Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 135, 30 April 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

Westport bias gone in for a loan of £8,000, to be spent in {jas Works. , ' i,Mr Downes returned .from the Hot Lakes,, last ; night. | He is now quite restored to health. We unden-tand that Lieut. Blackmore has offered his services to the Government. Lieut. ' Ulackmore 'has ' seen his share of 'active service; and is a splendid drill instructor. '-. 1 Rewi. the great N^timaniapoto chief , has been -akinp great interest; in the expected war. He write? to the prerß suggesting that the Auekland torpedo boat should ' bo called Araite Uru, after ' the Taniwha, . a sea-god, who formerly guarded these waters. '"''■

' Robert Chambers said that advertising was sowing shillings to reap sovereigns. Mr Edward Toomath, a very old Wellington resident, died yesterday. A meeting of footballers will be held at i the Denbigh Hotel to-morrow night. At the recent law examinations held in Wellington, Mr A. D. Thomson, of Feilding, passed in general knowledge. A cavalry corps is about to be formed at Bulls. _ John Stevens, Esq., will probably be offered the command. A number of bodies have been washed ashore at Cape Oretal, the most northern point of Spain, and they are supposed to be those of the crew of the ill-fated cable repairing steamer Magnetic. The Government have received information that a large quantity of war material, including that required for torpedo defence, will be shipped from Sydney in a day or two. Persistent rumors are afloat m London that a second engagement between the Russians and Afghans has taken place, and that the Russians were defeated with a loss of 1000. 'There,' exclaimed Blobson, pointing to a tramp, who was attempting to leave the premises with a large deg attached to his trousers, * there is what I call a good example of a contested seat. The new selection of books received by Mr Carthew by the Coptic, also journals and magazines, are even better than usual. ■ The picture of the battle of AbuKleais particularly good, aud is already finding a rapid sale. The colored war map Of Afghanistan, published by the Wellington Post as a. supplement, is a most creditable and useful production. It was compiled by Mr E. Brandon, and Messrs Brock and Cousins were the lithographers. It is not expected that the first-class Militia will be called out until war is actually declared, but the Defence Department is anxious to have a body of competent officers to select from whenever it is found necessary to call upon the Militia to serve. Members of the Small Farm Association are directed to notice an advertisement which appears to-day. As there are upwards of fifty extra applicants, any names struck off in default of payment of calls will be replaced by names selected from them. The Makino Cheese and Butter Factory Company has received account of sales of shipment of butter made to Sydney. The butter was sold at lld per lb. The expenses amounted to l£d per lb, so that the company nets 9|d per lb-^-a most satisfactory return. The Russian Ministry have promulgated a rescript requiring the dismissal -of all foreign officers and employes of the railroads. Large numbers of Englishmen, more especially engineers, have for many years been employed on the various Russian railway systems. It seems to be generally understood (says the Post) that the first-class militia in Wellington is to be officered chiefly from the Civil Service. It is not many years since the Government prohibited any Civil servant holding a militia commission. An " ex- volunteer," writing to the Wellington Post, suggests that the militia and volunteers should parade for drill on Sundays, so as to interfere as little as possible with the weekday avocations of the men. He hints that as they may have to fight on Sunday there can be no harm in their learning to do so on the same day. Upwards of 40,000 Irish people are out of work in the East End of London. A large number of these unfortunates have been dismissed from their employment since the dynamite outrages. If this warm hearted and impulsive people paid their money into benefit societies, instead of spending it in subscriptions to keep in luxury a lot pf murderous scoundrels, they would be better off. We learn from the Auckland Star that Mr E. Hankins, a journalist well-known in Wellington and the South, died at his residence, Franklin Road, on the 22nd| instant, of paralysis. He was formerly on the staff of the Evening Post, the West Coast Times, and more latterly was Parliamentary reporter for the New Zealand Times. Mr Hankins was an able writer •ind a kind-hearted gentleman, and was deservedly popular amongst pressmen all over the colony. He leaves a wife and a grown up family. In view of the present aspect of affairs in Afghanistan, the following figures, taken from the Financial Reform Almanac for the present year, will no doubt prove interesting : — Population of Russia, over 85,000,000; standing army, 770,000; standing army and reserves, 3,200,000 ; warships in commission-— lronclads, 31 ; unarmoured, 219 ; naval officers and men, 28,987. National debt, -.683,000,000 ; total revenue, £113,000,000; expenditure, £114,000,000; interest on national debt, £26,000,000. In the Post of the 27th inst. we observe — Mr F. W. Haybittle, who for the past 14 years has been chief clerk to Captain Thomas in his auctioneering business, has now, we learn, been admitted to a share in the business, and will for the future wield the hammer which has so long been in the hands of Captain Thomas. Mr Haybittle will make his debut to-morrow in the sale ofthe late MrJ. Gordon Allan's library. We congratulate Mr Haybittle on hie hew position, and have ho doubt he will worthily .continue and increase the extensive • business his present .partner has built up and established. Mr F. W. Haybittle is a brother of our respected townsman Mr G. W. Haybittle. A great newspaper reader waß out pighunting recently, and a storm coming up he crept into a -loliow log for shelter. After the storm abated he endeavored to Crawl out, but found that the log had swelled so that it was impossible to make his exit. He endeavored to compress himself aa much as possible, biit with indifferent success. He thought of all the mean things he had ever done*, until finally his mind reverted to the fact that instead of subscribing to the local paper he was in the babit of borrowing it from hifij neighbour, and thus defrauding the printer. On this he felt so small that: ihe slipped, out of the log without an effort. The other day whoh We (Napier^TelegTaph) saw it stated that a brother of General McNeill was to be found in Southland, and added, V What will Wangauui say to it, surely it possesses., his mother or his motheMn-law if married," Wanganui was' equal tothebccarion. The ' Herald say's a brother of General McNeill lives up the Wan^ni-ißivorV'so'.oncemoro we are happy and breathe: freely. The future historian dTNow Zealand will say Wanganui just missed greatness a thousand times. It never had the genuine ■warrior or genius, but* always possessed .'his nearest living relative. , Wanganui, wo verily believe, has for' inhabitants the relatives of all thd? great ones of the earth.

