Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 26, 11 August 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A sitting of the Feildmg E.M. Court will be held to-morrow at 10 a.m. • Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's next Feilding stork sale will be held on Thursday, September 10th, the day of the show. I We observe that Mr Gichard is making some additions to his premises. Mr . Nicholas, builder, is doing the work. Messrs Stevens and Gorton held a stock sale at Palmerston to-day. A full report will appear in our next issue. Tenders for felling 350 acres of bush for Messrs Godfrey and Oldershaw will . close to-morrow. Tenders for Mr Rowley's sections in Fergusson street will close on Friday next. We regret to learn that W. H. Lash, of Halcombe, is so seriously ill that his removal to the Wanganui Hospital has now become imperative. The Auckland Bell says that notwithstanding the grumbling as to dull times, the Inspector of Buildings reports that building operations are fairly brisk at the present moment. The best speaker at the meeting of the Salvation Army on Sunday night last was a lady, who displayed remarkable power as an orator and at the same time eloquence as a pleader. An advertisement appears to-day from Mr Carthew which will be interesting to lovers of good books, and those who are desirous of keeping themselves posted up in the polite literature of the day. The committee of the Rangitikei and Manawatu Poultry Show met on Saturday evening for the transaction of formal business. The committee will meet at Mr Bray's office every Saturday evening until the show is over. Mr Svensden, bootmaker, has greatly improved the interior of his shop by the erection of glass show cases. They have been manufactured and fixed up by Mr Eade in very neat style. We are informed by Mr Saxon that the dog " Shot," advertised for in these columns on Thursday last, was returned and the reward paid within 24 hours after the publication of the paper. In addition to the sale of Mr Hammond's land and dwelling house on Saturday next, Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will sell a quantity of timber of various kinds, some saws and bridge tools. Bankruptcy notices in the matter of Joseph Poad, of Halcombe, labourer, and John Llewellyn, of Halcombe, blacksmith, appear to-day over the signature of the Deputy Official Assignee, Mr G. J. Scott, by which creditors in each estate are informed that meetings will be held at the court house here on Saturday next. J. E. Browne, surveyor, Wellington, was taken in charge on Saturday last for threatening to take "Rough on Rats," which he had mixed up in a glass, and threatening to murder his wife and children. The unfortunate man is now in the hospital suffering from the effects of a drinking debauch. A servant girl named O'Conor has been missing from the house of a farmer at Pareroa, near Timaru, since ten o'clock on Friday night. She had shown signs of insanity. The police and others have been searching the country ever since, but without any result, and it is feared she has perished in some way or other. [She has since been found.] The lecture delivered by Mr Walton at the Foresters' Hall on Sunday evening last on the subject *' What must we believe and do to be saved ?" was listened to with great attention by a numerous audience. The lecture, which was an eloquent one, was frequently applauded, and at the close Mr Walton received a vote of thanks carried by acclamation. At the Police Court yesterday, before H. L. Sherwill, Esq., J.P., a man named Walter Batt was brought up under arrest, charged on the information of Constable Moehan with being found drunk in the streets of Feilding on Sunday last. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s or in default 48 hours' imprisonment in Wanganui Gaol. The fine was paid. To-day we publish the advertisement of the Rangitikei, Oroua, and Manawatu Poultry Show, to be held on Thursday, the 10th of September. We are glad to announce that the most liberal promises of support have been made in a pecuniary sense, while the number of exhibits to be sent in will fully occupy the space at the disposal of the committee. Intending exhibitors should communicate with the secretary at once, in order that every one may have equal facilities of having their lots well placed for the public to see them to advantage. A test of silver ore was made at the assay department of the Bank of New Zealand, at Auckland recently byMr G. Burns, the assayer of the bank. The test was made from quartz brought by Mr H. M. Shepherd from the Crown lode, Karangahape, Ohinemuri district. The quartz, 600 grains, was first calcined, afterwards pounded and heated with flux. The test resulted in a button of 13 grains, equal to aboutrlOOO ounces to the ton. A company is about to be floated in Auckland for the purpose of working a newly discovered tin mine, on the West Coast, near Westport. From telegrams received, it would appear that the mine presents indications of its being a rich one. This favourable report will, no doubt, tend to stimulate the company in developing to its fullest extent the resource that has so unexpectedly come to light in? that part of the colony. The annual report of the Inspector of Machinery was laid on the table of the House of Representatives on the 4th inst. 1475 boilers were inspected during the year, of which 41 were found dangerous, and 139 more or less defective. Accidents to life and limb were much less frequent than m former years, and the machinery better looked after. No boiler explosions occurred during the year, whereas in Britain there were 49, causing 31 deaths aad 65 cases of personal injuries. In the past ten years only five deaths had occurred in New Zealand from the explosion of four boilers, while in Britain in the same time 421 boilers had exploded, causing 626 deaths and 830 injuries.

