Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 92, 14 January 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

A steamer will leave Foxton for "Wellington to-morrow at 2 p.m. Passengers should go down by the noon train. Notwithstanding recent appointments to the Commission of the Peace, Feilding is practically without a single J.P. We have to thank Mr John Russell, the courteous secretary of the Foxton Racing Club, for a season ticket for their races. fang Tawhiao has gone courting once more to Hukanui, but has taken the precaution to leave his son at home this time. Halcombe and SherwilTs sale is proceeding as we go to press. The attendance is good, and the recent rains have had a tendency to harden the prices of stock. To-day we publish the programme of the Palmerstonrßaces to bo run on March 3. It will be observed that the total amount in prizes £445, a very handsome sum. We will make further reference to this in a future issue. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold a stock sale at their Awahuri yards on Tuesday, the 19th inst. Additional entries to those published to-day will appear in our issue of Saturday. At Cambridge, Waikato, the drought is so severe that the townspeople are obliged to pay four shillings a load for all the water they use, which is carted from the river. To-day Mr Carthew advertises a few of the books and periodicals received by the Kaikoura, the last direct ship from England. The Christmas annuals are superior m many instances to any of those issued in previous years. Mr John Gould's new advertisement will appoar in our next issue. Special reference is inado to the patronage ho has received since he started business in Foilding, and to tho advantages offered by Clairville house to private boarders.

Our readers are reminded of the lecture which is to be given in the Public Hall on Friday evening next. Such an opportunity of getting an intellectual treat is seldom offered to the residents on the Manchester Block. The bishop of Salisbury, in a pastoral, earnestly protested against making the church, question a party one ; to make the house of God the instrument of a party, he said, would be suicidal. I An exchange says : — " Princess Louise I does not change her dress three times a day. She can afford' to wear the same costume a week if she chooses to do so. I Sonic women, .who have more dresses than' brains, change their dresses six times a daj^' , ■•... „..,,-,... ..-. „, „,.,., Cheap railway fares to Wanganui and back on Friday^ the 22nd inst., affords an excellent opportunity to get photographs at Mr Martin's celebrated establishment. Parents 'and others should not lose this chance of taking < the young people down to be photographed, — Advt. ■ v The Napier Telegraph remarks thus :— Mr Edward Shaw, who has filed his schedule in Wellington, in 1883 was highly complimented on all sides in the Hou^e for the assistance he gave in committee to perfect the Bankruptcy Act, His -new experience should enable him to suggest further improvements. , The, Standard;. is .informed that, Mr Haultain will in, future be required to attend at Feildirig and Halcombe once a week. The reason of this is that Mr A. Thompson, the clerk of the court at Feilding, has been appointed to Wanganui -where he will perform the duties of Mr . Woon who is now absent on sick leave. A young trout was caught in a pool in the river bed of the Oroua river yesterday morning by a son of Mr James Whisker. He brought it up to Mr Sherwill, who found it to weigh 9 ounces and measured 11 inches. It is now preserved in spirits and may be seen by the curious at Halcombe and Sherwill' s office, Ximbolton road. At the last meeting of the local Lodge of Odd Fellows, the annual and quarterly balance sheets were read and passed. The annual balance sheet showed the following result: — Financial members initiated during the year, 10 ; total worth of all the funds, £45 6s Id; financial members, 32; average per member, £1 83 3d. At Mudgee (N.S.W.), Mary Scanlan, twelve years of age, was bitten by a black snake on the little finger of the right hand. She called her sister Eliza, only ten years old, to chop the finger off. The brave girl did not flinch', though her sister : made several attempts before she succeeded in severing the finger. When they reached home the father cut off the jagged end with a razor and dressed the wound. We publish to-day an advertisement in connection with the Foxton Races to be held on Friday, the 22nd inst. It will be observed that the railway charges have been much reduced. Tickets to the races and back will only cost 5s for first class and 3s 6d second class. The train will leave Feilding at 9*15 a.m., and will return in the evening to allow country folks to get home in good time. We understand that the last train will not leave the course until the last race has been run so that visitors will get " the best and fullest value for their money." Mr Justice Stephens, during the hearing of a case against three Irishmen charged with assault, and tried on the 6th November at the Cambridgeshire Assizes, strongly rebuked one witness who spoke in contemptous terms of the Irish people. His Lordship said that he had passed a great portion of his life in Ireland from choice. He was glad to testffy on any occasion to the kind and sympathetic character of the people. It was a great mistake on the part of many Englishmen to look dow». upon Ireland. The sweeping statement made at the late meeting of the Victoria Presbyterian Assembly by Mr Anderson, M;L.A., that over 400 girls under 14 years of age are leading a life of shame in Melbourne and suburbs, has occasioned adverse comment, and the Commissioner of Police instructed his officers to report. The result shows that the statement is utterly destitute of foundation/ and- that the morality of residents in the suburbs is much better at the present time than 'has ever before been experienced. The detectives report, that not one girl under 14 is living m the condition described by Mr Anderson. Mr J. W. Marchant, Commissioner of I Crown Lands, officiated as auctioneer yesterday morning in submitting to pub- ! fie competition the small run leases in the Paratieke Block. The leases sold and the > prices obtained wereagiollows :— Sections leased as runs : 4, Sf'lit, Waipakura, 628 a, 7d, M. Hogan ; 14, X, Mangawhero, 89a lr 28p, 10d, A. Mason; 20, IX, Mangawhero,. 312 aOr 16p, 26d, D. Fernie; 21 and parti, VII, Mangawhero, 255 alr 29p. 48d, D. Gh Poison ; 1, til, Mangawhero, 1985 a lr, 6d, W. H. Whitemau; 2, VH, Mangawhero, 605 a, 6d, W. L. Whiteman; 4, VII, Mangawhero, 761 a2r 16p, 16d, 5.6. Addenbrooke; 8, XIV, Mangawhero, 716 a 2r, 14d, F. McDonald; 9, XIV, Mangawhero, 927 a, 6d, J. McDonald. As an illustration of the tremendous force that is being used in the construction of the Forth bridge, it was stated, at the meeting of the British Association, | that massive girders could be put together | at a low level, and be hoisted as high as the top of St. Paul's cathedral by hydraulic power ; while huge wrought iron caissons or cylinders, seventy feet in diameter and seventy-two feet high, are taken up and set down as readily as, a man would handle a bucket. Again, spades with hydraulic rams in the handles were made, and with the roof of the compressed air chamber to thrust against, the workmen had merely to hold the handle vertically, turn a little tap, and down went the spade with a force of three tons into the hitherto impracticable clay as a knife into butter. While General Booth can invest half a million in American waste lands, some of the officers in New Zealand have to descend to very equivocal means to get the necessaries of life. In Napier when the omoers need clothing, it is announced from the platform that this hallelujah lass must provide him with no many pairs of cox, while another hallelujah lassie mast give the neoessary order t« a shoemaker for a pair of shoes, not for herself, but the superior officer. Not long age, it was considered by the rink and file, that an officer needed a new new rig out. The tailor got the order, made the clothes, and certain lassie*, who could ill afford it were made liable for the cost. Thus one had to find half the coat, another the ve?t, while two had to contribute the thirty shilling requisite for a pair of unmentionables One of the girls had some little difficulty in finding the money, which she could badly spare, and being met by the tailor was reminded that she had not paid for her lee of the breeches. After such a broad hint, she found ths ways and means. — i Telegraph, .

