Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 95, 3 February 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

A Direct mjiil to England will cloae here to-morrow at 3;45 p.m. Wo haye to acknowl«d:rfi receipt of the Railway Time- table for February.

The next Volunteer Encampment will probably be held at Wanganui at Easter. The Feilding ;Borough Council will meet on Thursday, arid the Manchester Boad Board pn Saturday. The CoUett-Dobson Kennedy Dramatic Company, who are now playing a season in Nelson, have engaged the Feiiding Assembly Booim for the 2nd and 3rd of next month, and the Faust; Family may be expected shortly afterwards. Mr Cadman, the Native Minister, is a \1 aori linguist and thoroughly conversant with Native customs and traditions, therefore well qualified to hold the portfolio in question. He has .also been respected by the Maoris of his; own district, and will prove an efficient occupant of the office of Natiye ' Minister. ,: We hear that Mr Gilbert Carson of the Wanganui Chronicle, is at present in the Egmont district, and is a possible candidate for Egmont. This is a revival of an old rumour, it being always thougt Mr Carson has had an eye to this district ever since the Waimate Witness was started by the Chronicle Company.—Egraont Settler. It is rumoured that the Mariawatu Road Board will shortly be called upon to defend another4aw, action for damages througrli alleged defective drainage on the part of the Board. The plaintiff is a farmer owning property not far distant from the land which was the subject of the cause eelebre Grant v. Road Board. — Manawatu Times. General and Mrs Mite and company appeared in the Assembly Booms on Saturday afternoon last, when about 100 children andiSQ'aaults were present. In the evening they were greeted by a crowded house, and everybody was delighted with the' liliputianScouple, while the singing of Miss Beaumont and the conjuring tricks of Professor Canaris elicited storms of applause. - The London ' Hospital' has been good enough to work out how much alcohol a healthy man may safely drink. The maximum allowed 'per diem is four ounces of brandy, sixteen of .sherry, twenty-eight of champagne, thirty-two of claret, or thirty-six of bottled beer. Each of the 1 quantities given contains two ounces of alcohol, and that is the utmost limit allowable.— Dunedin Star. The small birds are working much mischief ainoug the early maturing crops in the Ashburton district.. At the Longbeach Road Board office no less than 17,000 eggs and heads haye already been received and paid for. It is-: quite a common thing for lads to ;wait^on ; the clerk Of each succeeding Saturday .with ; as many as from 300 up to 700 and 800 eggs and heads each as the result of their individual week's tree climbing.: ; A little boy about two years of age,/ the sou of John Anderson, gumdigger, residing near Henderson, died on the train just before reaching the . Mount Eden Station last Saturday afternoon. He had been seen, picking taupaki berries in the scrub surrounding 1 his father's house, and soon afterwards became very sick. His parents were taking him to Auckland for medical attention, but the child grew worse on the journey and died in his: mother's arms. Two plucky little boys uame&r Cecil Fleming and Frederick Pretsch saved two other little boys from drowning while bathing in the - Molyneux River, reports the ' Cromwell Argus.' Two boys named .Marshall lost their footing and : were swept iuto the river. Fleming swam after one who had twice disappeared under water, and diving for him managed to push him ashore. ) Pretsch rescued the other boy, who was; very much exhausted. .1

