . child beating in Dunedin, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Alexander Fleming, the husband of the prisoner, was acquitted. Readings, under the auspices of tho members of the Feilding Lyceum, will be given in tbe Foresters' Hall by several gentlemen to-morrow evening. Every one is invited to attend, and persons desirous of joining the Lyceum can do so at the conclusion of the meeting. The concert in aid of the Roman Catholic Church Funds, to be held in the Public Hall onthe 17th instant, promises to be a brilliant success. As will be seen by the programme published in our columns, some high class music will be performed, far above what has ever been attempted in Feilding before. Mr Geo. Bartholomew left for Queensland on Thursday last. He was accompanied as far as Foxton by several of his relatives and friends. We wish Mr Bartholomew every prosperity in his new sphere of duties, and we are certain that wherever his lot may be cast; he will prove a most estimable citizen. Flaneur, in the Wanganui Herald, says the Feilding tryst was a very successful one, and Fay quite came up to my estimate of her capabilities. I was very fortunate in. my tips, as of the four events I gave a forecast,. I spotted the actual winner in all four, and placed the horses exactly as they finished in the Hurdles. The schooner Linda Weber (says yesterday's Chronicle) has got her load of 86,000 feot of timber oh board and has hauled out into the stream to wait a favourable opportunity to sail). Sho has been loaded by P. and J. Bartholomew, and goes to Brisbane, Queensland. She appears to be a smart lookiug craft aud should make a good trip. As tho long nights of winter approach it will bo well for persons in the custom of driving in the streets of the Borough during the hours of darkness to provide their vehicles with side lamps. The driver or owner of any vehicle or trap not so provided will be prosecuted under the Borough bye-laws, and probably fined more than tho cost of the lamps. Frequent complaints aro made of the large boulders which are used in metalling the streets of the Borough. They are heavy and hard, and at night are particularly objectionable when feet afflicted with gout or corns are brought | into painful contact with them. It is too much to expect that the Mayor should boil them, but he might order them to be broken. In Glasgow House there has now been opened up a large assortment of winter goods, which have been carefully selected by Mrs Crichton in the best wholesale houses in Wellington. All sorts of new and charming dress materials are to be seen, together with latest fashions in ulsters, jackets, &c. An advertisement giving further details will appear in the Jirst page of our next issue. "'-.'. Concession has been granted to millowners for the carriage. of timber. The reductions apply to white pine tirabor consigned to Spit, Now Plymouth, Wai-.j tara, Wanganui, Foxton, Wellington, Invercargill and the Bluff, for shipment direct to Australian ports. The charge is to be, now, Bd. per .'IOO superficial feet for all distances from 1 to 20, miles inclusive, with special rates for distances beyond that. ..'.' At the close of the lecture : at the Foresters' Hall on Sunday evening last a good number of persons signed the following constitution: — "]We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to form ourselves | into a society to'be called the ' 'Feilding j Lyceum and Liberal Institute, 7 the objects ! of the society to be the attainment and promulgation of knowledge as the, best means of promoting the welfare auii happiness of mankind. Officers and a. committee wore appointed, and it was Resolved to hold meetings each Sunday evening in the Foresters' Hall, with an occasional lecture. As will be seen by advertisement several gentlemen will give readings tomorrow evening, admission to, bo free to the public. Williamson and Co. 's Share Report and Investor's Guide, dated 31st March, says : We have to report some large transactions in shares during the month. . The market, if wo exclude insurance, lias in the aggregate, been unusually vigorous. Investors, however, continue to find a difficulty in; procuring the required stocks, while the premium in these continue to, increase. New Zealand Banks, Colonial Banks, Loan and Mercantiles, N.Z. Land Mortgage,, and financial stocks generally,; have been in especial request, but the supply, particularly of the, latter, has been unequal to the demand. Gas stocks'have receded nothing, but are now not so eagerly sought for. Insurance have been much neglected, but a demand has sprung up suddenly for Colonial* and Unions, which, no doubt, will sympathetically affect others. N.Z. Shipping aro only quotable nominally ; we have heard, of but one transaction lately at sifcty shi^ing-g discount. Money hi abundant at 7^pofcent. , and for first-class securities -6J;. indeed, we bolieve tempting- mortgages for large sums would find; , lenders at. 6. per ceut. I Although the , serimnV ., a'pyparance, at present, of political affairs i&'fully'Tecognised, a remarkable degree of confidence characterises financial operations. ■' yi----'' '— ■ ■"•' ,'; ■-;.,..; ;.■....;«

