Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 19, 25 July 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

Pianos are now made in the colony by a Dunedin firm. The Madbi died of small pox on the 29th of June last. We have received from the (government Printer No. 8 of Hansard. The city of Auckland has lost its best fnond by the death of Mr McKelvie. Messsrs Stevens and Gorton's usual stock sale will be held here on Tuesday next •.■■.,..•' The Bev. Mr Tinsley will preach at the Primitive Methodist Chapel , to-morrow morning. It has been decided that the Gordon Memorial will take the form of a home for friendless boys, ■•■.-,., When the Gaming and Lotteries Bill cornea into force sweeps not exceeding £5 will bo permitted. The 1 Palmerston branch of the New Zealand Clothing Factory is executing an order for uniforms for the members of the Feildmg Brass Band. An advertisement relating to cheap excursion fares to the Wellington Exhibition, via Wanganui, appears elsewhere from the District Manager of Bailways. A Maori bank has. started business in' the King country. We can understand where the withdrawals and overdrafts are to go, but where on earth are the deposits: to come from ? i One ot the Viennese journals. declares! that a war between England, the champ-' ion of liberty and progress, and Bussia, the sworn enemy of both, would be a fight between a man and a beast. Mr John Fra&er's claim .'to the Lovat peorage has come before a committee of the House of Lords, .and it is said that the! Tichbourne case, wiU.sqem. common place beside thisVomanc© of thepeeragei The London Times says that Lord! Salisbury is truckling to Mr Parnell,; because he has promised to consider the! memorials relative to the release of several Irish prisoners. „- ; A correspondent has written to us com-, plaining that the parcels rates; which 1 came into, force- on the N.Z.. Bailways on the 4th of June, were not advertised in a journal circulating in this district. ! The programme of the Bobin Hood Company appears to-day. The principal itomifl the County Purse and Hawkesbury Grand Handicap to be run in Sydney on September' 10th and 12th instant* For using obscene language in the. Halcombe station refreshment rooms, George Lynch, a cattle, drover of Wan-; ganui, was, at the Halcombe B.M. Court on Thursday, sentenced to 7 days' imprisonment with hard labour. . ■ The N.Z.L. & M.A. Company report, under, date June 16— Nelson hops— The business has fallen off considerably ; little is doing even at the reduced rates which growers are now willing to accept Stocks are, however, much relieved by Intercom lonial and European shipments. The following are the number of bankrupts which have filed in the four principal towns of New-Zealand up to the 30th done, 1885, under the new Bankruptcy ■ Act :— Chnstohurch, 336 ; Dunedin!, IfiO" Auckland, 93 j Wellington, 78. It wilj be seen thai there'vere fewer in Welling . ton than any other bf the chief cities. - ' . The original manuscript of ' " Tim O'Shanter'^ has been sold «t London M £152. This is the highest price ever paid for a manuscript of Burns. The precious relic has gon» to- SebthuuL <■ : It consists ojf six leaves, foolscap folia On the last page there is the whole of •• Queen Mary'k Lament," and a fragment of another poenv We hear from the Chronicle that DkYon Haast on Thursday afternoon inspecjted Mr S. H. brew's museum, andexipressed high gratification at finding such a valuable collection of New Zealand curiosities: The Dr has kindly oflered^to send ■ Mr ' Drew some natural history specimens for bis museum, on hip return to Christchurch.. / „ - ^ "i Adi- 0 > There is a wild panic among thefashr ionable doctors at the-West End of Londoq, owiiig to th* revolution ot taste; in ithb matter»<.lood among the leaders of aooijety: ■ Bich Wishes are.loufe of .fashion,? and plain food is now the. mode. The Princje of Wales set . the fashion,, by rutbjesslr cutting* down every- wente «v«f 'vrnioh. Jib had any control; an^ his example wab promptly followed hy the ; upper ten thousand. .... .- a ; ' ,-V/ // .^ „>v,, /'. •; ; ! In cases where domestic troubles are. brought before a magistrate-more; wisdoip and even justice is sometimes shown by giving good sound advice as a ? friend rattier &an inflicting ' ar penaMy ?as a judge. Mr Ward, B.M. is to be commended for adopting 'the former course in a ease brought before him onWednetiday last, and we are pleased to learn that the wholesome counsel he administered has since been acted upon by the parties concerned, whiiph we have no doubt wUI be more to their happiness than hoi^e ' < law been alh)w.ed/toiak« J eff©;tt. a^ <

