Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 51, 16 October 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

A Supplementary Electoral 8011, made up to -the 11th instant, is now on view at the Post Office. The roll is only as far a*3 the letter D. Considerable additions will shortly be made tip the Post and Telegraph offices. The inquiry into the circumstances connect ed with the fire which destroyed the old Government printing office, Wellington, will be held to-morrow. To-day- being the 29th anniversary of the opening of the Bank of New Zealand, all the offices of the Bank iv the colony we i*6 closed. It is a strange coincidence that people without incomes are always in favor of an income lax, and people without land are always bleating for a land tax. Those interested in the Feilding Sports are requested to meet next Saturday night at 8 o'clock, in the Assembly Booms, to recei ye the report and balancesheet for last year. The Kiwitea Boad Board will meet on Saturday for the transaction of ordinary business, and tenders for public works will be opened on the same day at the office of the Manchester Boad Board. The Bey. A. Sermon, and his bride, arrived in Feilding by the mail train yesterday afternoon. A number of his friends, and members of St. John's Church of England, were on the Bailway platform to welcome the happy couple. Among other marvellous escapes fl. M. Stanley, the explorer, has chronicled : he was refused by eight different women to whom he made proposals of marriage. Few men have such courage, and fewer such luck. " It's an ill wind that blows good to nobody " and a great many firms in Sydney and Melbourne, who were in a shiiky condition before the strike, have taken advantage of the existing dispute between' capital and labor to tile their schedules. The Wellington Diocesan Synod, at a recent meeting, passed a vote of thanks to Mr C. A. Levett, of Kiwitea, for his gift of land to the diocese, on which the Kiwitea members of the Church of England recently erected a commodious and substantial building. There was a heavy breeze of wind yesterday, accompanied by showers of' rain. The wind did very little harm to the fruit trees, but the rain did an immense amount of good to the gardens. There was a change for the worse in the evening, when a hard gale came on. There was also a lie.ivy thunderstorm accompanied by the most brilliant flashes of lightning. A storm of hail and raiii also fell, doing considerable damage to fruit trees.

Much to the satisfaction of every resident in the districts the trains ran as usual to-day. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day :— Warnings for heavy northerly gales ha ye been oeut to all places. A meeting of Mr Macartbur's committee will be held at Mr Owen' 8 survey office on Monday next at 8 p.m. On Friday, the 13th instant, the Christinas Story, "Frozen to Death," will be given in the Mangaone Schoolhouae. Mr Carthew will receive by the Coptic which vessel will reach Wellington on Monday, two thousand volumes of all the best standard literature. A gospel meeting will he held on Sunday next at the Kiwitea Bridge on the Kimboltou Road, from 11 to 12 in the forenoon. Everybody invited and no collection. The nightwatchman informs us that there was a bright glare of fire in the direction of Awahuri, at about 3.30 this morning. It looked very like a building being burned. We are glad to learn that Mr W. Trimble's horse sale, which will take place on the first Saturday in Noyember, is likely to be a great success. Entries are coming in freely. The second crop of flax in many parts of the Manawatu District is already assuming a promising aspect, and as much as five to six feet appears as the result of a year's growth. In some places mills are cutting flax which has been growing ouly two years. — Manawatu Times. An Auckland man, who, although " slightly mixed " perhaps on this point, is quite sane in other respects, informs us " That if Wellington is made the port of call for the 'Frisco boats, he will come down, take the plug out, and sink the bloomin Empire City." This is outspoken any way. We publish to.day the programme of the Taonui Sports, to be held on Monday the 10th of Noyember, the Prince of Wales Birthday. These sports were a brilliant success last year, and it will be seen on reference to the advertisement the prizes are on a still more liberal scale than on the previous occasion.

