Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 55, 19 October 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

"Another special train for Jackson" went down on Saturday night. : Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co. will hold a sale of stock at Palmerston on Friday next. Stevens and Gorton held a sale of stock at Awahuri to»day. A report will appear in our next issue. The dragoons in " Patience" will rohearse at the Public Hall to-morrow! night at eight o'clock. , " ! The late experience of an Insurance Office in Auckland has proved it is better to advertise than to build. We regret to learn that Mrs William Greig died suddenly at the residence of her husband, Cainpbelltown, on Sunday last at 3 p.m. It has bow been decided by the people of Campbellton to adopt Hicksford's line, in preference to Jones' line, to connect with the Longburn road. The Herald says that Mr John Stevens is out for Rangitikei, and we shall not be surprised to see him in . for the same place at the end of the elections. The English mail, via San Francisco, was the smallest received for some time. The mails per direct steamers are increasing in proportion to the diminishing of those by way of America. It is proposed to give a farewell tea and concert in the Public Hall, prior to the departure of the Rev. Joshua Jones from Feilding. The event will take place early in November. We regret to learn, from Home, that Mr Kennedy, of " Twa hours at hame," has gone the way of all flesh. Mr Kennedy had many friends in this colony who will deeply regret his death. On Saturday next Messrs F. R.Jackson and Co. will hold a sale of furniture, &c, at the residence of Mr J. Heaton, Eyre street, Feilding. The particulars maybe seen in the advertisement. A meeting of the Blue Ribbon Army will be held in the Temperance Hall on Thursday evening, when there will be given addresses, recitations, and musical selections. All are cordially invited. To-day we publish a notice from the several general storekeepers and drapers of Feilding, informing the public that their respective establishments will be closed at 6 p.m. every evening except Saturday. At Kiwitea the average increase of Mr Robert Moßeth's flock of ewes this season was 111 per cent., and Mr Perry's averaged 110. In both cases the lambs are strong and healthy. The hind is dry and feed abundant. ■ The Auckland Star says— There are materials for- a pretty little Maori fight near Waotu just now, owing to a fresh development of the tribal dispute between the Ngatihaua and Ngatiraukawa tribes in that, vicinity as to the ownership of a section of the Maungatautan block. Messrs Stevens and Gorton had a sale' of furniture and sundries in their Fergussoh street sale rooms . yesterday afternoon. As usual at' such sales while astonishing bargains were got, some articles sold at very high rates, The attendance was very good. William Cuffe, bailiff, who made himself very obnoxious by his cruel treatment of a woman recently evicted, attended mass in the Belharra chapel on September 12, when twelve of the woman he had turned out set upon him and beat him so unmercifully that his life ie dispaired of. Sir Charles Dilke returned to London on September 15th, and announced his intention to re-enter public life in the British metropolis as proprietor and editor ot a daily newspaper. There is some indignation expressed by ibe Press at what they call Dilke's " hardihood." The new postage stumps printed by the GoTernment of New Zeal.-.nd for the Tongan Government arrived just in time (o forestall an intended is.me of stamps by the German traders. Tonga has now a post office in full operation, and very soon the Customs department will be started. The following are the names of the Special • ury in the Hall-Houston case: — .Mr Frederick Henry Barnes (foronian>, and Messrs Thomas Bassett, J. O.Jones, Edward Pavitt, Dav d Gel'bie, William Bu/mige, Geov&e Payhna, Harvey, Hawkins, Robert Cotton, Edward Hal-field, Brown, John Fulton, and Charles Edward Tribe. Young Feildingite, aged seven — "When I go down the road an' boys are playin' marbles I say, ' Are you playin' fun i" They say yes. I pocket my dubs and go on. I say, 'Are you playin 1 keeps?' They say yes. I dabs in.' " The remarks are given literally as they fell upon our ears at -a street corner, and are truly illustrative of the gambling spirit of colonial youth. We are now in a position to state that it has been definitely arranged Messrs P. aud J* Bartholomew will erect a saw-mill at Cheltenham. The engines, and other necessary plant, will be put on the ground at an early date. The commencement of a branch of this industry in the locality named, will have a marked and beneficial influence on the prosperity of those settlers in the vicinity who have valuable forest trees on their lands. The village of Cheltenham will also be raised into a place of. some importance, as the number of men employed at the mill and in the t bush, will be a very considerable addition to the present population. We congratulate Messrs Bartholomew on their onfrerprise, and hope their new venture will meet with, all the success it deserves. ■'

