Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 75, 28 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ Mr F. R. Linton has a first-class fowling piece for sale. Additions are made to-day to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale ou Thursday next. This is the last day for paying the property tax We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket from the secretary of the Rangitikei Bacing Club. A letter from " one in the mud" on the subject of a bridge over the Oroua, at Aorangi, will appear in our next issue. The Registrar, of the Friendly Societies Begistry office, Wellington, notifies to-day that he has cancelled the registry of the Hope of Feilding Tent No. 39 Independent order of Bechabites. Mr £. H. Babbage, of the Bank of Australasia, has been called upon to take up the duties of his new appointment rather more hurriedly than anticipated. He leaves for Wellington on Friday night, the last day of the old year. An Order-in-Council m the Government Gazette declares that the cat is the natural enemy of the rabbit, and it prohibits the killing or capturing of any such animal outside the boundaries of any city, borough, or town district. The Napier Telegraph has "a mortal down" on the Wanganui section of railway, and the town and settlement of Wanganui generally. The editor has evidently never partaken of a " Wanganui pie," or his animosity would not be so keen. Last Thursday Mr Justice Johnston, on the application of Mr Joynt, changed the venue of the Hall case from Christchurch to Dunedin. Mr Stringer appeared for the Crown, and opposed the change to Oamaru, as the sessions are not held there till March. When one woe is gone frem the gardener auother cometb. The flying beetle has (says a .Napier paper) now made its appearance, and it is more hungry this ' season than ever- The insect flieth by J day and gobhleth up vegetation at night. Even the familiar dock leaf is not safe, but the cherry and the apricot trees are \ nearly stripped of everything green: A serious accident befel Mr John New- ; man and his "family while returning in a - brake from Palmerston on Christmas i evening. In crossing a small bridge on < the Rangitikei line, one of the horses ; slipped its foot through a hole in the j planks, with the result that the animal • fell, and became jammed under the brake. ■ Mr Newman had the brake quickly * cleared of its occupants, and with the as- ' eistance of several settlers and a borrowed axe, the horse was released from its 1 dangerous position. The injuries to the - | horse (which is a valuable one) were found ] ,to be very serious, <"he leg and shoulders f I being so lacerated and strained, it had to -i be left in an adjoining paddock. Another > horse was procured, and Mr Newman and ! his iamrty proceeded on their jouraey, -'

The Awahuri Races were well attended to-day and were a saccess. A report will appear in our next issue. j A most deliberate attempt was made last nijjht to burn down the work shop ot Mr Wallace who has just started business, as a wheelwright, iv Bowen stret. Fortunately the fire was seen before it got a good hold and was ex* | tinguished by some persons from the H-ili. Constable Meehan has the matter in hand. Mr C. Henry's mare Mermaid, after running second for the Maiden Plate at the Palmerston Races yesterday, subsequently won the Ladies' Bracelet, which proved a popular win, and secured for Mr Henry the congratulations of many of his friends who were present. The return match between the married and -Jingle cricketing teams of Mangaone, was played on Friday last on the Belvedere ground, and resulted iv an easy win for the Married men who secured in the two innings 182, against the Single's 82. Large numbers of visitors were present, man j of whom were frem Feilding Mr Daw having run a brake on the occasion. He who is silent is forgotten ; he who abstains is taken at his word; he who does not advance, faUs back ; he who ceases to grow greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up ; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end — it is the terrible symptom which precedes death. To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph ; it is to assert one's self against destruction, against sickness, against the anuUing and dispersion of one's physical and moral being. It is to will without ceasing, or rather to refresh one's wiR day by day. — ' Amiel's Journal.' Through the recent death of an uncle, Mr Walter Turnbul). of the firm of W. and G. Turnbull & Co. of this city, has become the fortunate recipient of a legacy, amounting to LIOO-000. The deceased gentleman, who was a banker in Peebles, died at the age ot 85 years. He left au estate worth between L 240.000 and L 250.0 >0, which was to be divided between his three nephews, Mr Turnbull dropping into the legauy named. The actual cash left by the deceased gentle* man is said to have amounted to about LIOO.OOO, the other portion of the estate 1 bemg property of various kinds. — Times We (Evening Bell) have been credibly informed by a gentlemen who has travelled over the North of this colony, that he has, in the inland districts, eaten Circular head potatoes, borne all the way by steamer from Tasmania, sent up to Whangaret by steamer and then caried inland by bullock dray; that colonial .babes rhe offspring of farmer, (save tiie mark .') are being brought up on Swiss milk ; that tinned salmon are consumed on the banks of estuaries and rivers in the North that are literally alive with fish. And these forsooth are the sort of people that Mr Monk thinks to be the 'right kind oF men required to start these industries." The proyerbial expression " exception proves the rule" is very generally misunderstood. The word prove anciently meant " test," and is so used in this saying. An old use of the word prove occurs in the advice of St. Paul — "Prove all things,', etc. — which means that we should test all things, so as to know which good ones to " hold fast" to. An exception cannot prove a rule in the modern sense ; it tends rather to render it invalid ; but an exception may test a rule, and in some cases prove it to be wrong, whilst in others the test may show that tbe so-called exception may be explained. Another theory* on the subject is that the word " exception" implies that there is a rule, so that the I word "prove" means "proves the existence of." I