Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 56, 20 October 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

Works have been commenced at Hobson street by the contractors. There will be a parade of the Manchester Rifles this evening at the usual hour. We observe that Mr Eade is beginning to move his stock into his new premises. The attention of subscribers and advertisers is urgently directed to the notice over leader. The Feilding portion of the 'Frisco m«i\ will nrrive by train from Wanganui this evening. A mooting of members of the cricket club will be held at Roe's hotel to-morrow evening at 7 ©'clock, On Sunday night, or early on Monday morning, some persou or persons removed : the gates from the Publio Pound, and allowed some horses to escape. The pains and penalties for this crime are very sovpre. The mnttur is now in the hands of the police. Three of the horses have sinoeljeen recovered, but the one which was to have beeij sold haft sotyef'toen fouadt

The Grand International circus will open in Wanganui to-morrow night. The Governor will leave Wellington for Christchurch this week. The public examination of J. Poad and J. Llewllyn, bankrupts, will be held at Palmerston to-morrow. j Mr Wardell, R.M., of Wellington, pre- ' sided at the quarterly sessions at Otaki . to-day. Seven jockeys are now in the hospital suffering from the effects of accidents sustained on Saturday in the race for the Caulfield Cup. On Friday next at Awahuri there will be a service of song, entitled ' ' The Pilgrim's Progress, iv aid of the Presbyterian Church Building Fund. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of parliamentary papers, and No. 28 of Hansard from the Government Printer. Tenders are invited to-day for the erection of an addition to the goodshed at the Feilding railway station. Tendors will close on Monday, the 2nd prox., at noon. Mr Brennan, agent for the New Zealand Government Insurance, accompanied by Dr Monckton, is at present oanvassing this district for " lives." To-morrow is the last day on which all persons in the colony may furnish statements of their real and personal property in accordance with the Property Assessment Act. To-morrow evening, at St. John's Sunday School Room, the third of the series of entertainments will be given. As the proceeds of these are entirely devoted to the Sunday School, we hope to see a bumper house. A boy, named Shore, was killed at tho Hawera railway station on Friday last. He was playing on the line, and when shunting was going on he was run over by a waggon. Death was almost instantaneous. On Sunday afternoon a cottage on Mr Pharazyn's section, Makino road, was burnt to the ground. It appears that the fire was communicated to the building by some burning logs which were" near. The Right Revd. Dr Redwood arrived in Auckland on Sunday by the City of Sydney from San Francisco. W« may therefore expect that the formal consecration of the Roman Catholic Church in Feilding, will take place at no distant date. The Valley road is proving very attractive to persons desirous of making a home in this favored district. Within the past week or two, there have been several strangers visiting, and making careful enquries with the view of purchasing land in that neighborhood. We learn from the Patea Mail that in the case Regina v Gush, for obtaining goods, value 2s, under false pretences, His Honor directed the jury to find a verdict of " not guilty," and in discharging the accused informed him that he left the court without the slightest stain on his character. The Herald remarks : — "lt says something for the connection which Messrs Atkins and Clere as dioceaan architects are working up that the Anglican Church at Woodville has been entrusted to them, and that they have also the parsonage at Blenheim in hand. At the Diocesan Synod, Auckland, in replying to a question of the Rev. W. Tebbs as to the truth of the report that the Archbishop of Canterbury had prohibited colonially-ordained clergy from officiating iv the Province of Canterbury (England), bishop Cowie said he knew nothing of the report, biit considered it incredible. [We wonder if this refers to Mr Carrus Wilson.] In view of the rates of freight on wool now ruling in Australia, and of the low price at which this staple is selling, we learn with pleasure that the Shaw, Savlll, and Albion Company have authorised their agents to accept one-eight of a penny less freight by sailing vessel to London this season than was charged for last season's wool cargo. This is a liberal and judicious act. — Times. A post mortem examination on Musket showed the cause of death to be internal hemorrhage. The left kidney was found to be greatly diseased. Apparently the disease was of long standing. Great regret is felt by the public at his death and the loss to the Stud Company. Unfortunately, he was not insured, the Australian Live Stock Society not being prepared to give a risk for more than £500, but he was insured against fire. An editor ' out west' has occasioned the wildest speculation to account for a bachelorhoed protracted into the ' sere and yellow leaf.' It is now explained that a postscript to a matrimonial offer did the business, and relegated the the aforesaid editor to a further period of single blessedness. This seems to have been the substance of his correspondence — , Dearest, I have carefully analysed the feeling I entertained for you, and the result is substantially as follows: — I adore you ! Will you be mine ? Answer !' Then, after a moment in a dreamy , absent way, he added, 'Write only on one side of the paper. Write plainly, and give real name, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.' It is reported, on very excellent authority, that the Railway department on this coast has already issued upwards of a thousand excursion tickets to the Wellington Exhibition. If this be true — and we have no reason to doubt it — we may safely assume that each ticket, with collateral expenses, would cost the purchaser £10, so that the very handsome sum of £10,000 has been put in circulation by this means. Whether anybody will be any the richer for this we do not know, but we have a gentle suspicion that the butcher, the baker, and the candlestickmaker, who have had to stay at home, won't get their accounts paid any the quicker by this expenditure. Nor will the Empire City be so much benefited by this illegitimate revenue as the wiseacres in that gay city imagine. Few persons are aware of the extensive nature of the victualling on board' the great ocenn steamers. Kach yew el is provisioned as follow s for the passengers and crew:— 3sool b of butter, 3000 hams, 16001 bof biscuit 8, exclusive of those supplied for the crew ; 80 >olb of grapes, almonds, figs, and other deiuert fruits; 15001 bof jitn« and jdl i ex; tinned meats, 600O1 1>; dried bean*. 30001 b; rice, 30001 b ; onions 5H00ll>; potatoes, 40 ton* ; flour, 300 barrels; and e^'gn, \2JO dozen. Fr-sli vegetable*, «l«ad meat, and lire bull eks. s!:eeps, pigs, geese, turkeys, duck*, fowls, Q«h. and c»Bunl game are generally sup plied n teach port, so that it ik d fficult to estimate them. -Probably two dozen bullocks an 1 *iz'J «h«>ep would be a fair average for the whole tmv age,' and the .rest maj; be inferred in ! , proprvrti n During the summer inanths, when tratell ing is :heavy, j :twehty-fiVe fowls are »ftea ' used in soup for a single dinner. :

