Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 98, 23 February 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

A settler who has been only ten years living in Taranaki, is looked upon as a verdant new drain by the Old Identities. A Roman Catholic Church is projected at Petone. Mr Ward will preside at the next sittings of the R.M. Court here. The Hon. George Fisher will shortly address his Wellington constituents. Mr Gilbert Carson has been nominated as a candidate for a seat on the Waiiganui Education Board. The Government have decided to form a Cattle Board for the Wanganui and Patea districts. Mr J. E. Henry has been appointed handicapper for the Palmerston Hack Race Meeting. §§By the early train this morning from Palmerston, Mr and Mrs Allen arrived in Feilding from their honeymoon tour. The firebell " rang out its wild alarm" at 11.35 this forenoon. A chimney ablaze in the private residence of Mr John Bishop was the cause. There will be a sitting of Justices of the Peace on Monday at 10 a.m., and of the Licensing Committee at noon, in the Court House. Our readers are reminded of the special train this evening from Palmerston for the convenience of those who go down to witness the illuminations. Our Foxton contemporary points out that while the office expenses of other education districts similar in size to ours average only Is 9d per head of pupils, the Wanganui Board manage to run theirs up to 3s 9d per head. It is said in Hokitika that Admiral Fairfax visited the sounds for the purpose of choosing a spot where an impregnable coal station might be established. Many of the inlets are large enough to accombdate a whole fleet, and the advantage of a depot which could be easily and safely reached is apparent. Mr Charles Wickham complains that on Thursday night some person let down the rails of the slip panel to his paddock. If it was the intention of the author of this little piece of mischief to allow of the cattle running in the enclosure to get into the street and risk impounding, they were disappointed. A jjgcent commercial transaction in the neighborhood : — " Greeny" had a pound ; " Smarty" wanted that pound ; " Smarty" offered to teach " Greeny" to sing for a pound; " Greeny" parted, and now sings for his pound. " Smarty" fetched out a note by his exertions and now wears the 8 lirt of a successful man. Smoking on Sunday is going to be put a stop to in Wellington, by the police, and several tobacconists in that city are about to be proceeded against for selling the fragrant weed on that day. Wellington is getting too sadly moral — very different to the good old days when it was " a virtue to get drunk, and every body was virtuous." The Maori Haka Troupe, engaged by Mr Richard Reeves, M.H.R., appeared at the District Court, Melbourne, on the 12th instant, as complainants in a wages case against their manager, a man named Horace Delamain, to whom the tronpe had been handed over by Mr Reeves. They sued for £41, being"the amount of two weeks wages. The bench gave a verdict for the amount. The Mangaone school was opened on Monday lapt under the charge of Mr Holden, a gentleman lately arrived in the colony from England. Nearly sixty children attended, in fact the school was quite fall and the building will very soon have to be enlarged. Whether one teacher can attend to so many children is a question which has yet to be solve 1. Wo recommend the school committee to apply at once for extra assistance.

Diphtheria is prevalent at Turalrina. Cobbe & Darragh have for sale Green's Best Canterbury Bacon and Hams in cloth. A lively swarm of bees came down Kimbolton road yesterday forenoon They camped down somewhere about the barracks. Mr Marchant, the Commissioner oi Crown Lands, arrived hei'e on an official visit on Wednesday. He loft for Ashurst yesterday afternoon. Over £20,900 went through the totaliaators at Dunedin during the last two days, the public thus paying £1000 per day for this portion of its amusement. Mr James McDowell, of Wellington, was adjudicated bankrupt yesterday. Liabilities, £13,064; assets, £17,887; surplus, £4,823. A Palmerston bankrupt said to his creditors in a moment of exasperation "We are all honest men until found out." — and the creditors laughed. Mr Bassett, contractor for the Pohangina Bridge, has now got operations fairly under way, and the work of driving the large cylinder piles has been commenced. Alfred Buckland reports at Bemuera, on Thursday : — Fat cattle maintained the improved rate of last week. Sixteen shillings per 1001 b was the ruling price for good steers The burns up to the present time in the Mangaone and Harbor Board districts have not been very good, owing to the green thistles, which have grown up among the fallen trees. A shipment of upwards of a hundred head of cattle has been forwarded to Wellington en route for Melbourne, by the Taupo. Among the mob were the prize bullocks Moody and Sanky, the jproperty of Mr Robert Stevens, which will go for; exhibition. " ? Messrs J. Lysaght ord C0., 0f "Well*: