Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 144, 21 May 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The Wellington Exhibition will open j en Saturday, August Ist. Major Atkinson will address his constituents at Hawera to-morrow evening. Mr M. Keen has received his new stock of goods and intimates the same to his customers by advertisement to-day. Mr John Maysinore, who is canvassing for an insurance office in this district, has been very energetic and has taken many valuable lives -which had hitherto escaped lees active agents.

Mails for Europe via San Francisco will close to morrow at 7 p.m. We regret to learn that the Bey Mr Parkes, of Turakina, has broken a bloodvessel. The revised Bible, which has just been issued in London, has been favorably received. We regret to learn that Mr D. Downes is laid up with a somewhat severe illness. We hope soon to hear of his speedy recovery. Mr Peter Thomson has much improved the outward appearance of his shop by the careful and judicious application of a sufficiency of paint. In another column we publish a notice of dissolution of partnership between Messrs Berry and Heald, builders. The business will be carried on in the future by Mr Heald. The Eov J. Clover will lecture in the Foresters' Hall next Sunday evening, on the " Genuineness of the Christian Scriptures." As discussion will be allowed the meeting may be expected to be well attended. The " fastest on record." The Chronicle on the 19th instant published a letter, over the signature of " Commerce," dated from Palmerston South, Otago, May 19th, 1885. This is equal to telegraphy. Mr Wakefield begins a novel in Monday's Evening Press to be entitled " The Hermit of Island Bay." It is confidently expected that under the new proprietorship the Ministry will have a bitter opponent in this journal. The Manchester Eifles paraded on Tuesday night as usual. There was a good attendance, forty-five members being present. It was announced that there will be no parade next Tuesday. On Thursday next, the 28th inst., the corps will be inspected by Colonel Stapp. The railways of the colony last financial year earned nine shillings per cent, more than the previous year, a very satisfactory gain. The revenue has fallen short of the estimate by £75,000, and the expenditure has been less than the estimate by £33,000 and the net return is about £40,000 less than expected. The Westport Times says that the County Council of Westland have passed a by-law under which all tendei-B 30 per cent over or 30 per cent, under the estimate of the Engineer will be rejected. The Council will not pay too high for their work, neither will they allow men to ruin themselves. To-day we call attention to the very attractive and novel programme of the Salvation Army festival which will be held in the Public Hall on Monday next. The proceedings will begin at 11 a.m. and continue until 5 p.m. when an adjournment will be made to the barracks, in Manchester street, where Hallelujah tea will be held. There was a big fire in New Plymouth last Thursday morning, but the Agent of the Picas Association did not think it worth while to send particulars to this journal. Yet when one of the Atkinson family found a dead fish on the beach, and somebody else of local notoriety saw some wlutebait in a river we were rushed with wires chronicling the facts. A Wellington paper says — Through the the carelessness of a workman employed on a new building in Manners street on Monday, a bucket was allowed to drop from a height to the ground, narrowly missing Mr T; Dwan, who happened to be passing. We may presume that if the workman had been more careful he would hare bit Mr Dwan with the bucket. It is rumoured in political circles in Wellington that the Government intend to increase the sugar duty on the first day of the session. The property tax will propably be raised to the same amount as 1883-4. Sir Julius Yogel has come to the conclusion that it would be impossible to raise the same amount of revenue as easily and cheaply in any other way. The Feilding friends of Mr Robert Loudon will be glad to learn that he is doing very well in his new home in Australia He likes the climate, the people, and the business to be done. He is a little disappointed at net having met with any snake adventures, but hopes to have better luck in the summon The freo trade principles which obtain in New South Wales have earned his unqualified approval. A divorce Buit, in which keavy damages are claimed, has been commenced by Mr William Fordham, a clerk in the employ of W. and J. Staples, brewers, Wellington. The petitioner prays for a dissolution of his marriage with Elizabeth