Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 63, 6 November 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Payable gold is said to haye been found in Stewart's Island. Miss Houston is about t© leave for either England or America. A special train this morning; took down 18 trucks of sheqp for Wellington. The Wanganui train was about half an hour late this morning. The Feildmg team of cricketers left for Palmerston this morning in Mr Morpny's brake. We have to acknowledge receipt of the November number of the New Zealand Industrial Gazette. Mr H. Adpett, of Taonui, has received the order to supply the timber for the new Collegiate school in Wanganui. The Defence Minister has decided not to accept tho services of Volunteer Artillery corps unless for seaport towns. Several additions are made to-day to Messrs F. It. Jackson and Co.'s sale at Feildmg on Thursday the 11th inst. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day :— Warnings for hard northerly gales have been sent to ail places south of Napier and New Plymouth. Owing to pressure on our space we are compelled to hold ovor a quantity of reading mutter, also our weekly weather report.

The Feilding Star will .be published on Monday, Tuesday boing a public holiday. It is stated that the poisoner Hall will be sent to Mount Edou gaol, Auckland, I for a period. Even this will be a ploas- j ant change for a South Islnud man. The firing match between the Feilding Brass Band and members of the Manchester Rifles did not come off to-day, as the Volunteers were unable to get a team together. Notice is published to-day of the dissolution of partnership between Hugh Crabb and J. Gower as sawmillera, Halcombe. Mr James Beattie will receive all moneys due to the partnership. The Eev. Mr Murray will deliver his usual monthly lecture to-morrow evening at 7 p.m. m the Presbyterian Church, Feilding. Subject— "The Revised Version of Scripture in relation to the Authorised." It is a creditable circumstance in connection with the ceremony of driving the last spike of the Wellington-Manawatu railway that there was not a single specimen of the " masher" class present. The sale of prmliges, in connection with the Feilding Boxing Day Sports will be held on Saturday next at the auction rooms of Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co. After which a quantity of household furniture will be sold. , ; The tea, concert, aad sale of work held in the Public Hall on Wednesday last in j connection with the departure of the Rev. | Joshua Jones, was a financial success in : every respect, the results being most ' satisfactory. j The post office will be closed on Tuobday next. The only mails forwarded on that day will be to Wellington, Wanganm, and P&lmerston. The post office will be kept open until 8.30 oa Monday evening. We publish to-day the Train services for the Wanganui races on the Prince of Wales Birthday. It will be seen that Saturday return tickets will be issued on the 6th, Bth, and 9th instant, available for return up to and including Wednesday the 10th mat. Excursion tickets will be issued on Tuesday for the races. The rabbit question sol red. — "Hough on Bats" to the rescue ! This article, which may be had of Chemists, in wood bezos, three size*, cleans out Rabbits, Moles, Skunks, Sparrows, Weasel, Mink, Gophers, Chipmunk, Ground Squirrels, Bats, Mice, Koaches, Flies, Ants, Beetles, Waterbugs, Bedbugs, Moth, Potatobugs, Insects. When the Earl or Dalhousie'a grandfather was commander-in-ohief in India he visited the King of Oude atLucknow, and made a point of introducing Lady Dalhoime, which the king did not understand at ail, and fancied the laird wanted t» (tell her. After a short time he said to his attendants " That will do — take her away. The Wanganui Herald thus concludes , a trenchant article on reckless navigation in connection with the wreck of the steamer Tui and the grounding of the Jane Douglas — •' When our coasts were almost unlit, accidents and wrecks were of rare occurrence ; but now that they are splendidly protected by first-class lights, hardly a month passes without a disaster. Such a state of things is simply disgraceful, and needs drastic treatment." Captain Joekyll, governor of the Brisbane Goal, formerly an officer in the Royal Marines, and an officer in the New South Wales Contingent, went the office of Mr Bernard, the late governor of the Brisbane Goal, formerly an inspector in thtf Victorian police force, and taxed him with spreading defamatory reports, which Mr Bernard denied, whereupon Captain Jeckyll attacked him with a horsewhip, and flogged him very severely. Had it not been tor timely as»»:s:anoo Bernard might have been very seriously injured. A correspondent in Kimberley writes m a letter, dated September 7, to a gentleman residing in Feilding, as follows : — " I arrived on the field last night, and it is the greatest duller that was ever discovered. All the diggers are leaving. Some are working hard for a few ponuyweights per week, but none are earning anything like wages. Flour is Is per lb, sugar Is 6d to 2s, tea 3s, beef Is, and everything else in proportion. I do not think we will stop here long, and our party may be back in Feilding by the New Year. A very dangerous accident, if it may bo called so, occurred to Mr Colville yesterday evening when he was leaving Palmerston for Feilding. It appear* that some lads were celebrating the anniversary of Guy Fawkes on the Square, by letting off squibs and fireworks around an offigy supposed, to represent that one time well-known character. Mr Colville had a young horse in his trap, and when a bunch of exploding crackers was thrown among its legs it played up fearfully in its terror. Mr Colville was thrown out, and rendered unconscious for a few moments. When he recovered he found the trap was smashed to pieces, and the horse's log broken so that the animal, which was a valuable one, being onlytwo years old, had to be shot this morning. The losb is a heavy one to Mr Colville, but one for which he can in no way blame any one but the civil authorities who permitted the exhibition of fireworks.