Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 44, 1 October 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Mails for Europe, via San Francisco, will close here on Friday next. Mr Dillon, M.P , is expected in Wellington about November 15th. Mr William Montgomery, formerly M.H.R. for Akaroa, will leave England for New Zealand by direct steamer this month. A company with a nominal capital of £20,000 has been formed in Sydney to work for tin 700 acres of alluvial flats on the Robertson's River, Stewart's Island. Mr Carthew will remit a draft to Dr Bernardo on Friday, any persons desiring to contribute may send in their several amounts either to Mr Carthew or the Star office. The next San Francisco boat, the Mari posa, will leave Auckland with a fail cargo of flax for the States. She will be followed by a large sailing vessel for New York direct. On Sunday afternoon some foolish or evil-disposed person tied a flax rope across the Awahuri road. Fortunately the trap was discovered and cut away before any accident resulted* Mr Hannett, the owner of Diomedes, informs us (Hawera Star) that he has had several offers to purchase the horse since he came to Hawera, and thinks it quite likely he will dispose of him. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day : Warnings hold good at all places north of Napier and New Plymouth, and have b«en repeated to all other places. To-day Mr Dermer, of Awahuri, received by train from Mr Jas. Stuckey, of Masterton, two Jersey pedigree heifers, one of which has a bull calf at foot. They are beautiful specimens of their kind, and ought to prove very profitable. The Maori Wi Pafca, who was fined yesterday for violent conduct on the platform of the railway station at Halcombe, said he intended to apply to the Government for a Maori policeman to be stationed at Halcombe. No man knows better than Wi Pata what is required in that respect. To-day'a New Zealand Times says:— Inspector Thompson recoiyevl yenterdav a telegram from J. G. Mackay, the con"stable in charge at Martin bo tough, mii forming him that a man named E. E Maine, a boundary-keeper on Tully's ruo on tho table lands, was found dead ion the hills yesterday morning. The Coroner has been informed of the circumBtrn o.— lnspector Thompson received a telegram yesterday from Charles Cooper, the constable in charge at Vahiatua, an nouncing that a man named William Jeffery, a villige settler, was killed yesterday mor.iing- while bushfelling near Pahiatua. Jeffory is a married man, With a family of four small children. Just opened, at the Red House, 1500 yards of choice patterns of Prints and Ginghams. This is without doubt the finest selection ever shown in this district

The Tower Bridge across the Thames is to be erected at a cost of nearly half a million sterling. D'Arcy Hyland, the well-known horse tamer, has been left a fortune of £28,000 by an aunt in Maitland, N.S.W. After to-day, Tuesday, a daily mail will be exchanged with Awaburi, leaving Feilding at 1 p.m;;'returning at 3.10 p.m. A post office is now established at Mr Marsh's house, Apiti, and mails will be exchanged with Feilding on Wednesdays. . On the day of the tea and dance at Birmingham, Friday October 4th, a brake will leave Mr Da,w's stables at three o'clock in the afternoon. The court of Pope Leo is said to comprise 1,160 persons, nearly 500 of whom bear the title of chamberlain. He has twenty private secretaries in his employ. Thunderstorms have never been so frequent in Paris as since the Eiffel Tower has been there, and it is becoming recog nised as the cause. What will they say when there is an unual spell of dry weather ? Mr Alfred Eade has arranged to take over the business of Messrs Eade and Venn, in about fourteen days, and during that time he will hold a great clearing sale in the shop he at present occupies above Cobbe and Darragh's stores. Mervyn Hume, a boy of five years, and a son of James Mervyn, of the Bank of New Zealand at Hamilton, Auckland, was choked by falling and a chair closing on his throat. The doctor resorted to tracheotomy to save his life, but failed. The public debt of New South Wales at tho end of 1886 was £44-100.149; Victoria, £34,627,382 ; Queensland,£2s.---840,952; South Australia £1,275,200; Tasmania, £4,499,470 ; * New Zealand, £36,951.871; total for all the colonies, £196,492.542. Messrs W. and G. Turnbull have order 6 from America for two shipments of flax, and they have in consequence booked all the fiaxat present in store. The barque Rebecca Cromwell will be the first vessel sent away which will bo in about three weeks time. An important auction sale will be held in the Assembly Rooms on the 10th instant by Messrs Freeman R. Jackson & Co. when a lot of valuable household furniture, piano and crockery, on account of W. T3~. Fletcher, Esq., will be disposed of. The usual stock sale ot the firm will be held on the same day, entries for which are now published. The Sydney Morning Herald states that Stansbury, the only oarsman that made Searle do his utmost to win, is gradually increa sing his pace, and generally developing into a magnificent oarsman. It is anticipated that he will issue a challenge to Searle when the latter returns to Sydney. Stansbury promises to be the man who will rob Searle of his championship honours. An Invercargill shopkeeper thus shows up the credit system : — Supposing a shopkeeper starts business with 100 monthly | customers, he gets the following results — viz., fifty-five pay up very satisfactorily ; twenty- five pay after being politely asked