Local and General News

Feilding Star, 11 June 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A meeting of the Borough Council will be hold this evening at eight o'clock. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R., left for Wellington yesterday, by the Jane Douglas, to attend Parliament. 'I he new advertisement «f Mr D. R. Lewers will appear in our next issue. It contains some excellent new lines. The last meeting of the Choral Society for practice was not well atended owing to the inclemancy of the weather. A dance was held in the Town Hall last night, under the auspices of the Makino Band. The attendance was not large, but otherwise the affair passed off successfully. Mr Harry Halcombe is rapidly recovering from his injuries, but it is feared that he will bo unable to take part in any of football matches this season. Shakespeare says — " One fire burns out another's burning, one pain is lessened by another's anguish," but this won't apply to two bills falling due the same day. The term of office of the ranger expired during the current week. We observed a cow feeding at the door step of the Borough Council offices yesterday. The Manchester Rifles paraded for company drill on Tuesday evening. Notwithstauding the inclemency of the weather there was a good muster. Captain Edwin telegrflphs— Bnrometer further rise everywhere. Warnings for southerly gales and n .ty cold weather hare been sent to all places south ot East Cape and Raglan. Among a number of gentlemen added to the list of Justices of the Peace we observe the names of J. Ballance, Morton Jones, H. Barnes, and A D. Willis, of Wanganui, E. A. Haggen, ©f Woodville, E. H. Wright, of Feuding. In another column Mr A. McKenzie, of Rewa Rewa, "Kiwitea, advertises that he is a purchaser of a farm of from .three to five hundred acres. We understand that Mr McXenzie is prepared to treat for either improved or unimproved land. The Napier Daily Telegraph says that funny Irishmen are not yet under the sod. Une was rushing to the fire on Friday night, when he knocked forcibly against a well-known Scotch bootmaker of Hastings street. "Where is the fire?", shouted ••■4 -otty. "Don't ask me," replied Pat, ■ I'm breathless, and can't speak." It would appear that brigandage is not altogether extinct in Italy. The capture is announced of Signor Giovanni Moscatelli, near Nazarro, 28 miles from Rome. A sum of £1600 was demanded for his ransom, but! the captors finally accepted £200 sent by his family. The carbinte. s are in pursuit of the brigands. Nominations of candidates to fill the extraordinary vacancy in the Borough Council, caused by the retirement of Cr Gichard, must be left at the offices of the Borough Council to-morrow before noon. We understand there will be a contest between two if not three burgess.es for the honor. . In other parts of the colony entertainments, musical and theatrical, are got up by the members of rifle corps, and as these invariably attract a large share of public support, the funds of the several corps aie thereby much augmented. As the Manchester Rifles urgently need a proper drill shed, this example might easily be followed and money raised for the purpose. The estate known as Westoe, on; the north side of the Rangitikei river, the property of Sir William Fox, has been sold to Mr Dalziell of Bulls. The price given was £15,000 or about £6 per acre. It is somewhat remarkable that the great advocate and apostle of temperance should sell out to a vendor of whiskey, for money made in a trade he has denounced for so many years. Money and death level all men. A telegram from Melbourne states that private advices from home report the sugar market to be somewhat excited, in consequence of statistics of the world's estimated crop showing a considerable falling off in the yield as compared with last year. Prices are stated to have increased, but our market reports from Sydney show no alteration, in sugar,quotations. — Auckland Herald. It v very seldom that a witness gives all other parts of his evidence in a clear ' headed manner yet gets confused when ' asked about his station in life. This was, however, the case in the R.M. Court yesterday. A witness actually forgetting for the moment, whether he was married or not. To the Bench on this question being put he answered in the affirmative, but afterwards corrected himself and gave an emphatic negative. Mr Edward Wood is certainly most unfortunate. Some few months ago he was prostrated with fever. Shortly after his j recovery from this illness he was crushed by a fall of grain sacks m Palmerston, and was again confined to his bed for a long time. Now he is again the victim of an accident at Palmerston, by which his leg was broken. As none of these misfortunes are the results of carelessness, he is deserving of the sympathy which is freely accorded him. On Tuesday we omitted to make mention of Mr T. R. Walton's lecture delivered in the Foresters' Hall on Sunday evening last. There was a good attendance, and the audience listened to the speaker with the greatest attention, interrupting him only by frequent applause, drawn forth by his eloquent remarks. The subject was " Facts concerning Jesus and the Gospels," and was suggested by the lecture recently delivered by the Rev. J. Clover on "The Genuineness of the Christian Scriptures*" to which, it was almost a direct reply. The numerous friends of Mr, J. A. Tompkins, storekeeper, Halcombe (says the Advocate), will deeply regret to learn that he has succumbed to'ttteipainful disease (dropsy) which attacked him some months ago. Mr Tompkins .was one of most promising young men in the district. He was energetic, straightforward* and remarkably intelligent. He took an active •and earnest part in all the public affairs of Halcombe, and was for a considerable time - chairman of the Town Board. He was admired and respected by all who 'came ; into contact with him, whether ii^private ' life, business, or public affairs. His funeral will leave the residence of his father-in-law, Mr Henry Saneon, ■ to-morrow ati o'clock. • - : ;•• ■ .