Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 142, 16 May 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The Arawa went askore in Dunedin Harbour. Our meteorological report is held over till next issue. There will be mass in the Roman Catholic Church to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock. "The maori landlords at Parihaka are claiming mora rent from their white tenants. We are glad to announce that Mr A. R. Curtis, who has been seriously ill for some days, is now convalescent. The "unemployed" in the South are joining the Trade and Labour Societies so as to get a living by the " strikes." At Geraldine, Timaru, on Wednesday last, a man named Frengrove was committed for trial for the murder of his wife. D. L. Murdoch, Esq., General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, will leave for England by next mail steamer. Counterfeit florins are in circulation in Auckland. They are not the outcome of local industry but are of Home manufacture. We are advised by telegram from Wellington that Armadale's Hamburgh sweep will not bo drawn. The money of the subscribers will be returned. The man 'Stowart, who was shot in Auckland by Thomas McKelvie, is yet in the hospital, but he is able to get up and walk. On Thursday last a boy named Leigh Kissling, son of a Government official in Auckland, was shot dead by another boy while out shooting on the Tamaki river. Mr Service advises the working classes who have the eight hours system to show their usefulness by not shopping after six o'clock in the evening. The Greymouth hospital committee threaten to strike unless the Government place them in funds to meet the expenditure of the financial year just completed. M. Esealflis was singing a few nights ago at the epera, the ballad " Hereditary borne," at the moment his wife presented him with her first baby .—There was bo encore. Two men, named Joseph and James, Mitchell, father and son, were killed at the Phoenix mine, Skipper's, Otago, when taking out quartz. The ground slipped and smothered them. A few recruits will be accepted for the Manchester Rifles on their paying the necessary sum for their uniform, viz £2 13s. Height must net be under five feet nine inches. An election of a Warden to represent the Kimbolton Ward of the Kiwitea Road Board will be held on the 22nd instant. Nominations must: be handed into the returning officer Mr E. Goodbehere before noonon Wednesday next. Any of our subscribers who have spare copies of this journal dated June 12th, 1884, or 23rd, 26th, 28th of August will greatly oblige by sending them to this office. Suitable remuneration^will be made, ' I We understand, says the Post, that a fresh order prohibiting Mr W. J. Hunt ■ from residence in any of the islands of the Western Pacific was recently signed by Governor Des Voeux, and was enforced against Mr Hunt on his recent visit to Samoa. He was ordered to leave within a certain number of days, on pain of arrest. ,-.,,. We publish to-day an advertisement from Mr J. B. Hamilton which we speci- : ally commend to the notice of our readers. : It will be seen that^the success which has ; attended the business in Feilding has encouraged him to make large additions to the stock which is nbVopen for inspection. , A witness in the R.M. Court on Wednesday who was described as " variously employed," was asked by , the Bench, with a veiw to fixing his expenses, what he was doing that , day. "Oh I am working for the court to-day, Sir," replied he. His answer, though somewhat amusing, was after all, • perfectly correct. After doing one other job " for the court" he was promoted, and on the following! morning left by train en route for, bis new appointment in company iwith a' certain' Government official. ■'■ .' : •. v V • Each town i^ New, Zealand may now be recognised by the mere mention of its peculiar attribute thus : fires, Invercargill; lovely JJwomen, Nelson . ;: civU servants, Wellington; apathy, Taranaki; enterprise, Auckland; Scotchmen, Dunedin; church spires, Chrischurch;* horse racing (? lunacy), . Wanganui; pluck; Palmerston, and so on through the map. Modesty prevents our adding the ; pecubar attribute of Feilding but we niay hint that it is a combination of, all the virtue§/:< ■■'■''' There seems to be an indefinable eliarm in the 'precinct* and atmosphere of a Police court. ! On. Wednesday last the R.M. Court, in that portion of the buildmg set apart for the public, , was crowded during the greater part of .the day wigi idle spec-? tators. Admitting that the great number of cases necoessita'ted the presence of a great number of pureous interested as plaintiff*;' defendants, or witnesses, even that does , not account tor the, .multitude assembled., There were of uninterested— f further than by curiosity r— persons in to the small space allotted for the public* quite fifty per cent., whose united labour, would be worth at least twenty Winds to them. This ie a dead locs to the country.