Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 149, 2 June 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

It is proposed to erect in Melbourne a statue to the late General Gordon. Tho Manchester Football Club had a good practice on Saturday hist. We are glad to learn that Mr Charles Gray has returned from the Hot Springs much improved f n health. The Government railway workshops at Eastown, near Wanganui, are to be enlarged to double their present size. The T. W. Lucas left the Wanganui wharf on Saturday night, but sho struck on the flats on her way down tho rivre, where shu still remains. We learn from the Manawatu Herald that Mr G. W. Bussel, late proprietor of tho Manawatu Times, is about to issue a tri- weekly paper at Cambridge, under the name of the Cambridge News. It is stated that the proprietors of the Napier Evening News have issued a writ for libel against the proprietors of the Waipaws Mail. The damages are laid at £500, and the case is expected to be heard next month.

A correspondent of the "Wan ganui Herald writes from Nelson stating that eggs are 2s 6d per dozen, and fresh butter Is4d per pound, in that city. Sir Stafford Northcote and his son have entered into the newspaper line of business. They have just registered themselves as proprietors of a small journal which has been started in the "West of England in the Conservative interest. | The Otago Daily Times says — " Major Atkinson's speech at Hawera confirms our I impression that ho does not want to got into office this year. The tone which he ' adopts is rather that of the candid friend ■ than of the leader of the Opposition. | The Auckland Star says that Major < Atkinson's speech at Hawera has not that ring of vigorous opposition and dissent which arouses public enthusiasm, combines party, and precedes victory. The run on the revised edition of the Old Testament just published at Home is equal if not greater to that on the book " Called Back" when it first appeared. Our sincere hope is that the former will be read with as much avidity as the latter. According to the Otago Daily Times, Dr Voa Haast had a long interview with the Cabinet, when everything was satisfactorily arranged for him to proceed immediately as commissioner to the London Exhibition. He is practically to have carte blanche. The sporting contributor of the Wanganui Chronicle says — "Mr John Bryce is an uncompromising opponent of the present Ministry of all sorts ; but he is at no loss to give substantial grounds for hit opposition. He hits hard and his blows are staggerers, but they are above tho bolt, and must be acknowledged to be well doserved. The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection to-morrow night at the usual time and place. Members are reminded that fines for absence will be rigidly enforced. The parade will be held, wet or dry ; no excuse will be taken except in the case of severe illness, which must be proved by a medical certificate, The Manchester Road Board office has just been furnished with a handsome table. It is 8 feet x 3 feet 6 inches, is built of rimu, and the top is covered with black cloth. It is in every way well adapted for meetings of the Board, and has been manufactured to their order by Mr Eade, upon whom it reflects great credit. The Library Committee should take some steps to prevent the presence of disorderly boys in the Public Reading Room. Last night the conduct of a number of young larrikins who found their way there, en the pretence of looking at the illustrated periodicals, was simply disgraceful. If the insurance scheme of the Government was promulgated chiefly to get rid of Mr Commissioner Luckie, it is likely to prove more expensive to the taxpayers, as well as the policy holders, than if £1000 a year was given to that gentlemen to retire while the old system was allowed to remain unaltered. The conviction which has been affirmed against W. Waring Taylor was on an indictment containing 73 counts for misdemeanour, and he is liable to seven years' penal servitude on each count. The result of the other conviction being quashed may possibly cause some civil litigation between May's representatives and the Baak of New Zealand, regarding the £700 which Taylor was alleged to have stolen. We understand the Rev. J. Clover has been offered the Lyceum platform for Sunday evening next, for the purpose of carrying out his intention of resuming the debate commenced by him. Should he not be prepared by that time, on account of his other engagements, Mr T. 11. Walton will deliver a lecture given by him at Palmerston on Sunday last, suggested by Mr Clover's lecture, but nothing to do with the debate. Particulars will be advertised on Thursday. The newspapers of the colony are very fond of having occasional raps at Mr Railway Maxwell, and to do him every justice, all must admit he gives them plenty of reasonable opportunities which are seldom neglected. But he in his turn has found out a means of annoying newspaper proprietors. He has cut down the advertising, and in the stead thereof has adopted a system of issuing slips of paper known in the trado as " dodgers." These have not proved a success and the revenue has sufferrod as a natural consequence, but of course that does not matter to the sapeint official. His next plan ought to be to send station masters round with a hand bell. Rumours of vast fortunes left to secluded citizens are rife in our midst ; vain hopes are fanned into an ccstacy of delirious joy only to make sick tho heart by long deferring. Hard working men are leaving their bread-winning labour to seek the advice of some scion of the law upon certain mysterious legal documents bearing their names. Some genius has hit upon a plan to catch the fancy of the credulous. Circulars stating that " your name" appears in the next of kin register and that full particulars of the advertisement will be sent upon payment of ten shillings. One we saw gave the name, quite an uncommon one, of a well-known resident, and when the half-guinea's worth in the shape of the advertisement arrived it j stated that the person enquired for was supposed to have died in Brittany in 1601. A Gbkat Business. — The United Stales of America is the home of tome very large enterprises, but nene perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr G. G. Green, of Woodburv, New Jersey, U.S.A. He is the proprietsr of the well-known Bosch ee's German Syrup which is unequalled an a remedy far Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. He manufactures alxa Green's August Slower for Dyspepsia and all disorders of the Lifer. These preparations are used throvghont the civilized world and thousands testify to their raluahle curati™ properties. Both these preparations* hare reached an immense sale solely ou an tlieir merits. Sample bottles of each are Hold nt 6d., or full-sized bottles at 3s 6(i. All druggists. The Woodrillc Examiner says should the rumor that the Hawke's Bay nquatters nnd their allies are abont to attempt to gag us by starting a paper to run their interest* we may Ml them they nerd net make any overture* to u« as they did the Wnipnwa Mail. We value freedom and right principle to* much to sell omr position and influence for the | | gfld obtained in an unprincipled way j from the heritage «f the people, and now about to be used to silence the voice of freedom. We shall fight it U> the bitter ; end if need be, and we know that we shall meet with the rewar.l wo deserve. The , days when the Hawke's Bay land swin- ; dlern will rule the Innd and i'usinn; the .; small settlers and working classes are nearly over. We are hvre to hasi-n the ! time when their usurpation shall be over find the; shall oppress us but to make our pen grow more vigorous and our cause more successful.