Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 81, 17 December 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

Major Atkinson will address his constituents at Hawera to-night. Tenders for the Manawatu Road Bridge, west of the Gorge, must be in by noon on Saturday. Oar readers are reminded that Messrs Thynne Linton k, Co. will hold an important land sale in Foxton an Saturday next, at 2.30 p.m., or shortly after the arrival of the train from the North. The Palmerston Dramatic dub will gire an entertainment in the Public Hall on New Tear's night in aid of the Church of England bazaar. Further particulars will appear in advertisement. The Post says : — It is expected that the Manawatu Railway will be completed for through traffic in something under fifteen months from the present time. The difference which this will make to business in Wellington will be something enormous. We hare received the New Zealand Watchman for December 9th, which ii now published in a new and improved form. We are glad to see that Jvarnal is advancing io far in public esteem ai to make enlargement almost compulsory in order to supply the wants of its numerous subscribers. If you desire to enjoy life, avoid onpunctual people. They may impede business and poison pleasure. Make it your rule not only to be punctual but a little beforehand. Such a habit secures s composure which is essential to happiness ; fur want of it people lire in a constant fever, and put all about them in a ferer too. We learn from the Manawatu Times that Mr George, the manager of the Wellington Gas Works, has applied to the Palmerston Borough Council for permission to lay mains along the streets. It is stated on good authority that Mr George will form a gas company, a certain number of shares in which will be reserved for Palmerston residents. " A very useful departure is about to be made by the Postal Department in issuing postal notes up to various amounts up to twenty shillings. These will be found a great convenience to persons desirous of sending small sums through the Post Office, who find the Post Office order system somewhat cumbersome for such small transactions. They will be issued at the beginning of the year. We understand the Committee of the Dramatic Society bare acceded to a request made by Mrs D. H. Macarthur, on behalf of the Ladies' Committee of the Feilding Church of England Bazaar to gire a performance on New Year's night in aid of the bazaar funds. Two comediattas — " Chiselling," and another— will be given on the occassion. — Manawatu Daily Times. A few days ago an individual went into the paddock of Bar. Afr Murray and borrowed a hone without first obtaining the consent of the owner. After a few hours the animal was returned to tht paddock, showing signs of great distress, and of baring been over ridden. Who* ever the person was, left a good stockwhip behind, which will probably be a means of enabling the constable, who has the job in hand, ot tracing its owner. On Wednesday last, when Mr J. Newman was riding on the Awahuri road, he discovered a Maori woman lying insensible on the ground. He immediately went to her assistance, and after affording such means of relief as were at hand, she recovered consciousness, when she informed Mr Newman her horse had thrown her and galloped off home. Further than being stunned she appeared to have sustained no injury. We have received from the publishers, Messrs Baker and Symes, of London, the November number of the Printers, Stationers, and Kindred Traders' "Effective Advertiser." It is a most excellent production, and f«r colonial buyers, in the Home markets, of printers' and stationers' material, should prove almost invaluable. We will be glad to place our copy at the disposal of any of our readers who are desirous of referring to its columns for information. Jones has & breed of pigs he prides hitnsolf on, and he gave Brown one. Piggy was duly packed in a box, and placed behind the dog-cart in which Brown went home. The cart pulled up for a short time in order that Brown might get a light, and during this period a lady and gentleman passed on a double-barrelled trycicle. As they were passing the pig gave utterance to a series of grunts, and the lady was heard to say, "What a dreadful cough that poor man's got." A boy in one of the London board schools was found guilty of a serious infraction of discipline, and was directed by his teacher to tell his mother when he got home what misdemeanour he had committed. The next morning the schoolmistress called Johnnie to her desk, when the following dialogue ensued : " Well, Master Johnnie, 'did you inform your mother what infraction of discipline you were guilty of yesterday, and the reprimand and punishment you received P" " Yes'm," was the' sententious reply. " Well, and what did your mother say ?" " Sne said she'd like to wring your neck for you." No more discipline reports were sent home to that mother. In South Australia there is a town called Eurelia, pronounced lately Yeoreelya, originally Yoorehar. •This is Tamer's Flat isn't it P' said a stranger, as he entered the township, to a man working on the road. * Yoorehar laconically replied the metal spreader. ' What V ejactlated the traveller sharply. ' Yoorelikrl' 'Oh, I am, am I ?' *aid the stranger dismounting. ' New then come on here' ' What the double blank's the matter with yon ?' queried the narry, ? this gory township's named Yooreliar. 1 sin t got time to fight about it. Ire had two or three np and downers orer the sanguinary place already. Go and punch the Town Council—they're meeting to-day. Captain Phillips, of the Salvation Army related the following anecdote in the FTotham Barracks, a few nights ago: "A oertain man in England had a daughter, who became a ' lass' against the wishes of her father, who was coatinoally scolding heir for attending the meetings. On* night he was eren more that usually severe and sent her to her room. As she made her exit she ' did ■• what she ought not to hare done' by exclaiming, 'I wish the old man was dead.' A parrot near by,' picked up the sentence, and kept repeating it to the old man's mortification. At last he told the minuter his troubles, and the good man lent hii bird, which repeated short prayers, for a few days with the hope or weaning the parrot from its naughty words Accordingly the bird was brought and hung up near the other parrot's cage. It was not long before ; :he old mun's bird cried our, ' I wish the old man was dead,' to Which -this other, gravely responded in a hollow r sepulchral tope of voice; ' Lord answer - pray*£.?j It is needles* to say that the gravity of the meeting w»» complexly .upa*."^' > * 4 -. ... - ■ ' ■ .li':i-.--iL\jiihJ''

The new lined mentioned by Mr Bead" ing, in his notice of to-day, ought to attract to his establishment crowds of eager customers. We are informed that the demand for dairy cows has steadily increased in the Makino Valley since the Cheese & Butter Factory was started there by Mx Davis. We learn from the Examiner that the lowest tender for the erection and painting of the English Church at Weodrille was £712, or £689 without the painting. It has bten decided to modify the plans. On dit that the true cause of Mr Gladstone's fall was his desire to do something big for the crown, after the style of Lord Beaconsfield's Indian feat. The Queen was to be crowned O'Guelph, Queen of Erin and Empress of Tipperary ; bat she declined to add this to her Moral autograph unless Parliament would give her £30,000 more a year for ink. Of ceurse the matter was dropped, «nd Mr Glad* stone with it. ' The Anglo-New Zealander says :— Mr Samual N. Brooks, of Hyde,. England, arrived at St. Louis on 23rd Oct., and fully identified Maxwell, : the alleged murderer of Mr Preller. as his son Hugh. The father said, "Hugh, is it youP" The son replied, "It is, father." The old man. staggered against the bars of the cell, completely overcome. Recovering with a great effort he said, •' It would have been better for you to be dead than here." After talking with his sen the father told the reporters he was convinced of his innocence.