Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 112, 2 March 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

To-morrow will be observed as a public holiday in Feilding. The Revd. J. C. Dodwell has been appointed temporarily to a post at the Wellington Mount Cook boys' school. The Wanganui Herald approves of Mr Macarthur's scheme of Local Government. One of the culverts on the Ashurst road was on fire on Sunday last. It has since been extinguished and repaired. We understand that an entertainment will be given shortly in aid of the funds of the Public Library. Final payments for the Wanganui Cup close this evening, with Mr F. R. Jackson, at 9 o'clock. Mr Watts, the proprietor of the Denbigh Hotel, has just received from Wellington a splendid piano. Mr Remington Jones, of Taonui, returned to the colony in the direct steamer Aorangi. An exchange says Polynesians and the Malays sit down when speaking to a superior. Most other civilised people lie. The Woodville Examiner is anxious for Mr Linton, of Palmerston, to contest the Manawatu seat with Mr Macarthur. Our " only drunk" was brought up on Saturday before C. Bull, Esq., J.P., and fined os. The Wairarapa Star says Mr W. H. Levin will contest the South Wairarapa seat at the next general election. We understand that the Manawatu Racing Club programme will be strengthened to-morrow by an extra Hack Race. The Post office at Carnarvon has been altered to " Clydesdale," the name of Mr T. M'E.encie'B farm, where the office ii located. It is almost certain that Sir William Fox will have a seat in the next Parliament. He will represent either a Nelson or Wellington constituency. It appears from the Wellington papers that in order to keep up the supply of liquor in the Wellington Hospital rigid economy is exercised in food expenditure. Cardinal Moran's robe has proved a veritable red rag to the Wellington Press bull. In almost every issue " Puff" has made some allusion to it. We have to acknowledge receipt of the Agricultural Gazette and Dairy Farmer, dated Monday, January 4th 1886, published in London by Yinton and Co. Captain Edwin telegraphs to%day. — Warnings for northerly gales after from 12 to 16 hours have been sent to all places south of Napier and New Plymouth. Mr Levin, of Wellington, denies that he has any intention of contesting Wairarapa South at the next election, a rumour to the contrary having gained ground. The Post considers there is little doubt Ministers will ask the Governor to permit an immediate appeal to the country. A meeting of the Cabinet will be held this weak. The Feilding Brass Band did not play in the Square last Saturday evening, owing to the inclement weather. However, the programme arranged for then will be played next Saturday evening, weather permitting. The New Zealand Trade Review says : We understand that arrangements have been made for a direct line of sailing vessels from Hamburg to New Zealand. For the present it is proposed to despatch from Hamburg one ship every three months for Wellington and Auckland. There is nothing new under the sun. One hundred years ago in the south of Scotland a famous arithmetical puzzle was — " If a herrin' an' a half cost three bawbies, how many will ye get for a shillin'"? In the year of grace 1886 the same appears as — " If a cat and a half eat a rat and a half in a minute and a half, how many minutes will it take 50 cats to eat 100 rats ?" We like the herrings best. In some parts of Fiji no rain has fallen for nine months. The rum prepared for the natives has consequently toned down by evaporation, to the consistency of molasses, and it is anticipated that if the drought continues, traders will be able to dispose of it in plugs like tobacco. In this new form it anould prove very effective in its errand of destruction. The New Zealand Trade Review says : — We understand that arrangements have been made for a direct line of sailing vessels from Hamburg to New Zealand. For the present it is proposed to despatch from Hamburg one ship every three months for Lyttelton and Dunedin, and one every three months for Wellington and Auckland. In connection with the New Zealand Rifle' Association meeting, " Bull's Eye" tip* Hale and W. Ballinger (Guards), Kuchen and McKenzie (Artillery), and Harris (N avals), for the Rifle and Cart bine twenties. McCenzie is said to be the steadiest shot in Wellington, and Cato (City Rifles), Gray and McCredie (Artillery), and Taylor (ffavals), are " spotted" as prize winners. On Sunday last a horrible accident occurred to a horse, the property of Mr Shere, running in Mr Wickham's paddock. Young Trevena was endeavouring to catch another horse, when Mr Shore's animal began to