Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 45, 22 September 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

_ * Coal is being shipped from English ports to Adelaide. We have received the Illustrated Australian News for September. A Eussian man-of-war has seized a Canadian sealing vessel in Behnng Straits and fired several shots at another. It is reported in Auckland tnat Gaepariui is still alive. It is now tolerably well known he was helped overboard and swam ashore near Sydney heads. At Georgetown, Queensland, James Walsh dunned Owen Kilday for an old debt, and as the latter would not " ante up" Walsh shot him through the head. He will have to explain his reasons to a -ury. A man named John Sullivan, arrested for vagrancy at Taroom, Queensland, made and signed a declaration to the effect that he murdered a man named Wm. Shunning at Meteor Downs station, twelve years ago. We have to thank the Government printer for a batch of Parliamentary papers, consisting of the appropriations chargeable to the Consolidated Fund, Public Works Fund, Surveys of New Zealand report, dec. The football match between the Englishmen and Canterbury, played at Chnstchurch on Thursday, resulted in an eaay victory for the Englishmen, after a tame exhibition, by eight points to nil. The Canterbury men were very weak iv their play. The Red House advertises Spring Goods to-day. It will be seen from the published list that a grand selection has been made of all sorts of seasonable novelties suitable for everybody. The general items, such as clocks, crockery, verandah chairs, saddlery, &c, Ac, are specially worthy of note. Mr Beethain, R.M., Christchurch, gave judgment for defendant in Williams v. Campbell, the case brought to the test the liability of the Plumpton Park Bacmg Club to pay the stakes. He held that it had been proved that the treasurer of the club was 6h» stakeholder and that stewards were not liable. The N.Z. Times of yesterday informs us that Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. weie on Thursday in receipt of the following cable message from their London house, Messrs Sanderson, Murray, and Co. : — " The fourth series of wool Bales opened on the 18th instant. The market shows no quotable change." In future the public library will be open every every evening from 6 to 8 o'clock. In this connection we desire to point out to those who are not already subscribers, that they should become so at once, as every shilling collected will be expended in the purchase of new books. There will thus be afresh supply obtained every month of all the newest and best books by the most popular authors. The position of affairs with regard to the Railway Chief Commissionerehip is understood to be that the Government have intimated to tte Agent-General that he is at liberty to submit to them the names of any experts who may be prepared to accept the pofifeton at a salary of £3000 per annum. Whether an officer will be appointed at that remuneration is a question still open for consideration.— 1 Post. Inspector Thompson on Thursday morning received a report from Constable Cillmane, of Pahiatua, to the effect that there had been a serious outbreak of typhoid fever amongst the natives at Tutaekara (a Maori village about six miles from Pahiatua). Dr Stewart, of Woodville, is attending the patients. About six Maoris and one white boy are eaid to be suffering from the disease.— Post. When the s.s. Penguin was entering the Lytteiton Heads on Thursday morning she picked up a small boat, in which were a knife, fishing line, bait, and two oars. It was brought to Lytteiton and identified by tho owner. J. Haydon, who had left it moored in Dampier'e Bay on Thursday night, bo bait, line, or knife being in it. It ie supposed some boy took the boat to fish and has been drowned. No one is reported missing yet. The clergy on the West Coast of this diocese leave their respective cures on Monday, to attend the Diocesan Syuod. The Synod will meet in the Diocesan Library, Wellington, on Tueslay, 25th inst., at 3 p.m. Holy Communion will be celebrated in St. Paul's Cathedral Church at 11 a.m. on the same day, and there will be full choral Evensong, with sermon, to be preached by the Rev. A. O. Williams, in tho same church, at 8 p.m. The offertory will be devoted to helping to defray the expenses of the Synod. The old motto that a certain individual looks after his own may be quoted in reference to the following incident given by the 'Frisco correspondent of the New Zealand Herald : — ln San Francisco on August 21st a nasty accident happened Mr Dudley Eyre, of New Zealand. WitL some friends he entered the elevator at 105, St< cltton street, and, when the car reached the third floor tt.e wire rope broke, throwing the occupants down 50 feet ti ihe basement in an instant. All of the party were more <-r less seriously injured. Mr Eyre being fortunately tne least so. ns he escaped with a very severe sprained ankle.. '

A couple of Feildrag young men have gone to try their luck at Mahakipawa. The Wanganui Education Board will meet on Monday next. There was a slight earthquake felt here on Thursday night at ten minutes past ten. . " The true Kings touch" is tne subject of Rev. W. Harris's discourse in the" , Methodist Church to-morrow night. i A Maori' stated here this morning that the appeal in the McDonald case was decided yesterday in favour of the natites. A preliminary advertisement appears to-day from Mr R. R. Collins, who has commenced business as a saddler, iv premises opposite the Feilding Hotel. A 100 yds race was run ou the Oval yesterday afternoon between J. E. Henry and J. A. How ell, hairdresser, for a private wager. Henry won from start, to finish. i Christianity in India ii, according to Sir Charles Aitchison, advancing 5 per cent, faster than the growth of population, and is making greater progress than at any time since the Apostolic epoch. The Tainui sailed for London, from Lyttleton, on Thursday, with 10 saloon, 15 second cabin, and 10 steerage passengers, and a full cargo, including 17,000 carcases of frozen mutton. Miss Ellen Atkins, who left for Melbourne a short time since to join the unfortunate Amy Sherwin Opera Company, was one of the vocalists at the first of a series of ballad concerts in the Melbourne Town Hall, The return football match, Marton v. Feilding, was proceeding on the Oval as we went to press. The visitors arrived by this morning's train, and were entertained at lunch by the local footballers, at the Empire Hotel. Pecentlr a magnificent sturgeon, weighing 200 pounds, was captured on the Dee. It was over sft long, and as thick aas man's body. It is supposed to be the largest specimen ever caught on the Dee. Cobbe and Darragh have a good selection of garden tools, consisting of spades, rakes, hoes, and trowels. They also hold a large stock of Tates' renowned garden seeds. Some very mean person has stolen several of the ornamental shrubs planted on the railway reserve at the side of Fergusson street. As the penalty for this sort of theft is severe the guilty one had better be cautious. The American Government are now desirous the San Francisco mail service should be continued. They have found out — now it is too late — that their meanness in refusing to pay a portion of the cost was a mistake. An Englishman who was spending his summer holidays in America last year, happening to take up a little book on geography " for the use of schools," saw the following question and answer: Where is London ?" •' It is the chief town of a small island off the coast of France., " Yes," said the sweet girl graduate in a burst of confidence, " my education is now complete, but still I am not altogether happy. Mamma and papa, unfortunately, have a habit of pronouncing their words so oddly, and misusing the letter H, and they know so little of polite literature and the sciences, you know, that it is really quite a hardship for me to associate with them." A small third standard boy who surreptitiously crept mto the Christ Church Sunday Bchoolroom on the night of the parishioners' meeting wishes to know whether his schoolmaster is correct in instructing his class to be particular in sounding the letter H in such words a hope, hands, however, &c, as one of the gentlemen said he "' 'oped the meeting would strengthen Mr Nixon's *ands" by passing a certain resolution. — Herald Having now finished our annual stocktaking, and having been also busilj employed during the past ten days in opening out our first importation of spring goods, we are prepared to show the good people of Wellington an exceedingly choice, elegant, aud select assortment at the Wholesale Family Drapery Ware* house, Te Aro House, Wellington.