Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 121, 23 March 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

A sitting of the R.M. Court will bo held new to-morrow. Mr S. Goodbehere loft for Wellington last night on business connectod with Mr Boots' case. Captain Edwin telegraphs— Warnings for galas after 12 baurs hare been sent to j all stations. ] The Mangu Mangu Minstrels will appear in the Public Hall on April 2nd, when they will give a performance 'in aid of the funds of the Church of England Bazaar. Mr James Haßtie, of the Feilding Hotel, is likely to take the initiative in having a well, either Artesian or Abbyssinian, sunk in the Square. Mr Hastie informs us that he is willing to contribute £25 towards the cost. The Wellington- Manawatu railway it advancing by rapid bound*. On Saturday the first passenger train was run right through toPaikakariki. The tunnel is not completed yet, but temporary rails have been laid between the breaks. The unfortunate patient who was sent in from the Palraeraton district on Friday night, unattended, and without a wire or a letter to announce his arrival, died at the Wanganui Hospital yesterday afternoon. — Chronicle. Irregularity of conduct is a term which has not been exactly defined, but the Education Board are of opinion (says n Taranaki paper) that if a schoolmaster beats the boys all round, and locks two oi the senior girls in a room and kisses them, his behaviour may safely be classed as irregular. This morning Mr Thomas Evans drove in from Mr Saxon's farm with a man named J. B. Eddleston, who was suffering from the oppressive heat enjendered in working at the hop kilns. Mr Eddleston was taken to Dr Johnston, who gave him prompt relief. It will be some days be» fore he is well again as some of the symptoms are unfavorable to a rapid recovery. At this moment, whon Undicals are being accused of proposing to giva every poor laborer a cow at the public expenso it may be worth while (Kays a London paper) to mention the fact that this in exactly what Mr Pitt proposed to do in 1797. One of the clauses in his Poor Law Bill provided that two Justices of the Peace might authorise the advance of money out of the rates to enable an indigent person to purchase a cow or " other animal yielding profit." Ovor this clause Jeremy Bentham poured the vials of his contempt. A gentleman who has lately travelled overland from Wellington, informs the Wanganui Herald that by the Ist of April, the train will be running as far as Paikakariki, the line being connected there with the exception of the tunnel. From the Palmerston Bide the line will be opened to Otaki in June, and to Waikanae a month later. This will reduce the coaching to a very few hours, and render far loss tedious and wearisome than is now the case. It will also have the effect of largely increasing the number of visitors to this coast, who do not care for our local steamers, and even less for Cobb and Co. The Hindoo religion enjoins one te bo kind and merciful to all living creatures To put to death any ercature that his life is an unpardonable sin to a Hindoo, while to protect it is one of the highest virtues. Beasts, birds, reptiles and insects are as. much the object of the Hindoo's kindness as the human kind. Judging from nn instance that occurred on Friday, the newest sect in this country holds entirely different views to the heathen. Our Fielding contemporary notes the fact in the following term* : — " A brake containing thirteen people drawn by one horse, came into Fielding last night ? The unfortunate beast was ably assisted I-y the strains ot a big drum and the f r« c u*e of a heavy whip ! The noble aniuvil pulled through. We believe these Christ ians hailed from Palmerston." — Our contemporary must be careful in referring to these things. The horse was ' evidently a martyr in the cnuseof sprend- J ing salvation through the land.— Man- | watu Daily Times,