race for its own amusement. In leaping a log, a projecting branch caught it between the forelegs, and ripped it open so that the bowels protruded and dragged on the ground. When it moved away its own hind feet completed the disembowelling and the unfortunate boast fell dead. A scandal connected with the Wellington Asylum has just came to light. An attendant named Miss Cameron was placed in charge of a female lunatic who bad attempted suicide. During the time Miss Cameron was on the watch the patient caught her by the throat and attempted to strangle her. The assault gave her such a shock that she entered the hospital on December 11th and died on February 26th. She was only nineteen years of age. An entertainment will be givon in the Public Hall during the current month by a number of our local amateurs, which promises to tar surpass in excellence anything of th# kind before attempted in Feilding. We are informed by the Secretary that the first part will consist of several new songs specially adopted for the occasion, after the style of the Christy M inntrels. with tambourine and bones an usual. During the second part there will bf topicil songs and dances. The Show will conclude with a laughable nigger farce, in which nearly the whole troupe will be engaged. The proceeds of the entertainment will be divo <>d to the angmentation of St. John's Unurch Baznnr Puml. and therefore wil b librrally patronised.

Mr G. G. FitzGerald is now editor of the Titnaru Herald. F. E. Jackson will held an auction sale in Wanganui to-morrow. According to the Auckland Bell, astronomers have decided that the man in the : moon is a Scotchman. | Mr Towler has been very successfal m his orchard this season. Some of his apples turn the scale at 8 ounces, and are ia splendid condition. He expects to , have a heavy crop of grapes. I A presentation was made at the Auckland railway station on February 23rd to Mr L. F, Wbitcombe, irho has been for a long time connected with the Railway Department He has been promoted to a position at Napier, and is visiting Auckland at present for the purpose of removing his family. Mr Whitcombe was for some years on the Wanganui section of railway, and was much respected. The Chronicle of yesterday said :— Mr H. I. Jones left for Wellington to-day, on his Homeward trip. We are glad to notice that, prior to his departure, Mr L. H. Jones has been admitted into partnership in the well-known firm, which will in future be known as that of "H. I. Jones and Son." Mr S. -H. Drew, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, received the following satisfactory letter yesterday from Mr J. P. Maxwell, General Manager of Railways : — " I have the honour to inform you that the request of your Chamber, that single rates should be charged on grain brought by rail to Wanganui, to suit the export trade, has been brought under the notice of the Minister for Public Works, and he has given directions that this should be done, and an amended regulation will accordingly be gazetted in a few days." The pyrotechnic display at the Heads last night attracted a large crowd of people, the number who travelled being variously estimated at from 1200 to 1400. The fireworks, which were on an unusually brilliant scale, excited the admiration and evoked the repeated applause of the onlookers. Altogether the exhibition was very much enjoyed, and we understand it is probable that Mr Newman will be prevailed upon to repeat it. — Wanganui Chronicle. Mr F. de J. Clere, of !th» firm of Atkins and Clere, architects, Wanganui. is now in charge of the Wellington branch of the firm, with offices in the Star Chambers. Mr Clere was a pnpil of Mr E. E. Scott, a well-known church architect in England. He is a member of the Architectural Association of London, Associate of the Royal Institute, of British Architects, and member of the Society of Arts, London. Mr Clere is the Wellington Diocosan architect, and his firm are architects to the Waoganui Education Board. We wish Mr Clere every success in his pro* fession. The Editor of the Woodville Examiner is another recent convert or " pervert." Time and again he has sounded the praises of Mr Macarthur, and complimented him on his energy and ability, but the other day he pmblisned a malevolent attack on our member. The secret is that our Woodrille contemporary is a Ministerial organ, and a dissolution is imminent. The Examiner hints that Mr Macarthur is to be Minister of Public Works if Major Atkinson gets into power. If such aa event happened we could almost incline to wish the Major i luck and forgive him his past trespasses. Reads and bridges would then come in for a fair share *f attention. — Manawatu Times.