Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 138, 1 May 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Special attention is directed to Mr J. B. Hamilton's advertisment to-day. Mr Greenwood will be in Feilding on . Friday next and may be consulted at the Denbigh Hotel. There will be full rehearsal of " Trial by Jury" to-night at 7.30 in the Corporation Barracks. Punctuality is requested. Mr Sly advertises that choice potatoes at 50s per ton, on the railway trucks at K»rore, can be had on application to him. To-day we publish the dates of the various annual meetings of Licensing Committees, with the respective places where they will be held in the district. A Sill has been introduced into the Senate of lowa, prohibiting teachers, members of college faculties, State and country superintendents, and members of the State JBoard of Examiners from using alcoholic and narcotic stimulants.

Monthly railway excursion tickets are now available in Auckland. The members 6f the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the church parade to- i morrow evening. I Some one in the Auckland Star adver* ti>es for s "second hand baker." We sup» poso a stale loafer is wanted. | An important land and stook sale will , be held on Monday next by Messrs Stevens and Gorton at their rooms Fergusson street. Mr E. J. Gregory, E.A. London, i 8 engaged on a portrait of the Prince of Wales. The parents of this talented artist are settlers on the Manchester block. Captain Edwin telegraphed as follows at 3 57 p.m. yesterday : — Bad weather approaching between north and west and south. Glass rise after ten hours, and weather much colder. Mr Atkins, of the firm of Atkins and Clere, architects, was in Feilding yesterday on business connected with buildings now in course of erection from their plans and under their superintendence, at Beaconsfield and Awahuri. To-day we publish the catalogue of Halcombe and SherwilTs stock sale on the 13th inst., and of a furniture sale on Saturday next, the Bth inst. For further particulars we refer our readers to the advertisements. We see by anew advertisement in this paper that the Feilding public have been treating Mr C. Smith from Te Aro, Wellington, so well that he has decided to continue his sale a little longer. An •• inset" is published in to-day's issue. Mr G. M. Reed, who has until recently been connected with the Anglo-New Zealander, has returned to New Zealand, and assumed the editorship of the Auckland Evening Bell and Weekly Observer newspapers. The establishment of private ownership of land was the greatest wrone that was done to mankind ; was, in fact, a rascally act of robbery, and the misery we see all around us will never cease so long as such private ownership prevails, — Herbert Spencer. I think that every woman who haf any margin of time or money to spare should abopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking, or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford. — Frances Power Cobbe. What a vast deal of time and ease that man gains who is not troubled with the spirit of impertinent curiosity about others ; who lets bis neighbor's behaviour and thoughts alone ; who confines his inspection to himself, and cares chiefly for his own duty and conscience. We notice that £10 has been received for game licenses at Palmerston North, whilst £49 is the amount paid at the Feilding post office, yet it was only after a great deal of pressure that the author* ities would consent to issue licenses at any other office than PalmerstonMr Beginald Skerman who has been for upwards at three years in the Feilding branch of the Bank of Australasia has been promoted to the Masterton branch. Mr Skerman took his departure this morning and carries with him the good wishes of every one in the district. His successor is Mr Armstrong of Palmerston. By the sweat «f your brow shall you earn your bread. We recognize the jus» tice of this doom. We would not escape it if we could. But in this doom it i» written between the lines that no man's brow shall sweat to earn bread for those who do Dot labor. No man shall be taxed to enrich his brother. — Hon. S. 5. Cox. Another new paper is about to be started. This time Pahiatua is the scene of the enterprise, and the promoter is said to be a resident of Palmerston North. And yet another. A paper will be started either in Marton or Bulls within a very short time. In the last mentioned case the owner of the plant has secured himself against pecuniary loss by taking substantial guarantees from the promoters. An album of various views in Paris has been sent by an old resident here, Mr Gabrel Metard, to W. G. Haybittle of this town. With a letter accompanying the very handsome present, Mr Metard sent many kind wishes to his old friends in Feilding. He is now married, and the happy father of a son and heir. We are glad to learn that Mr Metard' s business in Paris is a flourishing one. With reference to a point raised by Cr. Fester, at the last meeting of the Borough Council, we quote clause 91 of the Municipial Corporations Act which provides " The minute book shall be kept in the office of the Town Clerk, and shall be kept open for inspection without fe^, by any of the councillors or burgesses, or by any creditor of the Corporation." Any qualified ratepayers, therefore, desirous of reading the terms of the engagement of the ranger and pound-keeper can do so for themselves. We notice that the Hon. Major Atkinson has recently been addressing meetings of his constituents in various parts of the Egmont district. His remarks seems to have been chiefly confined to local matters, and he was subjected to a great deal of questioning in regard te local wants, having to promise to do his best to get a variety «f roads, railways, and bridges made, courts established, and other similar " retrenchments'' effected in pursuance of his policy of '* thrift." In all cases he received v»tes of thanks and confidence. — Post. We have received from the author, E. W. Cole, of Melbourne, a circular containing thirty prophecies which, are to come to pass before the year 2000. Amongst them lare the federation of tho world, the universal adoption of the English language, and enfranchisement of women, the limit of priyate fortunes to £50,000, sickness decreased and happiness increased each one half. The prophecies are enclosed in an envelope, on the outside of which is the representation of a rainbow. Also a pamphlet entitled Greater Britian Settlement and Self-supporting Emigration by Mr Henry Ember, M.P. for Eondon. Numerous instances are on record of the large income that may be made by the professional I eggar. Another case is reported by a Paris correspondent. A woman of about seventy-five, who has been in the habit of begging in the streets of the capital for forty years past, turns out, according te a statement in the " 1 >ebats," to possess a fortune estimated at 50),000f. She lived in the suburb of Levallois Perret, whence sho came to Pans every-day to exercise her vocation. Her proprty consists of ih rty hou es, railway shares in different Companies, and obligations of the city of Paris. The discovery was made by one of her habitual benefactors, who is stated to have engaged not to prosecute her on condition that she will henceforth aban* don her profession and give lOOuf to the I poor. t

Yesterday afternoon and evening there was a large attendance of visitors to see the wonderful Strasburg Clock. The descriptive lecture by the proprietor is remarkably interesting as well as instructive. The exhibition will be open this evening at seven o'clock. .. The Sydney Town and Country Journal of 24th April gives the following quotations of the local markets: — On Friday at the Railway sale yards, owing to the recent stormy weather, coasting steamers did not arrive with the usual supply of butter and eggs, consequently the supply by rail was eagerly competed for at ad« vanced rates, this being only temporary. ; as the weather settles the prices will recede. Batter, in roll, from 5d to 2s 8d ; keg butter 9d to 2s s&d per 1b ; cheese 2d to 7d, bacon 5d to 9£d-