Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 76, 5 December 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A glass company is being formed in Canterbury, with a capital of £20,000. Sendee will be held in the Gospel Hall to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. Church parade of the Manchester Rifles to-morrow. King Solomon said there were seventeen thousand odd different kinds of laziness in his time. We have learned more since. The work of putting up the additions to the Bailway Goods Shed is being rapidly pushed on by the contractor, and will be completed within a few days. Mr George Crichton announces that during next week he will be selling off the whole of his drapery stock at less than English cost. Further particulars will appear in our Tuesday's issue. Dr Bell, a son of Mr Peter Bell, of Wanganui, has just arrived from Home, The Herald says that Dr Bell will probably settle in Hawera. In the honest trades and callings there is room for rising. The successful manufacturer, or master mechanic, or mining engineer, or 100-sack-a-day baker, is worth a whole bagful of unproductive lawyers. And a shrewd, pushing shopkeeper is far more useful than the dreaming hanger-on of an overstocked learned profession, A spectator once, at the end of the fir«t act of " Hamlet, " said to a neighbour, pointing to the retreating figure «f the •bief tragedian, who had been called befor the curtain: "Can yon tell me, sir, if that youhjc man appears again P'* On being told that the young man did appear again, and that not infrequently, he exclaimed promptly : " Oh, then I'm off. Mr G. Bevaa, wno has been visiting and inspecting the Fohangina reefs, on behalf of the Basaett-Sharpe Company, of Wanganui, went up by train last night taking with him some very promising specimens of stone. On his arrival in Wanganui these will be melted in Mr Murray's crucible so as to secure an independent test. I The most juvenile divorce suit yet reported has been instituted in Philadelphia. Melissa Amelia Eyans, who is only 14 years old, wants to be released from her marriage with Smith E. Rhodes not yet 21, on the ground that she did not know what she married him for, that he deceived her in stating that he owned a brick house, whereas he was a bricklayer's apprentice, receiving only £1 4s a week, and that since the oeremony he has cruelly treated her and had not given her enough to eat. Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is low, frivolous, and, too often, a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a. pest. Churches are splitto pieces by it; neighbors made enemies for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young euro it while they may. To-day we had the pleasure of inspeot- : ing in the Coach Factory of Mr J. L. Bees, Kimbolton Boad. A new buggy made to the order of Messrs Brennan and Marshall, of Feilding. It has every new convenience and appliance, is painted dark green picked out with black and fine lined gold dolor,' plated mounting, is trimmed with morocce leather and lace to match. The hind seat folds up in three pieces (on a new principal invented by Mr J. L. Bees, junr.) which when open gives, six inches more room than usual. The whole turn out is oomploted and finished ixjTft moat workmanlike manner. Scene: A train just palling up at • station. Tiro ladies (wh« h«ve been in close convene) prepare to descend. First lady, placing beth hands behind her back, and putting her" dress-improver" inte shape: " Tell me, is it straight f" Stranger and soßorous male voice at her elbow : "Perfectly, Madam, so far as I am a judge." Consternation of querist, whose " dear friend" had turned back for an instant to fetph her umbrella, and by §o do* ing bat suffered a crave parson with a very grue*omet«ountenanee to stop down before her.— Vanity Fair. The Earl of Dalhousie, who with Lady Dalhonftie is about to visit the Colonies, i* the thirteenth earl, is an ex-commander of the I toy al Wavy, and was for a short time, before succeeding to that title in 1880, a member of the House of ( 'om^ ; mons. He situ in the House of LorJs aa Lord Ramsay in the peerage of the United Kingdom, whiph title was on- ; ferred on his father in 1875. In 1881 the present Earl waft crested a Knight of | the Thistle, and his Countess, whom he married in 1877, is Lidr Ida L*uine Bennett, youngest daughter of the Earl of the Tankerville. Notice.— All accounts owing by me m««t be »rnt in on or before the 21st day of December. All account* owing to mf mu*t be paid by the enme dnte. — E. J. ' Otthkm* Storekeeper, Peildiog.— Apvt.

