Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 19, 27 July 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

. We have received . Nos. 15 and 16 of Hansard. .

The Resident. Masistrates Court will be held here to-mor:«.v.

A sitting of the Native Land Court will be held in Foxton on the 17th of August.

The schedule of laud set apart for the Bunnythorpe Village settlement, is gazetted. „ ,

Wo have received the report of „ the Crown Lands Department for the year ended' March 31st, 1886.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of tasting some second-crop apples from a tree in a Feilding orchard.

Several additions am made to-day to Messrs Stevens anfl-GoYtciirfs stock sale at their Feilding yards on Thursday next.

The old chief, Titokowaru, is slowly and surely wasting away from an irritation of the bladder. - ..

The potatoes for the Maori sufferers at Rotorua, contributed by the natives here,, were sent forward yesterday via Wellington. \

l)r Bockntrow h:is now taken up bis residence in Palmerston, and will .£•««%. mence the practice of his profession in, that township. To-morrow, evening a special service will be held in the Salvation Army Barracks, when Adjutant Spratt and Mrs Spratt will give addresses.

To-day -we publish the railway timetable for the Bangitikei Hunt Club Steeplechase Meeting, to be held at Marton on Friday, 30th inst.

Subscribers and advertisers who have not yet paid accounts rendered to them for the quarter ended 30th June are requested to do so during the current week.

To-day we publish the catalogue of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at the Falmerston Borough sale yards on Thursday the sth August.

J. Boberts, junior, champion billiard player, recently scored 1000 points in an hour and twelve minutesvjrhioh is said to be the best performance on" record,

Tenders are invited by Mr Edmund Qoodbehere for falling 100 aores of bush iv the Eeilding Special Settlement Block. Tenders will close on. Wednesday, the 4th of August.

It is expected that Mr Stanley, this African explorer will visit the Australian colonies at no distant date. He will stay for some time in New Zealand for the benefit of his health. .

Dr B. W. Richardson says the country will never be civilised until it has get rid of four burdens — the hospital, the gaol, the asylum, and the poorhoune ; and this can only be done through teetotalism.

According to his own account Mr Hobbs, the member for," the Bay of Islands, is the. only Christian inthe House. HeißalßO— measured by the same impartial and. accurate .standard — the uos t modest man.' '.." _:.\ '[_ „../.. ./,„'■>;•

Yesterday a man of color named Murray was brought before J. 0. Thompson, Esq., J.P., charged with stealing a sum of money from a man. named Neil, employed .at Mr Hastie's stables, and remanded until to-morrow., .

So it was a woman that spirited away Mr L*yy ? J.R, t« Sydney. The poor fellow has made an awful mistake, the consequences of which will affect him until his dying day. la .avoiding the Scylla of. witfe he was drowned in the Chary bdis of woman.

Messrs Clere and Atkins, architects, are seeking distinction in the Patent Office, Mr Clere having applied last week fur " Patent moulds for concrete or clay walls," while his partner, Mr Atkins, is patenting an invention f or " Improvements in Measuring Devices, for Surveying and other purposes."

The Chicago Anarchists during the riot raided into a chemist's shop, and drank some of the liquors on the shelves, taking them to be spirits. A large number were poisoned by colchicum and other tinctures; eight have since died in great agony, while several others are expected to die. The man who owned that shop should get a medal.

Friday's Post •tales that Mrs Levy, whose husband has 'so singularly disappeared, has. decided to "take up her residence with her mother^ who lives at Woodvclle, until the mystery!* elucidated. Mr* Levy and her infant child- left for that township this morning. TheTemainder of the children are in the care et friends in Wellington.

It will be remembered that Mr Stewart, the schoolmaster at Bunny thorpe, left his post some time, ago without sending in a formal resignation to the Board at Wanganui. As he lias not since turned up, a successor has been appointed in his stead; named Mr Espiaer, who was lately in charge of the school at South •Makirikiri, who Has commenced his duties.

We have received a letter from Mr Poad, of Aorangi, in which he informs ,iiß he was not in the hospital in Wellington, as was reported on Saturday, but was for nine weeks under treatment from a medical herbalist. For the last tea weeks he has been treated by Dr Speera, who still has his case in hand. Mr Poad says he has received a little benefit from him, and Dr Speera expects to cure Mr Poad in seven months.

