The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1890. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 105, 27 February 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1890. Local and General News

A quantity of interesting reading matter will be found on our fourth page. Mr W. H. Chithara's racehorse Peter broke both his legs in the Wairarapa Cup race, and had to be destroyed, The Cabinet have decided to recommend to the Governor that the Electoral Boundary Commission should be set up immediately. Last week 10,363 sheep were killed at Belfast, Christchurch, freezing works. This is the largest number ever killed in one week at the factory. Mr W. A. Collins has been appointed collector for Mr Haliday, lately iii business in Feilding as a saddler, to whom all outstanding accounts are requested to be paid. "We have received from Mrs Towler a parcel of fruit, comprising some magnificent egg plums, and also some, desert ap-. pies of the Beauty of Kent and Shepherd's Farm varieties. "We remind onr readers that the Autumn Show the Feilding Horticultural Society will be held in the Assembly Booms on Wednesday, . sth March. An advertisement from the secretary, Mr E. Goodbehere, appears elsewhere. The Waikato Farmers' Club are considering an offer from Nelson Bros, to provide a freezing hulk if a guarantee is given that 12,000 sheep per annum will be supplied from the Waikato, the Tauranga county also guaranteeing 12,000. \ We direct attention to an. advertisement in another column of to-day's issue from Mr John Mackenzie, of the Empire Hotel Stables. Mr Mackenzie now undertakes carting and carrying work, and will, no doubt, receive a fair share of public patronage. Mr Cornish has forwarded us some potatoes of the Derwent, peach blossom, and other varieties. The potatoes are splendid specimens — 10 of them weighing 161 bs — and afford good testimony as to the quality of the soil of this district for growing potatoes. . Dr Alexander having made representations to the Government as to the condition of the Bunedin leper, has received a telegram intimating that Dr McGregor has been instructed to arrange for the immediate isolation of the man and providing attendance. At the annual general meeting of the Turakina Jockey Club, held last Saturday evening, Mr J. E. Henry, the handicapper, was voted an honorarium of .£lO. All the members present spoke in terms of high praise of Mr Henry's ability and conscientiousness as a handicapper. Mr Edmund Goodbehere, Beturning Officer for the Kiwitea Licenuing District, publishes in another column the official result of the election, which was held at Cheltenham on Monday last. As we previously stated, Messrs Bruce, Mills Kidd, Law and CJapham were elected. At Napier on Sunday an unmarried woman named Macauley was found in a garden with a newly-born infant child, which was dead. At the inquest it was evident- that the girl did not expect the birth for some time, and a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. A rumour is in circulation in Wellington that Te Kooti had arranged his frustrated trip to Poverty Bay, not to cause trouble, but on behalf of a powerful financial institution, to obtain signatures to various deeds affecting Native lands in which it is interested, the natives concerned having declared that they would not sign without Te Kooti's consent. George Park, the Hokitika canoeist, and his brother, W. Park, of Palmerston ■N.| arrived at Pioton on Monday night in their canoes. They left Mana Island at 2.30 a.m. Sunday ; crossed Cook Straits, and stayed the night in Endeavor Inlet, leaving for Pioton in the morning, where they arrived at 7 a.m. The trip across the Straits was very rough. This is the first time such a trip has been attempted. Dr Parker, of the City Temple, London, once related that when in America, he asked a farmer's wife, if there were any Episcopalians in the district in which she resided. The old dame, knowing little of the distinctions of the various sects, and apparently not grasping the doctor's, meaning, she replied " No sir," but reflecting* for a moment that perhaps some kind of game was alluded to she said, ." Stop sir, I believe my husband shot two last week." The result of the election for the Education Board vacancy caused by Mr Yorke'e resignation was reported to the Board yesterday, Mr G. Hurley being returned with 23 votes. The other figures were Major 18, Slipper 16, and Brett 7. For the three vacancies caused by the retirement of Messrs Bridge, Noiman, and Beckett, they have been re-nominated, together with Messrs W. Williams (Stratford), T. Hutohison (Hawera), and A.-G. Brett (Normandy). A man named James Maxwell has been found in a weak, almost dying, condition, near Dargaville, but is now recovering. He says he left Dargaville on 25th January to walk through the valley, bat on his way was suddenly attacked with weakness and lay down at the outskirts of the bush, when he rapidly became worse. He remained there for 24 days without food, and though he heard people passing on the railway track near by he was too weak to crawl out. Eventually he crawled again into the open and was discovered as stated. ' '

