Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 138, 7 May 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

We Hare received the Anglo-New Zea^ lander dated March 37th. There was a strong muster of the Manchester Rifles oh Tuesday night. The conamittoe of the BeriGvoleilt Society will meet to-night at the usual time arid place. Mr J. E. Bedmond, M.P., is said to be the Inah correspondent of the New Zealand Tablet The Musical Committee of the Wellington Industrial Exhibition want £1000 to be spent in fiddling. . The Defence Minister is unable to accept the services of the Bulls Cavalry Corps as there are no arms to spai-A. ' '"" ! 60 great M the pressure »t Woolwich .Arsenal that orders hare been issued for the boys as well as men to work overtime. On no previous occasion has such a step 1 Prince Albert Victor was initiated as a Freemason at Willis's Booms on the 17th Much, in the Royal Alpha Lodge No. 16, of which the Prince of "Wftlea is tho Master. The Prince of Wales presided at and performed the ceremony. ; The Napier Telegraph calLi the editor of the Woodville Examiner in his, capacity as member >f the Land Board, " a very nulcj , and . infantile doye, indeed* . He is a 'dove, ■; "however, that " brings glad tidings" to small settleru who want a bit ' of land for a home.

Since the Coptic affair in Wellington, rude people say "go to Guam." Our PalmerstoH contemporary, the Manawatu Times, looks on drunkenness as a sign of prosperity. The annual meeting of the Manchester Road Board called for yesterday at noon lapsed for want of a quorum. The Borough Council will meet for the transaction of business this evening. Mr Mticarthur, the Mayor elect, will be duly installed. A suggestion emanates from New South Wale 3 that the colonies should combine to offer £70,000 reward for an effective means of rabbit extermination. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day. — Warnings for northerly gales after from 10 to 16 hours have been sent to all places south of Napier and New Plymouth. Several tenders for the supply of creosoted sleepers have been received by the Public Works Department, but we under* stand they have aot yet been opened. Guam is the chief of the Ladrone Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It abounds with excellent fruits, particularly quavaa, bananas, cocoas, oranges, and limes. Lat. 13.2G N., long. 144.50 E. In Turakina the fanners have had exceptionally godd crops of potatoes and turnips this year. Of the latter tuber, Mr Lethbndge cropped 200 acres and has garnered a splendid return. The officer commanding tno district publishes in our issue of to-day a notice which will be of special interest to persons whose namos do not appear on the Melitia roll now on view at the police station. We learn from the Christchurch Press that the pioneers of the Hokianga settlement left for their destination by steamer on Friday last. They wese accompanied by Mr Federh and the surveyors who are to lay off the various blocks of land. One thousand guineas seem a largo price to be given for a hack, yet Earl Spencer has paid that sum for Pedometer for that purpose. The horse in question was sold for 3500 guineas as a yearling, and was by King Tom, and was recently sold for 500 guineas. Robert Linton and D. H. Macarthur, Esqs., were elected unopposed to No. 3 and 4 wards respectively of the Manchester Road Board. There will he a contest for No. 6 ward, Messrs A. Grammar and F. W. Whibley being the opposing candidates. The election takes places on the 15th! instant. It takes a mail from Wednesday to Sunday to get to Napier from Wellington, yet a passenger by train and coach can get from Napier to Wellington in two days. Why H.M.s mails should take two clear days longer to go the same distance than the said passenger, is one of these things incomprehensible to the unofficial mind. Stipendiary (to henpecked husband who has made a complaint against his wife) : " You sayyour wife threw a billet of wood atyou?" Husband^ MYes, your Worship." Stipendiary': " Well, give' me the whole facts of the case. What did you do?*' Husband (earnestly) : " Your Worship, as true as I am standin' here, I didn't do aothin* but dodge." .- . • Mr Vincent Pyke has written the best war song that has yet been produced by : a New Zealand patriotic poet. It is entitled, '! The Old Flag," and is quite good enough to be adopted as the New. Zealand National Anthem. We regret that our rule against the publication of , verses of any kind prevents the song' appearing in our columns. : Timaru has "pirated the copyright" from Auckland of the phrase "Have you seen our harbor?" We also observe that the Timaru correspondent of the Canter- '. bury Times, when writing on the subject ' of the harbor and the engineer. Hays — "The Napier Board have chosen a good j man, and Timaru will always wish John Goodall, C.E., God-speed." This is a very | equivocal compliment, to say the least of it. It is understood that a sculling match is likely to come off between; Hearn,, champion of New Zealand, and a boniface, a resident of Riverton. The latter has challenged Hearn to row a three-mile race at Eivertonfor £100 aside, the champion to concede a ■ start of one minuto. Hearn has replied that he is perfectly; willing to meet the boniface, but he is not ' prepared to make a greater concession than half a minute. We have to acknowledge receipt from Mr James Laird, of Wanganui, of a general catalogue of forest and ornamental trees, roses, fruit trees, shrubs, etc., for 1885-6. It is most complete, and enumerates a largo variety of every kind of plant adapted to this climate. Mr Laird has made arrangements with the leading nurseries at Home and in the colonuw* to obtain at current rates' all plantß not enumerated in the catalogue as soon as they are available for sending out to New Zealand. ..;.-. A great deal has, been said and written about spelling jpefonn. People do not think for one moment when discussing this subject that reform is not needed in the spelling of words, but in their pronunciation. If clergymen, actors, public speakers, and all moderately well educated men were a little more careful, and gave some attention tid this point, we would hear very little about absurdities in spelling. The English speaking people clip and mangle their words more than any other in the world that have a written language. ' ' ...■■/ American newspapers are much exercised just now with the^ whim of an eccentric Englishman^ who landed in New York one morning recently, and took a steamer for Liverpool the same afternoon. He said he had seen enough. ' A man from. London landed in: Wellington one day in 1850, and next day he took his passage by a ship loading for Home, and stayed on board with his family while she lay in port, without venturing ashore, yet the New Zealand papers were not a bit exercised. His namfc was Cannon, and that <im,g*mhf he: went off. • : ■"•' ■'• ■'•''•"• '■'•"' ;. A Gif at BuswW'—Th* jTJnjtfd; State* J of America is< the home, of some jTfTJ large enterprises. Hut none perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr G. G. Grem. of Woo4bary; : New Jersey. U.S.A. He it tke proprietor iff the wrllr known Boschre's German > Syrup, whirh. is unf quiilled as ' a reracdy fnr Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. He . manufactures alta Green's August Flower! for Dyspepsia and all "dinorder » of the • Liver. The**' prepara.tj»nV are nßpd: throughout the civilised' world and! thousands testify ito their valuable^c'tirs.-! live properties; Both these preparation * haverenched art immense sale solely on; on i.tljejr, merits... S^mple 4 bpt.iU|s of ench' 'are sold at 6d., or full-sized bottles at 3s 6d. All druggists.

