Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 60, 20 November 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Greenwood, dentist will be in Feilding on "Wednesday next. There are 557 ratepayers "goedouthe books" of the Wanganui Borough Council. Mr Young has on hand a quantity of pine apples and other tropical fruits, all new. A number of additions are made to-day to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale on Thursday next. Mr J. W. Eade left for the Hot springs, Eotorua, on Thursday afternoon. We hope he will return with restored health. Tenders are invited by the Feilding Borough Council for metalling and forming portions of certain etroots in the Borough. We refer our readers to the cataloguo of Messrs F. R. Ju,ckson and Co.'s next salo at Ashurst, which will take placo on Saturday the 27th instant. In our last issue we stated that our apple crop would Jbe 25 per cent, under the average. On further enquiry we fear it will be even less than half that of last year. The Willmot comedy company will appear in the Public Hall on Monday next. As they are old favorites in Feilding wo expoct they will bo greeted with a bumpur house. Tho Palmerston Borough Council has taken up the question of having a hospital in that township. It has also decided to erect a new Town Hall if the funds are availablo. A meeting of the Council of the Manchester and Kiwi tea Acclimatisation Society will bft held at the officos of Messrs ' F. R. Jackson and Ce. on Tuesday the i 23rd inst, at 8 p.m. i The colored parson at an American church one Sunday said that what the church needed in order to have progress ! was about forty smart women. Ho ] wanted to be fortified against advorsity. ( Wo have to acknowledge recoipt of a ( pamphlet on "The unemployed and the j Remedy" by Gavin M. Park. The remedy j is to nationalise the land and to grant 1 secure tenure under the perpetual leasing ] system. i

The Kiwitea Road Board met this afternoon, a full report of the proceedings will appear in our. next issue. It is really quite time the railway Departtnont conrtoseended to let people know •when and how trains are to run on and after: Monday the 29th. Wo believe a new industry will bo commonced here shortly in the shape of the manufacture of potash. We hope the project will not be allowed to lapse as there is a comfortable living to be made at the business, while the capital required is very small. Mr A. F. Haleombe took his departure from Feildmg yesterday for his new home in Taranaki. He has not, however, finally separated from us because he still owns considerable landed property in the district. We wisn him and his family every success and prosperity. The Agricultural and Pastoral Show, at Palmerston yesterday, was a great success. A large number of visitors went from Feiiding, and in fact the town was desertfid. The trains from tho north were crowded. . We regret that as the usual courtesy of inviting the press was not extended to us, the Feuding Star did not send a representative. An important land sale will be held at the auction rooms of Messrs Francis Sidey and Co., Wellington, on Wednesday December Ist when several well-known and valuable sections of land situated in Foxton, Feiiding, and Awahuri will be offered for public competition. For full particulars we refer our readers to the advertisement which appears elsewhere. We gather from our Wanganui contemporaries that Mr \ Henry Nathan, a (candidate for the Mayorality who has already been thrice rejected by the rateI payers, is now supported by the property ' owners aud hotel keepers, so that his I chances of defeating his opponent this ( time, Mr' James Laird, are somewhat better. He wont get in though. The -writ for the election of a member for the House of representatives for the Western Maori electoral district, vice Puke Te Ao, deceased, has been issued Nominations are to be at Wauganui on December find, and the poll will take place on December 23rd. The writ is made returnable by 24th January, Mr Gr. T. Wilkinson is appointed returning officer. j The polling places extend from Wellington along the West Coast of the North Island to Coromandel. The meeting of the Blue Ribbon Army on Thursday night very fully attended, j the Hall being nearly filled. Several interesting readings and recitations were ' given, uotably " Professor Blaikie" by Mr J. K. Purvis. These meetings will prove beneficial to the young men of the town if conducted with a view to making them attractive. The usual teetotal platitudes oft repeated are not what people have a right to expect, and we should like for the sake of the association to see more consideration shown for the young, to whom brevity and instruction iv some othor than a prosy manner are essential. A full report will appear in our next i.ssue. A piece of good fortune has overtaken two brothers named Phillips, who have been engaged on a church contract at Auckland. While at work the other day they received a letter from England informing them of the death of an uncle, who had left £243,000 to be divided amongst forty-three nephews and aeices. The two young men referred to will each receive £10,000 as his portion. [This local, which, by the way, the Press