Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 144, 29 May 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

■» — The Feilding Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. There Are not ten men in New Zealand who have read Busden's book. It is rumoured that Mr Tzard will be a candidate for the Foxton electorate. Mr Carthew has been appointed agent for The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal. Mr A."D. Thompson, formerly clerk to the Court in Feilding, and now of Wellington, has passed his examination as a barrister. * The police in Dunedin are forming a mutual protection society, and the telegraphists are also talking of amalgamating for the same purpose. Isaac Smith was the first Englishman to land in New Zealand. He was with Captain Cook. Several of his namesakes have landed since. ,' - We learn from the Manawatu Standard that Mr John Stevens has cabled from India that he will contest the Palmerstqxi seat against all-comers.at the next general elee?ion. The "brief but pathetic account recently given by a school boy on an examination paper, of the end of Thomas a Becket is : " They put him in a hole under the stairs and he never smiled again." Mr D. H. Macarthur. is annonnced by advertisement in another column to address the electors at Ashurst on June 2, Bunnythorpe on June 3, Mangaone on June 4, and Birmingham on June 5. Next Wednesday a -Masteribn football team will visit Feilding, and we would suggest that to do honor to them the •Mayor invite the business people to observe a half-holiday on that ooeasion. A man named Larsen was found dead on the road near Norsewood on Tuesday, with his leg broken. He had apparently been thrown from his horse in the night. Deceased leaves a wife and family resident at Norsewood, — Manawatu Times. The Economist (London) says that" theoretically it would prefer to see th« Bank of New Zealand put in liquidation and reoonstructad, but such a course would involve additional hardships and losses. It is desirable, therefore, to transfer the head- quarters to London, and replace the local managers by new men, bound by hard and fast rules. In his address to his constituents at coromandel, Auckland, Mr Cadman is reported to have eaid : — '• There were two* sets in the Opposition.; one the Liberals, and the other, about twelve Freetraders who seceded from the Government. These latter harassed the Government most." And yet " these latter" are the only consistent men in the House. Mr Toole, England's most famous comedian, has broken off negotiotions in connection with his proposed visit to New Zealand. He reluctantly confessed his reasons were that he was home sick ; that he didn't want to come ;. that he had La Grippe ; that he might be cannibalated ; that he was too young to die ; that they would make an M.H.B. of him ; and that the money wasn't big enough. Our readers are reminded that the popular Vivian Company will appear in the Assembly Booms to-morrow, Saturday, and Monday with an entire change of programme on each evening. This talented Company has been drawing crowded houses all over the colony and, as the people in this district always turn out well for anything good, we have no doubt the company will be welcomed with a full house each night. Cobbe and Darragh have, received their ■new samples of Kaiapoi Tweeds, and are now prepared to take orders for Suits to Measure at very moderate, prices. The fit and wear of their clothing have given [ the greatest satisfaction to their customers, and as befpre they are prepared to guarantee the fit and finish of all garments which they undertake. ' [ ■ .

Mr James Carroll, M.H.R., has joined the Opposition. The rumour of s " strike " among the telegraphists ib & canard pure and simple. There was a good attendance at Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale to-day and the pi-iceß were satisfactory. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day: — Warnings for gales and rain hold good at at all places, A digger has written to the Pall Mall Gazette that the richest part of Mount Morgan mine is exhausted. Strenuous efforts are being made to introduce a system of cremation instead of earth burial in San Francisco. Mr George Fisher, M.H.E. has determined not to be a candidate for any other constituency than Wellington. „ The number of persons who arrived in this colony during the month of April, 1890, was 123.