Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 131, 15 April 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir Julius Yogel will address a meeting ing in Wellington on the 20th inst.

Thursday afternoon in now recognised as a regular half holiday in Auckland.

A telephone is about to be established between Woodville and Kumeroa. The Borough Council will meet this evening.

Mass will be celebrated in St. Bridget's Church on Sunday next at 8 a.m.

We understand that another boot and shoe warehouse will shortly be opened in Feilding.

The shipment of winter goods, ex Rimutaka, is now being opened up at Mr Thompson's store in Eambolton road.

It is probable that the question of the appointment of an auditor' for the Borough will be brought up at the Council to-night.

In the R.M. Court yesterday an " aboriginal native" said that "he kept a banking account and did his business by giving P.M.'s — meanly probably P.N's.

Mr Hartgill has purchased from Messrs Awdrey Bros, their land iti: the Wanganui Harbor Board Block. Mr F. Awdrsy will leave for England by next direct steamer. He will return during the current year.

11 Trial by Jury" will be performed in the Town Hall to-morrow evening. Today we publish the whole programme, which is an attractive one. We understand that the whole of the reserved seats are already disposed of.

The attention of the Sandon-Carnarvon Road Board is urgently needed by the road, parallel to the railway line, from the boundary of the Borough to the railway bridge. Unless something be done at once the said road will be impassable in the winter. The traffic is now very considerable.

A gentleman who has just returned from an extended tour of the North Island says that the more he sees of other parts of the colony the stronger is his belief in the superiority of this district over them all. He says we have better land, better climate, and more prosperous settlers. We are glad to hear it.

With reference to the much needed work of clearing the Awahuri road, we understand that if the settlers interested addressed a petition to Mnnawatu County Council on the subject, they will receive every consideration from that body, and it is probable the work would be undertaken and completed before the winter sets in. There is no time to be lost however, and the necessary document should be prepared at once.

The friends of F. J Jones could hardly believe their eyes when they saw him in the Avenue yesterday, bi'ing under the impression that he and Mrs Jones were passengers by the ; c inau, en route for Ki. gland. It appenr*. however, that the terrible shock of theTniaroa disaster unnerved Mr* Jones, and she made up her mind to relinquish the pleasure of her intended trip-— Chronicle,

Our Poxton coi temporary speaks of " poor Palmerston" — verily " pity swells the tide of love."

There are .3oo words in some of Arch* deacon Farrar's sentences. Jnd^e Johnsou's are longer but the words nre fewer.

The item of " six fat cows " arrived too late to appear to-day in the advertisement of the sale of Messrs Stevons & Gorton, to be held at Awahuri next Tuesday.

The Woodville Examiner says Mr Thomas Tanner intends to contest the Waipawa seat at the next election. Mr Tanner may stand, but he went be returned.

The article we publish to-day, as an advertisement, anent the Government Life Insurance Association, exposing the misleading comparisons made by certain rival companies and laying bare the fallacies which have been enunciated as facts by unscrupulous persons on behalf of the latter. This article will set at rest many doubts and fears which have been raised in the minds of insurers with the Government Association.

The spot where the wreck of the Taia« roa took place is situated about half-way east between Kaikoura and Cape Camp* bell on the east coast of the Provincial District of Marl borough. The mouth of the Clarence river, known as Waian-roa, or Big river, is immediately south of Waipapa point, which is distant about 3L miles from Cape Campbell, and is thus described in the New Zealand Pilot : —

" The break in the Kaikoura Looker-on ranties, formed by the valley of this river, has the appearance of a hsirb«r from a distant offing — nearly three miles aoutb of the Big river is a boat harbour and fishery. Waipapa point is described as " low and projecting," and the coast thence for 22 miles north consists of sand and shingle beaches. The Kaikoura Peninsula is 20 miles south of Waipapa point.

A new Act has been passed in Denmark whereby the makers and sellers of all " artificial butters" are compelled to keep them in vessels of a particular shape; and the police are authorised to examine all shops and depots, to prosecute offenders, who are liable to heavy fines, and in bad cases to as much as six years' imprUonment with hard labor.

On Saturday last Mr C. L. Anderson, the wellknowu storekeeper of Sandon, returned from a trip to Sydney, Mr A.n» derson left the district in company with Mr A. Tompkins, of Halcombe, a little more than three weeks ago, and with a view to test for themselves the market for butter in that town took a con« signment with them. Their ; experience, however, of the butter trade in that colony was a most unsatisfactory one, as they utterly failed in disposing of a single keg and had to leare the lot behind to be disposed of by agents. — Manawatu Herald.

The Justices of the Peace in the Manawatu district have exercised their duty of revising the jury list in a very practical but decidedly novel direction by striking all their own names off (he list of those liable to jury service. We nee I hardly say that the Commission of the Peace does not carry with it auy such exemption or privilege. The attention of the Mini»tt«r of Justice should be directed to this utterly illegal emaseula* tion of the jury list. — Post.