Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 11 September 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The framework of Mr S. J. Thompson's new store is now completed. A notice of the bankruptcy of J. W. F. Philips appears to-day. The Manchester Rifles will parade for Government Inspection on Thursday, the 14th of October. The Town Clerk invites applications from persons willing to undertake the the duties of ranger and poundkeeper. We publish to-day as an inset, hand bills of the dioramas to be exhibited in the Public Hall on Thursday next. A meeting of stewards of the Peilding Jockey Club will be held this evening at the Denbigh Hotel, at eight o'clock. A notice from Major Gudgeon, published to-day, states that a Boyal Commission to enquire into the land claims of Old Soldiers and Volunteers, will sit at the Court House Palnierston North on Saturday the 18th inst. A comfortable well built dwelling bouse is advertised to let, with seven rooms, with one, or three acres of land attached. There is also an excellent fruit ' >arden protected by a close board fence. ' For particulars see advertisement. ' Mr Neary, who has just commenced , business as a saddler in premises close to , ;he well-known "Little Red House," , publishes his advertisement to-day in ( mother column. He requests particular ( ittention to the fact that he makes all his £ sollars to measure and manufactures them , m the premises. j Wo publish to- day the programme of i \lr Pownall's grand Dioramas of Pales- f me and the Hot Lakes, of New Zealand, t obe exhibited in the Public Hall on v [hursday the 16th inst. Mr Macarthur, t VI.H.R., will preside. The members of fl he various religious bodies have con- * ented to patronise the show. t

A splendid block of land in the Kiwitea | will be 111 the market shortly, Partiou- ( arsmay bo had on application at tho Star office. Mr Carthe-w has just opened his case, ax Coptic, containing his usual monthly 3upply of journals, books of fashions and all the latost publications. Mr John Newman has received from the Hematite Paint Company, Collingwood, specimons of tho several colors now prepared and ready for a market. These may be seen on application to Mr New man who has been appointed agent. A Sydney paper says : — " Ther* has been a motion before the S. A. Parliament to reduce the Governor's salary to £'4000. There is not a Governor in Australia who is worth anything like £4000 to anybody but the snobs who hang round every viceregal residence. At Campbelltown, Rangitikei, 2 or 3 of the parents who are members of the Plymouth Brethren have burnt the cards and blue nibbon which were given them by Mr Burnett The reason assigned is that total abstinence is not taught in the Bible.— Poht. Judgment was delivered at Paris on July 3rd in the trial of M. Meyer, proprietor of the Gaulois, tor vu T awfully wounding M. Drumont, the author of "La France Juive," in a duel on April 25 last. The accused was condemned to pay a fine of 200h, the charge of premeditation not being sustained. The heaviest wood known among the four hundred species ©f trees found in America is said to be the black ironwood of Southern Florida, which is 30 per cent heavier than water. Sixteen of the species, it is stated, are so heavy that their perfectly dry wood will sink in water. Word has been received from the secretary of the Foxton football club, agreeing to the degidiug match, between Feidmg and Foxton, being played at Palmerston next Saturday. Wo understand our players have not rolled up at all well to practise this week, but we hope now the match is so near they will attend better. A meeting of those interested in the Makmo Cheese Factory was held in Mr Corpe'e office, last night, when it was decided to carry on the business of the factory on the co-operative principle. Mr Davis has agreed to remain as manager for tho season, and has accepted a share in the concern. A meeting of milk-sup-pliers is called for Wednesday evening next, in the Makino school. The following is a list of the creditors in the estate of Phillips, of Awahun road, a bankrupt. Secured creditors — Bank of Australasia, £13S 4s, yalue of security, £130 ; D. E. Lewers, £133 19s, value of secarity, £105 ; Munro, £970, value of security, £1400. Unsecured creditors — P. Griney, £7 15s ; P. Sheerin, £4 ; T. E. Chamberlain, £20. Total £31 15s. Total liabilities, £1271 18s. Total assets, £1635. We understand that a meeting of the council of the Manchester Eifles will be held in a few days to arrange preliminaries for the annual ball of the corps, which has been held hitherto in the month of September. As these gatherings have invariably been most successful and enjoyable we have every confidence the assembly for this year will prove no exception to the rule. Mr Andrew Thomson has been temporarily appointed to the position of Clerk to the Court at Wostport, where he will proceed some time next week. Mr Thomson will take the place of the present Clerk at Westport during the time of that gentleman's three months leave of absence. It is uncertain whether Mr Thomson will return to Feilding. He will b« succeeded here by Mr S. M. Baker, now of Foxton. Mr Tom Nicholas, who has been an operator in the Telegraph Office at Napier for the past three and a-half