Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 133, 20 April 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The demand for New Zealand timber is said to be increasing in England. It will be worth while to be on the railway platform on next Thursday morning. The volunteers from Napier and Palmerston will be in the train. The three crack English three-year-olds — Minting, Ormond, and Saraband — will have Archer, Cannon, and Wood for their pilots m the Two Thousand Guineas. Those members of the Manchester Bifles who intend to go to the Easter Encampment at Wanganui, will parade opposite tho Town Hall .to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, v l ' A public tea will be held in the Wesleyan Church on Thursday afternoon next at half past five. During the evening musical selections will be rendered by the choir. The Horald informs us that William Rapley, saddler of Wanganui, filed his petition in bankruptcy on Saturday, last. William Bapley went through a similar experience in Feilding not long ago. To-morrow evening an entertainment will be given in Palmorston to 'provide ! funds to enable a blind man, namod C. Wilson, to be sent to England in hopes that he may recover his eye sight. A call under the Government officers Guarantee Act is made, to make good the sum of £121 13s Bd, the amount of the defalcations of H. D. Wilcox of the Postal and Telegraph Department. A Thames paper has the following: — It is rumoured in Wanganui that before the commencement of the Bryce«Busden libel action Mr Busden transferred all hit property to his wife, and consequently Mr Bryce will have to whißtle for his £5000. . ' The members of the Wellington Waste Lands Board yost*rday morning expressed themselves very strongly on the behaviour of the Government in refusing to provide surreyers to perform absolutely necessary works throughout the country It was stated that repeated applications had been made by the Board to the Government, but without success.

Wood villa has now a fire engine. VV« hope its services may never be needed. < The Euglish mail, v per Coptic, arrived in Feildiag last night. ( Under the Boad Boards Act, 1882, a general election of members will take place in the first w<;ek in May. ' The Coptic has brought a large consign ment of fancy poultry for the Wellington Poultry Association. It is proposed to pay tho members of the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly £300 per annum. More burdens for the people. We direct attention to the now advertisement of Mr J. W. Eade which appears to-day. Special notice is requested to tho Vienna chairs. The secretary of the Feilding Small Farm Association, Mr Edmund Goodbehere, states tnat there are two or threo vacant memberships available. Mr T. B. Chamberlain invites tenders for trenching a quarter of an acre of land. Particulars may be obtained on applying at the Feilding steam flour mill. It is understood that the members of the Feilding Jockey Club, and riders in the various events, will were a mourning budge «ut of respect to the late Mr Vallance who was lost m the Taiarea. As an instance of the cold that prevailed at the time of the Taiaroa disaster, it is worth mentioning that the steward of the vessel, on being washed ashore, had icicles pending from his "whiskers. To-day we publish particulars of the Selling Hack Bace of 10 sov«., which has been added to the Feilding Jockey Club's programme for Monday next. They are interesting and worthy of the attention of our sporting renders. Several Feilding residents who left some months ago to try their fortunes in the Patetero settlement, have returned to their old homes. One bead of a family informed us '• there is more to eat about this part of the country, and it is easier to earn it." ! Tenders are invited by Messrs Atkins and Clere, architects, for the erection of a dwelling house, granary, and dairy, near Feilding. Plans aud specifications may be seen at the office of Mr Edmund Gpodbehere, to whom tenders must be sent. We are glad to learn that there is every probability the operatic comedietta of Trial by Jury will be repeated. A number of persons who were prevented being present on Friday last by a variety of circumstances -will therefore have anothor opportunity of witnessing the performance. The late Colonel Fred Burnaby prided himself on his desoent from Edward I, and when reminded that that monarch was a tyrant, would say : "No doubt. But I would sooner bo descended from those who dared oppress the people than belong to the people who are cowardly enough to submit to oppression." A boy, while amusing himself, fell into the water, and, as he could not swim, would have been drowned had not a bystander jumped in and rescued him. On reaching dry land he expressed his gratitude to his deliverer, adding: " I'm glad ye got me out. What a licking I wud hae got frae my mither if I had been drowned. The great cheap sale of winter drapery and