Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 115, 21 March 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The banks on the West Coast (says the Westport News) have raised the price of gold two shillings an ounce. The Usual monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held on Monday next. The hearing of the charges of dummyism against Mr Coleman Phillips waß commenced at Wellington yesterday. Life is as a slate where all our sius are written ; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it, in order to begin to sin anew*. Mr George Ellis Robertson, superinteudant of the Fire Brigade, was killed at Dunedin yesterday by a dray wheel passing over him. The i-er vices of four junior clerks m the Property Tax Department^ Wellington, whose salaries are under £200 per annum, are to be dispensed with. In the case, Bank of Australasia v. Manawatu Road Board, Judge Kettle has granted Mr Jelhcoe's application for a nonsuit, The plaintiff is, therefore, nonsuited with costs. The Railway Commissioners anticipate that the estimate of net profit of £400,000 for curreut year will be realised. Alterations promised to a deputation of employees have involved extra expenditure of some £6000 or £7000. The privileges in connection with the Feilding Races were sold to-day by Mr Trim 11 -i as follows: — Publican's Booth, i-30, Mr J. Smith ; Refreshment Booth, £13, J. Smith; Horse Paddock- W- A. Sandilands, ss ; Cards, Kirt.m and Curtis, ! £7 10s. I The Oxford and Cambridge boat race will be rowed to-day. The betting up to latest advices was in favor of the first named, becaiise the nien are in perfectly good form. The Oxford boat won last year; but Cambridge beat the four preceding years, viz. : 1886-7-8-9. Mr Hamilton is getting his shop in M anchester street, which has been tenantless for some time, very nicely fitted up and decorated inside. A largo and well built verandah has been erected over the footpath, which adds greatly to the appearance of the building. Yesterday Mr Marsh brought from Apiti a weasel which his domestic cat had slain. Mr Marsh informs us these pests are becoming very numerous, and the only hope of the settlers lies in the fact that cats, domestic and wildj have declared actiye war against them. The following team will represent the Feilding Red Star Football Club in their match against the Excelsior Club, o f Pahnerston, at the latter place on Good' Friday: — Backs: F. Foster, 11. Parr [captain), P. Giesen, Mingings, Macfarane- J. Roache; forwards; Robinson, Poad, Newman, Smith, Parkes, Cornish, Walton, H. Coombe, Humphries; euierjencies: Foster and Arnott.

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day :— Warnings for heavy gales and very cold weather have been sent to all places. The Feilding Band will play a uumber of selections in the Rotunda to-morrow afternoon if the "elements are favour able." At the Supreme Court yesterday in the case against Tomlinson for alleged embezzlement, the jury could not agree upon their verdict and were discharged, as also was the accused. A nolle prosequi has been entered by the Crown Prosecutor. We know no paper in all the land which has been so virulently unkind to all Governments, except the present one, as the Lytt9lton Times, which, when in Opposition, worried the other side with much of the savagery of a dyspeptic terrier worrying a sick rat. — Catholic Times. On Wednesday night, four out of seven stacks of wheat, the property of Mr E. Jackman, standing in a paddock on the Awahuri road.- were burned down. The remaining three were saved by the exertions of some of the neighbors. The stacks were insured in the Standard office for £150. There is no clue, as yet, to the origin of the tire. For some time it has been known that Mr McFerran would hold a grand clearing auction sale of the balance of hia | grocery stock, and Mr Trimble announces to-day that the expected sale will be held on Thursday the 26th instant, commencing at 11 in the forenoon. Lunch will be provided, and every article will be sold without reserve. We are informed great preparations are being made for the banquet and tea to be held on Friday, to celebrate the completion of the Primitive Methodist Parsonage, Feilding. These important events are to come oft in the grounds of the parsonage. The banquet takes place at 12.30 p.m., tea at 5 p.m., and a public meeting in the Church in the evening. After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact ? In good faith (said the Prince de Ligne) it is this : They are handsomer, more amicable, more essential, more worthy, aud have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self love ? There was a very good muster of the Manchester Rifles last night. Captain