Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 149, 17 July 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Charles Henry was taken to Palmerston by the late train ou Saturday night. Sam. Revans, the oldest journalist in the colony, died at the Wuirarapa last Tuesday, aged 80. The heavy rainfall on Sunday night had the effect of flooding the streams but not to any great extent. The Riniutaka arrived in Wellington from London on Saturday. The Feilding portion of her mails arrived here by the midday train yesterday. Stevens and Gorton will hold a sale of fruit trees to-morrow at their auction rooms, Fergusson street. The lota will be on new during the day. Our readers are reminded of the annual social gathering, in connection with the j Church of England, to be held in the ■ Foresters' Hall on Friday next. An urgent meeting of the Library Committee will be held on Thursday evening at 7.30 at the Borough Chambers, to install the newly appointed committee. We direct the attention of the public to the new advertisement to-day of Mr John Gould, proprietor of the Temperance Hotel and Bakery, Oamden and Denbigh streets. A man named John Clavitt was charged yesterday, before Mr Kirton, J.P., with being drunk, and fined os with costs 2s, with the usual alternative. The fine was paid. Detective Benjamin will represent the New Zealand detective force at the Melbourne Exhibition. He will leave for Melbourne about the end of the present month. Cury and Gasparini, the French escapees have been lodged in the Terrace Gaol, Wellington- They were arrested on a warrant applied for by the French Consul. It took the Press Association agent at Westport as mauy Words to describe the wreck of the Suva as the London Times used m giving its account of the battle of Waterloo. Mr J. M'Lennan has purchased at Chri6tchurch an eight-horse power portable engine, to be used iv driving the Wolseley shearing machines on the Oroua Downs Estate. A lighthouse will be erected on Cape Kidnappers, on the East Coast, if Mr Ormond has any influence with the Government. This exf enditure can be done without until the Central Railway is completed. Mr McCalluin, the Government lecturer on dairying, says that milk standing 24 hours will produce equally as much cream as if standing 48 hours. He also says that milk for cheese making should be from 10 to 14 degrees; anything less than that would not make a first- ciass article. An ex'-hangp says : — The Auckland boys hit upon n new and effective plan for "raising the wind" to buy a football. A number of them agreed to get a tooth drawn at tlse Golden Chariot, and by raising a great howl after the operation, got money shoved into their hands to pacify them. At an examination for a scholarship given by one of the city companies, a youth who ventured for a prize of £120 said that '* NflDoleon wanted very much i to come over to London ; and he squar- i ed up to our fleet, but Nelson gave him one in the eye, and defeated his evil i designs. " !

I The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on [ Saturday next. I The Chinese tea steamer Taiyuan arrived 111 Wellington on Sunday. i There "Will be a large assemblage at the Salvation Army Barracks to-night to hear Miss Smith, " The Army Special," | ■who is now paying a visit to Feilding. Mr J. Hopkins, gardener, was sent through to the Wauganui Hospital this morning, His illness is not serious. i We have been requested to point out that in the works to be tendered for to the Kiwitea Road Board, there is included a considerable amount of bushfelling. There are salt springs in various parts of the colony. One is near Taupo, and there are others in the Nelson district. It does seem strange that this industry should never have been developed. j The approaches to the bridge over the Makino stream on South street — Awahun road— have been considerably damaged by the flood. One end has been washed away, and traffic will probablj' be closed this evening. j The Speaker of the Victorian Assembly j created qui'e a stir at the opening of Parliament in Melbourne by appeariug in gorgeous ceremonial robes, exactly similar to those worn by the Speaker of the , British House of Commons. ! The Kiwitea stream is doing a good deal of injury to the Kimbolton road near Mr lletemeyer's property, nnd that gentleman has given the Borough Coun- i cil notice he will hold that body respon- \ sible for any loss or damage which may i arise. Why does the Romish Church thrive with so many errors in it ? It is because of those godly men in her who live Christ's life. . . . For self«devotion, tor selfdenial, the Roman Catholic Church is in advance of our presenUday Protestant* ism — General Gordon. In Pastor Muller's orphanage at Bristol, in which there are now over 2000 j children, the homoeopathic