Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 78, 6 January 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

«, i The Borough Council will meet this evening. Full rehearsal of " Patience" to-night at 8 o'clock sharp. The Manchester Rifles will .parade for inspection to-morrow evening. A good general servant is advertised for by Mrs F. Mowlein, of Palmerston. j The prisoners convicted of the Mount Ren nic outrage will be hanged to-mor-row. Tenders for the lease of the farm of P. Manson, deceased, and for cutting drains at Makino, will close on Saturday next. Constable McAnulty is about to retire on his pension and settle down on his property in Palmerston. He has been 21 years in the service. F. R. Jackson and Co. will hold a general sale at their auction rooms Kiinbolton road on Saturday next. Special lines in poultry and produce will be offered. All carnivorous animals lap up water with the tongue. Herbivorous animals, such as the horse and the ox, suck it up. Turks never drink, never abune ani« mals, are polite to woman, and invariably kind to children. This distinguishes the Tuiks from civilised people. — Boston Post. Mr C. Brown, of Manchester House, left Feilding on Saturday last for a holiday. Mr Brown intends to make a tour to the principal towns in the North Island. The Sheep Inspectors throughout the colony have this year been instructed to report on the number of shearers employed in their districts, and the nature of the sleeping accommodation provided for them. The amount of wool forwarded from Feilding this season already exceeds by seventy-five per cent, that of last year. The increase is not only from the farms recently acquired in Makino and Kiwitea, but from the older sheep runs. The Endymion Hotel is now under the proprietorship of Mr Falloon, who took possession on the Ist instant. As Mr Falloon is jiu active and pushing man we havo everj' confidence he will be an acquisition to Awahuri, not only as competent bomface but as a settler. Dorit fail to keep a jar of vnslacked lime in the house. If your child uas the croup suddenly, place two or three wal-uut-sized bits on' a siueer, pour on warm water and let the child iniiale the fumes. Repeat until relief is obtained. The mile bicycle championship of tho colony was ran for at Rangiora recently, ;ind was won by Bean, of Uhristchurch, who beat Webb, of Duneilin, by one yard. Williuot, of North Canterbury, was third. Time, 3min. 56 au 14-5 sec. Bean won the ten mile race iv 38tnin 1 and 2-sth sec. A curious feature of New York life i 8 the ladies' receptions held daily in #orj»e« ously appointed bur-roams. One estab« lishment receives regularly every morniim from eight o'clock till eleven. A reporter found more than thirty females in this place the other morning, and all of high respectability. The business of the the bar goes on as usual during these visits. Every scholar (says an exchange), in the State schools of Victoria and South Australia next year is to receive a small Testament bearing the Queen's autograph, in commemoration of the jubilee. Mr J. H. Angus is the donor of the books for South Australia, and 40,000 copies will be required. [As •' autograph" means " original handwriting" Her Majesty has a heavy task before her. To write her name 40,000 times will take about seventy hours, without a break. We don't believe she will ever make the attempt. She might put Battenburg" on the job and give him a chance to do something for a living, but her time is too valuable to be " frivolled" away in that fashion.] The larpely-incrensed traffic on the Wellington and Manawatu Railway has caused extensive alterations to be made both at and about the station. At the south end the carpenters are now at work enlarging the parcel office, which is to hare 20ft added to it. This will make the parcel office double its present size. The new goods shed is now in use, and the Company intends to use the old one as aa engine shed, and to shift it back from its present site, the place where it is at present being required tor sidings which are to be laid down. The Company are also erecting their own telephone all along the line. From Pnremiita onward to tine terminus is finished, and from Wellington to Paremata is being connected. — N. Z. Times. Yesterday a man named W. Johnston, who is already well known to the police, was arrested by Constable Meehan on a warrant issued in Palmerston, on a charge of committing rape on a young girl named Emily Platt, of Palmerston. It appears the prisoner and the girl were driven up to Feilding on Tuesday afternoon by Mr Parr. They put up at the Feilding Hotel where they had tea. They had been previously for a walk up Kimbolton road where the alleged offence was committed. Mrs Hastie, the landlady of the hotel, was informed by one of the domestics that the girl was crying upstairs. Mrs Hastie went up, and questioning the girl closely, received such ' information that she sent her home by train to her parents the same evening. The following morning tne parents laid the information as above. The case will be heard iv Palmerston to-day. The Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and Grocery Company, of Manchester street, are offering a job line of 200 men's and boys' suits at 50 per cent, off English coat price, to clear. Theso goods are worth looking at, and no one is pressed I to buy. Look for job lines at the above I Company's store, iv Manchester street, Feilding.— AJiVT.

Several additions are made to-day to ■ Messrs F. It. Jackson and Co.'s Feilding stock sale. We are glad to hear that Mr Blackmore is progressing steadily towards complete recovery. We have received from Mr Charles Henry, of the American Saddlery, a very ' handsome pictorial almanack. Scotch papers of a laic date record (he death of Professor Kirk, of Edinburgh, j ■whose admirable papers on "Health" are known wherever the language is used. Captain Edwin telegraphs to«day.— Warnings for easterly gales and heavy rain after from 12 to 16 hours have been sent to all places north of Napier and Now Plymouth. A phrenologist says " that fulness under the eye denotes language." When the fulness is caused by another man's fist it denotes very bad language generally. The Eangitikei Cavalry Volunteers have been ordered to parade on Tuesday the 18th inst. at Bulls and proceed thence by rail to Feilding for inspection by Lieutenant - General Sir George Whitinore. Attendance is compulsory. An English commercial ambassador now sends to each of his clients or customers, a Christmas card in the centre of which is his photograph. The idea is said to meet much favor as it is far better than the ordinary " business card." We regret to learn that LieutenantColonel Stapp is confined to his room by the order of his medical attendant. The gallant Colonel is m the best of spirits, and as far as his own opinion goes, as well as usual, but he has to obey orders at present. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the foltelegram from their London office, dated 3rd inst. : — Frozen meat— The market is firm, and has a hardening tendency. New Zealand mutton, weighing 60lb to 651 b per carcase, is worth 4£ per lb. It is probable the question of the Railway time table, in. connection with the statement made elsewhere that the Hon. E. Eichardson, the Minister for Public Works, has determined not to ratify his promises made to the deputation from the Council, will be discussed at the meeting of the Borough Council to-night. The Emperor Willian is beginning to display in rather eccentric ways those economical tendencies which have brought so much ridicule upon many members «f the Hohenzollern family. The Emperor has taken of late to using a second time the envelopes of the letters and documents which reach him in shoals, and he audited the accounts of hi* trip to Ems and Gastein with unwonted rigor. As it has been admitted on all sides that the Manager of the WellingtonManawatu .Railway is a thoroughly capable man, we would suggest— merely as a hint to the Minister of Public Works — that he be given control also of the Government Line from Longbum to New Plymouth. We feel convinced he would double the receipts, reduce the expenditure by one half, and give general satisfaction to tne commercial and travelling public.