Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 85, 24 January 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Typhoid fever is raging in Melbourne. The Palmerston gas works will probably be in operation early in February.

There will be no mass in St. Bridget's on Sunday next.

Mr Denniston has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court.

Fresh applications are being made for tin mining claims at Stewart Island. The Minister of Justice was in Wanganui yesterday.

The match between the Wanganui and Wellington Bowling Clubs yesterday resulted as follows : — Wanganui, 72 points ; Wellington, 71.

At a meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club, held last night, a resolution was passed disqualifying Te Whiti and hi 9 owner, C. Bell, for life.

At the Wairarapa Jockey Club annual meeting on Tuesday 80110 won the Cup, Smooth second, Mascotte third. Time 2win 45sec. Dividend £9 6s.

Adam Bae, laborer, was killed at Green Island, Dunedin. He was working a clay bank when a quantity of &tuff fell, causing injuries which resulted in death.

A jockey named Edward Cahill — other wise Known as "Sprightly " — died lasj Saturday, at Greymouth. from inflanx mation of the lungs.

The funeral of the late Mr W, H. Poad took place on Sunday, and was largely attended by the Foresters and friends of the family of the deceased.

We have to thank A. T. Danvers Esq." the courteous secretary of the Napier Park Racing Club, for a copy of programme lor .Races on March 26th and 27th.

In the libel action tried in Wellington, Larnach v. the N. Z. Herald, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff with damages .£SOO and costs allowed on the middle scale.

'Mr Joyce, M.H.E. for Lyttelton, intends eiirly next session to introduce a Bill amending the law of libel, and giving to the newspapers in New Zealand the same privileges that they enjoy in England. — I'oet.

The reception of the Rev. Mr Blackburn, from Buills to Hokitika, was unique, not to say luxury. It took place on the 16th instant. He was loudly welcomed by a trombone, cornet, and piano, which was followed by graphiscopio views, microscopic observations, and a galvanic battery. We hope he got well out of it.

The 'New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received<.the following telegram from London, dated I.Bth instant : — Tallow — There is little demand. Good mutton is worth £85 10s .per ton. For good beef tallow the quotation is unchanged. New Zealand hemp — The speculative demand has fallen off.

At the 'Feilo'ing State School yesterday morning' there was a verification of the old story of M r ary and the lamb. The animal in this case had a " fleece as white as snow," "it followed her to school," " made the children laugh and play," the teacher therefore turned him out, "but still he lingered near," and all the other incidents in the> story were so literally carried o tit as to make the incident both striking and amusing.

A public meeting of persona interested in having artesian, wells bored or driven for in Feilding, wDI be held in the Court House this evening at eight o'clock. The Mayor will preside- We hope to see a good attendance of business people, and land owners because the subject is worthy of their most earnest consideration, involving as it does the question of a probable reduction of fire insurance rates, if a plentiful supply of water be struck.

As a result -of our brief notice of the Manual of Grasses ar.d Forage Plants useful to New Zealand, Mr J. Wallace, a settler at, Waituna, has sent us a few specimens of the sorts which thrive best m that part of the district. They consist <<sf timothy, clover, cowgrass, fescue, cocksfoot; crested dog's tail, and rye. We submitted them to Mr Betemeyer (of Eetemeyer and Wrightson) and he judged them to be of the finest quality, while the timothy was the best he had ever seen in his life. The parcel was forwarded yes- ! terday to the Minister of Lands, Welling- ! ton, in order that 'he might form an opinion ef the grand capabilities of this district as a grazing country.

Mr "Wilke, the new master of Feilding State School intimated in his address to the scholars on Monday morniug that he believed in physical, a« well as mental education, and with that vibw he should iuvite the boys to co-operate with him

in forming a cnoket club aud a footliall club m oonnectiou with the school. We heartily commend Mr Wilka' prosposal, believing it will greatly assist in the mental and moral development of the boys, and we only hope he may be able to reali.se the hope he expressed of forming as elficicmt clubs as had been the case at the last school he was iv charge of as he paid they had played all the schools iv the district and had only been beutt;:.'. onod.

The native football team met Yorkshire on Saturday when they were defeated by five goals and a try to one goal and a try.

We have to thank Messrs Fergusson and Mitchell, of Dunedin, for their office calendar for 1889, It is by far the best and most useful published in the colony.

Notes on "An evening with Charles Dickens" by Mr W. H. Warren, to be held in the new Assembly Booms on February 15th r in aid of the funds of the library, will appear in our next issue.

A lad named David McGiUireay was drowned when boating at Invercaigili on Saturday. The boom halyards broke as the boat was going about and the spar knocked the lad overboard.

