Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 29, 18 August 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ Up to the time of going to press we have heard nothing more of the projected motion of want of confidence m the Government. The next instalment of tho Borough loan will bo due on the Ist of October. The Marlborough Daily Times is now published in an enlarged form. On Thursday next the Manchester Rifles will parade for Government Inspection. We are glad to learn that great numbers of exhibits, for the coming Poultry and Produce Show, are now in course of preparation. Mr T. R. Chamberlain continues to produce the finest flour used in the district. We refer our readers to advertisement. To-morrow evening a popular entertainment will be given at St. John's Sunday School Room. The programme is a most excellent one, and will prove both attractive and amusing. The Commissioner of Crown Lands gives notice to-day that P. Nash, the selector of section 38, Block XIII, Pohangina, has applied to the Land Board to transfer the same to James Whittakor. The attempt made at the last meeting of the Council, to have the meetings of the Manawatu County Council (now held in Foxton) held at Sandon ; resulted in a failure. The motion -was lost on the voices, only two voting in favour of it. On next Sunday afternoon, at half past three o'clock, a special service will be held in St. John's Church for the children attending the Sunday school. Parents and heads of families are invited to be present. At 8 a.m. on Sunday in Christchurch, Hester Johnston, wife of a labourer, residing at Addington, took a dose of " Rough on Rats." Dr Patrick attended her and managed to save her life. It is stated that she had been drinking lately. The Kaikoura direct steamer from England arrived at Port Chalmers on Sunday. She had 267 bags of mails. She made the passage in 38 days, 11 hours, 16 minutes actual steaming time. With reference to young Curran, whose condition after his accident was mentioned in our last issue, we have now to state that his medical attendant expects the patient to be perfectly recovered in the course of a couple of weeks. Tbe Railway General Manager has refused the application made by the Secretary of tKe Rangitkei, o™ ll *. a pd Manawatu Poultry Show, for cheap fares on the day of the event. Mr Maxwell is a poor business man. The whiskey sold at Mercury. Bay continues to do its work faithfully. On Saturday last William Taylor, of the brigantine Jessie,, was brought up from there in custody, he having attempted first to cut his throat, and as that failed he tried afterwards to drown himself.

There are different sorts of "faiths," some are the outcome of sincere piety, and others of blatant conceit. The Maoris say we are about to experience a splendid summer. Plenty of whitebait in the rivers and streams. We are informed that another handsome shop is about to be erected in Kinibolton road. The steamer Whampoa left Foochow for Wellington on the 12 th instant with the second shipment of the new season's teas. Sir George Grey will support any ministry that will displace the Stout- Vogel combination. He does not say for how long. The five thousand pounds made by the last vendors of the Westoe Estate, would have been made by Sir William Fox if he had spent fifty pounds in advertising. Sergeant Towler, formerly of this town, is now drill-instructor to the Otago Guards. The Dunedin Star speaks highly of him as a most efficient officer. During the trienial period of the Borough Council, which elapses on the 10th of next month, three burgesses have filled the position which will then be vacated by the retirement of Mr Bartholomew — viz., Messrs Sherwill, Carthew, and Bartholomew — all good men. In another column Mr Hammond advertises his house and lnud for sale or to let. As there is a good well of water, a well-planted and stocked garden and orchard, and a comfortable cottage, this is a splenpid opportunity for a person desiring a comfortable house. We loam from the Auckland Bell that the natives of Parawai have set Europeans a good example ; after a very little palaver they fined a chief's daughter £30 for malicious defamation of character. It would have takon our Supremo Court three or four days to reach tho end of such a case. Two carrier pigeons belonging to a gentleman in Napier, were liberated in Wellington on Friday last at 9.5 a.m., and at 1.8 p.m. both birds were in Napier. The birds were not connected with the Post Office department — hence the rapidity with which their errand was accomplished. The voice of the unemployed is heard in the large townships. It is singular these unfortunates have such a dread of work in the country. The reason may be that the country fife does not offer the same amusements, as life in a city. Tea and bushfalling is different to beer and skittles. We learn from the Wanganui Herald that Mr Forbes is mounting two of tho hoofs of the well-known trotting mare Little Nell, which at one time belonged to Mr C. H. Chavannes. The hoofs are to form the bases for two silver candlesticks made by Mr Forbes, the design and make of which reflect credit on his establishment. An Exchange irreverently publishes tho following: — There is said to be one lawyer in heaven. How he got there is not positively known, but it is conjectured that he passed himself off for an editor and slipped in unsuspected. "When his dodge was discovered, they searched the realms of felicity in all their length and breadth for another lawyer to draw up the papers for his ejectment, but they couldn't find one, and, of course, he held the fort. Thursday, the 10th of September, will be a busy time in Feilding for there will be held that day Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's stock sale, the Rangitikei, Oroua, and Manawatu Poultry Show, and last but not least, the election of three members for the Borough Councill. The official notice anent the latter part of the programme will be published on the 25th instant. The retiring councillors are Messrs Henry Worsfold, Samuel Goodbohere, and John Bartholomew. In the course of a recent inquiry at Auckland as to the origin of a fire there, Coroner Barstow gave a piece of information which will cause a little disquiet among insurance csmpnnies. He stated that it had been lately laid down by hisjh official legal authorities at Homo that persons could not bo held accountable for clauses or stipulations that were on the back of any document. H« mentioned this to show that matter printed on the back of any insurance policy might not be held binding if taken to a Court of law. The Wanganui Harbor Board Block is one of tho most valuable properties in the North Island, so that there is no need for

the discovery of bogus quartz reefs in its boundaries to encourage settlement. What is wanted to do this is merely to open up the land by good roads, and thus enable bona fide settlers to take it up. Tho Wanganui Herald says : — The quartz from the Harbor Board endowment block, which we mentioned on Saturday, was tested by Mr Drew. The piece however was too small to give a fair test, and no definite results were obtainable. Tho " definite results" will be contemporary with the discovery of payable gold at Terawhiti and the Greek Kalends. The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Star says: — Mr Bruce (the member for Rangitikei) who has worked himself from before the mast to a seat in the Legislature, is regarded as one of the most straightforward and conscientious of members. On Thursday evening, while in Committee on the Licensing Bill, he said that if it rested with him he would sweep all liquor from the face of the earth ; but while it was sold he would take his glass. He subsequently boasted that he knew more about liquor traffic than a member who had proceeded him, because he had moved in a lower class of society. People generally brag about the gentility of the society in which they mix, so that the member for Rangitikei is somewhat of a rara avis. The writer in the Sydney Evening News on New Zealand thus speaks of the waste by burning nearDanevirke : — "No use seemingly made of the potash ? No destructive distillation of wood? No pyroligneous acids,, or wood tars, or oils, made here ? Under more enlightened processes many most valuable products might here be utilised and saved. The whole thing — waste, waste ! Want of capital, want of knowledge, want of foresight, want of proper labor, and facilities for marketing. Verily, 'the greatest haste which in the end may prove the lesser speed.' Possibly lam wrong. This process may really be the cheapest and the best, and the game may be worth the candle in the long run. And yet my soul revolts at this wholesale destruction. It was not so, we worked, in my old pioneering days, among the forests in India. Charcoal, tar, potash, oil, resins, gums, battens, spars, planks, even lichens and mosses, were all found marketable ; and my forest clearing was made to pay in products, for the labor expended. I think, too, of the elaborate care bestowed on plantations in Scotland, and- sigh as I contrast the thrift there, with .the extravagance here."