Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 125, 27 April 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

About 40 people left Feilding by train this morning for the Foxton races. Mrs Emily Greenwood, of Napier, died from taking a dose of aconite in mistake. A meeting of the School Committee will be held at the schoolroom on Tuesday evening. Volunteer items, and Reminiscences of the Easter Encampment at Nelson are unavoidably held over. A skating match in the shape of a mile race between two local adepts will come off at the Rink next week. At the Wanganui Supreme Court on Wednesday a true bill was found against Charles Buckingham Lucas for rape. Application for a patent has been made by G. W. Shailer, of Palmerston North, and G. W. Fowles, of Feilding, for a photographic changing box. A case of kleptomania has been brought under the notice of the local police, and it is not improbable the offender may have to appear before the R.M. The Basonica Company from Wanganui have engaged the Feilding Assembly Rooms for one of their novel performances on the night of the Queen's birthday. There will be mass in St. Bridget's at 11 a.m., and rosary and sermon at Sandon at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The Rev. Father Patterson will officiate at both places. The jury, in the case against Lucas for rape, in the Wanganui Supreme Court, were locked up for the night and as they could not agree were discharged this morning. It is understood the case will be heard again on Monday. Yesterday the Skating Rink was again well patronised, both at the afternoon and evening sessions, at the latter the band performed, as it will in future do at each evening's session. The rink will be open to-night, when we have no doubt there will be a good attendance. A lady at New York, with more enthusiasm than brains, has opened a subscription list to produce £10,000,000 sterling to rebuild Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple. She appeals especially to •' all good Freemasons." At the latest date she had received 7s 6d. A splendid opportunity is afforded by Mr Carthew to those who are desirous of beautifying and decorating then* sitting or bedrooms, who advertises to-day a choice lot of articles, some particulars of which are detailed in the notice. We may further add that they must be sold and consequently they are marked at the cheapest rates. The Ohrietchurch Acclimatisation Society have decided to invite all kindred societies to a conference there during the month of May, in order to consider suggestions for alterations m the Animals Protection Act, and to appointed a fixed day throughout the colony for opening the season for native and imported game. The question of gun licenses is also to be considered. The Tutaekuri river was the scene of a rather novel ceremony on Tuesday, 20 of the members of Mr Daniells' congregagation being baptised. They were not baptised in the ordinary fashion, but were totally immersed. Among the number were a few ladies. We (Napier News) learn that the number of people who are oonstant attenders at Mr Daniells' services is seventy. The new fire bell, cast by Messrs Luke and Sons, the well known iron founders of Wellington, to which reference was made in our last issue, was plaoed in the tower yesterday and its tone gave great satisfaction. We regret that while shifting the old piece of metal which preceded it, Mr John Taylor received a contused wound in the arm by the heavy mass coming suddenly back on him. If the police had been provided with comfortable chairs to sit in, with occasional solid and liquid refreshment during the glove contest between Laing and Smith, the mill would have been allowed to go on to a finish. As it was they became tired of standing, hungry, and d,-y, therefore the exhibition of the noble art, which was to decide the momentous question of the championship of New Zealand was snuffed out. The quarterly district meeting of delegates of 1.0.0. F., M.U., was held at the Lodge-room, Manchester street, last even ing. Wanganui, Palmerston, Fordell, and Feilding Lodges were represented. Bro. Dudley, P.G.M., occupied the chair, and Bro. Nix, P.G.M., the vice-chair. Some routine business was transacted, after which the Lodge adjourned. The next district meeting will be held at Wanganui in July. The Feilding drag hounds were out over the hills yesterday morning for a bit of a gallop, for the first time since their arrival here. Although Messrs Lovejoy and Roake (deputy master and huntsman) tried to keep it quiet that a drag had been laid, as they wanted to see how the new pack shaped, it somehow or other leaked out, and about ten or a dozen horsemen, amongst whom was one of the fair sex, met the hounds near the Racecourse. The drag had been laid about three miles, and the hounds hunted it splendidly, never once getting off the line, and going like smoke all the while. Everyone was exceedingly pleased with the way in which the hounds hunted, and members of the Club who wish to be there at the finish will have to have good horses, with plenty of oats in them. "Puff," in the Press, writes: — They're going to erect a hall in Kirkcaldy in memory of Adam Smith 1 Ah, he was born there in 1723 ! They may well be proud of him I He was one of the ablest j nien of the day, and the firßt expounder ! and teacher of those principles of political economy which have formed the basis of English statesmanship to the present time ! Freetrade, eh ? Oh yes, but a great deal besides Freetrade ! That is on'y one of the results of the principles laid down by Adam Smith ! Political eccnomy, oh ? What they call the '• Dismal | Science," and the " buy in the cheapest and soil iv the clearest, devil's gospel !" Yes, it is so easy to abuse what yon don't understand ! Political economy is the science of principles which regulate the production, distribution and exchange of welath ! You mean that there are silent laws or forco3 always at work regulating this ? Quite so ! Just as silent laws or forces are keeping the Earth, Sun, and Moon in place or the blood flowing in your veins ! And Adam Smith found out what these laws were V J ist so F And as Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood led to the foundation of scientific treatment of disease, so Adam Smith's discovery led to the c >mplete reversal of all that blundering;, staggering legislation that did such enormous mischief to England and other countries] Cobbe & Darragh are sole agents throughout the Districts of Feilding and Sandon for Messrs flenderson Bros.'celebrated "Silver Gem " Roller Flour.