We hope the Mayor of Feilding will 1 proclaim Friday the 22nd instant (the I Anniversary of the Province of Wellington), a public holiday, in due time. We are glad to see that Mr Nichol, of Makino, who was injured some 1 time: ago by a fall from his horse, has ;■ quite recovered his usual robust health; ! , Mr Walkeley, the popular host -of the Commercial Hotel, Palmerston, was a visitor to Feilding to-day. He was. accompanied by a party of gentlemen from the Empire City, who are now his guests'at Palmerston. M ;W ; ' c _ .In Wopdyille we observe that the Defence" Minister has promised a grant of £ for £ subscribed in that energetic township towards tlie^e^eotion^df a drill" shed for the Volunteers. The question^ naturally arises why the (ÜBEoEiSSGoir Bines do not exert themselves to get>a similar concession ? ■ ' .%%. Those polite ,^va«ioTiß"~fl'fl the truth which moralists Ideein to be without fin; skoul<^dt;aU ftventfr.be practised witK discretion. A Wenclf papeif tells a storj of a Minister who, when handed,;the card ' of some one who wished t^'see ttinijSftid, "Tell the gentleman^rl am exceedingly sorry that lam not in;" ; : .; . 'A iA Roman r Gatholic* pnejt has- been publishing his 'contribution putting an end to- tfee- wickedness the world. He thinks it is caused^J^the diminution of the corporal punishment in schools, and his panacea is the r«d. The spiritual advantages* flowing from .a good, flogging can hardly be pvti^ratejt. , '*• Thel lifting of a raiment," he says, "is almost a sacrament in - After one or two outs we seem to he translated into Heaven — Or to SCent Shebl. •.•^: ::VV ;■,■:>: .:. ' ' The Wanganui Herald thinks it is evidently~time Wellißgtonvhad a fresh man ohthe~B.M^s seat; as Mr Wafdellhas shown himself quite unequal to the position, and not able to uphold his independence where the profession has-been'con-cerned. He has more' than once allowed solicitors to make a bear garden of his court, and' seems to labor tinder an abject fear of falling out with them. A man ,of sterner stuff is required,' and no 1 doubt the Wellington press will insist on one 1 being appointed ere long". ■: - '■