Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 123, 27 March 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Major Atkinson will speak in Auckland on Tuesday next.

The Palmerston Dramatic Society will give an entertainment here on Easter Monday.

Wo observe that Mr Adsett is getting large quantities of sawn timber in his yard near the railway station.

The whistle at Messrs P. & J. Bartholomew's mill is now the time regulator for Feilding.

Our readers are reminded that they must fill m and siga their census papers to-morrow night.

The Munga Munga Minstrels are in actice practive, and their last rehearsal was very satisfactory.

Stevens and Gorton's Cheltenham stock sale will be hold on Tuesday next. Several additions are made to the catalogue to-day.

Nominations for the Feilding races will be received on Monday night by the Secretary, Mr Franklin.

Tenders for 130 chains of log fencing at Jones and Haythorne's close at seven o'clock this evening at the post office.

Confirmation service will be held tomorrow morning in St. John's Church, by the Bishop of Wellington. There are twenty-four candidates to be admitted.

The reserved seats for " Trial by Jury" are being rapidly booked at the post office where the plan of the hall may be seen and tickets obtained.

On the occasion of her farewell lecture in Dunedin, Miss Edith O'Gorman was presented with a silver salver in commemoration of her triumphant victory over Mr Fulton.

It is estimated that the combined revenues of the hotels and churches in Feilding make a total of £12,000 per annum. There is no sign of " depression" in that.

The stock sale of Messrs Stevens and Gorton at the Borough yards, Palmerston, will be held on Thursday, the Ist of April next. The catalogue is extensive and appears on our third page to-day.

The Defence Department are engaged drafting a new Volunteer Act for next session. It is not settled whether the Militia regulations will be interfered with.

Yesterday's Chronicle sajrs — Humour hath it that a breach of promise case will occupy the local courts shortly. The lady is said to be a Wanganui resident while the gentleman hails from the little city by the sea at the feot of Mount Egmont.

We have receiyed from the local agent of the New Zealand Insurance Company, a foot rule stamped with the name of the company. It is a very handy one, and useful for all sorts and conditions of people.

The Hon. John Bryce left England yesterday in the Tainui "homeward bound." He will be cordially welcomed on his arrival in the colony, aed he ought certainly to be accorded a public reception.

We learn from the Manawatu Times that another property has recently changed hands in Palmerston. Mr D. Pnngle having disposed of two acres up the Rangitikei line to Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., of Wanganui.

By the last gazette we learn the Government, by an order in council, has prohibited the taking of rock oysters on the Auckland coasts until March 1889. This course was made necessary in order to prevent the utter extermination of these bivalves. The exportation of oysters from the colony is prohibited.

The Postmaster-General has cabled to the Postmasters-General of New South Wales and Queensland asking them if they are willing to join in laying down a cable between Australia and New Zealand with the object of charging rates not exceeding three pence a word. The present rates are — New South Wales, 10 words 7s, each additional word 9d, Queensland, 10 words 8/6, each additional word lOd.

It is rumoured that another general storo is about to be opened in Feilding.

Letter a of naturalisation have been granted to L. J. M. Pascal, Palmerston, und C. Jensen, Trondjem.

An adjourned meeting of the Acclimatisation Society will be held on Tuesday evening.

Tenders for the erection of F. E. Jaokson's stock sale rooms and yards at Johnstonville have been accepted. Messrs Atkins and Clere are the architects.

A meeting of the stewards of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held on Monday evening next at 9 p.m. at Bellvie's hotel, to receive nominations for the Easter races.

Mr Train, of the Cash Exchange, has just received his autumn and winter goods, which he claims are for variety and price unapproachable. Fuller particulars will appear in our next issue.

On Thursday, the of Bth April, Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will sell at their yards, Warwick street, 299 cattle, 3,230 sheep of all kinds and 30 weaner pigs. For details we refer our readers to the catalogue as published to-day.

The Manawatu Times rery truly states that when the Welliiigton-Manawatu Line is open Dr Lemon will really have to improre the telegraphic arrangements, or messages will be s*nt b/ rail in preference to wire. :

Fruit-growers will be interested to learn that the Progress and Industrial Association are prepared to send samples of keeping apples to London, for the purpose of testing their price in Covent Garden market.

Mr Ellis has commenced business as a barber and hairdresser in the shop next to Mr Fowles. We understand Mr Ellis has had experience in the best Auckland establishments, therefore we have no doubt he will be able to create a business in Feilding.

To-day Mr J. J). Wyllie, lately of Kaiapoi, near Christchurch, has opened an office next to Mr Carthew's, where he will carry on the business of an accountant, &c. He will also undertake the keeping of tradesmen's books. A registry for servants will be opened.

We have had the pleasure of perusing a poem entitled " The Birth of New Zealand," by Mr J. Ellery, of Dillman's Town, Kumara. We are delighted with the work, and feel convinced it is the best epio poem yet penned "by a New Zealand poet. The author is a gold miner, and almost a self-educated man.

A fourteen-year old Jersey city girl was passing along the street in that city on January 30, when a big white doe sprang upon her. It did not bite her. but the girl was so frightened that she fell in a faint on the side walk. At her home she was seized with a hysterical fit and was sent to the city hospital, where she expired. She died fr«m fright.

Harry Worman, a bright boy in Poitoria, Ohio, showed so much interest in electrical experiments that he became a privileged character at the electric light works, no other outsider bring permitted near the dynamos. One day he wanted to receive a " good shock," and so got a pail of water, and, touching the positive pole of the dynamo with a rod in one hand, put the other hnnd in the water and fell back dead.

Judgement in the case m which Mr Edward Shaw was called npon to show cause why he should n^t be struck of the rolls, will not be given for a day or two at least, It is understood that Mr Justice Richmond has deferred his decision, which was expected to be made known at the sitting of the Banco Conrt this morning, in order that he may have an opportunity of consulting] with the Chief Justice. — Post.

Our Canterbury, Kelson, and Wont Coast neighbours are to be sincerely o ngratnlatedon the cable news Mnuouuciug the formation of a t-nbuantial English Syndicate to carry out the Kast and West Coast Railway. If the syndicate will undertake the work on the terms already authorised by Parliament, or without requiring any direct monetary guarantee, we shall be most glad. Even if further concessions in land are demanded, we should be content to see them made, as we have from the first stated. Our sole objection to the scheme haa been to its involving the colony in a guarantee of interest. — Post

Referring to Australia, a recent number of the Saturday Reriew Maid : —It is odd how we seem instinctively to turn to Australia when oppressed by gloomy thoughts of the common weal. "And thus, great daughter of the South, we drink to thee across the Flood" — slightly to alter Lord Tennyson's remarks on that older, but much less sympathetic, child, America. The reason is that the Australians, thank Hraven, are still human beings, and believe in being human beings, that they have the hearts of patriots, that they are not for rampant philantrophy, imp rauible peace at unendur able prices, and general anarchy with attenuating circumstances, and tempered by the best of motives. That is why everyone in Britain who remains a man of the old sort looks with confidence to the great colony ; that is why eyery Radical visionary sneers at her and backs Lord Derby in yezing her. In one shape or other, one day or other, Australia may yet save the Empire, or he the refuge of all in it that is worth savin*.