Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 47, 30 September 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

We learn from a pnrate lefctor that a large number of lambs have been destroyed in Taranaki by the bad weather. Tenders for falling 35 acres of bush -will close at the office of Mr E. Goodbehere on Saturday next. A general meeting of the members of the Ffiilding Special Settlement Association will be held on Satin-day evening at 8 o'clock at the office of Mr Bray. The Feilding State School Committee does not stand woll with the Education Board in Wanganui. An application made for illustrations of tame animals was curtly refused.

There was a sharp frost here yesterday morning. The Sunday trains on the WellingfconHutt railway line, are said to pay well. It is the intention of Mr Adsett to close his Feilding timber yard. We have to thajik the Government Printer for No. 27 of Hansard. The Post does not wish the Government to fill the death vacancies in the Legislative Council. The ladies of the two Catholic parishes Wellington, are making arrangements to hold a monster bazaar in May next. China refuses to recognise the French protectorate over Catholics, and the Government will act regardless of the Vatican and France. The constable in charge of the Feilding police office has been appointed a Probation Officer under "The First Offenders Probation Act 1886." The Badical press declare that the renewal of outrages in Ireland will ruin tho alliance between the Gladstonites and Parnellites. An encounter has taken place between a party of Moonlighters and the Kerry police. The latter captured six t and wounded two. We regret to notice that Constable Price has not yet recovered from the illness which necessitated his receiving leave of absence from his station at Foxton. Mr Wollerman has been elected a member »f the Palmerston Borough Council. The local papers speak highly of his probable usefulness. A Napier bankrupt named Hulme lived at the rate of £2000 a year, while his actual earnings and income only amounted to £1 a month ! The tradespeople had to provide the balance. The funeral of the late daughter of Mr Robert Parr took place yesterday, and was largely attended. The Eev. Mr Murray officiated at the grave, and Messrs Pope and Pearson were the undertakers. The Prince of Wales has declined to accept a testimonial for his connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. He requests that the funds collected shall be devoted to an Imperial Institute. Mr Charles Henry has a startling: advertisement to-day. He informs us bis prices are unequalled for those who practice wise economy in only buying the best articles. The new books at the Wanganui Public Library are only issued to subscribers who have cashed up. The Herald says this is necessary to make the lons- winded people pay up. This ought to be a hint for our local Librarian. The Jewish year 5647 commenced yesterday at 6 p.m. The Day of Atonement, held sacred by a fast, falls on Saturday, October 9. In this connection we may mention fact that there is not one Jew resident oil the Manchester Block. We learn from the Cnnstchurch Press that it is the intention -of the Canterbury Scottish to form a pipe band in connection with the corps of four pipers,; two sidedrums, and a drum, -under Pipe-Majoi Campbell. This ought to prove a death blow to " the depression" in the City ol the Plains. Politeness will restrain this band from playing " Hey Jomue Cope," we hope. A very peculiar case is to be argued it the Banco Court in a few days. The Key. Mr Dodwell, who was at one time stationed at Bulls, has instituted proceedings against the Bishop of Wellington, with the object of recovering damages for deprivation of office, and certain preliminary law points are to be discussed on Wednesday. Some interesting particulars are likely to come to light. — Post. The Mangaone school was examined on the 20th inst., the following are the results : — Standard VI, 2 presented, 1 exception, 1 passed ; standard TV, 1 presented, 1 failed ; standard 111, 12 presented, 4 absent, 1 exception, 4 passed , standard 11, 7 presented, 2 absent, 5 passed; standard 1, 11 presented, 1 absent 2 exceptions, 8 passed ; below standard I, 23. Percentage of passes on the number examined 81.81. A man named McEvoy, an old New Zealand war pensioner, was severely burnt in his hut on Tuesday night. It appears two swaggers were passing, and McEvoy invited them in to have some tea. They requited the hospitality of the old man by making him gloriously drunk, in which condition he rolled into the fire, where he was so severely burnt that ha had to be sent to the Wanganui Hospital by train yesterday afternoon. The following cheering local we extract from the Advocate: — The cry is, "Still they come ?" We hear of yet another candidate for the Bangitikei seat. It is rumoured that a well-known gentleman, who does not live in Paraekaretu, Bulls, or Upper Rangitikei will enter the lists at the next general election. Before the nomination day arrives, about 12 months hence, we expect to see enough candidates to give the electors "a real good time !" We hope so. No better example of misplaced confidence can be given thaß that of the man who fools with a hand truck. Almost daily some misguided one tries to stand upon the truck which is used on the railway platform, while he loans against the fence to rest his bones. It is wonderful to see the way that truck resentp the insult, and sprawls its victim without regard to decorum. W« regret to say a lady was ungallantly treated by it the other day. Tho ranger from Palmerston caused quite a sensation atxmt Taonui by capturing the cattle straying on the roads. As most of the male residents of the district were at their daily employment, their better halves had to come to terms with the Tamrer. The excitement of some of the adiee engaged tv ludic oub im endeavoring to rescue their cows and calves, but the ranger was firm, and demanded full payment of all fees before he let the cattle go. He appears to have had a good muster. It is a pity he could could not have collected a few of the pigs wandering about, as the state they leave the r«ads in is something awful; rooting everywhere and making the road almost impassable ia some. parts. There was a grand battle in Palmerston on Monday night at a meeting hold to consider the question of cutting up fche Squaro. After an animated discussion during which some very unparliamentary laneuage was nsed, the lie direct being freely given, a resolution was passed condemning the proposal. Every one who has a really honest regard for the appearance of the town must be glad the scheme was knocked on the head. We learn from the Manawatu Times that several of the debaters came to blows during the fivemnsr. This was, no doubt, a pleasant break to the monotony, and we hope the man who called out to the mayor " you are a liar" "was one of the parties and got well thrashed l'«r his insolence. l

