Local aad General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 7, 27 June 1885, Page 2

Local aad General News

We have received the Anglo-New Zealander dated May Bth. During the indisposition of Lieut. Col. Stapp, Major Tuke nas been appointed to the command of this district. For casting sawdust into a stream contrary to regulations under the Fisheries Conservation Act 1884, the manager of the Taranaki Sash and Door Factory Company, was fined 20s and costs. The Manchester Kifles paraded for Government inspection on Thursday evening last. There was a full attendance. In the absence of Lieut-Colonel Stapp, SergtMajor Henry drilled the men The proprietors of up-country papers are said to be about to petition Parliament to exempt them, when published less than three times a week, from the operation of the Copyright Act. At the police court yesterday, before E. H. Wright, Esq., J.P., William S. Staite was brought up under arrest, charged by Constable Meenan with being drunk on the railway platform the night previous. He pleaded guilty, and was discharged with a caution. Repeated experiment has proved that in school-rooms lighted by windows on both sides, the children suffer more or less from injured vision, and so important has the subject been considered in Germany that a law has been passed forbidding such windows in schools. The trial of Eichard Short, the man who stabbed Thomas Phelan in O'Donovan Rossa's office on Jan. 10 last, was opened on May 1. The jury on May 6 returned a verdict of not guilty, much to the disgust of the Judge, who told them that he was astonished at the verdict. The New York Fenians are elated at the result of the trial. Mr Macarthur, M.H.8., returned to Feilding on Thursday, from Wellington. We understand that he will return to his Parliamentary duties early next week., Since his arrival here his time has boj/jf much occupied by Municipal and otficr business connected with the local bodies of which he is chairman. A splendid opportunity is given to any one with a small capital who is desirous of acquiring a valuable farm in the flourishing district of Sandon. Mr Moore of ICai Iwi advertises to-day that he will receive tenders for the purchase of section 251 in the Township of Sandon, containing 191 acres. His terms are most liberal. At the parade on Thursday last it was announced that the anniversary of the Feilding Brass Band would be celebrated shortly by a banquet. As these festivals have on all past similar occasions proved a success, and the members of the band standing high in the estimation of the Feilding pubic, we expect to see a large attendance of both volunteers and civilians. A terrible story was recently told at Westminster Police Court of a woman who was in the habit of exporting girls to foreign voluptuaries, includingthe (< king," a potentate believed to reside not a hundred miles from Brussels. She also was patronised by persons " in high life " at the Army and Navy, the Tur£ and other Clubs, and seemed to have made a good thing out of this hideous traffic. If the story be true — and there is little reason to doubt it — it would seem that there are plenty of people in good positions who engage in transactions ruinous to the bodies and souls of young women, but who would be the bettor for a taste of the "cat." Mr F. de J. Clere, A.R.1.8.A, of the firm of Atkins and Clere, is well known as one of the most efficient and talented professional gentlemen in our midst, and his many friends will be glad to hear of the high* honour which has been conferred upon mm by the Society of Arts, London. This body, which deservedly stands high in public estimation, has paid Mr Clere the compliment of electing him one of their members, the honour being materially enhanced by the fact that Mr Clere' s nomination was by the council of the society itself. We congratulate ' our townsman upon the recognition of his professional skill which has been made him by a body of such an essentially high character as that possessed by the Society of Arts.— Chronicle. .

Mass will be celebrated in the Gatliolic Church on Sunday, 28th instant, at 11 a.m. Two very handsome four-decker bridal cakes were on view at Mr Pollock's today. They will be utilized next week. Carl Willielm Berg, of Stoney Creek, Falmerston North, has been naturalised at a British subject. An appeal has been lodged in the case Bowern v. Roe, heard at the last sittings of the R.M. Court here, where the defendant was mulcted in £50 and costs. Mr Lyne is erecting another store, which we understand he will open when finished. It is facing the railway line on his property at the corner of North and Denbigh streets. The will of Edward Ses.lon, of Trondheim, Provincial District of Wellington, has been finally accepted, and probate has been {ranted to the Public Trustee as Executor. " The Stery of the Soudan" will be teld at the Lyceum to-morrow evening, We understand it is the substance of a lecture recently delivered in London, and is gathered from official documents. It should prove interesting to the audience. A sample of shotty gold has been sent from Waikato to Auckland. The • • Bell" says it is not unlikely that gold exists in the King Country, and the working of the Central railway will give opportunities for prospecting. In a leader on "Masonry and the Churah" the Jewish Eeoord thus concludes : — "Masons, as individuals, help their respective churches. The principles of virtue and morality inculcated in the lodge-room make men better churchmen but poorer bigots." The inclemency of the weather prevented so large an attendance at Mr Walton's lecture on "The God of the Bible" at the Foresters' Hall last evening, as there would doubtless otherwise have been. The discourse was an able and eloquent one, and was well received by those present. Next Wednesday night the Eita-Bad-cliff Company will perform in the Public Hall. As that will be a moonlight night, numbers of visitors will avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing some good music. The performance concludes at 10.30 p.m., so they will be able to return to their homes at reasonable hours. Yesterday several members of the Library Committee were engaged in selecting new books at Mr Carthew's. We understand that they were fortunate in getting a large number of works by the most popular authors.' As soon as these have been catalogued they will be available for issue to regular subscribers Constable Meehan deserves great credit for the promptness displayed by him in arresting Kreeger, who is now undergoing his sentence in Wanganul gaol for stealing a coat from the verandah of Mr C. Brown, draper. Twenty minutes after the information was laid the mam was in custody, with the stolen property in his possession. From an answer made by Mr Ballance to a question in the Houxe recently; it appears that the Government intend to form a New Zealand Torpedo Corps of 40 lien, ten in each principal port, coblisting of men expert in the use of the torpedo, who will instruct naval brigades, Mr Smythe. the Government instructor, is bow drilling Member! of the A.C. Force in torpedo practice, and these men, with others to be obtained from Heme, will form the Corps. We have received from the publishers, Messrs Upton and Co., of Auckland, a copy of a very interesting pamphlet entitled " Co-operation of Land, Labor, and Capital." by IV. L. Bees, the well-known solicitor. It is dedicated to Sir George Grey, the noble and unselfish leader of those who, in the Colonial Empire of Great Britain, are striving for the liberties and welfare of the people. It was printed at the "Bell" office, and turned out in a manner which reflects infinito credit ob that office. Want of space forbids our giving even a brief review of the work, but it is well worth reading, as it bears internal evidence of much careful study and compilation from the works of the beßt authors who have treated on the subject matter of the essay. The official Tagblatt of Warsaw announces that Russia is making the necessary preparations for taking Herat. " Our Government," says the official organ, ''has never declared that it renounced all claims on Herat ; but if the chances of war secure it to ms we shall know how to make use of this advantage, and holding it as a Damocles sword o?er India, we shall lie able to decide several European questions in our • own favour. We can take Herat before the Anglo-Indian troops hare crossed the Afghan frontier. Wo can easily fortify and hold it. The damage done by our army (English News Letter) to India will be far heavier than the losses to our commerce caused by the blookade of our ports." __ __^ —-