Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 11, 8 July 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

There is a circus coming down the coast.

ISir Charles Dilke has not been elected to the new House of Commons.

Mr E. Young has been appointed Feilding agent for Wager's Erasive soap.

The 'Borough Council will meet this evening at the usual hour.

Sir Julius, Yogel has been suffering from severe indisposition for the last day or two.

We observe that Mr Carthew has just opened a case of books received direct from London.

About four o'clock this morning a strong glare of fire was observed in the direction of Palnierston.

Tradesmen in Madagascar who give short weight are sent to prison for a year. In this country they go to church.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day : — Warnings for notherlv gales after from 12 to 20 hours to all places south «f Napier and Wanganui.

Messrs JohnQ Bartholomew and J. H. Blackmore have been nominated for the vacant seat in the Borough Council.

The rumour that Sir Julius Yogel is about to visit the old country has been stated to be without foundation by Sir Robert Stout.

We have to thank Mr F. Tram, the Feilding agent, for a copy of the illustratod list of garden seeds packed by Arthur Yates, of Auckland.

This week a settler near Feilding brought in the heads of seventeen hawks to the secretary of the Acclimatisation society and was duly rewarded.

In another column Mr S. J. Thompson thanks those who helped to prevent the extension of the fire on the occasion when his premises were destroyed.

"We are glad to learn that the son of Mr Christopher Brown, who went to Wanganui a few days ago to undergo a surgical operation is now doing well and is rapidly progressing towards complete recovery. <

In another column we publish the business advertisement of Mr G, J. Gascoign© of the Bangitikei Steam Coach Factory, Maiton. Mr Gascoigne is the patentee and builder of the celebrated Champion Wool Press.

It seems impossible to believe, yet we learn from the local papers that there are, in Palmerston, some shortsighted individuals who are opposed to the projected gas-works to be erected there. They will not bejable to stop them, fortunately.

A. notice appears to-day from the Deputy Official Assignee that the first general meeting of creditors in the estate ef George Twidgen Currin. of Kiwttea, storekeeper, will be held in the court house, Feilding, on Tuesday, July 20th 188 G.

There is now running on the property of Mr James Skerman, Silverleys, Palmerston, a red steer, which, if not claimed, will be sold. For particulars as to brands and descriptive marks we refer our readers to the advertisement which appears elsewhere.

In Napier a fow days ago a well-known solicitor was somewhat severe in his cross-examination of certain witnesses in a court case. After the case was over three of them — a lady and two gentleman — violently assaulted the solicitor for which legal proceedings are now being taken.

The Taranaki Budget quotes an article in a hoalth magazine which showa that printers die young. Maybe good printers die young ; but the compositor who converts a word of five S3'ilables into new words of one and two syllables each, without trying very hard, doesn't die as early as he should.

A judge, in pronouncing the death sentence, tenderly observed :—" If guilty, you richly deserve the fate that awaits you ; if innocent, it will be a gratification for you to feel that you were hanged without such a crime on your conscience ; in either case you will be delivered from a world of care."

Beuters Agency is now used aB a medium for advertising banking and insurance business. The proprietors of newspapers have the pleasure of bearing the expense. We were told the other day that a certain insurance company would not open in London, and shortly afterwards that a certain bank would open in Australia " after the depression." Who cares ?

An old Wairarapa resident, Mr Johnston, of Masterton. has, we are creditably informed, rocently received letters from two of his nephews, who had at the time of writing been two months on the Kimberly goldfield. During that period one had obtained llOOozs of gold and the other SOOozs, and they strongly urged a number of. their Wairarapa friends to join them. — Post.

A gallantjcolonel, somewhat addicted to moods of abstraction, the other day ordered his battalion to "fix bayonets." This otherwise simple process was rendered difficult on the occasion in question, owing to the men having paraded with sido arms only. The adjutant at last came to the rescue ; and, upon the matter being explained, the polite chief replied, " Oh, of course ! Beg pardon, unfix bayonets !"

During the period from Ist June, 1885, to 30th April, 1886. 713 immigrants were nominated for New Zealand and 545 arrived. Their distribution was as follows: — Auckland, 161; Taranaki, 27; Hawkes Bay, 23; Wellington, 137; Marlborough, 1; Nelson, 10; Westland, 19; Canterbury, 84; Otago, 83. The total number of assisted immigrants from the eommencment of the scheme to date has been 112,493 persons.

During the discussion on Major Steward's Education Act Amendment Bill, Mr Hamlin, in referring to the necessity for a clearer definition of the term " householder." stated that a day or two previous to an election in his district one person who wished to get on the School

Committee, placed people in every cowshed, barn, and pigstye on his farm, so that they might come under the defim* tion of a householder.

Writing on • the Rubject of the land grants to the Midlnnd Railway Company the Christchurch Press says: For our own pan wo have not th*> smallest sympathy with those who are crying out about the sacrifice of the lands of the colony in exchange for railways. \W are of opinion that the land which will be given stands a far greater chance of being usefully occupied when once they pass into the hands of a private Company than is the case under the laws of the colony. Our legislators have succeeded in placing so many irritating restrictions upon the acquisition of Crown lands, that the advent of n Conipauy interested in promoting legitimate settlement upon their lands will prove an unmixed blessing to the community.

The entertainment at St. John's schoolroom, last night, was not largly attended but the several items on the programme were performed to the satisfaction of the audience.

The fioldfields mprabers were highly indignant thai the. Gold Duty Abolition Bill has been thrown out by the Legislative Council, and held a meeting to-day to consider the position.

We have to draw attention to an error being made by rate collectors who post rate notices, and business men who post accounts as ' circulars. Full postage should be paid on them as they do not come under the head of exemptions.

The Wei line ton coach missed the Foxton train yesterday afternoon come* qucatly the mails did not come to hand last niijht. They were, however, brought on this morning by the extra tram which runs this far on Thursday mornings.

We have received the prospectus of the Australian Loan and Discount Company, limited, Sydney. We note th.jt E. M. Callanan, Esq., late manager of the Bank of Australasia, Feilding, is the Secretary.

Sir George Whitmore reports that there was, during the last year, an itcease in drunkenness in the North Island (except in Taranaki where there was a diminution.) We are reluctantly compelled to admit that this is a clear evidence of increased prosperity among the laboring classes.

On Saturday next Mr 0. Smith, of Te Aro, Wellington, will open an establishment in those premises erected by Mr Beading, next to Mr Eade's Furniture Warehouse, where he hopes to receive the same amount -of patronage as was accorded to him during his previous visit. We will publish an extensive price list m our. next issue, as it comes to hand too late to appear to-day.

" Puff" in the Wellington Pres* writes: — Lunched with the Queen ! Her Majesty very affable ! Agreeably surprised to find colonixts so civilised! Their good behavieur at table caused general admiration among the royal flunkies ! The The only contretemps wan when a leading colonist got up as sons an the pudding was don?, and asked the Queen whether she had any objections t» smoking ! What did she say? She said she thought it a bad habit, but if it would tend towards the Federation of the. Empire, she begged the gentletnaa would light up and she would try to blow a cloud herself ! Ah, staunch as usual! Gn and Constitutional Sovereign ! Always ready to sacri* flee herself for the good of her people !