The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1885. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 20, 28 July 1885, Page 2

The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1885. Local and General News

♦ The usual parade of the Manchester Rifles will be held this evening. Mr Charles Henry has opened up a lot of new saddlery which he is offering at prices to suit cash purchasers. A meeting of the Manchester Horticultural and Pastoral Association will be held this evening at Mr Bray's office. The Jane Douglas has been on the slip in Wellington for a thorough overhaul and to execute repairs to her propeller. We have to acknowledge from the Government Printer a batch of Parliamentary papers and Hansard to the 14th inst. We have to acknowledge receipt of Messrs T. Kennedy Mac Donald and Co.'s Wellington Landed Property Guide for this month. On Sunday next the Manchester Eifles will attend church parade. The company will fall in on Manchester Square at 10.15 a.m. sharp, The parishioners and members of St. John's Church will meet in the school room, next to the church, to-morrow evening at 8 p.m. Mr J. W. Eade invites tenders (labor only) for the erection of his new premises in Manchester street. Tenders will close on Saturday, August Bth. A smart shock of earthquake occurred here on Sunday evening at about a quarter to 8 o'clock. Direction — north to south. Duration — about three seconds. The petitions of old soldiers in regard to their claims for grants of laud are to be considered again* and Mr Ballance has referred them to the Petitions Committee. At an egg-eating match at Peterborough, Canada, a short time since, one man ate forty-one eggs and the other forty. The eggs were raw and taken from a basket in a grocery store. The basket was emptied, and the winner said he could eat a dozen more. As sweeps and consultations of all kinds will be legislated from the face of the earth on the 31st of December next, the run on these sporting events during the brief period to elapse before then may expected to be far beyond anything of the kind yet experienced in the colony. The Chronicle says— The following are the players chosen to represent Wanganui in the match to be played next Saturday against Manawatu County on the Becreataon Grounds: — Messrs Turner. T. Coakley, Coghill, Copeland, Kitchen, Gray, Powell, Walker. Chubb (captain), Craig (2), Bankin, Peat. Roddy, J. Coakley; emergency men, Oudaille, Greenwood, and Oliver. By a notice elsewhere it wfll be seen , that a tea and social meeting will be held in the Foresters' Hall on Friday evening next to commemorate the opening of the ; new piano. Some vocal and instrumental music, with various ether amusements ! will be introduced. We understand every effort will be made to make the evening a pleasant one to all visitors, and there can be little doubt of the affair beiag a success. The reading of the "Useful Knowledge Society's lecture on the life, character, and religion of Mahomet, at the Lyceum on Sunday evening last was listened to with much attention by a numerous audience. The peculiarities of the Koran, and the myths and marvels, fables and fancies of the great false prophet were both interesting and amusing. The performances on the piano by Miss Annie Chamberlain were greatly appreciated and admired, and it v evident this young lady is a very promising pianist. Two members of the Community of St. Joseph — Sisters Signatius and Bega — are at present in Palmerston, collecting subscriptions In aid of the Parent Home in Kensington, South Australia. They are furnished with credentials from the Adelaide Bishop, the Bight Bey. Dr. Reynolds, and Father McNamara. The house of refuge for which these Sisters are soliciting subscriptions is open for neglected children of all classes and creeds. The two Sisters will visit Feildiiag, and will, we hope, receive a large measure of support from all classes of the community . For some weeks past there have been rumours that Mr H. M. Brewer was about to leave the district, and we regret to state that they were well founded.' Mr Brewer leaves shortly for Auckland, where he will be stationed for the future. During his ; long-stay in this district he has made a large number of friends, who will regret to near of his leaving. The Acclimatisation Society is one with which Mr Brewer's name is intimately associated. Since its foundation he has been one of its most active members, and as secretary has given a great deal of attention to the work. In this department it will be difficult, to find a successor who will take the same interest in the work. The Acclimatisation Society are to meet on Thursday to receive his resignation. — Herald.

Mr Clapperton, the manager of the Palmerston branch of the Union Bank of Australia, and Mr Waldegrave, the Managing Director of the Manawatu Building Society, were visitors to Feilding to-day. Under instructions from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Mr Albert Barns, auctioneer, Wanganui, will sell sections in the Manchester Block. For particulars we refer our readers to the advertisement which appears in another column. We understand the Salvationists have resolved to refund to the defendant in the case of Condon v. Belfit, the fine and costs imposed by the E..M. at the court last Wednesday, and a collection for that purpose was made at the barracks on Sunday evening last. It appears the object in the prosecution was not so much to secure the infliction of a penalty as to make an example of the case. Wanganui has already claimed to have a relative of the new M.H.R. for Tauranga, Mr Grace. Whilst upon the subject it will not be out of place to say that Feilding possesses the schoolmaster who, to use an Americanism, "whopped" both the M.H.R. and his Wanganui brother, in the person of our respected townsman Mr Roche. The only extraordinary talent displayed by the legislator in his school boy days was that of Artemus Ward — persistent errors in orthography. On Saturday last at Auckland a man named Wakeham surrendered himself to the police for the attempted murder of his wife. She had been drinking, and had demanded money, which he refused. A squabble ensued, which ended in her being found outside in the backyard with s wound in her head inflicted by an axe. She was uaeonscious, and partial! t paralysed. A fatal termination is feared. Wakeham says that she assailed him with the axe first, and io the struggle that ensaed, both fell d«wn the back doorsteps, and thus she got wounded. Wakeham formerly resided at Dunedin, and was also a warder ever the natives confinod at Mount Cook prison, Wellington, in 1879. Elsewhere will be found a notice of an accident which happened on the- Makino road yesterday afternoon, and which though ending badly enough for the unfortunate youth, might have resulted far more seriously. We are sorry to have to point out that this|was one of those accidents which might have been prevented. For many years past it has been frequently remarked that this was a very dangerous gpot, and that an accident would one day occur. In fact it is a great wonder that j this should have been the first. Here is a deep gravel pit, one perpendicular side of which abutts close to the very edge of the road without the slighest protection whatever. After this it is to be noped the Borough Council will order that a rail be placed alongside the pit, of sufficient strength to prevent a vehicle toppling over into it, and perhaphs causing a worse oalamity than the one which, has iust .happened. ___^__^ —^_ — .