The Feilding Star. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1886. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 64, 8 November 1886, Page 2

The Feilding Star. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1886. Local and General News

Close holiday at the post office tomorrow. Mr Greenwood, dentist, will visit Feilding on Wednesday. Full rehearsal of " Patience" to-night in the Hall at eight o'clock sharp. Punctuality is requested. A notice anent the Elocution Contest to be held at Palmerston early in December will appear in our next issue. The Wesleyan picnic will be held in Mr Hensen's paddocks to-morrow. For particulars see our Wanted column. The Duke of Edinburgh is in his 42nd year, yet his mother can hardly trust him to go alone. Among the passengers on board the Tui when sho went down were Mr A. Brookie, of Awahuri, and his bride. The Mnkino Band played in the Square on Saturday night. They ren« dered Boreral pieces in good style. Our country subscribers are reminded that to-morrow will be observed as a bank holiday. Nominations t<* fill the rnimney in th<= Borough Council caused by the retirement of Mr TCade, must be made by Thursday next at or before noon, A number of ladios and gentlemen left Feildmg this morning to be present at the opening of the Otangaki bridge at the Gorge. The Feilding cricketers got a woof til licking at Palmeraton on Saturday. We hope their defeat will be a lesson to them and induce them to practice more. We are gratified to learn that Mr Jamee Linton has been prosont«d with a pass for life oyer the Wellmgton-Manawatu Railway line. One of the outhouses at Mr P. Bartholomew's private residence was burned down on Saturday about midnight It is supposed a washing stove left too near the ouilding was the cause. In the South Island the Railway Authorities issued cheap excursion tickets from Dunedin to Chnstchurch (all stations included) from the sth to the 10th instant, all available for return till the 22nd instant. This is rather better treatment than the public gets on the Wanganui section. Local tenders for inland mail services for 1887 and 1888 have been accepted as follows : — "Feilding and Awahuri thrice weekly, Feilding and Ewitea twice weekly, W. G. Haybittle £60 per annum. Makmo and Cunningham's weekly, H. Penberthy £20 par annum. Notice is given to-day that the Feilding Borough Council proposes to raise a loan of £1000 for the p\xrpose of contributing towards tho cost of a bridge over the Oroua river at Aorangi. A special rate of one penny and one-half penny will be levied for the repayment of such loan. Corruption is said to be rampant in New South Wales, and the demoralisation of Parliament has extended to society. Apart from brutal outrages on women, there are gigantic railway frauds, and a "big steal" against the Corporation is also being investigated. In the Lands Department serious frauds haye been discovered, and at the country town of Young, the Government land agent has been sentenced to seven years for fraud. There seems to be some trouble with respect to the Mannwatu railway and the through rate* for stoefc. The company want their full pound of flesh, and and nre not inclined to allow the settlers to send through stock without re-booking them at Longburn, from which station Ihe distances nre calculated nn°w. We (Herald) have lizard that several graziers intend to send their stock by nea rather than submit to what they consider to be an injustice. Great.eonaplnints nre made by persons who have proposed to be insured in Hie Government office at the tedious delay that occurs between the sending in of the proposal and the acceptance of the life. We understand that in tkis interval, which is sometimes six weeks, the "life" gets disgusted at (ha delay, and is than easily taken by a rival association* One of the smartest agents in the Government Insurance for this district has left th«* service through these annoyances. The fault lies at Wellington.— Napier Trie* graph. We understand that some mischievous person (evidently of the larnkin class) has destroyed the music etands belonging to the Makino Band. It has beon customary for some time past to place the stands" at the rear of certain business premises in Manchester street. On Saturday evening the stands were required for the use of the band playing on the Square, but they were not to bo found. On a search being made it became evident the stands hud been smashed up, and the debris tised, probably, for lia-hting fires. The act is one of a mean and contemptible character, and the perpetrator is df<?prrincr of vigorous punishment. The police should inquiro into the matter.

