Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 28, 16 August 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Captmn Edtfin telegraphed at 9 a.m to-day : — Warnings for gales and ram have been sent to all placea. The man John Ellis, who assaulted Mra McLennan and Mr J. Cooper, in Wanganui, has been sentenced to three months hard labor. We have to thank the Secretary, Mr C. E. Nicholas, for a complimentary ticket for the Rangitikei Harmonic Society's concert, to be held at Bulls on the 17th instant. Wyllie, the champion draughts player, sailed for Melbourne on Thursday. In New Zealand he has played 5013 games, of which he lost seven, drew 209, and won 4797, Settlement is advancing at a very satisfactory rate m the neighborhood of Shannon station, Wellington and Manarailway, and a requisition praying the Education Board to establish a school in the district is to be considered at the next meeting of that body. His Excellency the Governor arrived m Wellington yesterday at 11.30 accompanied by the Hon. Fortescue, A.D.C. He was met by tne Premier and Captain Medley. The D Battery of Artillery fired a salute of seventeen guns as his Excel" lency walked off the wharf. The steamer Afghan, 1439 tons, from Foo Chow to Sydney with 1000 tons of tea has gone ashore on the Cockburn Beef, Torres Straits. The fore compartment is fill of water, and about 500 tons of tea have been damaged. It is probable that the steamer will be floated otf . A number of working men have been speculating on a trip to Melbourne Each agreed that he had not sufficient cash to make the outing, and the parties interested resorted to a unique way of contriving that one of them, at any rate, should be abl<" to see the big show. Ten of them put £2 into a pool, agreeing that whoever drew the lot should do the trip. The winner has started for Melbourne. There are pain'ul rumours afloat about Mr Archibald Forbes, who is in America with his wife, an American liidy, says a correspondent of the Fall Mall Gazette. The last time I saw him was in the coffee room of the London and North Western Hotel, nt Liverpool, where he was lunch ing before going on bo ird the White Star boat. Mr Forbes, who in his prime was a fine, tall fellow, with a military bearing, was bent like an old man, his liair and moustache nearly white, could not even walk across the room without the aid of a stout walking stick. He is suffering from an affection of the kidneys, contracted in his campaigning daysIt will be g» od news to many of the graziers in this district to hear that the manager of the Oroua Downs Station has decided to rely on the London market for the sale of stock fattened on that large, rich, and fertile property. No other grazing farm on this coast has been so formidable a competitor to the average West Coast grnzier as the Oroua D mns has proved. They will henceforth sell in the London znarket, and will not sell m New Zealand. ' This not only removes a formidable rival from the local market, but it also presages better prices for beef and mutton sold locally. Recent reports ' from the Canterbury markets are to the ! offect that as much as 20s for a 751 b ' sheep has been givsn.— Foxton Herald.

The Jews are still being expelled from Ru sia. The Westport merchants have resolved to form a Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The latest on dit is that all the members of Parliament are to become J.P.s : by virtue of their position. The exemption of cattle and sheep dogs from taxation (as in England) is proposed | by Mr Verrell in the House. j Charles Henry has left for Sydney to join his family. Perhaps it is just as well he has gone. It is estimated the visitors to Melbourne to see the Exhibition will each spend £10, and as 200,000 are expected £2,000,000 will be put in circulation. Typo for August is to hand, and is as usual full of interesting matter, not only j for members of the craft, but for the genj eral reader. j In the Otago Daily Times a corres" pondent writes: — " The commercial cri" ; sis we have gone through is over.. Th c ; community is convalescent — weak, I admit, but distinctly round the corner." Emily McGee, wife of A. McGee, a billiard marker, attempted suicide by cutting her throat on Tuesday morning, at Blenheim, while in a state of temporary insanity induced by drink. On account of the high prices prevailing in Christchurch for sheep, large orders for mutton for freezing, intended to be executed in Otago and Canterbury, have been transferred to the North Island. The dress which Lady Loch wore at the opening of the Exhibition was a superb conception from Worth's. The colors were those of Victoria and New South Wales — pale and dark blue — most charmi mgly commingled. The settlers in No. 5 ward are com- , plaining that their roads are being utterly neglected. They should have voted for the bridge at Aorangi when they were wanted to. It is a poor knife that wont cut both ways. At Newcastle, New South Wales, the record iv schnapper fishing was broken by a party of amateurs, who secured no less than 697, the average weight being 1 seven pounds. The party cast their lines 1 at Long (Bow) Island. A Waikato editor excuses himself for not going to church on a wet Sunday thusly :— A good h're, a comfortable chair, and an interesting book are, well, quite as pleasant a way of spending a wet Suui day as going to church. Some evil dispofed person broke a . number of windows iv the Salvation i Army Barracks on Tuesday night, about , ten o'clock. As there was a brilliant moon the offender was seen, and there is every chance that he will be identified and made to pay dearly for his frolic. Mr Nicholas is losing no time in completing the new shop he is erecting on his land in Fergusson street. The building