Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 37, 7 September 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The Rev. Joshua Jones left by train yesterday morning for Wellington to attend the Synod. The Manchester Rifles will parade for Government inspection, and to elect a lieutenant, on Thursday next ! The tender of Mr Betemeyer was accepted for five chains of fencing for the Feilding State School, at 21a por chain. Mr Harry Hughes, of Awahuri, has succumbed to the pressure ©f the times and filed his schedule. i A contemporary says the bad half crowns made in Wellington are very poor in quality. The press at Home manifested great enthusiasm ovor Beach's victory, and at his having beaten the record to Hammersmith. We learn from the N. Z. T'tnes that Mr George Fishrr, announces himself as a candidate for election to the office of mayor. The Feilding footboll team were unable to practise on Saturday last, owing to the slippery state of the ground m the Oval. This evening there will be a meeting in the Temperance Hall of all persons desirous of strengthening the Temperance cause. Tenders aro invited by Messrs Maomillan and Hunt, of Awahuri, for the erection of a wool shed. Plans and specifications may be seen at the store of the firm at Awahuri. The progress being made by Mr W. Watts in the new store he is erecting for Mr S. J. Thompson is vory creditable, and if the present fine weather continues he will have it finished well within contract time. The settlement on Kiwitea lands continues to abvance very steadily. Mr llaythorn, who has been for some time a settler at Taonui, has shifted on to somo land ho recently purchased next Major Moore's Farm, Kiwitea. He took up his lares and peuates yesterday. Constable Ryan was presented in the Town Hull, New Plymouth, recently with the Eoyal Humane Society's silver medal and certificate for saving the life of Inspector Pardy last June. This is the first silver medal of the Humane Society that has been awarded to New Zealand. A superstitious subscriber, who faund a spider in his paper, wants to know if it is a bad omen. Nothing of the kind. The spider was merely looking over the columns of the paper to see what tradesman was not advertising, so that it could spin its web across his door and be free from disturbance. Between midnight and 1 a.m., on Sunday, at Port Chalmers, a seaman named Thompson, one of the crew of the ship Waipahi, fell backwards off the gangway into the water. He was picked up by the third mate and taken on board, -where every effort was made t» resuscitate him, but without ayail. The design prepared by Messrs Atkins and Clore for the Girls' Friendly Society's Lodge about to be erected in Wellington seems to have met with much approbation especially in Government House circles. Tenders for the building have been received varying from £890 to £1864 and it is expected that that the building will be proceeded with at once. The Provost-marshal of Mandalav ha s been publicly reprimanded on account o the cruelties which have lately been practised on British subjects in Burmah. It will be remembered that he had been accused also of prolonging the sufferings of prisoners who were about to be shot, by causing delay while he obtained photographs of the appearance of the unfortunates at the supreme moment. A splendid opportunaty is offered today to any one desirous of securing a valuable lease-hold property. That block of land comprising sections 34 and 35, Pohangina, containing 514 acres, of which 475 are down in grass, is to be leased for five or seven years. Mr O. Pleasants will show intending tenderers over the property. Tenders are to be addressed to Mr A. Southey Baker, Palmerston. The date of Messrs Freeman R. Jacksou and Co.'s next stock eale at Johnsonville, Wellington, has been altered from Wednesday to Thursday next, the 9th September. The alteration has been rendered necessary through landslips on the railway line preventing the cattle being got through as early as was expected. A special train took down a lot of cattle for this sale last night. '• Town Topics." says : — Mrs Mackay's dinner to the Prince of Wales last month was a great success. The list of invited guest* wa» shown to the Prince who suggested two additional guests— Lady Randolph Churchill and Lady B. Tatton Sykes. Mrs Alackay replied by letter that these Indies had at one time accepted an invitation from her and had after wards snubbed her, and she could not, thing of inviting them again. The Prince admired her spirit, and attended tho dinner. It is stated that J. W. Mackny intends to purchase an English estate and make his home on it. He is reported to c now closing out some important interests on the Pacific coast. A leading New York sporting journal or a few days ago says : — " If