Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 95, 21 January 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir Julius Yogel will stay for another month at Waiwera. There will be a Whitmore and a Blackmore op the field to->njght. Three Jesuit fathers have arrived in Auckland. The Gospel will be preached as usual iv the Gospel Hall on Sunday noxt. The Manchester , Rifles will parade for Government inspection at 6*30 this afternoon. A meeting of the stewards of the Pei Idinpf Jockay f "lub will be held at Bellve's hotel on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. In Wangamri they advertise " Nfponhu'ht on the Sands," or a night witß a KfttijK>, as a treat for visitors. Toudora for tho erection of a chemist's shop in Pilnierston will close at the office of Mr Laifombe, aichitect, at noon on Saturday. A good girl, like a good watch, is known by her works. Either of them may \to good without having a pretty face.

The Borough Couucil will meet this ' >v»uing at the usual hour. The popular phrase ' ' Life is too short » do this thing" is only another excuse for laziness. A census of land in cultivation and live stock in the colony will be taken on March 29th next. We observe that Mr Joseph Smith, bricklayer, is erecting a substantial and commodious oven on the premises of Mr Mathews, baker, Eyre street. The Daily Itfews states that attempt! are being made in political circles te induce. Mr Gladstone to resign the leader* ship of the Liberal party. It hai been ascertained that the majority of the members of the Liberal Party are opposed to the suggestion that an Irish Parliament should be established. Another of those social entertainments in St. John's Sunday School, whicii have become so deservedly popular, will be held on the evening ot Wednesday, the 27th instant. We have to acknowledge receipt of the programme of the New Zealand Rifle Association for the meeting to be held in Wanganui on Monday, the Ist of March, 1886. The cas« of Reots and others v. Belt and others in the Supreme Court, Wei lingtoo, is proceeding lo«day. The evidence ef Messrs Roots, Svanninge,' and Luxford, was taken on Tuesday. By two performances in the Wellington Theatre Hoyal last week, the dramatic and minstrel troupe of H.M.S. Xetlen netted £40, which has been devoted to the relief of the sufferers by the Stratford bush fires. We are informed by the Auckland 801 l that in the Hamilton district harvest has commenced, many farmers being about to cut their wheat, and some few field* of wheat and oats throughout the country I being in stook la the field. In "the good old times" on the east ; coast of this island a cow was credited 1 with nine calves in one year. The cow was the property of " the manager." By a strange coincidence the cows belonging to the "boss" were nearly all barren I The other night several fires were burning in the Borough, contrary to clause 6 in by-law No. 2 of the Feildmg Borough. We have made enquires and find that in no one instance hadpermission been obtained from the Council. There is a penalty of £o attached to this offence. A contemporary remarks that a woman who smiles at 40 is more attractive than one who frowns at 2 ( >, Now for our part we hold our contemporary to be an ass. We think a woman who smiles at one, and that one "us," may frown at 40,000 and we shall be all the better pleased. Cheap railway fares to Wanganui and back on Friday, the 22nd inst., affords an < excellent opportunity to get photographs at Mr Maktin'b celebrated establishment. Parents and others should not lose this chance of taking the young people down to be photographed, — Advt. The Berlin Yolks Zeitung is to be proceeded against by the public prosecutor for libelling the Emperor of Russia. It appears that this journal had the unheard of audacity to make use of the expression " Czar-like despotism." Frenchman (io Wellington citizf n) - " Yen ze fread ask you ze inrite to take se drink viskey, vat you say in Anglais ?" citizen — "Don't care if I do." Frenchman — " Doncar fido, oui ! But yen you refnre ze invite, zen vat you say in Anglais?" Citizen—" Well — cr — I b'lieve you've got me now, Frenehy." An old so'dier came hmne one dnj intoxicated, when his wife began to scold him. " What's the us* of talking to n man when he's drunk P" said the o'd soldier, and his wife thought him about right, so she said nothing more to him until the next day, when he got off ngnia by saying: — "There, there, my dear, dinna rake v > auld offences." Some of our local peds have been nor- j mated for the Nelson Annual Sports, which will take place on February 1. Their names are . Robert and Mathew Belfit, and young Clarke. We are certain that they will give a good account of: themselves in that town where our'Yol-' unteers were so well treated at the last Easter Encampment. Citizen to country editor : "A pleasant little affair occurred last night at my house, which terminated m the marriage of my daughter. Would you like the particulars ?" Country editor: " Well-er, I might make a short mention of the matter, but we are badly cramped for space." A little later. Another citizen : " My wife ran away last night with another man. Do you want the particulars? 1 ' Country editor, eagerly: "Yes, yes; give me the whole, business."