ington, have received cable advices to the effect that galvanised corrugated iron has advanced 12s 6d per ton. The wages in the iron trade have advanced 2s 6d per ton, and freights 10s, making the extra 12s 6d since last rates. Near Brisbane, a few days ago, a man who was accompanied by his wife and two children, camped on the river bank where he pitched his tent. It appears the tent was placed over the hole of a brown snake which came out and bit the two children so that they died from the effects. Notice is given to-day that the partnership hitherto carried on by Messrs J. D. Valentine, W. Wilkinson, and Thomas O'Toole, has been dissolved by mutual consent. In this connection Mr Valentine also intimates that he will carry on the business in the future in those premises next to Dr Johnston, and opposite the Bed House. A one innings cricket match was played on the ground near the Denbigh Hotel, between a club eleven and a team picked from outsiders, called " The Pearls," on Wednesday last. The club eleven won by 110 runs to 79. The principal scorers were Retemeyer (35), and Halcombe (24) for the club, and G. Foster (30), and Brennan (15) for the Pearls. Murray, Roberts and Co. are in receipt of the following cable message from their London friends, Messrs Sanderson, Murray and Co., under date 19th February : — " The wool sales have closed, with rates unchanged since our last adyices. For fine crossbred wools, which are in g-ood demand, the market has advanced a shade." In urging that a reduction should be made on the haulage of white pine for export, the Chairman of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce informed Mr Maxwell that a small reduction, he felt sure, of 4d or 6d per 100 ft would mean a revival of this export trade. The demand in Australia is practically unlimited for our pmo, but it was a question of price, and 3d or 4d per 100 ft practically meant a profit or loss to the miller. H.M.S. Orlando recently made a "record," from Lyttolton, accomplishing the passage in 9 hours. She left Lyttelton Heads at 5.45 a.m., and arrived at Wellington at 3.20 p.m. Her engines were working at the rate of 105 revo lutions a minute, and the speed attained was about 17£ knots. This does not represent her full speed. An awkward predicament 13 reported from an American bathing place. A fashionably attired young fellow was approached by a nice looking young woman who begged him to give her baby a dip. The young man complied, and the two-year-old splashed and kicked, and when the dip was done, and the dipper waded back to Bhore, the young mother had disappeared, and the young man ■was left alone in his splendour -with, a baby nobody owned, or would relieye turn of. The following items are from the Manawatu Times: — We regret to loam that the illness of Mr Henry McNeil has assumed a very serious aspect, and grave fears are entertained by his friends.— Jußt before the ceremony of turning on the gas this evening, the Palmerston Fire Brigade intend taking advantage of the occasion to present Mrs D. H. Macarthur with a memento of the christening of the engine in the shape of a framed photo^i graph of the engine and members of th» Brigade. The photographic work has yery artistically done by Mr Shailer, and is a very creditable specimen of his capabilities in his art. The Examiner says " Woodville is to be the stopping place for the night trains for Wellington and Napier, and the Department have acquired the necessary area of land for the purpose." This will be rough on Palmerston, because if that catastrophe eventuated the Chicago of the South would in a few short years shrink into a mere " village hamlet" near Woodville, or become absorbed entirely in the greatness of tb&t " ambitious and aspiring" rival. By the way it would be a good idea if Palmerstonians could get rid of the narrow minded notion they appear to have that " the prosperity of any neighboring settlement is a misfortune to Palmerston." The following new regulations as to the delivery of telegrams are gazetted : — Telegrams shall be delivered free of charge within a radius of one mile of the station to which they may be transmitted by wire. Beyond such free delivery tho charges for delivery of any telegram shall be as under : — For any distance not exceeding half a mile beyond the free delivery, 6d ; for any distance exceeding half a mile, but not exceeding one mile beyong the free delivery. Is: for any distance exceeding one mile, but not ex eeedingtwo miles beyond the freedelivery, Is 6d. The foregoing charges provide for ordinary delivery only. For messages to be delivered by special messenger, tho cost of such delivery must be paid far by the sender on demand. If required to be delivered beyond the distance of three, miles, all moneys disbursed in payment of cab fares, omnibus fares, horse hire, porterage, or any other expense incurred in delivery sHull be charged. All telegrams requiring to bo dohvered on shipboard on tke water, or across the wator, shall bear any expense incurred to defray boat hire.