Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 93, 16 January 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

m The Feilding State School will re-open on Monday next, the 18th January. There will be mass in the Catholic Church, Feilding, to-morrow, 17th January, at 8 a.m. A notice to owners of property appears to-day from the Property-tax Commissioner, which is worthy of attention from those who have- neglected to forward statement of property belonging to them.

A shipment of two hundred thousand | salmon ova will be sent to New Zealand by the steamer .lonic, which leaves London on 2nd February. We understand Mr J. Newman has concluded arrangements for giving a grand display of fireworks at Foxton on the night of the 22nd of January (Anniversary Day). 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. The annual picnio in connection with theMakino State Sohool took place on, Tuesday last in Mr Pearson's paddock, near the schoolhouse. The programme consisted of games, races, &c, and an excellent tea, and both the. school children and the numerous visitors, including many oi the parents, pronounced the affair a great success. The annual treat to the children attending the Feilding Presbyterian Sunday School takes pla.ce on Friday next (Anni- ; versary Day). Arrangements for the; successful carrying out of the treat are n.ow in course of active preparation, and a moat successful gathering may safely be expeoted, A number of Feilding and Makina res idents left yesterday and to-day en route for Wellington, where their' attendance is required at the Supreme Court in the case Boots and Co. in the matter of a claim! for £10000 damages for the stoppage of a right of way to certain forest landjL We are informed by" Mr P. Bartholomew that the engines, belonging to the Kiwitea saw mill, {will be brought down from the old site and re-erected on that section of land near the railway station, now occupied by the firm as a timber yard. A start was made to-day, and the new mjU wKl.be in full swing before many weeks are past. The logs will be brought down on the existing tramway, and cut up so. that the sawn timber may be loaded on the railway tracks oft the bench. By this means a considerable expense will be saved in the matter of handling. The null in full work again will be a great boon to those men who have been holding on ,f »r a start, to. .be. made. Business people will also find the advantage of it in several ways, as the wages to be spent will be a very large item. i r A splendid piano is advertised for sale. It is nearly new, is m capital order while the terms are remarkably easy, and the prioelaw* Letters addressed to box 13, Feilding post oflSce will elicit all further necessary particulars. By the Postal note which came into force at the beginning- of the year, instead of paying 6d for a post office order for Is or Is 6d only id wDI now be charged; for 2s 6d, Id ; f or Ss, l£d • for fe 6d, 2d ; and from 10s to £1, only 3d will be charged. Full instructions, will be printed 1 on the front of each note. . Mr Chamberlain, the Engfisb Radical, (says the New York Tribune) evidently does not consider himself rebuked by the present elections. He declares that tibeliberal backset is due to five P's — Priests, Publicans, Parsons, Parnelliates, and Protectionists — and thinks that the combination is not likely to occur again. Perhape not; but Mr Chamberlain forgets that it is in a great measure due to his indiscreet speech that the combination was possible this time. Tenders are invited by Mr E. Larcombe, C.E. and architect, for the erection of a chemist's shop in 'Palmerston. Plans and specifications may be seen at the architects office Palmerston. As the time is short we recommend our Feilding builders to have their tenders prepared at once. It is probable that the Directors of the Wellington-Manawata Hallway will run a tramway along the beach, in a line with No: 10 tunnel, to Paikakariki, so as to get the necessary plant and material to the other side for the permanent way and ballasting. By adopting this plan the permanent way can be hud from both ends of the line, and by the time the Paikakariki contract is finished, trains would be able to run from one end of the line to the other. It is said that a survey of the tramway line will be made immediately. It will be remembered that on New Tear's Day a shunting engine, taken out of the Pipitea Point shed, collided with the I*3o passenger train from the Hutt and Tinakori roads. An enquiry has since been held by the Acting District Manager and the Locomotive Superintendent, with the result that the driver of t r u\ Hutt passenger train has been disrated for six months, on the ground that he was ten minutes in advance of his proper time in arriving, and the driver of the shunting engine has feeen disrated for three months for carelessness in not seeing that the main line was clear before driving upon it.— Post. "Upon the assembling of the English Parliament on Wednesday last Mr Bradlaugh, the member for Northampton, advanced to; the table and was sworn in in the usual : manner. The Hon. the Speaker read a letter he received from Sir Michael-Hicks Beach, the leader of the Government in the Lower House, urging him not to allow Mr Bradlaugh to be sworn, but the. Sneaker ruled that he was bound to ignore it, as any resolution of the former Parliament had no authority to bind the present one. Sir MichaelHicks Beach attempted to make some remarks, but was at once stopped by the Speaker, who ruled that has he had not been sworn he was not entitled to speak. A well-known commercial traveller was the victim to a misplaced confidence in his prowess of jumping into a train while in motion. After placing his " wares" on board the .train and procuring his ticket, he indulged in further conversation with some bystanders, probably with a view of placing " another line." In the meantime the train was moving off, when our friend made a frantic rush to secure a seat, but the local "gentleman in blue," who was standing by, seized the C.T. by the nether part of his garments, and lgnominously pulled him. back on to the platform. He found several " sympathisers" with him in his loss of wares, overcoat, umbrella, and value of ticket. The house occupied by Mr _ Thomas Barker was burned down at about three o'clock thismorning. Mrs Barker heard the sound of crackling in an apartment adjoining her bedroom, and on rising to ascertain the cause discovered the paper and boarding next the chimney to be -.on fire. The ilames spread so rapidly that nothing could be saved except some wearing apparel and a small box. Mr Blackmore, mghtwatchman, reported the fire to- the Borough Enginoer within a few minutes after it was started, and as it was burned out in a quarter of an hour, it was not considered necessary to make an alarm there being no houses in the circle of danger. The dwelling was insured in the Northern office but the contents were uninsured. ' ;

We have received the N.Z. Industrial t Gazette for December 1885. "." ' A meeting of the stewards of the Feildr ing Jockey Club will be held at Hastie's hotel this evening at eight o'clock. The scheme of sections of the Feilding Small l<'arm Association has been approved . by Mr Marchant, the cheif surveyor, .j . Messrs J. H. Wallace and Co., auc- \ tioneers, one of the oldest firms in Wei- , lington, have been declared bankrupts. We are glad to learn that Mr Archer whose wife and family have been in the receipt of charitable aid from the Borough for some months, has made his address , known and remitted some money to Mrs Archer. He professes to be deeply repentant of his cowardly and unmanly. ; desertion of them. On Wednesday evening next the ■ annual congregational meeting of the , Presbyterian church will be held. At a public meeting to follow several members ' of the presbytery, which, meets here that day, will give addresses. Probably the i Beys TreadweU, Wright, NeviUe, Duncan and Murray will address the meeting. This, with several beautiful anthems which the choir haye in preparation, will afford a pleasant and instructive evening. The lecture at the Public Hall last night was not so well attended as we expected it would be. The front seats were, however, very well filled. The Bey J. Jones introduced Mr Wilson, the lecturer in a very appropriate address. . Mr Wilson then opened his subject and . continued to speak for an hour and a half: - He was frequently applauded anir his points very seldom missed. At tWs conclusion of the lecture an unanimous Vote of thanks -was passed. We regret that pressure on our space preclndes a longer notice. ■■'■."■■.