Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 70, 21 November 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

r-r. — ...*» , -,-x '-■ ■..• . ,; A. -..The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet J on Monday evening next. .There will .be mass in the Roman Oath- } olio Church to-morrow at 11 a.m. . i A woman in Wanganui who had been „ in receipt of charitable aid in that Bor- r ough . for some time, went to the circus, , accompanied by her. large family^ who t thoroughly enjoyed themselves. This is. -, another sign of " depression." _„ _fr L.,G. West 'has received' a requisi- il tion eigiied by a number of influential « ratepayem o^kmg-huui to aUdwiimself to i be nominated for the potation of Mayor j I bf tfie Borough of Palmerston. He has|jp riven a conditional consent. ' g

Some very heavy showers of rain fell last night all over the district, doing much good to the farmers. Mr Edwin Young's new advertisement will appear in our next issue. It reached ' us too late for insertion this issue. j The great clearing sale of Summers and Mayhew is still going on. To-night is really " the last chance " anyone will get of securing some marvellous bargains. Mr Alexander Fergusson has been nominated as a candidate for the Mayor- ■ altj of Palmerston. We presume tbat ' Mr West will now withdraw from the j contest. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill sold ] this week a section of land on the Taonui road, tho property of Dr Spratt, at a verysatisfactory figure. Mr Manson was the purchaser. In Mr Reading's shop window is now to be seen the regalia of the officers of the Feilding Juvenile Foresters' Court. The letters have been worked by Mrs Beading, and the whole of the work has heen most tastefully executed. William Kurtin, a Volunteer, was taken suddenly ill while drilling in the Park, Christchurch, on Thursday night. He was placed in a cab and driven off to a doctor, but before he arrived there he died. To-day an important notice appears over the leader froni Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill anent their stock sales on the Feilding Market Days. The next sale will be held at Feilding on Thursday, the 10th December. A census of persons and of live stock and of land in cultivation within New Zealand, and other particulars relating thereto, will be taken on Monday, the 29th of March, 1886. The census enumerators aud superintendent collectors are gazetted. It is probable that a by-law will be introduced into the regulations governing bodies administering charitable aid, authorising the refusal of all applications for money wherewith to purchase circus tickets. Such a regulation is becoming absolutely necessary judging from recent experiences. Mr Harrison, head master of one of the Auckland Schools, has had a trip to Australia, and in a letter to the Education Board he says that " onr own eductaional system as compared with theirs, leaves little to be desired, while in many particulars we are much in adrance of either Queensland or New South Wales.' Mr Newmans activity and presence of mind enabled him to avert the " smash up" of his brake at the railway station on Thursday. The horses took fright and left post haste for home. Mr Newman followed by a short cut, caught hold -of the back of the vehicle, clambered aboard, and seized the reins, when he soon had them under control. Tho Wanganui Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee consisting of Messrs Drew, Tilly, Jackson, Hatrick, and the Secretary, to inquire into the matter of railway charges, with instructions to report as to the desirableness of requesting the Government to reduce the 23 per cent, extra charge in force in this diatnet. A bright little miss of three summers was seated beside her father at the dinner table. She was full of mischief, and ber father finally said to her, " Dotty, if you don't behave better, I shall have to spank you." The little one remained in deep thought for a few moments, and then answered with a saucy twinkle in her eyes. "Oo tant, pa; I's sittin' on it." — Nelson Times. On its open-ng night St. Leon's Circus took no less than £150 in Palmerston, yet there are people who go howl inn about " depression." '1 hat amount of money - sufficient te establish say an Agricultural and Pastoral Association on a sonnd basis, te stock a library, or to go a long way towards establishing some profitable local industry — was literally wasted on a luxury which lasted for a couple of hours or so. — Mauawotu Times. To-day we publish au advertisement received from the New York agent of Messrs Pemberton, Ayer and Company, London, of The Norman Electric Light Company. The subject of the notice is an electric lamp of the simplest construction, portable like an oil lamp, and containing the generator of electricity in the foot of the lamp. For full particulars of tbis wonderful adaption of electricity we refer our readers to tho advertisement which appears on our thud page. Galveston ie a town of some 35,000 inhabitants, situate on the Gulf of Mexico, upon a long sandy island. It is a rapidly growing city, and some day will rival New Orleans as the principal southern port of the United States. It is about six or eight blocks in width, and the fire has burnt the whole city to the extent of some ten blocks along the island. It has been I to Galveston comparatively a more disastrous fire than was the great fire in Chicago in 1871 to that oity. The system of national education in New Zealand seems to have especially surprised Mr Sala, says one of hia interviewers. "It is far before that- in any other country," he remarked. •• The education given in the common schools in America is not tb bo compared with it. Tho next generation will, of course, show . the result. I asked Mr Stout, whom I j found aa exceedingly pleasant man, if Jou were not going too far in the matter, ut he replied * not a bit too far.' Still Mr Stout is, as you know, an enthusiast in the matter, of education." The Wairoa South correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes to that journal that a gun accident happened to Mrs Wilson, wife ef Mr Jas. S. Wilson, a few days ago. It seems that one of her sons was sent out , to shoot . some fowls for dinner, and when in the act of pulling the trigrer his mother came out of a door or gnte near the garden, and received the whole charge in the stomach. Dr Leger Erson, of Otahuhu, was immediately sent for, arid examined the sufferer and ex*>tracted a great number of lead pellets. Dr Erson is ef opinion that no serious resnlt will occur. There is no blame at- : tachedto the young man, as it was impossible for him to have seen his mother doming. Mr Bennett, of Awahuri, is shortly .bout to erect a private residence of no ■malt dimensions for his own occupation. Ihe new bidding -fill contain a drawing room measuring 1 8 x 16, a spacious nnd' lofty dining roojn 20 Ax . 18, a hanilsdin*? ibrary apartment, and bed- rooms, of* ; tiees in keeping .with, the others." Bath ' -ooms. linen closet, larder ani scullery • rith hot and' epld water laid . .on, ,jMid < •very possible convenience required in a ,- nodern private residence. The t con- \ itruetion of -t|io building will. -rntail. the iije of abdut 40,000 feet or timber, and ' rill b -as handsome a- private house, an ias yet been built in the: district, ,'^ir ( jarcomb .has .prepared the requisite I { dans, and will shortly call for tenders.— I < Standard. V Li-.-- * .' ■ xU.X. . 'Xx . ...■:„:. .;.;-_<:; "

