Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 152, 3 June 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

To-day Meesrs Stevens and Gorton held a stock sale at their yards, Palmerston.

Messrs James Beattie and Edmund Goodbehere have been elected auditors for the Borough.

Considerable additions have been made to the great Kapa Kapa eale at Mr Jackman's on Monday next.

Miss Malcolm will hold an evangelistio service at the Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow evening at the usual hour.

We learn from the Manawatu Herald that Foxton iB to have a daily delivery of letters. It is surely time that Feilding had the same privilege.

A meeting will be held in Foxton tonight to consider the advisableness of forming the town of Foxton into a municipality.

We learn from the Advocate that several valuable dogs have been destroyed in Marton by some malicious person laying poison in the streets.

There will be " high jinks"" in Auckland on the fourth of July when the anniversay of American Independence is celebrated.

We loam from the Patea Mail that the farmers in and around Hawera and Manaia are bestirring themselves to establish dairy factories in their midst.

On Saturday F. R. Jaokson & Co. will sell by public auction, entirely without reserve, at Mr Reading's shop, a large quantity of drapery and other goods.

We are glad to learn that business matters in Wanganui are looking much better within the last few weeks. Trade is more animated and money easier.

The telegraphio bulletins qf the health of Judge MoleswOrth, of Victoria, have cost the newspaper proprietors of New Zealand enough money to build a chapel or a decent wing to a hospital.

A man got a situation to run a store that didn't advertise. He left it at the end of a week to save going to the lunatic asylum, as he was sure solitary confinement would drive him mad.

Constable Price who was recently transferred from Bulls to Foxton, is now lying seriously ill in Feilding. A constable from Wanganui has been sent in temporary charge.

To-morrow night the members of the Feilding Brass Band will give a farewell ball in the Publio Hall, to two of their members, Messrs Brooker and Belfit, who are off to Kimberley.

Tho sale of Mr Jackman's farm, stook, and effects by F. R. Jackson & Co., which will take place on Monday next, Kapa Kapa, on the Awahuri road, is already exciting considerable attention. As eyery thing will be sold without reeerve some bargains will bo picked up.

The New South Wales Government have presented Queen Victoria a number of emu eggs. No.w, if one of the sons of the Prince of Wales had done this thing we could have understood it. Anyway, Her Gracious Majesty will have some trouble to chip through the shells of these eggs with a hair pin.

To-day Mr J. F. Sicely, hon. sec. of the Rangitikei Hunt Club intimates that the hounds will meet for a bye day at Awahuri on Wednesday the 9th inst. Mr Thomas Fraser and Mr McMillan have placed their estates at the disposal of the hunt, and as the game is plenty, the land good, and the fences easy, a splendid day's sport is anticipated.

To those who are about to start for Kimberley the notice publishod to-day by Mr Dahl, sailmaker, Palmerston, is of peculiar interest. Nothing is so conducive to comfort and health on a diggings as a' good, sound tent mada by a reliable man. The probabilities are that miners who are prudent enough to take their tents ■with them will not only save time, but money.

Several parties of men have now been made up to go to Kimberley. There aro among them some of our best and moat energetic contractors, wlio will tako with them horses and drays to carry them from Perth inland to the goldfields". We can ill spare them, but we hope they will reap a golden reward for their enterprise, and will return to Feilding in a few years " rich beyond the dreams of avarice."

Captain Edvrin telegraphs to day.— ' Warnings for gales and ram hare been . sent to all places north of Timaru. I

The Marlborough Express says: — A | charge of assault in which two scriptural t characters named Sliadrach and HI eshich, hailing From the Wairua Pali, were concerned was investigated on Wednesday in the R.M. Court, Meshach woe fined £1. Abt'dneito was too drunk to fight.

An opinion is forming among pressmen tbat tbo determined opposition of the judges (9 the introduction of shorthand reporting m the Supreme Courts of New Zealand, is tbe strongest evidence .of the desirableness of Mr Tole's Bill becoming law.

