Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 61, 4 November 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

- — -♦ We direct attention to Mr Carthew's notice in our Wanted column.

The Feilding Small Farm Association have still a few town sections for disposal. We have to acknowledge receipt of the annual report of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce.

Stevens and Gorton held a sale at Palmerston to-day. A full report will appear m our next issue.

Wo are informed that Mr Faloon has purchased the Cheltenham Hotel from Mr Stewart.

The proposal to separate No. 6 Ward from the Manchester Road District, and forming a new Board, was lost by 15 votes to 10.

The next Feilding sale of Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. will bo held on Thursday the 11th inst. Additional entries appear to-day.

A special train on Tuesday afternoon took down a quantity of stock for Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s sale at JohnsonyiUe which was held to-day.

A quantity of spurious sovereigns and half sovereigns are said to have been put in circulation by the " spoolers" now in Wellington.

We learn from our Auckland telegrams tbat the charge against C. W. Langstone, veterinary surgeon, of forging a cheque, was dismissed.

We are requested to state that Mr P. Stewart, has charge at present of the petition for the amalgamation of the Sandon-Carnarvon Road Board and tbe Manawatu County Council,

The man Ross who was arrested here and taken into Wanganui on suspicion of being of unsound ramd, was examined by two medical men, and pronounced to be a lunatic. He was taken to the Wellington Lunatic Asylum yesterday.

The Post says the Government would be very unwise to make any fresh appointments to the Legislative Council. There is nothing whatever to justify them, and it would be impossible to oom" mit a more unpopular act than to create any more life pensioners under present circumstances

General sympathy is expressed for Captain Fraser in having his certificate suspended by the court of enquiry held on the circumstances attending the grounding of the Jane Douglas at Kapiti. Captain Fraser is known as one of the most careful masters on the New Zealand coast.

The proprietor of the Club Hotel, Palmerston, Mr E. Jewell, so long the popular host of Whytes's Hotel, Foxton, announces that he has taken the above popular hostelry. It has already been said that the hotels in Palmerston will compare favorably with the best m the colony, and we have every confidence Mr Jewell will maintain their reputation and popularity as far as his individual efforts will pormit.

Several members of the Manawatu County Council met at the house of Mr Stewart, Mount Stewart, last Saturday, for the purpose of considering the means of averting the imminent danger to the Oroaa Valley from floods. These gentlemen next went to the locality threatened, a point half way between Feilding and Awahuri, and were met by several settlors whose property is in danger of boing utterly destroyed. The settlers were advised to form themselves into a River Board, and Mr Charles Bull undertook to convene a meeting of property owners interested. Tho members of the County Council expressed their sympathy with tho settlers, and promised to support any motion for the assistance of a River Board on application being made to the Council.

A. preacher, who was an ardent admirer of Gladstone prayed for heaven's bless* ing on the Premier in the following ambiguous words :— " Oh, Lord, at this i critical juncture <«f events, be pleased to grunt that Mr Gladstone nnd liis fellow redeemers of England may hang to- . gpther.' On hearing the prayer, a brother below, who was accustomed to , ' Amen' in prayer time, and wlio ao- • proved of the Conservative policy, es* claimed. 'Amen, Amen; may they all hang together.' The ba d iea I minister I felt that ho was misunderstood, and by way of explaining, exclaimed : * O Lord I do not mean hang together in the sense which our brother down below means it ; I mean, may they in accord and concord hang together.' 'Amen, Amen,' replied the Conservative worshipper, ' I don't mind what lh" cord is, so long as they li«.ng on some cord.'

j Mr Srend sen oponed up today a line I of ladies' spring and summer boots.

The Manchester Rifles will parade for Government Inspection to-night. Fines for non-attendance v/ill be rigidly enforced.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day : — Warnings for strong southerly winds huve l).een sent to east coast stations between Blenheim and East Cape.

Dr. Monckton puhlisiies a card to»day intimating that he may be professionally consulted at his residence, Hale Place, Makino Road.

For the first time, we think, this year, Manchester street has been quite a number of days without the disfigurement of a load- of firewood lying half across the road.

On Tuesday last Mr George Moore becamo the proprietor of the Woodville Examiner. Mr Moore is an old journalist, and we wish him eveiy success in his venture.

A few days ago as Mr Maxwell and fatuity were driving across the Oroua at Aorangi the vehicle was nearly washed away, and the lives of the whole party endangered.

A Wellington boy, who was a passenger by train yesterday, looked away »o the west over the great swamps, and lifting up hi* voice said "Oh, father, this is a queer country, It's got no sides."

We understand that the men working on the railway had laid long odds the Governor would not strike the spike the in the first three shots. They won their money.

|. Since the protection of Tms has been i enforced they have increased four fold in this district. It is a beautiful sight to i see many scores of them flitting in every clump of bush along the road lines, and a pleasure to hear their song in the early morning.

Mr Stevens, Postmaster, is experimenting with ensilage as winter feed for horses, and has built a press to contain about one ton of grass, and should it prove a success we are sure a large proportion of the winters feed will be saved in this way in preference to drying.

A writer in the Taranaki News says that a master in one of the New Plymeuth schools has the following method of punishing children, yiz. by putting a piece of pencil between two fingers, holding tbe hand pressing the fingers close, and then winding the pencil round. This punishment is said to be agonising.

At an Oddfellows' fete recpntly held in Plymouth, England, in the midst of a foot race a rush was made for the raised plat* form which suddenly gave way. When the struggling mass bad been extricated it was found that of three sisters named Coombe two had been killeu and one dreadfully crushed.

What hns been known as the prettiest piece of shrubbery within many miles is being destroyed by bush-faliers. We r**T**r to that on the banks of the Kiwitea •id-cam just beyond the bridge. Really the Borough should have made some effort to retain this site* It has always be«n a favorite resort for picnic parties and was in fact generally understood to be the botanical reserve The understanding and the shrubbery together will exist no longer.

Inspector James received a telegram from Constable Coyle, of Marton, yesterday stating that a young man named (dharles McDeritt has been killed near Hunterville. The .unfortunate man was engaged with a road party on the Central Railway, and was killed by the falling limb of a tree. A brother of the deceased, the late Hugh McDeritt, met with a similar tate while a member of the same party a few months ago. — Yesterday's Chronicle.

I During the stay of the Chief Jnstice at one of the leading hotels in PalraerI ston North while on his way to Wellington, some amusement was caused to the inmates by the eccentricities nf a well* known character living in the house. Thin gentleman possesses* means of hit* own, and like many others in similar circumstances, arrogates to himself a consequential! ty which, to those who know him, is allowed to pass with little or no comment, bpyond occasionally a mirthful smile. Entering the sitting* room in which Sir James was tested, he made some remarks to him, which, however, the Judge took no notice of. The latter, not feeling inclined to enter into conversation with the stranger, walked out of the room, a course of procedure which highly incensed the old gentleman. On making enquiries as to who the stranger was, he wa* thunderstruck on bearing it was Sir James, and* rushed straight away to apologise. The Chief Justice happened to be coming down-stairs when his tormentor met him, and with a repentant visage, commenced, " Sir James I have to apologise—" but the Judge strode past him, and seeing the landlord at the bottom of the stairs talking to som*. friends, asked, " Whe is this funny old man you have here?" The " funny old man" collapsed, and has not been seen to smile sinee — Wanganui Herald.