Mr Heald, builder, is the successful tenderer for the erection of Mr Eade's new premises and dwelling house. : Captain Edwin telegraphs today— Warning* for northerly gales after 12 hours. | There will be no parade of the Manchester Rifles this evening, as the Public Hall is engaged for another purpose. The Howard Burlesque Company will appear in the Public Hall this evening. | We observe by our Southern exchanges that this troupe played to full houses in Christchurch. j Among other exhibits from this district to be seen at the Exhibition, in Wellington, the memorial tablets, painted on glass, for churches and dwellings, and i other decorative works, executed by Mr B. Gosling are particularly noticeable. j We are glad to learn that young Mr j Brooker, who was unfortunate enough to : inflict a serious wound on his foot with ' his axe, while working in the bush a few , days ago, is now rapidly recovering, and will soon be able to get to work again. The Feilding Brass Band will give another of their popular dances on Thursday night next. As this body is a popular one, while the tickets, which include refreshments, are placed at the lowest price, we may expect to see a crowded attendance. The rumour that the Hon. P. A. Buckley had been requested to stand for an Irish seat in the House of Commons in the Home Rule interest is now confirmed. It is not known yet whether he will comply with the request. A prisoner named Michael Hauley arrived in Wellington from Greymouth on Sunday, having been remanded from that place to Palmerston North, where he is wanted on a charge of creating a disturbance in a railway carnage. On dit that a suit for divorce will shortly be the subject of legal procedure in Palmerston. The facts as now whispered about do not reveal a very exalted type of domestic morality or virtue on the part of the husband. But more anon. — Standard. Robin Hood Company has again forwarded us the names and addresses of principal winners in their Grand National and Waterloo Cup programmes. They also tell us that their Hawkesbury consultation is moving ahead fast, and will fill quickly, and enable them to open their big programmes on the Melbourne Cup. The new advertisements of Mr Keen, which will appear in our next issue, comprises the best selection of boots and shoes of American manufacture ever imported into the colony. They are quite a novelty in Feilding, and will no doubt be an attraction to Mr Keen's establishment. The steady advance in the price of beef, with the certainty that it will keep up for the next three or four months, has proved a great boon to those Eiwitea settlers who have devoted their attention to stockraising. When the Wanganui Harbor Board Block is opened up by more roads, and properly settled, just as good — if not better — cattle will be raised there. It is a pity to see so much splendid land lying comparatively idle. A very peculiar and awkward accident, if such it might be called, occurred at Halcombe this morning. From what we learn, a man named McElroy was bringing a load of timber from Bell's mill to the station. Another man was with him, who it appears had a whip on the top of the load, and when opposite the hotel he imprudently stepped on the nave of the wheel while in motion to reach this off. His foot was caught between the spokes, and the wheel made several rotations before the driver was aware of what had happened. The unfortunate man's leg was fractured in several places. He was taken into the hotel, and Dr Johnston was at once telegraphed for. With reference to the advertisement of Mr Harrison Davis, which appears in another column, the word " Tontine" as applied to a life policy does not involve any great mystery, nor, as many appear to think, is it a gambling transaction. It simply means that all the profits are set aside to accumulate for division amongst those members who survive a certain number of years — called a tontine period. Policy-holders who die before the termination of such period receive the full amount assured at the expiration of the tontine period (10, 15 or 20 years, as may do selected) the advantages to members are far beyond anything to be obtained under the ordinary scheme of Life Assurance, the accumulated tontine surplus being divided amongst the survivors, who are then allowed various attractive options in dealing with their policies.