Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 68, 17 November 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The English mail, via San FrancUeo, arrived by train last night. A new Railway Time Table will come into force on Monday nett, A Palmerston man is the successful tenderer for the additions to the Feilding railway goodshed. Mr Lewers advertises to-day for tenders (labor only) for additions and alterations to bis store ia Kimbolton Rood. To-morrow night a popular entertainment will be held in St. John's School Boom. A moat exceUent programme has been arranged. Yesterday morning every available carriage, buggy, and livery horse was cleared out of Feilding by vuitors to the opening of the Sauson Tramway. We are grind to learn that Messrs Summers aud Mayhew will act in conjunction with Mr Gome/, in the management of No. 1 Booth at tho Feilding Sports. Says " Palf" in the Wellington Pie** - " Marchant couldn't find any gold at Pohangina! Couldn't even see the reef! Prospect ors had covered it in for fear the sudden sight of so mnch glittering gold might dazzle him ! All the scraps ot tlie stone taken but. for test tifc . takeu away top l Too careful by half !"

The .Yliuicliesler Kifle;; will parade tliis evening at seven o'clock. Nominations for the mayoralty will be n*c.-ired \<y the Town Clerk up to noon to morrow. We are glad to hear that Mrs Towlor, who has been dangerously ill for some days, has now experienced a favourable change. The Odd Fellows Ball which will be held on Friday next promises to be a brilliant success. The applications for tickets aro already numerous. Captain Edwin telegraphs to«dny - Warnings for northerly gales after from 12 to 20 hours have been sent te all ' places south ef Napier and New Plymouth. We understand that Miss T. B. Chapman tho celebrated lecturcss will visit Feilding in about a fortnight. She ia now in Nelson from whence she will go to New Plymouth, Wanganui, Feilding, ' and Palmerston. The difference between the business of a circus advance agent and a druggist spems to be tbis : the first spends much • of his time in tbe posting of In* bills ; tbo latter in the boasting of hit pills. We understand that twe Ballarat > miners will visit Pohangint on a proxpecting expedition, partly on their own account and partly ou behalf of some residents of Wanganui. Mr T. Nelson will : take the party up to the reefs. — Standard. The agent of the lvi in Foxton, Mr A. C. Bishop, is determined that the line lie represents shall have its fair share of business. By advertisement to-day he notifies that be has redured freight from Wellington to Foxton to 7s 6d per tou 1 He also pubhshos an important notio* i to wool -growers. Some of our Auckland swells are (say. the Star) making great guys of themselvt s by shaving off their whiskors, siraplv boi cause it appears to be the fashion. Not . to be behindhand, a yoang lady has cut ' the whiskers off Iter pet eat, aud real I j the quadruped does not look a bit mori comical than some of the bipeds referred to. Surely this is fashion gone mad with ' a vengeance. The Melbourne Herald is informed ' that Seymour Luke Robins, n, the young bank clerk who was recently sentenced to . 12 months' imprisonment for the Federal Bank robbery ,'has come in for the sum of 1 nearly £3000 by the death of a relative i in England. Robinson is employed as . clerk in the office of the Melbourne Gaol. ( A seam of beautiful white marble has been discovered in the Nomakai district, 1 Southland. It crops out on the side of a ntcej>hill about 1500 feet above the level . r f the level of tbe Mataura river. The discovery (*ays the Bruce Herald) is of little present value, ai the marble is situ, ated in an almost inaccessible place. It was reported ia Melbourne last week , says an Australian exchange of the 28th uit., that there was to be a strike among ' the clerks in ene of the city banks is con« sequence of the way in which they consider they have been imposed upon by having had to work so much overtime of ' late. A bank clerk's strike would be a novelty. A short time since, an honest Hibernin was appointed guardian of the night in the environs of London, but wai shortly i brought before the sitting magistrate, . charged with neglecting his duties. Pat being questioned an te the causeof absence ' from his station, gravely replied, " Plasr i your Honor, they set me to watch, and 1 watched and waited a -long timo, plase your Honor; but nobody came, so I thought I'd go heme to bed." The sale of privileges for the Feilding Sports took place on Saturday at tho sale rooms of Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill. There was a good attendance and the bidding was spirited. Mr Gomez bought the gates for £53, and No 1. booth for £11; Messrs Smith and Han nett purchased booth No. 2 for £8, cards £2, games £4. Hanyon bought the lawn and dancing platform for £20 ; total £98 being £4 iv excess of the amount realised last yoar. A sad accident happened on Saturday last to a mau named Charles, residing at Makino. Ho was felling bush for 'Mr Caldwell on the Duke of Manchester's land, Kimbolton road, when a tree fell upon him. Fortunately Mr Caldwoll was with him, and released him just in timo to save him from boing actually crushed to death. As it was he received some severe injuries in the back and oue of his shoulders. Dr Johnston was called as soon as possiblo and attended to tho injured man. Not even for a Countryman !— An Irish sentry on duly at Haslar gunboat ship, seeing a beat coming up the creek towards the landing-place at night, hailed it with "who gees there?" The reply not beinS satisfactory to the Irishman, he agaiii hailed it. This time the answer was " Prince Lciningan." "The whichnP" asked Pat. "Prince Leintngen," was again the reply. " Begorra," sang out Pat, " Finch Ltaigan or no Finch Linigan, you don't land here!" acd land H.S.H did not. In a contest over a will a certain witness was giving bis evidence as to the disposition of the testator. •** Was he • good-natured man P" asked the attorney. " Not altogether. " Was he cress, then?" "Well, yes. rather, ia pieces." "Was he very cross?" " Coovhtor-ebfy." "Hew cross was he? Give us an example of bis disposition." " Well, sir, he was that cross that when he called up the cows at milking time it made the milk sour." " That's enough ; stand down." A medical man has called the attention ofthe Dunedin Herald te the danger of allowing empty preserved jass or fruit tins to be played with by children. He hashed several eases of blood poisoniag, Uie result of scratches from these f easels. Only the other day a little child scratched his finger with tbe ragged rim of aa empty jam tin. Within a few hours blood-pei-seeing set in, and in about three days the ehilds arm was about five times its ordinary size, and the swelling quickly spread to the body. Since theu the child has di<»d with the most virulent symptoms of blood poisoning. The waiter, be he_ French CD generally expects a trifle after his labor* ■ with the napkin are accomplished, but however, needy or greedy he may be, he cen scarcely ear* about pocketing a tip bequeathed hy a suicide. Last week a young Frenchman entered a cafe* at Rochefort, called for a glass of beer, and, takings bottle from his pocket, emptied its contents into tho glass. He had hardly drunk his potion when he fell down dead. A pajier found at his feet contained the following words, " Zuf 1 I have had enough of life. I leave on* franc for the beer and the remainder to the waiter." Whatever the " remainder ' ! may prove, and it ix not likely to be much, a legal probate of this .extraordinary will can scarcely he necessary, and the waiter would mosfflikely feel inclined te forego his claim to such aa illomened legacy. 'fAAA .

