Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 30, 20 August 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening at 8 p.m.

The Manchester Rifles will parade this evening for Government Inspection.

The talented Faust Family are announced to play in Palmerston for three nights this week.

W« have to acknowledge receipt of Oxenham's Monthly Turf Register for August. This is the best book for sport ingmen that has ever been published^

We have received from Messrs Reid & Gray a oircular containing testimonials and general imf ormation anent their New Zealand twine binder. Copies can be obtained at the Stab office.

It will be observed in our telegraphic column that Mr Thomas Bradley, who is ■well-known in Feilding, drove the first mail coach over the Waiau Bridge, which is a connecting link between Te Aroha and Auckland.

A gentleman connected with a local banking institution was horsewhipped at Ashburton a few days ago. We learn from an exchange that the castigation was well merited and well laid on.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the 1 Anglo-New Zealander of July 3rd. ! In the chief ports of the colony there are 15,000 militiamen between the ages of seventeen and thirty.

! The courts in France, it is said, consider it a libel to over-estimate a lady's age.

Mr W. ~D. Nicholas, chairman of the Feilding State School Committee, invites applications for the post of Truant Inspector.

The second instalment of survey money for the Feilding Small Farm Association is due to-day and must bo paid to the secretary, Mr E. Goodbehere.

The funeral of the late James Ewing took place this morning, being attended by a few of the most intimate friends of the deceased. The Eev. H. M. Murray conducted the ceremony.

Mr Inspector Bullen, now in charge of the Police department, Christchurch, will shortly take charge of the Hawkes Bay District vice Mr Inspector Scull ey, who retires.

A High School boy named Walcott, iti climbing over a fence at Duneclin, on Tuesday last, was caught by a ring on his finger on a spike on the edge, and falling had his finger torn off, and the sinew dragged out of the arm for some nine inches.

In order to increase the influence of the Watchraaß, published in Auckland, it has been deter mined 'O form the paper into a company, under the Joint Stock Companies Act, the capital of the company to be £10,000.

The Government are offering a reward of not less than £o and not more than £50 to any one who will give information which will lead to the discovery of any illicit distillation that may at any time bo going on.

War to the (paper) knife is now being carried on between the rival editors of the Marlborough Express, and the Daily Times. So long as they don't waste time and money in the foolishness of the law i n libels, nobody will get hurt.

The London Times says the present issue of the Graphic Summer Number, is certainly as attractive as any of its predecessors. The several series of numerous tinted illustrations are excellent and amusing.

General Gordon said " the stomach governs the world, and it was the stomach (a despised organ) which caused our misery from the beginning. It is wonderful that the ventral tube of man governs the world, in great and small things."

Mr G. C. Hill, G.E., to-day calls for tenders for the erection of a shop. We understand that the building will be in the Kimbolton road, and will be occupied by the proprietor Mr J. M. Higgin as a dispensary and chemi&ts shop.

The entertainment at St. John's Sunday School Room, held last night was well attended, one hundred and twenty persons being present. The programme was a varied one and every part of it was a success. We regret that pressure on our space prevents our giving a more detailed notice.

In to-day's issue Mr Robert Linton gives notice that he will apply for a slaughtering license at the next meeting of the Manchester Road Board. We uaderstand that Mr Linton will open a butchery business on the premises lately occupied by Mr William Whisker on the Kimbolton road.

Colonel Wright, of Massachusetts, has found women more satisfactory lor the Stale ceasus work than men. and thirtytwo of his forty clerks are womea. The reason, is simple enough, for nothing under fche sun interests women more than matters conueefced with b.'-chs, deaths, and marriages. The controversy between C. W. Williams, war correspondent, and Sir C. Wilson about the incapacity of the latter, is s till going on with much .bitterness. The quarrel promises to end in the law courts, and it is stated that in such Mr Williams would command the presence of Lord Wolseley, Lord Charles Beresford and others to prove his case.

