Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 82, 4 January 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

The. Manchester Uoad Board was sitting as we went to press. The Feilding Borough Council will meet on Monday next. We have to acknowledge receipt of the Primitive Methodist tor January. ' Sankey's hymns have benn sold, it stated, to the extent of 43,000.000 copies. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day :— Warnings" for .southerly; gales and' much colder weather have been sent to all places. .The rainfall registered at Mr Fry's observatory, Makino. about six utiles from Fedding, for the year 1889, was 35.50 inches'. ■".',; The privileges of the Foxton races willbe sold by Messrs Thynne, Linton and Co., ftubtipneei-s, at Foxton, on Thursday next, at 2 p.m. While running at the Greymouth races on Wednesday,-' Patrician "fell and rolled over his jockey, E. Dodds, who succumbed fco* his injuries. The freezing of carcass mutton in Sydney for shipment abroad has : added 2s a . h ead to , the 41 ,000,000 . sheep which -roam bhe pastures of New South Wales. -:',-' We have a deal to be ungrateful forto Captain Edwin in the way of wieatlier" said-Mrs Malaprop yesterday, " but I'fervently wish I had bsen his Angelina fo ■•■ twenty minutes on New Year's D.ty. I. ivould have made him wish: he -was an mgel flying iii. the. skyjVfar above' tlie fleecy clouds where the air- was dry." And ibe old dame. smiled grimly as slio dropped her youngest child's sh<-pR instead* >f the toast into the pea soup. iuree-i.

• During the year 1889 the "hyo stock shipped iroai Wanganui to , the West Coast of the Middle Island was as fallows:— 372o cattle, 9293 sheep; 1487 pigs, .and 29 horses. It iisiiow known that Henry George will arrive in "Auckland about Ist March on his way to Australia. He will afte.'--waru return to New Zealand and give his lirst lecture in Dunedin, then visiting the othor centres.A replace advertisement from the Cash Exchange, "of Messrs Cobbo and Darragh, , appears to-day by which our readers are ! informed they .began a cheap cash sale to-day, which will be continued until the end of next month. " It may seem singular to you," says a New York fioriso, but I've been keeping a record for these 20 years past, and I have found that 9 murderers out of every ten are ardent admirers of flowers, and most of them prefer daisies and lillies." * The live stock exports for the mouth of December from Wa'uyanui by steamer were as follows: — To Westporfc, 128 cattle. 'Ho sheep, aud 27 pigs; to Greymouth, 79 cattle," 183 sheep, and 51 pigs, making a total of 217 cattle, 028 sheep, and 78 pigs. The Otago Daily Times learns on reliable authority that the late Mr G. H. Ashciofc's defalcations amount to fully .£6OOO. The railway account suffers'tothe oxtenf of considerably over £1000, the St. Paul's Church fund to about .£I3OO, and the .balance is made up of trust funds and dishonoured cheques., The local, butter exporters have secured spac9 for 2,000 kegs on the Arawa, leaving on January 19 ; and space for 1,000 kegs on the Aorangi leaving on January 23; This latter space (says the Taranaki Herald) was resold to them by southern shippers at a premium of 2s per keg, so that the local exporters have to pay heavily, for the space. The "Wellington correspondent of the I Christchurch Press wires : — Although | little has been heard lately about the ap- j pointment of Colonel Trimble' as Native Land Court Judge, and the ControllerGeneral's- refusal to pass his salary, the matter has not dropped out of sight. At head-quarters the case has been carefully considered — involving, as it does, a serious bungle — and I have reason to believe it i will come before the Cabinet early in j January. | Parnell v. The Times. — Mr George , Lewis has settled up .all the accounts for Mr Parnell. Sir Charles Russell, Q.C, M.P., received 1000 guineas with his brief, and 50 guineas a day for 110 days. Mr R. T. Reid, Q.C, M.P. and Mr Lo'ckwood,Q.C, M.P., each received 500 guineas .with their briefs, aud 25 guineas daily during the same period, and the junior counsel in proportion. The whole outlay, including counsel, witnesses, Irish agents, shorthand writers, and Mi-Lewis' account , is covered by the indemnity fund, which did not exceed .£40,000. The Times'expenditure will be largely in excess of this amount. * A gentleman living in single blessed--ness left the Caledonian social on New Year's night . rather abruptly, • and his reply fro a query from one of bis friends the next day, as to his reason for leaving the gay and festiye" scene, caused some amusement. It appears that a lady present wished to join the mazy throng :n the intricacies of the Lancers, but a difficulty intervened in the shape of -n ' olive branch, witu -ylnch she was encumbered. No doubt struck with the beuign , appearance of tho geutleman referred to, [ she appealed to him to keep and eye on tho child during her absence ; but visions ' of a missing mother and an encumbrance hardly in keeping with his surroundings, rose before £he suspicious man, and he lied, hardly taking time.t o apologise for his silddeu departure. — Manawatu Times. Mr S. J. Thompson, the popular pro prietor of the Red House, has opened up his Spring consignment of Goods,'inspection of which- he invites. -.J .