There is a man at Stafford town— we learn from the Hokitika Guardian— who objects to people dancing on Sundays. How "the whirligig. 6f time brings its revenges." In the good old days of five and twenty years ago — or thereabouts — it was the correct thing in Stafford town (Peg leg) to be lively on Sunday. In fact Sunday was the only day you could have a good time there, or at the old Waimea, a few miles further up the track. Men danced, and fought ; went to sleep in the mud; woke up, and danced and fought again ; and all went merry as no end of marriage bells, but no one objected— they hadn't time to, and didn't want to have it. One of the Melbourne daily papers lately published a striking article showing tl;e proportion the liquor trade bears to every known industry. There are two publicans in Melbourne to every draper ; three to every baker; four to eyery printer; five to every blacksmith; six to every bookseller ; ten to eyery school; 20 to every produce dealer; 21 to every coffee palace or temperance boarding house ; 24 to every miller ; 45 to every bank ; and 422 to every circulating library. The reason of course is that '• eyerybody " deals at the hotels. A faint idea of what the locust pest means may be gathered from the following plaint of a farmer on the Murray Plats. He writes : — " You ask me, sir, whether there are any locusts with us ? I can't describe them ; a person must see. to believe. Our water is spoiled in the creek, and our place looks like the month of M arch ; the feed is nearly gone. My wife's flower garden was cleared in a few hours, and all the vegetables gone, and I am sorry to say, they are taking to the wheat. The cocks of hay look more like heaps of manure, quite black with locusts, and all round our place they are in heaps three and four inches thick; there were hundreds in the bedrooms and the walls quite black, now they are flying about. The pigs, geese, ducks, turkeys, and fowls eat them. They are a very bad plague. In our creek they were nearly 3ft. thick, all washed in heaps; they turn the water red, and the smell is frightful." In connection with the marriage of Miss Priscilla Kennedy, to the eldest son of Mr Crabb, of Halcombe, which happy event took place on Thursday last, we publish the following extract from the Hobart Mercury:— "A very pleasant gathering took place in the Congregational Sabbatli schoolroom here on the sth January, when the members of the Church and other friends met for the purpose of presenting Miss Kennedy, daughter of our worthy townsman, Mr A. 11 Kennedy, with an address, as also a bridle, whip, anl silver cruet, on the eve of her departure for New Zealand, whither she goes to be married. The address exp essed on behalf of the members of the Church and Sabbath scliool the warmest appreciation of Miss Kennedy's untiring eff >rts in connection with the same, nnd the interest and love she has evinced in Christian work. Her go d s rvices us organist in the church and the energy and discretion displayed in organising the choir were also ncknow li'd^ed, and r-gret expressed at the loss which 'would arise from her departure, coupled, however, with best w:shes for her welfare in a new and distanl sqhere of duty. .Mr K -nnedy feelingly responded on behalf of his daughter, thank ing the kind friend* who had so thought fuUy contributed the hund-ome pi ft. Mis* Kennedy le ? t Prankln with the good wishes rind pniyors of all sections of the community. i

Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Wind between N. and W. and S.W. at all places. Warnings have been sent to all places. The concert held at Birmingham on Saturday, in aid of the funds of the Church of England, at Kiwiteu, was a brilliant success. Our report will appear next issue. The Southland Frozen Meat Company pay a dividend of 8 per ceHt absorbing £1003, and carry forward nearly £38UO. Nearly (>o,OUO sheep and lambs were frozen during the year. Lucy Mary Wood ruffe, aged seven years, daughter of E P. Woodrufie, formerly a draper in Queen street, Auckland, and now of Mount Albert, was killed, by swallowing a shirt stud, oh Sat urday last. At the Police Court, on Monday, Feb» ruary 2, before his Worship the Mayor and Mr W. L, Bailey, J P.'s, for furiou zriding, Messrs Lovejoy, Ward atid Gibs son were each fined 10s and 2s costs. The Court then adjourned. A return laid on the table of the House shows that the total number of votes recorded at the recent general election was 150,025, the total number of electors being 183,171. The total population at census was 573,557. ... One of the largest buildings m NorthjpnvGrermany is a new Hamburg Hotel, just completed, and built entirely of paper boards compressed to the hardness of wood. One rather unexpected ad" vantage claimed on behalf of the new building material is the circumstances 'that by being impregnated with certain chemical solutions, it can be made ab» solutely fireproof. For the Wanganui Harbour Board biennial election, the following nominations of members to represent the Borough of Wanganui was received by the returning officer (Mr John NVitman) yes-; terday :— Messrs W. Austin, A, Hatrick.j A. J... Parsons, J. L. Stevenson, and T. Thatcher. There being only four vacancies a poll will be held at the Board's office Monday next, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. — Herald.

This day there will be an unparalleled ; "choice of Men's and Boy's. Shirts, Pants, : Undershirts, Ties, Scarfs, Socks, Handkerchiefs, Braces, Belts, Straw, Pelt and Tweed Hats, and a host of other bargains • tooTnumerous to particularise at "The Fair," Te Aro House, Wellington. This day we intend at "The Fair " to offer some special inducements in Boys': 1 'Clothing,? such as Boys' Kuicker Suits; 1 from 7s 6d to 3s lid, reduced fromTSs 6d to -4s. lid; reduced from 9s 1 6d to os lid, reduced from 10s 6d to 6s ' lid, at Te Aro House, Wellington. -. This evening we shall almost make a ■•; present to all and sundry of Boys' Wash- ( ; ing Suits,, for which purpose we have > reduced them from 7s 6dto Is lid, from 8s 6d to 2s lid, from 9s 6d to 3s lid, and , from 10s, 6d to 4s lid, at " The Fair," {■ Te Aro House, Wellington.