Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 144, 15 May 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ A special service will be held iv the Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow. The Gospel will be preached m the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening at seven o'clock. The Manchester Rifles will parade this evening, opposite the Court House, at seven o'clock. The title of the Rangitikei Mounted Rifle Volunteers has been altered to the Rangitikei Cavalry Volunteers. The abundance of food for the winter has had the effect of sending up the price for sheep on this coast. We learn from the Wairarapa Daily that a steam brick-making factory is about to be started at Pahiatua. A number of Romney ewes, in lamb to Romney rams, have been added to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Awahuri sale on Tuesday next. For the first time during many meetings, the subject of the appointment ef the Poundkeeper was not discussed at the Borough Council on Thursday night. Mr Ellis, the sporting barber, left Feilding shortly after his defeat by Bob Belfit. He omitted to call at the Star office before he went. We regretted to notice that the Mayor, Mr F. T. Lethbridge, was unable to attend the last meeting of the council from illness. On Saturday next Messrs Halcoml c and: Shorwill viU hoY, in Giey street, one of the most interesting public auctions ever held in Feilding. Dr Spears, the distinguished specialist, is at present in Wellington. He will visit this district very shortly. Our readers are requested to note the address at foot of advertisement. We understand that the Charing Cross Mihßtrels will give an entertainment at -Halcombe for the benefit • f Mrs Lash, 1 1 a short time. Particulars in future advertisement. Mr C. Smith of the Te Aro drapery, Fergusson street, will close his establishment on the night of Saturday the 29th instant. New advertisement on Tuesday. Cheap Railway Fares to Wanganui on* the Queen's Birthday should induce many to visit that town for the purpose of being photographed at Mr Martin's. This should prove & fine chance to take the children in to be photographed. — Advt. The great attraction on the Qll c >'* birthday, in this part of the di- rict, wil be the Caledonian Society's games at Palmerston. The train arrangement* i will enable visitors to be on the ground I at the opening, and to return home hefore I dark.

Bishop Redwood is likely soon tole advanced to the dignity of Arohbiahop of New Zealand. There will be mass in St. Bridget's Church, Feilding, to-morrow (Sunday) the 16th inst., at 8 a.m. We have to ackno vledge receipt of the American Mail and Export Journal dated February 1886. We have been requested to state that I Messrs Williamson and Burrell'a contract for bush felling has been/let. Mr Thomas McKenzie, of Wellington, was in Feilding to-day with Mr McNeil, of Palmerston. The annual election of borough auditors will take place on the lot Juno next. The nomination must be fceut in by the 24th instant. We have pleasure in thanking our local telegraph officers for the rapidity with which the Governor's speech Was supplied to the Star on Thursday. Mr Carthew will epen his English case ex Tainui on Monday next. Our readers are referred to advertisement in another column. The Examiner states that a consignment of Woodville cheese sent to Sydney realised 9£d, giving a net return to the company of 6£d. The Mercantile Gazette for the present month mentions that "it is stated that the number of estates in Canterbury whose proprietors cannot pay the interest on their mortgages is said to be at least 1000, and that the estates will soon have to be brought into the market." The annual report of the Colonial Insurance Company show that after transferring the revenue and profit and loss accuring, there remains a debit balanoe of £2,973 4s 5d to be carried forward. The rdrectors of the Midland railway, in England propose to substitute steel sleepers for wooden ones, by which it is expected they will divert £250.000 now paid to Russia and Norway into English trade channels. The heaviest fog tbat has ever been experienced during the present winter enveloped Lendon on the 9th February, and for several hours the city and West End presented the appearance of having been visited by an eclipse.Sir Julius Yogel is credited with the suggestion that as a means of raising funds for the hospitals and charitable intitutions a percentage should be levied in all moneys passing through the totalisator. The suggestion is an excellent one. The Post gives currency to the follow* ing rather significant paragraph : — " Rumours are current that the plaintiff in a recent divoice case in this oolony is this colony is likely to figure again shortly in the same court, but in a different capacity." As a direct encouragement to local industry Mr S. J. Thompson has determined to commence the manufacture of Clothing, such aB men's moleskin trousers and boy's suits, in connection withhis establishment in Kimbolton road. Tenders are now invited for the work, and we have no doubt the invitation will be eagerly accepted. We hope this will be the nucleus of a flourishing trade. The railroads take about half the products of this conntry, and then the banks come in for a good share of what is left. When both banks and railroads are satisfied, the people are left to quarrel oyer the balance. And the balance is so small that there is a struggle for it among those who produced it. The people had better quit quarrelling over the crumbs, and direct their attention to the fellows who are getting away with the loaves. The American Mail and Export Jours nai says — The increase of industrial enterprises throughout the Uuited States, shows bow capital, which has been held waiting for investment, is being utilised. At the same time it indicates the return of confidence whioh has been withheld. Some notably important ventures in new lines of production and in the develop* ment of resources hitherto untouched have been made. It is stated that the population of the suburbs of