Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 51, 8 October 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

Mails via San Francisco will close tomorrow. A - special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening. Nearly 10,000,000 rabbit skins were sent out of New Zealand in 1884. The Wanganui , Garrison Band will play at the Wellington Exhibition on Saturday next. A meeting of the council of the Manchester Rifles will be held this evening at the Stab office, to pass accounts. Yesterday Mr Gichard slaughtered ] some splendid lambs weighing 471bs each, bred by Mr W. Stevens, at his farm, Kimbolton road. Zephaina Aldrous, the railway guard who was run over by a truck while shunting at Waunate a few days ago, died on Tuesday. "We learn from the Patea Mail that the Governor is unable to accept the invitation of the Mayor of Patea to visit that Borough. We learn from an English exchange that the walls of several of the British warships are constructed of paper, we have also heard that several of them exist on paper. Just as we were going to press Mr Ben Gosling met with a severe accident by falling down the well of the staircase in Mr Eade's new building. Until we have the doctors report we are unable te state the extent of the injuries. The Governor has appointed Thursday 15th instant, as the dav for electing first members of District Boards under the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, and on that Day Borough and County Councils with elect their representatives. Mr Gilbert King, Manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Wanganui, was a visitor to Feilding yesterday. He expressed himself as much gratified with the steady progress the township was making. The visit of Mr King was only semi-official. To-day we publish the business announcement of Mr W. Beading, who will commence this week, as a General Commisioner and Land and Labor Agent. In opening a Labor Exchange, Mr Reading will supply what has been a long felt want in the district. A business man who does not pay his advertising accounts with punctuality and despatch is like a soldier in battle firing blank cartridges. He makes a terrible noise but brings nothing down. So said Professor Eddison, and he was an authority on the subject. There is a notorious character in Auckland who calls himself " Sir Richard Carkeek Coulson, Bart., M.D.," and who spends most of his time in prison for drunkenness. This name is not to be found m the list of baronets for the United Kingdom. A meeting of the vestry of St. John's Church was held on Tuesday night, when some 'general business was transacted. It was resolved, That the churchwardens should devise some more definite plan for the collection of the General Fund subscriptions in the sub-districts. On Wednesday, the 21st inst., another of those popular musical entertainments for the benefit of the Sunday School, will be held in the school building at St. John's Church. The programme will appear in a future issue. Two men were disputing in a "pub" as to whether Abel killed Cain or Cam killed Abel ; they agreed to refer it to the landlord, who, on being asked the question, replied: — "If you'll ask me ony question about 'ose racing, coursing, or rowing, I'll answer yer ; but I know nowt about these fighting men." We learn from the Chronicle that owing to the stringent provisions contained in the Local Bodies Contractors Act, passed during the recent session of Parliament, some gentlemen in Wanganui who hold offices in public bodies feel it incumbent upon them to resign their seats. A young man who was married a short time ago, and who kept himself in a condition of semi-drunkenness for 3 weeks afterwards, had reached a Brooklyn Police Court. His explanation was that he discovered his bride had a wooden leg. The Judge sympathised with his misfortune, but considered his powers of observation limited. At noon yesterday a considerable crowd was assembled on the platform at the railway station to see the Governor. The special train in which his Excellency was a traveller flashed through the station much to the disappointment of those whs thought it would be delayed for a few minutes. Hid Excellency made a gracious bow to the multitude, and was in a moment lost to sight. The following programme will be played by the Feilding Brass Band on the Square next Saturday evening: — 1. Quick March, "The Charmer." 2. Fantasia, "Salutation." 3. Valse, "Fond Memories." 4. Quick March, " Fidelity." 5. Fantasia, " Memories of Scotland." 6. Quadrille, " Majestic." 7. Euphonium Solo, "The Pilgrim." God save the Queen. 5. Daw, Bandmaster. Mr Charles Wilson, who has been for some months engaged on the literary staff of the Chronicle, returned to his old post this morning as one of the masters of the Collegiate School, Wanganui. The Chronicle say«k--" What will be our loss will be his gain, and we cannot therefore do other than congratulate him upon the promotion m the scholastic profession to which he has succeeded." A meeting of persons desirous of taking up a milling claim in the Pohangina is called for to-morrow evening at the Denbigh Hotel. The news of finds of various degrees of richness, and the remarkable unanimity of the verdict* of those experts who have made tests of the stone submitted to them, will certainly justify the formation of a party to take up a claim, with the ultimate view of forming a company to work it. John Clerk, an advocate of Edinburgh, once had to plead in a court before an English tribunal. It had something to do with the right of water. All through the case Mr Clerk pronounced the word water " watter" in his broad vernacular. At hist the presiding judge said in a lofty manner : "Mr Clerk, do you in the North spell 'water' with two tfs ?', Na, your Worship," said Clerk, "but we spell 'manners' wi.twan's." A very important decision, affecting the powers of banks, has been given by the Supreme Court at Sydney. AMr i Barton sought to recover possession of * land, now worth £10,000, which his father had conveyed absolutely to a bank to dis- i charge a debt of £400. The Court ruled < |that, though the conveyance was abso- I lute, it did not preclude the right of the . vendor to recover on. payment of the debt, so long as the bank continued to hold the. I land. It was also held that the bank s charter was against itotrafficing in land < at a profit. • , i

Captain Edwin telegraphs to day. — Warnings for gales hare been sent to all stations. Mr Samuel Goodbehere has accepted the appointment of local correspondent for the Royal Humane Society of Victoria. Wo will give full particulars of the very responsible duties of this position in a future issue. In the meantime we can safely say that we know of no gentleman in the district who is better qualified to undertake so delicate an office than Mr Goodbehere. i. census taker at Buffalo had a funny experience. After the usual questions ; had been pat and answered at a house, he was about to leave, when the woman, who had seemed in an uncertain state of mind, made bold to say ! " I think there may be another by this time ; wait a little while." He t&t for a few minutes. She returned, exclaming : " Yes, you can add another. It's a girl." — Boston Journal. A Government official at Timaru, the other day, was engaged in eariing his pay when the silence of his dusty office was broken by the entrance of two young females, each bearing a bouncing, beautiful and illegitimate boy. "If you please, sir" (curtseying simultaneously), "we want to see about our children !" "Your children/ madams!'" said the polite, but mystified official. " Oh, if you please, sir, we're sisters, and we want to swear information agin the fathers of cur boys." The official could only gasp for breath, and cry, " Go to the Clerk of the Court —go together, co at once." Comprohensire " family informations" ought to be available for cases of this sort.