Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 134, 28 April 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

McCreedy, who cut his throat at Leeston on Friday, died in the hospital on Sunday night. Mr James Laing publishes to-day an important notice witn reference to a mare running on his land. Several important additions are made to-day to Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's stock sale on the 7th May. Messrs Jones and Haythorne, of Taonui, call for tenders for felling 300 acres of bush. Tenders will close on Monday, 4th inst. Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew notify in another column that persons found " poaching" on their lands will be prosecuted. The Feilding Band, under the leadership of Mr Sam Daw, played some excellent selections, on the Square, on Saturday night. Yesterday a straw stack, the property of Mr Joseph Belfit, was destroyed by fire. We are glad to learn that the loss is partiaily covered by insurance in the Colonial office by a policy for £50. Constable Meehan has enrolled upwards of 250 names on the Militia list in Bunnythorpe, Feilding, and Halcombe. The Kiwitea and Wanganui Harbour Board Blocks will supply another hundred. All persons who wish to hold cpmmissions as officers or non-commissioned officers in the militia are requested to forward their names, stating qualifications, to the officer commanding the district. The New South Wales Government have applied to the War Office for a major, two lieutenants, a lieutenant of engineers, and a sergeant of artillery, in connection with the defences of the colony. It is almost certain that four hundred men will be enrolled as Militia of the first class on the Manchester Block. We hope that the Defence Minister will be fortunate in the selection of officers to command the companies, and that men of military training and experience will be available to give the recruits proper instruction. On Saturday last a boy, two years of age, named Mollison, living in Pigeon Valley, Wakefield, Nelson, having wandered amongst some burning logs, his clothes caught fire, and £c was severely burnt from the shoulders downwards. After suffering dreadful agony for several hours, he died from the injuries received. The interest taken in the local option question at Halcombe yesterday was very email. Only three persons voted. One was for the proposals and two were against an increase in the licenses. We hope the member for the district will move for a return of the cost of these local option elections with their results. They are a useless waste of public money. The 'fast and favourite" steamer Jane Douglas now sails from Foxton under the flag of the Manawatu Co-operative Steam Shipping Company. Wo hope she will be as profitable in the future as in the past. As she is the joint property of most of the importers in the Manawatu she is certain of a full cargo each way, and is also certain to be run at a good profit. In the Supreme Court, Invercargill, on Thursday last the case of the Bank of Australasia v. Mclntyre, claim for £1000, was concluded. The claim was on a promissory note signed by defendant as one of the committee of the defunct Farmers' Co-operative Society. The defence was that the note was signed only on condition that each member of the committee signed a similar document, which two refused to do. A verdict was given for defendant, with costs. The unconquerable spirit of colonial youth was shown the other day when a local pedagogue had inflicted personal chastisement on a youngster who well deserved the cane. After arranging his dress, and wiping from his eyes the customary tear, he took his way to the door, and on reaching that point of vantage he " squared" at his executioner and invited him to " come out on the lovely green," an invitation which was not accepted, but compelled the master to turn away his head to hide a smile. The Opunake correspondent of the Hawera Star wired on Saturday : — The settlers in the Parihaka district are becoming uneasy on account of the. present proceedings of the natives. From a cottage owned by Mr Plummer, and erected upon a deferred payment, section, the natives have removed the windows and doors. They have also taken down and removed to Parihaka pa a building owned by a farmer, Mr MacReynolds, and formerly used as a billiard room and canteen at the Parihaka camp. The reason given for, this action is stated to be on account of credit to the natives having been stopped. The members of the Napier Waste Lands Board at their last meetingknade an attack on Mr Haggen, in his dual capacity as member of the Board, and editor of the Woodville Examiner. As his reply contains also the grounds of the attack, it explains the position. We publish Mr Haggen's reply as it is reported in the Napier Telegraph. "Mr Haggen said it seemed to him, that they did not seem to distinguish between the editor and the member of the Board. If, they referred to the editor they should refer the matter to the editor. He came there to-day to do the best he could for the,administration of the lands of the districts, and he intended to do so. He challenged any member to say he had ever imputed any motives to anyone. ■ As a newspaper, man he was justified in doing what he thought right in the public interest. If the Board had been guilty of any charges of maladministration he, presumed he was equally censurably with themselves' in the matter. So far as the public newspaper was concerned he took whatever view might be deemed best by the editor of that paper. He did not comer thereto report the meeting at all for the Examiner, he took the reports from the other papers. H« had never charged any .'»<TTiVif with maladministration of. any kind."

