Feilding Star. SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1888. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 36, 1 September 1888, Page 2

Feilding Star. SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1888. Local and General News

Readiug matter will be found on our l first page to-day. There was a slight earthquake at 4. 10 this morning. Mr A. F. Halcombe arrived iv Feildiug yesterday. Flour has advanced £1 per ton in Feilding. A rope walk ia about to be started in Palmerston by Mr Claries Dahl. Mr Dignan, Inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, was on an official visit to Feilding yesterday. Mr OH. Smith, Government Auditor for local bodies, will, for the future, reside in Wanganui, The poll for the £1400 loan in No. 2 ward, Manchester Boad District, will be takeu on Monday at Halcombe. The Manchester Road Board sat this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. Mr Bishop's new shop was lit up last night, and looked remarkably well, the windows being well filled and neatly arranged. Business was commenced today. Although Inspector Bindon finished his examination of the State School on Monday last, we have not yet learned the results, beyond the fact that the total percentage of passes was 737. There is a young man in the Spanish department of the iNew York Life Insurance Company who nill be the hero of the day iv '92. when America celebrates the 4tK)th anniversary of her discovery His name is Cristobal Colon, and lie is said to be the only surviving descendant in a straight line of Christopher Colum bus. We have never before had two Presby« terians running against each other as competitors for the office of President of the United States. President Clere* land is a Presbyterian, the son of a Presbyterian minister, and General Harrison is another Presbyterian, who has risen to the rank of elder in the Presb.yte.ian Church. We trust there is some ground for tbe rumour we have heard tnat tlie Hon. Mr Mitchelsnn is in favour of running dead meat at tite same rntes as live stock, nnd contemplates introduced thechanue forthwith. According to the rumour referred to Mr Mitciielson will secure one terminus only, thus greatly re'ucing the freight, and cost of landing the mnat at the ship's side. Mr T. Mitchell goes to Wellington to interview the Minister on the matter :— Herald, fit will be seen in our telegrams to day that this concession lias been made. — Ed. F.S.J Mr E. Jewell, of the Olub Hotel, Palmerston North, has filed his schedule. The schedule shows the amount owing to unsecured creditors is £1255 19s 7d. The amount to secured creditors is £1828 15s, the estimated value of securities being £1891 lis 9d. The assets are valued at £251 19s 9d, and comprise the following : — Book debts, £264 7s 3d, estimated to produce £150; property (license £3b" 10s), £38 14s; surplus from securities, £62 16s 9d. The deficiency is £1004 18s lOd. A sad fatality occurred at Terrace End on Thursday night. An infant of Mrs •Spink9 was taken to bed with its mother as usual ; and, on the mother awakening yesterday morning, she was horrified to find that" the little one was dead. It is supposed that the mother accidentally overlaid it during the night. As Dr Macintyre, who was called in yesterday morning, could not give a certificate of death without holding a post mortem to ascertain the cause, it was arranged to hold an inquest yesterday afternoon, at which the jury returned a verdict of death by suffocation. — Manawatu Times, Another rabbit disease, somewhat resembling the scab in sheep, has been discovered in tlie Waniu district. Southland. It is said to be killing off the rodents in the locality by hundreds, the dise.se being caused by the ravages of insects, which are found under the microscope to resemble very distinctivelooking beetles. Mr Valentine has requested the Rabbit Inspector for the district to send one of the diseased rabbits to Wellington, in order to obtain a scientific report upon the value of the disease in question as a means of putting down the rabbit pest. A deputation of over twenty Native chiefs waited on the Governor recently with a view to urging their objections to the Native policy of the Government, as represented by the Bills then presented to bis Excellency for assent. Major Kemp and Paora Tuhaere urged the Governor not to consent to the Bills until the Queen had been memorialised on the subjec . H 8 Excellency explained th.it he could not do that ; all he could do would be to forward the memorial to Her Majesty, though he felt quite sure it would be referred back to the Government of New Zealand. The interview then terminated, the deputation stating that they would present to his Excel--1 ncy a memorial to be forwarded to t c Queen. Pursuant to notice Messrs A. and J. B. Pringle had a grand show of meat last night in their new shop in Fergusson sr-jet. There were a dozen carcasses of sheep, all of good weight and quality, and beautifully dressed. The beef, pork, ;ind veal were exceptionally good, while the lamb looked exceedingly tempting in its snow white gauzy trimmings. The <mall goods— tripe, sausages, and " fixings" — were all excellent of their kind, and showed care and skill in their preparation. Every article looked sweet, resh, and scrupulously clean. The premises appear to be particularly well adapted for the purpose for which they have been erected. The floors are all of cement ; the rooms are lofty and well lighted ; while the greatest care has been taken to secure the best ventilation by a .00l draught of air admitted through ipertures prepared for that purpose. The shop is neatly fitted up with every •.ouvenience, and the apartments at the >ack, for corning, pickling. &<•.. possess iverythmg which could be desired. The whole building reflects great credit ou Mr Nicholas, the architect and builder.

