Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 152, 9 June 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

Ten shillings reward is offered for the recovery of a light bay cob. In Mr Goodbehere's letter last issue occurred a printer's error which considerably altered the sense of an important passage. In the sentence — "Whereas the contrary represents the poverty of a nation," the word wealth should have appeared instead ot poverty. Some time ago a resolution was passed by the Borough Council that tho piles of old newspapers and other waste paper accumulated in the Reading Boom of the Library should be sold. This has ntst^et been carried into effect. When it is iw would suggest that the worn out " yellow cover " novels should be sold at the some time to make room for new books.

The usual parade of the Manchester Eifles will be held this evenine at the Public Hall. A meeting of the Feilding Small Farm Association will be held to-morrow evening, at Mr C. Bray's office, at 8 p.m. The successful tenderers for the erection of Messrs C. and W. Bray's business premises at Ashhurst, are Messrs A. and J. Bauckham builders of that place. The Government intend this session to introduce a bill to enable the fire and marine insurance companies that are now unlimited to become limited companies. We are glad to learn that Mr E. J. Cottrell, who has been for some daya seriously indisposed, is now much better and in a fair way to complete recovery. Mr Eothoram went down by train last night en route for the South. Several gentlemen were at the railway station to wish him goodbye and prosperity in his new position. The Feilding football players are very enthusiastic. It is quite a common thing for practice to be continued up till nine or ter o'clock at night. How they manage to see the ball is a mystery. Tenders are invited for certain alterations to the Halcombe school building. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Mr James Purkiss, Halcombe. Messrs Atkins & Clere are the architects. At the inquest on the body of John Kennedy, who died suddenly in Wellington, the medical evidence showed that death resulted from syncope from a sudden failure of the heart's action. Verdict accordingly returned. Dunn, a noted burglar, was arrested in Auckland on Saturday for disorderly conduct. When arrested he attempted to draw a revolver at the constable. A quantity of jewellery, suposed to be stolen was found to be in bis possession. We have received a letter, over the signature of " A Lover of Justice," on the subject of our report of the Sandon Concert. If the writer will be good enough to forward his name, not for ! publication, but as a guarantee of good faith, the letter will appear. The Government have arrived at a definite arrangement with the directors of the Wellington-Manawatu Eailway Company for the purchase of that railway. The consent of the shareholders has yet to be obtained before the agreement can be submitted to Parliament. Mr W. Kelly, the unsuccessful candidate at the late Tauranga election, has instructed Messrs Hesketh & Richmond, of Auckland, to proceed by petition against the return of Mr Sheehan on the ground of corrupt practicees. Numerous allegations of breachee of the Act will be made. A meeting of the family and clan of Gordon was held on April 10, in Aberdeen, in view of a memorial in Scotland to the late General Gordon. A resolution, moved by the Earl of Aberdeen, approving Hiich a memorial, was adopted, and the ippointment of a Committee was decided on. Mr Harry Halcombe met with a somewhat severe accident on Saturday last while playing football, his collar bone being dislocated. Dr Johnston was promptly in attendance on the sufferer and rendered all the assistance that was necessary. Mr Halcombe will be able to resume his duties at the Bank of Australasia in a few days. There was a meeting of the Council of the Manchester Rifles held last night at the offices of the E. & C. A. Corporation. Captain Macarthur, Lieutenants Blackmore and Ploasants, Sergeants Nicholas and Evans, Corporal Gosling, and Volunteer Kirton were present. The business was for the most part formal. It was determined that in all cases the fines for nonattendance at Government or private parades will be rigidly enforced. With reference to an accident reported in our last issue as having happened at Tarrants mill, we have been supplied with the following more correct particulars, Mr Elgar was driving a trolly laden with blocks when tho horse jumped a bridge and bolted at full gallop. The driver was thrown off and falling among the debris alongside the tramway, was much bruised and scratched. The name of the locality was also also incorrectly stated as the property on which the accident happened is Mr C. Pharazyn's. Such a scene as was witnessed on April 15 in Fore street, Dovonport, has not been observed in the mam thoroughfare of the town since the Russian war. Workmen from all parts of Devon and Cornwall, who were already named, and others who attended with the hope of a chance of engagement, surrounded the dockyard gates, and at one period of the morning at least 500 were present. The police had orders not to admit any one but men bearing passes to see the Chief Constructor, and the services of a full force, under Inspectors Smith and Phillips and Sergt. Moorman, were needed to carry the instructions into effect. There was a good attendance of sporting men at Turakina an Saturday last to witness a match between My Dream and Fern Flats, some seventy gentlemen being present. Two races were run. In the first one and a-half miles, £20, Mr Gray's Fern Flats, lOst 81b, beat Mr Thurston's My Dream, 9st 71b. In the second halfmile course, for £5, Fern Flats was again successful. The match came off in a paddock kindly lent by Mr Lethbridge. j After the race Fern Flats was bought by jMr Bryce. We have heard that another j match is on the tapis, namely Germaine : and Fern Flats, two miles, 12st up, for '■ £50.— Exchange. Messrs Sotheby & Co. sold in London recently among other valuable autographs thirteen most interesting letters from Dean Swift to his friend Alderman Barber. They are written at a sad period of Swift's life, from 1732 to 1739, shortly before bis powerful mind finally gave way. There are many references in the letters to intimate friends of former days, such as Pope and Bolingbroke, and the letters show now greatly Swift suffered during the years immediately preceding his ultimate collapse. Sir Walter Scott, printed these letters in his edition of Swift, but not accurately. There are several portions of them which hare never yet been in print, and Scott's copies are full of smaller errors. Once on the West (Coast goldfields, when Charleston and Brighton were in the height of their glory, a young woman applied to Mr Broad, the warden, for "a permit," as she was pleased to call it, to got married. "Why," said the astonished magistrate, " I granted you a protection order against your husband only the other day. Is he dead >" • " Dead ! no indeed," replied the lady. " Well then," said Mr Broad, "That being the case you must not marry again." The lady gave a snort of defiance and said, " Well, if you won't give the permit, somebody else will." The cream of the joke is that she rode up to Charleston, only twelve or fourteen miles distant, where she got properly, legally, and to her satisfaction married agai^k. She meant business. '

