Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 42, 23 September 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

■ ♦ The Railway Servants Society is to be re-organised. The Cape of Good Hope Bank has bus - 5 pended payment. There are 2500 special constables on duty to-day in Sydney. Many Victorian miners have cleared out for the gold rush at Peak Hill, New 5 South Wales. Mr M. J. Gannon, of Gisborne, has announced his candidate for Napier in the Liberal interest. The steamer Eangitira will leave England on Friday next with 6000 tons of coal for New Zealand, Auetralion wines at the Edinburgh Exhibition were awarded a diploma of j honor and a gold medal. "We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of Cook's Australasian Travellers Gazette aud Tourist Advertiser. A meeting of the Committee of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held tonight at Mr Light's Denbigh Hotel. The Post says that- Mr J. D. Ormond 1 retires from political life with unsullied r honor, and leaves a good record behind him. r Charles Thorburn, who has been mis--3 sing since the sth instant, was admitted to the Wanganui Hospital on Saturday > last. 1 We have to thank Mr J. H. Stevens, the Secretary, for press tickets to the * Presbyterian entertainment to-night in the Church. • Tom Mann says Australia is not the workingman's paradise. The men haye to work between meals thero, which is a ■ flagrant injustice to the sons of toil. I In future all claims for enrolment are to be sent direct to the Eegistrar of Electors for the district in which such enrol- , nient is required, instead of to the nearest post office. The Supreme Court sittings in Wanganui commenced to day. We learn from the Herald that Mr Stephen Carrick has decided to proceed with the case against " Mr Ashforth. The marriage of Mr W. A. Collins to Miss Harriet, the only daughter of Mr Thomas Smith, of Cainden Btreet, Feilding, took place on Sunday, at the residence of the bride's father, the Rev. W. Harris officiating. We wish the newly married couple every happiness. The members of the Feilding Band last night decided to join the Brass Bands Association of New Zealand, now being formed at Christchurch. It was also agreed to play out on Sunday afternoon next. The Wairarapa footballers suffered defeat at the hands of Hawkes Bay on Saturday last by five tries to nil. During their tour the Wairarapa team have not scored a single victory, their colors hay- - ing been lowered by Taranaki, Wanganui, Manawatu and Hawkes Bay. They play Wellington to-day. The new sale yards at Hunterville just erected by Mr Walter Watts, of Feilding, to whom the work was entrusted by Messrs Stevens and Gorton, the wellknown auctioneers, are the best and most substantial of the kind on the coast, and . probably in the colony. Everything has been done in a workmanlike manner, and the first sale will be held there on the 9th proximo. To-day we publish the advertisement of the appearance of the Marton Amateur Operatic Society in the Feilding Assembly » Rooms on Friday, the third of next month. On this .occasion they will produce Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera, " The Pirates of Penzance, or the Slave of Duty," with a full company, chorus and • orchestra. A box plan may be seen at Mr Carthew's, stationer, where reserved , seat? may be secured. A sta r t i g and novel feature in the pre.ieni strike 13 the proposal on the part of a number of women in Melbourne to step iD and assume the role of non-union-its. They dread the hardships to which ■ hey will be subjected if the vessels comt ing nto port are not allowed to unload their cargoes. They say the men have their beers, and they want ibeirtea. A * deputation from the Women Suffrage ■ Association h:ss started upon a house- o» house canvass in CarJton, and obtained the names of women willing to engage in > unloading the portion of cargoes designed for household consumption, such &b groceries, fruit, etc, They claim to have the names of 200 women ready to go aboard aud work, confining their operations to , perishable goods, and ju*t landing them upon the wharves. Owners will he asked to allow them to stevedore ibeir vessels f and if they will serve they say ihat they will at once go to work.