Mr Macarthur and Mr Bruce, M.H.R.'s, have written to the Minister of Mines asking when the tenders for a section of the North Island Trunk Bailway from the present terminus at Eangatira towards Makohine will be called for. The Minister has replied that he hopes to be able to lnyite tenders next week.— Press. Under the School Committees Eleotion Act a gross injustice will be inflicted on several individuals. In clause three it is provided that all nominations ehall be signed by the proposer and by the candidate. Owing to this tyrannical innovation it will be compulsory oh members of school committees, and Education Boards, that they shall be able to read and write. Comment is needless. In the coming elections the three great political contests will be between Mr J. C. Brown and Mr Valentine at Ti;a eka, Mr Hislop and Mr Duncan at Oainaru, and Mr Bruce and Mr Hutchison at Waitotara. Mr Valentine and Mr Duncan are considered to have the best of the chances in their respective districts, but it is difficult to predict who will be the elect of Waitotara. Another great fight will be that between Mr Vincent Pyke and Mr Scobie Mackenzie at Mount Ida, with the betting a little in fayour of Mr Pyke.— N.Z. Times, Mr Stephen Cole Monll, of Prebble ton, who fie I recently, bequeathed th - bulk of his property to the Ashburton Old Men's Home on the following con ditions: — £500 per annum to be paid to his widow till her death or marriage ; £150 per nnniim to his son till his death ; the balance of his income to be set apart for the Home, but not paid over till the marriage or death of his wife and the death of bis son, when the income of the 'whole estate is to go to the maintenance of the Home, provided that the Government grant annually 10s for every pound is up to £500 of the income. The estate ia sworn at under £50,000, and is yielding £1500 per annum. In his address at the opening of the Canterbury Synod, Bishop Julius said the State in this colony had taken upon itself the task of education, and in the fulfilment of its self-iuipo3ed duties has deliberately rejected the foundation of all true education and built its house upon the sand. " I have no quarrel with the Education Act except upon this one point. I do not deure grants in aid of denominational schools ; still leas do I desire what is culled Bible-reading without note or comment, which I think to be worse than useless ; but Ido ask for such solid religiouß education as is given, for instance, under the London School Board, and for the recognition of religion as on the true basis of sound morality, I have no faith in mere protests. We must deliver our schools by steady work and influence."

Accompanying his report of the " Dr Bernardo Homes " for 1889, of which we now acknowledge receipt, was the follow- | ing letter : — " Dear Friend, — Herewith I send you a copy of our last annual report (1889), the perusal of which will, I trust, in the providence of God sustain and extend your interest in the work, which he has committed to my hands, of rescuing, training and placing out in life so many thousands of otherwise homeless and destitute children. Through His dear servants all over the world, the God of the fatherless and the needy has, during the last year, more graciously and encouragingly than I can tell, supplied the wants of my ever-growing family. To that loving Father, and to His people ererywhere, I now humbly but confidently commend the accompanying brief and unpretentious record of another , year's labour of love. — I am, your faithful co-worker in the Children's oause, Thos. J. Bernardo. 11

The following appears in the Napier Telegraph-: — Some of the West Coast [ settlers, forseeing that by the present rate of forest denudation the time will come when there will be a scarcity of timber, have been planting English trees. Mr G. Y. Shannon, who has been staying here for a day or two, informs that he planted 5000 trees last year, and as many more during the past season. In his nursery he haa 30,000 young oaks, beech, birch, lime, syoamore, and elm trees, the seeds of which he obtained at Christchurch. He only plants the ornamental pine tribe for shelter purposes. If our Hawke's Bay settlers would plant the more valuable description of English forest trees, so many acres every year, and so many acres to every thousand acres, or hundred acres they possess, there would be less to fear from the wholesale destruction of the natural forests that ih now going on wherever a patch of Native bush is to be found. The departments alluded to are dresses and dressmaking. With regard to the former, we may say that we are now in possession of a very full supply of the most fashionuble fabrics for spting wear, and without going into particulars it will be sufficient to say that our Home buyer has displayed excellent taste and judgement, both in fabrics and colourings. We iuvite an early visit of inspection of our bnautiful spring dress materials a^ Te Aio House, Wellington.