— Sydney Globe. . In bis address to the jury in the Napier libel action on Tuesdar. Mr Laicrlles, counsel far the plaia iff, said the Evening News was. more free spoken and more liberal than its contemporaries ; it did not land the rich and wreck the p*or. This would appear to be very laudable, but MrLascellessaid it was too much fer Hawke* Buy. Subsequently the same gentleman ia d there wtwnot ene- tenth of the libel actions in Welling* ton thai there were in Napier, and not one-fiftieth the number of application! to solicitors for libel actions. We learn from the Wanganui Herald that owing to the very early hour at which the special excursion train to Foxton leaves on Friday morning, Mr Hankey has arranged for a second one to leave Wanganui for Greatford and wayside stations, between at 9*50 a.m. The same train w^l leave Greatford on tho return journey at 6 p.m. This train has been put on specially to accommodate, picnic parties and families wishing to spend a day in the country. This is the way to popularise the railway, and thus attract passengers to the manifest increase of the revenue. To-day we publish an important addition to the advortisumxmt of the train services of tomorrow. ■ Heavy masses of clouds yesterday morning were observed beyond the Kiwitea stream on the Kimbolton road. It was feared by many in town that >a heavy and destructive bush fire was raging in a part of the block whioh. is settled on by a number pf small farmers, and where much loss to individuals might be the result. On pur reporter going out to the spot he found the fire was on the property of Mr Hitcjinmn,, who courteously gave all the information iv his power. It appears that a few days ago a i fire started on the opposite side of the r< a 1, whether by accident or design is not known. Yestorday it found its way ftccross into some fallen bush and got a firm hold. " Although Mr Hitchman was not quito ready for a burn, he made the best of a bad job by go directing the firo as to make it answer his purposes as near as priictieablo. It passed clear of the adjacent houses, and up to our going press to-day no damage further than toft ;ew cbaiwpf fencing is reported,

At a meeting of the Wellington Hospital Committee, the chairman (Mr F. H. Fraser) drew attention to the fact that during last year no fewer than 770 bottles ot champagne*, costing £208, were consume I in the institution. The Gorernmeut steamtT Stella is to convey a number of speculators to Caswell Sound. Why a steamer, maintained at the expense of the country, should be devoted to aiding a company to develop a quarry, which has hitherto proved a failure, we are at a loss to know. What with special trains for Mm stem wherein they travel on land, Hintinoa at their disposal when they voyage by sea, and the Stella at the disposal of shareholder!) •f a private company, we are indeed advancing by leaps and bounds. —Napier Telegraph. Tho steamship Doric, Captain^ J. W. Jennings, arrived iv Auckland from London, via Hobart, on Tuetdaj. Her passage occupied 4(lrdayTTir hours, including stoppages at ports. She left Ply mouthLgn December sth. with 31 first, 28 second, and 110 third- clas9 passengers. She coaled at Teneriffe, and embarked at the Cape of Good Hope 38 [passengers, cliieflv for Australia. Fffty-seven pa«> senders were landed rt Hobart. On* birth occurred on the voyage. J. Daviei, a steerage passenger, died on Tuesday morning. She brings 1300 tons of cargo for Auckland, 130 for Napier, 600 for Wellington, 690 for Otago, 390 for Canterbury There is mere equality among men than people think. When Dr Samuel Jelinson was paying court to Mrs. Porter, whom prt-vieus experience did net disin* dine to a «econd matrimonial experiment, the honest scholar thought it more than fair to hint at some of his antecedent!, a degree of honesty which is not always observable in modern marriages. He told her plainly that he was of nean extraction, that he bad no money, and that one of his uncles had been hanged. The sensible woman responded that she had no more money than he and that though none of her relations had ever been handed she had several who ought to be. The Paris Morning News suggests some serious charges agaiast the London police in a note from its London corros* pondent. With reference to the conduct of the police io connection with tke fracas Ht the Social Democratic Club, he hears some serious complaints which he gives, of coume, with all reserve. He is told that a certain gambling club pays two inspectors £10 a week eaoh not to be disturbed, that an officer of the Italian Club was asked for money by a police inspector three nights before the raid upon it, and it is a common thing for the police to extort blackmail from hotel-beeper, club managers, itc. A good stery is (eld of Judge Keut the, well-known American Jurist. A man was indicted for burglary, and the evidence on the trial showed that his burglary consisted in cutting a hole through a tvnt in which several persons were sleeping, and then inserting his head and arm through a hole and abstracting various articles of value. It was claimed by his counsel that, inasmuch as ho never entered the tent he had not committed the offence charged, and must therefore be discharged. Judge Ke.t, in reply to this plea, told the j ury that if they were not satisfied th it the whole man wns involved in the. crime they might bring a verdictof guilty against sa much of him ax was thus involved. The jury, after a brief consultation, found the right arm, the right shoulder, and the head of the prisoner guilty of the offence of burglary. The Judge sentenced the ri.ht arm, the right shoulder, and the head to imprisonment with uard labour in the State prison for two years, remarking to the rest of the man's body he might do with it what he pleased.