Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 102, 19 February 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

• It costs more to satisfy a vice than to feed a family. A ball will be held to-night in the Mangaone Public Hall. Mass will be held in St. Bridget's Church, Feilding, next Sunday at 11 a.m. The members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the parade to-morrow evening. The body of a man supposed to be a "swagger," was seen floating down the Turakina Kiver on Monday last. The complete program me of the Ashurst St. Patrick's Day Sports is published to-day on our first page. It has been decided to bring out Hansard next year in only one number, thus preventing the delay that is complained of in getting copies at the close of the session. The Waiiganui Harbour Board's dredge, which was carried oufc to sea during the recent flood in the Wangauui River, has been discovered on the beach some distance up the coast. The application for maintenance in the case of D. Jobberns, a bankrupt, which was made at the last sittings of the Bankruptcy Court, has been refused by his Honor the Chief Justice. "We told you so !" Pour newspapers against McGruire caused his election for Egmont. Electors are a good de.il like p : gs, if you drive them one way they will go the other to spite you. Verbum Sap. Mr Carthew has a replace advertisement in to-duy in which he notifies that he has-just recoived a pamphlett containing a thrilling account of the Maungatnpu murders c<>inin:tte<i by Sullivan, Burgess, Kelly, and Levy,

Colonel Gorton will leave for a trip to England shortly. ' - . The Feildiug Chrysanthemum Fhow will be held on Thurday the 7th of May. Some amusement was caused in a Sunday School not a hundred miles from Palmerston the other day about the reply of aa urchin to a question as to who was St. Patrick. "I know," he fried, "he lives at Nelson and makes jam." It is reported by our contemporary, the Manawatu Standard, that Mr Beattie, a Government Railway Official said " Newspapers always tell lies." Mr Beattie will be reminded of this two or three times before he gets his last shunt. I The Wellington Chamber of Commerce ! thinks the present Parliament is the best to amend the Bankruptcy laws of the colony, beoause several of the members are experts, and " know some tings " about the weak places in the existing law. A Blenheim telegram states that the R.M. there has given a decision upsetting the election of the Wairau River Board, on the ground that two voters who claimec to vote, but were refused because they were not on the roll, should haye been there. Mr Henry Bunny's life was insured in the Goyernment Insurance Office for £2000, but the premiums were considerably in arrear, and we (Post) regret to learn that the surreuder value was exhausted some few weeks ago, and the policy accordingly lapsed. Several of the few Valentines which were sent to the Feilding Post Office for transmission were very indecently addressed. These have been detained and forwarded to the Chief Post Office, and afterwards proceedings will be instituted against the senders who can be identified by their handwriting. There is no such thing as fraeedom in the world ; from the cradle to the grave we are under orders to someone or something. Just as the high walls hem in the playground where the boys are free to do as they like, so does the great circle of that which the Greeks call Necessity surround the life playground we call freewill ; and liberty is but a shadow. Throughout we are. all, young and old, under the harrow of circumstances. Particulars of loans to be converted are— £'4loo under Loan Act, 1860, at 6 per cent. ; £417,000 uuder the Loan Act, 1864, also at 6 per cent ; and £64,000, under the Loan Act, 1867, at 5 per cent. The Proyincial Loans are — Auckland, £31,600; Lyttelton-Chnstchurch Railway, £77,700 ; Canterbury Loan Act (1862), £22,800; Otago, £116,700; Nelson, £15,000; Westland, £50,000. A Melbourne telegram in the Hobart Mercury says: — On Saturday night a charwoman named Annie Williams, living at Oollingwood, was discoyered lying by her hearth, a ball of tire. Her head and left breast had been partially burnt off, and her left hand and forearm completely destroyed. On .the way to the morgue flames twice burst out in her body, and destroyed the sacking covering her. The woman had been drinking. There is a budding dentist named Smith at Coromandel, whose devotion to his chosen profession has been ehowu in., a remarkable manner. An;, unqualified; person named Pittar had been practising as a dentist, and the Dentists'.Association at Auckland wished to 'prosecute him. Youug Smith, who is apprenticedto his father, a regularly qualified dental' practitioner, obtained evidence of Pit--tar's unlawful practices by going to him ' and submitting to the extraction of a tooth, afterwards giving evidence which led to Pittar being fined £0 and costs. The English people complain that Mr Gladstone does not smoke, and dislikes tobacco in every form. He also has a profound contempt for smart attire and a profound dislike for new clothes. Exactly so, and the reason has been already given by us for the latter prejudice, which is that if Gladstone did turn out in a new suit of togs he would haye to face the enquiry Lord Salisbury would inevitably make of " Where was the fire, old man," which would be embarrassing. As for his not smoking, this only goes to prove that there is some good in every man. The London Times declares New Zea land to be one of the healthiest (if not the healthiest) countries in the world. It points out that in 1888, with a popula tion of 608.000, the excess of births over deaths amounted to no less than 13,194. , The whole surplus of births over deaths in Prance, with a population of £35000.000, was about 52.00 C?. The arerage number of children to a family in New Zealand in 1888 was 5-30 to 4.16 in ln;land and Wales, and 2.95 in Prance; but notwithstanding this high I irtli rate, which in a European country would nvitably be followed by a high d atli rate, the mortality of New Zealand in 1888 was only 9 43 per 1000, as against 18.8 jer 10 :0 in England in 1887, and 22 per 1000 in Prance." Sweet-sented chrysanthemums are thus referred to by a correspondent of a Melbourne paper : — " A pale pink single variety, Mrs Laugtry, is distinctly perfumed, and much valued on that account. As the variety grows from seed, and is free to flower, one or two plants in a house would be sufficient. The scent from this variety appears to me to be distinct from that of any other. Proge and Dr Sharpe have long been noted for the violet-like perfume they give off, but it falls a long way short of that of Mrs Langtry. To get the best results, the cuttings need not be propagated before the middle of February ; the plants should be pinched at the points twice afterwards, allowing all shoots to extend and flower, which they will quickly do, clothing the side growths with bloom. A correspondent signing himself " E. T " in the New Zealand Herald writes as follows :—" After the political addresses of some of the great reformers, who could have 'supposed that any one of them would haye proceeded straight to Wellington, and confined the business of the House to securing the members a payment of £150 for making the trip ? But, at any rate, the electors have a right to expect that the payment is [ strictly in accordance with law, for nothing else could justify it. Even that seems to be more than doubtful ; for it is laid d«»wn in a work on the law and customs of Parliament that ' When a Parliament is called and doth sit and is dissolved, without any Act of Parliament passed or judgement given, it is no session of Parliament ;' whilst in Blackstone it is stated that • Unless some Act be passed or some judgement given in Parliament, it is, in truth, no session at all.' The payment is by statute for a session, and if there has been no session it is illegal. It would be well to investi gate the matter, as it might advantageously be made a leading line in retrench, inent." It is hereby notified for the benefit of the general public that after the stocktaking at the Red House (which is proceeding) there will be a sale of Surplus Stock Oddments and Remnants at startling prices for cash. Reserve your purchases for this Sale ! This is simply a preliminary notine with regard to the Surplus Stock Sale, and chiefly refers to Drapery, Clothing and Boots.

