The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 1888. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 68, 15 November 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 1888. Local and General News

— ■ ♦—- — I Good butter is Is 6d to Is 8d per lb m Sydney with a rising market. The Wanganui Chronicle and Mr Gordon Forlong are " at daggers drawn." The Volunteer bazaar held in Christchurch last week, realised upwards of £350. We are glad to know that Mr Bruce, M.H.R., has quite recovered from his recent illness. Nothing has yet been found of the silver coin stolen recently from the Greatford railway station, except the empty box which was discovered, broken open and empty, under a hedge. An enquiry was being held to-day, in Wanganui, by the railway authorities. It is rumoured — says the Manawatu Times — that an action will be brought against the Palmerston Borough Council by a well known resident, for conipensalion for injury sustained through falling in a hole on one of the Borough footpaths. Two sprightly young fellows liymg in Wanganui, aged respectively 66 and 63 years, fell nut the other day and had a tussle. They appeared before the R.M. to settle the matter, but his worship told them to go out to play and be good boys. They went. A person — says the Wanganui Chronicle — while drawing a glass of water the other day, was rather surprised at the advent of two small eels from the taps. Now we can understand the meaning of the phrase so popular in Wanganui of " No 'eel taps, boys !" The Defence Minister. Mr Fergus, endorses the opinion of those who declare the country districts of New Zealand are more advanced than thope of Victoria, and points out that while settlement is proceeding briskly on this side of the water, it is there almost stagnant. We have been favored with a perusal of *« The Sea of Foam" or Kaikoura News, issued during the voyage on board of the N.Z. Shipping Co.'s R.MS. Kaikoura, which loft Lyttelton for Loudon on 31st May, 1688, The articles are quite up to the mark, but the advertising columns are a blank. It is announced that the Government — says the Woodville Examiner — propose to carry a line of road over the Ruahine ranges, connecting the upper Pohangina Valley with Norsewood. This line will open a new route to the West Coast, ai hitherto the only available means of access has been through the Gorge. A Dunedin telegram states that the directors of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company propose to declare a dividend o 8 per cent, for the year, aud carry forward £540. They Btate that the demand for the Company's goods is increasing, owing, in a large measure, to the increased trade with the Australian colonies. News from Melbourne states that Mr O'Brien has sold Carbine to Mr H. Bagan for 3000 guineas. It is believed that the purchase was made on behalf of Mr D. S. Wallace. Tradition, the runner up for the Melbourne Cup, has been sold to Mr P. Hey wood for 3050 guineas. It is understood that a syndicate, in which Hales, the jockey, is included, is interested in the purchase of Tradition, The damage done to the ship Langstone, which caught fire at Napier, amounts to under £5000, o-it of the total value of the ship and cargo £45,000. The insurances are chiefly at Lloyd's aud in the Universal Company, but the Union and National hold small risks. About 1 50 bales of wool were burned and 1200 damaged by water which will have to be unshipped and fellmongered. The vessel is little damaged except in the forward part of the deck aud forecastle. An inquest was held at Auckland on Tuesday, on the body of the child of Alex ander Campbell, when the evidence showed that the child had been overlaid by its mother while in a fit. A girl about 15 stated that Campbell and his family and she and her father all occupied the same sleeping apartment, 10ft or 12ft square. The man explained that he was a gumdigger, and was not in a position to provide bettor accommodation for his wife, or pay anyone to look after her when she had fits. The Coroner said this state of things was almost incredible, and should be brought under the notice of the Chantable Aid Board. The information that a sailor recently returned from Sydney has benn arrested on suspicion of being connected with the Whitechapel murders recalls to recollection a series of mysterious assaults committed on females m Sydney, in, we think, 1881. A considerable number of women rore then mysteriously stabbed in the ;roin while walking along the streets, | md, if we remember aright, the perpetrator of the crimes was never detected. The rounds were always inflicted in the left jroin, and apparently by a long, thm, sharp instrument. Can there be any oonjection between the two series of crimes n Sydney and Whitechapel ?— Post. The following items were telegraphed !rom Auckland yesterday :•— An influenzal petition, headed by Sir G. Grey, ie jeing sent to the Minister of Justice prayug for a remission of the sentence of 'ourteen days paßsed on Sir Charles Burlett for stealing flowers.— At an extraorhnary general meeting of the shareholders of the Union Sash and Door Company, held on Tuesday, it was revived that the Company be wound up roluntarilv. — Sir George Grey addressed he electors of Auckland Central or. Tueslay night, wnen he received a vote of hanks and confidence. -^The case of G. Sicken y. the Bank of New Zealand has wen adjourned, Mr Justice Gillies, being > «h areholder, declining to hear the case.

