Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 140, 12 May 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A supplementary Militia Roll ig now being filled up at the Police Station. The Bryce-Rusdon commission began in Wanganui yesterday. It will not be open to the Press. Travellers for Wellington are notified that the Jane Douglas will leave Foxton for Wellington to-morrow at 5 p.m. The Aorangi which left England on Saturday last will bring one hundred immigrants. On Saturday last Mr F. G. Brf ce was fined £10 at the E, M. Court. Wanganui, for a breach of the Sheep Act. Mr Henry Meech, one of the oldest settlers in Wellington, died on Sunday last. The deceased was 73 years of age. He served for some time in the R.N. The Prince of Wales has promised Lord Carriugton that he will certainly visit the Australian colonies within a few years. The steamer Gairloch has been brought to Auckland. She is to be docked and repaired of the injuries received by her collision with the Herald. i Disquieting rumours are still rife as to tho threatening demeanour of some of the Natives at Parihaka. Government expenditure is evidently wanted in that neighborhood. Within the last few days the Defence Office have recoivod no less than 1 78 offers from New Volunteer corps offering their services. Which means not less than 3500 able bodied men. As showing the variety of prices ruling for sheep we may mention that six weeks ago a large number wore quitted at Bulls at 2s 2d and sold again by the auctioneer's last sale at 4s 4d. On the Queen's Birth-tay at Palmerston, it is probable that there will be a grand display of fireworks, supplied by Mr Newman of ihis place, and under his Huperrision. An old New Zealand warrior, Major E. S. MacGregor, late of the 65th Eegiment, has just died at Portsmouth. Ho served in the New Zealand war of 1864---66, and had the medal with clasp for services in the ABhantee war of 1873. The latest big idea in names is that of a •' cullered person" in New York, whose first born has been christened " Glorious Valorious George Washington Peck Hamilton Stout." No connection we presume, of the gentleman on this side of the kawai pond. We learn from the Chronicle that Messrs Buckley and Tole, the commissioners in the Bryce-Eusden case, arrived in Wanganui on Saturday night. They were accompanied by Mr Mitchell, who will take a shorthand verbatim report of the evidence adduced. We understand that the proprietor of a panorama which was exhibited here in the Public Hall recently is about to be proceeded against by the Town Clerk for an infringement of a Borough Bye-law, which enacts the payment of certain fees to the Borough by itinerant shows. We are glad to notice that Mr Newman has commenced to give direct encourage meut to the cultivation of tlie dandelion root to supply a demand created in Wellington by Mr Crease, the manufacturer of the now famous taraxacum coffee. M r Newman is a purchaser of the root in any quantity. A melancholy boating accident occurred at the entrance of the Thames Eiver on Sunday, when four men, W. Eea, senr., W. iiea, junr., A. S. Colquhoun, and John James were drowned. They started from Tararu for Piako in an open boat, during a N.W. gale. The throe elder men were married, and leave families unprovided for. The culprits who w«re guilty of breaking the windows in an unoccupied house on the Kimbolton road have been discovered, and we understand their parents intend making good the damage, besides inflicting condign corporal punishment on the boys. The matter, of the broken windows in the house in Eyre street is yet shrouded in deep mystery. Mr Stevens informs us that Charles Gray is at Taupo and is receiving benefit but that the funds subscribed allow only of his staying a fortnight. . It is earnestly requested that further sums be left with Mr Stevens at once to enable Mr Gray to obtain full benefit. The lowest sum at which lodging can be obtained there is two pounds per week. It is believed that when the Militia are called out, says a Wellington telegram, " it will be only single men, from fifteen to thirty, and these will have to undergo a certain number of hours' drill in the year." This is mere moonshine. Seventeen years is the minimum age, not hfteen as here stated, and the Act makos no exception in favor of married men. Surveys for three more sections of the North Island Main Trunk railway are being pushed on, and the Government hope to have the contracts out shortly. One section is 15 miles from the present contract at Te Awamutu, the ■ second is 11 miles from the present 1 contract at Marton, and the third is a tunnel contract about the middle of the line. Instructions have been received from some of the English legatees under the will of the late Mr James May to institute proceedings against Mrs Rhodes for the recovery of the bank