Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 71, 16 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

There was a sharp frost here yesterday morning.

Nominations for the Foxton Baces close to-night. The Kiwitea Boad Board will meet o n Saturday next. Burglaries are quite common eTents in "Wellington now. Te Kooti will will visit Porangahau to spend his Christmas holidays. F. B. Jackson and Go. will hold a sale at Johnsonville on the 29th inst. We have received the Australasian Times and Anglo-New Zealander for November. Tenders for the Waitapu roads contract' and erecting Mr Wilson's house, will close on Monday next. F. Bi Jackson and Co. will hold a sale at Palmerston to-morrow. Additional entries appear to-day. To-day we publish the entries for Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale at Awahun on Tuesday the 21st mst. Tho Napier Telegraph quotes our " little poem," about the bankrupt bushman, without acknowledgment. Mr Greenwood, dentist, will visit Feilding on Wednesday the 29th December, and may be consulted at the Denbigh Hotel. The rush at the post office, to pay the Property Tax, has been very great during the current wook. Yesterday the lobby was crowded for several hours. The Bishop of Wellington will hold services in St. John's Church, Feilding, on Christmas Day and Sunday. The communion will be administered on both days. The Bailway Department has given way to the pressure brought to bear against the existing timetable and an extra train will now run each Wednesday between Palmerston and Foxton. Another of those entertainments provided by the Blue Bibbon organisation, will take place in the Temperance Hall this evening. The public generally are invited We have received from the local agent, Mr G. 0. Hill, the almanack issued by tho South British Fire ami Marine Insurance Company. It is very handsome and is artistically got up. It is stated that the Birmingham Corporation "has overcome the objections urged against the opening of the Free Library on Sunday" by employing Jewish officials to do the necessary work on that day. The Manchester Bifles will parade for | judging distance on Satimtay mornmj? at , six o'clock. Those who haye qualified i already need not attend. All other ab- I sentees will be sued for capitation lost to ' the corps.

Green and ripe fruit is advertised today by Mr Young, in our Wanted column.

A movement is on foot to have an elocution contest in Feilding at an early date.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to»day — Warnings for gales hare been sent to all places south of East Cape and .New Plymouth.

The busines card of Mr A. Wallace (late of Wanganui), coachbuilder and wheelright, will be found in our advertising columns.

Herr Most, the Anarchist, has written a letter in opposition to Henry George and to Mr George's movement. He denounces the author of "Projjresi and Poverty" as a mere mercenary, wh« has do>med himself by his book.

Several cases of fruit and flower stealing have occurred recently in Denbigh street. The perpetrators are pretty well known, and unless they take the friendly hint now given to them, a visit to the R.M. Court will be the inevitable consequence.

We regret to learn that Mr John Sy mons, of H.M. Customs, Wellington, die d of consumption, at Foxton, on Monday last, aged 36 years. Deceased was station master at Feilding about eleven years ago. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him.

There appears to-day a notice from Mr Christopher Brown, of Manchester House, in which he states an allowance of ten per cent (2s in the £) on all purchases of 03 and upwards, will be made during the season ending 31st December.

The interior of the Bed House looks very well with the new lines of all classes of bright colored goods suitable for the season. The glassware and ironmongery are special features. Mr S. J. Thompson will give full particulars by advertisement in our next issue.

It is as hard for judges to give satisfaction at an elocution contest, as it is at a baby show. At least that was the experience of the Wellington and Palmerston judges, who, in neither instance, gave awards which were according to the several ideas of the audiences.

The successful tender for the contract to put down concrete footpaths before the business premises of Messrs G. W. Fowles, W. Q. Haybittle, and 8. J. Thompson respectively, was Mr Milham, bricklayer. Work was commenced at Mr Thompson's yesterday, and the whole may be expected to be completed well before Christmas.

Mr Maxwell, general manager of railways, has acknowledged receipt, from the late Mayor, F. T. Lethbndge, Esq., of the letter sent to the Minister for Public Works, enclosing a copy of the resolution anent the railway timetable, passed at the recent public meeting in the Public Hall. Mr Maxwell says " the subject is under consideration."

The Elocution contest, at Palmerston last night, was a great succes. The theatre was crowded. Mr R, Leary, of Palmerston, took Ist prize ; Miss Hall, from Woodville, 2nd prize; Mr W. J. Haybittle, 3rd prize; Mr Pascoe, 4th prize ; Mr Monteith, from. Woodville, sth prize, was excellent as a comedian and afforded intense delight to the audience, but of course he was " out of the running" from an elocutionary point of view.

Travellers arriving at Napier by way of the Mannwatu Gorge state "the beau* tiful scenery is already being destroyed by the commencement of works in connection with, the Gorge railway." Those magnificent palms (iVekaus) and other of the foliage plants, peculiar to the Gorge, are being destroyed by the ruthless hands of the workmen, and what at one time was considered one of the most beautiful of New Zealand's scenes, will soon be of the past.— Telegraph.

A number of silver and copper coins have lately been found on the beach at New Plymouth, owing to a quantity of sand having been blown away. It is be» lieved that the coins were cast ashore when the Black Diamond, or the Eegina, was wrecked, in the early days of th<settlement. The coins are chiefly of George Ill's reign. There is, however, one shilling of 1839. The coins were black when fonnd. A number of old Brown Bess bullets, and some steel too s were also picked up.

Some of the school books now in use evidently require looking to, if Mr Connolly was correct in some remarks he made at a meeting of the Marlborough Education Board. He said he had recently looked into a geography and was informed for the first time that Cook Strait divided New Ulster and New Munsler, names which had been abolished over 35 years ago. He also met the statement that Mount Egmont was the highest mountain in Australia, and that the mountain was 11,000 feet high.

Sporting men in this district will be glad to notice that the Atraliuri Hark .Race meeting so successfully inaugurated last year is to be continued, and in another column will be found the programme of this popular gathering to be held on the 28th — the day after the M.E.C. meeting. The added money amounti to over L7O which speaks well for the enterprise of Awahun residents. All possible arrangements are now being made to ensure the success of the meeting, and we have no deubt that it will be a very enjoyable one.

A machine for shearing sheep is said to be in successful operation in Victoria. It is made of brass, in the shape of a small trowel. The motion is actuated by neans of a smal! turbine wheel, about three inches in diameter, geared into an* other wheel on which is fixed a cutter. In front is a comb, serving as a guard against the skin. The steam is conveyed from the boiler by an india-rubber tube, w ich is double, having one inside the other. The inner one is for the injection and the ipace between the two for the ejection. The machine is used in the Kanie fashion as the shears, but cuts, it is stated, much cleaner and far quicker, without the least danger of injuring the fleece of the sheep — Exchange.

The Mangaone Cricket Club played their opening match of the season on Saturday last, Married v. Single. The bachelors went first to the wickets and scored 22 runs. The benedicts followed and succeeded in putting together 21 runs. On their opponents resuming, 37 was i added to the number, making a total of 57. The married, after careful play, scored a win with two wickets to spare, chiefly owing to the careful batting of Mextod and Stewart For the bachelors G. Cowan distinguished himself in the field, and their wicket-keepers showed good play. Great interest was manifested , by the spectators during the game, and j at its conclusion the victors were loudly j cheered. j