years, is to be shifted to Whakapuaka, the cable station near Nelson, and proceeds overland to-morrow morning. Mr Nicholas has made many friends during his residence here, and m all matters in connection with athletic games he is no mean authority. He is an acquisition to any district, and while regretting his departure we oongratulate the young men of Nelson upon getting him in their midst, and we (Napier Telegraph) cordially wish him every success and advancement in the public service. The following 'statement of assets and liabilities has been filed in the estate of Henry Hughes, of Awahuri, settler. Assets : — Book debts, £2 10s ; one swing plough, £7 ; one gelding, £4 , total, £13 10s. Liabilities :— G. M. Snelson, Palmerston, £55 14s; Cnghton, Feilding, £7 14s; Jackman, Awahuri, £5; Bennett, Awahuri, £7 3s ; M. Keen, Feilding, £2 14s; — Feilding, £2 15s; Towers, Awahuri, £9 Is; Stevens & Gorton, Palmerston, £7 9s ; McLenaghan, Awahuri, £5 14s; Kirkbride, Marton Advocate, £3; Halcombe & Sherwill, Feilding, £1 10s ; Harry Stewart, Awahuri, £5 13s ; Chas. Henry, Feilding, £4 7s ; T. E. Williams, Foxton, £4 7s 6d ; S. M. Baker, Foxton, £5 ss ; J. McDowell, Palmerston, draper, £2 14s, Total, £136 10s 6d. The total estimated deficiency is £123 0s 6d.—Manawatu Times. A short time ngo it wa« reported that a portion of the body of a woman had been discovered in Brussels under circumstances leading to the belief that a murder had been committed. Subsequently it was stated that the remains had been placed were they were found, by way of a joke, by notne medical otudents. A new aspect has now been placed upon the discovery, bearing out the first impression that a crime had been committed. A. box sent from Brussels to Vilvorde Station, being unclaimed and giving out an offensive smell, w»s opened, and found to contain the mutilated trunk of a woman wrapped in dried seaweed, which on examination exactly corresponded with the limbs found in Brussels In the box was the fragment of the address of a midwife named Kodelet, which put the police on the track. The woman has been questioned and arrested, with a Frenchman named Masqueli#r, living with her, on a charge of having caused the death. Work on the Wellington and Manawatu ail way is progressing famously. In a fortnight the tunnels will be finished, and trains will run rij.*ht through to I'aikakanki by the end of the month. It i« certnin that through communication with New Plymouth will be established next November. But before the final ceremony there will be an intermediate one of driving the last spike in the rails at the connection at Wailcanae. On that occasion there will be a meeting of trains fn>m Pnlmerifon North and Wellington, und a com m in -ling of citizens of both places. When the railway does run right through to New Plymouth the journey will occupy two day*, unless the speed on the Government part of the line can be iccelerated, which is not very likely. vVanganui will be the stopping place for )he night in all likelihood. — N. Z. Times.

Mr J. Campion, of Foildmg, invites j tenders for ploughing and sowing 30 acres of grafs land. Mr Omnium aUo a.lv«rtises ten tons of unthmsuod o;u,eu sfcra-w for sale. Little Willie prayed \<n\% and iri'ffectunlly for a little brother At last he jjave it up' as "no v p." Soon nhi>v his mother had the pleasure of showing him twin babies. He looked at them >\ moment and then exclaimed : " How lucky is was I stopped praying ! There might have been three." The bushmeu working m oar neigh» bourhood do not labour under the same disadvantageous circumstances as their compeers in India. We learn from an exchange that last year the output of I timber and fuel in the Bengal forests considerably decreased ; but the wonder seems to bp that so much timber is annually cut in the Bengal forests, seeing that no fewer than 119 wood cutters were killed by tigers, and several paras were abandoned in consequence of the number of men carried away, and the remainder, as was not unnatural, lost faith in the fakir who dwelt there specially t» protect them by religious observances against the tigers, and deserted. Snoeting in the dense jungles of the Sunderbunds is extremely difficult, and it is, therefore, not surprising ta hear that only fifteen fullgrown tigers and one tiger cub were killed during the year. Many Wellington people will remember MrE. H. Tate, formerly of the Union Bank in that city, and for a long time a prominent member of St. Peter's vestry. He afterwards removed to Tiraaru and entered inte partnership with Mr Thomas Hall. Recent disclosures in connection with the latter individual have served to unpleasan'ly recall the melancholy death of Mr Tate some six years ago, when he was found lying in a paddock under cir» cummstances which suggested that he had iv a moment of temporary aberration of intellect, yielded to the pressure of financial embarrasments, and sought release from them and from existence together by taking poison. Mr Tate's whole life and conduct were so opposed to the idea that he had committed self-destruc-tion that great numbers of his friends absolutely refused to believe that his death was due to his own act. Tho number of those who doubt whether poison was self-administered is now largely increased.