Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 57, 13 November 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

— ♦ The Temperance Brotherhood in Wan- ! ganui now number 137. The longest syllable m English is the ■ word strength. — Eucy. Bnt. r j Mass will be celebrated m St. Bridget's , Church, Feilding, to-morrow (Sunday) at 8 a.m. Several additions appear to-day to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Awahuri sale on Tuesday next. A "sneak thief" was fined 5s and. costs for stealing a newspaper from the Auck- • land Free Public Library. I. In our Wanted column Mr Carthew has an advertisement anent Christmas cards well worthy of attention. The elevation of Dr Buller to the position of K. CM. G. will not meot the approval of the people of the colony. The Spring Snow of the Manchester Horticultural Society will be held on Wednesday December 1, in the Public Hall. ■Mr Hugli has returned to the colony again. He arrived in Dunedm on Wednesday and may be expected in Feilding shortly. Settlers are requested to- forward to Feilding, their entries for F. K. Jackson and Co.'s sale at Palmerston on Saturday the 20th instant. Mr E. Goodbehere has several desirable bush sections for sale, about eight miles from Feildiug. He has also three dwelling houses to dispose of. Mr Babbaga, Manager of the Bank of Australasia at Wanganui, has been appointed .^ub-Inspector for the New Zealand branches of that Bank. The Wellington papers say the Wel-lington-Manawatu railway will be opened on tho 29th instant Hot the 20th as telegraphed by the Press Association. We direct attention to a new advertisement which appears to-day from Mr W. G. Haybittle, who has just opened up a very choice selection of crockery, glassware, &c. We ( Napier News) learn that a new journal to be conducted on bold, fearless, independent lines, and which will > advocate a truly patriotic colonial policy, is shortly to be started in Wellington. Mr Carthew has just received his usual monthly case of books per direct steamer from England. Particulars will be given in his new advertisement which will appear in our next issue. We understand tho man Nicols who is now lying at Mr Gould's Temperance Hotel is still in a dangerous condition, but Dr MoncktoH is not without hopes of the patient's ultimate, recovery. It is proposed to invite Mr Haggen to a dinner before he laaves Woodville, in recognition of his services to that township. The Examiner states a meeting will be held to-night to form a committee to carry out details. We have received from the Eailway Department notice of the train services for Friday the 10th inst., on which day the Manawatu Agricultural and Pastoral Show will b© held in Palmerston. The advertisement will appear in our next issue. The Manchester Kifles will parade for Government Inspection on Friday the 26th in st. at 6.30 p.m., and for judging distance on Saturday the 27th instant at 7 a.m. Another Inspection parade will be held on Fnday December 10 at the Public Hall at 6.30 p.m. Dr Adam Clarke, in reference to the word manna in the Terse Exodus xvi. 15, says :— " This is a most unfortunate translation of the originnl man hu. which literally signifies ' What.i* this?' for says the text, ' they kuew not what it was,' and therefore could not gire it a name." Mr Donald Fmser's fine colt British Lion, by Loolinns — Spritsail, w'nner of the Trial Stakes and Wanganui Stakes Handicaps on Tuesday, lias chr.nged hands, Mr Jones, of Greyiuottth, haring given L 250 for him. British Lion is in the next Wanganui Derby. n.\iA other good 3-year-old slakes, and ought soon to repay his new owner. To-day we publish a notice anent a sale of pure bred stock to be held iv Palmerston at Stevens and Gorton's sale yards, on Saturday the 20th inst. We have seen the pedigrees of the cattle, at the offices of Messrs F. B. Jackson and Co., and they are certainly the best that have yet been offered for public competition on this coast. Further entries are invited by the auctioneers. The Manawatu Daily Times of Thursday, has a paragraph stating " that all Government require to have certain improvements made in railway matters in Palmerston is to be asked by the Borough Council to have the changes effected." This is, we fear, too good to be true. But still, on the principle that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, we would suggest that our local Borough Council take the hint, and make application to have the Feilding station made more commodious and convement. The very wet spring which we have been expenencingMn Taranaki has had a bad effect on young stock. LJalves and lnmb* are iv a very backward condition, the grass being too thin to gire them the requisite sustenance The reports as to j the state of the crops which have been put in are not unfavorable, although farming operations havo been much impeded by the almost continuous rain. The fine weather of the pust few days hnn, however, much improved the position. — Budget. A spiritualist was bnripd at Wellington on Friday, and the report of the funeral in the Post thus concludes . — " Tho service was fo'lowod by the singing of the hymn ' Death,' at the conclusion of which one of the mediums, present (Vlr Wright) was entranced, The controlling intelligence delivered a very impressive oration, dwelling upon the earthly cam?! 1 of the departed one, and addressing words of consolation and hope to the bereaved family. The proceedings then terminated " A Feilding gentleman had a curious experience on Thursday evening. Whilst sitting down to tea alono, a respectable looking young man knocked at the door and asked assistance to reach his friends in Wanganui. After giving satisfactory evidence that his case was one of genuiue distress, he was invited to partake of some tea. Speaking intelligently, and with evidence of . having been educated, he told a tale of misfortune and suffering which was touching and romantic, though stamped with sincerity, 'during which he told his host that he suffered intennittenth- from violent lunacy, and that an attack had been coming on for some days. The tragic effect was not detracted from by the wild waving of a curving knife with which ho had l>eon helping: hiuisuli !n pony ham. His faro was paid to Wanyaiiui.

Oxing to a heavy g^le no steamer will leave P->xton iO-night. A meeting of the Manchester" Eoad Board was to be held this afternoon. Several of our contemporaries do good by stealth— when they cut paragraphs from the Stab without acknowledgment, Mr Marchant, chief surveyor, was in Feilding yesterday on his way to Otama- I kapua. r ■ , | The Thames Advertiser gives one of j I the latest rumour* about Mis* Houston ; | it is ihnl she will marry Mr Hay, who defended her 1 ; We ( Press) hear that some important j changes are likely, to, take plneo shor.t)& in the Civil Service. It is stated, though there is as yet no official announcement ot the fact, that Mr Seed, Secretary of Customs, Mr Batkin, Assistant Comptroller and Auditor, and JVJr Cooper, Under Secretary for the Colony, are about to retire on a pension. To show the determination of some owners of horses to score a win at the races ,it may be (saya the North Otagb j Times) that a diminutive jockey w-a» found the othe day with a piece of calico wrapped round his attenuated form and buried up to his neck in a manure heap, undergoing the reducing proeenn; Thi* boy is not expected to ride overweight. In the year 1860 the old copper coinage were called in and the present bronze substitute* were issued. From that date to 1873, 2,652 tons of metal were coined producing upwards of 53 millions' of farthings, 164 millions of half-pence, and. 170 millions of pennies. The' nominal value was about £I,loo,ooo.— Jevons- , The first Napoleon is generally! credited with hnving originated this mot. It occurs, however, in Pame's/'Age of Reason." The passage is as follows :— " The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is impossible to class them separately. One. step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again." The word sweat is almost banished from polite speech, but it has a distinct meaning from the word>perspir», which has superseded it. A' person perspires naturally through the pores of the skin, a* in sleep, .'.xertion, or great heat, makes him sweat. Natural ot insensible perspiration is invisible ; sweat stands ia visible drops upon the skin. .