Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 44, 23 September 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

I A tea meeting, under the auspices of the Feilding Blue Ribbon Army will be held this evening in tho Temperance Hall. We publish to-day a new advertisement from Messrs Steyous and Gorton to which tho special attention of farmers and settlers is directed. A London tologram informs us that tho Earl of Dalkeith was accidentally shot dead when stag hunting There is no such title in Scottish peerage. The experiment of planting willow stakes on the banks of tho Makino stream might be tried with great advantage. This plan of preventing encroachments has proved very successful in other known instances. The Manchester Riflos Ball committee met on Tuesday night and made a number of arrangements which, when com- , pleted, will make the coming event the ] most successful the corps has yet attempted. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited, haye received the following telegram from their London office, dated 15t mst. : — Wool. — Competition is increasing, and quotations are on an average Id per lb better than at the opening of the series. The A merican demand has fallen off. Up to date 116,000 bales have been sold. The salo programme has been curtailed by four days. Tallow is dull of sale. Australian mutton and beef have each declined (id per cwt. since last report.

Mr Toague will give an exhibition in the Public llall on Saturday night. F. R. Jackson and Co. will hold a largo stock sale at Palmorston to- morrow. Russia and Turkey are persistently urging England to evacuate Egypt. Mr Webster, manager of the Bank of Australasia, will leave Feilding on Tuesday next. Colouol Roberts is to be appointed to the command of the permanent forces in Auckland. I Mr Nathan is the only candidato for the Mayoralty of Wangauui. He deserves to bo returned unopposod. A laan naraod Ward died of starvation in Wellington a few days ago. He has left a widow and eight children. Auckland boat the New South Wales footballers last Tuesday by fourteen points to four. An important advertisement from the Secretary of the Foiiding Special Settlement Association appears to-day. Eight truck loads of bullocks left here by train for Wanganui last night for shipment to Wellington. They were from the Oroua Downs station. A. report was latoly current to the effect that England was making a coaling: station at Thasos, an island in tho iEgean Sea, but it is now said to bo untrue. The Ropublique Francaise admits that France has an understanding with Russia against England as far as her action in the Mediterranean, and the far east is concerned. Mr E. Goodbohero advertises to-day for tenders for felling 35 acres of light bush in the Foiiding Small Farm Block. Tondors close on Saturday the 2nd October at noon. We regret to announce that the eldest son of Mr A. R. Curtis (one of tho proprietors of this journal) now lies at the house of his father so dangerously ill that his recovery»is more than doubtful. A 'Napier lunatic, who was sent to Wellington on Friday last, took three men to put him on board the steamer. This is an improvement on the submissive creatures sent from Wanganui. It is highly probablo that an attempt will be made to form a Coursing Club m Feildiug. One or two gentlemen have the matter in hand, and they have received considerable encouragement. Mr Edward Wakefield has given M r Froude a fearful dressing in the Nineteenth Century. The Pictorial World in referring to the article said it would have been more effectual of Mr Wakefield had kept his temper. A supreme ass, in Auckland, who signs himself " Rifleman" cavils at the proposal to hold the next Encampment at New Plymouth, because Taranaki would benefit by the spending of the large assemblage of volunteers. The catalogues of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale at Feilding on the 30th instant, and at tho Palmerston Borough sale yards on Thursday, the 7th of October, appear elsewhere. The entries m each case are very numerous. The proprietor of the Red House has jußt had completed to his order a light express waggon to bo used in the delivery of goods and parcels. Mr Parr was the builder, and it is needless to say he has turned out an excellent piece of workinanehip. To prevent an alliance between Russia and France Prmce Bismark yielded to the Czar. Tho independent German Press complain that he is becoming a Russian vassal. Turkey is making great exertions on the Bulgarian and Armenian frontiers. A resolution waa passed, a month ago nearly, by the Borough Council that all owners of unregistered dogs should be sued forthwith. The matter appears to have been forgotten, or hung up, as the R.M. Court was held yesterday and no cases were brought forward. The fruit trees in the several orchards in the M anchester Block promise to be more than ordinarily productive this ! season. Should the frosts be slight, I several tons of all kinds of fruit will be sent to the Wellington market, which will be available on the completion of the Wellington-Manawatu Railway. Mr Robert Hunter at the Diocesan Synod, Wellington, the other day solemnly bade farewell to the members, assuring them ho could no longer occupy a seat as representative of St Peter's on account of the "goings on" there. The "goings on" had been the representation of " Pa- j hence" in the Church schoolroom. Poor fellow ! The following is the result of the examination at the Upper Taonui school, hold j on September 16 1886 :— Standard VI, 1 presented, 1 failed ; standard V, 6 presented, 5 passed ; standard IV, 4 pre- j sented, 1 absent, 1 passed ; standard 111, 10 presented, 3 exceptions, 3 passed; standard 11, 7 presented, 1 absent, 4 passed ; standard I, 9 presented 9 passed ; preparatory, 25. Percentage of passes on number examined, omitting exceptions 68.72. Some of our contemporaries are making sarcastic comments on Mr Haggan, the proprietor of tho Woodville Examiner, because he draws his travelling allowances, authorised by law as a member of the Land and Education Boards in Napier. Why he should be expected to pay his oxpensos, and those of the other members be paid by the Government is beyond our ken. But any p«g is good enough for malice to hang on. With reference to the proposed Friendly Societies Fete we are informed that at a meeting of delegates held in Palmorston on Monday last, at which Wellington and other lodges wore represented, when it was decided to hold the demonstration at Palmerston on the first holiday generally available and not already appropriated for other purposes. It was estimated that from 1500 to 2000 members of societies would attend. Tho usual quarterly financial meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows was held in Feilding on Tuesday evening last, whon the Provincial Grand Master and a numbor of visiting brethren from tho Loyal Manawatu Lodge of Palmerston paid a fraternal visit to their Feilding brethren. Tho chief object of their yisit, we understand, was to discuss the question of the devision of the sick and funeral, and management funds, so as to agree upon a moro satisfactory basis of appropriation for country districts. It was unanimously agreed that tho present proportion o' contribution, apportioned to meeting oxpenses of manngemen , ie insufficient whereas tha allowance to the sick and funeral fund is unnecessarily high, resulting in an accumulation of capital much larger than nocessary to meet any demands which might bo made upon it. A resolution was carried that the meetings of tlio Foiiding Lodge bo hold for the future in tho For- ] esters Hull. J3o\ven street. /