The .London Despatch says that of sixty mad dogs in the Home for Lost Dogs, fifty-four were males and only six females. The Despatch thinks that this enormoaa preponderance of sanity in the female. dog, is one of nature's most admirable compliments to the softer sex. The Despatch appears to be ignorant of the fact that owef ninety per cent of female pups are destroyed immediately after they are born, so the sanity oomphment " wont wash."

A man named John McGregor left Nelson in an open beat for the Moutere, about 12 miles distant, on Wednesday, taking with him a bottle of gin and a bottle of wine only. Evidently he got drunk, and his boat was drifting about the bay with sail set till yesterday, when two fishermen found it. They brought the man in bnt he was completely exhausted from long exposure, and speech* less. He was taken to the hospital, and died.

It is intimated to-day that en Sunday next, Captain Alsweiler will preach his farewell sermon in the. Salvation Army Barracks ; the subject chosen being "the rush to Kimberley," from which moral comparisons will be drawn. On Tuesday •vening there will be a farewell tea, after which addresses will be made. On leaying Feilding Captain AUweiler will proceed to Inglewood, near New Plymouth. Captain Alsweiler has been in Feilding for about seven months, during which time he has done his duty faith* fully and well. We wish him sucoess ie his new field.

Mr T. B. Hannaford, the celebrated matrimonial agent of Auckland, whose amusing petition was presented to Parliament by Sir George Grey, was " sent up" to Mount Eden the other day in default of payment of a fine of £5 and costs for a brutal assault committed on an equally celebrated character named Garrard the labor agitator. The Auckland Star says ' ' the decision was received with applause." On the other hand • • Penloo" in the Patea Mail says « « bravo, Hannaford ! may Dame Fortune encircle thee in her loving arms and shower Parliamentary blessings on thy irreproachable golgotha.

The first full steamer which left Melbourne and Sydney for the Kimberley goldfields was the Khandalla. one of the fleet of the British*lndia Steam Narigation Company. From Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne she had 80 passengers, 80 horses, 200 rams, and 15 cows. , Some of the homos and all the cows and sheep are for the King Sound Pastoral Company. There are already 120,000 sheep in the Kimberley country, so that there will be plenty of food for the pioneers of the geldfields. no matter what may happen. Flour has been quoted at Derby at 10_d per pound.

The result of the Golden Crown Co.'s crushing on Saturday last at Terawhiti must be deemed highly satisfactory by the scrip holders, and is calculated to infuse more hope into the bosoms of those shareholders in sdjom.bg oompaaie*. who have been waiting and longing for so many years past. The crushing of 68 tons of quartz resulted in a return of 960z amalgam, giving 460z Bdwt retorted gold, which is valued by the Bank of New Zealand at £3 19s 6d per ounce, or 2s per ounce more than the last cake yielded. The retrun of retorted gold from the amalgam shows about 50 per font, a result exceedingly satisfactory when compared with the returns abtained in other quartz reefing districts, were 33 per cent is considered a very fair average. —New Zealand Timet.

• The monthly meeting of the Standing Committee of the Wellington I'iocesan Synod wat held Thursday afternoon. It was resolved te apportion the share of £30, to be borne by the diooese of the expenses of the General Synod, as follows : —St. Paul's and St Peter*, £2 10s each ; St. Mark's (Wellington), St. James' (LoworHutt), St Mathews (Masterton), Christ Church (Wanganni), £2 ea'h; parochial districts, £1 each. The Seoretary reported that stipends for March quarter were in arrear a* follows: — Mar» ton, £108 ; Karon and Johasonrjlle, £78 ; Masterton, £77, Feilding, £75; Grey« town, and Featherston, £65; Lower Hutt, £49; Carterton, £34; Palmerston, £29 ; Upper Hutt, £25. The assessments due from parinhes and districts were :—Marton, £108;-. Masterton and Whareama, £75: .Feilding, £62; Grertown and Featherston, £57 ; Lower Hutt, £53 ; Karori and Johnsonville, £52 ; Palmerston, £30 1 Upper Hutt and Pahautanui, £28; Carterton, £27. The President stated that an applioation had been made for a rearrangement of the Bulli district;; but the proposal was quite impracticible. Other routine business was transacted) and the mooting then rose.— Post.