Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 140, 6 May 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The Government Inspection of the Manchester Rifles will be held on Thursday, the 20th instant. The New Zealand Parliament will meet for the despatch (?) of business on' Wednesday, the 13th instant. Separate tenders are invited by- Mr Hill, C.E., for five chains of close boarded fencing, and for trenching about a quarter of an acre of ground. A meeting of the provisional di.ict >:•» of the Folding Building Society w. 1 be held at the Town Clerk's office on Satui> day evening next, at 8 p.m . On March 31 the Victorian population reached 1,001,756, being the first Aus trahan colony to exceed one million. With a littlo more "leaping and bounding" New Zealand will be a good sec md. Mr Webster, of the Bank of Austra'a sia, has gone on leave of absence for a fortnight. His place is temporarily filled by Mr Knowles, whe was here in a similar position some months ago. The Library Committee of the Peildmg Public Library yesterday seat for a supply of new books. They may be expected to arrive in the colony in about four months. Mr Tram advertises to day a cash price list, to which especial attention le directed He also makes some very important notifications in our Wanted column, of deep interest to heads of families. We have to thank Mr James Bell, of Palmerston, for a copy of his pamphlet, entitled "A farmer's view? of Land Nationalisation and the working of the New Zealand Land Act." We will refer to it at more length on a future occasion. Our readers are reminded of the concert in the Hall to-morrow night, and "Trial by Jury," the most charming comic operetta that ha» yet appeared on the Feildine stage. Reserved seats can be taken at the Post office. Evening classes will be opened at the Mangaone school on Monday next. We hope they frill be eagerly taken advantage of and would like to see similar classes commenced in Feilding. The necessity for them is only too apparent. At the next meeting of the Palmerston Borough Council, Or. J. Grace will move that in future the Council shall pay the railway fare of its Representative on the Hospital and Charitable A.id Board whoa going to and from the meetings. Lord Tennyson has written an Inaugural Ode, to be delivered at the opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. If this news had come out sooner there would not have been such a rush for Commissionorships. But these_ poets are always very inconsiderate. , : Mr Roche, station master here, will leave for Auckland in a few days on a trip for the benefit of his health. We hope the change will do him good, and that he will return to Feilding quite restored in health. His post will be I temporarily occupied by Mr Duffy, who will relieve him. i The prize money to be given away at the Palmerston Caledonian Sports onMay 24 amounts to over £45 -<nd special prizes are expected to add another £15 ■ Handicaps for only two events will be declared before the sports day, the other handicaps being made on the ground. — Manairatu Times. Wellington papers record the death of an old settler, Mr Samuel Gaskin, of Makara. Mr Gaskin, who had attained the ripe age of 77, arrived in the Colony in June, 1841, by the ship Catherine Stuart F«rbes. The deceased gentleman had a large family, and leaves some eighty or ninety grandchildren and great-*»raud-childivn besides numerous other relatives. In connection with the assignment of East and West Coast Railway contract, Sir J ulius Yogel telegraphed to the Mayor of Christchurch suggesting the holding of an open air banquet to celebrate the event, bo a meeting -will be held early next week to arrange for such a demonstration. We will heartily approve of this provided the wives and families. of the unemployed are invited to partake. They are the people most to be considered just now in the cities of the plains.

Eehearsal for " Trial by Jury" to-night iv the Hall at 7 o'clock sharp. The death is announced of Mr John Purcell, a very old resident in Foxton. A new and interesting notice appears on our third page to-day from Mr S. J. Thompson, Kimbolton road. We have to acknowledge receipt of a pamphlet entitled "Old Carston's Temper," by W. E. H., of Wellington. A meeting of creditors in the estate of B. B. Fearon will be held in the Court Houseifo-morrbw at 2 p.m. The programme of the Palmerston Caledonian gports will be published on Saturday. The privileges will be sold on the 15'tK instaiit. We are glad to leara that Mr T. W. K. Foster, who has been lerioasly ill for sometime, has now taken a favorable j change. ; ' ! There will be a football match played on the Oral on Saturday between the Marten and Feilding boys. The ball iwill be kicked off at 2.30 p.ni. -.* We hare to acknowledge receipt from : the local agent, Mr E. Goodbehere, of the thirty-serenth report of the Australian Mutual Prorident Society. At a meeting of the -vestry of St. John's Church, held yesterday, it was resolved to hold a bezant on the 19th, 20th, and 21st instants, in aid of the funds of the Church. Owing to pressure of otlnr matter, w e have been compelled to again hold ove Messrs H. I. Jones and Son's new adrer tisement. It will appear on Saturday without fail. > N ice young man (lecturing to Sunday* school) — iiow, is there any little boy or little girl who would like to ask any questions? Well, little, boy, I see your hand : you needn't snap your fingers. What question would you like to ask P Small boy— Howmuohlongeriithisjawin' goiu' to last P A somewhat remarkable case is reported in the Bath (England) Herald. Three lads were summoned for talking and laughing during service in a church. They were fined £1 and costs, or in default one month's hard labor. One of them, who could not pay, was actually sent to prison. One of the Supreme Court judges of Victoria thus lays down the law of libel: — You may republish whatever is said in Parliament, however defamatory it may be, without risk, but if you venture to comment upon any statement made in the same place, however true it may seem, without ascertaining that it is absolutely true, you bring yourself within the law of libel. j Says the local paper— A man known as " Tom the Cook," in Bourke, is reported to have come into the possession of the title and estate of the Earl of Eglinton. He has been Supplied with taoney and has gone to Melbourne to see solicitors, who are sure that he is the right man. He is married, and has been cooking for' shearers on Boomery. station,- ■ As a matter of importance, at the weekly sitting of the French Academy of Sciences, M . Pasteur stated that out of 325 cases of inoculation fur hydrophobia only one had failed, namely that of the youth Pelletier, who came too iont; after being bitten, and' under very unfavorable condition*. He ad located the establish ment ot an hospital to which patients could come from all parts of the world. A son of an Irish nobleman, who spent some years of his life in this colony, was, in turns, a private in the lolonial Defence Force, a billiard marker, wood and ' Water Joey on a sheep station, a lawyer's clerk, a cab driver, and lastly, cook on board a small coaster sailing out of Auckland. He said he liked the last billet the best because it was " just the next thing to yachting. " He is now comfortably settled in the Uld Country. A btik mtnager waited on an elderly gentl'-niau recently, and informed bun that he had overdrawn his account to the tune of a hundred pounds. " Well, I know that," replied ■ the veteran, "so what's the necessity of boring. me. about it? Why not treat me as I dpJybfiPr I don't go to you wiivn I have that amount in your institution and shout, 'Mr Manager,, you held a .hundred pounds of mine !' Such statements are superfluous either way. Good morning." We (Post) learn from Dr Hector that the comet is evidently that known as Pabry's, one ef the two which Have been visible in the Northern Hemisphere for some time past. It will continue to remain visible for long periods each night, as it moves away from the ran, gradually getting more and more indistinct until it will finally disappear altogether. Barnard's comet is expected to be visible in the early morning almost immediately, but will not be in sight for more than three or four days. The question whether printers and their business is a nuisance has lately occupied some considerable time both in the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Courts. In a largo town in the Midland counties, an old-established firm of newspaper printers and publishers were lately sued for heavy damages, for causing, it was alleged, a nuisance to their neighbors by the noise and vibration of their machinery. The trial occupied several days, and in the end the printers came off victorious ; the Judge explaining that the nuisance complained of was of longer standing than the business of the plaintiff who sued them, and had not been added to since their coming to the spot.