The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1885. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 75, 3 December 1885, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1885. Local and General News

The San Francisco mail closes to-mor-row afternoon. An information was laid to-day against the proprietor of the Denbigh Hotel for supplying liquor to a drunken man. We publish to-day the catalogue of Halcombe and SherwilTs stock sale, to be held on Thursday, the 10th instant. The members of the Manchester Rifles are much interested in a notice which appears to-day in our advertising columns. Mr Jennins, of the Awahuri road, advertises to-day that he has a useful hack, also a Berkshire boar for sale. The Scientific American says that beer is more dangerous than whisky inasmuch as it kills at a longer range. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold an important land sale here on Wednesday next. For particulars we refer our ! readers to advertisement. It appears that if Anderson's reef at Pohangxna does not turn out gold bearing, it will pay very well to work it for lime- j stone. Over leader we publish to-day notice of removal from MrHiggin, chemist, who has now entered into posession of his new premises in Kimbolton road. I " Bobin Hood" is going to leave Christ;. , church and start business in Sydney. He will receive plenty of support from New Zealand if he asks for it. The Napier Telegraph says that Sergeant Morton, of the police force, m 24 years service has had to make 26 shifts. These are apt to make the most capable officer somewhat shirty. A new advertisement appears to-day from Mr Shennan, blacksmith, who also publishes some interesting information in our Wanted column. To which special reference is desired. Tenders are invited by Messrs Atkins and Clere, architects, for the erection of a house at Beaconsfield. Flans may be seen at the office of Mr Edmund Goodbehere. On Saturday next Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will hold a general sale at their auction rooms, Kimbolton road. We have been requested to state that the drawing room suite, mentioned in the catalogue, is now on view, " When a man kums to me for advice," says Josh Billings, "I find out tnekind of advice he wants, and I give it to him ; this satisfies him that he and I are two az smart men az there is living." On Tuesday last Samuel Rowley, charged with being drunk in a pnblicplace on Saturday, was brought before G. Y. Lethbridge, Esq., J.P., of Turakina, and fined ss. or in default 24 hours imprisonment. The fine was promptly paid. " Half-a-crown !" exclaimed Oeunt Ramshackle to cabby. " Dat was schwindle.', " It's a regular fare," said the cabby, " but, seeing you're a furnner, I'll take two shillings and sixpence." " Goot !" exclaimed the Count, "it was widout possibility to sheet me." As an instance of ill-luck and luck, the Melbourne Sportsman mentions that one gentleman had sixty bets on the late Derby and Cup, and did not win a solitary wager, while another backer, wellknown in Sydney, the owner of the Fyrmont Quarries, had one wager, viz., £5000 to 25 Nordenfeldt and Sheet Anchor, and won it. . .. The bill of fare for the Wellington Caledonian Society's dinner, as published in the Wellington papers, is a most amusing hash of the lowland Scotch vernacular and bad English. The author 'should have read up, for a day or two before, some of John Gait's works ; or if these were not available, he should have got a Scotchman to write and revise the document for him. . : Scotchmen at Home who read the production will think the race is decaying out here, and the dear old dialect forgotten. . - Mr Dion Boucicault, who is now m Auckland, was asked by a gentleman what struck him most forcibly in New Zealand as a stranger, looking at the features of, the country, and he replied, "'• ' The prosperous look of the banks and the prominence of the mortgage and mercantile loan companies. If these associations extend and multiply, New Zealand should quarter on her national arms three golden balls proper on .a green field. It is fortunate for the Islands that their immense resources are amply sufficient to redeem the land from financial pledges." We learn from the Mnnnwatu Hprald that a Directors' meeting of the Mana« watu Co-operative Steam Shipping Co. was he]d at Foxtoni oh Monday. We learn that the operations.; of ,th> company have so far beeni»*> succes'sful that the de. claration of a dividend on the.jearV work will be * certainly: This .will' be^ood news for the shareholders, aha -consider*- f ing the -strong opposition the company ; lias experienced, speakß well for the management -"of its aJJairav : ' >

