Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 24, 6 August 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

I The butchers in Christchurch are advertising lamb for Sale already. A correspondent writes to say that the hotel J accommodation at Wellington is miserably poor coznpved with. the. hotels in Palmerston and Feilding.

We have received from the Government Printer No. 12 of Hansard. ! Selections of new music, and a quantity of new books have just been opened up by Mr Carthew. There were no tenders sent in for the purchase or lease of the Makino Butter and Cheese Factory. The July number of the New Zealand Industrial Gazette is to hand and is more than usually interesting. i Mr Greenwood will be in Feilding on Friday the 21st instant, and may be consulted at the Denbigh Hotel. We have been requested to draw special ■ attention to the price list of Mr E. J. Cottrell which appears to-day. The glare from the fire which took place in Palmerston on Tuesday night, was distinctly visible in Feilding. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's new premises are being rapidly pushed on towards completion by the contractor, Mr Berry. It is expected that the committee of the Feilding Sports will meet shortly to consider ways and means for the Boxing Day Sports. An entirely new advertisement from ' Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co., manufactures of the improved English watches, I will appear at an early date. The acacias and wattles now m full bloom iv many parts of the township, have a very pleasing effect, and give presage of the near approach of summer. The Manchester Rifles paraded for drill on Tuesday night. The attendance was moderate. Drill for recruits will be held this evening at the usual time and place. The Wanganui Habor Board will shortly invite applications for the position of secretary of the Board, made vacant by the death of their late secretary, Mr Edward Churton. An Exchange says that the Patetere Company's affairs have had a narrow squeak from being thrown in chancery. A settlement has been arrived at. The vendors take back 102,000 acres, the company retaining 170,000 acres. We call the attention of our readers to the sale of Mr Hammond's house and land which will be held by Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill on Saturday the 15th inst. Such an opportunity of securing a comfortable freehold seldom offers itself. Since Mr Corpe got his sawmill at work at Makino, a marked improvement in the business done at the railway station there is visible. The fact of this mill starting again will be sufficient in itself to bring up the railway returns considerably. The Post says: — Mr Thomas Sexton, the well-known chess-player and problem composer of Feilding, is now on a visit to Wellington, and. to-morrow evening, at the Club-room, he will play two games of chess simultaneously witheut seeing the boards. A baker in Nelson, who filed his schedule the other day, said under examination that he commenced business with a capital of 5s 6d, and debts amounting to £20. He stated that at 3d the small loaf, he would clear £1 13s 9d on 5 cwt of flour with flour at 9s 6d per cwt. The new Forth bridge between North and South Queensferry, Scotland, approaches completion. It is a cantilever structure, 8,691 feet long, 150 feet high, and will cost £1,600,000. It has been nearly eight years in building. Two thousand men are now employed upon it. The' number of new buildings, of all kinds and descriptions now in course of erection, both in town and suburb, is having the effect of hardening the price of timber, as well as keeping the resident carpenters and builders in full work. Bnckmakera and bricklayers are also fully occupied. There died in the Wanganui Hospital on Tuesday last of parlaysis, George Hale, of Marton, one of the veterans of the 65th Begiment. It is now nearly forty years since this regiment arrived in the colony, some of our most respected settlers are the sons of men who took their discharge in the; colony from the old Bengal Tigers. A heavy southerly gale was blowing all day on Tuesday in Wellington. The sea at the Heads was heavier than it has been seen for the last twelve months. The captain of the Wareka in entering the Heads had to adopt the precaution of pouring oil over the stern to moderate the waves, which threatened to poop her. The following sentences were recently passed by the Recorder of Liverpool on the same day :— l. Eugeno Quinu, for stealing from his employer £862, eight months' imprisonment. 2. Bridget C. Thompson, for stealing a pair of boots, twelvemonths' imprisonment. 2. Samuel Purcell, for stealing a fowl, twelve months. The Grand Art Union of Messrs Summers and Mayhew, promises to be a great success. Every one who has examined the prizes has' expressed satisfaction with them, consequently the tickets are being rapidly disposed of. The drawing wifi take place at an early date therefore intending investors should apply at onoe for tickets ere it is too late. A meeting of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society was held on Tuesday night, when it wasdecidedtosend£3o to Mr Beefham, of the Wairarapa, for the purchase of young fish to put in the rivers under the charge of the society. A letter with the necessary bank draft, was forwarded yesterday. In^ a local . calling attention to this meeting, we said in error it would be held to-night, instead of on Tuesday as above. The following is the text of the Old Soldiers' Petition : — To the hon. the members of the House of Representatives; of the: Colony of New Zealand in Parliament assembled.— The humble petition of us, the undersigned Old Soldiers of Her Majesty's Imperial forces residing in New Zealand, request that the hon. members of the House of Representatives will grant us onr 60 acres of land according to the law under which we were discharged. That we ask no favor but merely our own as laid down by law, we now ask the hon. members to accede to our request, and we as petitioners will ever pray, Ac., &c. There are. at present 22 signatures attached to tho document. Mr John Manson, of Edenkillie Park, evidently believes in the future of this district. He has already invested largely •' in land in this locality, and on Monday . concluded the; purchase of nine sections m.j the Manchester Block from the E. and 0. j Aid Corporation; The area comprised in | these sections ia 2476 acres. Mr Manson | intends losing no time in bringing the . land under cultivation, and will have as much of the bush, felled as possible this year. An advertisement in another col- . umn invites tenders for the bushfelling. ' We are informed that the bush is nearly'; all light tawa. As the purchase 'was only ' completed on Monday we can certainly congratula^Mr Manscai uponhis prompt