treatment of disease has been adopted from the first, and it is said that even in very severe epidemics of typhoid, measles, scarlatiua, and diphtheria, their death rate has been wonderfully low. The birch bark industry is now an important one in the Nelson district, and many men are employed m stripping the bark. It is said to be superior to wattle for tanning purposes, and a set of harness made thirty years ago from birch bark tanned leather is said to be still in use in Nelson. In any other part of the colony this harness would have been worked out long ago. A report having been circulated that Eyre was hiding in. the Waikato, the police made inquiry with the following result : — Dudley Eyre left Auckland in the Zealandia on the 18th June last, a friend of his, an Auckland citizen, saw him off. The ticket was in the name of E. Eyre, the initial letter of his second Christian name. — Herald. In answer to Mr Bruce on Friday last the Minister for Lands said that the Government was not prepared to relax the regulations for the Pomberton Special Settlement Association, in consequence of the secretary having embezzled funds. The secretary was appointed by the Association itself, and the Government had no responsibility in the matter. We (Herald) understand that the matter is now before the Waste Lands Committee. We (Hawera Star) understand that Major Walmsley has succeeded in getting together a draft of 60 good upstanding cavalry remount horses in this district. They will be despatched for the Indian market in about a month's time. A lowset active horse, with good bone, standing about 15-2, with clean limbs and up to weight, is the stamp preferred. Any animal of the right sort, from three-and-a-half to seven years old, will be acceptable. Two actions for libel have been commenced in the Supreme Court. Mr Butcher, editor of the Wairarapa Observer, Carterton, has instituted proceedings against the Wairarapa Standard, Greytown, claiming £300 damages for alleged libellous statements ; and Mr A. Armstrong, of Carterton, is bringing an action against the Observer for publishing an article which is alleged to be libellous. The damages in this case have been fixed at £500. Mr Jelhcoe is acting for the plaintiff in each case. To-day's Times says:— lt is said that the Public Works Statement is uUikely to be delivered to-night as promised, or indeed this week. It may be brought down late in the week, but it is more likely to be delivered next Tuesday. — The Opposition hold a meeting this morning, at which Mr Withy's amendment, and possibly the prospects of a no-confid-ence motion, will be discussed — The Premier is still confined to his room, but was much better last night, and reported to be making good progress toward convalescence, although the cold, rough weather is much agamst him. It is doubtful whether he will be able to attend in his place to-day. The Hon. Mr Waterhouse's Fencing Act, 1887, Amendment Bill provides that the following shall be a sufficient fence within the meaning of the Act of 1881, but that no such fence shall be erected within the limits of any borough or town district : A fence of four barbed wires or 'three barbed wires and two plain wires tightly stretched, with, in either case, posts of durable wood of iron standards ; the posts or standards not to be more than twelve feet apart ; the top wire not to be more than twelve feet from the surface of the ground. The space between each of the barbed wires to be, as far as practicable, equal. The following extract is from the Dunedin Star: — "Mr Stuart-Menteath, the member for Te Aro, is eyidently an able man. His epigrammatic utterance on Thursday is about the best speech which was made in the debate. The result, he said, of a policy of borrowing and of Protection was the same, being to take money out of the pockets of the masses and put it into those of a few who have not earned it. The Yogel policy of reckless borrowing effected this by bringing about a land boom and enriching certain lucky landownors by the 'unearned increment.' Protection is more directly in pocket picking lines, and literally plunders the public for the benefit of the manufacturers, whose profits are to be swelled by the sweat of the toiler's brow. The blind fatuity of the working classes, who haye overtly or tacitly delivered themselves over to be shorn like sheep, is difficult indeed to understand. How the wire- ! pullers of the Protection Association must '■ laugh in their sleeves." The public will be pleased to learn that S. J. Thompson, of the Red House, has : just opened up 20 cases of winter drapery (latest fashions), comprising dress maten- ' i als, trimmings, hosiery, laoes, gloves, ! men's clothing, Crimean and woollen : shirtings, etc. For cash the prices are lowest in towm — Advt.