With reference to the recent increase in Bank deposit rates, the New Zealand Trade Review says : — We alluded in our last to a slight increase in New Zealand bank-lending rates. This has been succeeded by an increase of 1 per cent, in the deposit rates, following the rise in Australia. Leading* rates have also been again slightly increased, making an advance of ,1 per cent, all round, inclusive of the change reported hist month. Australian lending rates fire still beyond those charged in this celony, and we $aay consequently Ipok for a further liiQr-ease in that direction here. Itls a flity.w^are so close to Australia as to havet© fosotf $heir rateß when they haye this upward tendency, for there seems to be no" warrant 'for an increase in this markejt. Whether the remittance of the new^y 1 raised loans will cheapenVihoney in the neighboring colonies remains to be seen. "It is to be hoped that jt will have that effect, in which case, we may r regard the increase here as only temporary^ •

Captain Edwin telegraphs to day — Barometer very little movement at places north of Napier and Wanganui. Fall slowly elsowhere. .„•'■.

We learn from the Taranaki Budget that Judge Rawson has invented a ladder suitnble for lamp lighters. A patent has been applied for.

We are informed that the departure of Mr Boche has been postponed. As the order for this only reached here to-day by telegram, we have no doubt it is in consequence of the petition from tha business people having reached Mr Maxwell last night.

The Island Bay Club (Wellington) have, drawn up a programme tor their Winter Meeting, to come off it the end of Augsst, and that it will be published at the beginning of next week. It is proposed to give about £300 in stakes."

Th« Wanganui Herald 'says :— -The Churchwarden's report this year is a livelf affair, as it states that although there are 2100 persons in Wanganui who profess to belong to the Church of England, but a beggarly 10 per cent, of them attend and that of these not 20 are middle agedmen. Thisis very sad. There must be a screw loose somewhere. Perhaps a change of incumbents' might cause a better attendance ?

A peculiar case of attempted suicide i> reported from Sydney. On the afterBoon of the 12th inst., a young man. whose name is unknown, but who i> supposed to be . a G«rinan, went inti Messrs Plummer and Owen's ironmong ers, and asked "to »cc some revolveMUpon one being handed to him he asked for a cartridge to fit it, which was al« given to him. Whilst the assistant's at' tentipn was directed to another customei the man shot himself through his breast. There is little hope of his recorery .

Some little time ago Mr E. G Mil r mima^er of the Bank of New Soutl Wales at Ararat, shot himself, but up t< date of latest accounts he was still alive His finances were all right, but the act was premediated owing to harrassmem by ' commercial affairs. Mr Miller was a brot er of the Louis Miller, formerly teller of the Bank of . New. -" South Wale* ip Westport, who shot himself m Grey* mouth some years ago. It will be remembered that another brother some years ago murdered his father and mother at Wellington, and then omt his own throat

" Vigilant" in the Post writes :— From the Bth March to 21st May inclusive, \ Archer had 137 mounts, 37 wins, and. 100 losing mounts; (\ Wood, 111 mounts, 35 victories, and 76 defeats; G. Barrett, 178 mounts, 33 wins, and 145 losing mounts. — Among the stallions) advertised for sale by Messrs W. C. Yuile and Co., at Newmarket, near Melbourne, on the 4th August, is Welcome Jack, who is Bpoken of bythe Australasian as "the exchampion of New Zealand and one of the best of Traductor's best sons." Included in the same sale-list are the well-known public performers Off Colour, (Juesswork, ißosworth, and Larpent. . , '. \

'On the 11th of May the robes of a monk named Brochnrd, bolonging to a Dominican monastery, near Arctfciion, were found on the seashore, and a De profundus was chavnted. Two days afterwards a welLdressed man presented himself at a money-changer's, in Bordeaux, to get some Austrian coupons eaohed. He was requested to call attain, and when he did so he was giren into custody. He was a merchant of > ancy ; his name was Berthi*>r;. and. how dared, they suspect him of dishonesty? it very soon came to light, however, that he was the missing monk, and that he ha i previously robbed a Dominican monastery, at Lille, of £1200 in Austrian bonds; and now he is in bonds himself. * '

On the hearing of the ease Hollistee v the Accident Association of New Zealand, at the Supreme Court recently it wan elicited that the husband of the plaintiff, on whose life the insurance had been effected did not die for more than a week after the accident which ultimately caused his death. A condition of the policy required that notice should be given of the accident within seven days, and the Attorney-General, for the Company, argued that the amount of the policy could not be recovered as the notice had not been : given in time Mr Justice Richmond asked .if this would be so in oases where a person disappeared, and, it was not known for some time afterward* that be was dead. The Attorney-rOeneral said, that appeared to be so. His Honor replied that if the public were aware of that state ef things he did not think the Companies would da much business, and he thought that the newspapers should call attention to the matter. ' ' -