Local amd General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 22, 1 August 1885, Page 2

Local amd General News

Mass will beheld in the Catholic Chureh, Feilding, to-morrow, August 2nd, at 8 a.m. . . ' ■ Mr Shaw, of Wellington, the wellknown lawyer, has been . retained to defend Mr C. 8. Cross, at the trial of the hitter for embezzlement. The football matoh—Wanganxii County v. Oroua County— will be played this afternoon in Wanganui on the Recreation Beserre; play to commence at 2 o'clock sharp.

The New Zealand Industrial Exhibition opens in Wellington to-day. Society is no comfort to one not sociable, as the hedgehog said in the pigstye. Mr G. G. FitzGerald has been appointed editor of the Malborough Times. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold a stock sale at Awahuri onTuesday next. We have to thank the Government Printer for Hansard, No. 10, up to July The tender of Mr J. B. Pybus the present lessee, has been accepted for the lease of the Halcombe refreshment rooms. A post-office will be opened at Okoia on and after to-day. Mr John McLaren, storekeeper, has been appointed post- { master. We direct attention to an alteration in Mr Pollock's advertisement by which it will be seen that he is now supplying the four pound loaf to his customers at sixpence. In the bankruptcy Court, Auckland, Judge Gillies made an order calling upon C. E. Madden, solicitor, to show cause why he should not be attached for failing to perform certain legal duties for which he had been paid £11 by a bankrupt, John Hill. The Waipawa Mail says — We learn than Messrs Richter Nannestead and Co., of Palmerston, intend establishing sawmills at Tahoraite very shortly. The site will be close to that of the Tamaki Co.'s nulls. Active work is now going on at the > section on which Mr J. W. Eade is about to erect his new premises. The site of the building is being leveled up to Manchester street by filling in the inequalities of the surface. An Auckland petition against the employment of barmaids had for its twentyfive first signatures the names of as many bank clerks ; as bank clerks are mashers of the first water, this has given rise to much comment. Probably they formed part of the projected pious volunteer corps. A notice of considerable importance to owners of stray cattle, and persons who are in the habit of cutting firewood or timber on sections without having the | courtesy to obtain the permission of the owners, appears to-day over the signature of the lessees of the property known as the Duke of Manchester's. On his return to England from Australia the puke of Manchester intimated through his agent, Mr W. H. Haughton, that, owing to the continued depression in agriculture, he will make a reduction of 20 per cent, on the half-year's rent due Lady Day last. This is in addition to the large permanent reduction made in 1884. We learn from the Advocate that — Mr Lacey, of Halcombe, wrote to Mr Macarthur about the post-office at Halcombe having been closed in the eveings, between seven and eight o'clock for the delivery of letters. Mr Macarthur made inquires about the matter, and the result is that the office is now open again for The Easter Qgg of the Empress of Russia this year was a marvel of beauty and rarity. It was a gift of the Emperor and of gold. Upon opening it the yolk of an egg is disclosed, made of gold of a different shade from the shell. In this yolk is a little hen, wearing a diminutive imperial crown of diamonds, and set in the crown around a. ruby of unsurpossed beauty. The property of Mr Rowley, situated in Fergusson Street, is advertised to-day for sale by tender in lots. Tenders are to be sent in to Mr James Lin ton of Palmerston North, on or before the 14th instoat. As the buildings are in good condition, besides being in the occupation of excellent tenants who are each doing a good business, we expect that the tenders will be numerous. There is such fun at the meetings of the Auckland Borough Council, where the City Fathers do not hesitate to give " the lie direct" and invite each other "outside," that an " Aucklander" writing to the Bell suggests their meetings should be held in the Theatre Royal, and the public admitted at the usual change for theatricals, the proceeds to be expended in the purchase of a mud cart for Queenstreet. A coroner's jury in Lincolnshire recently returned the following verdict : — " We find that William Fisher came to his death by his own hand, accidentally, and by no other means, being at the moment engaged in the unlawful pursuit of game in the dead of the night, and not having the fear of God before bjs eyes, having received a mortal gunshot wound in his left side, pf which wound he did instantly die." The education code of Great Britain for 1884 enacts that in th6 future no boy or girl will be allowed to undertake the arduous duties of pupil teacher without first securing from a medical practitioner a certificate to the effect that he or she is strong enough to fulfil them; and that only oandidates who can produce certificates of good moral character, and whose homes are moral shall be allowed to become pupil teachers. On Saturday night last at Taonui, some larrikins were guilty of a most gratuitous act of wilfulness or malice on a most unoffending family. At about 9 o'clock they commenced to throw stones on the roof of the house of Mr Slipper the schoolmaster, and continued to do so for some time, to the great terror of the inmates, so much so indeed that Mrs Slipper was made dangerously ill and is still under the treatment of Dr Johnston. We understand that the matter has been placed in the hands ot the poboe, for investigation, who ne in possession of a certain clue to the oif enders. A Presbyterian doctor of divinity once said to a writer in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, " You newspaper men must have a queer view of things. You are always looking on, and never taking part. Your knowledge and habit ef thought must be very circumferential and superficial. I suppose, now your idea of the day of judgment is that you will have a table at one side and report the proceedings for the morning paper." On the other hand newspaper men say that the clergymen are like direction posts on a highway. They tell the traveller where to go, Sat never get there themselves. • A private in the 19th Hussars, whose letters from Egypt are published in the new number of the Nineteenth Century, gives some interesting information about General Earle's death. He was killed after the whole of. the enemy's position had been taken, because he insisted, against the warnings, in "poking his head into a mud hut" in which some "rebels'* were secreted. The man who shot him was brought out of the house by Major Slade, and was instantly cut into a hundred pieces. There was another house found, with a horse and camel, and inside were twenty-six men and their store of ammunition, and the whole Jot were burnt alive in the house' and blown to atoms by the continuous exploding of ammunition ; the horse and camel were also burnt to a cinder. '