The football season will be opened next Saturday on the Oval, by a match between scratch teams, picked on the ground by the captain and deputy captain. Mr and Mrs Fetch returned to Feilding to-day from their trip to the Old Country. We understand that they had fine weather and a most enjoyable passage out in the s.s. Ruapehu. One of the most remarkable occur* rences on record is the death of John Matthews, a fishmonger, 18 Baxter street, Mile Eud, who dropped dead while iv the act of committing suicide by cutting his throat with a fish knife. "VVe^ publish to-day a notice, that on Monday next Mr Trimble will sell the furniture and effects of MrEJ. Rowley at the residence of the latter 'in Fergusson street, together with all the belongings. of tlie barber's and tobacconist's shop, which have hitherto been occupied by Mr Rowley, who is leaving the district. A number of other lines including drapery, clothing, books, jewellry and sundries will also be offered " v v '■' , We direct attention to an advertisement in to-day's issue- from Messrs Prior aud Cooke, solicitors. This well-known firm announce that they are prepared to lend money in any sums on mortgage, free from procuration fees and commission charges; The firm also have town sections and farms for sale and to let. Messrs Prior and Cooke have been appointed Feilding agents for the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company^ V ; A cricket match was played on the Oroua County Club's ground yesterday between the Feilding and Mangaone Cricket Clubs, the former suffering defeat on the first innings. Mangaone compiled 83 runs, Gr. Millen contributing 23, and Feilding responded with 41 in the first and 46 in the second innings. Time did not permit for the Mangaone men to go in again to make the required four runs to win, so the match was therefore decided on the, first innings. : - , r To-morrow nigfifc the famous American Colored Minstrels will make their first appearance in the Feilding Assembly Booms. Great numbers are looking forward to their advent with expectations of some real genuine amusement, in which there is every reason to believe they will not be disapointed. •>-. The company's grandmilitary band, which we understand will* parade the town to-morrow and Saturday . afternoons, will be sure to prove a greatattraction and- a " draw " as it has done in other .places, .and crowded.. houses on each night onay be looked upon as a certainty. A peculiar accident happened at the Gorge on Friday afternoon (says the Examiner). A blacksmith named Sullivan, who is employed on the railway works, was pulling himself across in the cage nearest the Ashurdt end. Two or three of the men noticed it seemed heavy work for him, an,d one of them went to .the drum to give Sullivan assistance. Sullivan was then resting and did not notice the man go to give him help. Simultaneously with the man starting the drum Sullivan reached out to start his pulling afreati, ,with, the result that the impetus was too' great for him and he was thrown off the cage which was theu - 50ft above the water line. Sullivan fell that distance into the river beneath on his back, and was under water a few seconds. . On reappearing he swam towards the bank and was safely rescued, little the worse for his mishap. A cast steel gun, weighing 235 tone, has just been shipped by Messrs Krupp from Hamburg, for Cronstadt. The uahbre of the gun is 13J inches, and the barrel is 40 feet in length, its greatest diameter being 6J feet. The range of the gun is over eleven miles, and it will fire two shots per minute, each shot costing botwoen Jt2oO and £r>oo. . At , the trials of the gun held at Meppin, in the presence of Kussiau officers, the projection, 4 feet long, and weighing 1800lbs, and pi-opelled by a charge of 700lbs of powder, penetrated 19£ inches, and went 1,312 yards beyond the target. . The gun which is the largest iv existence, and \he heaviest yet exported. by Messrs Krupp, had to be carried from Essen to Hamburg on a car specially constructed for the pur pose. —lndustries. A London correspondent writes : — " Mr "■flndstone, as. well as Lord, Salisbury, writ's hia eighty-first new year with evoiv prospect of many m<re, new years to follow. It is indeed, a long rime since he has been in better health than he now enjoys; and, on his eightieth birthday, which he celebrated last Sunday (29th Uecember) many a man of fifty might have envied his vigour and vitality; His voice seems to