Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 39, 14 September 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Arkwnght, of Overton, Marton, is going for a trip to England. The San Francises mail is due in Auckland to-day. The ancient name of Paris was Lutetia — mud town. We notice a number of new buildings in the course of erection in the Borough. It has been reported to us that several valuable dogs have been killed by poison on the Awahuri road. A meeting of the Hunt Club committee will be held this evening at Mr Light's Hotel, at eight o'clock. Mr Lethbridge, in another column, thinks the electors for the honorable position thej' placed him in at the recent election for the Borough Council. Mr S. J. Thompson, in another column, thanks those electors who voted for him at the recent Borough election. A dedicatory service will be held at Sfc. John's Church, on Friday next, at 7.30 p.m. The Rev. A. 0. Williams will preach on the occasion. A post office will be opened at Apiti during the current year, and a mail service established. The Feilding Assembly Rooms have been engaged for a series of Christmas holiday entertainments, commencing on Boxing night. At a Fire Brigade competition in Wanganni, Fireman Kitchen did the "one man business" in 54 seconds. We have got a man here who can do that. At the Masonic Convention recently held at Wellington, the Feilding Lodge, No 1940, E.C., was represented by Bro. D. H. Macarthur, P.M. ; and the Palmerston Kilwinning Lodge, No. 690, S.C., by Bro. J. H. Hankins, P.M. We have it on excellent authority that a daily mail sen ice will be established between Feilding and Awahuri very shortly. We have to acknowledge receipt of the current number of the Illustrated Australian News and Musical Times. Mr Carthew is the local agent. We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary tickets for Mr Frank Lincoln's entertainment in the Assembly Rooms <.n Wednesday and Thursday next. A man was knocked down on the reclaimed land, Wellington, last night, and had his watch and chain and 20s stolen from him. A notice appears to-day inviting members of the Feilding and Makino bands, also gentlemen desirous of promoting the organisation of a first class band under the leadership of Mr R. F. Haybittle, to attend a meeting to be held at the barracks on Monday the 23rd instant. Some young miscreants have developed a new phase of larrikinism in the northern part of the town. Recently a valuable Aylesbury duck was waylaid by a number of these youths, and after being slowly stoned to death was thrown into a creek, where it was subsequently found by its owner. Such wanton cruelty is deserving of severe punishment. There was a fair attendance at the Rink on Thursday evening, when Miss Mabel Sylveser, the champion lady skater, gave an exhibition of fancy and trick skating. This lady is thoroughly accomplished in her profession, and during her performance was frequently and warmly ap- 1 plauded. Several of her feats were re markably clever, notably her waltzing, dancing a highland fling, and " dodging" in all sorts of ways amongst a number of glass bottles mounted with lighted candles. The Wanganui Chronicle says : — Horticultural savants will be glad to hear that Mr Liffiton has, in his garden, two specimens of the Queensland lily (Daryanthua Palmen), just breaking their crown preparatory to throwing out their gigantic flower stalk, which rises to a height of 10 or 12ft, and throws out a mass of red and white bloom attached to laterals branching at right angles from the maiu stem. Very few of these have flowered in this Colony, and the full development of this horticultural beauty is looked forward to with some interest. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star is responsible for the following : — Lady Salisbury has solemnly vowed never again to entertain a barbavor Eastern potentate. The trouble the Shah and his suite gave at Hattield aud the mischief they did is said to have been extraordinary. Fancy, however, the aristocratic Marchioness's disgust when she discovered that a slim, pretty lad. to whom tbe Centre of the Universe showed special favour, was a Circassian girl whom his majesty (in deference to English prejudices) had disguised in male attire. The late Mr W. Robinson, M.L.C., was a storekeeper at Ballarat in the very early colonial days, and came to New Zealand in 1807, settling at first in Neleoii He was elected to the Nelson Provincial Council m 18(38, and was called to the Legislative Council in 1869. Ho held his seat in the last- mentioned Chamber up to the time of his death. Mr Robinson was for many years a leading sportsman, and at one time his stable was one of the finest in the Colony. He was generally believed to be an enormously wealthy man. He leaves, five daughters, of whom one js Mrs H. I). Bell, of Wellington.

We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers and Hansard to date. It is said Sir Walter Buller will shortly return to New Zealand. When he steps ashore on one side of the island, the other won't tip up anyway. Mr A. Eade, cabinetmaker, has just finished, to the order of a local resident, an exceedingly handsome cheffomer in totara wood, which will be on view at his shop this evening. The Wangauui Herald says: It is rumoured that Mr Gilbert Carson, who last general election opposed Mr Ballauce for Wanganui, is hkoly to be in the field for a seat when the dissolution takes place. A Ohristchurch paper says :— " We have been informed that the Bench of Bishops have accepted Bishop Harper's resignation, to take effect on 31st March next, and that the Bishop of Nelson, as senior Bishop, has instructed the Dean of Cunstchurch, as commissary, to convene the clerical and lay members of the Synod for the election of Bishop Harper's successor. It is 50 years this month and the beginning of next month, since the late New Zealand Company despatched the first five ships from Groat Britian to these shores, laden with living freights, to found an Empire in the Southern Ocean. The vessels were — Aurora, 148 passengers; Adelaide, 176 passengers; Oriental, 1 54 passengers ; Duke of Roxburgh, 167 passengers; Bengal Merchant, 161 passengers. The Hobart Colonist asserts that for many months past there have been imported into Hobart, from New Zealand, green hams and bacon under the disguise of salt pork, these latter paying duty at the rate of 10 per cent, ad volorem, whereas the legitimate duty should be 2d per lb. On reaching its destination it was taken out of the salt and hung in a smoke room for a few days and converted into ham and bacon. The New Zealand article, by reason of this invasion, is rapidly supplanting the local production. S. J. Thompson is now showing a splendid lot of steel trunks, the " Mararoa" trunk and the ll Eotomahaua." These trunks are in six sizes and are fully 25 per cent, lower in prices than former lots.