clothing, (conducted by Mr C. Smith, the well known draper, of Wellington) is now in full swing in the premises next to Mr Keen, bootmaker. An "inset" is published with to-day's issue, being a price list of the many astonishing bargains Mr Smith is now offering the settlers of Feilding and surrounding districts. The funeral of the late Mr Edelsten took place on Sunday last, and was very largely attended. There were present about 30 members of tho Foresters, and upwards of 250 of the residents in the borough and country districts. The Bev. Mr Murray officiated at the gravo, where the impressive funeral service of the Foresters was also read by the Chief Banger, brother G-. W. Fowles. On the road leading from the Oroua river to Bunnythorpe, the crossing of the tramway into the mill at Aorangi is inconvenient is not positively dangerous. All that is required to make it perfectly safe if a few boards placed to raise the track higher than the metals, so that the the wheels of vehicles may pass over without actually coming in contract with them. We request the attention of the Manawatu Boad Board to this matter. A few days ago a son of Mr Phynn, of Beaconsfield, was, with the permission of his brothers the riders, running between two horses, holding on to their manes. He tripped, and his hold slipping, he fell to the ground. He was seriously injured by being trampled under the hoofs of the animals, his right shoulder was badly bruised, and a severe lacerated wound mflictod on the lower jaw, the bone of which was slightly fractured. He was brought to town on Saturday for surgical attendance, and is now doing well. Tho subject of multiplicity of local bodies which was discussed in our leading columns last evening was also alluded to at the meeting of the trustees oi the Benevolent Institution. Mr Fisher expressed the hope that in any amendment of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, the number of Boards would be reduced. One well-selected Board for Wellington City w«uld be quite sufficient and at the most there should not be more than two — one to. manage the hospital and the other to administer charitable aid.— Post. \ *• '"Puff" on the liquor question — Vernon Harcourt's Budget rather startling ! Deficiency of a million in the liquor duties ! What does that Bignify ? Hard times, partly, but still more a great and beneficial change in the habits of the ! people ! Blue ribbon, eh ? Yes, to a largo extent, and the spread of tomporance generally! Drinking to excess is going out of fashion ! Do you think the habits of the nation are really changing, or is it mere by a temporary movement' P No, it has been coming on steadily for many years ! Gladstone predicted long ago, in one of his famous Budgets, that future Chancellors of the Exchequer would have to look for other sources of revenue to replace the liquor duties ! And now his words have come true ? They are coming truo rapidly ! Some painstaking statistician furnishes an American contemporary with an ac'count of the advantages, or perhaps most would prefer to call them disadvantages, under which the United States citizen exists in regard to taxation of food, from which the following was taken :— He washes himself in the morning with soap taxed 31 per cent. It being Friday and he a man of moderate means, he has a , light broakfast of mackerel taxed 25 per cent., with rice taxed 123 per cent., and some salad on which he uses salt taxed 36 por cent., and sweet oil taxed 34 per cent. ' The sugar he uses in his coffee is taxed 42 i per cent., and lie pays 45 per cent, tax on the 6poon wherewith ho stirs up the sugar in his coffee. A few pickles as a relish ' are taxed 35 per cent., and he adcta to thorn ; vinegar taxed 26 per cent, aud tops off his breakfast with an orange taxed 20 per cent, ,

Tlie official enquiry into the Taiuioa disaster h-is been adjourned until the 3rd j May, for the production of further evidence. Tenders aro invited by Messrs P. Burroll and J. J. Williamson for eighty ■ chains of stab fencing. Tenders to close on May Ist. We learn that Mr Jackson, who recently disposed of his land at Bunny thorpe to Mr Mathcson, has purchased from tho Corporation another section of 300 acres. Mr Matheson is about to put up a large house on his property, and as , the school cannot be obtained for all pur- ' poses required, the residents talk of erecting a public hall. The late Mr Percival Bunting wrote nearly 30 years ago the first volume of the biography of his father, the Bev. Dr Jabez Bunting, one of the leaders of England Methodism. Mr Bunting never completed the work ; but on his death which took place lately, it was ascertained that he had written a portion of the sec* ond volume, and had also collected numerous documents which throw much light upon his father's career. It is expected that a well-known "Wesleyan minister will undertake tlie task of fini ishing the memoir and of publishing it in a complete form.