Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 143, 19 May 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A football club is about to bs started at Foxton. Kawana Hunia died at Parawanui on Saturday. Mr Thomas Nelson has been gazetted postmaster at Ashurst. The very interesting meteorological report, compiled by Mr 8. Goodbehere, appears to-day. The proposal to form a Building Society in Feilding is being discussed on all shies. We hope that it will aeeume a definite form in a short time.

The Rev. Mr Stewart is confined to his | house from severe illness. j Mr Lewers has some interesting notices j in our " wanted" column to-day. The ship Elderslie, Captain Hewatt, left Port Chalmers on Saturday last with a cargo value £56,142 10s. On Saturday last at Mr Haines' farm a horse got down a well which was twelve i feet deep. It was extricated without being ! injured in the slightest. I The Jane Douglas has been on the slip at WeUington having a complete overhaul. She will leave Foxton for Wel- j lington this evening at ten o'clock. Taranaki is sending a confectioner to Wellington to manufacture pastry for the Colonial Exhibition. Taranaki is determined to be revenged on Wellington in one way or another. The Governor has authorised the Borough Council of Palmerston North to sell a portion of subsection 1 of subsection 225 of the Borough, containing 2 acres 2 roods. Throe months' notice has to be given. We understand the Feilding contingent of the Salvation Army intend having a grand field day on Monday next. The programme includes several meetings in the Public Hall, and a Halleluja tea in the barracks. A rise of a penny a pound in the London wool market would mean an addition of £334,000 to tho yearly income of the colony. The falling off in the exportable value of our grain last year amounted to £389,000. The old offices of the Stab are now being fitted up as sample rooms. There will be two commodious apartments, with suitable tables, shelves, &c. Tho front will be painted, and tho whole building rejuvenated. Several persons have informed us that now there is prospect cf now books^ being added to the Feilding Public Library, they will again become subscribers. We would urge on these the necessity for not waiting until the books arrive. The display of fireworks to be given by Mr Newman at Palmerston on Monday next premises to be a great success. It is meeting with the hearty encouragement of the leading citizens, and the display is to be carried out on a very elaborate and systematic scale. A settler in the district informs us that 84 acres of land for which about 7 years ago he paid £2 10s per acre he has just sold at £10 per acre. We hope this is an indication that land generally in this district is increasing in value, and that better times are in prospect. The eleven bores of a newspaper office .are poets, cranks, rats, cockroaches, typographical errors, exchange fiends, book canvassers, delinquent subscribers, dead head advertisers, gossips, and the man who always knows how to run the paper better than the editor himself. At Sydney recently a jury agreed on a verdict at onee, but it was half an hour before they returned to Court. The Judge, who had sat beyond the usual hour sent a messenger to inquire if they were likely soon to agree, and the answer was " Yes, as soon as we finish our smoke." Since the promulgation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility, the number of dissenting Catholics has greatly increased. The Old Catholics in Switzerland, under Bishop Herzog, have fifty clergy and over 50.000 adherents. In Germany, under Bishop Reinkens, bave forty-five clergy and nearly 50,000 adherents. The first football match of the season was played on Saturday between the Manchester Club, under the Captainship of Mr A. D. Thompson, and a scratch team from the Manchester Rifles, under Mr Fred Roe The skill and tactics of Mr Thompson and his men brought victory to their side with three goals and three tries to nothing. Our correspondent "Indignant" writes to inform us that in his letter which appeared in our issue of Saturday last, he intended no slight on the local agents of j insurance companies doing business in ' Feilding. He merely recognised the delicacy of their position, where, if they supported resolutions in favor of a reduction of premiums, they would virtually be acting a part inimical to their employers. The Taranaki Budget has' commenced an agitation to have the time occupied in the passage of trains between Foxton and New Plymouth shortened by making the Aramoho station adjunction proper, so that passengers for New Plymouth from stations south of Wanganui may not be compelled to visit the latter town and thus save au hour and a half on the trip. The chairman of the Inangahua County Council, was fined five guineas, and his seat declared vacant, for voting en a motion which gave himself a salary of £200 a year. He gave both his original and casting vote for tke motion. The Magistrate ruled that in _so acting the chairman had rendered himself liable to a penalty provided for Councilllors