Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 49, 9 October 1890, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

The fiTft r o*Tffi^ifistMm©H of a Mbf thirty .o'pioasunwf WbicfiTiild'intendedto Betc4tyK*«erty ' in l itie d vicinity I W. Catlins River, has arrived in town from SoujgiTand, and i?. now at the Bhpp #% tji J gaif In George street. The Mcliin&tisa'tion Society, who have taken the matter of introducing these -IKtIe v ammais in hand, intend, as before jiij4ic^|ed t to turn them loose in the (^tlin^ 1 district, a spot eminently; a<l:kpte I d^itqr. > -'them IL-and.1 L -and. where they should cerj&miy'thrive. " The eight at present" jnf town are' beautiful speoiinens Sl^^la'ck brown species, aje heavily 3 fu^t^e'd/, 'ami were.' .bred, in Southland. Should! "their introduction be atteJu|jiFdj~ with , puttiijg'lfoe/ question . p^enoijt on -one side?, they should ( R^e. j a.^^we of rejjenaefiif* the couc|r^j \ We-, updqypfanA) that, should" a^fur'fhef" supply be found necessaxy.Jfcb.ey will be obtained -andset at ljh.erj.y,in due cuurse. — -Dunedirf Star. \>'^-J^--;'^;': ■-;-■. «'■' ■"'"■ The %ajfißan4and Military Hand AB3ociatiqg,o J f a New, -Zealand .has bieen successfully 0 stftrjtjßjl^in : GhristchurchJ The following- bands have joined :— Garrison} -r^ydpnham,- ••» Addingtbn/ Palace .Rjnjfei Snd -Staninore Bands (Christchurcb^ D^fav/ai *. and- Garrison' (Oamaiu)^ Harrison and City- Band (Inventffgitt), jOMmance,' Eaikbra^ Engineef^iand" Gaflfi^oh : ! (Dunedin^ Feildinffßißin^Hftstin'gs^'jHa^kes Bay), GiHTißpn^WeUingtoii),,lmpeyp: ( Aucklaa).%na sC terJstin; (Lyttelton, \ Other en^CaVr'e^pectM^frpm. 1 , the: North lliliffi B;!ffi^ M^* :Z The QaUfarjuan-Courts have- just decided jqpoil, tsh^'flieirs' tb-tKe estate of the lateiri&ffcußlythe, -a nfllltonfcirev There was *197 clainiants,some Scotcfc^^si^V'whoTßrideay^ured^ to traoe^Bjffttey Wdestry. * to "Sir Walter SebW"Jfeaii ;! dordon'. . , Tb> bulk of^^^ifli^aire'sesta.te;^ to Miss Blythe, a Londtfn' girl, 1 wno proved th^B^^aiO^pgh^lof fcne deceased].,/ .Efjjir . mines in.iaj AjT,4?Qna and Faimillion) and <& half of acres. " : Four hundred million is a huge sum of money? th^is^falf itoui -which acej>rding°to an^^^emirienf statistician, haJ^nriost'to Winegrowers si&etfi^ye^ lH^tfirbiigh the ravages of •'pliyllSxei'ai /MoW, and other scou^ges f , JT^ie^e mustflh^ve; been a wonuerfui recuperative energy. in JTrance wßen-rtne cQun.try 0 coula stand iuei Wi6w u and D alftfl>pay a, v?ar ; indemnity^ Npt^' withstanding 'tii6Be"va 9 t c losses l^ eeeuw that the Tine , industry is again nuking rapia^headw&y.' The tramfi.on %-French/ailwaj was interfered * 9 *|i& %;'.,the* luggage* of -Madame Be^fttiajrdt, who icarrie* with -her 48 en^iaaeuaxi trunks exclusive of ; packages, and weighing S^tons^ In these dhesjsc|sd apr.warjdrobei three trunk* being jajfyrt.fprßhe^hats, arranged Qiij^gs u ift;;such 1 a ) waj^a6.to -prevent t%p f^in/b^ing^hafcen.or crushed. / ' .1 . The Moaiu-Worehipf uJr; the Grand V^Master of New^ Zealand Brd? Hbnry Thomson, teii%y ; the v - WmSoM^ 1 mafl received a^ communica^on_ f nim." the 'Grand Becr»^M%~J!^[^ourne, stating, 1 that at the, domomnicaiion^ of the Gran^^dge^ of Vjiptgria, held on the Istn Sejateiniier, the .®randr Lodge unanimously r accorded 1 full fraternal recognition,,; to . the I Gifted* Lodge of New^Zeaiand, and he^ily/ congratulates" the L brethren bi t the craft in this colony upon its establishment. 1.~9z\l r ■•■.'r;:^^Js: The country .wants honest men ; 4nen of patmo^CfeVUn%; v men Wno believe in the future 1 greatheßß ;(; 6'f New Zealand and the happiness of her people, and who wilt' help™ to -attain thesejfcadei»t&wittiout pandering or lying 3to-;afiy * class 1 . " TBe ; country wants men who,, whether high or low in.; station, have- well •ordered their own affairs ; who aVe trusted' by .^hefir;.f fellows :' who n afe earnest, just, and above all Honest. Such men ar|£ tb/jbelfbift»d, ;^nd Me selection of p^hi^filjli ajgloridiii well "Within the Kegion of Practical PoUticß.'VQfttholic^Emes; Daring the takinr of l thf census m Jndia in 1881, in tr a i district,, in the, •central provinces^ so&e" 1 of thV^rib^s took fright and ran away. The disirict officer fi^lypn^upep\thpif h r ejd' men to listen to explanations. Ee3>lying on the tha,t /wages^ of "various kind^ 'figure^ extensively m Jndian folk lore, be solemnly; assured that the Queen of England and "the Empress of Russia haying quarrelled as to which ruled -3?e¥ jects, had laid^lng>jbet v on'the pbint: He went on to explain tteat the. census was being taken in order to settle the bet, and he warned his hearers in; tf spirited peroration that if they staged in the jungle and refused .to^le^ouuted the queen wouß^lqse^ he/ m<mey and they would oe^jsa^reed f for ever,, as nimak-haram, or tr^itoVs^'to 'their sattl *Xhe story served k^purpose, and the. tribes came in. .