A meeting of the Manawatu Pastoral and Horticultural Association will be tield on Tuesday next. We have to acknowledge receipt of the result of Jacob Faithful's consultation on the Wellington Steeplechase Handicap, and the names of the winners of the big prizes. A consultation on the Hawkesbury Grand Handicap will appear in our next issue. From a private source we learn that Mr Peat, who went to Wanganui a few .days ago from Feilding where he had been the guest JS& Mr Boche, has resumed his duties in the serTflSe"of-4Jie railway. - -We are much gratified to know that Mr Peat is recovering so rapidly from his injuries. It will be remembered that a tale of fruit tree* fr*m the nursery of Mr Benefield held a few weeks ago, was remarkably successful. So much pleased with the result then of his experiment w»« Mr Benefield, that he, has determined on another effort, and instructed MeWrs Haljcembe and Sherwill to offer another let bf trees, &e , on Saturday next. •. I We learn from the Marlborough Times that the local carpenters and joiners have resolved to notify to the masters that tin reduction of working hours from 48 to 46 •will be enforced. We presume these men will only be paid for the number of hours Work they do, so reducing the number of hours, is money out of their own poekets —not out of the employer's. ' It has been suggested that a meeting of those interested in racing matters should be held at an early date in order to take into consideration the feasibility of making an arrangement with the Palmerston Baring Club to have certain days in each year set apart for races in the respective' places. The idea is a good one, and should be acted upon at once. The Watchman, the organ of the Trades and Labor Societies in Auckland, says that Mr Stout's kite political career has done more to injure the cause of Liberalism in this colony than the concentrated genius of fifty Vogels. When we* see our cherished idols one by one broken before our, eyes, or rather falling to pieces from inherent weakness i when we see those in whom we trusted selling but trust to the highest bidder, we look round despairingly and say, "Is there no honest politician left? Is there no such, thing as political consistency." The Derby this year had a grand finish. Freddy Archer rode Lord Hasting' a Melton and F. Webb rode Paradox. At first Paradox took the lead, but gradually, and never for a moment losing an inch, Melton came up with him. So close was the race, that only thoee in a line with the post could say positively which horse had triumphed. Mr Ohildwick's Royal Hampton was third, but was a long way behind. Fred Archer has thus won fresh laurels for himself, and scored for Lord Hastings his first Derby* One member of the. House, who is a newspaper proprietor, is very frank. Mr Scobie McKenzie haying had to apologise for being reported'aaliayiig.iSJMJTOn.Beri-j ously when he meant a joke, further said with regard to newspapers, they generally reported what was bad, and excluded what was good. He had a* newspaper himself, and he should be happy to insert an apology in that paper as a leading article. Unfortunately, nowever, the paper was not generally read. The moral of the whole thing was that he, being a Scotchman, was not designed to make a joke, and the hon. member for Moeraii, being also a Scotchman, was not designed to understand a joke. (Applause.) The New Zealand Police Force is the only one in the world that has not some kind of a pension fund. Lately, Sergeant Neville, who. was r in-chargeof the ßeefton station, died^ after serving in the force for 16 years. The police throughout the colony opened a subscription list, and have handed over to his widow* the very respectable sum of £148 18 fid.. . i k , The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Star says.— The Hon. Mir Stout denies that there has been any disagreeneat, in , tie Cabinet* and seriously suggests that the Stamp Act should be amended in. the direction of imposing a duty of 5s on every political untruth eirculated in (he Wellington newspapers. He thinks that, were this done, a sufficiently large revenue would be netted to make up the deficit occasioned by the refusal or the Hovse to increase the Customs duties.