Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 10, 4 July 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

' We have received the Anglo-New-Zea-lander, dated May 22nd. Hobart Pasha has been reinstated on the navy list. John L. Bees, coachbuilder of Feilding, has " joined the majority." Mr Fred Bailey was married to Miss Elizabeth Williams at St. James' Church, Halcombe, on Thursday last. Mr Ormond is being looked upon as the " coming man" by a considerable section of the House. Edward Hanlan, the sculler, has been nearly drowned at Toronto while out rowing. The will of Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, late of Somerby Hall, Leicestershire, has been proved at under £17,000. The brewing business of Mr Watney, M.P. (London) has been lately taken over by a public company at a cost of £2167931. Advance Feilding ! Eight weddings in fourteen days — That is, four during the current week have eventuated, and four will be celebrated next week. The Industrial Gazette says: — There is evidently more enquiry for freehold property in the Wellington district than there has been for the last seven years. A petition, to be presented to Parliament, against the employment of barmaids in public houses, has been numerously signed in Feilding. On Wednesday, the 15th instant, there will be held the first of a series of musical entertainments in the Sunday School Building, attached to St. John's Church. Mr Bruce, the member for Bangitikei, said in the House that those who carried the flag of Freetrade, whether Opposition or Government, would find him a loyal follower. In the future, football practice will be held at the sports ground on the oval every evening. This change has been found necessary owing to the wetness of the ground hitherto used. We have to thank the secretary of the Feilding Brass Band, Mr B. J. Gosling, for a complimentary ticket for the Anniversary Banquet, which will be held in the Town Hall on Monday next. The Wanganui people have asked the Union S. S. Company to put the Takapuna or some first class boat in the Wanganui- Wellington trade. Should the company be able to grant the request, with ordinary good management a vessel would pay for herself in three years at the outside. The Wanganui Chamber of Commerce is proving itself a most useful institution. At its last meeting a deputation was appointed to wait on the Railway Traffic Manager with the view of urging the desirability of affording the same privileges to passengers by train on Wednesdays as are now granted on Saturdays. Mr George Crichton has Bent us in a price list of his cheap sale of drapery. He specially points, out that as the goods offered were purchased before the now heavy Customs tariff came into force, purchasers will receive full benefit by his low prices. His advertisement will appear next issue. A return concerning the receipts for the carriage of goods by railway for the year 1883, moved for by Mr Wright, tho late member for Ashburton, cost the country £600 12s, and was not worth the paper it was printed on. This is how the money of the country is wasted by Ministers to please a supporter or to pacify an opponent. Marshall Booth, a son of General Booth, who has supreme control of the Salvation Army organization in the Southern Hemisphere, has left Melbourne for New Zealand via Hobart. He will probably stay a week in the latter city, and may be expected in this Colony near the end of the present month. The total number of pupils on the roll of the State Schools during the past year wae 96,840. There were 987 public schools open ; the staff of teachers was 2447, besides 161 sewing mistresses. The total sum paid as teachers' [salaries was £254,377 which gives an average of £98 per head. About 700 head teachers have free residences with gardens or glebe. We (Wanganui Herald) venture to say that if any Minister who has held a portfolio during the last ten years were te publish the letters he has received from M.H.B.'s and others asking for patronage to be extended to relatives and friends, some people who make a great noise in the House, and out of it, about economy, would take a back seat and hold their tongues for a while until the expotS had been somewhat forgotten. Miss Cleveland, sister of the American President, who is the hostess of the White House, is said to be in hearty sympathy with the temperance reformers. This, coupled with the fact that her brother abolished the wine closet of the Executive Chamber in Albany, while Governor of New York, gives, it is said, ground for hope that the White House will see less " dining and wining" during the present administration than some that have preceded it. Bents are not always easy te collect in any part of tho world, but in Wellington the task appears to be dangerous as well as difficult. We learn from a contemporary in that city that Mrs Walters was brought to the Hospital on Wednesday morning, suffering from fracture of both bones of the forearm. It appears that Mrs Walters had gone to a tenant named Wickham, and demanded her rent from him, when he threw her violently out of the house, and she fell down the steps and received the injuries mentioned. Since my last letter (says the Nelson correspondent of an exchange) hops have been moving off slowly. I nave heard of one parcel of 50 bales sent to Dunedin realising 7Jd. I have also heard of a parcel sent to England which netted 7ds. Some growers are sending 300 bales through B. Levien by next steamer. The stocks must be getting considerably lower; yet the growers will loose at least 4£d. per pound at the above prices ; but there appears to be no help for it at present. We onght to know by the end of this month what the crop in England is likely to be ; and if bad, hops will rise immediately. About a year ago, Mr Peat who was the station master at Waverly, was hurt when assisting to shunt some trucks. His injuries were of such a nature that he was compelled to accept prolonged leave of absence, during which he visited England and several of the Continental countries. He returned with his family to New Zealand by the Aorangi, and arrived in Feilding on Tuesday last, since, when he has been the guest of Mr Roche, station master Feilding. We regret to learn that Mr Peat waH seized with convulsive fits on Thursday evening, and was otherwise so seriously indisposed that Dr Johnston had to be called in. We hope to hear of his rapid convalescence. >

