Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 147, 22 May 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Tlio Wellington coach missed the train at Fox ton on Thursday afternoon. There will be mass, to« morrow, in St. Bridget's Church at 11 a.m. We haye to acknowledge receipt of the usual complimentary Press tickets for the Bazaar. The Gazette notifies the promotion of Major Maillard Noake to be Lieutenanti olonel in the New Zealand Militia. Upwardi of 1500 signatures have been obtained to the address to be presented to the Hon. Mr Bryee in Wellington. Owing to the inclemency of the weather there was no parado of the Manchester Rifles on Thursday night. A parade has been ordered for Thursday, June 17th. Mr Henry ©f the American Saddlory is off to Kimberley, so he is selling off at enormous sacrifices. See advertisement. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Palmerston i aledoninn Sports which will be held on Monday next, from the courteous secretary, Mr F. Mowlem. Several additions have been made to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale on Thursday next. Among other items wo notice 16 stoers and 100 ewes in lamb to pure bred Lincoln rains. | A novelty to Manawatu has been added to Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale, in the shape of a litter of six weaner pigs bred from a pure bred China boar and a Berkshire sow. These valuable and rare animals aught to command good prices. In drawing attention to the new advertisement of Mr C. Smith who announces he will continue his vale until next Saturday evening, we also recommend our readers to note the meet which is enclosed in our issue to-day. The Tuhua is on a good line just now. She has been engaged by the Government at £10 per day to carry Messrs Butler and Stevens up and down the river, on their land purchase journeys. The company retain the right of carrying other passengers and cargo. — Chronicle. The Wellington correspondent of the Advocate says — The Premier, in moving the second rending of the Manicipial Corporations Bill last night, gracefully alluded to the assistance which he had received from Mr Macarthur in the amendment which he hud suggested The reception which the Hon. John Bryce received at Wanganui was one which must hare proved highly gratifying to him. At the same time it was indicative of the strong element of good feeling which has its existence in the people of Wanganui. They are hot blooded, and quick to quarrel, but as ready to join together as one man when any real necessity arises for them to stand shoulder to shoulder, All private animosities are at once forgotten. In fact, wo do seriously believe that oven the shareholders of the unlucky Tuhua drowned their animosities in the cup which was crushed hi honor of the Hon. J. Bryce. <

The sale of Mr Levers' household i Eurniture and effects was proceeding as ire went to press. The attendance was good and the bidding brisk. The post and telegraph office will ob- i serve a close holiday on M mday. An extra ra«il will clone at ten o'clock tonight for Wellington. j Messrs Hal combe and Sherwill adver ! tise, for Saturday next, a sale of fruit and j ornamental trees and shrubs, from the i nursery of Mr Alexander Laird, Wan- 1 gunui. During a discussion on the homestead system of settlement in the House yesterday, Dr Newman referred to the manner in which settlement in the North Island was starved for want of surveys, and he expressed a belief that if proper surveys were provided, thousands of acres would be settled that were now lying unoccu* pied. — Wellington Paper. A marriage took place on Wednesday at St. Paul's Cathedral between Sir Norman M. A. Campbell, B irt, and Mrs Cottrell. widow of the late Mr George Cottrell. and formerly Miss Iznbella Carandini. The ceremony was performed by the Key. J. Still. Only a few friends wero present. The bride was siren away by Mr W. H. Levin, and the wedding breakfast took place at his house. — Wellington Paper. The Public Works Minister wag asked yesterday by Mr Macarthur whether he is aware that a charge of Is per ton is levied on all goods passing to and from the wharf at Foxton, by mil, over and above the ordinary wharf charges ; and whether, if the Minister on inquiry finds the same to be an exceptional charge, he will cause it to be discontinued ? and whether the Government will advise his Excellency to appoint some resident on the West Coast of this island a member of the Wellington Waste L<nds Board ? Dr Graham is evidently not a believer in the general use of alcohol m medical treatment. Referring to the smnll consumption of liquor in the New Zealand Lunatic Asylums, ho says:— "The authorities of some of our colonial hospitals might well take a hint from these figures, for feeble and helpless lunatics might be supposed to require alcoholic stimulants equally with the majority of hospital patients. lam perfectly satisfied, However, from experience in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic treatment, that they suffer nothing from the comparative deprivation in this respect which they un-r dergo in our asylums." The Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Star is responsible for the tol« lowing : — It is no secret that the relations of the two most prominent members of the Cabitet are not as cordial as they should be, and the latest lobby gossip is that a * breeze ' teok place between them at the last Cabinet meeting. Sir Juliu* Yogel, it is said, advocated a loan of not lets than ten millions ; and Mr Stout absolutely refused to consent. During the argument Sir Julius Yogel said rather hotly, ' I have to find the means;' tmd, replied Mr Stout, with equal warmth, ' I have to look after the interests of the colony!' It is believed that the loan proposals will be a million and a half per anuum extending over several years. Mr F. R. Jackson and Co. are takin • step* for very largely extending the ramifications of their auctioneering bu«in«»s. In addition to their Wellington branch at Johnsonville, they have just taken over the business of Messrs Halcombe and Shenrill at Feilding. Mr Shernil), who is one of the most highly respected and popular knight* of the hammer on the coast, will we aro < lad to hear, still retain his licence, and act as resident manager tor F. R. Jackson and Co. at Feilding ; in addition to which, howerer, he will udd the duties of a travelling auctioneer to the firm, officiating at Wiinganui, Johnsonville, and elsewhere, as occasion mar require. That the wide extent of country over which the business of the firm new ranges may prove correspondingly profitable to the gentleman possessed of so much energy and enterprise, is a wish in which everybody will heartily unite.— Chronicle. During his exploring expedition in the York Peninsula, when he discovered all that tract of country now become so familiar under tho name of the Palmer District (says the Brisbane Courier), Mr William Hunn discovered a species of kangaroo possessing claws which enabled it to climb trees. The discovery wa« fully reported upon by Mr Harm to the Government of the day ; but as this strange marsupial had not since been heard of, except occasionally from the aborigines, people began to doubt its existence. In a letter to one of his family, written by him on the 30ih March on board the Decca, at Cooktown (on board of which vessel he is a passenger to England), Mr Harm says:— "You will be pleased to hear that my climbing kangaroo has been found at last. On getting to Port Douglas yesterday the native police officer, Mr Graham, came off to tell me he had secured one alive, but it died a few days ago. There can be no longer any doubt about the animal. I certainly must have the honor of being the first to find it in Australia. I discovered it in 1872, on the head of the Blooinficld river, not very far from where the present one was found. The native name for it is Bungaree. There is no doubt it is the climbing kangaroo of .New Guinea."