'Frisco Mail Items

» GENERAL SUMMARY. j [FUR UNITED PREBS ABSOCITTION.] Aucklikd, NoyemUer 14. A fire broke out in Aldersgafce street on the morning of October Bth, in the Charter House buildings, within a » stone's throw of the celebrated Car- - thusian retreat for pensioners. Tho Charter House was almost totally destroyed. Tho damage amounts to £3,000,000. The Hor. Goo. J, Goschen, Liberal member of Parliament for Ripon, speaking at Edinburgh on October 7, said he was opposed to free education. He would not vote for the disestablishment of the Scottish Church unless ( the proposition was a Government measure. If the Liberals were returned to power they would bo justified in appealing to the Tories for help to flght Parnell. Sir Charles Dilke and Mrs Pattison were married at Chelsea on October 3. Colonel Armstrong Broker gave the bride away, and Mr Joseph Chamberlain was the groomsman. The Duke of Newcastle, according to the London Despatch of October 3, has joined the Roman Catholic Church. His conversion took place some time ago, it is said, but the avewal was postponed until the young duke had attained his majority. The conversion has caused much annoyance in Established Church circles. Mrs Langtry, ex professional beauty and actress, has been sued for household expenses incurred while living with her husband. Her defence is that he alone is responsible. Mr Langtry is now living very quietly at Belfast on au annuity allowed him by his wife, on the condition that he keeps away from her. H. "W. Shaw, better known as "Josh Billings." died in California on the 14th of October. Of 60 convicts who made a desperate break for liberty at Rusk, Texas, on the 4th of October, 35 escaped, the : rest being shot by the guards. Trouble has occurred ou the Duke of Devonshire's estate in Callows, County of Waterford, in connection with the eviction of certain tenants. The tenants and their friends made a determined resistance, and attacked the police with stones. The sheriffs posse finally dispersed the mob at the point bf the bayonet. The district is " black flagged." A body of Moonlighters raided a farm from which the tenant had been evicted in County Kerry, on October 10th. They slit the caretaker's ears and cropped his hair Mr- Parnell talks confidentally of carrying every Parliamentary seat in Ireland in the interest of the Nationalists except one division in Dublin and ten in Ulster, where the Orange Tories are too strong for him. Cardinal Manning has written to the Dublin Review showing how Catholics ought to vote in the coining election. He defends Parliament and the Constitution, even though oppressing , Catholicism, praises Liberalism, and urges the Catholics to place the religiious question foremost. Cardinal Newman also made an , address on the 18th in London, in which he said the Protestant Church i of England was the great bulwark of that country against atheism. He ' wished all success to those defending it. These utterances are considered the most extraordinary of the campaign. The Tory political agents throughout the country generally report a more favourable prospect for the party. They do not predict victory, but their assurance is that in no eveut can the Liberals win by large majorities.