Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 1, 13 June 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Greenwood, dentist, will be in Feilding on Friday the 19th instant. We direct attention to the new advertisement of Mr Lewers which appears today. The run on the Wellington Evening Press has made it difficult to keep exchange regularly supplied. The old cable across Cook's Straits, has broken down. All messages for the South Island now pass over the Wanganui line. The football match, Palmerston v Feillding, takes place to-day in tho paddock near the Denbigh Hotel. Ball will be kicked off at about 2.30 p.m. Selections from the book entitled " Religion without Superstition," by Hartley Williams, Judge of the Supreme Court of Melbourne, will be read at the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening. We havo to acknowledge receipt of Tho State of the New Zealand division of tbe Salvation Army for May, from which we gather that the Feilding corps is now commanded by Captain John Condon. There is a spice of chivalry in the announcement made by Mr Kelly, the defeated candidate for Tauranga, that ho has withdrawn proceedings to void the election, on account of the critical illness at Napier, of his successful opponent, Mr Sheehan. Messrs Jas. Purkiss, and John Eustace, trustees for the estate of E. Child of Halcombe, intimate that they will receive tenders for the purchase of certain valuable properties in Halcombe, particulars of wmch aro notified by advertisement today. We learn from the Chronicle that James Maker, of Fordoll, is importing a valuable •»w named the Princess Alice from the Windsor (Berks) piggeries. The sow is in farrow to the historical and celebrated boar Bertie Saverna the property of Mr Hurst, of Auckland, M.H.B. By train last evening, Mr Bees-Mogg, who has been for some time teacher at the Awahuri School, took his departure to take up his new duties in the Wanganui College. This gentleman takes with him the good wishes of every one with whom he has come ia contact in the district. We learn from the Post that the evidence of A. G. Manthel, on behalf of the plaintiff, was taken at the Magistrate's Court to-day in a case in which J. E. G. Bowern is suing Charles Roe, of Feilding, for £50, commission on the sale of an hotel. The depositions will be sent to Feilding where the suit will be tried. Sir George Maurice O'Rorke, the member for Manukua in the Auckland district and Speaker of the House of Representatives, says that his motto is " Auckland first, and the colony afterwards." Quite right ! The body and tail must follow the head, but in a fish (Te ika a Maui) the head is the least valuable portion. A lecture will be delivered by the Rev. J. Clover, in the Primitive Methodist church to-morrow evening on "Criticisms on reply to lecture on the Genuineness of the Christian Scriptures." As the lecturer is specially gifted, and has already displayed masterly skill in the treatment of this interesting subject, we may expect to see a large attendance of interested hearers. The port of Foxton is gradually assuming more importance in the eyes of the Wellington merchants and shipowners. We notice that the increased competition in the steamer trade has made it necessary for the owners of the line to send up a resident agent in the person of Mr A. C. Bishop. We hope Mr Bishop will lay the foundation of a porraament business, and as he is young and energetic he wdl assist to advance Foxton. Mr Arthur Clayden, who has now attached the mystic letters F.R.C.S. to his name, delivered a lecture on " New Zealand" to a crowded audience, at the Christian Institute, Aberdeen. The chair was occupied by Wm. Furguson, and be-f-ido him on the platform were Mr D. Macandrew (brother of the woll-known politician), and Mr Samuel Grant (one of the Lincolnshire farmors delegates to New Zealand). The latter made a short speech at the close of the lecture, in which he siid that since his visit to the Colony he had received and answered more than a thousand letters asking for information, and he hail been the means of sending out j j upwards of H.OOO families, most of whom were s ittled and doing wvll. Ho had never received a complaint from any person whom he had induced to emigrate.

Mr and Mrs Webster went through by train last night, to Wanganui, on their return from their honeymoon trip. The happy couple will stay in Wanganui for a week or so longer, after which thoy will return to Feilding. Intelligence to hand at Sydney reports that the Australasian Steam Na? igation Company's s.s. Cahors struck upon Evan's rocks, near Ballan's Heads, and ha« become a total wreck. Her passengers and crew were saved. About the timo of the difficulty with the French auent the suppression of the Bosphore E yptien, we hear that two French transports, with two thousand men on board, stayed for a week in the Suez Canal. They wore followod and closely watched by the British ironclad Invincible. Tne Dunedin Evening Herald, ia answer to a correspondent, says: — The nationalities of the Stout- Vogel Ministry are as fellows : — Two Scotchmen, three Irishmen, one Englishman and one German. *Fhey may be classified in a religious sense thus : Two Freethinkers, two Roman Catholics, two Anglicans, and one Jew. As showing how property bas depreciated in value in Patea, the Taranaki Herald says that education reserves were let there to bring in about £250 a year. but owing to bad times the lessees have failed to pay the rents, and the Board hare receired numerous applications for leniency. Owing to this, and to many of the lessees throwing up their leases, only about £50 is expected from Patea. It has been somewhat spitefully said by irritable war correspondents, that General Lord Wolseley likes to be woll advertised. Instead of this being a reproch, in my mind it goes far to prove that General Wolseley is not only a good soldier, but a shrewd sensible man ; one who has learned by practical experience that success in life, no matter what may be the nature of the pursuit, is as much assisted by judicious advertising, as by the exercise of the valuable qualities of energy, perseverance and courage. Extracted from a private letter written by a member of the Rothchild family. Quite a lively scene occurred between two local tradesmen whom we will call A. and 8., on the return of one of the prodical sons referred to in our Thursday's issue. B. happened to be present when the recreant olive branoh of A. came back to his father's " fond" embrace, and was undergoing what B thougt an excessive punishment. The latter interfered, whereupon A turned from his wayward offspring, and commenced to " wollop" B. To make a long story short, the last mentioned is now " on view" with considerably darkened optics, a nasal organ deprived of its natural covering, and other conspicuous "decorations and improvements."