Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 69, 17 November 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Trade m the Taranaki district is steadily increasing. The Hons* E. Mitchelson and G. Fisher will amvo in Welhngson, from Syduey, on Monday. We have received a copy of the programme of the Napier Park Racing Club's meetmg on January Ist, 1887. The man Finlay, who is alleged to hare stolen the box of silver from the Railway Station at Great ford, has been committed for trial. The lonic arrived at Hobart. from Plymouth, on Thursday morning, and she sailed for New Zealand yesterday. She has 145 passengers for New Zealand. The slips on the Wellington-Man awatu railway are being rapidly cleared away, and it is expected the line will be open for traffic to-night or on Monday morning. It is stated that a large consignment or American apples, infected with oodlm moth, were sold in Auckland the other day, and purchased for a local jam factory. The exodus to Victoria from Dunedi n appears to have ended. Only ten steerngo passengers booked there by the Eotomahana, which was one of the favourite boats. The dead body of a man named H. T Sharpe, a plumber, was found in Cox Creek, Auckland, on Thursday eveuing by two boys. A warrant was out for his arrest for alleged embezzlement. Editor's young wife : " My dear, you must pardon me for coming down in a wrapper tins* morning." Editor: " Don't mention it, my lore. Some o' our most valuable exchange* nome to us in wrappers." At the A. and P. Show at PalmersloQ, a report of which appeared in our last issue, the hunters' competition fell to Alma, .Neck or- .Nothing saining second honors. Maungamukau and Surplice tied al sft 4£in for the leaping mutch. The parishioners of St. Mathew's, Master ton, are said to be in a state of ecclesiastic rebellion. The vestry have refused to vote supplies or pay the sum assessed by the Synod. It ib clear the lucumbent — the Rev. W. Paig-e — should turn over a new leaf. We have been informed, incidentally by the secretary, that a meeting of tho Feildiug Jockey Club will bo held on Tiiesrltiy evening at the Empire Hotel to consider the proposal that a hack race meeting be held here on the day following Boxing Day. From the last Guzette we lf;irn thai the following alterations have boon made iv local railwny rates: -Wool, undumped, from J urakina to W in^anui will be charged Is 5d per bale. Wool, undamped, from Palmerßton to Foxton will be charged 2s per bale, including wharf* a^e. Mr Cummins, of Cummins and Sharp, of Wanganm, was a visitor to this district yesterday. He expressed the opinion that this place has 110 superior in tho colony for butter producing, and as a proof said one sample made by a local dairyman which had been exhibited at the Wanganui show, would take first place at any similar exhibition in New /'.".ilaud. M v James Mclntyre, of the Clyde Ironworks, Auckland, whilst going on board the s.s. Glenelg at Manukau Wharf on Thursday last, fell between the vessel and the wharf, striking one of the piles of the wharf. He was rescued by a man named Carraman, and was found to be suffering from concussion of the brain, having also received severe wounds on the head. The book containing the programme of the forthcoming Boxing Day sports will be an exceptionally full and elaborate publication. The canvass for advertisements has already been very successful, and the book will prove almost a complete directory to the various trades and businesses of Feilding. Those who still wish their names thus to appear will do well to give their orders without delay to Mr Reading, who has charge of the advertising department of that publication. To-day's Times says : Notice of dismissal has just been given to forty-one officers of the Public Works Dt t at ment, the ranks raneing from that of District Engineer downward. All these will leave at the end of December- A certain number of engineers and surveyors will be drafted into the Lands and Survey Department, which will in future hare charge of the roads, but it is not yet finally decided who will be thus transferred. The attention which the dairy products of the colony are just now receiving from large English firms must result beneficially to the industry, which has already made great strides within the last few months. Mr Meadows, representing Trengrouse & Co., is just about to start for Home, having completed his tour of the dairying districts of New Zealand, and this morning the Minister of Lands was waited upon by Mr W. D. Grant, representing the firm of Boyd and Grant, butter and cheose merchants, of Liverpool, This gentleman has been travelling round tho colony for the last two months, arranging for the purchase of produce, and he also intends to establish an agency for his house in New Zealand to carry on regular trade. — Post. The Awahuri School committee met on Saturday last. Present— Mesßrs Lucas (chairman), Bennett, and Nairn. A cheque was received from the Education Board, being school fund for the quarter ending September 30. Communications wore also received from the Board stating that, owing to the smallneea of the buiMing grant, the Board will not be enabled to expend an3 r funds except in building and repairing schools and teacher's residences; also, requesting that Rose Lucas forward certificates as required by teachera' regulations. Prom Mr Weightman, declining to allow his daughter to be nominated for a cadotship. From the teaoher, stating that threefourths of the children were absent on account of sickuess. The teacher's report waß read, showing the average attendance to be 12-8 boys, and lO'l girls. This was all the busiueca and tho meeting adjourned.

