Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 47, 29 September 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The cricket season was opened in Auckland on Saturday. The circus from San Francisco is still detained in Auckland. The perjury case against Mr S. Waters, of Wellington, was dismissed. We have to thank the Government Printer for No. 27 of Hansard. A parade of entire horses will take place at Mr F. E. Jackson's yards in Wanganui to-morrow. Stevens and Gorton sold some land at Halcombe the other day at £7 5s pei acre. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day. — Warnings for heavy northerly gales with heavy rain have been sent to all stations. The epidemic of mumps has been so bad in the Wanganui district that at one time it was thought it would be neccessary to temporarily close the State Schools. Mr Remington Jones, of Taonui, left by train on Saturday evening en route for England by direct steamer. He will be absent about six months. Mr Heniy has received a large quantity of new saddlery which he opened up yesterday. It is of first class quality and at low prices. By an order in Council passed by Her Majesty on the 24th of June, New Zealand solicitors may now obtain admisas solicitors and attorneys in the United Kingdom. On Sunday next the Manchester Rifles will assemble for church parade. We understand that several of the uniforms ordered for recruits have arrived and will be delivered on application. On Wednesday last the steamer Grafton ran on a sand bank near Cape Farewell. She was aground about four hours, and got off on the flood. She sustained no damage. Messrs Edwards and Laurenson were the successful tenderers for the labor in connection with the erection of the Gospel Hall in Warwick street. Seven tenders were sent in. The drawing for Summers and Mayhew's Art Union will take place on Thursday, the Ist inst. Persons who have failed to secure tickets should make application at once. The new building which has been erected in Manchester street as a barracks for the Salvation Army, will be formally opened on Sunday next. On Monday a tea meeting will be held there. The Hon. George McLean will arrive in Wellington this week to represent the Union Steamship Company in a conference with the Government respecting the the San Francisco Mail Service. The owner of Diomedes, Mr Hannet, has already been promised thirty mares for the season. This is an abundant evidence of the high opinion Diomedes holds in the estimation of owners. The Herald says that the Government do not intend to appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into the cause of the prevailing depression. They intend to take steps to remove the cause without having recourse to a commission. We will see. It is rumoured that criminal proceedings of a character totally different from any yet taken in connection with the Hutt "tarrinj* case," are about to be instituted against two members of the Legislature. It is understood the charge will be one of larceny. Mr Halliday arrived here on Saturday evening to relieve Mr Stevens postmaster, who left by the train the same evening for a months' leave of absence. Mr Halliday was in Feilding some few years ago, when he made many friends who will be glad to see him again. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale is proceeding as we go to press. The entries are numerous, and the attendance good. There is a desire evinced by buyers to give full value for the several lots. A detailed report will appear next issue. Miss Marsden, the lady superintendent at the Wellington hospital, was standing on a stepladder taking down some linen from a nigh shelf, when the steps gave way. Miss Marsden fell heavily, and sustained injury to the back. She now remains partially paralized. A drunken man was arrested on Saturday last by Constable Meehan and conveyed to the lockup. At first he was very obstructive, but when he realised the fact that he was a prisoner and would have to spend from Saturday night until Monday in the " gloomy cell," he wept bitterly and howled like a four-year old boy under the birch of a competent master. The power of forcible narrative to excite the feelings of charity which exist in som« men, was {strongly exemplified the other day, when a well-known resident of Feilding received by post a pamphlet entitled 'Kidnapped,' a narrative of fact, by Dr Barnardo. Immediately after its perusal, he was so excited by the tale of suffering and misery that he walked to the postoffice where he took out a postoffice order for a respectable sum which he sent on to the proper address. A man named Andrew Thompson received injuries from a branch of a tree, while he and his mafe t> George Foster, were cutting down, falling on his head. He was brought into Feilding for medical attendance, but a few hours after his arrival he succumbed. He died at the Feilding hotel, where the landlord and landlady, Mrs and Mr Hastie, did all that lay in their power to assist the poor fellow. An inquest was held yesterday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. Details of the evidence appear in another column. . . .