Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 20, 29 July 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

:•;• : . ;!: .':■••; — ! - — r-4* — , :.■[■'■■■■■ , ;■■ ■:*■■; ". ' *' Sir Latinoelot," in Keferoe, «nya hie hears that 'Trenton lias been sold to an Auiitrahan »j)Ort»inaii for 251K) ijuineas. •

The Mangaqne 'school has been closed for a fortnight. The Education Bbard are* "making additions to' the present buifdrngs.

We notice from Wnnganut papers that the well.known W«'lHiiutu» l)orer, J. Pf ttenKell. i» to meet J. Lkune, ; of \Vanganhi in a 4(love .finht next Mond »y for £'20

i-/ To-inorrow, at their sale rooms, Wellington, Messrs T. K. McDonald and Co* wiU sell & Feilding .suburban section No. 84, together with a four roomed house erected thereon.

Monday will be observed as a .public holiday in ; Palmerston to celebrate the opening of thq. Wellington Manawatii Kailway, to Qtaki. -; It is a pity Feilding was not invifed to participate. : . : ..

At the galvation Army Barracks tonight, special services will be held in which captains McCorraick and Newbold will assist Adjutant _ and 'Mm Spratt. Lieutenant ( •ibson will also take part in the proceedings. WV publish a notice from theßajlway Dopwrtmeiit in which it is stated the bain »ow leaVihg Feilding at 11.55 a.m. for Foxton will leave si Ilvs a.m., and that the erening train from Wanganui will only run as far as Palmerstpn.

Mr-AndreW, formerly a getjHer on the read, who sold out and went Home for a trip, has reformed and bought a section near hw old place. It is his intention to build amd make a home at once. .His brother has »l«o bought that property owned by Mr $beppherd and situated on the Mangaone stream^

Tt appears that there are seven blind children front this oolonr being maintained at the expense of the Government in the Victorian Asylum and School for: the Blind at Melbourne. Two of these are expected to return shortly. Two of the children (are from Wellington; one each from the Thames, New Plymouth, Marlborough, Nelson, and Southland.— Diinedin Star.

We understand that the matter of the; insurance on Mr Lowers' building is causing the insurer some trouble. ..The company have raised obstacles which the agent for Mr Lowers— Mr W. W. Corpe— considers frivolous, and the latter gentleman has instructed his lawyer to commence proceeding*. The inconvenience and loss to Mr S. J.Thompson, who cannot proceed withhis new building, is very considerable.

■ Mr Parnell-ha's 'issued a manifesto, in which he denies an allegation whioa has been 1 " circulated to the effect ithat an understanding has been established tween the Irish Home Rule party and' the American Fenians; he also insists that the members of the Land League are maintaining a peaceful attitude,, ami; that 'they give no excuso whatever fo'r\th^;imposition of a; coercive policy^ against them. I

Stevens and Gorton's stock sale to-day was well attended. The bidding was quite up to the average, and although a few lots were passed in, several of them were quitted after the sale.

Captain Edwin telegrnphs — Wind N. W. at all places. Barometer further fall ofery wliefo. "Warningit for jjnles an above indicated with rain after from 12 to 26 hour* , have lieen Kent to all Stations.

A <«ow and startling advertisement will apjiear on Saturday from Mr J. B. Hamil- > ton who in about to inangurute a groat un« *Tenerred>9ale-oFhi«entir« Htockof drapery and clothing, as important change* are pending with regard tohis bu*in«!u. The sale will start on Saturday tnoniinp. ' '

At the District- Meeting, of^the Odd-? fellpws held^ak Woodville it was resolved that it is # note advisable at present to es tablish an A.M.C. for Now Zealand. Ee.sohrtions were also carried— '* 7 T-hat it- is advisable i'V uniform graduatedHscale of -Contributions should be adopted throughout ; New Zealand" and ,7 That any mem'tier'of a lodge' in^New Zealand can join any other ; X"odge' in New,,; Zealand by clearance .without increasing^ his rate of contribution. "4-Examiner. In connection, with the re-hearing, of theCrawford-fiiike divorce: ciase) thecoreßpondent, Sir Charles Dilke, : has ad-' mitted having excised a portion of his diary, the book being put in as evidence. The servants employed by Sir Charles Dilke have contradicted the.) statements made. by Mrs Qrawfprd to the effeptj that she had paid frequent visits t» the cojrespondeot's residence. The servants "swore that they saw. Mrs Crawford there only on two occasions, arid that on each occasion her staf was very brief "

.' Deeply imbued: us the Maori* are with their Te Whiti fnnaticitm they are hot ; above making a joke upon the subject. Ina.a chief, und a f Kitbf ul adherent of Te Whiti, was dririhg from New Plymonth to Parihxka on Monday in company with a European. Some distance j from Pungarehu they overtook a iwngsmau. Ina, in a quizzing humour, asked the ' individual on the tramp what he thought he was doing. The man anywered that he waa looking for woj;k. "Well" said Ina in hi» best English, "if you go on to the next hou*eg. and then turn to your left you will come to Parihaka. When yon got there go and see To Whiti. and i e will- give, yon some work." "Will he," queried the swagiman; "what kind pfworkP: ■ : ••Ploughing,? saidlna. I ean'tplongh," returned the swagiman: !'Oh," said Ina, "you can plough ai well as any of Uf can ; at any rate, you can plough, well enough to plough jourself into goal./— Taranaki Budget.

Newt has arrived at Cooktown by ■teamer of a, case, of piracy and .murder in Acheen. . The Du^ch steamer Hok Canton was at, Riga«, when a, largo number of Acheeneae collected on the steamer, and rushing on the captain seriously wounded him and hit wife, and shot the. mate and engineer dead. Then rifled the vesiel of a large inn of money which wan aboard for trading purposes. Captain Kannen and Mrs Hnn»en were takea ashore where the. former died of nii wpiind.K.; Six of the crew were.alKO se^ed, and the pirate chiei, Tunker Omar demands a ransom of fifty thouiand dollarii A body of Dutch troopa ha« \oi for the pnrpoie of reicuing tno prisoneirf.