The usual meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening. A meeting of the committee of the Poultry and Produce Society will be held at Mr Bray's office on Saturday evening. Several important additions are made to-day te Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at Palmerston on the llth inst. Mr James Branney intimates that Mr Henry Pemberthy of Makino is authorised to collect his accounts, and that his (Mr Penberthy's) receipt will be a sufficient discharge fer the same. I Mr Edmund Goodbehere advertises for • sale those valuable business premises next Ito the store of Mr D. R. Lewers. For | further particulars we refer our readers to the advertisement on our third page. The proprietor of Clairville House, Mr John Gould, has now taken over the bakery business of Mr James Branney and is prepared to supply bread of the best quality to his customers. We have had the pleasure of sampling the same and pronounce it to be most excellent. At Toronto, on the 15th of May last John H. Ford, a circulating agent, and three reporters were charged with violating the Lord's Day Act by selling newspapers on Sunday. For the defence, it was contended that the issuing of a paper on Sunday oontaining news of an important battle was a work of charity and necessity. A fine of $10 and costs was imposed upon each. Notice of appeal was given. Yesterday's New Zealand Times eaya : — It is rumoured that yesterday, before the Petitions Committee, when Sir Julius Vogel's claim was being examined, Sir Julius did his best to be conciliatory and polite to Sir George Grey. He is said to have talked of him in the most complimentary terms. Sir George, however, according to the same report, did not respond in a like strain, but stated that both before and while he was in office he had the most decided opinion that the position of Agent-General was one which Sir Julius ought not to fill. Intelligence from Cavan states that a Earty of sportsmen, when on tbe Tully. uck mountains, came across an eagle engaged in an encounter frith a wild cat. The battle was a fierce one, and even* tually the eat was worsted, but not before the eagle was badly mutilated. When endeavouring to escape after the combat, the eagle was brought down by a rifle shot. The bird is described as of the description usually found ia the Scotch Highlands. The If ydrographic Bureau of Washing ton published lately the following results of a series of observations carried out in order to determine the length, depth, aad duration of ocean waves. The longest wave hitherto observed is said te have bad a length of half a mile, and to have spent itself in 23 seconds. During itorms in the North Altantic waves sometimes extend to a length of 500 and 600 feet, and last from 10 to 11 seconds. The most careful measurements of the height of waves give from 44 to 48 feet as an extreme limit; the average height of great waves is about 30 feet. Of course these measurements refer to ordinary marine action, and do not relate to earthquake aci ion or other exceptional agencies There has been a slight skirmish or interchange of shots between an outpost of the Salvation Army 'and a medical man on the subject of the proceedings of the army and lunacy. Surely "General" Booth does not need to be told that there is such a thing as religious mania, and that the sort of excitement his propaganda produces is likely to act injuriously on hysterical females and excitable males. Emotional perturbation is always mischievous. The weak feel it more than the strong. Every descriptions of "revival" produces a crop of insanity. It is to unstabfersnft excitable nervous centres this sort of enthusiasm appeals, and out of the multitude affected there must be some who break down.— Lancet.