Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 66, 4 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

A lost door key is advertised for. The Rev. Joshua Jones has been in ."Feilding for a few days The Taranaki Budget says Mr Halcombe will be a great acquisition to that district. Full rehearsal of •'Patience" to-night in the Public Hall. Punctuality is requested. There will be mass in St. Bridget's Church to-morrow (Sunday) morning at eleven o'clock. Ratepayers are reminded of the public meeting to be held in the Public Hall on Tuesday evening. Several additions are made to-day to Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co.'s Feilding sale on the 9th instant. Mr Leys, formerly a sheep farmer m this settlement, was a passenger by tram last night for Wanganui. The Manchester Road Board met this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. The best voucher for a man's business capacity, candour, honesty, and respectability is a receipted printers account. Mr Arkwright, of Marton, and Mr Godfrey, of Feilding, arrived yesterday in the Aorangi from Home. We regret to learn that Major Atkinson is not recovering so rapidly as his friends would desire. Mrs Atkinson is still an invalid. I A rifle match will probably be arranged i shortly, between a team of civilians and a team chosen from the Manchester Rifles. 1 The railway authorities intend inviting I tenders for grass cutting alongside tho railway line. Particulars will be given | in advertisement next week. | The Post's Timaru correspondent says that should Hall be committed for trial, ! on the charge of murdering Captain Cain, an application will bo to have* the caso heard in Dunedin. If wheat maintains its present value until this season's crops are harvested, the farmers in this neighborhood will hare little cause to grumble. They will do so for all that, "for 'tis their nature to." A meeting of the Feilding Sports committee was held hist night. Among other business the lawn and dancing platform privilege was sold to Mr Joseph Smitli (who has just returned from Eimberley) for £20. The Resident Magistrate's Court will sit in Feilding on Wednesday next. A meeting of the Feilding Licensing cqinmittee was appointed for the same day but as there is no business to be done, the meeting will not be held. A meeting of the Ashurst Licensing Committee was held yesterday when a transfer of the license of the Manawatu Gorge Hotel was granted from Mr Lowes to Mr W. T. Watts, late of the Denbigh Hotel, Feilding. A number of ladies and gentlemen assembled on the railway platform yesterday afternoon to say farewell to the Rev. Joshua Jones and his family, who haye gone to reside at the Lower Hutt, where Mr Jones has been appointed curate. The railway travelling post office attached to the Mail trains, north and south, started to run yesterday. As there is an officer in charge we think it is high time the authorities discontinued making the additional charge of Id on all letters posted in the van. A quantity of trout fry arrived by train at noon yesterday. One thousand were liberated in the Orbua river at Aorangi, and five hundred in the Kiwitea stream. Messrs Sherwill, Beattie, and Haybittle, members of the Manchester Acclimatisation Society, were the operators. As several complaints have been made to us of persons owning dogs allowing them to rush out at passing horsemen, we quote the following from the Police Offences Act, 1884, for their information : — " Any person, whether or not. being the awner of such dog, who sets on, urges, or permits any dog to attaok or worry or put in fear any animal or person, in or upon Any public place shall be liable to a penilty not exceeding ten pounds. Some Foolish people think it very funny to. see i dog rush oat at a horse and frighten both the animal and the rider; but it may prove an expensive amusement.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day: — Warnings for gales have been sent to all places south of Rapier and Opunake. The Midland Railway Company has adopted as its crest or emblem a miner and a shepherd shaking hands, thus typifying the union of (he kast and West Coasts. The idea is a happy one. There is a steadily growing belief abmad in official circles that an amicable international settlement will be effected in connection with the Bulgarian question. The direct English mail which arrived in Wellington yesterday at noon, was delivered in Feilding^ this morning at 9 o'clock. This is ' an improvement on the old style. "Rev. Mr Murray will lecture at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow (Sunday) evening, at 7 o'clock, his subject being "The Progressive Fulfilment of Scrip* ture." The Makino Band will perform this evening on the balcony of Mr Light's Denbigh Hotel. A varied programme will be rendered. We are glad to notice that several places of business are about to have con« crete pavements put in front of them. Tenders are invited to-day for the work, and the specifications may be seen at the shop of Mr 6. W. JTowles. A China shop has been opened in those premises between the shops of Messrs Fowles and Carthew, where all sorts of beautiful china goeds are for sale at very low prices. The advertisement appears elsewhere. An equine curiosity, in the shape of a Shetland pony stallion, said to be the smallest in the world, is expected by the Tekapo from Syd ney. It was bred by Mr J. A. Roberts, of Melbourne, and is now the property of Mr D. L. Smith, of Palmerstoa North, and is consignod to Murray, Roberts and Co., of this city. — Post. Mr MacManus, of Manchester street, took his wife to the hospital in Wanganui, by this morning's train. Mrs MacMannus is advanced m years end has been an invalid for some months. An order was given last night by the Mayor, Mr Lethbridge, for a sick man from Awahuri to go to the same hospital, but the patient did not turn up in time for the train. During the past few weeks a yarn was going the rounds to the effect that not Sheet Anchor, but the New Zealand bred Welcome Jack, had won the Melbourne Cup of 1885. Now the story goes that Arsenal was not the winner of the last Cup, but some other animal. Of course (says "Flaneur" in the Herald) these yarns are utter bosh, but some people swallow them. Some surprise has been expressed that we (Post) did not publish any report of the dinner given in Palmers ton North to the directors and officers of the Welling-ton-Mannwatu Company. The explanation is very simple. We received no invitation to send a reporter, and therefore, of course, assumed that the promoters did not desire to have ihe pro* ceedings reported. Mr Gilbert King, who is at present on a visit to the Old Country, leaves on his return journey to the colony on the 7th inst. Mr King comes back to Wanganui but whether he will resume the managership of the Bank of New South Wales here is not certain. Rumour is busy with certain probable changes and promotions among the managers of the bank anent which we hare heard it said it is suggested that Mr King will probably go to Christ church, Mr Tennant to Napier, and Mr Hogg, of Napier, comes to Wanganui.— Chronicle. A case of considerable importance, argued before his honor Mr Justice Richmond on Wednesday last, as to the'power of Resident Magistrates to grant professional fees in judgment summonses, under " The Imprisonment for Debt Act 1874. Though we are aware that it has not been the practice in 'the Resilent Magistrates' Court m Wellington to make such\an order, yet we know there are Magistrates in more places than Ghsborne who have for years past compelled debtors to pay counsel's fee or otherwise go to prison. The fact that it is now decided that any such order is illegal cannot be too widely known among Resident Magistrates and Justices of the Peace. — Weltington Press.