There are already 2200 names entered on the Palmerston electoral roll. We are glad to learn that the health of Mr Beattie shows signs of improvement, C.ip'atn Edwin te'-'grspWd to-day : — Telegrams to expoot frost hare be«n dcut io a!! placf-s. We are informed that Mr Walton, of Palmerston, intends to contest the Bangitikei seat on the " Labor Ticket." The Equinoctial gales commenced on Sunday last. A number of waterspouts were seen in Cook's Strait on that day. Ealing, England, has a telescope that shows oO.OOO.OiK) stars. Ten tons of pi«iron were used in its manufacture. The date of the elections has not been absolutely fixed, but Wednesday, the 19th of November, is likely to be the eventful day. By the mail train today Mr J. 0. Thompson, and his bride, arrived in Foilding. We cordially welcome the happy couple, and wish them every happiness that this world can give. There is advertised for sale to? day a galvanised iron roof, containing over 200 sheets measuring in all 60 by 50 feet. The purchaser to remove it within ten daf s. For other particulars apply to Mr W. W. Corpe, Makino. The dead body of Mr King, one of the 'late firm of Dunmngham and King, hotelkeepers, Auckland, has been found in the river at Whangarei. He is supposed to have committed suicide. The Mining Exhibition oloses on October 11th, the Directors of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, where the Exhibition was . held, being unable to let the building till the end of the year. On Friday last, at Longburn, a young man named Wingate was sent out to fetch some cattle in. He took a Bmall pistol with him. On Saturday he was sent to the Wanganni hospital to have the bullet extracted from his leg. Mr John Stevens, who formerly represented Bangitikei, has decided to contest the Palmerston seat at the coming elec« tions. Mr Steyens, who has been in India for some time, returned to New Zealand by the Monowai, which arrived here last Sunday. — N.Z. Times. A meeting of Mr Arkwright's supporters was held yesterday . afternoon in Messrs Stevens and Gorton's auction rooms. There was a moderate attend ance, and the usual preliminary steps were taken to further Mr Arkwnght's candidature during tho coming contest. The Manawatu representative football team play the Wanganui reps at Wanganui on Saturday. Our boys leave by the morning (7.10) train. Kicking ..practices - will be held every evening in Mr Macarthur's paddock. Players are requested to keep themselves in actiye training, as a. ; hard struggle is anticipated. We understand the team will be the same as picked to play Wairarapa. "Yes, brethren," said 'the clergyman who was preaching the funeral sermon, " our deceased brother was cat down in a single night — torn from the arms of his loving wife, who is thus left a disconsolate widow at the age of twenty-eight years " "Twenty- six, if you please," sobs the widow in the front pew, emerging from her handkerchief for an instant. Feilding business men hare, with one exception, agreed to a Wednesday halfholiday. One employer writes to the papers denouncing as an act of 'yrnnny a suggestion to compel him to fall m with the views of the majority. Cases pf this kind are not confined to any locality. Majorities rule in everything— make our laws and mould public opinion, and very often Ihe individual cannot see that he is really tbe tyrant when he tries to prevent the majority of his fellows adopting measures which tend to their improvement and welfare. -No man can be a law unto himself in a civilised community. — Manawatu Times. It has leaked out, somehow, from the inner circle of the operators who are running the strike show, that King Millar will probably issue a mandate to " stop the beer" of such members of the Unions under his command and control, as exhibit signs of failing enthusiasm in "the cause." This threat, though vague, has already had a very disquieting effect on a not inconsiderable number of the Napier electors There is this to be said : The men who, with their families, are being half-starved on the miserable pittance doled out to them as " strike pay," can ill afford to keep " The merry Millar and his men " on the fat of the land, and spend money on beer for themselves, so that King Millar is wise in his generation. - According to the Natal Advertiser, Mr Remenyi has unearthed a Titan Strandi varius violin at the house of Dr. Guybon Atherstone, in Grabamstown, South Africa. Uemenyi writes: — " Five thousand pounds sterling would not tempt me to part with it any more than £5. The word ' priceless , exactly describes the value of the violin. It has but one draw back. The Titan puts all my other excellent violins, of which I have 30, so completely in the shade, that I never play on r.nv of them, whereas before I found the Titan* I used four or five of them dur ing a fortnight or three weeks, ani sometimes three of them at a concert. Until now, speaking metaphorically, I killed every violin ; now the Titan kills me. I hope he will have a good time until he succeeds completely." That's the way people tell lies about such a little thing as an old fiddle.