Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 70, 14 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The elocution contest will take place to-morrow in Palmerston. December is slipping away but no news of Government Insurance bonuses. I A slight improvement in the railway I returns for the past month is chronicled. A temperance village settlement is about to be formed, near Raglan, m Auckland. Additions are made to-day to Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s sale at Palmerston on Friday next. We learn that the entries for the Palmerston Caledonian Sports on New Year's Day, are very satisfactory. We have received the December number of the Industrial Gazette. The Gazotto is to be enlarged in ISS7. The rates to be charged on the Wel-lington-Mauawatu line are published in the Government Gazette of the 9th inst. Nominations for the Foxton Racing Club will close on Thursday next, with Mr J, R. Russetf, lion., Sec, Foxton, at 9 p.m. Mr S Goodbehere, Mayor elect of Feildmg, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace under the Municipal Corpora- '■ tion Act 1876, j The parade of the Manchester Rifles for judging distance practice, called for Sa- i turclay last, waa not held owing to. the j inclemency of the weather. i We are glad to notice that the traffic on the Wellington Manawatu railway is already taxing the capacity of the rolling , stock of the company. j Ostrich farming is about to be started in Auckland. A vessel with fifty- six ostriches, from the Cape of Good Hope, is expocted to arrive shortly, i The Prussian Government is determined '■, to abolish private instruction. Private J schools will only be allowed in places | where the public schools are insufficient to accommodate all scholars. There have boen between 400 and 500 bankruptcies iv Auckland this year. Apart from the mere clerical work, it is estimated that thn legal expenses in connection with them will total up to £10,000 In the yfiar 188.5 goods rahie £366,873 were imported by New Zealand from NewYork and Boston. Tobacco to the value ;>f £'1000 per week appears on the list of j items, and yet there aro people who, say the country is poor.

Several interesting ''want ads" from Mr Svendsen, bootmaker, appear in today's issue. A meeting of the Feilding State School committee will be held at the schoolroom this evening. A meeting of the committee of the Horticultural society will beheld in Mr Goodbehere's office to-morrow night at 8 p.m. Mrs Reading has opened a dressmaking establishment where all kinds of needle- j work will be executed in the latest styles. The Feildinj* portion of the San Francisco mail will arrive here by the 4.45 south train this afternoon, and be delivered j over the counter at the post office at 7 p.m. We are glad to notice our contemporary | the Post has at last discovered the absurd- ( ity of the present railway timetable. It j says " the trains are now running uselessly as far as through traffic is concerned. ' ' Judging distance drill, by those membors of the Manchester Rifles who have not already qualified, will bo held on ' Saturday morning next, at 6 o'clock. Volunteers not attending will be liable to be sued for capitations lost to the corps. A boxing contest took place at the Public Hall last night between two local residents. The proceedings were not of an edifying character, and we hope, for the sake of the good name of Feilding, that such an exhibition will never occur again. The usual monthly entertainment will be held in the Temperance Hall on Thursday next at 7.30 p.m. The members of the Blue Ribbon Army have arranged an attractive and varied programme, which promises to be even better than any of its predecessors The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company intend shortly to offer upwards of 14,000 acres of good bus'i country for sale. The sections will vary in extent from 70 to 200 acres. As the land which is to be suld is all of it within 20 miles of the city, the lots to be submitted will find a ready sale. It is stated that J. N. Bell, of Woodville, who has been found guily of rape, is a nephew of Dr Bell, *vho was poi» sone<? by Dr Pritohard of Glasgow. Pritchard was the last man publicly hanged in Scotland. — Post. A child belonging to a Mrs Donnelly died at Dunedin the other day. and at the inquest it was ascertained that her first child had also died from being overlaid. The j ury added a rider censuring the mother for her neglect after losing one child in that way. The Wellington Press understands that — " the order prohibiting the use of scented soap at the Government Buildings has been cancelled, so that the extensive order of yellow soap which was contemplated will not now be executed." This is indeed cheerful intelligence : there is 'ope for the Government yet. Mr Carthew publishes an advertisement to-day which ought to prove attractive to heads of families as well as young people. The stock is varied and has been selected from the best houses in London and Germany. The Christmas cards are by the finest artists in the colony aud in England and cannot be surpassed for beauty aud olegance. We have to thank those of our advertisers and subscribers who hayo paid their accounts up to last quarter. To those who have yet to remit the several amounts due, we desire to point out tnat Christinas is coming, and we would like to hoar from them before its advent in order that we may " have a good time" as well as the rest of the world. The near approach of Christmas is indicated by the preparations being made on all sides by business people to meet the demands of the expectant holiday makers, and Mr Hastie, the popular host of the Feilding Hotel, is as usual in the van with his notice of the Christmas Cheer he he has