Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 61, 23 November 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Eehearsal of " Patience" on Thursday night. A clergyman has been elected mayor of Tauranga. We have to acknowlege receipt of a batch of parliamentary papers. Mr Greenwood, dentist, may be consulted to-morrow at the Denbigh Hotel. The Feilding Borough Council will meet on Thursday next at the usual hour. Catalogue of Stevens and Gorton's sale at Feilding on Thursday appears ou our third page. F. R. Jackson and Co. will hold sales, at Wanganui, to-morrow, and at Ashurst on Saturday. We are informed that Mr Hartgill has undertaken the leadership of the choir of the Church of England. An exceedingly comfortable cottage, situated in Warwick street, is advertised to let. For particulars see advertisement. The tenders for Mr S. J. Thompson's new building wore opened yesterday, and ; Mr E. Heald was the successful tenderer. The Sydney Town and Country Journal of Nov. 9 quotes local prices as follows : — Butter, in keg, 9d, brauds lOd, roll Is, factory Is cheese 8d to 9d. English buttercups, which have been imported m grass seed, adorn our road sides. Unlike many other English friends they are not likely to become a nuisance, as stock of all kinds feed ou them readily. We regret to hear (from the Herald) that Mr Whitworth Russell is seriously ill, though he is now improving. Prayers were offered at Christ Church on Sunday. We hope soon to hear of his complete recovery. There will be a keen contest for the Mayoralty in Palmerston to-morrow. Mr J. P. Leary and Mr L. G. West are the rival candidates. Mr Leary is the best man, and most suitable for tho position, and we hope to see him elected. The victory of the New South Wales team over the English cricketers at Sydney is a very creditable one. The present English team is one of the best, if not the best, that ever left England, and only the best of cricketers will be able to beat them. The staff council of the Salvation Army in England have decreed that no officer under the rank of captain may marry. In future no marriage will be agreed to by head quarters unless they have consented to the engagement at least twelve months before. The funeral of the lato John Derby, who was killed when bushfelhng on Friday, took place on Sunday last. There was a considerable number of relatives and friends in attendance at the cemetery where the funeral service was conducted by Mr H. L. Sherwill, lay reader, of the church of England. We regret to learn that the wife of Mr E. Jennins, of Riverlands, near Awahuri, met with an accident on Saturday afternoon. Mrs Jennins was walking across the field from Mr Denver's, the adjacent farm, whon she slipped and fell, breaking her leg. Dr Monckton was sent for, who reduced the fracture, which is a simple one. Yesterday morning, at the Resident Magistrates court, before J. C. Thompson Esq., J.P., an elderly man, who gave his name as Joseph Watts, was charged with being drnnk in Manchester street on Sunday. He pleaded guilty, but refußed to say where he obtained the liquor. He was fined 5s and costs 2s with the alternative of twenty four hours imprisonment. The London Electrician is the authority for a new and easy method of relieving the toothache. It says that if a thin plate of zinc be placed on one side of the gum and a silver coin on the other side ■with tn© aching tooth, between them, and then the edges of the metal be brought together, a weak galvanic current will be established that will cure the pain. Trucking cattle through to Wellington is only yet in the experimental stage. It is to be hoped that a little experience will tend to obviate the roughness and cruelty that at present occasionally prevails. The result of packing seven instead of six bullocks in certain trucks last week was that one beast in each of foor trucks died of suffocation, representing a loss to the settlers of £28. The Auckland Weekly News, in its issue of the 20th instant, gives a wood cut purporting to be a likeness of Mr A. Devore, the Mayor-elect of Auckland. By some accident the wrong block has been put m —probably a steamboat skipper. Anyway it is a gross libel on Mr Devore who is a ratheijgood looking man. A few days ago at one of local banks a young man is reported to have received £35 in notes, gold, and silver in exchange for five five«pound notes. The recoil rr after counting his mon«»y handed back the sum of £10 which the officer received and put anaj without <o much as single word of acknowledgment or sign of recognition.-— Chronicle. During the progress of the Hall-Hous-ton trial we had a daily visit from a young man about eighteen years of age, who manifested the keenest interest m tne proceedings. Since the acquittal of the lady we had not seen him again until yesterday when he returned from a bush'elhng contract. He now informs us that he is that interesting young lady's half-brothor. He states that his mother was married twice, there being three in first family, of whom Margaret Houston 16 one, and five in the second famil}', of j whom he is the eldest. ' :

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day . — Warniugs for gales and heavy rain have been sent to all places. Meyer Karl Rothschild, head of the grent banking firm, died suddenly at Berlin on October 16, of heart disease. A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy ram, passed over Feilding shortly after noon to-day. The heavy thunderstorm to-day has almost obstructed work on the wires, and delayed our usual batch of telegrams. The Evening Bell has been purchased by Mr Jagger, the Hon. F. Michelson, and the Key. D. Bruce, three former proprietors, for £6000. Messrs Bartholomew will shortly hare two large sawmills going. They hope to be ready to start at Cheltenham very shortly. The work of erecting the mill there is now going en. The murderer, Caffroy, is suffering from severe pains in the head, and is daily visited by the Auckland gaol surgeon. Some years ago he received a kick on the head, and since then any trouble flies to the seat of the old wound. The Evening Press has recently been enlarged, and is now the largest evening newspaper published in New Zealand. We congratulate our contemporary on its progress, and can safely say the Press has been the most successful journalistic enterprise yet undertaken in the colony Scotch dishes (including the "great chieftain o' the puddin' race,") Scotch whisky, Scotch music, and Scotch decorations are to distinguish the annual dinner of the Wellington Caledonian Society to be held on the 30th (St. Andrew's Day.) We are informed that a test case is about to be brought against the Manchester Road Board for charging tolls both ways over the Otangaki bridge at the Lower Gorge Perry. The action will be brought under clause 107, section B of the Public Works Act, 1882, which provides that the following shall be exempt from tolls — "Every person, animal, or vehicle in respect of which toll has been paid at the same toll gate at any time since the midnight previous." The clause, however, concludes thus — " But the'three last mentioned exceptions (of which section 8 is one) shall not apply to tolls payable at a ferry." It is safe to assume that whoever goes to law on the question stands a fair chance to lose his money. A cable message in a Sydney contemporary recording the suicide of Archer, the English jockey, contains some additional particulars to those already published. It seems that the unfortunate man had been suffering from acute pneumonia. His condition was not considered critical, but it was an illness that had a very serious effect upon Archer. He seemed to entertain the idea that he would never recover. This completely unhinged his mind, although it was not anticipated that he contemplated suicide. On the morning of the Bth October his dead body was found in his house in Newmarket, he having died from the effects of a revolver shot. Beside him was found the revolver with which he committed the fatal deed.