Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 18, 23 July 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A reading entitled " The life, character and religion of Mahomet" will be given at the Lyceum on Sunday evening. ' A small freehold property at Feilding put up by Messrs J. H. Wallace & Co. m Wellington on Tuesday last, was bought ' by the mortgagee for £100. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day: — Barometer further rise everywhere. ', Warnings for southerly gales and much colder weather have been Bent to all stations. The Rejristrar-Goneral eKtimated the population of Now Zealand at the begin- . ning of the current year as 608,401 per- , sons, viz., 331,035 males and 277,306 females. Some of the detectives stationed at Auckiand, Christchurch, Tiinaru, and I Napier will bo drafted to Wellington during the Exhibition. An extra force of police will also bo brought to" Wellington. We learn from the Herald that the ' local agent of the Colonial Insurance » Company this day paid to the Wanganui Sash and Door Company the sum of ±250,. being the amount of the lusuranae on cargo shipped by tho ill-fated Helena.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the Anglo-New Zealander dated June 5. The Masonic Ball, which -will be held on Monday next, promises to be a groat success. Tho coinmitteo of the Manchester Horticultural and Pastoral Society will meet to-inorrow evening. Mr John R. McDonald of Porokaia, ' near Foxton, advertises two teams of ' working bulloeks and one dray for sale, i Mr D. Younger calls for tenders for ', scrubbing on© hundred acres of bush, j Specification may bo seen at Mr Car- j thews'. I The annual meeting of the members of the Church of England, Feilding, will be held at St. John's School Room on Wed- j nesday next. Mr John Gould, of Clairville House, has started business as a baker and confectioner, and invites a share of public patronage. We refor our readers to his new advertisement. Some very bitter feeling is being displayed in Palmerston just now anent the failure to obtain the Borough loan of £50,000 from the Government Insurance Association. On Tuesday next Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold a stock sale at Feilding, for particulars of which wo refer our readers to tho advertisement which appears to-day. Sir George Grey has introduced a bill to the House to prevent babies from sucking matches. His next flight will be to propose a moasure to instruct grandmothers how to suck eggs. We would suggest that a public meeting be called at an early date for the election and appointment of officers for the Boxing Day Sports. It will be remembered that delay in this matter was the cause of considerable inconvenience, if not loss, last year. On our third page appears the advertisement of Mr J. W. McDuff coachbuilder and importers of Campbell Place Wanganui. Mr McDuff has turned out some of the best work on the coast, at the same timo tho cheapest. He employs only the best mechanics. We are informed by the librarian that every addition of new books to the shelves of the Feilding Public Library is the cause of the addition of new names to the list of subscribers. This is direct encouragement to those liberal minded gentlemen in the Borough Council who made the grant in aid to the library funds. Vanguard invites a discussion on the subject of the Hawkesbury Spring Handicap. This is the most popular as woll as the safest thing of the Kind that has yet been started on this coast. Both Wanganui journals are agreed in this, however they may differ on other points, that Vanguard's drawing's are conducted in a most perfect and ©pen manner. A witness in the R.M. Court yesterday was reminded in the course of his cross examination that he was on his oath, and must stick to the truth. " I know that', said he to the lawyer, " and I mean to do it, I don't tell half as many lies as you do," a remark which caused some laughter, followed by the good humoured rejoinder —"That's very likely." In her examination at the R.M. Court yesterday, a witness was asked if her husband had turned her away because of her running up long accounts with storekeepers. Mr Ward said that he thought questions of that kind could not be admitted in such cases, naively adding that if such excuses could be set up for a man refusing to live with bis wife, he was afraid the whola country would be in a commotion. To-morrow evening the Rev. W. Tinsley of Wanganui will give a popular magic lantern entertainment at the Foresters' Hall. We understand that in all other parts of the coast where this has been ■.riven, the attendance has been largo and tho audience well satisfied. The Revd. gentlnman, who will explain the various sceneM or pictures, is a pleasing speaker and has the gift of commanding the ' attention of his hearers. He will preach on Sunday morning next at the Primitive Methodist Church. In order to prevent any misapprehension with reference to the hearing of the j eases " Doherty v. Doherty" and " Lowe v. Doherty" at the R.M. Court yesterday, it is only fair to state that the first case was heard and adjudicated upon by the Resident Magistrate alono in accordance with the requirements of the Act. In the second case Mr Wright, J.P., withdrew from the bench. These circumstances were pointed out by Mr Ward, who said he wished it to be distinctly understood that Mr Wright had nothing whatever to do with the official hearing .of either case. , ,-■..-■ : We (Chronicle) are very pleased fo hear that the brethren of the Wanganui Kilwinning Lodge of Freemasons do not intend the funeral of their late brother^ Mr Foulis, to pass by without notice. The principal officers of the lodge, including Bros. Spurdle, Keesing, Bush, and several of the brethren of the lodge, propose attending the funeral of the deceased gentleman, which takes place at New Plymouth to-day. To show the esteem in which Mr Foulis was held by his pupils at the Contral School, New Plymouth, of which he was the headmaster, we may state that since the accident occurred whole troops of children have daily attended the hospital to learn the latest news as to his condition. ■ It is with the most sincere regret that we (Wanganui Herald) have to chronicle the death of Mr R. Foulis at New Plymouth. The sad circumstances which led to his untimely decease are still fresh in the memory of all our readers, and there is no need here to dwell on them. From the time the accident was met with the medical attendants have been much concerned on account of the unconsciousness from which the sufferer never seemed to rally. Mr Foulis was well-known in this district (having for some years acted as Inspoctor of Schools here), and he was universally respected. His genial bearing towards all with whom he came in contact, and his many acts of disinterested Mildness rendered him at once a general favourite with young and old, rich and poor. As an Inspoctor he was respected by all the teachers in this district, and they will all feel sorry to learn of his death. Mr Foulis was a Chaplain of the St. Andrew Kilwinning Lodge of Freemasons while in Wanganui, and his Masonic relations were of the most friendly character with all his. brother craftsmen. As a member of the Presbyterian congregation, and a manager of St; Paul's Church he took a great interest in Church work in our midst. His death will bo mourned by a number of those who knew him in these and in many other capacities. Those who knew him most intimately will feel that they have lost a genuine friend, all who were ac- ! quain. ed with him that they have lost a pleasant companion. , ;.

The Wellington correspondent of the Wan*nnui Herald writes : There can be no doubt whatever that the proposal to give the contractors for the East and West Coast Middle Island Railway a yearly sum of £97,000 tor twenty years, in addition to land grants, v .will be stoutly opposed. Eyeryb *dy here, except politicians who ate prepared for almost any contingency, it amazed at the proposals brought down yesterday by Vogel. The Post, which is generally friendly, condemns them, and the Times and Prets follow suit. — A friend from Auckland informs me that not one member from that district dare rote against the 'Frisco mail service. But all the influence of the New Zealand Shipping Company, and Shaw, Sarille, and Albion Compamy, will be brought to bear against it. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce, has communicated with the various Chambers in reference to it.