->, and the departures 2115. A hailstorm at Baltimore on April 27th demolished several - building*, and wrought a loss of nearly 50,000 dollars. In Lyttelton the people are so affected with kleptomania that the telegraph cl'-rks. have to tie the peas .to the desk with string — and eren then they go ! At the Chnstchuroh Supreme Court, James Henry Roberts, said to be a brother to Jonathan, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for false pretences. . . A large number of applications have been received by the Wellington Land Board for surveyed sections in the Apiti, Hunterville, Mangaone, Makuri, Onga and Puketoi districts. A son of Mr G. O. Hill, Town Clerk, was knocked over by a horse yesterday and received such injuries that he will be confined to his bed for a few days. We are glad to know nothing serious is anticipated. Mr Macarthur wishes us to state that owing to the alterations at the Theatre Royal, he will leave his addresses in Palmerston till the last, and the date will be duly announced. We (Manawatu Standard) understand that Sir Walter Buller has been promised substantial support should he contest the Palmerston seat. It is more than likely that he will accede to the wishes of his his friends and announce himself a candidate. A natiye named Eawhira, who was discovered picking the look of a store in Gisborne and was arrested and sentenced to six months imprisonment on Tuesday afternoon, jumped the gaol fence and has not yet been^* caught. [He has since been captured.] The Matauia Ensign is responsible for the following :- "A refined joung lady, inflamed with philanthropy, went .as a nurse in the Dunedin Hospital,' -and the first job they gave her to do was to was<h the body of a dead Oninaman" The horse-owners of Wanganui are protesting against the recently raised prices for horse shoeing, and at a largely attended meeting last night the horse owners decided to send a deputation to the Farriers' Association on Wednesday next. - Mr Roake, huntsman of the Feilding hounds, to-day received invitations from Turakina and Carnarvon for' the hounds to meet at these places respectively. The latter place will be new to the hounds, and arrangements have been made with the farmers fox a capital country to run over. The shifts at the railway station, Christ church, have been so arranged that the porters will work from eigh% to eight and a -half hours a day. Previously they had to work from ten to twelve Hours a day. This is one good result of the representations made by the recent amalgamation of the railway servants. The Horse Fair to be held by Mr Trimble, auctioneer, at Mrs Hastie's Feilding Hotel stables on Saturday next, promises to be a success. Upwards of forty lots have been entered, and among them are some good, useful, animals. The contributions of produce, &c, towards the Evans relief fund will be sold the same time and place. ; A well-informed private correspondent writing from San Francisco says :— The wool tanfi will probably work itself out through the break down of woolen manufactures owing to over protection. Noth ing oan be. accomplished in the direotion of free wool this year,, although? the proposal will be submitted to Congress. — Post. The European Mail of the 18th April has the following marriage announce* men t :-—" April 16th, at St. Simon's Church, Caiogan square, London. Fred e- " rick Fitchett. L.L D., and M.HR. for Dunedin Central, N,Z, to Lma Valeric Blain, eldest daughter of John Blain, of Moore street, Cadogan Bquare, Lou* ion." * The New Zealand Times has been purchased by 'Japtain Baldwin. This gentleman was the managing director of the Guardian Newspaper Company started in Dunedin some years ago. He has bought a handsome homestead and estate at the Hut*, where a portion of his family have lately come to reside.— Exchange, A table has been prepared by the Secretary to the Post Office showing the receipts and payments for the mail services during 1889. The cost of the San Francisco service was £27,394 und the receipts £30,307, the net profit being £2913. For the Direct service the expenditure was £20,480, and the receipts £ Id, 189, the net cost to the colony being £5291. A duffer diggings. — Mr H. W. Haybityle, of Palmerston North, has received a letter from Joshua Steele, who left this district some time ago to try his fortune on the West Australian goldfields. The writer gives a very discouraging account of affairs in that locality, and says it is a miserable country compared to New Zealand. He mentions a prospecting speculation in which he had just dropped £'200, lost two pack-horses by drowning, and a companion by fever. — Manawatu Times. The complete agricultural returns are published in the Gazette. The total number of holdings is 38,178, an increase of 2431 over last yea*-. The area of wheat has decreased by 26,292 acr.s, the total being 335,861 acres, producing 8,448,506 bushels. The area of oats increased in the year by 58,846 acres, from 367,225 acres to 420,071 acres, the yield being 13,673,554 bushels. Barley shows a small decrease ; the acreage was 42,402, and the yield 1,342,823 bushels. There were 352.903 acres in turnip or rape, and 45,889 acres in hay yielding 65,476 tons, being 5820 tons less than last year. Twenty five acres of tobacco yielded 11,3701bs of dried leaf. The land" in gardens comprises this year 8568 acres in orchard 15,771 acres, and in plantation of forest trees 28,928 acres. There are 197 ensilage stacks in the colony. Richards and Co., having established a name for cheapness, are now selling Drapery, Clothing, Linoliums, Tapestry, Boots and. Shoes, Groceries, Crockery, Ironmongery,' etc., from 10 to 30 per cent less than can be bought elsewhere. — Richards and Co. the cheapest Bonse is Feiiaing— Advt. ' .. ]