Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 41, 20 September 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

' ■■. — ■; . ..♦ — : . The following articles will be found on our fourth page to-day :—-" Theism the new Nervous Disease," " We reap what we sow," and " Fracas on a Ship." Mr J. G. Wilson, will deliver addresses at Paimerston; Foxton, and Otaki only. Sir George Grey will address a public meeting in iPalmerstoiTon Monday eyen- , ing. . A native named Kbhatu .has been killed by falling over a precipice at Slippery Creek, Tairua, Auckland. ' An old identity ', J. W. Fedard, who arrived in Auckland before a house was built there, has died at Auckland. J. 0. H. Williams, an Adelaide policeman, has fallen heir to a fortune of £85,000 left by his father, a merchant in Brazil. . The Westport-Hokitika football match did not come off "Because there was absolutely no coal." One reason is as good as another. The J. L. Toole Dramatic Company will open in Dunedin on October 6th. They will probably play in Feilding, but 1 the date is undecided. - Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Warnings for heavy gales have been sent to. all places. We regret, to learn that. Mr Whittaker, of the Harbor Board Block, has 'sustained a severe loss by the sudden death of his daughter on Thursday last. , Owing to unforseen circumstances the projected tour of the Marlborough representative team of footballers has been ' abandoned. The lambing at the Feilding Block, Apiti, has been 'very good this. season, some of the flockowners having an increase of 116 and 122 per cent. A social gathering in connection with the Church of England will be held in the Assembly Booms -on Thursdsy next. For other details see advertisement. M£ Lister, of Dunedin, proprietor of the Workman, and defendant in the libel prosecution instituted by Mr H, D. Bell, has been Committed for trial. A meeting of Mr Macarthur's Election Committee was held last Thursday night and much useful work done. Mr Sherwill was elected permanent Chairman and Secretary. " . Four railway carriages for the line between Wellington and Napier have been constructed at the Newmarket, Auckland, workshops, and are to be sent, to Wellington by the Hinemca. A lad named Charles Fry, 16 years old, was run over and killed by a loaded dray at Fairfax, Dunedin. On removing the bridle to feed the horse the animal started off, knocking the lad down, and the wheel of the dray passed over his breast. The Westport News informs us a boomerang exhibition is to be giyen on the Beefton Bacecourse, by an expert. It is said — maliciously, bo doubt— that the Beefton ics are already experts at 4 ' throwing the hatchet." '^ Messrs J. C. Morey and Co.'s first shipment of Spring Woods will be opened up on Saturday the 27th instant. Those m want of really Cheap Drapery, Clothing, and Millinery, would do well to look for the new advertisement, on Tuesday next. Some of our readers will remember hearing of Kimball Bent, the deserter from the 57th regiment, who went over to the side of the Natives in the war of 1864-5. If we remember aright, a price was set on his head. He is now living at Oroua Bridge with the Natiyes.— Manawatu Standard. , The " weeding out " process has commenced in Hawke's Bay and we learn from the Telegraph that owing to the falling off of traffic and the reduced train seryice, the railway staff is being reduced. We understand six of the employes 1 received notice last night, that their ser- • vices will not be required after a certain date. A statement having been made to the effect that Mr .Millar, secretary of the Maritime Council was drawing a salary of £12 per week, it was stated at a meeting at Dunedin last week, that all he has . received as secretary of the Council for the past three months was £10, and that at present he refuses to accept any salary at all. It goes without saying that our Sales have always been attractive because of their genuine character, because of the Extensive Stock over which the bargums range, and because of the unimstakeable and heavy reductions that have, been made at .this Sale of Surplus Stock at 'fe Aro. House, Wellington. ,

Mr Ormond has declined to stand for re-election for the Napier seat. The Kiwitea Boad Board was sitting as we went to press. The Key." J. A. Taylor wtll preach in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow air 11 a.m. ■■■'.■■ ' Ottr information ajient the Wednesday closing movement to tne effect that only one storekeeper objected was not correct there were actually two objectors. We understand there is little likhhood'of a compromise being effected. The Manawatu " reps" were successful in the. football match at Palmerston yes? terday against the Wairarapa team, gaining a goal (kicked by Joe Bobirison fronv a mark) to nil. The game throughout was very evenly contested, and we are sorry to state that our report of the match did not come to hand in time for publication. ■ v This is the way the Manawatu Times sensibly puts its :— Mr Carson .has announced himself as a candidate for Wanganui seat. It would be better for the community if both Mr- Carson and Mr Ballance confined themselves to editorial work and left political contests to those not connected with the public journals. The crews of the steamers Bukmba and Elamang, by deserting their vessels at Brisbane forfeited their month's wages amounting to £700. This would keep 9even hundred families for one- week in any part of the colonies, and double that number in England, Yet there are people who look on these strikes' as "a boon to the working man." A wonderful flower has been discovered in the Isthmus of Tefauantepec- Its chief peculiarity is the habit of changing its colours during the day v In the morning it is white ; when the sun is at its zenith it is red, and at night it is blue. The red, white, and blue flower grows on a tree about the size of a guaya tree, and only at noon does it give out any perfume. In a manslaughter case at Bristol, in which a cyclist was happily acquitted after a fatal collision with a pedestrian, the judge laid it down that a person walking in the road has a perfect right to go upon which side of the road he pleases. But when each of two . pedestrians suddenly Jumps 1 a different way, as happened in the case in.. question, which, side is a cyclist to take ? . The card of-Dr Percy. F. Money appears over leader to-day. Dr 'Money has been connected with several public institutions, among others' with the London Fe.yer Hospital, the Sussex Lying-in Institution, the Sussex County Hospital, and the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum in Dunedin, of which he was in sole charge -for some time. Dr Money is for the present staying with his family, at the; Denbigh Hotel, where he may be consulted. The Catholic Times says :-— Who" wouldn't be :a.;temporary. judge urNew Zealand ? To be stonewalled and abused and made the subject of insinuations too grievous to be ; uttered before •' strong- ; ers" — while one is actually sitting on the Bench of justice — is a new sensation in a British colony. What is a judge ? Well, a judge once was a man who occupied a somewhat distinguished position. Now he is a man whose appointment by a Government is the signal for the Opposition to behave like a famished menagerie. Yesterday's Chronicle says: — A meeting of the Executive: Committee of the Education Board was held yesterday. Present — Messrs Carson (Chairman), Baker, and Notman. It was decided to invite applications for the headmastership at Waverly, vice Mr Hill promoted. An application was received from Mr Wilks, asking for an interchange with Waverly school owing to failing health. Application declined. The Palmerston North Committee were authorised to rent a room for extra, school purposes, until the new building is completed, Cobbe &Darbagh have, a good range of Samples of Colonial Tweeds from which they are taking orders for Suits to measure, at from 67/6. They guarantee the fit and finish of all Garments which they undertake. No deposit required when order. •