A few days ago, in the private dwelling of a state beboo] master, it was observed by the residents that one of the chimneys was " setting" in sach a manner that the services of a bricklayer were deemed necessary to make the structure safe. Cn taking up the hearth it was discovered that the foundation of the chimney was wood instead of brink. This is clearly a case of the contractor "weathering on" the architect.

A marriage which will have considerable interest foe ma ay of our readers was celebrated on Monday in Welliue;ton by the Eep\ Mr Olliver, when Mr "S. Williamson, a well-known and respected resident in Bangitikei, was united to Georgina, eldest daughter of our respected fellow townsman Mr G. V. Shannon, J.P. The wedding took place at Mr Shanaon's residence, and was quite private, only the immediate relatives of the bridal pahbeing present. A great many friends •will, however, wish the young couple every happiness. — Post.

At a meeting of the citizens of Invercargill hold on the 12th infcant, it was resolved — "That in the opioion of the meeting the railway system of New Zealand has now attained such proportions as to make it imperative that the Government should take immediate steps to secure the services of a thoroughly practical railway manager of large experience, more especially as under the present management the railways have neither paid nor given satisfaction to any section of the public." This resolution will be endorsed by every section of the community in the colony.

A singular fabality occurred the other day at Sandhurst. A married woman named Siuimonds, a resident of St. Kilda, fell down in a bedroom at the Niagara liolel. and jammed her neck between the door and the bed-post. She was unable to extricate herself, and was suffocated.

A return moved for by Mr Moss in the House was laid on the table showing the names of the telegraph and post office clorks who had been more than five years in the service, and whose salaries are under £130 per annum. There are no less than seventy-eight such telegrapists, whose salaries range from £100 to £125. In some cases they joined as far back as 1874.

The Eussian Government is re-fortify-ing Sevastopol without loss of tune. Enormous earthworks are (the Daily News correspondent says) in course of construction or repair for some distance along the shore, looking seawards, and on all points commanding the approach to the harbor. They are being mounted with immensely powerful guns. The batteries are numerous and powerful, and all the -works are being pushed as rapidly as possible under the direction of a large force of sappers and artillerymen, who, with the soldiers under them, never cease work, even on the strictest of Russian holidays. • ■ ■, g-

We have to thank the Government Printer for No. 16 of Hansard. Mr Freeman's shop in Manchester street is nearly finished.

We notice that Mr Svensden, bootmaker, has just opened up a lot of new goods. He intends giving a particular description of them in our next issue.

George Augustus Sala says in Australia chat nobody need be poor who is able and willing to work, and the nearest approach in Australia to the English destitute is the incorrigible loafer and the incurable drunkard.

The noise of the hammer and the saw is heard in Feilding " from early morn to dewy eve" and the row promises to continue for some time if one may judge by the fact that new buildings are being projected almost eveiy day.

It is a melancholy fact that the accident by which Joseph Mayhew lost his life was the third fatal calamity that has occurred on the Awahuri road during a little over twelve months, the unfortunates in each case being young abla-bodied men.

In order to set at rest the question as to the truth or falsehood of the reports of gold having been discovered on the Wanganui Harbor Board Block or in that neighborhood, a party of experienced prospectors will probably be organised in Feilding, and sent out to examine the country.

At the inquest held at Awahuri yesterday, one of the jurymen suggested that a rider be added to the verdict to the affect that persons should not be allowed to bury horses by the side of a public road. The coroner said that mention might be made of it in the record, though ho thought it could not be admitted as a rider. A juryman remarked that as a representative of the Press was present no doubt attention would be called to the circumstance that the j ury deprecated such a practice as that referred to.

In an elaborate report on the wool trade of Australia, Consul Griffin, of Sydney, says : — " It is now quite a common thing for the sheep-farmers of Victoria and New South Wales to purchase stud sheep in New Zealand. The rich pastoral lands of that colony and the geniality of the climate, together with the equal Jistributioa of warmth and moisture throughout every part of the North and South Island, have led to the production of distinct types of sheep, the wool of which is so remarkable far fineness, density, lustre, and great length of gtaple."