Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 64, 30 November 1886, Page 2

Local and General News .

A notice that William Whisker has been adjudged a bankrupt appears elsewhere. ; A thunderstorm accompanied by heavy rain was experienced here on Sunday last in the afternoon. An important new advertisement ap« pears over leader toaday from the E. & C. A. Corporation. Mr Higgiri, Chemist, has a new advertisement in to-day to which the attention of farmers and others is specially directed. The spring show of the Manchester Horticultural Society will be held in the Public Hall to-morrow. Doors will open at 2 p.m. We publish to-day entries for Messr P. R. Jackson and Oo.'s next sale at Feilding which will take place on Thursday the 9th prox. The Napier Evening News is pushing its way energetically into public favor. The News will represent the party of progress in Hawke's Bay. Franci» Sidey and Co. will hold a sale of Feilding sections, in Wellington, tomorrow. We understand that several intending buyers will go down by train. A subscription list in aid of the family of the late John Derby was found on Saturday by one of our staff, on the road ear Aorangi. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold a sale of stock at Palmerston on Thursday, next. The catalogue, with additions since last issue, appears on our third i page. The Manawatu Herald says .—Mr Thynne's election as Ch.tirraaa of the Maa&watu County Council makes the j sixth time upon which he has rewired that honor. Masonic lodges composed exclusively of women, are said by a late Pans publication to be carried on in France numerously, and with the completest of ceremonial. We (Herald) hear that in the Life Insurance case, National Mutual v. Loudon, heard here last sittings of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice has decided that each party is to pay their own costs. The decision makes the result jl win for the defendant. Quite a little town is springing up at this end of the Gorge. There are eight tents and two boarding-houses (one Mr Freeman's and the other Mr Healey's), The contractors, Messrs Jonas and Peters, haye built offices near the toll-gate, and sheds on the other side of the road. About 20 men are busy bushfelling to enable a start to be made — Woodville Examiner. The nomination of the Prince of Wales for election us Grand Master of English Mark Masons will take phoe at the half-yearly communication of Grand Mark Lodge on 30th November. The election will be taken on 31st May. 1887, on which day if re-elected, Hit Royal Highness will be again ioftalled. His nomination for election an Grand Matter of English (Craft) Freemason i will be made at the quarterly communication of United Grand Lodge on Deo. 1. The election will be on March 2, and the installation on April 27, 1887. Owing to the incredulity of some of the Foxton sheepbreeders regarding the early maturity and quality of Romney Marsh mutton, compared with other breeds. Mr Cobb presented the editor of the Manawatu Herald with one of his grass fed hoggets in order that an honest opinion should be obtained on the merits of these sheep as mutton makers, the editor says : " The sheep was barely fourteen months old. The carcase when dressed, weighed 80lbs. The flavour of the meat, which was proportionally intermixed with fat throughout, was simply perfection. We must say that we highly approve of this method of testing weights adopted by Mr Cobb, and we hope to see this hogget challenged by many others of its own age, whon we shall be very willing to bear testimony under similar circumstances." We should be surprised if he didn't. ;

Our Wanted column is mure than usually interesting to-day. The Eoraan Catholics of Pahiatua are about to erect a church. A. considerable number of Feilding people went to Wellington by the excursion train this morning. In the fifty years of the Queen's reign the numbers und«r her sway have increased from 126,000,000 to 252,000,000. The new mail notices appear to-day. Attention is particularly directed to the i altered hour of closing the 'Frisco mails. The cricket match Australians v. Canterbury, was concluded yesterday, and , resulted in a draw in favor of the Australians. Captain Edwin Telegraphs to-day :— Baromerer further rise everywhere, but falling af tor 20 hours at all places south of Napier and Wanganui. The Figaro states that the people of the Argentine Republic, in an excess of enthusiasm, have given to Sarah Bernhardt 6000 acres of land. The Willmott comedy troupe played m the Public Hall last night to a small audience. The company will appear in Palmerston to-morrow night. Two very important advertisements appear to-day from the Town Clerk, one of which is with reference to the meeting of burgesses to consider the proposal to borrow £1000 to erect a bridge at Aorangi, and the second anent arrears of rates. Last year there was expended on primary education the sum of £397,657. Of this sum £365,580 was contributed by the Government out of the consoli* i dated revenue, the remainder being derived from the educational reserves and other sources. Mr Berry is getting on well with the new building for Mr J. Bishop, in Kimboltonroad, and expects to complete it early in the new year. He started to-day on a new cottage to be erected in Denbigh street for Mr A. Mountfort. Mr Andrew Laing, Messrs Younger (2) and Mr Brooker returned last night from Eimberley. John McDonald is in Melbourne and will be back after Christmas, Thomas Brooker has stopped in Sydney. Although none of the Feilding men made a pile, yet they appear to have enjoyed the trip amazingly. Wilfred Jackson and A. FitzHerbert have determined to see it out, and will remain at Kimberley through the wet season. Beportsof the Teetulpa diggings are much exaggerated by the telegrams, and the same news is sent over the wires time after time a> The storekeepers and managers of shipping companies are responsible to a great degree for the "wonderful finds." ■ That trade is improving ••ems now to be an admitted fact, even by those who have a predisposition to take a gloomy view of things commercial. On all hands there are indications that trade is brisker, and that there is a better demand upon the resources of the di»» tributing house*, though there are still complaints that money is difficult to obtain upoa easy terms. That money i> difficult for ordinary commercial purposes in not to be taken as evidence that there is a scarcity of it in the place, for balances are rapidly accumulating, and no soon a* confidence is fully re»e«tablished money will be f>uud plentiful for all legitimate purposes. That the worst of the long trade depression in now over may be accepted as a fact, and every week will help to advance the improvement of our commercial position.—Auckland Herald. A writer in the Auckland Weekly Ifews remarks :— The Wanganui district has long enjoyed an unenviable repttta* tion for the number of its madmen. Physiologists and psychologists harp puzzled over the cause of it. It is known that the fountains of the rivers that water that territory w.re in some poisonous alum spring* near Luke Taupo, and scientific observers have connected tins with the alleged fact that all the Wan* gun ui people are ju*t a little touched; that a lance proportion of them are downright cranky, and that in proportion to population the district has sent more mud men to lunatic asylums thna nay other part of New Zealand. The author of this interesting paragraph appears to I hare swallowed some quantity of alum water.