A fish, supposed to be an English sal« mon. was caught in Wellington Harbour on Wednesday last. The Mansion Hmse Fund for the National Memorial te General Gordon amounts to £8,50' >, £3,000 of which has been collected sine* Saturday, the 14th March. It is stated that Mr J. Tyree, of Dun ediu, has succeeded in preparing guncotton ready for use, from refuse of the Roslyn Mills and acids manufactured at the Kaikorai Chemical Works. Messrs Halcombe & Sherwills' stock sale here this afternoon was well attended. An unusually large number of cattle and sheep were yarded. The sale was not nearly over when we went to press. Mr J. M'Lennan, of the Hutt. is said to be the successful tenderer for the lease of the block of land belonging to the Duke «f Manchester, adjoining the town* ship of H alec m be. The block contains 600 acres. The Napier Telegraph nays : — It Las been decided by the Government a*t to i sell any more totara bush. This is the 'first really practical step towards forest conservation in New Zealand that has been, taken. We understand that by request of the committee of the Feilding Lyceum a local clergyman will deliver a lecture in the Forester's ball on a Sunday evening shortly, of which full particulars will be duly advertised. Mr IS. Bastin, the lucky settler at Fitzherbert, near Palmcrsten, who drew the first prize in tin* Druids' Art Union in Melbourne en Easter Monday, has left for that city to claim his prize, which, consists of a freehold sectien and house, valued at £450. Lord Randolph dim chill has returned to England, from his tour of India, and hns resumed his place in the House of Commons. The member for Wood stack stands in no awe of Mr Gladstone, and our telegrams imform us that the poling' of the (x.O.M. is regard to the Afghanistan frontier, and the tame submission to Rusnin, has been activly and vigerously attacked. The Post says : — Private letters received here by the Kaikoura from Mr George Lingard, formerly connected with "Zealandia," but who is how in England arranging for novelties, mentions that he leaves per Tongariro with the Royal Diorama of Scotland. He wa« also making arrangements, when the nviil left, with the Ticbbourne Claimant to make a tour of the colonies. What a pretty little prattler said. — After the wedding brenkfant, departure of the happy pair. Child : ' Why do you throw things at the pretty lady in the carriage?' Young lady: 'For luck, dear.' Child : ' And why doesn't she throw them back ?' Young lady : ' Oh, that would be rude !' Child, promptly : ' No, it wouldn't. Ma does !' Pleasant tor ' ma' and ' pa,' who overhear and know that others overhear also! A new Zealand -bora joung lady is the first " sweet girl graduate" of the Sydney University, having recently taken her B.A. degree there.- A contemporary 4 1 a teg that the honour i» enjoyed by Mies Brown, daughter of the Key. Churl c* Brown, who entered the aiiaiftry in New Zealand and whose wife is a daughter of Father Wnllis, one of the early New Zealand missionaries Miss Brown was educated at the Girls' High School, Auckland. — Post. A terrible explosion of firedamp occurred in the Camphausen coal mmi 1 , near Dudweiler, Saaruruck, shortly bi'foro one o'clock on the 18th March. Of 219 miners who descended the shaft for the night shift, thirty only are reported to be saved, this number including sixteen who had left the mine before the explonion occurred. The main shaft fell in after the explosion, and the ventilating apparatus was destroyed. Every effort is being made to save the mien in the pit, but there seems little hope of success, as the workings are block in every direction. Up t« the present (March 18) ainety two bodi«« have been brought to the pit's mouth.