Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 23, 4 August 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The average editor wears no diamonds. Paste is good enough for him.

The American Fenian circles expressed gratification at Mr Gladstone's defeat.

We have to thank the Government Printer for Hansard No. 11 up to July 21.

The Benevolent Society will meet on Thursday the 6th instant, at Mr Bray's office at 8 p.m.

Samson was the first man to advertise. He took two solid columns to demonstrate his strength.

Mr Freeman B. Jackson will hold a stock sala at his yards St. Hill street, Wanganui, to-morrow.

A meeting of the council of the Manchester and Kiwitea Acclimatisation Society will be held on Thursday next.

Tenders for felling 350 acres of bush, in one or more blocks, are invited by Messrs Godfrey and Oldershaw of Beaconsfield.

Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at Awahuri is proceeding as we go to press. A full report will appear in our next issue.

The man who stops his paper, or his advertising to economise, ought to cut off his nose to keep from buying pocket handkerchiefs.

To-morrow Mr Albert Barnes, auctioneer, of Wanganui, will sell certain sections of land in the Manchester block, under instructions from the N.Z.L. & M.A. Company.

The Manchester Bifles met for church parade on Sunday last. There was a considerable improvement in the attendance compared with the previous similar parade.

The next stock sale of Messrs Stevens and Gorton will be held at Palmerston on Tuesday the 11th instant. The list of the lots, which is published to-day, is a comprehensive one.

We learn from the Wellington Evening Press that the rumour to the effect Sir John Hall was about to return to New Zealand to take an active part in politics, was entirely without foundation.

The St. Petersburg papers commented offensively on the cordial reception in London of Sir Peter Lumsden, whose anti-Russian statements were attributed to disappointment at the want of success in his mission.

Dr Schliemann will spend the coming winter searching for the tomb of Alexander the Great, at Alexandria. As the cause of the death of this man is pretty well known, no inquest will be held on the remains, if found.

The Wellington and Manawatu railway loan of £l(i0,000, being the remainder of tlie original amount of £560,000, has been placed on the market. The ininiii) um has been fixed at £98, and tenders will be opened on the 7th instant.

On Thursday next Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will hold their usual stock sale. We observe that the entries are very numerous. They will also sell, by order of the mortgagee, certain farm implements and some draught and hack horses.

By the English papers received this mail we notice that E. B. Gudgeon, Esq., of Grove Lane, Camberwell, youngest brother of Mr Thos. Wayth Gudgeon, of Auckland, is the Conservative candidate put forward to represent the northern division of that borough at the approaching election.

The success of the Waipawa Building Society which has just started, will be an encouragement to the Feilding one. The Mail says: — The success of this institution has been quite unexpected, and we shall be able to publish an account of the business it has done, which will show that its operations are really more extensive than those of similar societies in larger towns. No less than £725 worth of investment shares have boon taken up during the past five weeks.

The determination of Miss Helen Taylor to go to the poll as Radical candidate for Camberwell opens up a sufficiently alarming prospect, writes the Pall Mall Gazette. Suppose the electors are complaisant and the officials compliant, and Miss Taylor is returned ? Then, we suppose, there will be the affair of Mr Bradlaugh repeated. The Bradlaugh question itself, a Helen Taylor question, and the Irish question, will be an agreeable trial for the first days of the reformed Parliament.

At the Lyceum meeting on Sunday evening last, congregational singing was introduced for the first time. A number of Sankey's hymns were sung, led by the cornet, accompanied by the piano with remarkably good effect. Both the readings and the music were evidentally much appreciated, and we are informed that at the close six persons gave ia their names to become members. We understand it is intended to form an orchestra and choir in connection with the institution.

In order to directly discourage the "dead head" system, the Government did not invite members of the various public bodies in Wellington to take a recognised and formal part in the opening of the Exhibition. So bints our " devil". But the real fact is that if this had been done, Mr George Fisher, the Mayor, would have occupied a prominent position, and Sir Julius did not believe in two suns shining at the same time. He likes to play " a lone hand," in a spectacular game.

