Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 89, 7 January 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Another solicitor har itartad business in Falmerston. A. race meeting will be held in Palmerston on Wednesday the 3rd of March. Mr Edward Shaw, 'solicitor, Wellington has filed a declaration of insolvency. ; The Borough Council will meet this evening at the usual hour. The Auckland Star save the codlin moth had made its appearance in the Waikato. ; A black pilgrim of the Hebrew faith was seen in Jerusalem recently. He was from Cochin,, -in China'. . The Manchester Rifles will commence target practice at the Butts on Saturday afternoon. We understand that Mr Macarther, M.H.K., will address his constituents about the end of this month or the beginning of February. ; The Jockey Club members and subscribers will meet on Saturday evening next to receive the report of the secretary, Mr Franklin. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will hold a stock sale at Ashhurst to-morrow. Their Feilding stock sale will' take place on Thursday the 14th inst. In the Temperance Hall to-morrow evening Edith O'Gorman, the escaped nun, will give a narrative of her startling and sensational experiences. Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty; idleness is but the devil's home for temptation, and for unprofitable musings; laborprofiteth others, and ourselves. Last week's Auckland Observer has a suggestive cartoon, representing 1886 with a bag of gold labelled with ten millions standing on the . depression of 1885. Little people are always afraid of their being discovered attending to little things, while great minds owe much of their greatness to a courageous attention to the minutiee of their work. Mr W. Heald announces that he has now opened his Sash and Door Factory in Fergussdn street, past the railway station. He is prepared to supply every class of article made in the trade at the lowest prices and of the best' workmanship. The desirableness of appointing a nightwatchman for Feilding is being discussed by some of the business people. We hope something will be done in that direction as. the services of such an one would be of great value. The Grey Rivor Argus says—" It is worthy of special meution that amongit the pupils of the State school, a Chinese boy, Yung He, gained the five prizes in his class for which he competed. This is rather a set back for the Caucasian, although, we are . informed, it ii purely the resmlt of perseverance." t The TSnucation Board sent to the Bunnythorpe School Committee the name of one teacher, Mr Stewart, to select a teacher from. The Committee were thus saved the trouble of comparisen, &c, and have recommended Mr : Stewart 'to the Board. Had they not done so there would have been no teacher fqr the school.— - Manawatu Times: In another column we .publish the advertisement of Mr Charles Schultej who has commenced' outness. m .Falmerston as a General Merchant and Manufacturers Representative. He i» a direct importer of all kinds of fencing wires, wire netting, and general wire goods, enamel holloware, guns and revolvers, therefore he offers his leading articles at such low prices as have hitherto not been approached in the colonies. , > In the Wellington City Council when Councillor Fetherick opposes a proposition it may at once be understood that such proposition has a basis of necessity as well: as common sense, and that ultimately it wity be carried by an irritated but triumphant majority, Tliie wiseacre is opposed to a road being made from Lambton tjuay to the Terrace by way of the'land rendered vacant by the recent fire, it will be therefore safe to assume that Cr Richardson who has made the proposition will be aide to carry it through. .''.'. ' Attest London has recognised theclaims of the sex in appointing a lady, Miss Frideaux, to the post of house surgeon o the . Faddington Green Children's Hospital. Miss Frideaux, who u a "Bachelor " of Medicine and of Surgery of London University, where she took a first class in medicine, was selected in face of nineteen male candidates, of whom half were university graduates. This is the first instance of a lady receiving an hospital appointment in the metropolis, though similar appointments have previously been made, in the less -prejudiced provinces. ••: .-, ..',;. In a quiet and altogether unobtrusive fashion the veteran pedestrian Spencer has completed the herculean task- of walking 6000 miles in 110 days, thus entirely eclipsing the performance of the noisy, much-advertised Yankee, Westoh. An obscure daily note in the columns of little read sporting papers is 7 all 'that Spencer hria had in the way: of publicity while on his arduous journey.; ; but ; until' English pedestrians acquire the art of giving lectures and wearing picturesquely eccentric costumes they wall 1 not be in it as moneymakers with their astuter, if less athletic, Yankee rivals.— Truth; -• . • ; !