Captain Edwin telegraphs t*-day — Warnings for heavy gale* with colder weather and rain have been sent t« all stations. We (Chronicle) are' glad to announce that the directors of the Heads Railway Company hare completed their arrangements foi running on the line. The open ing day has been fixed for Saturdaj next, the 31st instant. The Auckland Maories are prophesy, mg that we shall have a very hot summer; they also foretell several earthquakes, j The reason they give for their prognosti- i cations is that they hare seen something in the fl-ix flowers this spring which has not been obserred for years past, and in past times was a sure sign of a very hot summer and earthquakes. — Star. The number of fires in New Zealand daring the last twelve months has been very large, and some of the foreign companies are beginning to look on this coi«ny as a rather unprofitable field for insurance. It was only a few menths ago that we had to chronicle the withdrawal of the Fire Insurance Association of London. We now hi'ar that the Hamburg Magdeburg Insurance Company has received instructions to cease inviting business in New Zealand. — Post. The settlers on the Taonui and Valley roads are rapidly clearing their land of bush, preparatory to cultivation. Mr Manson has got 500 or 600 acres down, and Mr Allerby with other settlers follow with another 400 or 500 acres. The whole face of this country is being changed. Where nothing but dense forest was to be seen two years ago, there now exists open farm lauds on which herds of well-fed cattle abtiund. The buildings erected are substantial, and vouch for the comfortable worldly positions of the occupants. F( r once the steady decrease in our yield of gold in New Zealand has been checked, and an increase is recorded. In the September quarter of 1885 the valne of our gold export (tha produce of New Zealand gold fields) was £236.860, as against £208,495 for the corresponding quarter of 1884. We sincerely trust that ihi* change for the better will continue. The total gold exported from New Zealand from the first auriferous discoveries up to the 30th ult. amoHnted to a value of no less than £42,068,192 sterling.— Wellington paper

Only one bankrupt has filed his schedule during the past five weeks in Auckland. It apoears (sajs the Herald) that debtors shrink from the private examination on oath before the Official Assignee, and decidedly object to that official " wanting to know, you know." There is a tradition ia toe office that one man who came to file with "no effects," on finding that he would have to undergo the above ordeal, preferred to pay his credtiors 17 s 6d in the pound! It seems that they don't object to affirming, swear ng on a blown out match, or a decapitated rooster like Ah Ching Li, but when it comes to saying "S'help me" they boggle at it and pay up.