A Masonic .lodge will be opened in Foxton shortly. Some very welcome showers of rain fell this morning, doing an immense amount of good. Mr Train has a notice in our Wanted column which ought to attract buyers to the Cash Exchange. During tbe whole of the English General Elections we have not heard a word of the Hon P. Buckley and the seat in the House of Commons which was to be offered to him by ao Irish constituency. The librarian of the Public Library complains that a person, who frequents the Reading Boom, is in the habit of borrowing papers laid on the table, and returning them after a few days. As this is a very selfish proceeding it is requested that the practice be discontinued. "Atticu*" in the Melbourne Leader, speaking of the Australians, says : — " It is doubtful whether any people in the world can boast of more sturdy manhood than ours. The patient endurance with which the people ef this city suffered Mr G. A. Sala aiid his utterances ii a proof of this." Grandmother to a little maid of seren summers, directing h«r atteatioa to the dead child of a neighbour : • The babj is going to be buried, we shall never see it again, God has taken it to hearen dear.' Little maid— 'Why did God make tti« little baby if be was going to take it back again so soon ?' A rather verdant young man, conceited and censorious, while talking to a young lady at a party, pointed towardsa couple that he supposed to be in an adjoining room and said : " Just look look at that conceited young prig! Isn't it peafectly absurd for such boys t» g« into ■ociety ?" " Why," exclaimed she, " that isn't a doer ; it's a mirror ! " Edmund About once wrote in afeuilleton that Alboni's singing (she was verj stout) was " like a nightingale piping out of a lump of wet. The indignant prima donna sent him a goose-quill through th« agency of a marquis. About received the pen with his most charming smile, and said : " I regret, sir, that Madame Alboni should have plucked you for my sake !" Mr Maxwell, the railway autocrat, knows how te open his month when th< representatives of a rival line approach him on businesa matters. The Heads Railway directors thought that he mighi like to get rid of, ata fair price, a couple of condemned composite railway carriages which are lying idle, a«d for which there is no use on the Government line. The general manager only wants £300 each foi which we understand a Wanganui firm is prepared to supply aew ones. Speaking of the effects of the climate, anil of its wonderful fecundity, Mi Travers said, in his speech at the laying el the foundation of the Wellington Woollen Factory, that one of the early settlers, Mrs Donald Fraser, of Rangitikei, had 11 children, 72 grandchildren, and 132 greatgrandchildren, all of whom were still livi ing. If Mrs Fraser was to be judged by Madame de Stael's aphorism that the best woman was she who had the largest number of children, Mrs Fraser should receive a gold medal and a large tract of land as well. (Applause and laughter) A worthy Scotch magistrate of the last century prescribed the tawse for, all juvenile offences, and without any- formal trial or leading evidence, ordered lads and lasses to be summarily corrected after the good old domestic fashion of the tine. He was not particular as to the age ot the culprits. On one occasion a young woman, whom he had ordered to bo flogged, tried to get off on the plea of being married. " Married, arc ye ?" exclaimed the bailie. "Yes sir," said the woman. " Then it's mair a shame that ye 're herd this day. Skelp ye her weel," added hU Honor to the jailor. Ons dav recently the water-police of Ged nii, assisted by two fishermen, wer« ongaged searching for the bodies of two men who had been drowned by the upsetting of a boat. Soon after patting the drags down they fastened on something at the bottom of the sea, and it proved to be, when hauled up to the surtace, one of the bodies. The drags, however; did not hold on to the clothing sufijcientlj lon^ to enable the men to haul in the body, and just when the boatmen were backing the boat towards the spot a shark, said to be about 15ft in length, rushed through the water, turned on its' back, caught the body in its jaws, and dived oat of sight with it. A contemporary writing on the question of Protection and Free Trade says: — " In America, which is constantly pointed to as an example to be followed by others, it is well known that protection has not lowered prices. The cost of living there is excessive. The common articles of clothing in every day use are at an exorbitant price. Visitors from this colony to the United States learn with .astonishment the enormous rates demanded for almost everything in common use. Indeed, so excessive are the charges that hundreds pay periodical visits to London from New York, and almost pay their expenses by the saving they, effect in the price of wearing apparel by makihs their purchases in England." ' At h otorua lately (says a contemporary) an attempt was made to utilise an escape of vaporous gas near the Government establishments, and form a vapour bath. An iron tube was put down and concreted: around, and preparations; ma.de to- fix j up the both* when the subterranean for- 1 I eta getting yexed exerted, their force, and' with a aloud explosion, scattered the whole concern, and sent the iron 'tube flying sixty teet up in the air. The workmen fell on their knees fearing the end of the world bad come but otherwise no damage was done There has been, we should add, a good deal of "vaporous G,A,S" about Botorua lately, .but no one dreams of trying to utilize it, and it is generally allowed to be n " wnstp product."