Ou dit that an effort is about to be made to organise a cavalry troop at Palmerston North. Totara has gone to Wellington to run in the hurdles and. says "« Surcingle" in the Advocate, provided he gets through the journey well, he ought to give a good account of himself at the weights. An lowa editor wrote an obituary of one of his subscribers, at the request of the widow, in which he inadvertently spoke of the deceased as having gone to a * far happier home.' And the fastidious mourner was angry. While the fishing imaek Martha was outside fishing on Friday evening, (says the Wanganui Herald) the men on | board were suddenly surprised by hearing | a whale '• blowing" quite close to them. They could not make out the size of the whale, the night not being very char. j In a lenjjthy leader on Tuesday last the Woodville Examiner "extinguishes" Capt Russell a member of the Napier Land Board, who attempted, to cruxh Mr Haggen who is also member of the Board nnd at the same time editor ofthe above paper. The Wellington limes also devotes an article te the same subject commenting on the effort made by Capt Russell to interfere with the liberty of the Press. Other journals, will follow suit, and although the delinquent claims that he is " indifferent to criticism," yet he will have several awkward " quarters of an hour" for some time to oome. The Wanderer in the Hawera Star says the times are what we make them. Let us lire temperately and reasonably, enjoy the blessings of climate, ot liberal laws, of a fertile soil, with which providence has blessed' us, and times will soon look rosy, and we should be a prosperous community. In the whole history of the world no people were ever so well off as we are if we only knew how to avail ourselves of our resources. The root of the whol.e matter is for each of us to live within his income. A man with a hun. dred a year and and saving ten of it is in a more promising way than tbe man with a thousand spending it all. A Great Business.— The United Stales of America is the home of some very large enterprises, but none perhaps, greater than the business conducted by Mr G. G. .Green/ of Woodbury, NewJersey, U.S.A. H. is the proprietor of the well-known Bosehee's German Syrup which is unequalled, as a remedy for Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. He manufactures also Green's August Flower for Dyspepsia and all disorders of the Liver. These preparations are used throughout the civilized world ./and thousands testify to their valuable curative properties. Both these preparations have reached an immense salo solely on on their merits. Sample bottles of each are sold at 6d., or full-sized bottles at 3» 6d. All druggists keep them.