Captain Edwin telpgraphs to-day : — I "Warnings for heavy gales an 4 rain hold ! good For nl] stations. Stock will be taken -right through by train to F. R. Jackson and Co.'s Johu- \ sonville sale next month. An Exchange says three P's govern the world, viz., Press, Pulpit, and Petticoats. We say one M governs the lot — Money. Yesterday was observed as a holiday by the Bank of Zealand. As usual—no intimation was given of the fact to country customers. The W. D. 0. and GK Company advertise a line of men's splendid summer suits at £l a suit. The goods are new and remarkably cheap. The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well -doing and judicious advertising — Smiles. The building in Warwick street, known as Palmer's old store, is at hist about to be utilised, it having been chosen for the site of the new brewery, where operations will commence next week. Mrs Burrell, with one son and three daughters, left Fetlding en route for England this morning. They will go by direct steamer, and will be absent from the colony for an indefinite period. A clergyman's wife culling on Mrs Gladstone at Hawarden, remarked, in speaking of the elections, that these were troublous times. ' But,' ejaculated she, piously. 'There is One above that will guide us.' 'Yes,' said Mrs Glad* stone, ' he will see us through it ; and if you will take a seat, I dare say he willbe downstairs in a few minutes.' Mr S. J. Thompson has now removed into his now store, and has on view a remarkably choice selection of the latest novelties m all departments. The imEortations from the Home market, comined with the parcels of Colonial made goods, are of the first order, and as a whole make up the most varied as well as the most, attractive selection ever offered to the Feilding public. A meeting of the Ball Committee of the Manchester Rifles was held last night to close accounts. After the balance sheet had been read and adopted, a vote of thanks was passed to Corporal Roe, who had contributed so. much to the success of the ball by his exertions, as Secretary and Master of Ceremonies. The thanks of the committee were also voted to Bandmaster Daw, who had rendered valuable aid in decorating the Hall, and in other ways assisting to make the Ball go off well. We regret to learn that oneof Mr J. Belfit's best draught horses was knocked over by the engine of. the 7.45 train last night, at or near Port street crossing, and received such injuries that it had to be shot this morning. The force of the blow must have been very great because the iron step of the engine was torn off. Mr Belfit informs us that the horses were put in the paddock atMakinoat seven o'clock and they must have broken down the fence immediately afterwards to get out. The value of the horse was £50, and much sympathy is expressed with Mr Belfit for his loss. Another case of diptheria has shown itself at Bulls. Why in the same of sauity (or insanity) do the town board sit quietly and see their " big drain" dealing death so deliberately month after month ? We are credibly informed that when the east wind blows in at the mouth of the drain a stench comparable only to ten thousand Chinese "stink pot bomb shells, pervades the town. What are the doctors doing f What are the councillors doing? What are the residents doing ? Gladstone published a letter on 2 1st September denying persistently the repeated reports that he is about to join the Catholic Church. He says the statement is a revival of a miserable falsehood reproduced from time to time without the shadow of evidence for a basis, and that "It is unworthy of notice until it assumes a character very different from merely calumnious in veution." , Lord Colin Campbell's .divorce suit will be heard before Sir James Haonen soon after the opening of the Law Coarts in November. The co- respondent's are four in number. A Duke who has already appeared in the same charaote * but in different company , a general al« most as widely known in literary and art as in military circles ; a captain. who is a most valuable public servant and a fashionable surgeon. With reference to the protest against the appointment of Henry Matthew ax Home Secretary, on the ground that he is a Roman Catholic, the Key. Jtme* Patton, Director of the Scottish Protest* ant Alliance has addressed a letter to Lord Randolph Churchill, in which he says :— " You have penned an insolent 1 reply to a respectful public document. Although you are now a Cabinet Minister, we observe with astonishment and regret that you have not laid aside those weapons of abuxe witli which you toma* hnwked your tray to power. It is a national calamity when men are pitchforked into high positions who are ' destitute of decent manners." From the report of the Registrar General, showing the mortality, and proportion of deaths to the 1000 of population, during th<> month of September, .w<* find that New Plymouth with 17 24 and Nelion with 1770 head the list, while Wanganui with 867 and Inverrargill with 878 are the lowest. In the colony 14 persons died by violence, of which two were suicides, three were burned, three were run orer by carte, two fell down stairs, one was drowned, "one usphyxiatrd, one dificult birth, nnd one fracture of the skull when in a fit. With reference to a local in the Wanganui Herald on the subject of the man Johnston, which concludes thus—" As to the Feilding medico's action in the case/ we think enquiry is called for, to ascertain how he defends his action in sending such a patient on such a journey." We have seen the gentleman in question, and he informs us that the order for the patient's removal to the Wanganui Hospital was obtained before he (the doctor) had left his house to go into the bush to attend to the injured man and therefore before it was possible for him to tell whether the case was one suitable for sending to the hospital Or not.