Teemor had not broken down or his right arm become useless, owing t« an overstrain, and ho had pressed Gaudnur, the fastest time on record for the distance would have bepn beaten, and Gaudaur would have rowed the three miles and turn in 19min 27see. the time he made in his trial on June 10th. two days before the race. Gaudaur's time is a danger light for any champion, and it is doubt' fu! whether there is a man in the world who could equal, let alone beat, the perform- nee. Time is no criterion of oars* niiinship, we are well aware ; but it must j be acknowledged, when a man rows a , trial on a river or lake in 19min 27 sec, ( that he can repeat the feat within lOseo j any time in smooth waier, so that by this theory Gaudaur is a worthy eandi« ' date to back against Beach or anybody ' vise." . ' i

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Warnings for gales and rain have I>een ' sent to all stations. Scott bent Harriman f lic great American walker in n match at Lannepstmi, Tasmania, for £400. Scott won by four miles. To day Messrs Atkins and Clere advertise for tenders for the erection of shop and residence in Kimbolton Woad Feilding. Plans and specifications may be seen at Mr Edmund Goodbehere's ' office to-morrow. At the Resident Magistrate's Court today, before A. F. Haleombe, Esq., J.P., and J. C. Thompson, Esq., J. P., William Spooner was charged with being drunk in a public place yesterday. He pleaded guilty. The constable said there was a charge of assault to be heard tomorrow. Fined 5s and costs. We understand that Mr Jones, of Messrs Jones and Poters, contractors, Timaru, passed through Christchurch yesterday (September 2) on his way to Wellington to make definite arrangemonts about signing the contract for the Manawatu Gorge Bailway. and that Messrs Scott Bros., of this city, will have the building of twenty-seven iron bridges included in the contract. — Christchurch Press. TUe Brussels correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs :— " A mysterious discovery, suggestive of a crime like that of Wninwright and Bil'ior, was noticed on Sunday night near the Southern Eailway station. The policemen in making their rounds picked up a sack containing two legs, two forearms, and the hands still bleeding. The head and trunk have not yet been discovered. Different parts or a dress were found scattered in grounds in the neighborhood From a medical examination it appears that the cutting-up was not the work of an inexperienced hand. The affair is causing a great sensation." The Wondville Examiner refers to a wood-villain as follows : —A well-known bush settler has been doing a nice thing. It appears that he has been living with a woman as his wite for nearly a score of years and by her he haa had a number of children while his home bore every appearance of comfort. Several of the children are grown up. Now this man deserts her who has to all intents and purposes been the wife of his bosom and marries a blithe young widow ef fascina,- ( ting manner. The deed is one of shame, and a man who could thus heartlessly abandon the mother of so many of his children should be ostracised from all society. The people of New Zealand are a free people and they will have a free Press, They admire and respect ability and independence in their public men ; but they admire and respect those qualities not less in their public men who are out of oifice than those who are in office. They choose to regard public writers possessing those qualities as valuable public men, J worthy of their {utmost admiration and respect, no matter whether they write on the side of tho Government or on that of the Opposition And so lon T as they possess the privilege of trial b.» jury, they will not suffer a free Press to br trampled to the ground by Ministers of the Crown be they ever so powerful. — Press. A man named Succi, who lives at Forli. in the E-mngna, Italy, asserts that he has discovered, in the course of his travels through a gre>t part of Africa, a sort of liquor, extracted from various herbs, which lias the effect ot •'mummifying" the body, so to speak, and render ing it insensible to any kind of want, such as hunger or thirst ; while it will also admit of a person taking any poison, however violent, without feeling any ili effects. A committee of the inhabitants of Forli has boen formed, at his request, to watch the experiments which he in making upon himself, and several doctors who hafe examined him hare stated that the case is a very curious one, and that they cannot detect any fraud. Succi takes nothing but four glares of water a day, and says that he feels very well At the request of Peruzzi, of th« Bologna Academy of Medicine, he started for that city, where he proposes to go through another course of fasting and t» take poison.