Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 13, 11 July 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

. _». We have received a batch of Parliamentary papers, which includes Hansard to date, from the Government Printer. An adjourned meeting of the provisional, directors of the Building Society will be held on Monday evening, at Mr Hill's office. Gentlemen interested are. reminded that a meeting of the committee Of the ' Agricultural andPoultryShow will beheld ' this evening at Mr Bray's office at 8 p.m.

The Borough Council calls for tenders for the erection of a pubUc pound. A bankruptcy notice re W. B. Retemeyer appears ■ ■ »vhere. There will be no mass in the Catholic Church on next Sunday, July 12th. The football match, Feilding v Foxton, is being played to-day at the latter place. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R., arrived in Feilding last night. The members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded there will be church parado to-morrow morning. Inspector James wont to Foxton on Thursday evening last in reference to a cu-jv of consoalment of birth. We are glad to loam that Mr Edward Wood whose leg was broken some time ago, is rapidly recovering. The recent heavy warm rains have had the effect of raising considerable floods in many parts of the colony. No great damage is reported from any places. Mr Svendsen oponed up his new stock of goods yesterday. Particulars will appear in advertisement on Tuesday next. Owing to a heavy gale in Wellington yesterday the sailing of the s.s. Jane Douglas has been postponed to Monday next. We loam from the Manawatu Times that Mr T. R. Walton has decided to commence business as a draper and clothier iv Palmerston. Meetings of creditors in the estates of J. Corkery and J. L. Rees were held today. Particulars will appear in our next issue. The first of the Sunday School entertainments in connection with St. Johns Church, will be held on Wednesday next the 15th instant. Mr A. Southey Baker has been retained for the defence of Hori Urupa, a native who was arrested in Feilding lately for alleged sheep-stealing and who now stands committed for trial. We (Manawatu Times) learn that the restrictions hitherto placed on the sale of arms and ammunition to the natives have boen removed, and they now can be disposed of to them under the same conditions as to Europeans. On Saturday last as tho afternoon train was leaving Wanagnui, Mr Lethbridge, of Turakina, jumped into the guard's van. His name was taken by the guard, and the Wanganui Herald says he is to be prosecuted for breaking the laws. Our attention has been called to a local which appeared in our last issue referring to an incident which occurred at Professor Baldwin's show on Tuesday night. The terms which we used in connection with tho person referred to were altogether too harsh, and, we believe, undeserved. Mr McMinn, the editor of the Manawatu Standard, is at present making a tour on horseback in the North. Mr McMinn has not been in the enjoyment of goud health for many months, and tho change has been recommended by his medical adviser. We have received from Mr Hastings Moore, seed merchant, Wanganui, his catalogue of vegetable, flower and agricultural seeds. It is a most comprehensive one, and appears to include every known description. His agents here are Mrs Knight, Feilding, Mr Penberthy, Makino, and Mr Currin of Kiwitea. We commend to the attention of onr member, Mr Macarthur, the desirability of abolishing the absurd system at present in vogue of au official in Wanganm drawing jurors for the sitting of a Court to be held at Palmerston. This is a form of centralism (says the Manawatu Times) which can be dispensed with to advantage. Mr Eade has just received a consignment of tea-sots, toiletware, linoleum of all widths, coloured sheepskins', and a thousand other articles for use and ornament too numerous for us to mention, but for which we will find space in our next issue. In the meantine the goods are open for inspection. The New Zealand Times of Thursday says— lt was currently reported last night, on what appeared to be good authority, that a member of the Ministry is about to commence legal proceedings against the proprietors of a Wellington journal, in consequence of cortatn paragraphs that have heen published conveying grave reflections on the conduct of the Minister in question in his official capacity, and imputing to him certain acts of a very questionable character. Numerous complaints have been made to us of the limited carriage accommodation provided for passengers by the train from Wanganui which arrived here at noon on Thursday last. Not only were the carriages over crowded, but the passengers were forced to find precarious standing room on the platforms. This sort of indifference to the wants of the people is what makes the Railway so unpopular, and it does not tend to keep up the revenue on the Wanganui section, which has rather been on the wane lately. The following are the names of the, jurors drawn by Mr Woon for the next sittings of the Palmerston District Court : — If. Duke, J. Leary, S. Dawick, J. Dalziell, F. J. Collins, J. C. Sly, B. E. Cole, P. Berry, W D. Walker, W. Cook, A. Clark, J. Risk, W. Powell, E. Worsfold, J. Wingate, G. L. Scott, J. Cummins, W. Purvis, J. W. Bishop, A. Skerman, C. Dunn, C. Person, E. Brown, S. Brown, R. Carly, A. Campbell, R. Belfit, E. Gladstone, R. W. Roberts, J. Lawrence, J. E. McCarthy, J. Mowlem. J. Belfit, D. Ross, J. Wright, A. Cockburn, A. Bailie, W. Francis and W. Carthew. On Saturday last, on board the Jane Douglas, Mr W. G. Robinson was presented by Captain Fraser, on behalf of tho officers and crew of that vessel, with a splendid, black marble, eight-day clock,, in token of his services in connection with, tho late Manawatu Steam Shipping Company. The clock bears thb following inscription—" Presented to Wiliiani Gordon Robinson, from the officers and crew of the. s.s. Jane Douglas, for the courtesy and kindness shown them the last three years, during which time he was Secretary to the Manawatu S. S. Co.—- Foxton, March 31, 1885." The opening of the Awapurua Bridge across the Manawatu, connecting the, Hawke's Bay and Wellington Provinces, took place on Thursday. A large procession left Woodville. headed by the Napier Volunteer Garrison Band, the Woodville Volunteer Rifle Company, Wo dville United Friendly Societies, members of Countjr Councils of Waipawa and Wairarapa, Woodville Town Board, and several hundred settlers, followed by vehicles of every description. Mrs Beethnm, wife oi the member for Wairarapa, christened the bridge "Tho Awapunia bridge," in a few chosen remarks, and was loudly cheered. Speeches were made by. Messrs Barton, Wairarapa. and Smith, M.H.R.'s, Dillon 1 of the Wairarapa County Council, Me-; I Ardle of the Wairarapa County Council; ' and others. The demonstration passed off witfygreat.eclaj".

A case of lead poisoning occurred in New Plymouth the other day, the victims being Captain and Mrs Holford. It seems that they had used water from a tank which had been patched, and then made watertight with red lead. The water was so unwholesome that both were laid up. Luckily no very »erious result occurred, though the captain and his wife were laid up for a few day.