Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 51, 9 October 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The R.M. Court will sit here on Wednesday next. . , W. Waring Taylor is nowoookinthe Hokitika gaol. The Hon. J. Ballance will be banquitted at Masterton on Monday. An entertainment will be given at St. John's schoolrooni on Wednesday next at the usual hour. The English mail, per direct steamer Kaikoura, will arrire by the 6.30 train this evening. In Dunedin the pnce of bread is sjd the 41b loaf. And yet the people are growling at it as an extortion. The Hon. John Bryce and Mrs Bryce, widow of the late' Mr Fred Bryce, arrived in Feilding on Thursday evening. Several additions are made to-day to F. R. Jackson and Co's stock sale at Feilding on Thursday aext. The last fresh in the Oroua has shifted the ford at the railway bridge. The river now runs in four channels under the bridge. Five trucks of cattle went down by train this morning for F. B. Jackson and Co. We understand they are for shipment to Sydney. The E.M.S. Kaikoura arrived in Port Chalmers on Thursday after a passage of 39 days 7 hours 49 minutes including stoppages. She brought 300 passengers. , At the last meeting of the Manawatu County Council the motion to remove the offices of the Council to Sanso* was carried without discussion. We are compelled to hold over the new advertisement of Mr S. J. Thompson of The Little Bed House. It will appear in our issue on Tuesday. The Secretary of the Feilding Small Farm Association gives notice that sections in the Apiti township are now open for selection by members and others. We are pleased to learn that another Feilding man has come into a considerable for tuue by the death of a relative at Home. We understand the matter of the Cemetary road will come up for discussion at the next meeting of the Bereugh Council/ and a proposal be made for the necessary word to be done by the" Borough. The Government have determined not to take part in the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition. They consider" the cost too heavy and net worth while unless they can make a proper display. The secret of the results of the analysis of portions of Captain Cain's body, must have been entrusted to very "leaky vessels" if we may judge by recent telegrams on the subject. To-morrow Mr Gordon Forlong will preach the Anniversary sermons in the Primitive Methodist Church. On Monday there will be a tea meeting inth Temperance Hall, to commence at 5.3 p.m. Mr Charles Boe has purchased tha* splendid block of land containing 93 acres, formerly owned by Mr (William Whisker. The price was about £12 per acre. The vendors were Messrs John Stevens and Richard Hammond. The Dunedin. Star says— the Dunedin Branch of the New Zealand Alliance have resolved to support Mr William Hutchi* son for Dunedin Central, he having declared in favor of the principles of the Alliance and promised to support their measures. Reuters London agent telegraphed "thirty hogsheads of Victorian wine at the exhibition fermenting." This is another instance of the intelligence (?) of that gentleman. The cost of this wine alone would have purchased enough soda to have " corrected" the lot and made the wine medicinal. To-day we publish a notice from Mr. Donkin in which he intimates that he has now taken over the business of the Ready Money Drapery formerly earned on by Mr J. B. Hamilton, of Palmerston. Mr Donkin has been manager of the business in Feilding since it was opened and as he has in that time gained a thorough knowledge of the requirements ot-the town and district we are certain he will succeed in his venture. At the ordinary general meeting of the Emigrant Colonists' Aid Corporation, limited, held on the 21st August, the report and accounts were adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum was declared, leaving £ — to be carried forward to the next account. The position and prospect of the company are encouraging, and it is expected that by the end »f the year the railway communicating with the company's property •will be completed, giving the settlers direct railway access to Wellington, as well as to the ports of Wanganui and Fefxton. Occasional rumours have reached us to the effect that Major Atkinson is likely to retire from political- life for a time. The Major has been for some time past perusing a large number of essays on " Thrift" written in competition for a prize ioffered by a life Insurance Association, in order that he may award the prize to the best essayist.. Now we venture to opine the subject is so uncogenial to a somewhat, extravagant politician, it has really given the gallant Major an illness which, will only be shaken off when he has got rid of the ungrateful task. When tempering cold chisels or any other steel articles, heat to dull red and and rub with a oeee of hard soap, then finish heating and harden in dear, e*bol water. The potash of the soap prevents the oxygen of the almosphere from uniting with the steel and forming rust or black oxide of iron". " The article will need no polishing to enable the oolours to be aeen. This will be appreciated when tempering taps, die*,, or various complex forms not easy to polish NeTer ". upset" a cold chisel. It is sure deatii to the steel, ,

1 On Thursday Mir Woon drew the following jury to serve at Palmerston North on the 27th, if required r -A. 0. Bin-ham, B. Jones, G. Monteith, >. lienaon, W. D. Nicholas, -F. Bryant, A. Goldfinch, W. Sykes, J. Stubbs, W. Phillips, C Stent, W. Robert, A. McHnrdie, W. Lyons, B. Parlres, J. C. Riehter, H. Derby, W. T. Watts, B Gosling, F. Bassett, /. Good, T, Foster. T. Manson, J. J. Bow, W. S. Stallard, C. L. Anderson, T. Sutton, D. McKenzie, W. Keen, J. Menzie, J. Hicks, S. Evans, J. Donald, W. Newman, H. Adsett fsenr), H. McEwen, W. Coombes, A. 'Harris, 'G. West, A. Smith, H. MoAhster, J. S. Relf, N. E. Reid, A. P. Webster, and B. O. E. Carey. The Wanganul Herald of Thursday' says ;- McEvoy, an old soldier, who was admitted to the Hospital last week, died there at three o'clock this morning. The deceased, we learn Irom a contemporary, (The Feilding Star) had invited two travellers into his whare in the bush for a cup of tea, and they returned his courtesy by giving him liquor, which so affected him that during the night he tumbled into the fire and burned himself severely. On being brought to town by rail he had to walk from the station to the Hospital, presumably, we suppose, because he had not money to pay for a cab. In this matter of cab hire the Board should give discretionary power to the stationmaster or some official, so that cases of this kind may be dealt with, and scandals of a like nature averted. " J?«ff" in the Press says :— So they've nobbled Caffrey over in New South Wales ! I told you they would ! They'll get Perm too, you'll see! There seems' some doubt whether they've cot hold of the right man ! There ought 'n't to be any difficulty about identifying him! He's quite well Imown in Auckland, and he's rather a peculiar looking man ! He must have been a fool to carry about a revolver and cartridges, and a piratical flagP Yes, he ought to have chucked them iato the sea and got instead a wellthumbed Soody '.and Mankey's hymn« book, and a packet of tracts and some moral pockethandkerohiefs and a bottle of Cockle's pills ! Quite so, but it's only very knowing ones who do that sort of thing ! What did Prenny say yesterday? "Men through vice commit crime, and through folly commit themselves afterwards!" Aye, it's truer than most epigrams ! . A most gratifying and creditable instance of high commercial honour has jast been afforded in this city. A mer« chant who has for a very long time carried on an extensive business was several years ago compelled to- take advantage of the protection of the bankruptcy laws. He readily obtained iV and resumed business, which has since prospered «o well with him that within the last few days he has, actuated by a high spirit of honour, been enabled to pay off his old creditors, who of course had no legal claim on him. Such an instance of commercial morality is highly gratifying, and we regret that we are not at liberty to name the gentleman who has acted in so , creditable a manner. It is also a pleasing testimony to the state of trade in this city that at a time when the colony is supposed to be suffering from severe depression, one of its citizens should find himself able to act in such a manner. —Post. . . ,