The Taranuki Herald hears that Messrs Hill and Driller have telegraphed to Mr Stout: — "Will Government contradict libellous statements of Ballance. This without prejudice to legal action."

Kumours are current that it is not impro- . bable that something sensational will ' occuri'mtnediatcly on the re-assembling of ! Parliament in connection with certain imputations of insobriety which found publication soon after the prorogation.

The Bishop of Nelson has written a letter to Mr Broadhurst, M.P., on the subject of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. In it he points out that four of the.' Bishops do not disapprove of Kuch murriages, and that the laity are almost unnmmout ia approving of them.

Many persons m Feilding who live near the railway line, time their breakfasts by the train which is believed to leave Feilding station at 7.25 under the fond delusion that the time stated is indicated by the the departure of the train. This is a grave error, as the train time is very unreliable.

We are sorry to hear that Mr A. Humphrey, of Turakina, has lost his wellknown trotter Little Nell. The horse died last week of internal inflammation. The loss is all the more unfortunate in that she was considered to stand a good show over at the Napier meeting. — Chronicle.

At the initiation of Edward, Prince of Wales, into Freemasonry, it was mentioned by a pastmaster that " bo less than four of the softer sex have been initiated into the mysteries «f Fre«masonry. These were the Hon. Mr« Aid worth, in Lodge 44, about 1735 ; Mrs Beatsou, a natire of .Norfolk ; a certain landlady of a Devonshire hotel ; and Madame de Xnintrallies, of France.

In his Lenten pastoral, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Gal way says that in one parish in bis diocese there are at present moment over 30 families under notice of eviction — owing rent for patches of land from which no toil could extruct the present rents and a tolerable subsistence — and that they are debarred from appealing to the Land Court on some technical ground, and have no prospect but the workhouse. The following new rule under the Bankruptcy Act is gazetted : — The recommendation «f a person for the appoint* ment ef Deputy Assignee of the estate of any bankrupt shall be made under the hand and seal of the Official Assignee for the district in which sunh bankrupt shall have filed hit declaration or shall have been adjudicated a bankrupt, and such recommendation shall be duly filed in the Court in which bankruptcy proceedings then are. Any such recommendation when made and filed as aforesaid shall be deemed to be an application under section 40 of " The Bankruptcy Act, 1883." The protection t* be accorded to the merchant ships of this country in any coming war will be quite different from the old convoy system. Instead of the merchant ships proceeding on their voyages under escort of ships of war, the pbn will be that «f sending swift armed cruisers t» bunt down the same class of vessels engaged in the enemy's service. This will enhance the value ot the great ocean liners, with their high speed and large conl-carrjing capacity. Should they be menaced by an ironclad, they could seek safety in flight. Their func ! tiou would be to attack those ships which resembled themselves, and which would be the class designed to harass the merchant fleet.