A subscriber paying his account at our oftue the other day said : "I am not superstitious, but I always fancy 1 have good lack when my paper account is paid." We piniled.

An old horse which had been impounded a number of times, but which was so old, decrepit, and diseased that it was valueless, was again impounded yesterday from Makino. In accordance with the Impounding Act the animal was destroyed by authority of Dr Monckton, J.P.

The Minister of Defence has, after receiving the report of the Board of Inquiry, upheld, the disqualification of the Scottish Rifles in independent and volley firing, on account of one squad fixing more than the prescribed number of shots.

Mr G. V. Shannon, customs expert, returned to Wellington from Auckland on Tuesday with all the documents connected with the recent seizure of jSIOOO worth of pianos alleged to be undervalued in invoicißS. Government have decided to sell the tihipment by auction.

At Greymouth cattle sale on Monday the market was glutted, 86 bullocks being unsold out of 170 offered. The sheep market was in the same condition. Best beef, prime 17/- to 17/6 per 1001 b ; heavy weights, 15/- ; best wethers, 11/6 ; lambs, 11/9.

The wrestling match between Harry Dunn and George Bobertson, for the championship of New Zealand and LSO a-side, took place at Wanganui on Monday, and resulted in two falls for Dunn and three for Roberton, Dunn challenged Eobertson for another match, which was accepted.

A special telegram to the Wanganui Herald states : — The Dunedin Star's London correspondent says that Mr George Hutchison, M.H.E., was a prominent speaker at the . Irish National League meeting on December the Ist. He assists Messrs Esmond, Dillon, and Deasy in their colonial tour.

At the District Court Palmerston, yesterday, in Bankruptcy, re Lewis Gurney — Public examination — Adjourned on the application of Mr Prior for the Assignee. Council having addressed the Bench, His Honor, in declaring the examination closed, said there were circumstances in the case which looked very unfavorable against the debtor, and if he did not explain matters more satisfactorily, it was quite possible that his charge would be suspended for some considerable time.

This is a fact! Travellers who know the Port charmers railway line will remember that just before reaching Sawyers Bay there is a tunnel. The other day just after the tram had passed through this tunnel, the guard went through to collect tickets, at the same time annouc ing the arrival of the train at the Sawyers Station with that shortening of nomenclature common to his species. " Sawyez! Sawyez ! " he cried, as he entered a carriage in which a youug couple were sitting, and the girl promptly said: "Well, I don't care if you did; we're married ! " — Press.

If newspapers would publish the nameß of subscribers who take, read, and enjoy, and are gratified by, and neelect to pay for their home papers, the reputation of most communities for moral honesty would depneate twenty per cent. An editors's labours are seldom estimated. A lawyer will give five minutes advice on a topic and charge you five pounds for it. An editor will give you advice on a hundred topics and charge you four cents a copy for his paper. And very often five cents given to au editor would save five pounds given to a lawyer. In fact on other business men are, so universally swindled out of their labour and capita 1 as country newspaper proprietors. — Motueka Herald.

In the butcher's libel case at Christchurch the plaintiff Bosewarne swore he purchased 3272 frozen sheep, sound, from the Belfast fire, at tls 6d per carcase. He boiled down 1 600 and would have sold 1000 more had not the advertisements inserted by the other butchers stopped the sale. He had supplied joints of the frozen meat to his regular customers at the prices charged for ordinary meat. He estimated his lose through falling off in sales at £118, but took no accouut of having sold a portion of the meat at ordinary prices. He had inserted advertisments in reply to those of the butchers insinuating that some of them dealt in the " cag mag" of the Addington. ealeyards. The jury retired, and were out over half an hour before they brought in a verdict of £5 damages.

The Feildrag State School was reopened on Monday morning last under the management of Mr George Wilks, the newly appointed head teacher, Miss Stewart, the newly appointed assistant mistress also entering upon her duties. Messrs Watts (chairman) J. 0. Thompson and W. Reading, members of the committee, were present to receive the new teachers. The scholars being assembled together Mr Wilks introduced himself to them, and addressed them for upwards of half an hour, reminding them of and deprecating vices which in connection with a school could only retard progress, viz lateness, irregular attendance, vulgarity, rudeness, indolence, lying, pilfering, and copying, and inculcating those virtues 'which were necessary to success, viz, punctuality, regularity, obligingness, politeness, industry, consideration for others, truthfulness and honesty. At the conclusion of an excellent address lie introduced Miss Stew art to the scholars, bespoke for her the same good i eeli ng from them which he anticipated to receive himself. The members of the committee present each spoke a few words, and the youngsters responded tn a demand for three cheers by way of expressing their welcome of the new teachers, and the latter having acknowledged the compliment thiß little opening ceremony terminated.