Pleasants mentioned that he had taken the initial steps to form the corps into a Rifle Club. He also stated that any members who were desirous of proceeding to the Encampment at Palmerston, should send in their names to Lieut. Kirton, who would supply them with the necessary railway passes. The' will of the late Chief Rabbi, Dr Adler, contains this passage : — " Whatever be your calling, continue to shun, O my dear ones, as I know you do, every kind of usury, for usury still constitutes, alas, the malignant canker which eats into the vitality of the house of Israel." This passage is earnestly commended to the respectful attention of the shent-per-shenters of New Zealand. In our next issue we will giye particulars of a varied entertammeut to be held on Easter Monday night, the funds of which will go towards purchasing a piano for the Failing Dramatic Club. We understand the programme will comprise songs, duetts, club swinging, farces, &c, and as a considerable amount of fresh talent to the distiict will be infused, the whole affair will be very creditable, and worth while seeing. A full string band will be in attendance. The marriage of Mr Henry C. Jefteries (eldest son of Mr John Jefferies), of Bunnythorpe, was solemnised on Wednesday at Waverley, the bride being Miss Susannah Dyke, third daughter of Mr H. Dyke, of Waverley. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. P. Clark, an the residence of the bride's parents, after which a number of guests were entertained at a well-appointed wedding breakfast. We wish the newly married couple every happiness. At Auckland yesterday Mark Rawlings was sentenced to three years for embezzling money belonging to the Parnell Orphan Home. Judge Connolly in sentencing the accused, condemned the in sufficiency of audit in the cases of persons entrusted with public money, and said the present case was due to this. He regretted having to pass sentence on a man of the prisoner's age and reputed respectk Our Birmingham correspondent writes : —The annual general meeting of the Town Hall Company was held on Thursday 19th inst. Mr Bryce in the chair A very satisfactory report of the balancesheet was read, which was adopted by the meeting-, Messrs T. Lowes and T. A. Bryce, two retiring directors, were re-elected. A number of new shares were taken up before the meeting terminated. The meeting resolved that a dividend, as recommended, at 8 per cent, be paid* At the Otago Education Board on Thursday last* tho Hon-. Mr McKenzie took the Board sharply to task for their recent criticism of AJ mister's circular. The Board, by a bare majorityj instructed the Secretary to forward to the Minister a full statement of their action in the matter, aud thanked the Minister for his latest communication. Mr .McKenzie expressed his intention of advising his colleagues to treat the Board in future with the contempt With which they evidently desire to be treated. We cannot understand why people allow their lives to be made miserable by myriads of flies in their houses. Bunches of twigs hung from the ceilings of every room in the house will attract the flies, and in the dusk of the evening the bunches should be covered with a pillowslip and dropped into it. In the course of three or four evenings the fly nuisance will be abated. Fly-catchers and fly-poison-papers ought also to be treeiy used ; and with all these known remedies it is a disgrace to a housekeeper to haye as many flies as to cause annoyance- — Napier Telegraph It is notified in the Gazette that the Colonial Treasurer will be prepared to consider applications from local authorities for loans under "the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," on Wednesday, Sth April, 1891. Application should be addressed to tho Colonial Treasurer- and in the corner of the enyel ope the words " Local Bodies' Loans' should be written ; and every application must be posted so as to arrive at the Treasury on or before the 7th April, 1891. Applications already received, but not yot dealt with, will be considered on the date mentioned above. Mr F. Bull, the inyentor of tho improved flax dressing machine bearing his name is sending Home by the Tekoa several samples of flax dressed by his apparatus. For some time past he has been endeavouring to have a practical test of the streugth of made up rope, twine, &c, out of fibre dressed by his machine, but has been unable to get the manufacturers to go to the trouble of experimenting. He has now (says the Wellington Press) arranged, however, for some rope to be made at Home from his fibre, and put to a test. An analysis of the fibre from Mr Bull's machine has shown thafc there is still retained 97 per caut of the natural strength of the flax.