Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 129, 10 April 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

An adjourned meeting of the Manchester Highway Board was held to-day.

Sir William Fox will stand for a Nelson constituency at the next general election.

The German squadron will visit Wellington before leaving the colony.

Mr Charles Bull will leave for Sydney en route for England oh Wednesday next.

In five years the Kiwitea district will be running 50,000 sheep.

There will be no mass m St. Bridget's to-morrow, but it will be held there on Sunday the 18th inst. at 8 o'clock a.m.

A special Harvest Thanksgiving service will be held in the Church of England to-morrow evening.

It is currently stated that General Sir Charles Mitchell will probably succeed Sir George Des Voeux as Governor of Fiji.

A meeting of the Vestry of St. John's Church will be held at Mr Bray's office on Monday next at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

At Opawa, m Canterbury, a quantity of young perch and trout have been successfully reared this season. The establishment now contains six varieties of trout.

There are 1085 officers and men on board the German squadron now m New Zealand waters. They were included in the Auckland census returns.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Manawatu Permanent Building Society will be held in Palmerston on Monday, the 19th inst.

The Auckland Weekly News, of the 3rd mst., was the largest weekly newspaper over printed in the colony. It consisted of 48 pages of 5 columns each, or 240 columns in all.

An Agricultural and Pastoral Association has been established in Palmerston. This will be good news to our local gardeners as they will be able to sweep off most of the prizes for fruit and vegetables.

Matthew Burnett's temperanoe mission at Hokitika is meeting with most pronounced success, 626 persons having already joined. He is now lecturing in the country districts.

Mr Boal who went Home about twelve months ago, will return in the Ruapehu which is expected to arrive about the 30th instant. We understand that Mr Boal is accompanied by several friends who intend settling in the colony.

The Hon. J. L. Tole, Minister of Justice, has received an anonymous le!ter, enclosing the sum of £14, which the suud< r says, is m restitution of money of which he has defrauded the revenue. " The letter bears the Wellington postmark" is boastfully added by the Post.

The Wellington Harbour Board have resolved to grant the use of the steamer Koputai to take part with the Hinemoa and Helen Bal lance in an attack on Oamaru at Easter, on the condition that the extra expense for coal and labour are paid far.

A letter has been received by the secretary of the Auckland Rugby Union from the Southern Rugby Union of Sydney proposing to send a New South Wales football team to New Zealand in August next, and asking what terms would be made for their visit.

The annual death rate of the colony is 12J per ! 000 living, as against 21£ per 1000 in the United Kingdom. The birth rate is higher than that of any other colony. The population of New Zealand in 1881 was 489,933, not including aboriginals.

It will be remembered that some time ago ahorse was killed by a thrashing machine falling over on it. On Thursday another horse was injured by the same machine, at Mr Munro's on the Awahuri road. The animal g«-t its leg broken by the machine overbalancing, and falling on its side.

Flanuor says — " Mr A Higgie informs me that the weight telegraphed for Specnlation in the Feilding Handicap is wrong, and that it should be Bst 121 b, and not Bst 81b." The telegram sent by the Press Association agents in Feilding, said Bst 121bs, and ha? appeared in several papers correctly.

We were glad to learn that Mr Andrew Thomson returned on Thursday night to take up his duties of Clerk to the Court, while we welcome the official, whose absence has been much felt by business people, we aro also glad to have the leader of the football team in Feilding.

Dr Thomson in 1859 calculated that the natives amounted to 56,049. In 1878 a census was made which showed that the numbers were 43,597. By a census taken in 1881 the numbers were given as 44,099, an increase of 502 over the previous census. The census for 1886 is expected to show no increase in the numbers.

Another member of the Salvation Army has died in hospital at Paris, from the effects of injuries received from the hands of some bad characters of La Villetta. He was a Frenchman, named Neol, 47 years old, and the father of a family. Having been some time out of work, he undertook to distribute tracts and pamphlets, and to sell papers in the street for the Salvation Army. He was severely beaten while engaged in the performance of his allotted task, and had to be taken to Larlboisore Hospital, where he has since succumbed to his injuries.

It is with, regret we (Auckland Herald) have to record the fact that Captain McGee, of the steamship Waihora, has been compolled to resign his position m the Union Company's service. It is a strict rule now that no commander can be retained in the service of the company whoso veßsel meets with an accident when under Ins charge. Such a rule is particularly hard in the caso of the accident to the Waihora, but we believe the company have found it necessary to adhere strictly to their new departure. The public will certainly sympathise very deeply with Captain McGree.

The Borough Council invites tenders for the erection of a road bridge over the Makino stream in Beattie street.

The Hon. Mr Stout was a passenger by train last night en route for Taranaki. He had neither a special train, nor an ''engaged" carriage.

