Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 130, 9 May 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. The Board of Reviewers will sit in Feilding on Friday next at 11.30 a.m. Messrs Retemeyer and Wrightson realised 112s for some butter they sent to the English market. One great advantage the professional burglar has over all other tradesmen — He makes no bad debts. A too delicate young local politician doesn't speak of the " Ministerial rupture," he calls it the *' Clerical hernia." The Marlborough Meat Preserving Company are shipping Home in one consignment 24,000 preserved rabbits. Earl Onslow has gone to the Wairarapa for a few days deer stalking. He is the guest of the Hon John Martin, M.L.C. Yesterday Messrs Macarthur and Wilson, M.H.R.s, and Messrs D. Buick and J. Sell went to Wellington to wait on the Premier as a deputation from the Manawatu Road District. By a clerical error in the " copy " the date of the performance of the Spark's Opera Company was made to read Tuesday May 13th, instead of May 14th. The required correction ha 6 been made to-day. Intending visitors to tlie Opera at the Assembly Rooms on Tuesday next are reminded 4hat the box plan is now open at Mr parthew's, and as there i 6 every probability of its filling rapidly, and that there will be a very crowded house, we would recommend those who wish to secure seats to make an early application for tickets.

Edward Hanlan, the oarsman, arrived at Auckland yesterday. The Woodville Examiner says : — The quail liberated last season are doing well, and on Mr Carlile's and Mr Ormond's properties they are to be seen in large numbers. All those who wish to enjoy a good night's fun and amusement should go to the Skating Rink this evening and see the great potato raco. A large number of entries have already been received for the event. The. big tunnel in the Manawatu Gorge contract was pierced through last night and this morning all the men came out at the end. It is creditable to the Engineers to record the fact that both drives met exactly in line. W. N. Sinion, the champion lightweight wrestler of America, arrived in Auckland by the last Frisco mail steamer. Sinion also has a reputation as a boxer, and has issued a challenge to W. Murphy, the N.Z. boxer. The WeUington " genteel " people are raising tribulation about the prominence civil servants gave themselves at the Governors levee the other day. It is hard to say which side displays the grossest snobbery — the Howlers or the Howlees. Footballers are reminded of the regular practice on the Oval on Saturday afternoon. A scratch match will be played by sides captained by Messrs "Whisker and Gregory. The second fifteen players are requested to roll up as well as the first fifteen. A card appears over leader to-day from Messrs Fitzherbert and Matthews, barristers and solicitors, of Wellington and Palmerston North. Mr Matthews will visit Feilding every Court day, but letters forwarded to either of the above addresses will be attended to. I A writer in the Dunedin Star points out that Lord Onslow is going to do his level best to please all parties and both extremes. He has quoted two texts of scripture, and speculated in the totalisator. Both the church and the world are at once favorably impressed. Yesterday we received from Mr Lowes of the Commercial Hotel, Waitapu, Birmingham (Fowler's) a beautiful strawberry, well grown, and well flavored. This is a remarkable evidence of the mildness of the climate and fecundity of the soil in that favored locality. We learn on excellent authority that it has been definitely decided to cut up the Oroua Downs estate into small farms. This will mean a large settlement springing up in that locality, and doubtless the I various portions of this magnificent estate will be in great demand. — Manawatu Times. The divorce case, Mudford v Mudford and Hickford, the parties of wliich reside at Campbelltown, was concluded at the j Wanganui Supreme Court yesterday. The jury returned a verdict for damages at £25, and costs £35 ; a decree nisi, to be made absolute at the next sittings of the Divorce Court at Wellington, after three months. The inaugural meeting of the Feilding Hunt Club was held yesterday, Under most favorable circumstances, the weather being all that could be desired. The " meet" took place at Mr John Saxon's Potatau Farm, in the presence of a large , array of spectators, including a number of ladies. A detailed report will appear in our next issue. The Napier Telegraph has discovered that : — " The collection and publication of the annual agricultural statistics of New Zealand cost a very large sum of money, which is entirely thrown away. Of all the absolutely unmeaning and misleading rubbish printed at the public expense there is nothing to equal the nonsense entitled the agricultural statistics.' We went into these figures once, but when we discovered that something like thirty thousand acres of land had vanished in'© thin afr during a period of twelve months, we thought it better to leave them alone for the future. Apropos of the testimony, confession, and euicide of Pigott, the following prophetic conjecture of Mrs. Carlyle, wife of Thomas Carlyle, can be found on page 230 of " Letters and Memorials of Jane Walsh Carlyle," and written in her diary, 27th April, 1845. After describing some other Irish visitors to her husband, among whom was the lamented patriot-poet Thomas Davis, she thus alludes to Mr. Pigott:— "As for young Mr. Pigott, T will here, in the spirit of prophecy, inheritated from my great ancestor, John Welsh, the Covenanter, make a small prediction. If there be m his time an insurrection in Ireland, as these gentlemen" — referring to her husband's Irish Visitors — " confidently anticipate, Mr. Pigott will rise to be a Robespierre of some sort ; will cause many heads to be removed from the sholders they belong to, and will eventually have his own head removed from his own sholders. Nature has written ou that handsome but fatallooking countenance quite legible to my prophetic eye. Go and get thyself beheaded, but not before having lent a hand towards the great work of immortal smash.'"