Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 121, 18 April 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

—"<m— The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on Saturday next. The remains of the Earl of Seafield are to be removed from Oamaru to Scotland. It is stated that the Defence authorities intend to put members of Rifle Clubs on an equality with Volunteers in respect to free railway passes. As every unprejudiced man expected, Judge Rawson ha 6 been completely exonerated by the Commissioners from every charge brought- against him.

Richard Jackman, a laborer of Leeston, has been arrested on a charge of criminal assault on his daughter, aged 15. The cards for the Feilding Jockey Club's race meeting on Monday next are now ready, aud may be obtained from Mr W. Reading. Members of the Church of England are reminded the offertories from both services on Sunday next will be handed to the curate. Mr Edwin Harrison is now erecting a substantial dwelling-house on his land in the Endowment Block, and expects to remove hia family in about a month. We are glad to hear that a decided change for the better has taken place in the health of Mrs Goodbehere, who has been for some weeks dangerously ill. I The Feilding Brass Band were invited \ to play at th. Nelson Encampment, but as they were engaged for the Feilding I races, the invitation had to be, reluctantly, declined. Colonel Maxwell and Mr Trench, tourists from the Home Country, visited the Manchester Block this week, and both expressed a high opinion of the district. We understand that the Sparks Opera Company, consisting of 40 performers, will, in the course of a week or two, produce " Les Cloches De Corneville" on the stage of the Feilding Assembly Rooms. We have to thank the courteous secretary of the Sandon Public Hall for a complimentary ticket to the grand musical entertainment by the Wellington Amateurs to be held on Saturday next, to celebrate the opening of the new Hall. An incorrigible yagrant was sentenced at Auckland last week to twelve months' imprisonment. He is well connected at Homo. His name is Samuel Wolfe, and he is stated to be a descendant of the famous General Wolfe, who fell on the plains of Abraham. Captain Edwin telegraphs at 1.25 p.m. to-day : — Barometer fall slowly northward of Napier and New Plymouth ; further fall elsewhere. Warnings for northerly gales have been sent to all places south of Napier and New Plymouth, and for rain to most stations in the middle island. C. 0. Montrose has written to a Sydney paper contradicting the report of his alleged death. The editor of the journal in question refuses, notwithstanding, to change his opinion and maintains that C. O. M. is indeed defunct. C. 0. M. is naturally indignant that his statement is not credited. A woman named Greenwood, wife of a bailiff at Napier, was found dead in bed on Tuesday evemug. She was suffering from drink , and lay down on her bed. Sha took aome tea at 6 o'clock, and at 7 she was found dead. She had emptied a bottle of aconite lotion, it is believed in mistake for spirits. Talk of Croesus. He must hide his diminished head in fayor of the Vanderbilt family. The wealth of that family amounts to £54,800,000. The estimated income from in is £2,772,880. If kept intact the total fortune will at the end of twentyfive years, by the arithmetical progression of compound interest — also reach £200,---000,000! At the meeting of ratepayers held at Birmingham yesterday relative to the £4000 proposed to be borrowed for public works in the Feilding Small Farm settlement. Mr Lucas presided and it was resolved that the schedule as proposed be adopted and every ratepayer use his best efforts to secure the passing of the same at the poll. The following members of the Feilding Cricket Club have been selected to play to-morrow against a team of fifteen now being got together by Mossrß Carthew and Morey : — Messrs Fetch, Benson, Reeve, Valentine, W. Stevens, J. Wrightson, A. Priagle, Simpson, Millan, Howell, Nix, and Halcombe. Play will commence at ten a.m. sharp. The funeral of the Venerable Archpriest Garin took place at Nelson on Tuesday afternoon. The f-ineral procession was a yery long one, being joined in by citizens and clet _y of all denominations, including hisjLordship Bishop Suter. All places of business were closed, the people joining m as a last mark of respect for one so universally esteemed for his unnghtness and goodness. We have received The Catholic Times of the 12th instant. This journal is a vast improvement on the ordinary rim of sectarian publications as it contains a quantity of interesting reading matter suitable for all tastes. The editorials are crisp, sparkling, and apt, being totally devoid of that professional ponderosity too much affected by other publications of the kind. We wish the talented editor every success in his new position, the novelty of which must be peculiarly charming to our old friend. Taking advantage of th. arrival of the new season's shipments in the colony by direct steamers to Wellington, Mr C. Brown went down and personally selected some of the best and most fashionable lines ever introduced to the people of taste in the Manchester Block and surrounding settlements. We commend his new advertisement to the attention of our readers, but would suggest that an early personal inspection be made at once. The shop will be illuminated this evening and a display made of a charming variety of attractive articles. Mr Walter Haybittle informs us that the Touring Party will arrive in Palmerston by the late train this evening, and proceed by brake to Sanson, where they open the new Public Hall on Saturday evening next. The tickets for the opening in Feilding have gone off so rapidly that extra accommodation has been secured and Mr Haybittle has secured all the spare Beats in the Foresters' Hall. Tickets may be obtained at Mr Carthew's, where a few reserved seats are available. Mr Huybittle leaves for Palmerston by this afternoon's train to receive his party. He speaks highly of the courteous reception he has received at the hands of Feilding residents during his short Bojourn. The l.quost on the body of Mr David Balharry was held at Napier on Tuesday, and a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. The deceased left a letter addressed to Mr Patton, Collector i of Customs, stating that" through life he had contemplated suicide. Ac Christ died to save mankind' he died to say. his creditors, and had no fear of Sheel, but believed death to be a dreamless sleep, and if there were means of communication between the viaable and mvisable he would wake up his friends if he could get a chance." The deceased was insured in tbe Government Insurance Department for £1500, and had arrived in Napier in 1868 as managing clerk for Messrs Watt Bros. He was afterwards agent for the New Zea tan d Shipping Company as well as for the Imperial Fire Insurance office. Deceased leaves a widow and seven children.