shares transferred to her by Waring Taylor, in settlement of an amount appropriated by him from Ehodes's estate while acting as trustee. The value of the shares bo transferred is £12,000. The action will come before the Supreme Court shortly. The Town Clerk is now on the war path. Defaulting ratepayers had much better come forward to pay thoir arrears of rates voluntarily, and so avoid the unpleasantness of appearing before the B.M. and being put to extra expense, which in some cases, will exceed the amount due to the Borough. Owners of unregistered dogs should also look to their canine friends and hate them decorated with a registered collar. Money saved is money made. The unpopularity of the appointment of Sir George Whitmare is very openly expresxod in Ghristohuroh. A writer to h- "Prexs says, when: discussing tlie' subject. — " The fact remains, tha,t ,C<>l. Wh tmnre having teh the Army xo jojjg ago cannot be> acquainted with the details «f the science of modern warfare.- The Radiant are *<>tj .Ylaorjfp. .'fhe; enemy with whom we have now to_dfal ,is not an ill-organised rabble of undisciplined men, armed with' a shot 'gun'an(l mere. They are trained stfidieK'w'bjr /the best officers ■ f the TiuWuikh army. '"' Can we afford to meet tliefte well traiiivd and twilled soldiery with a force- of >recruits led by an, pfficer whose; miiitary. expertevie was gained up long *«•?; Since Colonel Whitniore'i w retirem«|nt the ' science, of warfare has undergone a complete revolution ; arms 1 , tatti'cfd •Terj« thing bos Wn changed."

Mr A. D. Thomson has been gazetted Clf rb to the Court at Haleorahe. Major Atkinson will address his Haw. era constituents to-morrow evening. Messrs Poley and Berkly have be*n playing to good houses in the Wairarapa. Letters of naturalisation have been granted te W. C. Pussel.of Beaconsfield. Several additions haye been made te Thynne, Linton <fc Co.'s stock sale, which will be held at Foxton on Thursday nest. An accident occurred to the engine of the noon train from Wanganui this morning which delayed its arrival for hours. Alterations of the " wanted s" of Mr Pringle, saddler, nud a separate advertis. ment from the same will be found in this issue. T.TMr Whibley has been elected to No. 6 Ward of the Manchester Road Board, Mr Alfred Grammar having retired from the contest. At a mpeting of the Feilding Brass Band held last evening, it was resolved to hold the second anniversary of the hand m the Public Hall on the sixth of July next. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will hold an extensive sale of stock at Ashhurst on Friday the 15th instant. Several additions have been made to their Feilding sale on the 14th iustant. We regret to learn that sickness is so prevalent about Taonui that the attendance at the school has been diminished by from thirty to forty scholars. One of them, a son of Mr H. Williams, died a few days ago. The members of the Small Farm Assocmtion are paying in their calls rapidly. They evidently moan business. Applications have been received from Hawera from person* desirous of joining this association. We have received from Messrs Reid & Gray, of Dunedin, their illustrated catalogue of prize machinery manufactured by that firm. We will be glai to allow any one who mar be so desirous, to inspect the catalogue, at the Star office. Mr Fleming Norton gave his papular entertainment in the Public Hall on Sat urday evening last. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the neatle , the<e wax a fair and appreciative audience. It v impossible to speak too highly of Mr Norton's ability, while his whole action, in the various characters impersonated, is always in the most perfect good taste. The lecture delivered by Mr T. B Walton in the Foresters' Hall on Sunday evening last on " Psychology, or the Wisdom of the Soul," was attended by a tolerably good and very appreciative audience, who listened with profound attention to the very instructive and interesting discourse. The lecture was an. eloquent one, and concluded amid warm applause. Some of Mr Waltons's arguments were certainly new to many there. In fact it may be said that he " brought out of his treasury things new and old." Ie 0?n---tended that matter was eternal, tnat electricity pervades the universe, from the mightiest orb to the minutest atom, and is the grand moving,. cause of all things, that it is the. great connecting link between mind and matter, as, popularly di* tinguished, although the lecturer pointed out that even mind or spirit is itself mat tei% and that what was not matter was nothing. At the close several question* were asked, amongst which were, as t, . the " electricity" argument against thf spirit theory, and as to mini in animal*. These were answered by Mr Walton to the satisfaction of the qni-mtn, and apparently the audience generally.