The Masterton correspondent ef the Evening Post writes as follows: — "The woman Assesson, aged 45, and her son aged 12, after being-lost for four days in the bush at Mauriceville, during which they had no food, were found by a search party at the back of the range at noon yesterday. They were very weak, but able to walk. Mrs Assesson was lost in the same locality in a similar way while looking for cattle for a couple of days two years ago, and has never since properly recovered her health from that exposure/* The Empire Haibdbessing amd Bil- ' li ahd Saloon. P. J. Milleb wishes to notify to the public of Feilding and district that he hfis opened the Hnirdressing and Billiard Saloon next. Bellve's Hotel. Pipes, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, &c. of all kinds kept in stock. Ladies' hair work and combings, of all descriptions worked to order. Wednesday afternoons from 2to 5 will be specially set apart for Ladies' Haircutting. Gentlemens' Haircutting each other day from 830 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays 11p.m. Lovers of the Green Cloth will find in this establishment one of the best tables in the colcny, with fittings mplete, and patrons will receive every possible attention. — Adyt.

Captain Edwin telegraphs — Heavy frost to-night at all stations.

Several new books were added to the shelves of the Feilding Public Library today.

A grand concert, dramatic entertainment and ball will be held at Kiwitea on Friday, the 21st inst.

" Deputation," said Gladstone, "is a noun of multitude that signifies many, but does not signify much."

The United States Government is making an elaborate survey of New York harbor, with its channels, approaches, and shoals. No survey has been made for 30 years, and many changes have since occurred.

Sisters Signatius and Bega, of the Community of St. Joseph, were in Feilding to-day on their mission of collecting subscriptions for the Kensington (S.A.) Home for neglected children. We trust their visit may be a successful one.

A very excellent opportunity will be offered to any person desirous of becoming the possessor of a comfortable residence on Saturday, the 15th inst., when Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will sell Mr W. Hammond's land and dwelling house.

Tenders are invited for felling 1000 acres of bush in the Manchester Block in lots of 100 or 200 acres. Specifications may be seen at Mr Pleasant's on the Taonui road, or at^Edenkillie Park, Bangitikei road, the residence of the advertiser D. L. Smith Esq.

Apropos of ;"Old Grumble's" article in last Saturday's issue on " Hough on rats" we may mention a circumstance whieh happened in Feilding last week, and which should be a caution to all housewives, A lady made a pudding putting into it what she thought to be some spice. The pudding when tried, tasted rather bitter, and on that account was discarded and given to the pig. Suffice it to say that it afterwards occurred to the maker of the pudding that instead of the intended spice she had inadvertently used some "Bough on rate," which made her very ill, and was at least " rough on" the pig, which died, while she fortunately, after many measures for the expulsion of tke poison, recovered.

The New Zealand Times says : — Mossrs J. H. Wallace and Co. held their second sale of fat and other stock at the Hutt sale yards last week. They report as follows : — Fat cattle showed a marked improvement on last sale. We yarded 30 head fair quality bullocks, and sold at from L7 12s 6d to L7 Ids, being an advance ef Is 6d per 1001b on previous sale. Fat cows, medium quality, sold at from L4 10s to Ld. We quote beef, prime quality, at 22s 6d ; medium, 20s per 1001b. Fat sheep — None were yarded ; we placed privately, however, a line of mixed wethers and ewes at 13s 6d ; we quote mutton at 2d per lb. Store cattle — We sold fortytwo head ; cows, L3 5s to L4 10s ; twoyear olds, L2 10s ; yearlings in low condition, LI to LI 10s; dairy cows, Ld. Horses — Inferior hacks sold from L3 10s to L5 ss. Our next sale takes place on Wednesday, the 12th August'

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Wednesday last, the case of Davis v Sherwill was concluded. In this case his Honor gave judgment. The plaintiff, who was about to be tried for perjury, was advised that, if he was convicted, his property would all become forfeited to the Crown. He therefore made settlements of it. He was convicted, and served his sentence ; and subsequently, finding that his property would not have become forfeited, he endeavored to set aside the settlements on the ground that they had been made under a mistaken impression of law. The present special case was then agreed on, and recently argued at a special sitting in Chambers. Mr Or. Hutch, ison, of Wanganui, appeared for the plaintiff, Mr Travers for the trustees, and Mr M. Bichmond for the cestuiqui-trust-ent. His Honor now decided that the settlements could not be voided, but allowed the costs of all parties out of the estate.