Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 49, 5 October 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Very heavy ram has been falling today, and the barometer has been very low, A feeble attempt at a burglary was made here last Saturday night. No results. The famous Wellington ghost turned out to bo " a party of the name of Johnson." Our Collector is now going his rounds and we hope he will meet with the success his mission deseryes. The Dunedin High school Governors are so short of funds as to be unable to appoint paid examiners. The Ketch Janet was wrocked at Cape Campbell on Saturday night. The crew were picked up by the Hauraki and brought on to Wellington. Mr W. W. Carlile, of Woodville, is reported by the Waipawa Mail, to have sold 536 acres of land at £16 por acre. Mr Horace Baker is understood to be the purchaser. Tenders are invited by Mr L. Holden for felling 100 acres of bush in the Feilding Small Farm Association Block. Specifications may be seen at Mr Haybittle's, Fergusson street. The cost of governing Now Zealand last year, including the Civil Service, was £2,090,853. While the strong drink bill was £2,289,514. This is a charge of about £7 per head of tho population. A temporary book depot has been opened in Fergusson street next to " The Sign of the Boot." The propnetor, Mr Mayo, advertises to-day, on our third page, the class of goods he has to offer to the Feilding public. The man McEvoy, who was burnt at Kiwitea, and is now in the Wanganui Hospital, is in a very low state. Being addicted to the uso of "fire-water," his wounds are badly inflamed, and fears are entertained that ho will not recover. Two of tho Wellington papers— the Times and the Post — aro quarrelling over tho geographical position of tho North Island Mam Trunk line. The Post says it is not in the Manawatu Gorge and the Times says it is. It goes without saying they are both wrong. The bridge near Mr Fitzllerbert's house on tho Makino road, wants a new hand-rail put to it. In its present stato the bridge is a perfect man trap for any unwary individual who may l>e orosfiug in the dark. We would suggest that the Borough Engineer he instructed to effect ' the necessary work.

Campbellton now boasts of a boxing saloon. We regret to learn that Mr Eado is so ill as to bo confined to his room. F. R. Jackson and Co. will hold a sale in Wanganui to-morrow, market day. Messrs Reid and Gray's new advertisement appears to-day on our first page. Wo have to acknowledge recoipt of the New Zealand Industrial Gazette for October. A Home Mission will be held m the Wesleyan chapel this evening at half past soven. Mr Carthew opened to-day his monthly case of books aud magazines direct from England. Six trucks laden with young horses for Hawkes Bay went down with the tram yesterday morning. j A Yankee saw the Pope when in Rome ■ recontly, aud was polito enough to ask j after his wifo and family. A notice to ratopayers appears elsewhere It contains an invitation to pay the second instalment of tho loan rato. Our readers aro reminded that the Anniversary Ball of the Manchester Rifles will be held on Friday evening next. The information laid by Sir Julius! Yogel against Hoskine, the publisher of the Commercial Advertiser, has been withdrawn. One hundred and forty-five head of stock are added to the list of Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s sale on the 14th instant. We learn with pleasure that young Hitchman, a son of Mr Hitchman, Kimbolton road, has recoyered from his recent illness. We understand the Government have no intention of issuing a new Commission of the Peace for some time to come as has been erroneously stated. The Anniversary services of the Primitive Methodist Church will be held on Sunday next. Advertisement giving particulars appears elsewhere. Mr Hamilton's new advertisement wiU appear next issue. Mr Donkin, the Feilding manager, informs us the new goods will be opened and marked this evening ready for to-morrow. Inspector Browno has intimated his intention of taking proceedings under the Stamp Act against the drawer of the promissory note which has figured so conspicuously in the Peate case just concluded. The Wellington Press, referring to the Rev. Joshua Jones curate of St. John's Church, who has been appointed to St. James' parish, Lower Hutt, says the choice will be a very popular one in the Hutt district. It is stated the Attorney-General (Sir Robart Stout) will conduct the prosecution in the Timaru poisoning case. We think this must be a mere canard, as the reasons why the Prime Minister of the colony should not do this thing are patent. The New Zealand correspondent of the Australian Banking Record says:— "lt is stated that no less than 1,000 mortgaged farmers m Canterbury are unable to pay interest, and that in the majority of cases their