voting on motions in which they have any interest. A very singular circumstance is reported to us by a passenger by the train from Foxton on Friday evening last. A valuable horse, the property of Mr Bindon, school Inspector, managed to get all but its hind quarters through the small opening between the horse box in which it was being conveyed and the attendant's compartment. This was discovered on reaching Motuiti, and on its being found impossible to otherwise extricate the animal, the train was taken back to Foxton, whore .the horse was extricated by cutting down the partition. In the present issue will be found an advertisement from Mr McLenaghan, the new proprietor of the Endymion hotel, Awahuri. It is his intention te introduce into the business all the improvements deemed necessary or desirable, to keep none but the best brandß of beer, wines, spirits, &c., to provide the best accommodation for the travelling public, to keep good stabling and paddocking, and, In short, to make the Endymion one of the best appointed country hotels on the coast. We believe considerable experience will be brought into the business, and that Mr McLenaghan will prove in every way a valuable acquisition to the district. We learn from the Wanganui Herald that an important action will be tried by the R.M. at Feilding next week, when a well known hotel broker and commission agent, who travels this coast, will sue an equally well known Feilding boniface for £50 commision on sale of hotel. The plaintiff let the hotel, sold the stoek and furniture, and turned up on the date he rifiod with his man and money, but lefendant repudiated the whole thing ! and would not carry out the agents transaction. The latter now, we hoar, is threatened with an action from his other < client for non-completion of contract and is between two fires. However as the case wiU be fully discussed in the Feilding Court we will wait the R-M.'s decision.

In a race against time at Tauranga the j ether day, the horse Tarn O'Shanter eovered 18 miles in 48 minutes. M . De Harven is trying to secure aa estate near Waimata, Canterbury, on which to place 500 Belgians. There is a geod deal of sickness prevalent in Feilding j ast now, but fortunately net of a serious character. The insurrection in Canada is now practically at an end. Numbers of rebels have tendered their submission to General Middleton. We have to thank Mr King the secretary ef the Manawatu Racing Club, for a Press ticket for the race meeting at Palmer* len on the 25th instant. Mr James Beat tie returned to Feilding on Saturdny night last. VVe are glad to observe that his health is much imprered by his trip round the North Island. It is understood that the Hon. Mr Dalley has declined the honors offered to him in recognition of his action in offering the services of the New South Wales contingent to England. The hailstorm which passed over this district on Friday evening last was very heavy at Cloverdeaa, near Awahuri. In some places the hailstones were piled up j eighteen inches and two feet high. Mr C. A. Richardson has accepted the appointment of agent of the Accident Assurance Association of New Zealand, and is now canvassing this locality. His present address is the Buckingham Palace. The premises formerly used as Borough Council chambers are now occupied by Mr W. Campbell who haa now recemmenced basiness. Mr Campbell's advertisement will appear in a future issue. Her Majesty has contributed £200 to the funds of the Royal Fund for the Relief of the Orphans ef Sea Fishermen, aad the Prince of Wales, wbo is president ef the society has contributed 100 guineas. It appears that the Chinese have found a novel way of making money out of the high rewards offered for foreigners' heads in Tonquin. They disinter the French, or any others who have been killed or otherwise died, any carry their heads to the officials to obtain the rewards offered. It is not, we believe, says the Post, probable that any attempt will be made at present to actually drill the first-class Militia, bat the men liable to serve will be called out, enrelled ia companies, and tbe companies officered. The company roll* will th«n be kept ap regularly, so that the force, or any portion of it, will be ready for being drilled nt any time such a step may appear desirable. A Beautiful Painting. — Mr G. G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U.&.A., is presenting to druggists and others ia this country some very fine pictures in oil ot his magnificent house and grounds nnd laboratory at that place VI r Green is the preprieter of Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower, twe very valuable medicines, which are meeting with great faror, the first as a remedy fer Palmenary complaints, and the lat+er for Dyspepsia and disorders ef the Liver. These preparations have attnined an immense sale solely en their superior merits and arc sold hy all druggists threugh-ut the world. The price is the same fer eacTi. 3s _d per bottle, er sample bottles for 6d. The sample bottles enable sufferers te prove their value at a trifling cost.