Mr W. W. Corpe sent away 75 kegs of butter for England on Saturday last. A report of the Awahuri School Committee ii unavoidably held over. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 1. 10 p.m. to-day : — Heavy gale soon, and heavy rain. Iv Taranaki they have a saving *'Everything is bad that comes from Wellington." In Wellington they say " Oh, d— n Taranaki." Nice people. The 35,000 Swedes of Chicago havo already raised more than £1000 for their monuments in honor of Linnaeus. This collection must have been made in a turnip field and a poor one at that. The slip in the Manawatu Corge caused by the storm on Saturday is of huge dimensions and will take six mouths to remove. We sympathise with the contractor who is thereby subjected to a heavy loss. Feilding will bo represented at the hunters competition, to be held at the show iv Palmerston to-day, by Mr Lovejoy's Neek-or-Nothing, Mr Bell's Ro9siter, Mr Buchanan's Slim Jim, and Mr R. Jones' bay. In order to test the acoustic properties of the new theatre the Feilding Brass Band had some practice iv the auditorium last night. The result was that competent judges declared " it couldn't be better." This must be satisfactory to all parties. Miss Frances Wetmore, formerly of New York, has been appointed Govern* ment physician for the Island of Hilo. " Dr Fanny," as she is called, has a large practice, and is popular among all classes. She makes her visits on horseback, and is ready to answer and call, night or day, in fair weather or foul. It is alleged that the Prince of Wales and Mr Gladstone are the two best amateur banjo players in the world, and it was only the strong objection held by the Queeu, on the one hand, aud dread of offending the " unco quid" in Edinburgh, on the other, that prevented both these gentlemen joining the " Cork brigade." By the Evening Mail we learn that m Nelson " some gorgeous sunset effects attracted a great deal of attention on Saturday evening, about 7 o'clock." We would sooner hear a Nelson man's opinion about a sunrise which would be a novelty to him, anyway, if stones about " Sleepy Hollow" are true. The train for Palmerston this morning '• was well filled with people from Feilding and other places going to the Palmerston show. Besides those who went by rail, hundreds were conveyed m public or private vehicles and on horse back. There can be no two opinions about the fact ; that to-day should have been declared a public holiday here. The Government of Great Britain has had the telegraph lines under its control for 15 years, and during that time has succeeded m achieving a dead loss of C 3.024.900 -that is to say, the revenue t has been that much less than working expenses and 3 per cent, on the capital paid for their purchase — another illustra» tion of the fact that the State cannot ' carry on any commercial enterprise with financial success 1 Yesterday's Wellington Post states that " the Feilding Jockey Club intend to hold back their race meeting until the day following Boxing Day in consequence of the Awahuri races on that day being abandoned." Nothing of the kind is contemplated. It is proposed^ in consequence of the Awahuri Hack Club being wound up, to hold a hack meeting on the day following Boxing Day, apart and distinct from the Feilding Jockey Club's annual Easter Monday meeting. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 9th instant :— " TallowGood mutton is worth 33s 3d, and beef '32a per cwt; the rise is purely speculative .New Zealand hemp — Medium is worth £30 10s per ton. Frozeu meat — Mutton, market dull ; Canterbury is worth 4£d. ' and Wellington 4£d per lb; stocks are in excess of trade requirements. Beef — Market steadier ; forequarters are worth 3jd and hindquarters 3fd per lb. We have received a copy of the firs series of " Ramblings" by A Tramp, with tno author's compliments. We had already perused with pleasure and profit many l of these articles, which are now being published in a concrete form, when they appeared in the Auckland Weekly Herald, .and fiud. they improve on a closer acquaintance. That they are not entirely faultless even the most gentle critic must admit, but'-omder a thin guise of fun and quaint humour, there lies a substratum of sound common sense, combined with valuable information concerning every spot visited by, the "kindly vagrant," which gives a double value to his lucubrations. The author was in Feilding yesterday where his many friends were glad to see him. An old shepherd recently died in the "back-block" of South Wales. For many years he insisted that he had seen better days, and in ftct had one time been an M.P, and an M.L.C. at another. As he had a great deal of bounce in his composition, and used to get drunk as often as an opportunity offered, many persons believed his story, and thought he had come down to shepherding through sheer hard luck, until one day a "pal" came along and gave hiiu away at cost price. He bad been an M.P. and an M.L C. too, but the M. P. stood for inmate of Millbank Prison, and the M.L.O was playful title be* slowed on patriots who were officially warned that they "Mustn't- Leave-Colony. An interesting pom' in connection with tlie bankruptcy law was raised at the sitting of the Bankruptcy Court yesterday. When the public ex* aminatiou of Brown and Rogers (of Masterton) was called on, Mr Jrlhcoe, who acted for the creditors, raised a question whether the proceedings were regular, seeing that although there were three persons in the firm — 1. M. Brown, W. Rogers, and Charleß Nees — the petition in bankruptcy was only signed by Brown. This he submitted did not represent the bankruptcy of the whole firm His Honour Mr Justice Richmond, after hesring counsel on the point, said he could not see his way to proceeding with the matter, and nothing could be done. Several Wairarapa creditors were in at* tendance for the purposes of the bsnkruptcy, criminal charges having been formulated against the bankrupts. The peculiarity of the position is that the Official Assignee has realised on the estate of the firm. Visitors to Palmerston are respectfully invited to inspect the display of new goods just received and now opened out at The Bon Marche*. Embrttcincwhat is | admittedly the largest stock between Wellington and Wanganui, of mantles, millinery, straw goods, dust cloaks, sun shades, cotton and stuff dress materials, and fancy and general drapery of every description. The firm being direct importers are in a position to give their patrons equal value to anything obtain- 1 able in the colony, thoy invite inspection ( and comparison of their season's imports I quite independently of any purchases < being made. 0. M. Ross & Co., the Bon j i Marche", Palmerston North.— Advt. '.