The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1889. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 87, 29 January 1889, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1889. Local and General News

English mails, ex Kaikoura, should reach Feilding to-morrow.

New Zealand hemp was quoted at .£3B to i>4o per ton last Friday in London.

There will be a sitting of Justices of the Peace at the R.M. Court to-morrow at 10 a.m.

Gunsler's cafe in Pitt street, Sydney was burned down on Sunday morning. Insurance, JIO,OOO.

Young Lord Cranley, a son of our new Governor, is said to be a good cricketer. His forte is bowling.

Sir James Hector is about to publish a second edition of his pamphlet on Phormium Tenax.

Admiral Fairfax has promised to recommend the use of Westport coal for the China Squadron.

The Kaikoura ran from Hobart to Otago heads in 77 hours. This is the best trip on record.

The Maoris played a game at Somerset on Saturday, and won by four goals and five tries to one goal and a try.

There will be mass in St. Bridget's on Sunday next at 11 a.m. instead of 8 a.m., as previously notified by the Rev. Father Patterson.

A thermometer in Fahiataa, according to the local paper, registered 180 in the sun the other day. If it had tried to register any more it would have exploded.

The Feilding Assembly Booms have been engaged for an entertainment on behalf of the local Fire Brigade, to take place after the anniversary sports on March 18th.

It is stated that the Railway Commissioners will commence their labours by making a tour of the colony, visiting all the railway lines and interviewing the .chief officers.

James Chapman, a shoemaker, aged 53 married with a large family, died in Ohristchurch on Saturday morning from taking an over dose of chlorodyne to relieve neuralgia.

The male child of Mrs Slade, of Springston, Canterbury, two days old, was found dead beside his mother on Saturday morning. It is supposed to have been overlain, as the child was otherwise healthy.

With reference to samples of grass from Waituna sent by us to the Minister for Lands, we have received an acknowledgment from the Under Secretary, in which he says — Mr Richardson has much pleasure in endorsing our opinion of the specimens, which he considers splended samples.

On his land at Apiti Mr Jefferies has over a hundred acres of land in cocksfoot which is now being reaped. It will be threshed out for seed, and it is reckoned the result will give about twenty bushels to the acre. Off six acres of the same land last year Mr Jefferies got about 15 cwt. of timothy seed.

The gifted authoress of " Robert Elesmere" has a pretty chapter on the relative merits of the Scottish and English housewife's capacity for filling a bill of fare with the choicest dainties. Feilding folk will have ample opportunity to test this in the Presbyterian tea tent an Friday next. Everyone is there invited to invest a shilling for the Manse fund, and receive even more than an equivalent.

The annual meeting of the Wanganui district of Oddfellows, M.U., was held last Friday night in the Wanganui Lodge- room, when there was a very large attendance of delegates and past officers from Wanganui, Palmerston, Feilding and Fordell; G.M. Bro. T. W. Ferry occupied the chair, and D.G.M. Bro. W. Lawne the vice-chair. The balance-sheets of the various Lodges were submitted, and after persual were all adopted The district has made very considerable progress during the year, both financially and numerically. After the usual routine business was gone through the election and 'installation of officers for the ensuing year took place, when Bro. W. Lawrie was elected Grand Master ; Bro. E. Nix, of Feilding, Deputy Grrand Master, for which office there were four candidates, great interest being: maintained in the election ; Bro. B. Hood was re-elected provincial secretary and Bro. Bamber and Hollow were re-elected auditors. After the installation P.PG.M. Bro. T. Bamber presented P P.G.M. Bro. T. W. Ferry with two framed emblems of the Order, m recognition of long and faithful service to the district. It was decided that the G.M. call a special Purple Lodge of past Grands to confer various degrees on the past officers at an early date. The next meeting will be held at FeUding.— Herald.

Mr John Manson, of The Pines, has just imported 42 tanks of English grass seed.

Mr A. D. Willis, J.P., chairman of the Wanganui Harbor Board, was in Feilding to-day.

Cobbe & Darragh have for sale, cheap a new double Buggy, made by Rouse and Herald, Wellington.

At the Divorce Court, Wellington, yesterday, decreeß nisi were granted in Egan v. Egan, Bartsch v. Bai'tsch, and Bull y. Bull. A rule absolute was granted in Vine v. Vine.

We have been requested by "Mr and Mrs B. Gould, of Sydney, to thank those persons who attended the funeral of their late son yesterday. Mr and Mrs Gould feel the obligation all the more as they are almost total strangers to Feilding.

Jemima Leith, 82 years, single, living with her mother at Taiaroa Heads, attempted suicide at Dunedin yesterday by cutting her throat with a knife. She has been recently discharged from the lunatic asylum. The wound is not dangerous.

A match was played at Halcombe on Saturday between the Palmerston and Halcombe teams, and after a very interesting game resulted in a win for the home team on the first innings by 16 runs — Halcombe, 105; Palmerston, 59.

It is rumoured in Dunedin that a vacancy in the representation of one of the up-country constituencies of that district is likely to occur shortly, and that Sir Eobert Stout will be strongly pressed to to become a candidate, in which case bis return would be practically certain.

A mob of cattle were driven furiously up Manchester street at noon to-day. They were in splendid condition but looked worried from too free a use of stock whips in inexperienced hands. A few persons walking on the street were alarmed and an old shed was knocked over — that was all.

The caterer on the Wellington-Mana-watu Eailway Company's line, Mr Walter Freeman, has a notice in to-day to which we direct the attention of the travelling public. It is Mr Freeman's boast that his cookery is unsurpassed, and that while a complaint has never yet been made he has received thousands of compliments from his patrons.

The Melbourne Argus on Saturday morning, in an article on New Zealand, congratulated the colony' on their return to prosperity, and gives reasons for believing that greater progress will be manifested in the next few years. The article, in referring to the New Zealand Exhibition at Donedin, urges Victoria to make the most effective representation.

An intelligent TaranaM lady, whose little boy was beginning to swear, anxious to express to her child her horror of profanity hit upon the novel process of washing out his mouth with soapsuds when* ever he swore. It was an effectual cure. The boy understood his mother's sense of the corruption of an oath, which with the taste of the suds, produced the desired result. — Herald.

The Duke of Marlborough has adopted a petty method of showing his displeasure at the remarks made a tew days back by the Vicar of Woodstock. Speaking at a clerical gathering, the vicar took occasion to express a strong opinion as regards the marriage of divorced persons, and he carried out his views in a practical manner by refusing to allow the bells of the parish church to be rung when his Grace of Marlborough returned to Blenheim with his rich American bride. The Duke there upon stopped his annual contribution of £10 to the parochial schools, and forbade the rector and his curates to give any religious instruction in the schools of Bladon, which is part of the parish. He has also, through his agent, withdrawn the privilege of driving through Blenheim Park from the Rector and his family. The schools will no doubt survive the loss of the ducal tenpound note, but it will be long before " his grace 1 ' recovers from the ridicule with which he has covered himself by such petty spitefulness.