Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 147, 12 July 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The 'Frisco mail closes here to-morrow at 4 p.m. P. E. Jackson and Co. held a stock sale here to-day. Lambing has commenced in come parts of this district, We hear a skating rink is about to be erected in Falmoreton. They are getting up an " unemployed" excitement in Oamaru for the winter season. The convict Orabtree has beoome insane and is now an inmate of the Avondale lunatic asylum. What is meant by an inch of rainfall ia that 14,500,000 gallons of water have faller. upon a square mile of ground. The Poverty Bay Independent cays — J " Were it not for lawyers and litigation Gisborne would be like the silent tomb." If Mr John Olhvier contests the Ashley seat he is almost certain to be elected as he is, deservedly, the most popular man in Canterbury. A bookmaker named C. Markham was tried at Melbourne for attempted wife murder, and sentenced to death. He has been recommended to mercy. { The Post says : — " It is understood that Minister* do not intend to appoint the Railway Commissioners until immediately after the close of the session. Bismarck owns the biggest paper mill in Germany, yet he has a profound dislike for newspapers. If he grew apples he would say his cider was sour. Warbrick, the captain ef the Moari football team, having broken a small bone of the ankle, will not be able to play again until he reaches England. We are sorry to hear that owing to a death in hie household, Mr Ward, 8.M., was unable to take his seat on the Bench, in Wanganui, on Monday last. A queer language the English. If you call a man " a crack" at anything he feels puffed up, but if you say he is " cracked" he will begin to throw things. I The chief warders in the New Zealand gaols are to wear swords. The next thing i will be to give the chief gaolers cocked hats and three epaulets, one for each shoulder and one to hang aft. It is said the Post has yet to acknowledge how it hoaxed the public, and a great many of the newspapers, too, over the Chinese edict. Nothing cleverer for some time has been done in journalism. | We are informed that the Extradition Treaty has nothing to do with the bringing back of the " errant erring Eyre." The trouble is the cables are broken, therefore no telegram can be Bent to arrest him at 'Frisco. A Wellington Navvy robbed a Chinaman of a lemon on Tuesday. John went for Mr Navvy and gave him a good drubbing with fists and bamboo. The British public who witnessed the fun loudly cheered John for his pluck. Advrbtisixg Chbats.— lt has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article, and then run it into some advertisement, that we avoid all such cheats, and simply call attenation to the merits of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters in as plain honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them , one trial ,as no one who knows their value I will ever use anything else.— Providence Adr^rtiser.

We observed the timber being placed on a couple of town sections this morning for new buildings, A fireman belonging to the lonic, who had been detected smuggling tobaco), was fined £9 in Wellington on Tuesday. A poat office has been opened at Levin (Messrs Bartholomew and Dunn's sawmill) and Mr Fred. Roe gazetted as postmaster. A man named T. Barker was brought before Mr Ooodbehere, J.P., yesterday, charged with being drunk and was fined 5s and 2s costs. The Government are inaugurating the opoch of high wages to result from their Protection tariff by reducing the wages of their own laborers to starvation rates. This doesn't appear to fit exactly. It is reported that an old Hungarian refuge residing near Hokitika, is affecting complete cures of cancer. His remedies are principally herbal, and he attaches the greatest importance to external application. Of the 139 distilleries at work in Great Britain last year no fewer th j n 128 were in Scotland ; and of the 27.000,000 gal< lons of proof spirit distilled last year, exclusive of Ireland, Scotland is credited with not much short of tnosthirds. M. Keen says he sells his boots undei a protection and freetrade tariff. Thej protect your feet from the cold and wet, and you are free to go and trade where you like after you have bought them, Well done Mickey ! See our wauteds ! We are glad to learn from the Heralc that the news received of the state of Mi A. Treadwell's health is more satisfactorj than it was at first, and that there is everj reason to believe that he will be able tc stand the trip to Wanganui at an earlj date. Iv his speech on the Customs Duties Bill, "Dear" Pollen said "there were persons who had tasted the milk of the State Cow, who now felt disinclined tc let the teat drop from between their lips.' He wasn't thinking of himself eithei