provided to supply the wants of his numerous friends and customers who make Feildiug their headquarters during the season. Two young men, married and with families, named Henry Evans and Henry Kaye wero drowned, in Wellington harbor, on Sunday morning. They had started from Petone, in an open sailing boat, for the lighthouse. When they were south of Somes' Island they decided to put back, and in putting her round tho sheet fouled and the boat wont over. Evans and Kaye were drowned, and the two others in the boat, Taylor and Ramsden, were saved. We are informed that Mr Turner, who has been for many years manager of the Bank of Australasia, at Palmerston North, has been promoted to the Wanganui branch as a successor to Mr Bab*bage, who has been appointed New Zealand Inspector. Mr Turner is deservedly popular both in Palmerston and Feilding, and he will carry with him to his new sphere of duty the good opinion of every one. Mr R. B. Smith, of the Wellington branch, will succeed Mr Turner, in Palmerston. The British people, which wanders everywhere and settles everywhere, and founds nitions as bees settle, we hardly know how or why will stay nowhere under any rule but its own (said the London Spectator), Throughout the j earth tliere is no body of 10,000 English* , men obeying any law they did not make. j They settle in no part of Europe, in no ! division of Asia, which is not theirs ; in no part of America where their law is not supreme. Tliey are unattracted by the wonderful wealth of Spanish America, or the endless spaces of the Portuguese j dominion; and when once, by a rare chance, a band of them found themselves in Texas, subject to Spaniards, they i established, almost withovt trial of the i native power, a Revo'utionary Republic. I They glided away from Java with i a ( three years of its cession to the Dutch ; i ihey scarcely settle in the Transvaal, be- '■ cause it is not English ; and if Bengal were foreign to morrow, every planter would by 1890 have sought a career else* where. The following is the latest libel iiction : — A few years ago a clerical wolf in sheep's clothing, a Eev. Mr Cawley, was superintendent of a new York charitable institution for children, cailod the "Shepherd's Fold." It was dixcovered that he crurlly ill-treated his infant charges by punishing them and depriving them of their necessary food. He was expelled from the ministry and convicted of the offonce of cruelty, for which he served a long term of imprisonment in the State's prison. An ingenious playwright has written a melo-drnmn, now being performed on the New York boards, the villain and the scenes of which are strikingly like Cawley and the cruelties he practiced when at the heud of the 11 Shepherd's Fold." Cnwley is very indignjint that this liberty should be taken with his name and past life, ;in<l has instituted libel suits against the .author of the play and the manager of the theatre where it is being acted.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to«day — ' / Warnings for westerly gales have been * sent to all places south t»f .Napier and Opunake. It would be a protection to the public if the Government published at stated ] intervals, a schedulo of Fire and Marine Insurance Companies authorised to do business in the oolony. The Key. Mr Gordon, of Marton, con- € ducted services at the Presbyterian Church on last Sunday morning and I j. evening. He also held an afternoon ser- a vice for children. Each of the services j was largely attended. An awful accident is reported by the captain of the ship Canara, of St, John, New Brunswick, which has just put into Dartmouth. At Lobbs, the second officer, Stephen Lloyd, was superintending the securing or" the anchor. It was just being hauled on board, when by some means, the tackle gave way, and fell across Lloyd's neck as he was leaning over the side of the ship, the rope strik« ing him with such force that his head was taken clean off and fell overboard. Mr Larcomb, C.E., Palmers ton, has received instructions from Mr Barber of Carnarvon, who has purchased the building and land opposite the Catholic Church, Broad St., Paluierston, to prepare plans for the raising of the house and transforming it into a private residence. The unfinished building, which formally belonged to the Native Pete has been an eyesore to the public for a number of years. — Standard. In the report of the last meeting of the Manawatu Road Board, published in the Standard, appears the following paraprapb. :— " lie the brigde (?) over the Oroua river at Bunnythorpe and the application of the Manchester Board for an extension of area in the land required for its construction, it was resolved that the previous resolution denning the boundaries agreed to be handed over to the Manchester Board be adhered to." The Manchester Road Board we are informed, made no such application. The request to be transferred from the jurisdiction of one Board to the other was made by the settlers themselves, and all but unanimously, through the medium of Mr Charles Bull and Mr R. Jones. " Well, Mrs S , I shall certainly take your advice on this matter, for I know you are a good and careful Housekeeper ; but do you know, I have always got my Stores and Drapery from the same Shop since we came to Feilding, and somehow I am not much of a one for changing. Since you tell me the saving you make by getting your Goods at the Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and Grocery Company, I shall certainly try them, and I shall make it my business to tell all my Friends to go strait to the Wholesale' Drapery, Clothing, and Grocery Company's Store, Manchester Street. Feilding, E. J. Cottrell, Manager." N.B, No one is pressed to buy, and Goods are delivered all over the Distnot daily.— Advt.