Kemenyi, the great violinist, will give a concert at Palmerston shortly. Mr I. G. Wilson will address the electors at Sandon to-morrow. Mr H. Smith is the new prsvidore for the June Deusjlas. D. H. Macarthur, Esq., was elected Mayor of Feilding to-day, without opposition. Captain Edwin telegraphes to-day : — Warnings for gales and heavy rains hare sent to all stations. <'ur southern exchanges inform us that *' Robin Hood" is the best and fairest investment of the kind in the South > Islund, as is " Adam Bede" in the North. A couple of young pigs are making depredations in the gardens about Eyre street. If they are not safely housed, they will either die or get impounded, A sitting of the Native Land Court will be held at Otaki on the 22nd May f»r the purpose of subdividing lands which have been Crown granted to the Manawatu, Otaki, Ohau, aad Kapiti Notivcs. Owners of unregistered dogs are cautioned thitt immediate steps will be taken by the Borough Council to com Del them to pay the necessary fees to the Town Clerk forthwith, There is a probability that the Wanganui Gold Prospecting Company, will be able to send a party to teat the Tuhua country under the protection of influential native chiefs. A special train passed through Feilding j yesterday morning at a very early hour. Although the line was perfectly clear. " night vms made hideous" by the most abominable whistling being kept up for several minutes by the engine, to the disturbance of the sleeping inhabitants. We understand the Hon. Mr Stout, the Premier, was the passenger. The Feilding Choral Society had its first meeting for practice, last Bight, nearly all the members being prenent. At the conclusion of the practice, several new members were proposed. Mr Dowling has been good enough (o accept the onerous position of conductor, and under his able guidance the Society is already an assured success. Tho Post does not approve of the action of the Minister of Justice in remitting' the fine in tho Timms-Spurdle case, and considers the act of the Governmeut as quite unjustifiable. A good wholesome example was much wanted, and Mr Spurdle's case would have afforded this had the law been left to its operation. The result of the action ot the Government in this case will undoubtedly be to eneoumge jobbery amongst the members of local bodies, who will rely on political influence to shield them from any disagreeable consequences arising from their acting in defiance of law. At the Invercargill Supreme Court tincase of Jones ▼. London and Lancashire Insurance Company, bein* a claim of £227 for furniture destroyed by fire, was decided in favour of the plaintiff for the full amount. The defendant company pleaded that their Invercargill agent had no authority to make an agreement without reference to the Dunedin office. The latter gave a cover note to the plaintiff for thirty da\'s, but tho policy never expired, fhe furniture was subsequently burnt, and the company repudiated, although it had not rt turned the -pre iniuui. Mr Haggitt, who appeared for the company, was granted leave to argue a nonsuit on the point in iJuuedin. Mr Willis, of Wanganui, is about to bring out a large coloured lithograph picture of the Exhibition Buildihgs a* Wellington, and for this purpose will shortlj visit that city, accompanied by hi* arti>i, Mr Potts, an s Mr Martin, photographer, who will respectively take drawings and photographs of the place. The picture is to be a handsome one, suitable for framing, and will no doubt find a large sale. We understand the Government and the Exhibition authorities are giving overy PBcourauement to the undertaking a* a colonial industry, and hare ordered a large number of copies. Ike picture is to be ready by the opening of the tixlii* bition, and will be exhibited therein. A Beautiful Paintikq. — Mr G. G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S.A., is presenting to druggists and others in this country some very fine' pictures ia oil or his magnificent house and grounds and laboratory at that place Mr Green is the proprietor of Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower, two very valuable mediciups, which are meeting with great favor, the first as a rrmedy for Palmenary complaints, and the lat>er for Dyspepsia and disorders of the Liver. These preparations have attained an immense sale solely on their superior merits and are sola by all druggist*' throughout the. world. The price is the same for each. 3« tfd per bottle* •or sample bottles for 6d. The sample bottles enable sufferers to prove their value at a trifling cost.