The drawing for Bradey's Art Union, will take place at Sanson on Wednesday, the 16th instant. Mr Lowers advertises to-day that he wants a respectable young man to be employed in the delivery of goods. A gospel address will be given to-mor-row evening in Foresters' Hall, commencing at seven o'clock. Every one is invited and the service is entirely free. The new Justices of the Peace for Feilding are Messrs W. L. Bailey, Christopher Brown, Charles Bull, and J.C. Thompson. The additions io the general store of Mr D. R. Lewers in Kimbolton Road, are being rapidly pushed on. They will considerably improve the appearance of the building. It is stated that Mr F. A. Krull is about to enter into patnership with Mr Freeman B. Jackson, the well-known auctioneer, of Wanganui. Both gentlemen have a wide circle of friends, who will be pleased to hear of their success. One of the signs of returning prosperity is the fact that there are numbers of persons seeking to acquire land for settlement'or building purposes. To-day we publish particulars of certain sections in Foxton and Feilding to be sold by Messrs Halcombe and SherwiU on Friday the 11th inst. Karly next week a cart will be taken to the Pohangina reefs, or rather as near te them as it is possible to get, when the stone, from the reef will be brought down to Palmerston to b« forwarded to Auckland. By the cad of the year some definite idea as to the quality of the gold should be obtainable. — Chronicle. In New York there are upwards ol ninety thousand Jews, who are eminently active and useful members of the community. Although nearly 9 per cent, of the population, they contribute less than 1 per cent, to the criminal class. They have twenty-six synagogues, between forty and fifty smalljmeeting.housei, aad eighteen charitable societies. Te avoid the payment of ten per cent, penalty, the property tax must be paid en or before Thursday, tbe 10th of December. In case of alleged overcharge or other discrepancy, it will be advisable to pay the amount claimed, and make application for a refund. The account printed on yellow paper must in every case be presented to the pestmastei when making payn • t A curious incident occurred in the Parade Church, Shorncliffe (England), on Sunday, July 26. It was found that the church was beseiged by various kinds of birds, principally swallows. Every effort made to dislodge them was without effect, until at last some soldiers were obliged ia fire a volley of blank cartridge, which completely routed them, before service could be held. Woodville is nothing unless it is progressive. Every time we see the Woodville Examiner we observe that either new enterprises are in hand, or that some new buildings are being added to the township. The latest erection projected is a building for the Church of England. Messrs Atkins and Clare are the architects and tenders are invited to-day from the Feilding builders. We observe that- Mr Carthew has arranged to have the use of the front window of Mr Bray's office for show purposes. The necessary alterations have been made by Messrs Pope and Pearson, builders. A space of about five feet has been taken from Mr Bray's front office, but sufficient room yet remains for the usual Road Board, and other meetings to be held with convenience. Messrs Luke and Sons of Wellington have all their hauds fully employed ju.«t now, and their foundry presents a busy appearance. They have orders for a shaft and friction winch for the steamer Moa, which is now being lengthened aad rebtted for Captain Williams ; two pairs of compound engines — one for a flour* mill at Wairarapa, the other for Mr Petherick's Venetian blind factory ; and two large improved rats for the Gear Company's boiling down werks at Petone. The only persons who can .be nominated by residents in New Zealand to come out to this colony under the nominated emigration system are farmers and agricultural labourer*, either married or single, and single women for domestic service. The fees, which must be paid in tbe colony are £10 for each pemen over 12 years of age £6 and under. Infant' free. These charges include depot expenses, a passage by the direct steamer, and a complete ship's outfit. The best fighting editor of Australia, who is adored by the Northern miners has been at it agaiu. Thaddeus O'Cane relates how he tackled a lawyer with hi* ewn weapon thus : —Mr L. W. Marsland, who has turned sour lately in eonsequenee of some articles in the Northern Miner, ■eat his clerk with an advertisement to this office jesterdav, so his clerk says ; the advertisement was paid for— 7s 6d. The following morning a note came from Luke saying the advertisenent was not intended for the Towen Herald. The advertisement was is consequence handed back to Mr Maryland's dark, but when he demanded the 7s 6d we demurred, and finally said' No.' We charge 7« 6d for perusing the advertisement.' We have received half a mil* of a bill of costs from Mr L. Maryland and almost every third item is 6s 8d for perusing a tele* gram.' Now, we don't see why we should not charge Mr Marsland 7s 6d — an editor being higher in the scale of creation than an attorney — for perusing his advertise* nest.