Ponsonby (Auckland) has doubled itself since last census. The progress of this thriving suburb in corns parison which its aristocratic sister, Parnell. is attributed to the fact that its development is not blocked by church leasehold property, or its beiag afflicted by so many byways and narrow thorough, fares. The atmospheric influences in Wanganui appear to have had an effect on the editor of the Wanganui Chronicle, when he commenced an article on the Governer's speech yesterday, with the following hysterical sentence : — " .Received with shrieks of laughter! It it was not, it might well have been. We mean the yapid, inane, colourless speech put into the mouth of the Governor by his Excellency's Ministers yesterday." i*oor man ! An Austrian captain nf artillery com • mitted suicide lately under extraordinary circumstances He was condemued by court-martial to several days' confinement in barracks for some trifling offence He listened quite coolly to the sentence, but immediately afterwards, a Vienna correspondent says, fired two shots at himself from a revolver, one taking effect, and fell dead before the assembled members of the court-martial. A shocking disaster is reported to have occurred at Aulnay de Samtong, in the Charante Interieure. A fair -was being held, and upwards of 2,000 oxen were drawn up in a field, when a band of ruffians excited the animals, and they rushed furiously among the crowd. Three persons were killed outright, forty very seriously injured, while 100 more were badly bruised. In the meantime the miscreants who had wrought this mischief decamp id with nearly £800 which they had purloined. Mr James M'Ewan, of the firm of Smith and Sharp, sugar brokers, Glasgow, has left legacies amounting £22,000 to charitable institutions in Glasgow and the west of Scotland. The Roya) Infirmary of Glasgow receives £5000, the Western Infirmary £5000, the Glasgow Perthshire Charitable Society £100, and the Grocers' Company of Glasgow £100. The remaining £10,000 is divided among 36 different institutions, in sums of from £100 to £500. At the Hospital Board meetng last Thursday, Mr West raised the question of payment of members' travelling expenses. Mr Jackson said a circular had been received two meetings back, stating that the Board might pay out of the fund of the district the expenses of locomotion of any of its members in going to or returningfrom a duly summoned meeting. They could also pay expenses incurred by a member in visiting any institution under their control at their request. This, therefore, settles the matter of payment of members' expenses, and no doubt the attendance will be better in future. — Wanganui Herald.

The property of the l»te Mr Richard Goldsboroueli. of Melbourne, has been sworn at £175,000. He has I equaethed legacies of £1000 a year to the Melbourne and Alfred Hospitals, and to the Melbourne Benevolent Institution. Among minor leuacips is an annuity of £100 to Mr J. Pi . keloid, a l.roiher of Mr K. Pickersgill, of this town. It is said t hia t a temporary rupture took place in the Prince of Wales' friendship with Miss Chamberlain a j couple of years since She was seated next to him at a supper at a ball, and said, in the merest fun, "J umbo, you eat too much." That was enough. Only the moment before on terms of that friendly, familiarity with which any mm might be glad lo be with a young and pretty girl, he turned his shoulder to her without reply, and from that time, so far as he was concerned, the famous Miss Chamberlain was incontinently dropped. After that there wasn't anything left but for her father and mother to take her heme from the ball. The girlish, speech was forgiven, however, contrary to most cases, and a day or two later the Prince was once more one of Miss Chamberlain's staunchest friends. And this little, reckless remark will probably take its place in history by the side of Beau Brummel s famous speech at George IV: " How is jour fat friend P " Silver extremists have been brought to a pause. The refusal of- the Committee on Coinage to, favorably report, a bill for the unlimited coinage of silver has been secured by tbe pressure o£ public opinion ; but the committee, at the same time, declines to favor even 'the temporary suspension of silver coinage under the limit now imposed by law. As an indication of how this question is affecting trade, wo may mention the fact that some of our merchants have begun to . base contracts for future delivery on the value of gold. One of the extremists in Congress proposes io make it a criminal offence to sell or contract to sell on a gold basis. We do not believe that such a proposition will ever, go through, but it serves to ihow what lengths people will go. — American Mail. A civil case was heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day in wbich T. K. Merley, chemist, claimed £10 lis 6d from J. Jeffery, for medicine supplied and advice. Mr Skerrett appeared for plaintiff, Mr Barton for defendant. Mr Stratford, R.M. nonsuited the plaintiff without calling upon the defendant for his version. His Worship said that some time ago, when in the South Island, he had ocoasion to adjudicate on a similar case, in which Mr Milner Stephen was the claimant. He had allowed Mr Skerrett to proceed with his argument as he had thought it possible that some amendment of the law might have taken place since then; but he was still -satisfied that a chemist, unless duly registered as a medical practitioner, was not entitled to re* cover for advice given to customers. — Po»t. A young mm named William Henry Lovel! attempted to commit suicide at. Bristol in a singular mannerl He fp.a in love with a young girl, whose parents disapproved et him a* a suitor for their daughter, aud forbade him the house; Lovell suspended himself to the knocker of the door by his pockethandkerchief, but the noise brought the girl's father upon the scene, and he cut the handkerchief, relea»ed the young man from his perilous situation, and handed him over to the police, by whom he was taken to the in firm irv, aud there detained as an in-patieir.