Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 74, 1 December 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir William and Lady Fox •were passengers by tram for Marton last night. Next Sunday morning the Manchester Rifles will assemble for church parade. The Manchester Horticultural Show will be held m the Public Hall to-morrow, Stevens and Gorton held a stook sale to-day at Awahun. Several Sydney bookmakers failed to settle up for the Melbourne Cup. Manchester Eifles will parade this evening at seven o'clock sharp. The time for closing tenders for the erection of Mr Bennett's house at Awahuri has been extended to next Friday. There are 29,000 English speaking clergyman an the world, but they don't all speak English. An Auckland paper says " the ass and the lion. Vesey Stewart /and Sir Julius Yogel. Who is who ?" A Wellington mail, dated November 28, via Wanganui, reached Feilding yesterday at noon. The Thursday half holiday movement is rapidly extending all over the colony in the principal townships. We are requested to intimate that Mr Hinman will preach the Gospel, in the Gospel Hall, to-morrow evening. A draught gelding branded two D's on near shoulder will be sold in the public pound on Thursday next. We remind our readers of Messrs Halcombo and Sherwill's sale on Saturday next. We refer our readers to the new advertisement of the Cash Exchange. Some startling novelties and special lines are announced. A meeting of the committee of the Cheltenham and Kiwitea Sports will be held on Thursday evening next at the Cheltenham Hotel. A man named S. Bowley was arrested for being drunk on Saturday' afternoon. He was released on bail the same evening, and will be brought up at the next sittings of the E.M. Court. - The Napier Borough valuation for the current year is £1,308,360; the total for Hawke's Eay is £7,285,692. These figures are taken from the report of the Charitable- Aid Board which ' appears in the Telegraph. A furnace to test stone from the Pohangina was erected on the E. and C.A. Corporation premises yesterday. The work was entrusted to . Mr Milham, bricklayer, who made a most satisfactory job of it. It will be in full blast in a few days. The Kimlolton road butchery is now undergoing considerable improvement. Mr Gosling has in hand the job of painting the shop/ and otherwise setting it off for the approaching Christmas tide. Mr Linton advertises to-day that he is a buyer of turkeys in any quantity. In another column we publish the new advertisement of Mr Charles Henry, saddler. It will be observed that Mr Henry has now in stock samples of the best saddlery made in London and the Colonies, as well as harness of every description and value. Buyers will find best quality combined with the lowest prices. From returns attached to, the Public Works statement, we gather that on railways alone a sum of about one million bas been expended on lines not yet open for traffic. On some of these fines th© expenditure has been going on for eight' ■ or ten years,_ while had these works been prosecuted with vigour, they might have long since been opened and yielding some return on the capital expended.

The Engineer-in-Chief invites tenders for a supply of Totara piles and flooring. A boj who was kept after school for bad orthography excused himself to his parents by saying that he was spell- bound A largo picnic party, occupying Wo of Mr Samuel Daw's brakes, went up the Oroua river yesterday, and had a good time. We hare to thank the Secretary of the Manchester Horticultural Society for a season ticket and a copy of the schedule for the Spring and Autumn Shows. Mr Hamilton will open up a quantily of boots and shoes during this week. Farther particulars in future advertisnient. The Auckland Star says that many of | the local Justices of the Peace are dissat* isfied with the rota of attendance arranged, and are about to resign. It is notified to-day that on and after Wednesday, the 16th instant, the Trondjeim flag station will be closed for ordinary traffic. As an evidence of the increasing popularity of the Heads Railway, we may mention that over one hundred passengers gravelled by it to the Heads on Saturday afternoon last. On the Sunday the number was still larger. — Chronicle. Since the Mosgiel Woollen Company has been in operation it has paid £46,000 in dividends, £17,000 has been laid aside as a reserve fund, and £22,000 has been written off for depreciation in the value of machinery. Simpson and his wife were en their way to church and the lady was puttiing on her gloves, " My dear," he said pettishly, "you should complete your toilet at home, I'd just as soon see a woman putting on her stecking in the street as putting on her gloves." " Most men would," she said promptly : and the abashed husband didn't say another word. — Evansviile (Ind) Argus. The Tuhua, the little steamer that is being bmilt by Mr David Murray for the Wanganui Steam Navigation Company, is to be launched during next spring tides, probably on Thursday week. On Saturday last a meeting of a committee of the company was held on the boat, when sundry alterations and improvements in the fitting up of the vessel wore agreed upon. — Chronicle. In a bankruptcy case at Dunedin, Judge Williams said that people whe paid any money to an undischarged bankrupt, knowing that he was undischarged, could be made to pay over again. When it is taken into account that there was 159 undischarged bankrupts in the Otago district at the beginning of the year, 209 in Christchurch, 138 in Wellington, and 128 in the northern district the thought is not a cemtortable one for tradesmen, A letter received by a gentleman in Auckland, by last mail, states that four or five families of the Skje Crofters have made up their minds to emigrate to New Zealand at an early date, and that their passages are to be defrayed from contributions raised by the Land League Association in the Highlands, supplemented by private donations from Glasgow and London. It would appear that these families have relations in the colony, who will alse aid them to some extent after reaching our shores. — Auckland Star. The clergy of the Anglican Church aro instinctively aristocratic, and as a rule consort only with the wealthy of their flocks, se that the laity, as a whole, and the clergy are bound by ties of duty rather than of sympathy or affection. Bishop Ifoorhouse sees the slit in the armour of the church and doubtless seeks by his example to bring a social no less than a religious connection between his clergy and their congregations. Jf such is really his object, we think he is setting about the work in the most effective manner, and there arc few who will not wish him God speed in his undertaking. — Leader. Several of the relatives of the lntt> well-known native " Governor Hunia," who died a few months ago at Bulls, excited by the visions of a native prophet have conceived the idea that Hunia's death was due to the witchcraft of a maori residing in the Wairarapa, and we are reliably informed that a party of native I*,1 *, including several prominent chiefs, have left on a visit to the other coast, to discuss the matter with their friends residing in that district;, and also to interview the supposod author of the mischief. If such be the case, the latter is likely to have a " warm " time of it. — Standard. Mr Mundella, in the course of his speech on the Education Estimate? recently submitted to the House of Commons the following very instructivcomparison: — The whole cost of education in England, including science. and art, amounted to a sum under 12 millions, and there were two millions to be taken off that sum for the fees paid by the children, thus giving a net sum of 10 millions sterling for 35 millions of people, or about 6s per head of the entire population per annum. The cost in Australasia was 14s per head ; in Massachusetts it was 19s per head; and in Paris it was 12s 6d per annum. The 'New Zealand Schoolmaster' demands tho total abolition of all school committees, and the vesting of all appoin* ments, together with the actual management of schools, in Boards of Educaton, assisted by managing committees or Commissioners. "From every corner of the land," it says, "the cry has come 'Deliver us from the tyranny of local committees.'" The system, it declares, ha* entirely broken down through the ignorance and selfishness of the class -of men who commonly succed in getting themselves elected to school committees. Jhe sole objects of these people, it appears, are to bully the teachers, out of sheer jealousy and impertinence, and to get their children or favorites advanced without regard to their qualification's.