Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 41, 16 September 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Tho jam made at Petone, a suburb of Wellington, is tho best in tho market, Tl»e value of ostrich feathers is *n tne decrease.

We need hardly remind our readers of the Dioramas at the Public Hall this evening.

English and Australian Mails ex Manapouri'may be expected to arrive in Feilding this evening.

The Feilding Brass Band will perform on Manchester Square on Sunday afternoon.

Eoyal Commission re claims of old soldiers will sit at Palnierston on Saturday.

Tho directors of the Wellington Woollen Company have sent Home for the plant necessary for lighting the works with the electric light.

A meeting of creditors in the estate of Phillips, a bankrupt, wag held at the Court House to day. A report will appear in our next issue.

On dit that there will be a contest for the Feilding mayoralty. The names of a present, and an ex-counefcior are freely mentioned. — Sub rosa.

A correspondent in the Manawatu Times calls the Palmerston Borough Council "a legal debating club." This is very unkind.

It is estimated the Panama canal will be open in four years ; somewhere about the time when the central railway will be completed.

About 30 head of fine fat cattle were purchased by Mr Thompson, of Christchurch, at Freeman E. Jackeon and Co.'s Johnsonville sale last week, and forwarded ts the city of the plains as an experiment.

The catalogue of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next sale which will be held at Awahuri on Tuesday, the 21st instant, appears elsewhere. It will be observed the lots to be submitted are very numerous and varied.

Thirty years ago Bishop Herfoot wrote to Bishop Whittingham ; ' 'If trial by peer* is eyer a humbug, it is when any order of clergymen are the jurymen. They will indict a brother for being suspected, and then hang him for being indicted."

A meeting of the Council of the Manchester Rifles will be held m the Corporation offices on Saturday next at 7 p.m. We understand that with other business, tho preliminary arrangements of the anniversary ball will be made.

They have got a ghost m Wellington, many persons have been badly frightened by the idiot who thinks terrifying women and young children a very funny joke. When he is discovered we hope he will be cured of his jesting propensities by an application of the cat.

We are pleased to learn that Mr A. D. Willis, who returned to Wanganui on Tuesday from an extended business tour in the South Island, did very well and disposed of a large quantity of his chromohthographic work. The Chronicle says the result of his trip quit© equalled his expectations.

Messrs J. H. Bethune and Co. offered for sale on Monday last a farm in the Sandon Block, near Feilding. It contains over 300 acres of improved land, well divided, and has a dwelling-house and other buildings. It was purchased by Mr (J. J. Munro for £900.— N.Z. Times.

An excitement has been got up in the United States and Central America over — so-called — recent discoveries of m gold mines ia Honduras. It was known many years ago that gold and precious stones existed there m plenty, but the drawbacks of a bad climate combined with obstructions offered by the Indians have hitherto proved more than sufficient to prevent a rush.

Before the new books for the Public Library arriye it will be well for the library committee to make room to receive them by clearing the shelves of a number of the worn out or <( expended" volumes, or if the memorios attached to them are too tender to allow of this, new book cases had better be ordered at once.

The Manawatu Co-operative Steam Shipping Company are determined that they will keep pace with the times by offering sharp competition for passenger traffic from Foxton to Wellington. The company notifies to-day that fares have been reduced to— saloon, single, 12/6; return, £1, and steerage 8/. Meals to be provided on board at a small charge. This liberality deserves warm support from the travelling public.

The Wanganui Herald says :— They are starting a deep sea fishing company in Christchurch. Sir Julius Yogel has subscribed for a number of shares, and other gentlemen are giving the project support. The coasts aroand New Zealand literally teem with fish, but we fancy that portion of it abreast Banks' Peninsula is about the least prolific m deep sea fish. The Sounds are the favorite localities for the best fish, and will some day be the most profitable scenes of industry. (Our contemporary is misinformed about the deep sea fishing off Banks' Peninsula. The quantity of fish to be caught there in tho season is not to be surpassed.)