Gold is reported 10 have been found in payable quantities on the terrace opposite Davis', at Cullinsville. The Sandon cricketers are coming to Feilding on Wednesday next to put the loca 1 men through — if they can. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 12.30 p.m. to-day :— Wind N." to W., and S.W. gale after 1 6 ho: n Glass f 1 11 again soon. The Feilding Brass Band has been presented with a blue banrn r by Mra Christopher Brown, who has just returned from a visit to Auckland The flag has on it the initials F 8.8 1.1 white, and \\ il! be hoisted on the rotunda on gala days. Mr H. K. Holder, of Woodulle, has ju>t received returns of 474 sheep and 56 quarters of beef, shipped by the lonic through the North British and Hawke's Bay Freezing Company. The returns show that the sheep averaged 751 b and realised 17s per head net, or 221s with the wool. The bullocks averaged 7351 b and realised eight guineas per head net. Captain Stephens, the master of the schooner Lizzie Guy, who was drowned on Saturday last wneu wrecked on the East Const near White Kock station, had about 10 or II years ago a narrow escape with his life He was at that time master of a sniull coasting vessel, the Sarah and Mary, which was wrecked at sea. She floated bottom upward, however, and the captain managed to get on top, where he held out for two days. He was picked up by Captain Ronner, uf the Hannah Barralt, much exhausted. The Prince of Wales has one little weakness above all others, and that is a fondness of uniforms, regalias, &c. He, as officer of various ranks and regiments, has in stock no fewer than 84 different sets of regimentals. He has a magnificent rig out as Grandmaster of the English Freemasons, and now I hear he is about to clothe himself in the regalia of th« Oddfellows' Society. He has been proposed in the Lodge, and his initiation will take plnce some time next month. It would not surprise some people if he Joined General Booth's urmy. The uniform would look extremly well on him. Visitors to Palmerston are respectfully iayited to inapect the display of new goods just received and now opened out at The Bon Marche. Embracing what 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 anythiag obtain- ; able in the colony, they invite inspection and comparison of their seasou's imports quite independently of any purchases being made. C. M. Ross & Co., the Bon Marche, Palmerston North. —AJrvr. There is joy among the snob* ! It has been stated on " reliable authority " that Sir H. A. Blake " never served as a draper's assistant in Dublin"; but belongs to an old Galway family. Thi* is very consoling as well as refreshing. Many wrong minded persons were no doubt inclined to give honor to the man who, from a humble but rospectable pursuit in lif«, had. by his own courage and skill, raised himself above the level of the " common herd " to the position of a G vernor of an English colony. Now, lion ever, they must take a back seat." and allow the right thinking tuft huntei to come to the front and claim Sir Blake as their " long lost brother." " When Adam delved nni Eve span, who was then the gentleman ? From Australian exchanges it appears that the dt:m;»nd of Sir Thomas Mcllwraith upon the English Government of a rinht of veto on the appointment of a Governor of Queensland vas matie wi:b the full consent of the Opposition. It is a diplomatic demand ma'lu by tho colony through Us constitutional representative-. Tbe Brisbane courier says : " The logical sequence of this established precedent will be the claim to nominate our own Governors and to select them for either locally or wherever the be<t man for the high and responsible position is to be found." The Sydney .Daily Telegraph commenting on this, says a change ib slowly and surely coming about, a change from the old system of Governors nominated by the colonial office to that of Governors elected in some way or other by the colonies. We are adjusting institutions to new conditions as they arise.