Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 139, 4 May 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

" Trial by Jury " m the Public Hall on Friday next. Performers an reminded there will be a rehearsal in the Hall thi* evening at 7.30 sharp. The newspaper to be started at Pahiatua will be edited and managed by M; Black, formerly of the Patoa Mail. We wish Mr Black every prosperity anu success. Mr William Blaikie, a well-known ex ponent of athleticum, says that amoa^ girls running is a lost art. He thinks i they ran better more fellows would rut. after them* ftfessr* Fitzherbert and Cox have soh' their land to Mr Buchanan, a new arrival The block consists of 1300 acre*. Th price was satisfactory to both partie* Mr A. Fitzherbert will leave for Sout, America next month. A beautiful comet with a clear and wel* defined nucleus and tail was observed in the western sky on Sunday evening. 1 travelled very fast and was below th« horizon by about seven o'clock. As fai as we can learn this visitor was quite unexpected by astronomers. Messrs Buttler and John Steven acting for Government in the purchak^ of the Waimarino block, go up the Wan v gaum river thin week to secure the vt maindcr of the m'gnatures, 1100 names i* ; all on the grant. The block has 40 mile < froatagfrto the central li««.— Chronicb Anderson, classical teacher, at thGrammar School; Auckland, has levante. to America by the: MgriYosc. He no into debt, and the Bo^rd, of Gover»>r had decided to rtducsliiis salary from £400 to £276. This: appeari to have been "a Hibernian rise." No wonder the: poor, fellow fled. A meeting wiU bjr held in Wellington to-night to ooniraer the propriety of having a demonstration on the artival of the Hon. John Brjrce, to mark the appreciation of his sUfeoeWul efforts to vindicate his character, and that of his fellow, colonists, against the aspersions e#llt*ino(| in Busden's so-called History of New Zealand. On Friday last the excursionists who went to Kapih for a fortnights fishing and Bhooting. returned from their expedition. They hod a splendid time with fino weather all through. On Easter Monday they were noticing the weather in our direction, and commented on the fact that we "had a fine day for the races." This shows how " local" was the rain and mist which "spoiled sport" so much in this neighborhood. Two casks, supposed te contain immigrant surplus stores, and Jabelled in bold letters "carrots," were landed at Brisbane on the lstinst. from the steamer Waronga. Mr Bennett, the laading waiter, felt somewhat suspicious about these carrots, and opened the casks* He then found that they -were packedf full of delicately-fla-vored cigarettes, which he immediately seized.- The day following a case, also bearing the label "carrots," was landed, *nd on being opened by the landing .waiter was found to contain cigarettes instead. This of course was also confiscated. ; The London correspondent of the Manchester Courier writes:— "l under* stand that the police authorities ia Lon« don have had a somewhat alarming warning from Ireland. It i» generally expected that when Mr Parnell'i demands nre repudiated by the House of Commons or the House of Lords, a time of fearful outrage will begin in Ireland. But it neems that there is also a scheme on foot to effect reprisals in England. Outrages are not this time to be by dynamite, the plan being to set fire to buildings ia Tarious parts of L ndon and the leadingprovincial towns simultaneously. By this means the incendiaries, I suppose. hope to paralyse the action of the different fire brigade*."

Captain Edwin telegraphs today: — Warnings fur gales hare been sent to all place*. We have to acknowledge receipt of Messrs Arthur Warburton and Go's Investors Guide, dated May Ist, 1886. Mr F. Berrv was the successful tenderer for the erection of a dwelling house and dairy for VI ajor Liddle, at Awahuri. Messrs Atkins & Clere are the architects. A notice appears to-day from Mr | Lowers anent outstanding accounts due to him, which is worthy of attention from those interested. C. Henry, saddler, announces in another eolumn that he is holding a dearing sale of saddlery, Ac, at prides never ■. heard of before in Feilding. j On Wednesday next at four in the afternoon a meeting of St, John's vestry • will be held at Mr Bray's emce. As the business is of important* a full attendance is requested. We understand that a boxing match, for £5 a side, is shortly- te come off in Feilding, between a local hairdresser and a well-known local ped. Both parties being well-known; great interest will centre in the match. The Makino Library is a most success* ful and economically managed institution. The receipts for last year amounted to £18 9s 4d. and the expenditure iucluding ' £15 5d 4d lor new books, only amounted to £18 16s 7d, or 7s 3d over the income. To avoid the difficulty which was experienced at tho last performance of "Trial by Jury" of getting scats, by several persons who arrived lat*, we would suggest that heads of families and others desirous of securing contiguous chairs, should make application at once to Mr J. H. Stevens at the Post Office, where the box plan may now be seen. * Johnny/ said his father, as the boy took a biscuit from the plate, 'don't you know that it is unpolite to help yourself before yonr elders r" 'Why, pa, mother told me to help myself before you/ ' What do y«u mean P* asked the father ; while the mother looked up with astonishment in every feature. 'Why, I heard mother toll Aunt Hannah that she hoped I wouldn't take after you, and se I thought I'd take my biscuit first.' Doubt has been thrown upon the state meat that a pair of rabbits will, in' a twelve| month, multiply many thousand times. But thin doubt shouhi be re* moved by the statements published in recent reports issued by the chief inspectors of rabbits in Victoria and New South Wales. The Victorian Inspector atates that two rabbits will, under favourable circumstances, in threeyears multiply to 4,000,000. The chief Inspector in New South Wales goes far beyond this calculation, and estimates the increase* from a pair for three years at 13.000,000. The establishment of the fishing in« dustry in the Pelorns Sound has long been talked of (says the Marlborongh. Daily Times of Thursday), but up to the present little has been done in the matter. A correspondent writing from Keneperu nays : — " A fishing company is about to be promoted here through the energy of several well-known residents of Blen« heim. This has long been sadly wanted, as there is no regular supply or variety »f fish to be had, and if the enterprising promoters meet with the success they deserve, not only will the establishment >>f such a company be a great boon from many peints of view, but it will also open •ip a good industry for the Sounds, and help to k«ep out the foreign article."