Letters of naturalisation have been granted to the following : — Hans Christian Nissen, settler, Stoney Creek, Palmerston North ; Charles Dahl, settler, settler, Campbelltown, County of Oroua ; Svend Svendsen, bootmaker, Feilding. A few loads of gravel would materially improve the road-way just below the Denbigh Hotel. The road at present is in a very bad state, and, if left unattended, ; a ferry boat will soon be required bjr the ; residents of the neighborhood. j In a local published in our last issue dealing with the examination of pupil teachers at Wanganui, we omitted to mention the name of Miss Joanna Prendergast, of Upper Taonui, -who passed with a score of 927 marks— percentage, 605. We would call the attention of the Public Works Committee to the present discreditable conditions of Hobson street — or rather to that portion of it used as a street. Some contractors hare been carting gravel from the Makino during the past few days, with the result that those portions of the road used for foot traffic have become a veritable quagmire. In some places the ruts are over a foot deep, which, at night time, may prove exceedingly dangerous to foot passengers. This matter should be seen to. A shocking case of premature interment is reported from Paulhagues to the Express de Lyons. A woman who had merely fallen into a lethargic sleep was believed to be defunct, and buried in the Cemetery of the Commune. Some children shortly afterwards playing amongst the graves heard cries proceeding from the ground and gave the alarm. All hast© was made to take up and break open the coffin, when the woman was found to be still living, but she died in a few minutes after being released. When the division took place hut night on the Bank Note Security Bill (says tht N.Z. Times) Mr Seddon crossed from one side of the House to the other to have a look at the numbers. As they were even, Mr W. F. Buckland, one of the tellers, drew the attention of the Speaker to the fact, stating that the practice was becoming rather common lately Mr Seddon, in reply to the Speaker, stated that he had not recorded his vote ©n either eide, and that he had not gone into either of the division lobbies. The Speaker warned the honorable member that he would in future have to go into either the one lobby or the other. There was a general laugh at the idea of the hon. member for Kumara being caught so easily. Messrs Eeid and Gray's (of Dunedin} exhibits at the Wellington Exhibition will include double-furrow ploughs, one of which is fitted with swivel circular coulters, another is a light ordinary plough, and a third is a double-furrow and subsoiler combined. Two styles of doublefurrow ploughs will be shown in the rough Btate they left the forge, so that a more accurate estimate may be obtained of the workmanship bestowed on them than if they were painted. The firm are also sending colonial single-furrow, single-furrow lever, and hillside ploughs; a collection of chaff-cutters, including the improved one they have recently brought out ; a force feed seed-mower fatted with turnip cannister and chain harrows ; the New Zealand twine-binder; and a grain and manure drill. Notwithstanding the inclement weather the social meeting held at the Foresters' Hall last evening under the auspices of the Lyceum was well patronised. About 80 persons sat down to tea, the comestibles for which were supplied by Mr Gould, of ClairvUle House, and were of excellent quality. After the tea a varied programme was gone through, consisting of solos and songs with chorus, instrumental and vocal solos, and duetts, with piano, cornet, &c, interspersed with a few dances. The last item, which consisted of an original sketch, entitled " A Lesson on Elocution," given by two gentlemen representing the characters of a professor and a chimney sweep, caused roars of laughter. The national anthem brought to a close one of the best conducts, enjoyable, and successful gatherings of the kind that one could wish to attend.