is now nearly finished, the cement floors have been lajd, and by the time they are dry the shop will be ready to be occupied, Messrs Pringle Bros., butchers, will be the tenants. i We are glad to learn that the settlers i on the Feilding-Ashhurst road are about to send m the requisite petition to the Postmaster-General for a post office to be opened in a building somewhere near the scioolhouse. As the number of residents is already large, and is daily increasing", we have reason to think the request will be granted. Editors in Queensland have taken to horsewhipping each other. Mr Iteddin, the editor ai.d proprietor of the Charters '! ow jrs Times, horsewhipped Mrlvitchiner, editor of the Herald, on the 28 th ult., on account of a certain paragraph published in the Herald. Legal proceedings are threatened. If we (Christchnrch Press) romember rightly, Mr Reddin is well known iv Ash burton. 1 In Tuesday's Herald George Robertson, the Maori wrestler, challenges Harry Dunn, the present champion of New Zealand, to a five-style wrestling match in Wangantti. From Robertson's record . it appears that he was unbeaten till he i met Harry Dunn in Dunedin, when each man getting two falls out of five, and a fifth disputed, Dunn eventually got the stakes. The match is for from £50 to £100 a-side. The New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw, Saville and Albion Company are concerting arrangements to tender for the direct mail service fortnightly each way, on such terms as will yield a considerable profit to the colony. It is in contemplation (says the Dunedin Star) to allow passengers travelling by both lines the privilege of stopping en route and continuing the journey by the steamers of either line. It will bo remembered by our readers that some time back we mentioned the peculiar case of a man named Iggulden, of Wellington, who had been suddenly afflicted with loss of speech. He appears to have just as mysteriously recovered the use of his voice. " He was in the habit of making vigorous efforts, when byhiinself, to articulate, and . about a week ago he found himself able to pronounce a word. The complete restoration of his speech has since followed. In another column it is intimated that the anniversary services of the Feilding Methodist Church will be celebrated, on Sunday, in the Church, when Mr Gordon Forlong will give special addresses, and ou Monday, after the tea, when the meeting will adjourn to the Army Barracks, where the same gentleman will give a lecture on " The Unjust Steward." The subjects for both evenings are well chosen, and will be made doubly interesting from the well known talent of this popular speaker and lecturer. In connection with the retrenchment now going on in the Railway Department on this coast we hear complaints that single men have been retained while married men with large families have been discharged. If other things are equal, or nearly approaching it, we certainly think the married men should have the first consideration. There is one aspect of this retrenchment question that wants looking into, and tnat is the cost of the management. Against either of the gentlemen now in charge we have nothing to say, but we fail to see why one cannot carry out all the work there is to do. A saving of £300 to £400 a year could be made here easily enough," these being the amounts paid respectively to the two officials mentioned, and the retrenchment thus effected would be more satisfactory to the country than the lopi ing off of a number of underpaid linemen and gangers. In Mr Rotheram's time one man could do the work, and one capable man ought to be able to do it now. — Herald. 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 materials, trimmings, hosiery, laces, gloves, men's clothing, Crimean and woollen I shirtings, etc. For (rush the prices are lowest in town. — Advt.

We notice that some larrikin has put a atone through Messrs Cobbe and Darragh's shop window. Mr Eilery Gilbert will be in Feilrlin<: I next Tuesday, and will remain in the di»» ' irict for a fortnight. The Hon. George Fisher, Italian Consul, yesterday received by mail from Home his Consul's flag. It is a very large one of the three national colours — green, white, and red— arranged vertically. In the centre of the white part is a shield, with red ground, bearing a white cross, and above is a large Royal Crown worked in colours. The Empress Victoria, says the Germania, was the good genius of the Emperor throughout his illness. Every day she was iv the kitchen to see for herself that her husband's food wa3 properly prepared; day and night she attended. to every one of the doctor's orders. In moments of danger and at operations she assisted like a skilled nurse resolutely helping to move the bed. A wedding, which has been looked forward to with considerable interest by the best families in the district for some time past, took place at Turakina yesterday. The contracting parties were Dr John Sorley, the well-known Hospital Surgeon, and Miss Alice Lethbridge, second daughter of Mr G. V, Lethbndge, of Turakina. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Eey. J, Boss, assisted by the B-ev. James Treadwell. The happy couple left m the afternoon for a honeymon trip to Christchurch and Dunedin. A telegram from Louth, on the Darline River, states that there is every ap« pearnce of another severe drought in that district. The grass is dry and water very scarce, only two inches of rain being registered this year. Cats, both wild and tame, are dying in hundreds of a disease which his been attacking the rabbits. The latter, however, an* not affected by the disease, nnd it is feared that they will rapidly increase now that the wild cats which kept them down are dying off. ■.-■ , : .