Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 32, 25 August 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

A quantity of interesting reading matter will be found <>n our first page. Mr Vincent Pyke is on the sick list. ' The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is lying j dangerously ill in London. ! Scarlatina is so prevalent at Woodville | that it is proposed to close the school. I Guinness' Brewery Company has declared a dividend of 15 per cent, for the year. Fourteen hundred cannisters of meat ex Arawa and Tonganro to London, were condemned as unfit for food. Henry Stone, 17 years old, is to be arrested at Greymouth on a charge of criminally assaulting a girl thrpe years old. There was another large fire at Hawera on Thursday, when Mr Laugley's shop and bakery were burned to the ground. Insurance £200 on the buildings. Colonel Stapp was present at the parade last evening. We are pleased to hear that Mrs Stapp has recovered considerably, and is now iv a fair way to getting about again. There will be a sitting of the Eesident Magistrate's Court here on Wednesday when a couple of lads will be charged with alleged indecency. Justices of the Peace will hear the cases. It will be seen by the altered advertisement, that the name of the Emigrant and Colonist's Aid Corporation, limited, has, by a special resolution confirmed at a meeting held in London on June 16th, 1888, been altered to The Colonist's Land and Loan Corporation, limited. W© have now on view at this office some of the ensilage cut from a silo stack made by DrMonckton last year at " The Camp." The grass is sweet and good and we notice that horses and cattle greedily devour it, which is proof positive of the success of the expen .nent. • The French Government are publishing, for the use of their naval commanders, a minutely detailed description of the fortifications and armaments of all British possessions, together with the Imperial and local forces available for their defence. Charts and plans are attached. A couple of natives walked into a Hawera store the other day with a lot of fungus for sale, and the storekeeper being rather slow in calculating the amount he had to pay them for it, one of the Maoris whipped out a " Ready Reckoner" out of his pocket and settled the difficulty in a moment, An entertainment was given last night in the school-house. Upper Taonui, in aid of the school funds. It consisted of the usual minstrel business, a concert, aud a farce. Several well known Feildmg amateurs assisted the local talent. There was a good house, and the affair was a success. The Minister for Public Works prom« ised Mr Ortnond that an endeavour would be made to open the PnlmemonWoodville Railway simultaneously with completion or the Polmngina Bridge Mr Ormond's motion for a return giving details in connection with the Gorge contract was agreed to. The Press Association agent in Sydney must be peculiarly constructed. He wired " Admiral Tryon favored the expenditure of £10,000,000 &c.," whereas it should have read " Japan is favorable, &c." The man wants his brains taken out and washed in clear spring water. He is a failure, and should be replaced by a competent mar. The Wanganui Herald has the following : — A letter received in town yesterday by the 'Frisco mail, stated that a concert was held on board the Zealandia on the fourth of July, at which Dudley Eyre, Esq., took the chair. " Roweua" was present, and gave some of his tricks. The chairman's presence was considered to give au air of respectability to the affair. In our last issue .we stated there waa •* an eciippe of the moon last night," but omitted to add the words "visible in Palmerston." We observ* by the Wellington almanac that a lunar eclipse was due on the 23rd of this month, but presume this to be an error, either on the part of the moon or the printer, as the event referred to came off on the 23rd of July. This is how the Manawatu Times squashes a would be rival to Palmerston : — The Woodville Examiner now claims that Woodville will be the central station on the bine from Wellington to Napier via Manawatu. It also says it is only a matter of time for Woodville to put Palmerston in the shade altogether. What next? In the latter case Woodville will have to be moved bodily to Palmerston. In less than twelve years time Woodville will be a second Auburn — a deserted village, and through travellers will have to ask the guards where the township stood. A meeting of the Stewards of the Feildmg Jockey Club was held on Thursday night at Mrs Hastie's Hotel. The balance sheet was read and approved, It shows a credit balance of £137 7s 6d. Full details will be published when it is adopted at the general meeting of members which will be held at Light's Hotel on Thursday, December 13th. A cordial vote of thanks was passed to Mr Sandilands, the secretary, to whose exertions the club owes its present satisfactory monetary position. A vote of thanks was also accorded to Mr F. Y. Lethbndge for the use of the race course. It was simply deplorable that so much of the House's time should have been wasted yesterday in listening to Mr Verrail's long-winded explanation of his crude and impracticable— if not absurd — scheme for a State Bank of Issue. We have said "listening," but there was not much of that, for most of the members, when not yelling with laughter at the grotesque utterances of the new member for Ashley, were too eagerly engaged in pelting him with poverty-stricken jokes and small- beer witticisms to be paying any attention at ail to what he said. The whole scene was one of wretched buffoonery, and reflected little credit upon the House. — N.Z. Times. Mr R. T, Booth, who is now en tour in Australia, quite out- Yanked the Yankees in the course of an address at a suburb of Sydney the other day. He suid that if any twopenny halfpenny country went to war, the Australians, English, and Americans are in a position to give them a cuff and put them to bed. The English-speaking nations, notably England, America, and Australia, number nearly 100,000,000 souls. He regretted lhat men thought so much of building forts and firing guns ; but let the Russian bear put his paw upon the fair land of Australia, then the British lion, the American eagle, and the Australian kangaroo would rise up as one man. ami drive him ignominously to his Inir. The utterance of these words caused cheering that lasted fully five minutes. The picture of a lion mid an eagle and a kangaroo nsiiiir up " as one man" is about the finest example of muddled metaphor we have met with for a long time. — Chnstehurch Press.

A heavy slip came down in the Man- j awatu Gorge on Thursday night, and traffic is blocked. | The Poverty Bay Herald says that Sir i George Whitmore and Mr Ormond are the [ sort of men upon whom a poll tax ought ; to be levied, in order to keep them out of I j the district. j We publish, with day's issue, an inter- ■ esting " inset" from Messrs Nelson Moate | and Co., of Wellington, dealing with their [ famous teas. Messrs Cobbe and Darragh, :of the Cash Exchange, are the local , agents. j | Canvassers are now soliciting purchasj ers for a magnificent work on the effects 'of alcohol on the system. Pressure on our space precludes our giving a lengthy notice of the book, but we can assure our readers it is well worth buying. : ; We observe the Marton paper has copied our par anent Mr John Stevens' ' last advices from India. We are pleased ! our contemporary finds it necessary to use our news columns for the benefit of its readers, but journalistic etiquette demands some acknowledgment. At the Wellington Supreme Court a verdict for plaintiff for £500 damages, with costs on tne highest scale, was given in the case of Stapleton v. James Smith, in which £600 damages was . claimed for malicious prosecution, Notice i has been given of motion for a new trial. At the school examination yesterday Inspector Bindon a.-kel a girl scholar: " What is the title of the son of a Duke ?" i The answer given was " A Duchess." This reply evidently flabbergasted the Inspector, because he knew the ratepayers' roll of the Borough swarmed with the j names of Dukes, Lords, and Ladies, and ' such ignorance of "sacred things" was' surprising, if not disgusting. The Euroa Advertiser states that a prifate letter lately received by a resident of Kuroa conveys the information that Captain Moore, who, it will be remmebered, was in the company of Miss Laura Swim some months since when she unfortunutel met with a melancholy death by drown ng, and was acquitted of being the cause of her death, has com* mitted suicide, leaving a written admission to the effect that he purposely threw Miss Swain over into the Yarra.