Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 136, 2 May 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A meeting of the Bangitikei-Manawatu Branch of the Educational Institute will be held here to-day in the school house. The Manchester Road Board sits to-day. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. Several additions are made to Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at Awahuri on Tuesday. Very extensive reductions have been made in the railway tariff on grain.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the British Mail for March. Mark Twain will visit the Colonies next . year and give readings from his earlier ; works. Feilding can claim to be the most ' sober Borough in the colony. Only one " drunk" has been punished since Christmas. A good sample of knife polish has been producedfromhematiteore, attheThames. [ It is equal to the imported article, and much cheaper. The Bank of New South Wales have declared a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum for the past half year, together with a bonus of 2£ per cent. A paper contains an advertisement of an enterprising tradesman, who at the end of it announces : " Ministers supplied with goods at cost price, if they agree to mention the fact to their congregations." An Otago paper flays the fiat has gone forth that female pupil teachers in public schools in that part of the colony are not to wear their hair in the form el a "fringe." An election to fill three vacancies in the Eiwitea Eoad Board will be held at Messrs Williamson Bros farm, Waituna, on Tuesday for Waituna Ward, and at Mr Packman's house, Cheltenham, on Wednesday for the Oroua and Kimbolton Wards. Business men are warned by the Fatea Mail not to trust the letter-boxes attached to trains, as the letters often return to the stations at which they were originally posted, and have then to be forwarded in the usual course of post. Mr Johnston, the secretary of the Wellington Benevolent Society, in his report on the factories in Wellington, said that in one factory some of the girls were well-dressed with high-heeled boots and gloves. Bather light costume. Mr Sherwill, when out shooting on Thursday on the property of the Major Willis, shot a while sparrow. It is Mr Sherwill's intention to forward this rare specimen to a skilled taxidermist in order tnat it may be stuffed. The work of erecting the new Manchester street bridge was completed on Thursday by the contractor, Mr Hammond, who has apparently made a splendid job of this, one on the most important of our public works. Sometimes New Zealand game is hard to kill. The other day a party of four sportsmen wore out somewhere about the Kimbolton road. One saw a pigeon, a second wounded it, a third caught it, and a fourth fractured the birds skull with a stick. The pigeon died. There will be a sitting of tbe KM. Court at Halcombe on Tuesday, tbe 28th instant, at noon. The clerk to tbe court will attend at Halcnmbe on Thursday ia each week, from 12 noon to 3 in the afternoon. A meeting of gentlemen interested in the formation of a Cavalry Corps for this district, is called by Mr Thomas Fraser at Awahuri on Tuesday next. We hope that such a corps will be formed, and if so that the services of some of the retired cavalry officers settled here will be available to lead it. Dr de Watteville, of St. Mary's hospital, relates several instances of writers cramp, one being of seventeen years duration, which have been cured in a few weeks by the application of rubbing, kneading and gymnastics. The happy discoverer of this is a German who nas recently come to London. We gather from the Auckland Star that C. W. Langston a veterinary surgeon of Whangarei, and John Laing, of Kawa Kawa, have been committed for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud. Langstou has been brought to town to await trial, while Laing has been admitted to bail. Mr Langston was well-known on this coast. Jenkins was in the pantry trying to open a can of tomatoes, and making a good dea of unnecessary noise about it. " What are you trying to open that can of tomatoes with V "Do you suppose I am trying to open it with ray teeth ?" " No, I thought, perhaps, judging from your language, you were trying to open it with prayer." To celebrate the opening of the new Sunday school building in connection with St. John's church, a tea meeting will be held on Wednesday next, the 6th inst. Parents and friends of children attending the school, are cordially invited to co-operate and assist by their presence in celebrating this auspicious occasion. We understand that a very large number of tickets have already been disposed of. The medical return of the total loss of the Desert Force from the time it left to its return to Gakdul, in the Soudan, in killed and disabled from sickness and wounds, shows a total amounting to thirty officers and four hundred and fifty men, a heavy percentage for a force which did not much exceed two thousand men. The Herald is making strong efforts to have Major Noake re-instated in the colonial forces. We have some hope that it will succeed. If a ballot were taken of all the men now under arms from New Plymouth to Palmerston as to the officer they would prefer to serve under, we believe that Major Noake would head the pell against even the gallant Sir George Whitmore. On view at Mr Fowles' shop to-day is a receiving plan and electric pointers for the defenee of Wellington Harbor. The drawing is by Mr A. Harding, formerly of Feilding, and has been forwarded to Mr Fowles to be " fixed up." The latter has made and placed in position models of the big guns, and electric points, for showing the direction of firing. The plan is 4ft. 2in. by 2ft. Bm , and the model guns are about 6in. in length. Both departments of the work have been very neatly executed, and the plan will be shown at the forthcoming Exhibition. We have received the Wanganui Collegian for April. It is carefully compiled by the editor, and well got up by the printer, Mr A. D. Willis. We observe that at the Christmas distribution of prizes a Feilding lad, young Halcombe, was first in Latin in Form IV. He also came in among the first at the neat vaperchase. Halcombe, major, who lias just left the, school, has passed his junior Civil Service examination. An attempt which is certain to be successful is being made to have a chapel built, connected with the college. "Flaneur" in the Herald says:— The Palmerston North Jockey Club lost £50 by their last meeting, through unwisely fixing it upon the same date as that previously appropriated by their neighbours in Feilding. Not warned by this illsuccess, they are now out with a programme for a day's racing on the 25th May — a day previously taken up by the Wanganui Jockey Club for its annual Steeplechase Meeting. To add insult to injury, too, the Palmerston Club coolly adds— "All races to be run under the Wanganui Jockey Club's rules !"

