Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 64, 7 November 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

* The Auckland Sugar Works turn out 10,000 tons a year. There will bo no mass in tho Catholic Church to-morrow, November Bth. A meeting of creditors in the estate of George Crichton a bankrupt was held at the B.M. Court this morning. A full report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. Tho brigantine Clansman loaded a quarter of a million feet of white pine at tiie Thames for Brisbane. Timber to the value of £12,000 has been shipped from Kaipara to Australia during tiie past three months. — Auckland Herald. A pulley 34 feet in diameter, and weighing 83 tons, has juat been made in England. It has groves for 32 ropes, which, together, will transmit 1280 honepower, and the rim will have a velocity of more than a mile in a minute. Wo have received from the Government .Printer a batch of Parliamentary papers. Where any irregularities occur in the delivery of the Stab to subscribers it is requested that they be reported to the proprietors at ence in order that they may -•rectified. | Another Ttohbourne claimant has been I discovered m America, He is a day laborer who has been working at a ranche, under the name of Forns. A romantic Englishwoman " discovered his secret" fo she and other idiots have urged him to visit England " to get hia rights." The commencement of tho lawn tennis season is indicated by Mr Seen who dosires the ladies and gentlemen of Feilding to knew that he has just received a consignment of lawn tennis shoes. He has also some running shoes, but, as tiie number is small, athletes should call on Mr Keen at once. The advertisement will appear in a future issue. At the Auckland Police Court on Saturday, October 31st Edward Lockyerwae charged with failing to provide for the support of his wife, Lucy, at Kiwitea. Mr Thoo. Cooper appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Button for defendant. Lucy Lockyer deposed she wai married in September 1883, and arrived in the colony at the latter end bf that year with her husband. Some time after, her arrival her husband proceeded South for the purpose of seeing seme of his friends, but he did not return. She accordingly went after him, but he refused to support her. She then asked him for sufficient money to pay her way to Wellington. He said he would lend her some money, provided she would loave her watch and chain as security. She was a dressmaker. Thomas N. Lloyd, brother-in-law of the informant, gave corroborate evidence, and said ho had helped to support, his sister-in-law. Tlie defandant was well able to support his wife, if willing. His Worship made au order to pay Ids per week, and costs. -BelL

The annual election of Mayor will be held on Wednesday the 25 lh instant. Candidates must be nominated on Wednesday the 18th initaat. A man named Carl Neilson, for being feand drunk in Feilding oa last Thursday night, was fined 5s er in default 6 hours impri-ionment. Dr Monckton, J.P., was ou the bench. ' Mr Whit.,' said a lawyer te a witness in the box. ' at the time these papers were executed yen mare speculating, were you netP' 'Yes, sir.' Ton were in oil P' 'I was.' ' And what are yon in now P' Bankruptcy.' was the solemn reply. A grand display of fireworks will take on Monday next on the Manchester Square under the direction of Mr Newman. There are also to be an exhibition of the qualities of the famous grenade as a fire extinguisher, in putting out a flaming wooden erection, which will be put up for the purpose by Mr Beading the local agent. It may score a point in Wellington's favour to note the fact that during the three months the Exhibition was open the only article reported to be missing from the building was a ball of twine, which disappeaicned from the Picutre Gallery. [This may be a point in favor of Wellington, bnt it may also mean that "experts from "foreign parts" saw nothing worth annexing.] ' In cur country,' said an Englishman, as he leaned back in his chair, * before we marry we arrange to settle a certain sam upon the wife.* 'Yes, I know/ replied the American, bat with us it is after they are married that a certain class settle everything on the wife, aad arrange to beat their creditors.' ' Haw, I see ; and bow do ths creditors take it P" They never find anything to take.' Mr D. — 'Yon don't love me so well styou used to, my dear.' Mrs D. — * What nonsense you are talking l' Mr D.— 'lt is not nonsense, but a sad, sad truth 1' Mrs D.— 'Why what do you meanP' Mr D. — ' Before we were married you were always trying to get the other members of the family out of the way, so we could be alone, were you net !' Mrs D. — ' Yes, my love.' Mr D— * And now you are arranging to have your mother come here for a three months' visit!' At the meeting ef the Wellington Benevolent Society the opinion of some of the members of the committee with regard to the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act is that the more it is perused the mere insxplioablo aro some of its provisions, and tho more unworkable it promises to bo. The general impression appeared to be that the act Would require to the amended in more directions than one next session, if it was intended te be reasonably workable. The present whereabouts of P.J. Tynan the notorious " number one" of the Irish Invincible*, wbo superintended th arrangements of the Phcenix Park assassinations, whoa Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burke were murdered, and who subsequently escaped, was on the Bth ultimo revealed in an obitaarj notice, which appeared in a Dublin nationalist paper, announcing the death of tho second daughter of P.J. Tynan, at his residence at Haarlem, New Yari, at the age of 18. The Wellington Press says : — We are informed that things are looking brighter at Terawhiti. The Golden Crown claim has a well-defined reef showing gold wherever tried. The Welcome is shaping well, and the Success is also showing much better than formerly. We do not care to say much about the prospects of this field, which has caused so mach disappointment, bnt it may be said that the outlook for those who have 'hang on"is decidedly more cheerful than it has been for some time past. Yesterday's Chronicle says.—lnformation was given to the police about 1 o'clock on Friday morning by two sailors belonging to the Huia that a maa named Moore had fallen off the wharf, and was drowned. The polios were very scon on the spot, and commeaeod to drsg for the body, but np to the timo of our going to press the body of the unfortunate ' man had not b»en recovered. From what we can gather it appears that two man, named Moore and Harry Los, sailors oa board the Waliabi. wbo were the worse for liquor, commenced quarrelling and fighting, with the unhappy result above mentioned. John Lee is now in custody of the police. ( Movie's body has since been found.) The late Mr Justice Barry of Victoria was a great upholder of tbe old traditions ef. professional exelusiveaess. One day , at a bar mess in one of the assises held at Sandhurst, a barrister at present a polio* magistrate, who had formerly held the ' post of coroner for a country distnct, was i narrating hew, on the occasion of an in- i Sjsest, he had assisted the surgeon in per* orming the moat mtortem examination. Said he, * The dootor was quite astonished ' at the way I carved the thing ap. He ' had no idea 1 -bad studied comparative anatomy." "And where, pray," enquired - the courtly Sir Bedmond. " did yon pursue . your stadias — at Gay's or St. Bartholcmew's P" "Neither, your honor," ohir- < raped the rameontmer, " but for ten years , I was a butcher, then a barrister, now a 1 < bosk, but still a barrister." i