The next Mayor of Wanganui is likely t© vece'we €150 a year The Wanganui Rifles are being instructed in guard mounting. There are one hundred men employed on the Hunterville contract. A stray lunatic is reported to be at large at Manutahi. Shearing started around Mount Stewart on Monday. The clip is said to be remarkably good. The advertisement of Mr G. T. Lyne's Denbigh House, General Store, will appear on Saturday. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Warnings for gales after 12 hours hold good at all stations. Captain Edwin has a profound dislike to fine weather, therefore he has arranged for rain and wind to-morrow. Mr William Stevens has just received a splendid stock of tweeds and cloths from New Zealand and English factories. The cricket season has begun in other parts of the Colony, therefore we may soon expect to hear of the Manchester men making a more. Messrs Stevens and Gorton held a sale here to-day. The attendance was good) and the prices showed an upwards teudancy. The Her. Joshua Jones has been nominated for the parish of St. .lames', Lower Hutt, and will probably leave Feilding early in' November. A leader in a Scotch paper produced the following gem : — So long as Ireland was silent under her wrong*, England was dear to her cries. Efforts are being made to arrange a match between Beacii . and Gaudaur for next year, the prize to consist of a purse of 2uoo sovh. The first lamb of the season was exhibited in the shop of Mr Rutherford to-day. It was one of Mr Rutherford's own rearing, and of splendid quality. The Hawkes Bay Education Board have a rule that girls must wear slippers during school hours. Every girl there* fore carries with her the instrument of her own punishment. A large number of friends of the deceased left this and the Rangitikei districts to attend the funeral of the late Mr F. Byrce, which took place yesterday at Brunswick. The Rev. Mr Doual, of Bulls, officiated at the grave. General Boulanger served under the Due d'Aumale in Algeria. The Duke, m one of his reports, appended the following note . — " Boulanger, good, intelligent officer, but ill-bred." Now that Boulanger commands the army, it would be interesting to know his opinion of the l>uc d'Aumale. During the thunderstorm in Wellington on Monday night, one flash of lightning struck the maintop-gallant-mast of the Sophia B. Luhrs, lying in the harbour, aud cut away about two feet of the pole bearing the weather cock. Three men on the deck at the same time were knocked down and rendered insensible for a time. The French are exacting the concession of additional territory in the vicinity of the harbour of Diego- Saurez, on the eastern coast of Madagascar, and threaten, unless their claims are acceded to, to withdraw their Resident, and the block* ade-of Tamatave will be renewed. A case of lockjaw, resulting. from a wound to the foot, has been cured at the Wigan Infirmary in England by the subcutaneous administration of atropia — a highly poisonous substance extracted from deadly night-shade. A bright story of a small Scotchman about four years old, reported in a Philadelphia paper, is applicable to Thanksgiving, " I want some pie," said Angus, at dinner with his grandfather. " Have patience," said his. grandmother. " Which would you rather have," asked his grandfather, "patience or'pieP" "Pie" responded Angus, emphatically. "But then," said his grandfather, " there might not be any left for me." " Well," said the small bey, "you could have patience." We learn from the annual report of the Wellington and Wairarapa Acclimatisation Society that starlings have taken a firm hold m the Wellington Province, and are doing an immense amount of good. The few ortolans brought out from the south of France, and liberated at Otaki, bred last year, and there is now a small fleck. The decrease of native game is noticed with regret. Bed deer are largely on the increase in the Maungaraki Range and the country adjacent. They feed on the native fuchsia in spring and summer, and koromiko and pother shrubs in winter. Lord Beaconsfield in his great speech in the House of Lords on July 18, 1878, on his return from Berlin, thus referra to Batoum, which hns recently been made a close port or Russia in contravention of the terms of the Treaty of Berlin : — " Let us ask, ' what is thin Bstnum of which you have heard ho much? It is generally spoken of in society and in the world as a sort of Portsmouth, whereas, in reality, it should be compared with Cowes. It will hold three considerable ships and if it were packed like the London Docks it might hold six ; but m that case the danger, if the wind blew from the north would be immense ' " The Hon. Thomas Dick hns issued the following remarkable address to the electors of l>unedin Central .- — "Gentlemen — It appears that you have the choice of several gentlemen to represent you, among others Mr Wales, a gentleman of merit, integrity, arid experience; Mr Bracken, a gentleman who can sing a «ong. recite poetry, and write rhymes ; Mr Chapman, a young solicitor, who has yet to win his spurs ; Mr Hutchison, an old campaigner As thin election can only be for one short session, it is waste of power to enter into a violent: contest. I therefore withdraw.— Yours obediently, Thomas Dick."