have suffered no falling off in strength while he wiolda the woodman's axe as deftly as ever. Nor is there any sign of diminution m his intellectual .'activity.' Last week he wrote a letter on the -distillation of spirits from potatoes, which has excited quite a controversy in the press, and a day or two ago he penned a short but Highly interesting epistle on Italian politics." Although the following appears in Truth 'there are no doubt some who will only accept it with the proverbial grain of salt. The writer sayß:— "As to the value of the Edinburgh M:A. degree,: l am positively assured by one who ought to know what he was talking about, that, to his own knowledge, a student, went home rejoicing, after four sessions of dissipation, happy in the possession of the coveted title, for which he had not passed a single examination. His tutor — an obliging Highlander, clever, unscrupulous, but needy, like Romeo's apothecary — had acted as his substitute at the examinations, produoed the necessary certificates of attendance, answered the papers for his promising pupil,, and passed him through — a fully-fledged M.A. It is hard to credit this, but my informant persists in its truth, and says, " Although it astonishes yon, it won't astonish your readers up North." I sincrely, trust, however, that it will. The Auckland Herald says:— The Southern member of the Kaihu Railway, Commission, Mr Macarthur, ( M.H.R., does not seeni to be greatly impressed after his trip to the North with the extension of the Auckland North Trunk Railway. He was pleased and surprised with the fine harbors on the East and We6t Coasts — Whangarei, Russell, Hokianga, Kaipara — and fails to see how any railway can ever compete, either as regards passengers, goods, or stock, with the water carriage" provided by Nature. His opinion is that instead of the immense sums which have been sunk, and will yet be sunk in railway construction northwards through the centre of the country, that goods should have been carried across the island, connecting the various settlements with harbors on tho East and West Coasts. Every settler would thus have been been benefitted, instead of the few settlers along the railway line ; the produce or stores would only I require to be handled once, to the great advantage of the .producer and purchaser. Mr Maoarthur.was considerably impressed with the coal deposits in the Hikurangr district, arid saw two lads at the roadside stripping a thin layer of earth from a coal seam, and. filling their cart with the coal, which seemed a very excellent product. He is Imid in his praise of Mr Dobbie's orangeries, and vineries, at /Whangarei, and says- that'' the* North- w&hts'is two or three thousand Dobbieg.

Up to the time of going to press, the Palmerston agent of the Press Association has, for some unaccountable reason, omitted to send us particulars of the races at that townjo-day. ■* The new blacksmith's shop in connection with and adjoining Mr A. L. Parr's coach factory, in Kimbolton road, is now completed. It is a commodious structure, and adapted in every way for its purpose. This new branch of Mr Park's business will be opened in a few days, of whioh particulars will be advertised.- The ser-: vices of a first class son -j of Vulcan have been secured, which is a sufficient guarantee that Mr Parr will get a fair share of patronage. Mr J. D. :: Valentine, the contractor for the building, has made an excellent iob of- the work. It is reported that a sensational action for criminal libel is likely to- occupy the. Napier Supreme Conrt soon. Charges of the grossest immorality were made against .a young lady assistant in a country school, and after an inquiry before the Committee and the Inspector she, as well as the headmaster, resigned. She stoutly ayerred her innonence, and at the suggestion of ' friends consented to an examination by a Napier medical man. The result was' a certificate from the doctor showing that the charges made could not be true, and her friends are considering the propriety of endeavoring to punish the authors of the slander. -' The Kiwitea Road Board have metalled a portion of the road" iff the Kiwitea known as Benson's - liner. The settlers were led to believe that the Board would have metalled the worst portions of the road as requested, but a few chains only opposite Mr Braclin's have been done, leaving the worst parts of the road unmetailed. The settlers who have to use this road — and there is Considerable traffic on it — do not like to complain as they are thankful for "small mercies," but they think that due deference should be paid to their requests. The road will be just as impassable in the;- winterjF a§ ever, whereas if the metal was put as required the road would be fit for traffic in" the winter, and a great boon conferred upon the settlers. , : '