i The Star will not be published to- | morrow. ! i The R.M. court will sit on Wednesday next. The Bishop of Wellington went down "• by train this morniug. j Several additions nre made to-day to ; I Messrs P. K. Jackson & Go's Feilding s if lo be held on Thursday next. Andrew Laing and party may be expected in Feildmg from Kimberley by Christmas. Mr Jackman sent a telegram to Feilding to-day from the Bluff saying he would be home on Friday. The Borough offices and the Public Library will be closed to-morrow. For the convenience of subscribers the Librarian, Mr Beaufort, has kindly arranged to issue books this evening during the usual hours. Mr T ,of a prominent banking house, reached home at 3 o'clock one morning. "William, M that youP" asked his wife. "W»w-whyP" said Wilfiam, with profound surprise, "w-w-who'rlae d-d-did y-you expect — Exchang;. •Jeems,' said the laird to his gardener there was something I was going to ask yon, but, man, for the life o' me I. canna mind what it was. • Mebbe,' said Jeems who had received no pay tor three weeks; • mobhe.' said he, ' it was to spier at me fat wye I was keepin' body an' sonl thegither on the wages I wanna gettinAmong the requests for special prayer sent m at Trinity Church* last evening was one from an individual with very far-reaching sympathy for " editors of newspapers," The blessing de.«ired in this case, however, was not their conver* sion, if such were needed, but that they might use their powerful influence, aright.- -Telegrph. The Wanganui Herald says on Friday: — Major Atkinson was busy interviewing the farmers and others of his con si i tuents at the Hawera A. and P. show. From what we can hear tho Major is likely to have a tough, contest of it this time, and he will have all his work to dd to beat his opponents off unless the latter nre so numerous as to split the votos and let him win hands down. Dr Stoddart, of the Glasgow Herald, delivered the centenial address, and dwelt upon the awakening influence of Burns' poetry upon Scotland. "Burns," he snid " spoke from a heart glowing with the hottest passion of love, of patriotism and detestation of meanness, hvpoerisy, and cant, to a people prepared to thrill at every word, at every homely but divine line of his verses." At his recent meeting Mr Geo. Fisher, M.H-li. for South Wellington, made the following st.-iteraent as to the indebeedness of the Empire city and harbour The city of Wellington owed £600,000, and Parliament looked on thai as an amazing thing. Of the total, the Corporation owed about £43",00 O. and out of its revenue of about £47.000 a year it had to seiul some 1 .26.000 a year to England for mtrrest. A man named John Nicholson, while bush felling on the Feildßng Small Farm Block, on the property of a Mr Hammond, on Thursday last, had his skull fractured by a falling tree. He was brought into town yesterday on horseback, and taken to I>r Monckton's residence, where his head was dressed ; from thence he elected to take up his quarters at Hastie's Hotel, where he is now lying. His case is one more fit for treatment in a hospital, and the question arises what is to be done with the unfortunate man ? In his present condition removal to the Wanganui Hospital might prove fatal to the patient. When are we to have a temporary hospital in the district, where patients can be treated' till convalescent enough to bo removed by rail to the head hospital at Wanganui? At the Supreme Court at Chrisfchureh recently a boy named Edm»nd «uod the Canterbury Tramway Company for L5<X) damages. It was alleged thtt in Donember last the plaintiff and his mother were passenger" from P»panui to Chri«t church by one of the defendants' tram cars, and when nearing Chrisiclmrch a hot spark from the funnel of the engine flew imo the plaintiff's eye. The plain* tiff, in consequence of his injuries, has been a long time under medical treatment, has suffered great bodily pain, and he has heon unnblo to attend school. Negligence on the part of the Company is alleged, Imt they give v gen. eral denial to the plaintiff's allegations. In a historical review of the Victorian Parliament, " Timotheus" in tho Argiiß nays:— The strongest individuality the House has seen was Sir John O'Shanassy. The cleverest leader was Mr Service. The wittiest speaker was Mr Aspraall The greatest orator on great occasion* was Mr George Higinbotham, with whom it was " Eclipse first, and the field nowhere." Mr Higinbotham was in a place of hoaour at yesterday's exhibition banquet, grayer than of old. but with the same look of r*>«* rained intellectual energy — a volcano, slumbering of course, but still a volcano. The bp«t debaters were Sir Graham Berry and Mr Gillies. The politicians who have heen most popular with their own party are Sir Charles Sladen in the one House and Mr Murray Smith in the other. A few days ago a Jog tax collector called at the house of a settlor, and on being jokingly told that /an owner did not intend to pay tax on a pet terrier, cooly dragged the animal away and shot it with a pocket pistol. The owner thought the collector was simply joking until the pistol was fired, when his feelings gave way, and he soundly thrashed the col lee tor round the paddock, and then issued a summons for £20 damages for the destruction of the animal. The case will come on for hearing at the next sitting of the Foxton Court when probably a crosn-aefion will also b<» heard. In the meantime the tax collector is spending a few days in retirement. - Manawatu Herald. Th* 1 prescription of "the cat" for crimes of violence i« not quite fallen into disuse, and its effects would seem to be most salutary. Wi'liam Collins and Gilbert Murphy wore flogged in Brisbane anol recently. The former was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour and twenty-five lashes, for assault and robbery the latter to two years' hard labour and thirty lushe*. for robbery, with rio'ence. Collins had first to wceivp punishment.. As the cat descended on hu bare back, he howled with pain. At the termination of lux flogging he exclaimed thnt he had received eunuch and diJ not want any more. Murphy was then « tripped to the waist, A* li<* was being led to the triangle, he broke away and made a rush at the flaggpllator. and struck him. Th<* latter turned nnd fiVl round the gnol yard. The prisoner was ultimately (secured, nnd the flogging was duly administered. Both men appeared to have sufT red considerably Their wounded backs were after- ' wards dressed with ointment and flour, i