estates will come to the hammer shortly." On Friday and Saturday last about 7.30 a.m., a loud explosion was heard by several Kiwitea settlers, also by people in Feilding, who thought it was another volcanic eruption. We have been informed that the noise was caused by large blasts on the Central Railway works. Perhaps our Marton contemporary can enlighten us. " A wonderful book for a shilling" as advertised in nearly all the New Zealand papers turns out te be a fraud. The Wanganui Herald refused the advertisement as being altogether too palpable. Enquiries made by the Southland News Sydney has resulted in disappointment the advertiser being non est ! The Feilding Star was equally prudent. The splendid feed growing on tho sides of the road m Eyre street haa made it a good grazing field for several oows and horses which are turned out there every night. The consequence is the ditches are being trampled in and destroyed. The ranger should pay a visit there occasionally as the Borough funds are not sufficiently abundant to keep the water tables in repair merely for grazing purposes. A meeting of settlers was held in Campbellton on Wednesday last, F. Costall in the chair. The business* was to consider the best site for a bridge over the Oroua river. After some discussion when the comparative merits ef Jones' and Hicksford's lines were considered, it was resolved by a majority that the latter otferred the most advantages. A committee was appointed to gain more information than was at the disposal of the meetin g and to report at an early date. The first shipments of new Spring Goods have just been opened up at the Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and Gro» eery Compa»y stores, Manchester street. Mr Cottrell informs ws they are the newest and most fashionable goodf- procurable. A show room is also about to be added to the premises. A new advertisement will appear in our next isiue. The whole of th<» eleven men arrested for the dreadful outrage on the girl Hicks in Moore Park, Sydney, have been before the Police Court and have been remanded pending the recovery of the girl to give evidence. The affair has caused universal horrer in the commnnity, and the state of morality which this and other such crimr-s have slmwn te exist in Sydney has been the subject of much newspaper writing and nlso of many sermons from the pulpit, Bishop Barry, among others, preaching, specially en the topic. The ladies and gentlemen who formed the company that produced " Trial by Jury" so successfully, met at the Public Hall last night. It was decided to take up the operetta of " Patience," and go into activo rehearsal at once. It will probably be played early in December. A vory strong cast has boen made, and wo have every confidence the Show will be the most brilliant ever presented to an audience in Feilding. lf such a thing wero possible, "The Love-sick Maidens" will take the pas from "The Bridesmaids." The following extract from the Wairarapa Dnily will b" of n«e to apiarists in this locality : — We have been requested to ash bpe- keepers who have their bees die, not to leave the old boxes or combs lung about where the bees can get nt them as the bef>s in this district are suffering frnm a very contagious disense. and it means are not taken to stamp it out successful hoe-keeuing will be a impossibility A piece of camphorabout the size of a walnut planed on (be stand nside the hire is said to he- a good preventative against moths and disease.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — 1 Warnings for gales have been sent io all places. During the passage of the Himalaya j from Glasgow the coals in the mam hold ! spontaneously ignited, and it was found j necessary to jettison some of the general cargo and 50 tons of coal. The vessel was, at the time, 500 miles from land, j T"ere was no confusion among the crew i or passengers. The Reporters' Magazine of August in reviewing a handbook for conducting public meetings published by Messrs ' Stevens and Sons, of Chancery Lane. London. E.C, extracts the following piece of advice to promoters of such meetings : — " Make friends with a newspaper reporters, the barest annomncement in the local papers will often be a great ' help to a struggling movement and if the reporters see that their help is thought worth having, if a table is prepared for them in a good position and inkstands, I etc., put ready, they will be sure to reciprocate the compliment. This presupposes also that cards or letter* of invitation have been sent to them beforehand , don't leave them to Jind out that a meeting i is going to be held and compel them to apply to know to know whether their {>resence is wished for. If the matter is eft to chance, they may not hear of your meeting in time or may have made arrangements to be somewhore else at the same moment."