Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 109, 7 March 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Joseph Corpe, from London, will preach in the (J-ospel Hall to-morrow evening, commencing at 6.30. The Manchester Eoad Board was sitting as we went to press. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. To-morrow Mr ofrant Will preach in the Wesleyan Churchy where, in the evening, service will be held in honor to the memory of the late Mrs Hensen. To-day Mr W. A. Sandilands advertises that he has money to lend in large or small sums on freehold lands at current rates of interest* Town properties accepted where a liberal Margin is provided. The many friends of Mr Edmund Goodbehere will be glad to learn that he is rapidly improving in health, and hopes to be able to attend too business in the course of a few days. Earl Dudley (we learn from an English paper) is going to give up store keeping, and to marry a Princess. If he had advertised more ta^s necessity wotildnot have arisen. • The following were the winnings of the different clubs at the recent Wangmui Championship Kegatta :— - Wellington Eowitig Club-, £63 > Star Boating Club, £25 ; Union Boating Club, £16 ; Canter bury Rowing Club, £10. The Minister for Lands is m faVor of opening the shooting season on the 27th lust., to enable sportsmen to take advantage of the Easter holidays, but fears that there are legal difficulties in the way. He is communicating with the Premier on the matter. The Committee of the Feilding joekev Club met at the Denbigh Hotel last night. After the usual formal business it was resolved,- That certain of the priviieges> other than the gates arid grand stand, which the Club will retain, be sold on the 2lßt instant by Mr Trimble, and Messrs Goodbehere* Haybittle, Kirton, and Sandilands be a sub-committee to arrange details. The Lyttelton Tinies, in its issue of Wednesday last published the following telegram from its special correspondent at Wellington !-^" Wellington, March 3. Ministers have decided to advise His Excellency to commute the sentence passed on the Flanagans to imprisonment for life.'' In the same issue the Time? states :— ■-" It is understood that Constable Daniel Flanagan has been dismissed from the Police Force* He will receive full retiring compensation* viz., one month's pay for every year of service." Yesterday forenoon* at the railway station » a horse attached to Mr Weightmau's market Cart* became restive and "played up." One 9haft was smashed at once and the horse would have been off on a wild gallop, oulj that a Very plucky fellow, who hails from the Emerald Lie. aeifced it by the head and held on despite its frantic struggles to get free. The Rev. \lr Harris, Mr J> G. t Thompson, j and Mr Peter Thomson assisted to get ( the animal clear of its harness, and it i was soon pacified. The vehicle was sent j to the coach builders. The gallant fel- 1 low vfhn acted so Well, nfused any reward although v liberal o ie was ten- ! , dared, ■ ' { }

; Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. Warnings for northerly gales hold good at all places southward of Napier' and Wanganui. Train services fof Monday the; 9th iustant in cbuiierution with the celebration of the opening of the Mauawatu Gorge Line, are published to-day. Rosa and "Densen, two of the mefl injured last Thursday at Shelly Bay, Wellington, by fill explosion of gun cotton, have since died of their injuries. The Manawatu" Railway Company's revenue for last year was £72,000, the working expences being oniy 35 per cent of tae receipts. , a dividend is tote paid, and the poorly paid employes are, of course, to have their salaries increased. The yaluahon data of the Government Insurance Department for the quinquennium ended 3lst December has been forwarded to, the British actuaries. The total business of the Department in existence on 31st December last was" 28,000 policies for £7,807,712, and 102 annuity policies for £5668 yearly. By our report of the Horticultural Show the first prize for bntter was awarded to Mrs Ohyer. This was correct so far as that, lady entered it, but the real prize taker was Miss J. M. Bailey, of Taonui, who had sent the butter to Mrs Oliver to enter on her behalf. I We have pleasure in making this correction. The charges against Mr Coleman Phillips, of Dry River, of committing breaches of the Land Act, will be heard in the Magistrate's Court on the -13th inst. The informations, which have been laid by the Minister of Lands, charge Mr Phillips, with aiding and abetting certain persons in committing breaches of the Act, and with inciting the said persons