Six sparrows were poisoned at Hastings the othor day, four of which died ; the other two in their death throes were picked up, thair beaks opened, and a little whisky was poured down their throats. Those two little sparrows got very drunk, but they are living to thip day, examples of the fact that alcohol had its uses. If those sparrows had been picked up by a teetotaller or a Napier man (moralizes the P.T.I their little lives would have been sacrificed to a narrow-minded fad, or the conservative prudence of a person whose class are too prudent to waste good liquor on a pair of ruffianly sparrows.

Mr Marchant, Commissioner of Crown Lands, arrived in Pahiatna on Monday ! night to iuspeut the Village Settlement. ' Mr L. A. Moore, organ and pianoforte tuner, advertises he is now in Feildiug. ! Orders may be addressed to the Star office l Mr Webster, the manager of the Bank of Australasia here, has been appointed to the same position in the Bank at Ashburton, Canterbury. \. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Warnings for westerlej gales have been sent to all places north of Napier and | New Plymouth. j To-day we publish P. R. Jackson & Co.'s catalogues of sales at Ashurst, on Thursday, the 23rd inst., and at Palmerston, on Friday, the 24th inst. In a football match, Beef v. Beer played in Auckland between representa- . tiye teams of the butchering and brewing establishments, victory went with the representatives of beer by 7 points to 2. Mr W. De Gr. Reeves, the officer in charge of the Agricultural Department, is now on a visit to the West Coast of this Island, enquiring into farming matters, and particularly those relating to the manufacture of butter and dairy produce.

Mrs Hall, wife of Hall of the Timaru poisoning case, expresses a belief in her husband's innocence of any premeditated attempt against her life, and has protested against his being placed in his present position upon mere medical testimony.

The editor of the Wanganm Chronicle is nothing of not polite. Referring te the statement that an examination of the books of the Woodville Examiner disclosed that the business yielded a profit of £1000 a year, he says — "This is a delightful literary fiction." Nothing could be put more nicely.

The Woodville Examiner says; — " The man who would move in the House next session the peremptory dismissal of Mr Maxwell and his Orders in Council would be looked upon as a saviour of his country." We fear that more than a " mere motion" will be required to oust Mr Maxwell.

We learn from a Cape paper that the Most Rev. Bishop Ricards has been appointed by his Holiness the Pope to th* newly created Catholic diocese of Christchurch. The Eastern Star says the news has been received with consternation by every good Catholic at Port Elizabeth.

Mr John Ruskin has addressed the following letter to a gentleman in North Wales with reference to Mr Gladstone's measures Eor the future Government of Ireland : — " Dear sir, — .Nothing that any Parliament oould do would be ©f the least use at present. England and Ireland mast suffer for their past sins. How Jong, and to what issue, Heaven only knows."

The following very ambiguous paragraph we cull from an exchange :— Six horses seized for ebt were sold recently in Adelaide for eighteen pence per head. The following Saturday meat was plenti* ful and cheap in tho market. The meat bore no resemblance to either beef, mutton or pork, and was sold for 2d per pound.

Yesterday we inspected a four wheel buggy, made in the establishment of Mr Robert Parr, coachbuilder, to the order of a gentleman resident in Carnarvon. Apart from its general appearance of neatness and elegance, it is of great strength, running lightly and comfortably on its springs. The painting and decoration is remarkably neat and was executed by a son of the builder. The whole turn out is very creditable to the establishment.

The Foxton Herald says : — We regre* to learn that Mr .Robert M'Lean is to be the next settler to leave Foxton for '"tresh fields and pastures new." In this case Palmerston is not the land of promise, Feilding being the chosen city. As an active member of the Primitive Church, and an earnest worker in the cause of temperance, Mr M'Lean's influence has been great, and his departure will be keenly telfc. We learn that a farewell tea will be given to Mr and Mrs M'Lean at the Temperance Hall to-morrow evening.

There is a class of young colonials, growing under the favouring shadow of the law, who are little better than wild beasts. They have never exercised selfcontrol, and their views of the law are as of a thing; to be evaded when they can, but to be defied when it comes in their way. There is no doubt that the lenieacy with which wilful and deliberate defiance of the law is treated, and the little satisfaction that is afforded to anyone, whether he is a citizen or constable, that brings an offender to justice, is {the cause, ultimately, of enormous cost to the State in punishing criminals. Bell.