Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 91, 24 January 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The F eliding State School will open, after the Christinas vacation, on Monday next. A Hawera telegram states that the Egmonfc seat will be contested by Mr R. C. Bruce, late member for Eangitikei. John Morrison died at Waipo- I ', Dnnedin, recently-, from taking an overdose of laudanum. They had a sunset in Nelson the other evening and this novel incident was duly chronicled in a locnl paper. A post office will be opened at Pohangina within a few weeks. A man named Jnpp. shedman at the Wanganui railway station, met with a accident on Tuesday afternoon, which resulted fatally.

Mass will not be celebrated in St. Bridget's Church, Feildmg, to-morrow (Sunday). In the Wesleyan Church to-morrow Mr Grant will preach in the morning and the Eey Mr Cannell in the evening. Another injustice to the public. The Railway Commissioners have christened the Stoney Creek Station Wahakamanga. The crop of grass seed on Mr Morphey's section, No 1 on the Kirnbolton lioad, Birmingham, is very heavy, and the harvest will be a valuable one. A wicked Frenchman called Nodier said that " women, cats, and birds are the creatures that waste the most time on their toilets." He is dead. Mr McNair has completed the erection of a Boarding house on a section near Mr Moffatt's store in Birmingham, and the establishment is already very popular. The Woodville Brass Band (says the Examiner) has entered for the Brass Band contest to be held at Easter in Feilding. To live without bitterness one must turn his eyes toward the ludicrous side of the world, and accustom himself to look at men only as jumping jacks, and at society as the board on which they jump. — Chamfort. The Melbourne police report on the working of the Prison Gate Brigade of the Salvation Army contains some cur* ious revelations. It is alleged that the Brigade clothes and feeds criminals who at night are engaged in crime. Without woman, said Chateaubriand, man would be rough, rude, solitary, and would ignore all the graces which are but the smiles of love. Woman weaves about him the flowers of life, as the vines of the forest decorate the trunk of the oak with their fragraut garlands. On Wednesday next Mr Newton King, auctioneer, will sell at his yards Stratford eight hundred head of hand-fed' cattle, as detailed in the advertisement. This should be of special interest to our local farmers who have, at present, more grass than their stock can consume. A maori boy named Paretine, living at Otamata, Auckland,, found an oil drum, and filling it with water, corked it tightly, and lit a fire underneath. The drum eyentually exploded and a piece of iron struck the boy, cutting off the top of his head. Death was almost instantaneous. One of our moat respected subscribers asks "Do you thmk that any newspapenal mmd could grasp the reason it ouly costs 2£d to send a letter to London while it costs 2d to send one to Wellington, and 6d to San Francisco. If the mind of any mortal man can do this thing and enucleate the mystery, let him do so at once or for ever hold his peace." The settlers on the east side of the Oroua riyer in the Pohangina, are pushing on the work of clearing. Among others, Mr Carter, Mr Bain, Mir Bell, the Lindsay Bros., and the Londons have got a lot of bush down, and some have already burned. All this shows the rapid progress the place is making, especially when it is remembered the land was only acquired from the Government last August. The annual Sunday School picnic in connection with the Feilding Presbytertan Church, took place on Thursday last on Mr Bull's property, on the Awahuri Eoad. There were not so many children present as on previous occasions, but there were more adults than usual, about two hundred persons being present. Those who were fortunate enough to be present were provided with dinner and tea. The usual games were indulged in and everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves. The Boyal Dramatic Company, who were so favorably received in Feilding on the occasion of their former visit a week or two since are announced to make a reappearance on Tuesday and Wednesday next 27th and 28th instants. They will open with " Dora " which is a dramatization of Tennyson's charming poem under that title, to be followed by a grand medley Olio. For further particulars of both ni-jht's performances, our readers are referred to the advertisements and posters. On Tuesday afternoon, a young man named George Wells, of Nelson, who is well known in Feilding, having been employed at different times by Mr H. Rutherford, butcher, was found by Mr Donnelly insensible in Mr Bassetfs stables, at the back of the shop in Fergusson street. Wells was carried into Mrs Oliver's Empire Hotel and Dr Charlton sent for who pronounced Wells to be suffering from a epileptic fit. As it was rumoured that the young man had made an attempt to commit suicide we publish the following certificate from Dr Charltou showing such rumour was entirely without foundation : — " Feilding, January 21st, 1891. — I hereby certify that the illness from which Mr George Wells is suffering is entirely due to natural causes. — Clifton Charlton, M.8.. &c. The marriage is anuounoed of Mr Duncan McKay, of Hunterville, to Miss Annie Alicia, eldest daughter of Mr F. Richards, of Feilding. The ceremony took place on Tuesday, at the residence of the father of the bride, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. Mr Oannell, of the Wesleyan Church, Sandon. The bridesmaids were Miss Flora McKay and Mies Kate Chapman. The groomsman was Mr William Duncan, of Hunterville. After the wedding breakfast, at which about fifteen couples were present, the usual complementary toasts were drunk and responded to, the happy couple left for their future home at Hunterville, thelf departure being hastened by plentiful showers of rice and old shoes. Arriving at Hunterville, they were welcomed by numerous relations and friends who celebrated the occasion with a ball, where dancing was kept up with spirit until an early hour in the morniug. One of the bridesmaids was the " Belle of the Ball." We congratulate the newly married couple and wish them every happiness. Certainly the best medicine known in Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. 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JPriugle has been extended, and separate tenrfers are now invited for the land and the butchery business. For other particulars apply to A. and J. B. Pringle, Mangaone — Advt.