In the entries for the Wanganui Derby, 1888, there are 33 of them by 20 sires, One sire has 6, one 3, 6 sires have two each, and 12 oue each.

Tenders are invited by the Engineer of tne Kiwitea Eoad Board for forming and metalling a portion of the continuation of the Cheltenham cross road, and for clearing and stumping Haynes' line.

We regret to hear that Mr John Baker, of Kimbolton road, died this morning. He had been ill for some time and his demise was not unexpected. The deceased gentleman was highly respected and leaves a grown up family to mourn his loss.

The stock report of Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill is of a more encouraging character than that which was forwarded by the special reporter of a Wellington paper. It appears the quotations then given referred only to lots disposed of in the early part of the sale.

A farm journal says that by giving cows water at a temperature of sixty degrees a yield of milk one-third greater is obtained. But milk-men know a trick worth tiro of that. By putting the water into the cans instead of giving it to the cows a yield of three-fourths creator is obtained.

We leara that the work in connection with the quinquennial investigation of the Govern ..eat Insurance Association has been completed and all the data and returns despatched by the Aorangi for rigid examination bj three eminent London actuaries. The results are under* stood to be highly satisfactory, owing, we should say. to the exceedingly low death-rate of this colony. Policy-holders will not know what their bonuses amount to until about October. An advertise* ment from the Association will (appear next issue.

We gather from Jones and Son's circular that the author of "Booties* Baby." "Houp-la!" and other popular military novels, published lately, surprised the Knglish publishers of th« books not long age very much as Charles Egbert Craddock (Miss Murfree) did Mr AJdrick, the editor of The Atlantic. J. S. Winter, it turns out, is a woman. Her stories present a most spirited picture of life in the barracks and Hervice, not only in England, but in the Colonies ; certainly the Bex of the author would n t b« suipected from any of her books.

The principle of the suffrage < being granted to women was affirmed in the House of Commons without a division. The second reading of the Bill to allow women who are ratepayers to exercise the Parliamentary as well as the municipal franchise was earned on the voices. As the House of Lords has also affirmed the principle, it may be assumed the BUI will become law this session. The Post says this concession may be made in this celony because it is well known that that the Premier, Colonial Treasurer, and other members of the Ministry are in favour of conceding the privilege, and we trust, therefore, that the Government will bring in a short Bill next session to effect the necessary alteration in the electoral law.

A clergyman who, while preaching a sermon on a recent Suaday evening, perceived a young man and his sweetheart in the act of kissing each other behind a prayer-book, did not lose his temper. No. he remained calm. He beamed mildly at the offenders over his spectacles and when the young man kissed her the fifteenth time, he merely broke his sermon short off in the middle of " thirdly" and cjffered a fervent prayer on behalf of the '• young man in the pink nectia and the maiden in the pink shawl, who were profaning the xanctuary by kissing one another in pew 78." And the congre» ghtion said " Amen." Then the damsel pulled down her veil, and the young mfin does not go to church now as much as he did.

A carping old woman once said te her parson, ' Denr me, minister* mak' mackle acUo a boat their hard work ; but what's tw > bits o' sermons in the week to mak' up? I could Ho it myself.' ' Weel, J*net, ' said the minister, gooi-humoredly, ' let's hear you try.' ' Come awa wi* a text,' then,' quoth she. He repeated with emphasis: 'It is better to dwell in the corner of tfier'iiouse-top than with a brawling wbinai find in a wide house.' Jan.'t fired up instafetly. ' What's that ye say, sir? Do you intend anything personal P' 'Stop, ttopl' broke in the pastor, " you will never do for a minister.' ( And what for no P ' said she. * Be> cnu*#, Janet, you come ower soon to the application.'

Tho following nnroei were drawn by the Sheriff in Wnngnnui on Thursday for the District Conrt at Palmeriton on the 28th: — W.Brck, J. Lawrence, "W. A matt, W. Knox, T. Oliver, J. Fanner, H. Stewart, R. Leary, J. M»<ffcitt, F. Parker, F. B. Fowler, T. T. Kerslake, T. Edward*. H. W. Haybittle, E. Partridge, T. Gordon, J. Dodge, D. VI. Hanna. W. McDowell. W H. K. Flyger, J. Foi» ell, 11. Freeman. W. Bently. J. Mulbnck. D. O'Neill, J. Ayres, A. Russell, T. W. X, Foster, D. Humphries, C. Fair, J. Corkery, W. Marsh. S, Daw.T. Evans, W. MoPonald. J. Walkely, L. G. West, G. Worsfold, E. Thacker. J. Noble, T. MeEwen, E. Fraser, T. Eogers, and J. Fenton. ;