when he said it. We are requested to state that owing to the " Forty hours adoration of ttu most blessed sacrament" taking place ie St. Patrick's Church, Palmerston, on the 22nd instant, mass will be held in Feilding in St. Bridget's next Sunday at 11 o'clock instead of on Sunday week. To the Deap. — A person who wai cured of deafness and noises in the heac of 23 years standing by a simple remedy will send a description of it free to anj person who applies to Nicholson, Lincoln's Inn Chambers, William street Melbourne. Writing of the " frantic errors" of th< Press Association the Napier Telegrapl says : — " These errors in cable message! may be as amusing as selections fron schoolboys' essays, but they are no exactly what newspaper proprietors pa 1 ] for, or expect to receive for hard cash." The good people of Feilding and th< Manchester Block, cannot complain thai the business men here are neglectful o; their customers' wants, whether in th< way of the necessaries of life or its luxuries. Ac a case in point we mstanci that of Messrs J. C, Morey and Co., wh( to-day announce a special stock taking sale which is now in full swing, in Ferguseon street. The man Cousins who was " murdered drowned, and robbed" in Wellington th« other day was married on Tuesday last tc the object of his affections. He has hac more experience in a week than falls t< the lot of most men. The Poat says, ii connection with the extraordinary state ■ ments made by Cousins respecting th« attempted crimes on his person, the police are determined to unravel the whol< affair. The ring stealers in Palmeraton wer< well punished. Alhngham was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment in Wanganui Gaol with hard labor and a recommendation that at the expiration of th< term he be sent to an Industrial schoo] uatil he attains the age of 1 5 years, undei sections 19 and 20 of the" Industrial Schools Act, 1882. A»d Adams was sentenced to imprisonment for fourteen days with hard labor. On Sunday night last, as a lady was riding home from an evening service, .she was followed by a niau on horseback, who evidently intended insult or assault. Luckily her horse took to flight, and she just reached the inside of her gate when her pursuer arrived at the outside. Such cowardly characters had better take warnine that, for the future, a sharp look out will be kept for them. This sort of thing has began all too noon in our hith» erto quiet and orderly district. According to information given us by Mr Thomas Nelson, Ashhurst seems to be in luck's way. For some time past it has been noticed that in one spot the vegetation has been remarkably green and luxuriant. The locality is on Mr W. Akers land across the Pohangma river, opposite Mr Grammer's. Some Maoris investigated the matter recently and on opening out tha ground a little found it so warm that the hand could not be kept there. It is surmised that a hot spring may be developed in the locality and should this be the case Ashhurat will possess a valuable additional attraction. — Manawatu Times. The Wellington Press says : — " On the 30th of last month a man named Charles Henry was arrested in Palmerston for attempting to abscond from his creditors. He was bailed out on the same day, and remanded for a week. He left Feilding a few days after he was bailed out and came to Wellington, telling his creditors he was coming down to see his wife and family off to Sydney. At the last minute, however, he went on board the Sydney boat himself. The Wellington police, who had him under supervision, at once communicated with the Feilding creditors, with the result that they took the necessary steps to have their man arrested at Auckland." The police of the colony are not allowing the grass to grow under their feet in their offorts to catch Jonathan Roberts. The other day (the North Otago Times aays) it was reported at a police station that the I runaway intended to cross a certain bridge no; as far from Oanaru as Timbuctoo is, and precautions were made to meet the contingency. Several policemen were ! told off to guard the bridge. In order to make sure of their man, they tied a rope across tlie bridue about a foot from the ground, and watched from the sH< a Some time afterwards footsteps were heard approaching, and everyone present was on the alert. The rope wad reached, and the traveller went over it like a shot — on his nose. The " force " were on the prostrate individual in a twinkling, and after nearly squeezing the life out of him, raised him to his feet, and discovered that they had caught M ick O'Enfforty, who had been replenishing himself at an adjacent distillery. Mick's nose was badly injured, and he threatens to Jay on information against the police for "i ripping him up" so unceremomounly. Thy police ' are very reticent about the affair.