The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JAN. 2, 1886. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 87, 2 January 1886, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JAN. 2, 1886. Local and General News

There will be a church parade of the Manchester Eifles to-morrow morning,

At Auckland yesterday Nelson, the Cap winner, won the Auckland Handicap of 400 sots,, with Waitiri second. A meeting of the Manchester Road Board was held to»day. A fall report will appear in our next issue. The usual service "will be held m the Gospel Hall, Warwick; street^ to-morrow evening. An afternoon service will also beheld. ; Eepine not if you see others better fed than yourself. Perhaps they are fattened for destruction, and you dieted for health. Sixty-five Methodist chapels have been built in London during the past 25 years, at a cost of £600,000, and the number of ministers increased from 50. t0 115, An exchange wants to know " what is the use of a seat of war to a standing army.'* It is used when the army sits down before a fortified city to beseige it. See? Ridicule is the weapon, of all others, most feared by enthusiasts of every description ; and from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and often smothers that which is noble. The larakms are again busy removing sign boards, &c, from business places in the tevrn. On? case which occurred on New Year's eve is in the hands of the constable who is on tlie look out for the guilty purty, A meeting will bo held on Saturday, the 9th inst M to receive the report of Mr Franklin, the secretary of the Feilding Jockey Club, as to the amount of support the public of Feilding will pledge themselves to give. Some one asked Sir Walter Raleigh, of whom it is said he " could toil terribly," " How do you accomplish so much and m so short a time ?" " Simply bocauso when I have anything to do I go and do it." On Tuesday next Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold one of the largest stock sales ever held in Foilding. As a number of the sheep and cattle to be offered will be sold absolutely without reserve, those farmers and dealers desirous of purchasing at the lowest current rates should not fail to be present. In an Auckland paper, a girl advertises for a situation to take charge of a laundry or dairy. She can cook, and understands housekeeping, and adds — " None but a respectable mistress, who wishes to leave her servant in uninterrupted discharge of her duties, need apply." The population of Eastern Rouraelia is about 815,000, of whom not quite one-fifth are Mahommedan Turks. The rest are chiefly Bulgarians, whose religion is that of the Greek Church, the Church of Russia. "Roumelia and Bulgaria united would have a territory of 38,000 square miles, with a population of nearly 3.000,000. We haye received a pamphlet entitled " A glass of Champagne" compiled by Mr Garnet Walch, "and printed in Mel* bourne by Messrs M. Cnrron, Bird & Co. From the pen ©f so distinguished a writer it is certain to be interesting. As the firm in whose interests the book is published, have not forwarded an adver* tiiment ire cannot mention the brand of wine which is so ably eulogised.

One moonlight evening an intoxicated individual, who had been some time swaying to and fro, in earnest contemplation of a telescope on the p«bhc square, finally mustered kis powers of locomotion, and approaching the proprietor, said in a persuasive tone : " See 'ere you, a'— say w — when you're goin' to touch herofl? Morn a dozen people's sighted the thing. Now why don't you touch her of£P"

No man wh© has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in laughter — the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man ! Some men wear an everlasting barren simper ; in the smiles of others lies a cold glitter as of ice ; the fewest are able to laugh what can be called laughing, but only sniff, and snigger, and titter, from the throat outwards, or at best produce some whiffling hußky cachinnation, as if they were laughing through wool ; of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem. — Carlyle.

A somewhat important and singular oase. in which the Government will appear as plaintiff, is likely shortly to engage the attention of the law courts here. It appears that about five months ago a depositor in the Post office S;iv* ings Bank — a married woman, whose husband carries on business in the city — had occasion t© withdraw her deposit in the bank, which amounted to nearly £290. She did so leaving a deposit of a few shillings. It is now alleged that she was overpaid a sum of nearly £40, and the department has demanded the immediate refund of the amount in question. I he depositor denies that she was overpaid at all. and to complicate mnttera the Savings Bank book cannot be found. — Post.

The police at Bonrke (says tlieMudgee Independent,) rep.-rt the discovery of the dead body of a man found in the bush at the foot of f. tree 30 miles from the hotel on the ninety-mile track Tl»e body when found bore the appearance of having been dead abnut eight or nine days. There were no marks of violence on it. and from the fact that thvre was no \vat«-r within 20 miles, ihereis little doubt the dccensei.l died frmn thirst. In a billy nenr him wen 1 several cheques, and it was •isrertaincil tl.at the deceased had bet n ■•mployed for a few weelts wool washing at. Kerribee station. From iet'ers contained in a swat: feuiid some miles away trt m tlie deceased liis name is abcerUiued to be J. A. itichui'Jsou.