Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 48, 1 October 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The Kiwitea Road Beard will meet or Saturday next at noon. The late Colonel Eeader was buried with military honors to-day in Wellington. Mr Sherwill lost a valuablo horse lasi night. Violent inflamation is suppose*, to have been the cause of death. Since Captain Edwin has taken t<: telegraphing " much rain" he has beconu very popular among the farmers here. The Auckland Weekly News has adder largely to its popularity by the publication of " The Land of the Golden Fleece' by G. A. Sala. On Tuesday last a steady heavy rail fell at and near Awahuri, for up\va:d-> ol an hour. Here there was merely c sprinkling shower. According to the Woodville Examinei there is some talk of the Oddfellows putting up a large hall on their sectioi: behind Mr Montieth's store. Palmerston North has already tw< evening papers, and it is rumoured thai a new morning papor is about to bt started. This will inuke the sixth papei between Wellington and Wangauui. The drawing of Messrs Summers ano Mayhew's Art Union will be held m the Foresters' Hall this evening. As thit will be the first thing of the kind held in Feilding we maj' expect to see a crowd oi shareholders present. The effigy of "Captain" Sutter, the member for Gladstone, was burned al Stafford last Thursday evening. Th« effigy was hung on a scaffold for some hours before being kindled. The Borough Council will meot this evening. We hope the subject of footpaths for Manchester street will be considered, also the urgent necessity which exists for the erection of a public latrine. A meeting of the directors of the Foilding Building Society will be held at an early date, intimation of which will be given in our columns. We are glad tc learn that this society is a pronounced success so far. A meeting of the creditors of P. J. Miller, hairdresser, a bankrupt, was called for Saturday last, but lapsed foi want of a quorum, The bankrupt was examined by the official Assignee but nothing of public interest was elicited. The members of the Eangitikei Mounted Rifles will form a guard of honor to the Governor when he arrives at Marton next week. The Manchester Rifles ought to be allowed an opportunity of displaying their loyalty when His Excellency j passes through Feilding. I The enterprise of Mr C. Brown in sei lecting his own goods from the best I houses in the colony, is certain to bring ; its own reward. He is, as a natural j consequence, not only able to select the : best at the lowest rates, but he is able to choose goode suited to the wants of bis • numerous customers whose requirements he has made a special study. The Hmemoa now takes ranks as an "armed cruiser." While in ' Wellington recently, she was fitted with a Hotchkiss machine gun, one of the most destructive ! weapons m existence. It has a range of 5000 yards, and can be " sighted" with the greatest nicety. But, to prevent accidents, the ammunition for the gun remains ashore in custody of the Government storekeeper, Wellington. Two brothers named Russell, farmers in the Rangitata district, were convicted last Friday at the Ashburton Court' of gross cruelty to horses. One brother was fined £15 and costs, and the other was; committed to jprison for two months without the option of a finr. The Magistrate stated that he had received a petition from a "number of friends and neighbors of the brothers Russell in Geraldihe, stating that the offenders were highly , respectable farmers, and praying that the ' penalties inflicted might be commuted. The Magistrate added that it was difficult to believe that men guilty of the offence of which the brothers Russell had been convicted could be respectable. All he could do would be to forward the petition to the Minister of Justice, j : : ; '

A six years' subscriber to the Auckland ] Star wishes to know how many land and estate agents there are in that city. After a very careful computation, the editor sets down the number at just 4,699. On Saturday evening next the old committee of the Feilding .Boxing Day Sports will meet at 7 p.m. At eight the public are invited to attend a meeting at the Public Hall to make the customary arrangements. The teetotallers in England feel frightfully scandalised at the announcement that has been made by the astronomers . that a spectrum of alcohol has been dis- ' covered in the light of comets and other eccentric denizens of space. They lose sight of the fact that it may be the alcohol " causes the eccentricity," and thus affords another proof of the advantages of " abstaining " on this earth. It is stated that the Hon. John Bryce has someting more to do in England than to prosecute Mr Eusden for libel, as he has also to defend an action for £6000 damages, brought by Mr Eusden against him for loss of profit on the circulation of his History of New Zealand, which was stopped by the libel action. Dugald's Thought.