We haye to acknowledge receipt of a itch of Parliamentary papers from the overnment printer. . Parliament, after a session of 16 weeks, . ■as prorogued yesterday, till the Gth of )ecember. A rink ts about to be started in Feild* ng. We understand tbe barrack* will J ie fitted up for the purpose. Among other contributions two brass c mttons were put into the collection box { ,t tbe last Band of Hope meeting. fj The Government Insurance Association t las now settled the claim re Bear, de- ( seased, all necessary documents having ( jeen completed. . The Government propose to pay a pen.ion of £300 per annum to Mr J. T. Stewart of the Public Works Department ' from April next. At the Rugby Union meeting in Wanganui it waa resolved to make an offer to • induce the English footballers to visit ' Wauganui on their return trip. ' Zola, the author of " Nana" and other [ peculiar novels, has been made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. An English ' publisher lias just got into trouble for i selling translations of his realistic works. Talk of easy div«rcps in the United States after what happened in Frankfort-on-Main recently, where a married woman was pronounced the party at , fault and legally divorced, because — she did uot know how to cook ! Since Malua commenced his racing career he has won a total of £8522. The principal items are — Newmarket Handi- i cap, £1276; Adelaide Tup, £2000; Melbourne Cup, £17»7 ; Australian Cup, £1090; Grand National. £1087 ; Trident has earned £8315 ; Nelson, £7724 ; and Commotion, £77<»6. An Algerian correspondent referring to an execution which took place at Bona, says : — An extraordinary experiment was ni»de on the scaffold. As the head fell from the guillotine a doctor took it up and spoke a few words, when yurious movements of the man's eyes and mouth seemed to show that the words had been heard and understood. The Garden of tlie 12th May has the followiug : — " We have received from Mr Solomon, of Covent Garden, fruits of this apple ithe Ribstoii pippin) winch have just arrived from _Yew Zealand. The flavor was excellent, the flesh firm, juicy, and seemed to have lost none of its. luscious richness. A niiuglhy little boy was blubbering because Ins mother wouldn't let bun go down to the river on the Sabbath, and, upon being admonished, said : " I didn't mint to go a-swimmin' with' em, ma ; I only want to go down and — and see the bad little boys get drowned for a swim* unn' on Sunday." A fiaxmill, belonging to Mr Rutherford, at Foxtou, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday ms>ht. It appears Cthe Manawatu Tunes informs us) that some of the hauds were pressing flax, aud were using a kerosene lamp, which upset, and set fire to a lot of dressed flax and rubbish which was lviug on tho floor. The damage done is pretty cousiderable as an almost uew 10-horse power engine, besides the other machiuery, was destroyed. A serious bushfelling accideut occurred near Awahuri on Tuesday. A lad of 1_ named Fred Kite was assisting his father in felling bush on Mr Scut's property, when a tree fell towards him. Observing his danger he ran behind another tree which had been uprooted, and he was pinned by it between the fulling tree aud the other. When released it was found that his left arm was broken, and that he was injured luternally, He is in a critical condition. At the annual meeting of the Poxton Racing Club oxi Friday the balance-sheet for the year showed that £480 had been paid away in stakes, ad £71 iv improvements, the Club haviug a credit balance left of £4 1 1 s 10J. The Club decided tbat it cannot see its way to eutertain the proposal to appoint a paid starter. The meeting resolved to have the handicapping done by a committee. It was resolved to hold the summer meeting on January 22ud. It maj r be of interest to selectors of Crown lands to kuow that a communication has been received by tbe Land Board from the Under-Secretary of Crown Lands to the offect that he has been directed by the Minister of Lands to state that as by the provisions of the Land Act Amendment Act, 1887 (section 20), tenure of the deferred payment licenses is extended to 14 years, selectors may have the advantage of the extension to 14 years when capitalising their future unpaid instalments. But selectors who had availed themselves of the provisions of the Act of 1882, and already capitalised, could not take advantage of the extension granted by the Act of 1887 and again capitalise. The communication was read at the last meeting of the Board. " Puff" in the Press writes : — There's going to be a boom in wheat and no mistake ! Ifs feared that owing to the lowness of the Nile, the Egyptian crops will be ruined ! Why, if this sort of thing goes ou, wheat will be worth its weight in silver ! The Egyptian crop's a thundering big one, and if it's really ruined, there'll be a great hole in the world's supply to be filled up from somewnere ! A petition is being signed asking the Imperial Government to impose a tax on American wheat imported into England ! A very likely st ry ! There you see the cloven hoof of Protection in all its naked beauty ! The harvests have failed ail over Europe except in Russia, and the growers or holders of corn in England want a duty put on American wheat so that they may wring famine prices out of the starving people ! They won't get it will they ? Not exactly ! The world is not going to revolve backwarks j ust yet awhile ! __a ii'-'iih- ii_a_a_na___M_M