to commit such breaches. Certain lands are proclaimed m the Gazette as being reserved for endowments for primary education. Among • those specified are Section 112 of Block XIV., at Mangahao; Section 3 of Block VI., at Apiti; Sections 20, 11, 12, 9 of Block V., at Omahine: Section 136 of Block XIII, Mangahao, and Section 27 in Block XV., and Section 33 in Block X., at Ongo, all in the Wellington district. By an Order-in-Council gazetted yesterday the following regulations under "The Electric Lines Act, 1884," is brought into force from the date of the Gazette :—That the fee of twopence heretofore charged for the receipt demanded for the amount paid for a telegram is to bo restricted to inland messages. The receipts for the amounts paid for international and intercolonial telegrams are to be granted free of charge. The patient was a damaged gold-miner in articulo mortis, that is "he had filled his last bucket, and was going to kick the thing." The worthy medico had pocketed his last fee, but noticing a strange look on the dying man's face, he asked "Have you anything more you would like to say, or can I do anything for you ?" The worked out miner said in reply: " Yes Doctor, I would like you to pay a newspaper man five shillings I owe him." The Doctor laughed and pro mised, and the moribund departed with a gratified smile on his face. At the Wesleyan Conference at Auckland the first draft of stations for the Wansjnnui district, subject to revision; was read as follows: —New Plymouth, Rev P. Fairclough ; Waitare, Her J. T. Cairnrold ; Hawera, Key T. N. Griffih ; Waiuiate, JRev J. T. Nofct; Waneanui, Rev H. E. Dewsbury; Rangitikei, Key T. Fee; Sandon and Feilding, West Coast Maori Mission, Rev T. G. Hammond. It was resolved to postpone the second reading of the stations until Tuesday, in order to give an opportunity of deciding whether the changes of stations should be made every five years instead of every three years as at present, Mr James Wilson; of Makino, has in vented a novel means of frightening orchard plunderers an 1 robbers, by means of a frame ingeniously mude to hold a gun. From this is attachei a wire placed in the grass near the fence or place where the intruders are sure to venture The gun is charged with blank cartridge and immediately the wire is touched^ he gun explodes, and is the means of terrify" ing the urchins from damage to property or fruit. Mr Wilson has an ingenious turn of mini, and we may yet hear some thing more from him in regard to novel and original inventions. —-Catholic Times. An ingenious way of scaring off small birds (says the North Otago Times) has been devised by a farmer in the Oamaru district. Rabbits are plentiful along the/ hedges, and he shoots a few of the rodents and ties them to the tops of poles among his crops. The hawks come about, and sailing around, keep all the small birds m the neighbourhood under uoyer of the hedges, trees, etc. The farmer finds it is a capital plan, and although it is now rather late in the season to put in practice, it might not be a. bad plau for those afflicted by small birds to follow while next year's crop is ripening. [Hares will do as well as' rabbits where the latter are not obtainable.] Things are not always seen in the same light by different peopie. A few months ago, when settlement was in its infancy on the back blocks near the Ruahine ranges, one of the pioneers, with an eye to comfort and economy, was wont to do most of his bushfelling and clearing in the condition of Adam before the fall. He was cool and happy. But, as " time wafted the hours along with feathery wings," houses were built, and married men began to bring their wives to their new homes. When our primitive friend saw the first lovely woman who invaded those wilds he ejaculated, " The bloomin' Block's ruined; we'll have to wear breeches," and fled into the deepest recesses of the forest. It will be seen by advertisement that Mr W. W. Collins, the famous and eloquent Australian lecturer on some of the great questions of the day,, will appear in the Assembly Rooms on Monday evening next, dealing with the important problem —" Do we live after Death ? " Mr Collins has made for himself a great name throughout the Australasian colonies as the illbst able exponent of those great religious, social, political and scientific subjects which are of such great interest at the present time. For week after week, for mouths together, Mr Collins held lai'ge audiences in Wellington spellbound by his burning eloquence, and those who attend on Monday may expect a great oratorical treat, apart altogether from the subject of the lecture;