Association started i'rora. Auckland, is correct except in the following particulars :— The two brothers were not named Phillips, their family name b jing Philps ; they were ?ioi workn'g on a church contract in Auckland ; their unole did not die, nor did he leave them a forty-third share each in £243,000; they will not each receive ! £10,000. ! A correspondent writing from Feiiding ! complains of the bad management of thy passenger traffic «n the" line between Feildmg and Wantfiinui on the Prince of Wales' birthday. He write*—" In consequence of there being no smoking carriages, the second-claes c -mages were full of men and boys smoking, nnd the carriages were full of Miioke. I, my wife, two daughter's, four sons, aud a I baby ei^ht months old went into a first* class carriage. I had taken second-class tickets as I had taken all the humly, it being too expensive firsUclass. Ihe guard turned us out, and put us into a carriage that wa* full of men and boys smoking, drinking brandy, and swearing. If this is the way they manage, no wonder the respectable portion of the public don't travel by rail." — N . Z. Times. The London correspondent of the Sheffield Telegraph is responsible tor the following :•— The town is tingling with a little scandal from the theatrical world. The story goes that an infamous attempt was made to kidnap one of the most beautiful young ladies of the London stage Various accounts of the story are given, but as the mntter is likely to be heard of in one of the Police Courts, we may soon know, the precise details. The story is almost romantic. The actress in ques« tion was called upon by a lady, who described herself as occupying a high social position. The actress W'S induced to promise to call upon her. The promise was fulfilled, and it transpired that she had been induced to go to a dreadful place. The prime mover in the conspiracy is said to be a man of rank The matter has been laid before the police authorities, and, it is said, a public prosecution is in contemplation, The Victorian sawmill ?rs have for some time past agitated for an increase in the timber duties. They represented to the Government that the trade is in a Innguishing condition, in consequence of the lar.e importations from America and Tasmania, and that several mills had been closed, and others were working at, a loss, and must shortly be stopped if the Victorinn trade were not protected by the imposition of a higher tariff on imported timber, so as to raise the price of hardwood in the Colony. Chief Sec retivry Deakin suggested that the depression was partly caused by ihe exhaustion of timber lands in the Colony, and was partly owing to the depressed condition of the mining industiy ; but he promised to mako a full investigation of the matter, and submittheresnlts to the Cabinet. This promise has been carried out, and Mr Deakin has informed the representatives of the trade that the Government do not see their way to accede to the request for an increase, of the duties, or lo afford relief in any other way at the present time. A selection of handsome furniture, made to tho order of the late Mr liryce, is on view at Mr Crichton's, Glasgow House. Handsome drawing room suite, jheffomers, tables, whatnots, washstanrls, lrossing tables, beds, bedding, oil paintings, fenders, toilet sets, books, steoroscopic viows, ornaments, &c, &c, will >c sold privately in small lots at about mlf the original cost. The publio are nvited to mspeot. — Advt.

The contract on which Mr* Derby was killed yea erday has bee,n n very unlucky one, this beinsj'the secend fatal" accident, while three oilier mn have been seriously injured Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day: — Wnrninjis for en<ti*r!y gales and much ran at places noth" of Lyttelton and Hokitika have been issued after from 16 to 20 hours. | The Hon. j\lr Ballanee is likely to hare a busy time of it in Marlborough. The local papers are bringing forward an' infinite number of subjects to Which they wish his attention to be called, and are urging all kinds of public bodies to inter* view him. They do not often get a M mister in Blenheim. The last Australian steamer brought over two fine pieces of frozen New Zealand beef. One of these pieces was presented to the proprietor of the Pan* theon, on California street, who had it cooked and placed on his lunch table. The writer, among others, tasted the beef, and found it equal to the best stallfed meat in our markets. This beef can be sold here at 15 cents a pound, while our butcher's charge 25 cents for an inferior article to the New Zealand beef. — San Francisco Newsletter. A meeting of the ratepayers m No. 6 ward was held at Ashurst on Wednesday evening, Mr T. ; Nelson, in the chair. The report of the deputation to the Manchester Road Board was read, and a resolution was unanimously passed thanking the deputation for their action in the matter and agreeing to the concessions offered ns set forth in the report of the proceedings of the Board already pub lished. The residents appear to be satisfied that the Road Board met them in a liberal spirit and that the concessions made were all that could be reasonably expected under the circumstauces.-r-Standaad. " _^