Fordham, on the grounds of her adultery with Mr William Boyd, acting manager of the Wellington Trust and Loan Investment Company. Damages to the amount of £2000 are claimed against the co-respon-dent. The case will be heard some time in July. Archer, the jockey, who has just returned from America, has informed a newspaper correspondent that he saw Mrs Dudley in gaol, her apartment being like a drawing-room. She told him sha could have shot Bossa after firing the first shot ; but, as the fellow put up his hands and begged in God's name for mercy, she spared him. She thought him a desperate coward. In Archer's opinion she is not insane. She anticipates acquittal, and says she will take an office next door to Bossa in Chamber street, and frighten him to death. j An unfortunate accident occurred at Adsett's sawmill, Taonui, on Tuesday. A tree was cut through, and when falling canted the wrong way, and fell on a team of bullocks which were near. Six animals were killed on the spot, and three more were so much injured that it is feared they will have to be destroyed. The driver had a narrow escape. The yokes were destroyed completely. The whole loss may be estimated at upwards of £100. As soon as Messrs Bailey Bros. (whose mill is adjoining Mr Adsett's) heard of the accident they at once sent up a team of bullocks to take the place of those destroyed, in order that the work of Mr Adsett's mill should not be delayed by the mishap. , ' .. Apropos of crossing railways at walking pace, a story is told of a couple who resided near Feilding, who were wending their way home one Saturday evening, after a day in town. The two worthies had a number of disagreements all the way along ; and their nearest way home was via the railway line. When crossing the two planks over the Makino stream, the argument reached its hottest, when the whistle of the train was suddenly heard, by the two startled elocutionists. " Jump, old woman," crie-l the man, and jump they did, and both declared that the , cold bath was the finest thing to settle the argument. ' The couple never argue points now, nor do they go at walking pace over railway crossings. — Waipawa Mail.

Duty is now charged on voluntec uniforms imported into the colony. The Banks will be closed on Monday and Tuesday next, the 25th and 26th instants respectively, in honor of the Queen's Birthday and for Whit Monday. A rise of a penny a pound in the London wool market would moan an addition of £334,000 to the yearly income of the colony. The tailing off in the exportable value of our grain last year amounted to £389,000.— Telegraph. The T. W. Lucas, now lying in Wanganui Eiver, is being loaded with sawn timber by Messrs Bailey Bros., of Taonui, who have chartered her for Brisbane. The Wanganui Sash and Door Factory will also send by her a quantity of their productions. The Wellington correspondent of a Christclmrch paper says tUat — " It is persistently rumoured here that the Government intend to increase the sugar duty on the first day of the session. It is considered certain that the Property Tax will be raised to the same amount as in 1883-4. Sir J. Yogel is said to have had a great deal of consultation with Mr Sperrey, the Commissioner of the Property Tax, and to have come to the conclusion that it would be impossible to raise the same amount of revenue as easily and cheaply in any other way." Some short time ago there was published in most of the New Zealand papers and an account of an interview between a Sydney pressman and the captain of the Austrian man-of-war Saida. In this the captain was made to speak very couteaiptously of the Russian navy, and to say that the Eussians had f«w ihips to send out. but if any did come they would not be able to get into Sydney harbour, or having got in, would be unable to get out. The Saida in now in Auckland, and to a representative of the Auckland Star the captain declared the whole story to be fabrication. We learn from the Chronicle— "A Mr John Bigg, an accountant in the Empire City, finding it impossible to bring his liabilities within the compass of hit earnings, h.s sought the protection of the Bankruptcy Court. The total family earnings he found quite inadequate to enable him to pay hit way. For eleven years he had straggled on a mere pittance of £4 10s a week. Latterly he had two sons earning £3 a week each, and a daughter receiving £1 10s but under the weight of a total income of £12 per week for the family he finally succumbed, his assests amouting to £25 and his liabilities to £226. We are inclined to think that this gentleman is the Mr Rigg who " filed his shovel" some years ago, and for a time was Town Clerk of Wellington.