Mr Sveudsen has just opened sereral cases of new boots and shoes. We have to tlmuk the Government printer for Hansard JNo. 26. A four-roomed co'tasre with (or without) 2| acres ©f land is advertised to let. Wangauui is exporting tea to Wellington. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — . Warnings for gales as above indicated and much rain have been sent to all stations. ■ The name of the Ray Joshua Jones, of Fcildinff, is mentioned 48 one of the clergymen willing to accept the vacant cure at the Lower Hutt. The Manawatu Times says it is rumoured another medical man and another solicitor are about to commence practice in Palmerston. More locusts. In two years time Sir Charles Dilke will be spoken of as a martyr to woman's malice, and political spite. The Hon. J. Bathgate, M.L.C., died in Dunediu on Tuesday afternoon. He arrived in the colony in 1863, as manager of the Otago Bank, and afterwards was, for a short time, manager and editor of the Olago Daily Times. He was provincial solicitor in the Provincial Executive, and afterwards became a member of Vogel's Ministry. He is survived by 19 children, nearly all grown up, and 27 grand-children. It is with deep regret we (Manawatu Times) learn that the Premier is carrying out his expressed intention to delay the construction of the Gorge line. We learn on good authority that it is now tß tended to go on with the earthwork alone, cutting the bridges, tunnels. &c, out of the eontnict. If this is the case it practically means that the work is to be shelved until next session. We would suggest that united action be taken by the districts interested. Monday was a notable day to the Wel-lington-Manawatu Company, siace exactly a year before the Company first began to run the line on a regular time table. The train at that time went to Paremata. Looking back at the year's work one cannot help remarking the success with which the Company's operations have been conducted in every way. Although the traffic has been largo and always on the increase, such a thing as an accident has never been known, in spite, too, of the engineering difficulties which the country presents. With respect to the increased trnfßc it may be mentioned that tfie Company has found it necessary to provide more accommoda* tion. The station offices are now being considerably enlarged, and the yard is also to be oxtended, in order to give more room for shunting, etc. Equallj notice* able from another point of view is the admirable efficiency with which the Company's officials have done their by no means unimportant share ot the work. The service has been managed in such a way as to leave nothing to be desired, and no doubt the directors can well appreciate the energy and industry which has been showu by their emplojes in the first year of the line's existance. Every thing is now pretty nearly ready for opening right through as soon as the work is finished. The engines are in first-class working order, hiving recently been thoroughly overhauled. — N.- Z. Times.