Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 12, 10 July 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

No 11 of Hansard is to hand. The Bishop of Madagascar is making a tour of New Zealand. We have received the Postal and Telegraph Guide No. 51, Mr Carthew opened his English oase of books and periodicals to-day. There will be uo mass in St. Bridget's church, Feilding, to-morrow (Sunday), the 11th in6t. Several alterations have been made today to the advertisement of Mr Edwin Young. Mr Svendsen will open up a new stock of .boots and shoes early next week. His new advertisement will give all necessary particulars. A man never fully realises how hard it is to tell Satan to get behind him until he confronts a pretty woman subscription collector. A man has been arrested in Auckland for stealing an umbrella. This is an i entirely new departure which may be ■ classed as an unjustifiable interference with the liberty of the subject.

Sir Julius Ypgel has been laid up for a week with gout in the stomach.

The next. Eimberley-bound steamer takes several of the WelUngton Meat Companys' employes.

It is expected that the report of t! c Select Committee on the Government Insurance Department will be presented in about a week's time.

A contemporary has au elaborate article for amateur vocalists : " How to begin to sing." How to get them to leave off is still an unsolved problem.

It was estimated to-day (says the Napier Telegraph of Thursday) that by 12 o'clock there was not half-a-crown seeking investment in our our principal streets. [Some newspaper collectors had been about.]

A parade of the Manchester Rifles wiU be held on Wednesday next, when the oorps, headed by the band, will be marched out. A good attendance is expected, as Wednesday will be a bright moonlight night.

" Sir Launcelot" thinks that Cerise and Blue, Tempe, Mooushee, Mozart, Gozo, Cairo, Silvermine, Lancer, Lord Wilton, Meteor, Yellow Jacket, Duke of Athol, and Perchance are the best in for the next Melbourne Cup.

It is rumoured that the evidence in the Owhaoke-Enimanawa inquiry, so far as it hns gone, has practically exonerated Judge Fen ton from the charges brought against him. but that Dr Buller does not come out so well.

To-day the Returning Officer for tl.e Borough ' gives notice that Mr James Harford Blackraore, and Mr John Bartholomew have been nominated for the vacant seat in the Council. The poll vili take place on Monday, the 19th inst.

A report from Madrid states that a man, still breathing, was taken from a roughly-made grave, iv which he had been buried alive, in the neighborhood of Barbastro. The police have arrested some persons who are said to have committed the outrage from motives of revenge. The man he'B in a critical condition.,

The Duke of Argyll, in a speech at Glasgow, made the very pertinent remark — " Why „did the Parnellites wish a separate Parliament P Because they wished to do in Dublin what they knew that no civilised legislature in the world would do, namely, abolish the decalogue ahd take possession of the property of other men.

A Maketu telegram states that as a result of the volcanic deposits, everything is in a very bad state. Cattle and horses are dying in all directions. The settlers blame the Government for net appointing a Commissioner to visit the ßayof Plenty to see that the wants Of the Europeans and Natives are attended to, and that they are not allowed to starve in the next throe months.

At a Scotch Fair a farmer was trying to engage a lad to assist on the farm, but would not finish the bargain until he brought a character from the last place, so he says, " Run an' get it and meet me at the cross at 4 o'cldck." The youth was up to time, and the farmer says, " Well, have you got your character with you ?" "Nai" replies the youth, "but I've got yours, and I'm no cominY

A Wellington paper says : — " Mr Larnach's Statement on Mines has deserve. lly elicited warm encomiums on all sides. It is a most able and interesting document, conveying a vast amount of valuable information, and the colony is .much indebted to, Mr Larnach for the trouble he has taken m compiling so exhaustive a commentary on the great mining industries of the colony.

' In sporting notes by Flaneur in the Herald the author says : — Mr Baker, the Foxton stud-master, .is sending Somnus to the Waikato for the coming season, and has in his stead Hippocampus and KeVe. The latter is the sire of several smart animals such as Victory and Victoria. Fd ye is a splendid bred ' horse, being a son of Lord /Clinton out of Haricot. The back hues of his pedigree are full of the high-prized Whalebone blood.

