Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 9, 2 July 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The Manchester Rifles paraded on Tuesday night. There was a good muster. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's next stock 6ale trill be held on the 9th instant. The entries are already very numerous. Mr C. J. Cooke has accepted the appointment of teacher at the Awahuri school. The new advertisement of Mr Svendsen appears on our third page to-day. He announces that his stock of winter goods is now open for inspection. The advertisement of Mr D. Pnngle, which intimates that he will commence a clearing sale to-morrow, will appear next issue. A sale of fruit trees from the nursary of Mr Benefiold will be held by Messrs Halcombe and Shorwill on Saturday next. The date of the sale of Mr Bolton's trees, &c, has been indefinitely postponed. Mr Bryce has been appointed School Commissioner to fill the vacancy on the Wellington Board of School Commissioners caused by the absence of Sir William Fox. Hop growing is not so popular in Nelson as it was two years ago, but at Awahuri, where the quantity aud quality of the crops have been undoubted, more ground is being broken up for planting. The rumour that Mr Stout was about to be made Chief Justice of the colony is denied. This appointment, if it were made, would not be universally approved by the people. The Mayor of Melbourne believes the police force to be corrupt. He admires economy, he says, but " could not understand a constable buying a terrace of houses from his savings of six or seven shillings a day. The Foxton Herald says mysteriously, one of those painful cases which occasionally occurs in communities has been the subject of much talk in the district during the last few days. The matter has been investigated by the police, but the result is so far not known. At the last meeting of the Wanganui Education Board a letter was read from the Feilding Committee asking the Board to allow them to purchase half the section of land next the school for a play ground. As a matter of course the request was promptly refused. A weeklypaper called the Citizen, edited and owned by Mr W. Hutchinson, ofDunodin, has ceased to exist. A more funereal publication never existed. I hear (says the southern correspondent of a Wellington paper) that Mr Hutchinson intends to again woo a Wellingtonian coustituency the first opportunity. Mr Holmes will move an amendment in the House on the Employment of Females and Others Bill to the effect that employers may fix any other day but Saturday for the half holiday. If this is carried it will be much better for all parties concerned, as the present arbitrary mode is j only a source of irritation to both employers and employed. We understand that at a wedding party held on Tuesday at the residence of a settler on the Awahuri road, so great was the number of guests that to regale them a bullock was roasted whole. We are informed that the cooking, which occupied about nine hours, was a great success. This is, we believe the first case of this kind on record anywhere on this part of the coast. The Napier Evening News Company, has had to pay £100 and costs, for indulging in a libel en Mr Price the editor of the Napier Telegraph. It appears that Mr Price was a candidate for a seat on the Licensing Committee, and the News opposed his candidature and hinted that MrPnce was better fitted to be an inspector of liquor. There was no defence practically. " I like your custom of ze shout," said President Grevy to Mr Gladstone; "but it is peculiar— par example. I met one man last week. He say he vos married, and he say com' an' 'ay a drink, an' I 'ad a drink. I met anozer man an' he say to me, •' My vife 'aye a child, com' an' wet ze child's 'cd,' and we wet 'is 'cd. Then I met still anozer man, an' he say, "Oh, my dear fren, I am in grief. I aye lost my nfe. She is dead. Com' an' 'aye a drink," an' I went. There is a broken window in the Public Hall which should be mended. Last night several persons were compelled to change their seats in order to avoid the piercing cold draught of air which forced its way into the body of the hall. It has also been pointed out to us that the lamps in some I instances appear to have been leaking, for one gentleman had his coat saturated with oil, which dripped from a lamp under which bis seat was placed. Later despatches from London say that the Government is in despair over the 1 fierce and outspoken denunciations of the Afghan breakdown, which Sir Peter Luinsdon has scattered along hispath from Constantinople to Paris. He is thoroughly exasperated, and he does not care who knows it. He arrived in Paris on the sth, where almost tho first greeting : he received was a telegram from the War 1 Office ordering him to see no more interviewers. Effort* are being made to cashier LumiKlcn, but it is known- that he has great influence in the highest quarters.

1 Mr Carthew has just opened a selection of books by the best and most popular authors. The Australian Colonies and New Zealand are each to have two commissions in the Imperial Army placed at their disposal. They will be awarded by competitive examination. Candidates must be between 19 and 22 years of age, and have served at least two years in the colonial forces. 1 To-day's Chronicle says : — During a conversation on the subject of sewing in the schools, at the education Board meetin* yesterday, it came out that the boys ' in the Glen Nevis school can sew better than the girls, and that a male teacher at the Makino Road school, teaches sewing, and is a competent instructor. The marriage of Mr E- Goodbehere, eldest son of Air Samuel Goodbehere. solicitor, to the eldest daughter of Major Liddle, of Awahuri, was duly solemnized at St. John's ( hurch, by the Her. Joshna Jones, this afternoon. There was a large attendance of friends and the public to witness the interesting ceremony. It will be of interest to some of our readers to learn that a sculling match recently came off on the Paramatta River between Harrington, late of Riverton, who was defeated by Hearn last January, and a Sydney oarsman. Harrington won easily. The match was £29 a side, and the course was the same as that over which the Hanlan-Beach races were rowed, Sir Peter Lumsden arrived at Vienna on sth June, and proceeded on hi* journey to London. In an interview he said that Colonel Aliknahoff had openly bonsted to the Afghans that Russia wanted to take Herat, and a great deal more. He further said Russia would never have urged l<er absurd demands if she had believed Eagland was in earnest in resisting them. Sir George Grey was in his best mood when the Law Practitioner* Bill eamn up for second reading. His speech in its favor wns something more than nn ordinary piece of his cultivated, graceful method of speaking. In reply, however, he showed all his free command of language and eloquent forcible retort. It was a specimen of his best oratory, and his peroration gained him cheers from all over the House. The result of Paul Boynton's joke in fixing a sham-torpedo to the bows of H.M. corvette Garnet while site lay in New York harbor recently, has been made public. The sentry on duty at the time was summarily sentenced to fortytwo day's confinement for failing to report promptly Boynton's approach to the ship. Lt. Gardner, who allowed Boynton to go after having him in charge instead of taking him as a prisoner on board the Gurnet, is to be formal I j court-martialled. Sir ±Wo William Parry Wallis, G C.8., Admiral of the Fleet, has just completed his 94th year, having been bora at Halifax, in Nova Scctia, on April 12th. 1791. The veteran Admiral took a prominent part in the memorable action between the Shannon (of which he was second lieutenant) and the American frigate Chesapeake, the latter being captured, after a desperate struggle of 15 minutes, on June 1, 1815, be being promoted to the rank of commander for his gallantry on that occasion. Professor and Mrs Baldwin the eminent thought readers and spirit ezposers will pay us a visit shortly. Professor Baldwin's agent desires us to say that the thought sad mind reading, and other feats of Mr and Mrs Baldwin, hare never before been given anywhere in .New Zealand by any one. The names of some of Professor Baldwin's marvels have been copied by others who, them selves, have not the ability to give such peculiar and startling noyelties. The whole entertainment is completely new to thix section of the world, and entirely different from that given by Professor Buldwia on his previous tour.