Buyers of stock will notice the extensive additions made te Halconbe and Sherwill's stock sale on the 7th instant. A family named Penny came out in the Kakoura last trip. They arrived in Feildiag last night, and will go up to Beaconsfield where tkey hare relatives settled. Bemenyi, the great violinist, will give a performance in Palmerston to-night. It is much to be regretted that Feilding is not considered of sufficient importance to attract the great man. It is probable, however, that if the weather is fine and the Awahuri river passable, a number of our musical people will charter breaks and go to Palmerston to enjoy the treat. According to a Paris paper the funeral dHW-hammer coat is doomed. Geutlemen in evening dress are so frequently mis. taken for waiters in these dais of free and easy manners that the black swallowtail is to be forthwith consigned to the old clothes shop. A reform dress association has been formed in the French capital, with the object of bringing highly-colored satins and velvets into vogue for evening wear, and is is confidently predicted that the Louis Quiuze costume will shortly become the aorrect thing for the modern swell at a dinner party, a reception, or in the dress circle of tbe theatre. In a speech delivered by Sir William Jcrvois some five or six years ago, when Governer of South Australia, he indulged in the following prophecy :— *• He confidently looked forward to the day when, as the population of the Australian colonies multiplied, and their revenues increased, there would be Australian troops ready to act in concord with British regiment!), and Australian ships prepared to join with British squadrons, if need be, in doing battle with a common foe." To what extent this prophecy has been already fulfilled our readers are already acquainted with. Donald McKay George, a Palmerston draper, has filed his schedule. The following is a statement of the assets and liabilities : — Dr : unsecured creditors, L1, 984 12s; Cr; Stock-in-trade, L 1,200 ; book-debts (estimated to produce), L400 ; cash in hand, L25 bills receivable, L202 17s; furniture, L4O; property, L36— total, L 1,905 17s, showing a deficiency of £78 16s. The following is a list of unsecured creditors : Berth, Schass & Co, Melbourne. L216 6s lid ; Nathan A Co., Auckland, 1464 Os Id ; Wkittem, Nicholson & Co., Wellington, Ll9Bos Id ; Eaiapoi Woollen Co., L290 8s Id ; McArtkur, Auckland, Ll7O 19s 7d ; Myers. Wellington, Ll3 14s 9d ; Turabull, Smith & Co,, Wellington, L277 Os 6d i Harcourt & Co., Wellington, L232 14s 2d ; Scott Bros., L33 2s 2d ; W. Dawson, Wellington, L62 7s 2d; Edraendson & Co., Wellington, L75 18s 6d ; G. F. Hawkins, solicitor, Palmerston, Lso— total, L1.984 12s. A Gbkat Business.— The United States of America is the home of some very large enterprises, but none perhaps greater than th« business conducted by Mr G. G. Green, of Woodbarv, New Jersey, U.S.A. He is the proprietor of the well-known Boschee'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 preparation » have reached an immense sale solely on on their merits. Sample bottles of eaeh are sold at 6d., or full-sizsd bottles at 3s 6d. All druggists. Two teachers of language were disco*sing matters and things relative to their profession. "Do your pupils pay n» regularly on the first of each month P" asked one of them. "No they <io not," was the reply. " I often have to wait for weeks and weeks before I get iny pay, and sometimes dou't get it at all- You can't well dua the parents for the money." " Why don't you do as I do P I alwajs get ray none/ regular." " How do you manage it P" "It is very simple. For instance, 1 am teaching a boy Preach, and on the first day of the month his folk* don't send th« money for his lessons. In that event I give him the following sentences to translate and write at home ; *1 have no money. The month is up. Hast thou get any money P Have net thy parents got money P I need money ▼cry much. Why hast thon not brougl t the money this morning P DM thy father ■ot give thee anj money P" That fetches them. Next morning, you bet, that boy brings his money. The visit of Mr Gladstone to the Date of Devonshire has revived the rumors as ;o the speed/ retirement of the Present Prime Minuter from office and political life generally, and his succession by the Marquis of Hartingten. It is almost certain tnat Mr Gladstone will not be found in the new parliament, and, in case the result of the elections of 1886 should be to entrust the Liberals with a fresh lease of power, the party is doing well to select their future leader beforehand. There is no doubt that all the presr&t Cabinet Ministers weald cheerfully serve under Lord Hartingten, but tbe advanced age of the Duke of Devonshire renders it uncertain how long the noble lord will remain in the Lower House. If he and lir Gladstone were to disappear simultaneously, or within a short time of one another, Mr Gosehen would stand forth as the para* mount figure. It seems to be tacitly accepted by both parties that a Prime Minister in the House of Lords is out of the question. It is even said I hat if the Tories should come into power over the Egyptian vote, and be independent of the support of the moderate Liberals, Bir Stafford Northcote, and not Lord Salisbury, would be placed at the head of the Treasury Beach. But if t'«e Conservatives are not strong enough to stand alone it would be very difficult to overlook the claims of Mr Gosehen.— English paper.