- Dugald to Donaid, who has been to Glasgow : "An' lit jou'll see the tramway?" Donald : "Ay, tit I !" Dugald: "An' fat is it?" Donald : '* Oh, it is jest the steam-engine on the street, put they use horses insteat!" Dugjild : "That's fat it 19, is it? I was thinkin' it woult pc the rout into the L public-housr." i Very many persons in Feilding will learn with regret that Mr J. H. Towers, 1 butcher of Awahuri, is about to leave the l district. He informs his customers, ) whose accounts are yet outstanding, that such accounts must be paid before the 15th inst., or. very much against his in--3 clination, he will be compelled to place [ them in the hands of his solicitor for recovery. A. government clerk applied to the 1 head of his department for leave of i absence in order to attend the christening P of the youngest boy. How old is the ' child ?' ' Four days old ?' ' Very good,' • said the chief clerk ; but two weeks ago ■ I gave you leave of absence t* bury your wife. What have you to say?' For a moment he was dumb; then putting a r beld face on he said : ' £ beg your parr don ; my little boy is a posthumous t child.' The racing clubs of New Zealand, says the Australian, must be m a good way 3 financially, thanks to the totaiisator, and l> this year no less than three handicaps, '• the Dunedin Cup, New Zealand Cup, and i Auckland Cup, will each have a thousand - sovereigns added to them. This beats r Australia, where there is only one handicap to which a club adds a thousand sovereigns, and that is the Melbourne Cup, The Caulfield Cup is merely the money of the owners who ran for it. — Post. It is openly stated in the Belgian i newspapers that Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia did not die of apoplexy, as I was telegraphed out of Reuter's Agency. . but was shot dead by his wife as a reward for scandalous conjugal infidelities. An , En&li.^h paper commenting #n this say* " rery possibly the story in an invention ; but there are so very many Gi'rmnn Princes in the world that if they would > kindly take to reducing their numbers 3 by following Ike example uf the Kilkenny cats, no great harm would be done !" \ —Chronicle. The beautiful summer weather which already prevails, although the season is yet early spring, has made it necessary x for Mr Lowers to open up a quantity of f goods which he intended to hold until a t few weeks later on. But the demands of his customers for an mspectiou of the new and charming Hues have proved so 1 imperative that nothing else remained for him but to comply with their wishes. 1 In accordance with this he announces today the several items which are such an > attraction. Mr Prijxshanl, who lives iv a suburban I New Jersey village, has a Newfoundland L shepherd puppy not more than 9 months old. Its kennel to which it is chained is I about fifty yards from the house. The 5 other day the regular feeding time passed < without its food being taken to it. The i dog waited an hour impatiently and then t barked and howled. Failing to attract attention he broke his chain, picked up 3 the earthenware dish in which his food I was always served, and started for the 3 house. Entering the open door he sought 3 Mrs Pritchard and her daughter and held the empty dish up to them with a pleading expression in his dark brown eyes, 3 "If that was instinct," eaid Mr Pritchard " in telling the story, " I'd like to know " what reason is." — N.Y. Tribune. I Justices of the Peace should be careful in signing documents, to see that the j Stamp Act has been complied with. In a case at the Resident Magistrate's Court } Wellington, Mr Fitzherfcert claimed the expenses of a witaess who had been subpoenaed, whereupon Mr James, the Clerk of the Court, drew the attention of the > Court to the fact that the stamp for thcr i subpoena had not been attached to the ' summons. His Worship said that section i 149 of the Stamp Act proyided : "If any i person shall without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall be upon such person) [ file, issue, procure, or deliver any docu- , ment, or serve or execute any writ, rule, i order, matter, or proceeding in respect of ; which a stamp has not been affixed in the manner prescribed by regulations ; or do or perform, or permit to be done or performed, any act, matter, or thing in respect whereof a stamp should be used, without using such stamp, or shall fail or ' omit to cancel or obliterate any adhesive stamp at the time and in the manner, prescribed by regulations, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.