Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 18 September 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

We direct attention to Mr S. J. Thompson's new advertisemont re Kaiapoi goods at the "Red House."

" Ivo" and Dr Gilbert are likely to have a public discussion. Gate money to be divided.

The Royal Commission to enquire into the claims of old soldiers sat at Palmerston to-day.

We direct particular attention to the stock sale advertisements which appear to-day.

Tenders for the purchase of the whole or part of the stock-in-trade and landed pr -perty, in tl e ostate of A. Gray, of Foxton, are invited by the Deputy Official Assignee.

A gentleman, in Feilding, has received a letter from Mr D. R. Lewers, who left for Home per Riinutaka in the latter part of May. Mr Lewers had a splendid voyage which was much enjoyed by himself and family. He found affairs in Ireland much quieter than he expected from the reports sent out to the colonies.

A meeting of the executive committee of the Blue Ribbon Army was held in the Temperance Hall »n Thursday evening. The Mayor sent a verbal message to say he was willing to accept the presidency of the Army. Arrangements wore made for the opening tea on the 23rd. Several other necessary details were looked to, after which the meeting adjourned.

The liongburn Cheese Factory, which commenced operations a fortnight ago, is now receiving 150 gallons of milk daily, and it ia expected that in December the daily take m will be 1000 gallons. The cheese made last season was of a very good quality, and both buyers and sellers of milk are quite satisfied with the result.

We are indebted to tho Honorable tho Minister of Lands for an extract from the Northern Wi#, Ireland, giving a detailod account of the now Scutching Machine, Cardon's patent. It is too long for insertion in our columns thoret'oro we can only giye it a brief notice by remarking that if the patent is as good as its inventor claims it to be, it will exercise a most important influence over the flax trade by making it payable in Now Zealand, a consummation nover yet arrived at. Their cost is £400.

We roe-vet to hear that Mr Frocl Bryco i still continues seriously ill. ; Several additions are made to-day to tho Awahuri sale of Messrs Stevens and Gorton. A meeting of the Council of the Manchester Rifles will bo hold at 7 o'clock this evening. Mass will be colebrated m St. Bridget's Church, JFeilding, to-morrow (Sunday) at 8 o'clock. The Reforeo is filed at this office, and . may be referred to by any of our sporting readers. The Press Association Agent telegraphed tho other day that gold had been discovered near Hokitika. Ho is tho man who knows that Queen Anne is dead. There was a meeting of the Kiwitea Road Board hold to-day. A report of I the proceedings will appear in our next issue. The Napier Telegraph says, "for a snarling, cavilling newspaper, recommend us to tho Wangauui Herald." Recommend is good. At Stevens and Gorton's Awahuri sale five weaner pigs — China — Berkshire, will be submitted for purchase ; also a duplex chaffcutter. The Palmerston sale of Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. promises to bo one ©f the largest of the season. Several additions to the catalogue are made to-day. The mooting of Mr Phillip's creditors called for Thursday last, lapsed for want of a quorum. The reason for the bankruptcy was the failure of crops. On Tuesday next the stopk sale which will be held at Awahuri by Messrs Steyens and Gorton will be the most important which has yet eventuated in that rising village. The Railway Department invites tenders for leasing the right of advertising at stations on the Wanganui section from November 1, 1886, to December 31, 1887. Tenders to be addressed to the District Manager, Wanganui. A Mr Lynch is suing for £250 damages from W. J. Moore, a Fitzroy (Melbourne) publican, for having written a post card on which the plaintiff was requested to pay for certain drinks if he were an honest man. A section of the unemployed m Christchurch has paid Sir Robert Stout the compliment of parading an effigy of him, and subjecting it to a variety of indignities. From such hands this is an honor to the Premier. Fourteen of the seventy-six United States Senators chew tobacco, and fifty- j eight use it in one form or another, while of the 325 members of the Houso only a few wholly abstain from the weed. A special tram which passed through Feilding last night, took down twenty trucks laden with cattle for the next stock sale of Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. at Johnsonville. Two engines were attached. There are more suicides in Paris than in any other city in the world, while Glasgow has the least number of suicides of any city in the world except Edinburgh. Strange that the brightest city in the world should have the most and tho darkest the least of the suicidal mania.

We publish to-day a preliminary notice of the thoroughbred imported horse Feve, also of the well-known thoroughbred horse Hippocampus. Fe"ve is the sire of Patrician who woa the Hoathcote Stakes the other day carrying top weight. Hippocampus is the sire of Speculation, a mare well-known on this coast.

Dr Moorhouse, in acknowledging the receipt of a draft for £1115, the amount of the testimonial subscribed by his friends in Melbourne, says: — "It is a material help to me in meeting tho enormous expenses of my removal and resettlement." Just so!