There was a splendid display of meat ia the respective shops of Mr Gichard and Mr Rutherford last night. The date tor receivinir tenders for the erection of a building for Mr John ' Bishop has been extended from the 15th to the 18th inst. I War may be said to have actually j commenced in Afghanistan, and the fur- ' ther complications which may now be j expected to arise will be eagerly watched !for. ...German soldiers in active service are allowed plenty of tobacco, as smoking en- . ables them to endure severer fatigue upon small nutrition and with greater alacrity and confidence than would otherwise be the case: ... .. r A man in his natural state is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. A man in liquor is not in a natural state. Therefor a drunk njah is not deceitful above all tilings and desperately wicked. A drunk man is better than a man sober. -Q.E.D. A very witty newspaper paragraphia recently received*- a letter requesting bim to state what were the principal causes of liis wit. The answer was promptly returned. It was this: "Nine hours of sleep every night, three square meals every day, and a good salary/ Says the Carterton Observer:— "The Goverment have bought the WellingtonManawatu railway from the company: The perpetration of this iniquitous j»b has been long forseen by those who have read recent articles in the Wellington Government organ." It is singular (says the Post) that whilo men in Canterbury are .clamouring about beiag uuable to obtain work, the contractor for the Dash wood contract, ia Marlborough, is complaining that he cannot get men, although he his willing to give full current,, wages. He has informed the Government that he could. at least employ, 'about 40 hands, and would be glad to get them. There was a meeting of tbe vestry of St. John's Church last night, certain business arrangements in connection with the lew Sunday School building were made, and plans adopted for laying out footpaths and planting ornamental trees and shrubs. The latter were presented by Mr S. Goodbehere, to whom the thanks of the vestry were gratefully tendered. A volunteer from Goulburn, one of the Sydney contingent for the Soudan, went to Yass (his native place), to bid his friends good-bye, and he was escorted to the station by about 75 persons, who cheered him most heartily as he got into the carriage. When ; thtf cheering was over, a prisoner, who was in the next car* riage, put his bead out of the window and said to the crowd; "Give* a cheer, for me, boys, as I am going to serve Her Majesty, too." A yo»ng girl was recently brought before a Russian Justice of 'the peace at Kieff on a charge of stealing. The prosecution utterly broke down, not a partich*" of evidence being furnished in support of the accusation. The learned J. P., however, passed sentence on the girl, remarking in h s charge that,, '• although there exists no proof of her guilt, the accused is an ugly uirl, and therefore in aeed of a dowry, nnd she must. have committed the theft to obtain one." The Auckland Star commenting on th»» precedence given tq Wellington in : thc mat'or of defences*, says :— ,*" It just strikes us that Auckland has been treated a little cavalierly by the Defence an theri* ties. Is the safety of the collection of ruinous galvanised iron sheds at Port Nicholson to be considered, while the magnificent city of Auckland, with itsimmense wealth in property and bullion, is lying Unprotected ? So far as the North Island is concerned at any rate, *" Auckland is New Zealand" and is desirous of the first consideration".— Thia is severe on tbe Empire City. A discovery of a most interesting character was made by Mr John Burke, stone mason, at his yards in Auckland. While engaged dressing a block of blue stone,' a fracture disclosed, irabeded ia the st^ne, a piece or charred timber about four inches long by over an inch thick. This fragment of wood is doubtless a relic of the pre- historic forests which flourished near Auckland before the volcanic epoch but how it found its way into the heart of -the igneous maas. and- how it has been preserved from complete annihilation, are alike, mysterious. _hi« is, we understand the first instance of any vegetable substance being found in such stone, aad it is welt worthy the inspection of scientists.