Mr L. M. Grace and Mr Kelly are candidates for the Tauranga seat. A Social Purity Society has been formed in Wellington. The Masonic Ball will be held in the Public Hall on Thursday the 31st inst. The Wanganui Chronicle begins to fear the Hon. J. A. Tole is not a man of hit word. Mr Edward Burns, at one time in the Bank of New South Wales here, died on the Congo on March Ist, ag«d 23. It is considered probable that Colonel Header will retire from the service at the termination of his leave of absence of six months. A sitting of the Manchester Boad Baard is being held as we go to press. A report of the meeting will appear next issue. Among the 1200 laws regulating the French press \s one centuries eld, which threatens the proof-reader with death for a single blunder. A man named Sunderland, a collier in the Westport mine, Westport, got both his legs and arms broken and chest injured by a fall of coal yesterday. He is now in the hospital. A consignment of tinned fish seit from Wellington to London by the s.s. Arawa arrived in England in excellent condition. A sample was seat to the War Office and was approved «f . The small Kawa Eawa section of railway is the best paying line in New Zealand. The rerenae per mile tor the twelve months was £709 19s 7d. The expenditure per mile for the same period was £278 14s. The result of the enquiry into the conduct of Bowes the driver, and Fletcher the guard on the train which was recently left standing on tho Wangaehu Hill, is that they have both been reduced, though reinstated in their former positions. They commenced work again on Friday morning. C. Henry, saddler, announces that he will commence a cheap sale on Monday, 6th instant, to make room for a large rftock he is about to receive from o»e of the best Home houses. The sale, will last for one month only, during which time he will make a reduction of 5 per cent, for cash. To-day we publish particulars of Jacob Faithful's next consultation, which will close at an early date. The last one which we advertised was a great success/ and was over filled. The excellent system under which these are drawn, the publicity which is given to the addresses of winners, and last, but not least, the well-known probity of the promoter has given Jacob Faithful a colonial reputation for safety to investors. A remarkable and a very distressing case was reported by the secretary at the Feilding Benevolent Society's meeting en Thursday. AMr and Mrs Pope, of Halcombe, are stated to have become totally blind within a few weeks of each other. The man was an employe on the railway, and has expended all his savings. The society will allow 10s per week to them until the result of some movement for their relief being made by the railway employes is known. In these • ays, when one often hears the cry " that farming does not pay in this colony" it it very cheering to learn what has been done in that line by aMr Grigg of Ashburton. That worthy yeoman has 1,400 pigs in ono paddock ; the whole of which are fed by one man, and has latoly received a cheque for £6000 in payment of pigs which he sold. He has a total of 15,000 acres of land, a large proportion of which was in crops of various kinds this year, and his last crops of wheat and oats averaged 46 bushels and 51 bushels per aoro respectively. Among the recent Carnival festivitirs at Vienna, " A Beggars' Bill" carried off the palm for eccentricity. Tke gue»t» wore got up as thieves and rascals of tbe lowest type — pickpockets, comers, de« faulting cashiers, armed bnrglars Ac, <tc. Tbo ladies wore th« costumes of petroleuses, chiffonier!, and tbo Lko One of the most amusing representation* was a group of men quarrelling violently. Their faces were scratched and bleeding —a parody on the lively scenes in the Croatia! Parliament. Prises were distributed far the best-drossed aad bestsustained characters, and the first price was won by a lady whoso toilent bristled with tiny revolvers. Our Bulls correspondent writes — The third and last of the series of eonversazones was held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening. The attendance was even greater than on previous oct ations, representatives from all parts of the country being present. The refreshments were kindly provided by a few bachelors and their friends. Mr Thos. G. Pariah, churchwarden, in a capital speech on behalf of the vestry, tendered thanks to all those who had so generously contributed towards the success of the series, and especially to Mr and Mrs Dodwell, the originators of the entertainments. He hoped that the object of these gatherings had been achieved, and that greater cohesion in all sociable matters would ensue. The choir added greatly to the enjoyment of the evening by contributing several glees, duetts and solos. Mr Frank B. Smith, of Marton, rendered four impersonations of McCabe and Fleming Norton, in a highly finished manner, and elicited great applause. Dancing was indulged in till 2 p.m. It was pronounced by all to be the most Ruccesßful entertainment ever held in Bulls.