Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 79, 8 January 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

Full rehearsal of "Patience" at eight o'clock. Punctuality is requested.

Tbe Palmerston cricketers went to Marton this morning to play the local team.

Mrs Gosling notifies that she will recommence music lessoas on the 17th, and the private school on the 24th inst.

Several additions are made to-day to Messrs P. R. Jackson and Co. 'a sale at Feilding on the 13thdmst.

Mr Drew found in the sandhills near the Ocean Beach, on New Year's Bay, an almost complete skeleton of a moa. Flaneur in the Herald says referring to bookmakers " They contaminate all who come within range of their malign influence, and are a curse to the community." The Governor has accepted the resignaby Major-General Sir George Whitmore of the office of Commissioner of police, and has appointed in his place Mrjor W. E. Gudgeon.

We have received frem the author a pamphlet entitled " Criticisms on State Education in Victoria" being a selection from letters which appeared in the Ballarat State, by " Fairneld".

A notice appears to-day from Lieut. - Col. Stapp, ordering a parade of the Manchester Rifles on Tuesday, the 18th inst. at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Attendance is compulsory.

The Palmerston Railway Station was nearly burned down on Wednesday last by some person dropping a lighted match on the platform.

The Wanganui Herald says : — The Hon. Mr Bryce has decided not to address his constituents till after he has visited Major Atkinson, which will probably be about the end of this month. The address is likely to be given early in February.

The man, William Johnston, arrested here on Wednesday on a charge of rape, was brought up before a Justice of the Peace in Palmerstou on Thursday, and remanded until Friday next. Bail was allowed, accused in his own recognisance of £200 and two sureties of £100 each,

We understand that Mr E- Larcomb of Palmerston has in hand the plans for a number of new buildings oF large dimensions to be erected in this district, one of the number being a private residence to cost about £1000.

At the fire last night one of the Belfits had a narrow escape. He was standing under a window when a heavy spring mattrass was thrown out. It fell clo>e at his side on Us end, and then canted on to his back. Beyond startling him no barm was done.

The following Superintendent Collectors of agricultural statistics havo been appointed : — For Hawcra, Patea, Waitotara, and Wanganui — Mr G. W. Woon ; Raugitikei, Manawatu, Oroua, and Horowhenua—Mr F. M. Deightou , Wairarapa North and South —Mr Henry Bunny ; Hutt — Mr E. J. von Dadelszen. — Times.

To-day Mr Summers, of. the Feilding iErated Water Factory, publishes a new advertisement. We have to acknowledge receipt from Mr Summers of a dozen of his Horehound Champagne which we have sampled, and find to bo a most refreshing beverage, admirably adapted for a cooling drink in hot weather, like that we are now experiencing.

A •• Liberal" Government is in the ascendency, and so Sir (ieorge Whitmore is not only created a real live Major* General, but is provided with " a hayde« kong," in the person of "the Honourable Captain Schmidt." The present condition of affairs reminds one of a a boiler in a sugar refinery, with all the what-do«you -call-it coining to the top. — H.B. Herald.

We are sorry to record the death of Mr Lachlan M 'Lean, whose inj unes from the attack of an entire horse necessitated the ampliation of his left arm near the shoulder. The unfortunate man seemed likely to get over the shock to his system, but after a few day* he began to siak and died on Monday, December 27Mr M' Lean was in the prime of life, and his unlooked*for death is a sad blow to his family and friends I—Cromwell1 — Cromwell Argus.

A Greymouth telegram says :— " The skeleton of a whale, between 50 and 7o feel- long, and not all uncovered yet, was tound in a sandstone rock in sluicing a claim at Red Jacket, on the Terrace, about 25 feet above the level of a creek in the locality, and about 100 feet above the level of the sea. The bones are not fossilised. The sandstone bottom is soft enough to be worked with picks.

A case of " woeful want" was before the It. M. Court at Wellington recently. A young man, named William Flowers, was arraigned on a charge of wilfully damaging the window of Mr George Aldous' shop to the extent of 6s. Constable fialhnger stated that accused came to the police station at 5 o'clock in the morning, and stated that he had broken the window so that he might be locked up and get something to eat. He said he had no food for three days. Mr Wardell remarked that it wag a foolish way to get board and lodging. A fine of 5s was imposed, and an order for pay* ment of damage, or in default four days imprisonment. Needless to say, the poor fellow weat to gaol.

" Puff" in the Press writes : — Wool'g looking better! Goldsborough's sale at Melbourne yesterday showed a decided improvement ! Good demand for the continent ! Ah, that's the style! What with the hard winter and the war preparations in Europe, there oupht to be a great spurt in prices soon ! France Germany, Austria. Italy, Russia and Turkey must have two or three millions of men out just now, and they all want greatcoats and blankctti and horsecloths! Yes, whilst it lasts, a war or even a war scare's bound to give the wool trade a shove ahead, but it would be better for all hands in the long i un if these millions of inn were occupied in peaceful and productive pursuits ! In trade, dear boy, as in most other things, we have to take the world as we find it ! Ah yes ! The lion lies down with the lamb but the lamb is inside the lion ! Very sad !

Mr Patrick Comiskey has been ap» pointed Consular Agent for Italy at Auckland.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to«day.— Telegrams to expect strong easterly winds have been sent to all places north of East Cape, Taupe, and Raglan.

Under instructions from Mr W. Reading, the local agent, the damage done to .Vl r Pollock's premises and furniture has been estimated, by Mr F. Pope who has acted as valuer of the Equitable, at £52 15s, which sum will be paid by the com* pany.

A placard has been posted in Dublin statins: that all tho jews in Ireland are to be forcibly driven from Ireland on tbe ground that they do not support charit* able institutions, and that if they are not good for Russia they arc not good for Ireland.

It is satisfactory to learn that, notwithstanding the mistaken efforts of certain sentimentalists, the law has been vindicated in the case of the Mount Rennie miscreants. That such a course was imperatipyly demanded was shown with sufficient plainness by the occurrence of another similar outrage actually while the perpetrators of the vlount Rennie horror were lying under sentence of death.— Times.