six or seven times ; ten pay after being dunned and threatened with all the pains and penalties of the law, for which they care very little ; ten never pay. Who pays for them ? The Payne Family of Musicians, who will appear in the Assembly Rooms on Thursday evening next, are so well and favourably known, and so thoroughly pleased the Feilding people on the occasion of their former visit some three months ago, that it is quite needless to dilate on the excellence of their style of performing. That there will be a ei-owded house is of course a foregone conclusion, and we can confidently promise an evening of genuine entertainment to all patrons. We learn that Mr Robert Beauchamp, of Makino, has leased the Pukingahu Bock of 7000 acres from Mr F. Loudon on very favorable terms. There is an abundance of excellent timber on the land which is situated only a short distance from the railway station at Ngaire. With Mr Beauchamp's experience as a sawrniller, and a good plant, he ought to do well in that locality, where timber is selling for better prices than anywhere else along the line. We wish him the euccess his enterprise deserves. The champion Swiss wrestler, S. Muller, is supposed to be the strongest man in the world. He can lift l2oolbs with hie two hands, and a 6001 b stone with his little finger. He stands 6ft 4iu in height and weighs 2101bs. The Pall Mall Gazette has an account of a man named Swanson, a native of Alsace-Lorraine, who can break a chain, tested to bear a strain of 25001b5, by pulling it asunder with his hands. He measures 19-J inches round his biceps and triceps, when the arm 18 bent. He recently, at the London Royal Aquarium, pulled against 18 men and overcame them. A fatal accident occurred at Gay's livery stable 6at Nelson on Saturday afternoon, by which a man named Robert Bright was killed. He was employed at the stables, and was driving in a horse which he had been exercising when, at the stable door, he placed his hand on it, when the horse kicked out from behind, striking him on the forehead and neck. He never spoke afterwards. He was removed to the Hospital, but died as he arriyed there. The horse was a quiet one. Bright was formerly a jockey, and he leaves a widow and five children. He was 40 years of age. This life is just what one makes it. If we worry through the world it stings us. If we grasp it by the hand and get hold of some of the s msHne that brightens it, it will be tbe beet friend one can have. Do not worry. Do not get discouraged. The world is full of good humoured sympathy. If you lose your way or fall down, a large portion of the good humoured family will 1© ready to pick you up and chow you the way ]f they know of y>ur need. Cultivate a habit of getting all the enjoyment that your circumstances will permit. Cultivate a cheery disposition that will dispel worry as the sun dispels tbe dew. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you, and you will find that life is worth living and that the world is not so bad a place after all. The inimitable para^raphisfc of the Reefton Guardian Bays: — "Yesterday was a black Moudtiy in the history of the Guardian. Our collector conveyed to the office the alarming news that two share holders and a policeman had withdrawn their patronage. On receipt of the intelligence the press was at once hung with black, the office towel doing duty, a* usual, for crape, the devil fainted, with his head iv the ink keg, and was resus ciated under the pump; tbe bull-dog howled, and was promptly kicked by the editor; but after an interval it was found that the earth still continued to revolve, and the recollection that during the month 37 new subscribers had been obtained, revivel the dropping spirits of the staff, and things went on as usual. The three subscribers who retired will. for the future, do the same as come of our distinguished capitalists do : borrow the paper and save sixpence a week. We Always admire thrift, especially when applied to ourselves."

Iv reference to the Wadesiown shooting affair, to-day's Times says :— We learn that there is no improvement in the condition of the man Smith, who was shot in the leg at Wadestown last Friday. The injury to his leg is a very serious one, and it will be some time Wore he recovers. The following letter was received by a firm of brewers, not so very long ago :-■ '• Deb Seus,— l begg two inform you tat the rask o'bier v cent me yes day a rifed m the evning. It was empty but the man that brort it was full, so Ikoriklud hee nos soinethin about it. Plese send a nother carsk at wonst, and also sum won to bale out the man. Yures etsetra." The Ballarat Courier had a most extraordinary experience recently. All editors of newspapers know the aspect of that individual who comes stem of visage and desperate of resolve, to the office with that morning's paper in bis hand ; and one such meandered in recently. c had as it proved, just cause of complaint, but happily it could be rectified. He began : " (See here, mister, this is no way to run i a paper. Where were your reporters ?" " What's the matter," demanded the editor. " Look here. I was on a regular old-fashioned tear- up the day before yesterday, got drunk and was locked up. Yesterday the beak fined me five hob, aud — and — " (here he grew stem and reproachful) ', there is not a word about it in your paper. They won't believe me when I go back to the station, that I had any time at all." The editor confessed that it was disheartening, and mollified him with a promise of more attention on hia next occasion.