From the Statement of the Minister of Mines we gathor thit on the 31st of March, 1866, 11,178 miners were employed on the gold field «; in the previous year, 12,035. The average earning* amounted to £80 pT man. or £3 15s more than in tbe previous year. Quartz mining was receiving more attention every year, and coin pn red with the value of the gold obtained, the average earnings of the miners engaged in that branoh, numbering 2105, had been £185.

By the steamer Wairarapa, which arrived at the Bluff on Sunday, later accounts from the Kiraborley gold field* have been received. They are of a conflirting nature. The correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald strongly urges people not to go, and states he can positively assure them that the whole field has not produced 900 ounces, of gold. An Adelaide telegram, on the contrary, says that the latest reports from Derby state that another man has arrived from the diggings with 150 ounces of gold. It is believed the diggers are withholding as much gold as possible for the purpose of preventing a great rush. The Wakntipu on her last trip from New Zealand to Sydney, took 100 passengers. * Mr Galbaiti, of Milan,.has just published an account of some very interesting experiments in agriculture, which promise valuable results. He has tried the effect of grafling one seed on another, his chief Experiments being with wheat and maize. He inserted grains of wheat into grains of maizr, and then sewed them very carefully, seed by »eed. According lo his account the young wheat makes a splendid start, owing to the nutriment it extracts from the maize. He has devised a machine for inserting the one seed into the other. An agricultural society took up the idea, and sowed one fit* ld with his " grafted" wheat the result of whioh was a yivld four times greater than, that of the ordinary seed.

The London correspondent of the Dun. edin Evening Star, writing on the 22nd April says : — It is a delicate matter to refer to, but it would be futile to conceal that there has been alarmist talk in the oity over the heavy fall in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company's shares. Though the directors would probably pooh-pooh the notion, I can quite believe what I am told— viz., that an article appearing in the finani id News a Dout two moat lit. ago, which pointed out that the management of the leading financial nstitu'ions in New* Zealand was in the hutuis of the sume half-dozen men, first created uneas nss I should not be .-urprised if this uneasiness increased, as I hear that a gentleman from Melbourne now over here has in preparation' a pamphlet attacking the financial operations of the Bank, c >f New Zealand nnd aferring that nn -altogether rotten system of *' iiiutual bolstering" pre* iis between the Bank of .New Zealand, jf e w Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, nnd tho .New ZeiJund Insurance Company. ■

Several alditions have been made to the catalogue of Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s sale heie next Thursday.

Residents in the vicinity of the band practice room threaten to dismember the big drum unless it is beaten less vigorously after 9 p.m. !

4 We learn that Mr Donald Fraser intends sending a quantity of first-class dairy cows to Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s first sale at Johnson ville.

A meeting of the Provisional Directors of the Feilding Building Society will be held on Thursday, the 15th inst., at 8 p.m., at Mr Hill's office, Manchester street.

In response to an enquiry on behalf of a friend leaving for Kimberley, Mr Stevens, postmaster, received a telegram yesterday from^the Government agent at Derby, advising diggers not to go until October, before which time there will be no water on or near the ground.

We were glad to see that Mr Robert Ward, R.M., had so far recovered from his recent illness as to be a^le to take his seat on tho bench again yesterday. Mr Ward expressed his acknowledgment to all who had rendered service during his absence, and his regret f«r any inconvenience or delay that had been thereby occasioned. — To-da«'s Chronicle.

The latest gambling craze is known as "grey horses," and for the information of those who wish to know, this is the way it is done : Say the coach is leaving Wellington, the passengers make up a sweep. Then each one writes down the number of grey horses they think they are likely to see (without counting horses driven in the coach) at the end of the journey. The one nearest the number takes the money. We s are assured that for some time the number nearest to 75 scooped the pool, but now it is diminished byhalf. :>

Woollen factories are, by the prices of shares in the market, very paying concerns. Why should not Feilding, with its facilities of water, railway, timber, and unsurpassed grazing country f. start one.