Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 73, 6 December 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Tbe Manchester Road Board sat this aflernouu. Our report is helu over. A meetiug of the Jockey Club was held last night and adjourned. Entries wili be published on Tue.si'.y. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. fco-day : —Warnings tor gales hold g*-od at all places south of Napier and NewPlymouth The Rev J. Olphert, of Foxton, is adyertised to conduct tlie morning service 111 the Primitive AJethodist Church tomorrow. We beg to acknowledge receipt of the official time table of the New Zealand Government Railways for th6 current mouth. The Committee of the Horticultural Society will meet this evening at eight o'clock in the office of the Secretary, Mr E. Goodbehere. To-day we publish the programme of Mr lsherwood'ts grand vocal and instrumental concert to be held in the Assembly Rooms, Feilding, ou Wednesday the 10th iustaut. Our readers are reminded that a train will run to Pahnerston North to-morrow for the convenieuce of persons desirous of witnessing the consecration of the new Catholic Church. Messrs Lyon and Son, of Ashurst, advertise that they want to rent or lease a fiye or six roomed house, with about fifteen or twenty- five acres of land. Applications are to be made by letter. The arrangements of the Telegraph Department for forwarding press messages last night were simply disgraceful. One telegnim giving results of the elections was "6% hours in transmission from WeUington. Oue of the most delicate pieces of sarcasm we have read for some time is contaiued in a letter to the Advocate over the signature of N. Andrew. It is as folio WB : " Wheu Mr Remington says, therefore, that he was struck by the absurdity of the answer it must be taken to mean that he was struck by tho absurdity of his owu conception of it." Neat. A resident va. Feilding, not far from the Church of England, used to miss his firewood, but he kept his dog on the chain. One night the dog was, by the merest accident, not chained up. Towards the morniug agonised screams were heard near the wood pile, and 011 the occupants of the house going out to eee from whence these cries proceeded, found a young- man wnthiug in tho fangs of the dog. The latter being of the bull persuasiou a screw jack — or somo such instrument— had to be used to pnze open tho jaws of (he animal. Tho wood pile is all right but tho young man is not so well. A proud parson and h:s man riding oyer a common 6a w a shepherd tending his flock and. having a new coat on, the parson asked him, in a haughty tone, who gave him that coat? " The same," said the shepherd, " that clothed you — the parish." The parson, nettled at this, rode on a little way, and then bade his man go back and a6k the shepherd if he'd come and live with him, for ho wanted a fool. The man going accordingly to the shepherd delivered his master's message, and concluded as he was ordered — that hiH master wanted a fool. " Why, are you going away, then ? r ' " No," answered the other. "Then you may toll your master," replied the ehepherd, " his liyiug can't maintain three of us." " Virtue is its own reward. " Tho Rov. Andrew Gardiner, lute of the Glebe, Sydney, whose wife obtained a diyorco from him owing to his relations w.th a young lady parishioner, and who recently returned from San Prar.cisco, dohyeiod a lecture in tho Presl-yterian Church, Goulburu, on Friday week last. The mayor presided, and at the close of tho meetm;!, resolutions wero passe I expres sing sympathy arid goodwill towards Mr ■ Gardiner, and settiiisr it forth as tho opinion of the meeting that, by the full and uureßory<*d confession of his transgression which ho made, and the consistent and godly life he has since led, ho in entitled to lhe utmost sympathy, and ments public confidence aud -lupport. Just 60.