The first train this morning for Watiganui took up a large number of timberladen trucks. Mr Bruce lectured at Makino on Saturday night. There was a good attendance. We are glad to learn from the Herald that the child Ford has now quite recovered from it 9 dose of Rough on Rats. We have received from the Government Printer a copy of the new railway tariff which came in force yesterday. We have to acknowledge receipt of T. Kennedy McDonald and Co.'s Landed Property Guide for March. The Licensing Committee will meet at the R.M. Court on Thursday next at noon. We understand that an effort will be made to have the Manchester Rifles formed into a garrison corps. It is not improbable that the Government -will put a penny stamp duty on all tickets passed through totalisators at race meetings. It would pay. To-day Mr Gichard advertises a two» horse chaff cutting machine for sale. It is in excellent order, and we understand the price is very low. The shooiing season in the counties of Manawatu, Oroua, and Horowhenua will open on April Ist, and continue to 31st July. A man named Behrendt was killed in a gravel pit at Hunterville on Thursday last. An inquest was held at Halcombe yesterday, and a verdict of accidental death returned. A Dunedin telegram says that Mr Burke, of the Dublin brewing firm, promises to give a £100 cup to the Jockey Clubs sf the towns ho visits. We hope he will come this way. There was a cheap John in Peilding on Saturday night. His visit was evidently popular because he disposed of an immense amount of stuff and reaped a golden harvest in consequence. As the Jane Douglas will not leave Foxton for Wellington this week, the time-table will be suspended and the Tui leave as follows: — To-night at 10p.m., on Thursday at 11 p.m., and on Saturday at 12, midnight. The Taranaki Budget says it is a pity Sir William Fox does not cut the connection he has mixed with, for sooner or later the party will lead him into trouble, whea he will find it very difficult to extricate himself without being ruined. Lord Byron gives this account of a party with Sheridan : — It was first silent, then talky, then augumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulately, then drunk. "I was never exactly buried alive," said an old clerk, recounting his experience, '■ but I once worked a week in a store that did not advertise. When I came out my head was almost as white as you see it. Solitary confinement did it." — Kincitti Gazette. We understand that Mr Stevens has been asked to give his lecture, " Stray leaves from my scrap book on the Soudan." in aid of the Presbyterian Church at Halcombe, and that he has kindly acceded to the request. The popularity of this lecture is, deservedly, on the increase. On a block of land in Napier of 5000 acres the proprietor runs 25,000 sheep, 200 horses, and 250 cattle. He has 150 acres for root crops, 100 acres under hay, and about 50 acres in hops. This would be hard to beat in any other part of the colony, except, perhaps, our own neighborhood. Suspension of judgement at certain timos should bo sedulously cultivated. When we remember how frequently complex conditions are involved, and how difficult it is to understand and appreciate those conditions and to accord to each its proportionate value, we may well pause and reflect before committing ourselves to judgements which may prove wrong. Truth, noticing " Oceania," says Mr Froude repeats the venerable rubbish abeut the indifference of the Liberals to the colonies. It supposes that Mr Froude forgets that Lord Malmesbnry has revealed to the world that Lord Bcaconsfiold was in the habit of grumbling: at " thote wretched colonies," and evidently regarded them as a " downright nuisance." The Napier Telegraph says it is generally believed, in the bush districts, that Mr Haggen, of Woodville, will stand for the representation of Waipawa at the next elections. The Telegraph does not like Mr Haggen, but is raising up a host of friends for that gentlemen, ana his return would be almost a certainty. The comic operetta " Trial by jury," ! by Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan, is now in course of active reheersal, and will be put on the boards on Friday, the 16th of April. We understand the cast is a powerful one, embracing several distinguished amateurs who have not yet faced a Foilding audience, but who have earned brilliant laurels in other parts of the colony. The Napier local fisherman were lucky enough to capture a turtle on Friday morning. It was not a very big one, but as a passing stranger it was quickly taken in, and attracted a good deal of attention. Turtles very rarely visit these waters, but, perhaps, the heat of the summer induced a more southerly migration than usual. — Telegraph. The Banks in Wanganui have been so pestered with orders drawn on demand for small sums, and so evidently made debt collectors for small trade accounts, that yesterday they gave notice that a charge of 2s 6d would be made on each order so drawn. Some of the customers were hot very well pleased, but thiß order on demand nuisance was growing out of all bounds, and had to be restricted by imposing a charge like the one above \ mentioned. — Herald. On Saturday last a meeting was held at Ashurst to consider a proposal to the effect that a Gold and Silver Mining Company at Pohangina be formed. About thirty gentlemen were present. Mr Haultain presided. After some discussion, it was resolved, " That the Prospecting Association be taken over, and formed into a company as above, the shares to be 24,000 at 5s each." It was also decided that an active canvass bo made, and another meeting, to receive report, be held at Ashurst on Saturday next. We take the following from rhe Government organ in Dunedin : — " A corr«»pondent, not ' Our Own,' wires us from Wellington to the effect that a serious brench ha* occurred between the Premier and Treasurer. The former gentleman, our informant states, is determined to set his fnce agivinet the wholoale borrowing system advocated by tl^e latter, and declares that if Sir Julius Yogel persists in what i.s known an his ' vigorous policy' 'he will resign. Mr Stout is now known as the ' One Million Prcm er,' while Sir Julius Voßel is called the 'Ten Million Treasurer,' "

We have to thank Mr Ptrani. the secretary of the Palmerston Musical and Dramatic Society, for a complimentary ticket to the performance to be held on Wednesday, tlie 31st instant. Our old and middle-aged readers will read with a curious sensation of surprise that Jenny Lind is shortly to reappear in London on the concert platform, with a voice of undiminished sweetness. Lord R. Montague, in a letter to a correspondent regarding his withdrawal from the Church of Rome, writes that he wishes to explain that he left the Roman Church on the 19th June, three and a half yeats ago, after giving hig reasons at length in a letter to Cardinal Manning — namely, the unchristian and revolutionary principles promulgated in the pastorals by the Cardinal and Roman Bishops on the British Empire; and openly inculcated by the priests in Ireland nnd elsewhere. To that letter, adds his Lordship, no answer has been forthcoming. — Times. According to the Border Watch a pro« posal is under consideration in Mount Gainbier, and is likely to take shape soon, for erecting some memento to the memory of the late A. L. Gordon--the Australian poet and steeplechase rider. This will commend itself to the poet's many personal friends and admirers in this district, and we have no. doubt an appeal, when made, will be liberally and generally responded to. Gordon "was buried in the Brighton Cemetery, near Melbourne, where a simple monolith marks where his remains repose. Some* thing to mark his connection with Mount Gambier would be a graceful compliment to his memory. It was while residing there that he made his mark as a poet.