The Christchurch branch of the Medical Association have called attention to tho scarcity of medical evidence at inquests held in that city, and point out that " the public regard an inquest as a tangible check on crime ; and, as medical evidence forma a most important feature, its absence renders such an inquiry practically useless."

Mr Stevonß has had letters from Mr Wilfred Jackson and Mr A. Fiteherbert from Cambridge Gulf. They had seen the report published that horses were to be had for £2 there, and say they found to their sorrow it was untrue. Hacks are bringing from £30 to £50. They were leaving for the field in a bullock dray. Reports at the Gulf are as unre liable as here.

The presentation to Mr Andrew Thomson will be made this evening at the Denbigh Hotel. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R. , will preside at the banquet. — To-day's Chronicle says : Yesterday Mr Drew forwarded to Foilding a handsome timepiece, which the footballers of Manawatu will present to Mr Andrew Thompson at a farewell gathering to-night in token of their esteem, on the eve of his leaving the district to take up his new appointment at Westport.

A tea meeting under the auspices of the Feilding Blue Ribbon Army will be held in the Temperance Hall, Manchester street, on Thursday, the 23rd instant. His Worship the Mayor, F. Y. Lethbridge, Esq., who is also the President of the organisation, will open the proceedings. There will be speeches by soveral clergymen and laymen interspersed with niusio by the choir, of which Mr Lucas is the leader. We hope there will be a good attendance of the general public as well as those who are already mustered in the ranks of the great canse ot Temperance.

In his account ot the Dilke case the special correspondent of the Auckland Star has the following reference of Mrs Crawford. He says: — Mrs Crawfor i i% 22 years of age, but looks barely 18. She strikes peoplo as the very last person they would expect to see mixed up in nuch an esclandre — a happy, rosy English girl, with a fresh complexion, brilliant eyes, and smiling demeanour. Those who expected to see her at all downcast must have been considerably surprised. Dressed in the h' ight of fashion, she chatted only with her sisters, and with Mr Geo. Lewis lawyer), looking the picture un-em* barrasaed lady- hood, an.l a marked contrast to her stricken and sorrowful husband sitting opposite. A woman named Kate Bohan, alias Swain, was arrested on Wednesday by Detective Hinds, en a charge of having stolen a child's pinafore, bib, and a pair of stays, from th« residence of Hr Ramsay, curator of the Australian Museum. I When searched at the police station, the missing articlex were found concealed under her bustle, while inside that orna» ' mental portion of female attirs was found concealed a quantity of condiments and ; eggs. The woman was brought up in the Water Police Court on Thursday morning hut the prosecutor stating th.it he did not wish to press the charge, she was set at liberty. — Sydney JiYeiiiug .News.

Two lotters for Mr L. W. Moore are at this office. Mr S. M. Bakor, who succeeds Mr A. Thompson as Clerk to tho Court hero, arrived in Foilding last night. Ho took up the duties of the position to-day. There is no accounting for tasle, after all, if the following paragraph from a Society paper is correct : — The story goes that Mrs Crawford received over a dozen offers of marriage during the hearing of the recent case, and that one of these was from a gentleman lenrned in the law and emiment in its practice, who had been captivated in Court during the proceedings.

At the Addington yards on the 9th inst. a remarkable illustration was seen of the thorough soaking given by the late rains. A thickly- wool led, fat crossbred wether presenting rather a curious appearance, the wool on its back was opened out • says the Lyttelton Times) and was found to contain a fine growth of oats, the seed of which had fallen on its back and sprouted there, owing to the wetness of the wool, to the length of about an inch.

I see fsays " Puff") the Under Secretary for the colonies is inviting subscriptions of not more than two guineas to give the I'rince of Wales a memento of the Exhibition ! The donations are only to come from the people who recognise the great service His Royal Highness has done for the colonies ! Sonny we must all l«ok up our microscopes ! Wo mus'nt fail to give because we ean't see the great services with the naked eye ! Suppose plenty will give, anyhow? Of course they will ! One fool will make many, and they'll be sure to put a good name at the top of the list.

A Bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicat. ina: liquors to children under 13 recently passed the House of Lords. As has oeen inyanably the case with all important and salutary reforms since the Reformation, the main opposition to the Bill came from the Bench of Bishops. His Lord* ship of Peter-borough, Dr Magee, " went for" the measure and its supporters in ripirous style, denouncing the latter as " fanatics." The Bishop ha« always been remarkable tor his opposition to temperance legislation and his facetious (though entirely irrelevant) remark that he wonld " rather see England free than England sober," will long be remembered. VI acaulay's well known remark about the Episcopal Bench being seldom orjorer on the side of the people is as true to-day as it was when he made it.