The lively pulex is so "frequent" in the Wellington Opera House that small packets of insect powder- are given with each ticket sold. Just so. Harvesting operations are now in full swing all over the district. It is understood 7 that the season will be far from so disastrous for the farmers as was anticipated from the enormous rainfall experienced recently. People from- Milford Sound brinz <Hs-« quictiiijj reports of the lax discipline exercised over the convicts engaged in mud making there. It is rumoured ihal the prisoners have concealed two boata. which it is supposed are for the purpose of escaping along the coast. Many residents in Feilding will receive with feelings of the deepest regret the news of the death of Mr Mellish, solicitor, of Palmerston North, who shot him» self, accidentally, this morning. He was quite a young man who had j r et to make his way iv his profession, and possessed many warm friends to whom he had enleared himself by his numer ous manly and amiable qualities. He leaves a young widow to mourn his untimely end. Cobbe and Darragh have purchased much under regular price, a warehouseman's stock of Ladies' Stockings, Men's Socks, Undershirts and Pants. These goods, having oeen bought cheap, will be sold cheap for Cash. — Advt.

There are really some fascinating bargains to be shown this day at " The Pair," Te Aro House, "Wellington. To any lady requiring a really first- ; class silk dress at a great reduction from ordinary prices, there is now a magnifi cent opportunity at the Te Aro House " Pair," Wellington, this day. For instance, full dress lengths of shot merveilioaux silk, originally 52s 6d for 303; handsome combination silk dresses, rich faillee silk dresses, choice striped silk, merveilleaux dresses, in full dress lengths; original prices, 8 guineas, reduced to 2 guineas ; original price, 10 guineas, reduced to 3 guineas, at " The Fair," Te Aro House, Wellington. And then there are several lots of coloured gross- gram silks and evening shades in handsome broche silks, for Is tid per yard, and some superb dark coloured broche silks, reduced from 7s 6d to 2s 6d per yard, at " The Pair," Te Aro House, Wellington.