Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 92, 28 January 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

The banks and post and telegraph offices will be closed here to-morrow. The Rev. Mr McAra, who was injured at Gisborne by a buggy accident, has since died. We will publish the programme of the Easter meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club in our next issue. Youngsters are warned to look out, and oldsters to keep their weather eyes lifted. Wirth's Circus is coining overland from New Plymouth to Napier. It is said that Napier is about to be made a free port. If that is done it will be an awful blow to Wellington because of the consequent diversion of trade. Professor Kudarz gave his second performance in the Assembly Rooms on Saturday night. There was a good attendance, and the neatness and skill displayed by the Professor were frequently and deservedly applauded. The Woodyille people will have a good time to-morrow. The Jubilee Committee intend, among other things, to roast a bullock in the evening, besides having a torchlight procession, fireworks, and a Maori haka, Waata Tohu having promised to get up the latter. A petition is in course of signature amongst the journeyman blacksmiths of Palmerston for presentation to the master blacksmiths, asking that the workshops may be closed on Saturday after noons at one o'clock. The petition, is be» ing largely signed. — Manawatu times. George Park, the Hokitika canoeist, left Eketahuna on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in his Rob Roy canoe, arid arrived at Palmerston at 4 p.m. He experienced no difficulty in negotiating the Gorge rapids, and describes the trip as very pleasant and through grand scenery. There is an increasing demand in England for human skin leather, and it is becoming quite common for poor people to make ante mortem sales of their hides to certain well known tanners. The ski is of beer drinkers are said to be in highe t demand as being softer and more pliable than those of spirit drinkers. Mr Trimble will hold his usual fortnightly auction sale at Mrs Hastie's Sample Rooms on Thursday next at 2 p.m., when a quantity of valuable furniture, bedding, clothing, drapery,' groceries, produce and sundries will be siibinitted. Further entries may be made with the auctioneer's agent, Mr Reading. Mr Shannon, frequently spoken of as the Government Customs' expert, some times referred to in a less complimentary way, is at present m 3reymouth ; and there is no doubt his old friends — and he has shoals of them — will be glad to welcome him to the coast once more, though his stay amongst us must necessarily be rather short. — Grey River Argus. The following paragraph from the Pahiatua Star goes to prove the gross bad management of the Lands Department : — Crown lands in this district are to be offered for sale on the 31st of the present month, but so far as we are aware not a single plan has been circulated yet. Perhaps it is intended to issue them after the sale is over. On the special conveyance with the Governors arriving at the Gorge toll last Thursday, the driver, Mr Jones, asked "Jimmy" what the "damage" was, a.dding that the Governor was inside. Jimmy was not to be had, so looking inside called out, •* are you the Goyernor ?" " Yes," said Lord Onslow. «• All right," says Jimmy, " Pass on, nothing for this lot." — Woodville Examiner. There are now lying at the Feilding Post Office copies of Professor Long's report on dairying for free distribution. Professor Long is the greatest authority on dairying in England, and no one interested in this industry should be without this interesting and valuable publication. For this courtesy on the part of the Government we are indebted to the exertions of Mr James G. Wilson, M.H.R., of Bulls. Mr R. Hare's lecture, in the Assembly Rooms last Sunday afternoon, on " Our Earth, its past, present and future" was well attended. A number of people came from Palmerston, including a choir, who sang some hymns with piano accompaniment. The discussion was listened to with marked attention, and was illustrated by large maps and diagrams. Mr Hare announced his intention of giving a series of lectures in Feilding, and said that the subject for next Sunday afternoon would be duly notified by advertisement. When the case of Police v. Elizabeth Traynor terminated in the Court House shortly before 12 o'clock last night, the Court was crowded, and the verdict of tho Bench was received with storms of applause. Dr Monckton loudly called for order, and instructed the police officers to immediately arrest any person found guilty of such contempt of the court. He said a court of law was hot a place for popular applause and the administration of the law must not bo biased by such proceedings. This rebuke had the desired effect, and the prof oundest silence afterwards reßtgned supreme.