We learn from the Herald that Mr *J. G. Sharp returned from the Pohangina on Thursday night. He informs us that the party in Anderson's claim are doing good work in getting oat tke staff, and they expect to have the reef visible shortly. Mr Sharp informs us that he saw Mr Dundas on the ground, and was rather surprised to learn from bim that he knew nothing about the find he was credited with, in this respect bearing out tbe remarks made by Mr Corby a week a/jo. From what he aaw of the place Mr ; Sharp does not form a very high opinion ; of it as a likely goldfiald, eren supposing the reef is discovered. | Some samples of stone brought from ! a spot about 2 miles beyond the Pohangina reef, and left in Mr Macarthur. 1 yard a twelve months ago were sent into town a few days back bj Mr Bartholomew, Mr W. Aiken bringing the parcel. This was taken to Mr Forbes shop, and in Mr Aiken's presence a piece weighing 4ozs was smelted^ The resnlt -of the test was a. button weighing nearly half a grain. Mr Aiken was perfectly/ satisfied as to the manner in which the. test was carried out, and he has communicated ithe result to Mr Bartholomew. "We understand that Mr Forbes'has determined 'on erecting a furnace in which to carry on testing operations, in fact- we may say the furnace is now built. With regard to the work going on at the reefs word has been received to the effect that the slip will probably be cleared out by the, 30th, aad the stone then taken. A large party of gentlemen will, ou that date, prebablj go from Wanganui. Palmerston, and other places to watch this part of the proceedings and satisfy themselves as to the existence of the reef.— Horald.