The city of. Pans has recently taken a generous initiativein the matter of women. Mdlle Benoit, a young Vendean lady, who lately t»bk her medical degree, is now appointed medical examiner of girls throughout the municipal schools of Paris. This is in every way an admirable measure, as it is- the business of Mdlle Benoit to see that girls are not overworked and that they get through their studies under sanitary conditions. Very quietly, but surely, French women are taking the position now occupied by their English sisters. A directress of a lycee for girls receives, besides apartments, lights, firing, &c, a salary of three or four thousand francs— a few years back an unheard-of emolument for women teachers.

We regret to hear that Mr Lewis Brown died last evening.

Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts made by Messrs Halcombe and SherwUl to save it, a large quantity of their hay was destroyed by fire last Tuesday.

This morning the town of Feildrng was enveloped in clouds of dense cjmoke from the surrounding bush fires. No/damage of a serions nature has been reported.. Several settlers in the Wanganui Harbor Board have already had to shift their cattle owing to .the scarcity of water. Fortunately they have not far to go as the main streams are all full.

w Mr Wilson of the Cofteg^Mtioolf Wanganui, will deliver his famous leotureonMark Twain in the Public Hall on Friday, the 15th inst. Further par- • ticulars will be seen in the advertisement to-day which speaks volumes. At the Supreme jQQurtrWellraSftbn', yesterday, Ah Gr^f^^nmAuUhtlj con-' ceahng goods, he being a bankrupt, was sentenced to 12 months. Bridget Wickham, on a charge of reWivirig stolen property, was remanded until to-morrow. The district meeting of the Primitive Methodists will commende its session on Monday next at -New Plymouth.^The^ Bev. J. Clover, Messrs J. 0. Thompson, and B. Linton, of Halcombe, are the, delegates for Manawatu. - -. '-'■ '■- We have to thank the Minister of Lands for a copy of Part I of the report of T. Kirk, F.L.S., on Native: Forests ;and the state of the TimWr Trade. ihe- foreslfe of the Cast Cape and the southern' districts of the North_ Island , will be described in the final report. v '■' ' : /} ;„, ' ■• ■•■i, "Ofr, George/'saidTSylvia, "^dodnght to have heard Mr Lane read the lesson yesterday. There is to be a sea of glass there/' "Well, what of that !* And we are never to grow tired or sleepy." "Well?* "And it will last for ever/-' " Yes." •• Ob. George, think of the daily skating there will be!" ; , The terrible fire which has: taken place at Stratford ought to be a stimulus to the Borough Council her* to appoint proper persons to act as watchman, who would give an alarm so that the male residents of the township could assemble at the point of danger, and extinguish any incipient fires, before they got good hold. June 27, 1886. when the Queen enters upoa the fiftieth vearof her reign, will be celebrated as the jubilee of her Majesty's accession to the throne ; and the .Corporation of London, it is stated, are already contemplating arrangements for celebrating the occasion on a scale befitting its historical interest and importance. If yon want to find a logician, go to your tailor. The other day one wm orer-heard to remark, "I never ask a gentleman for money." "But suppose he dees not pay youP" "Well, if he dosn't pay me in a reasonable tim« I con-, dude he is «ot a gentleman, and then I ask him." At the sale of Major George's stud yesterday, at Auckland, no horses were sold at auction. Kelson, winner of the Auckland Cup, reached 500gs, and was withdrawn ; Antelope was sold privately to Mr E. Wood fer lOQgs. Mr C. HLushington's bloodstock was also offered, but none sold. . A Wellington gentleman who has just ' returned from a visit to Canterbury, says that the country ia that district presents a very burnt appearance at present, and the want of rain has caused numerous fires and great damage. We (Wellington Press) are informed that in the Bakaia district . sheep are being sold by their owners at a shilling per head, and some of the farmers are boiling down their bheep. . . The Minister ef Lands has promised to pay a visit to Westland during the recess, and the West Coast Times expresses it* pleasure at the proposed visit of the Minister of Lands, who is regarded ai one of the most active and hard working mem* bers of the Government. It feels sure the people will aceori him a hearty reception, and that his visit will prove ad* vantagepusito the distriat. . There wa> a great delicaor, in the manner in which a foreigner, having a friend hanged ia this country, broke the intelligence to his relations on the other side of the water. He wrote as follows : — " Your brother had been addressing a large meeting of citizens, who had manifested the deepest interest in him, when the platform upon which he stood being, as was subsequently ascertained; very insecure, gave way, owing to which he fell and broke his neck." . .lib'' ' " — ~— ■"■• '