Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 128, 21 April 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Parliament will meet on June 4th 1891 . The Commercial Hotel at Wanganui was burned down on Sunday morning. The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. Visiting brethen are invited. Mr Tripe, dentist, will visit Feilding on Thursday and Friday next, when he may be consulted at the Denbigh Hotel. Reserved seats for the Faust Family on Friday night, may be obtained from Mr Carthew. The Chrysanthemum Show to beheld here on Saturday next, will be a great success as the support already promised by exhibitors is very satisfactory. A Public Library 18 about to be formed at Beaoonfield, and a considerable sum has already been sub.scribod for the purchase of suitable books. The fireball rang out its wild alarm on Sunday morning, at about 8.30, but th< cause was merely a burning stump in a paddock near Mr .sherwill's house. Madame Tisher has done good business wince she came to F«ildiujr, and h;i in every case, given great sHfisfa-uion. On Saturday nisht over twenty person*wore -<eiit avay Lrx-au^.o Madamr hmi not lino to do each of her visitors justice.

There will be mass in St.. Bridget' g on Sunday next at 8 a.m. Oh Sunday last, Mr H. O. Fowles was riding,- when his horse threw back its head and, struck Mr Fowles on the jaw, aud fractured it. Messrs J. C. Morey and Co., of the Bon Marc'he, will to-morrow (polling day) publish a leaflet, showing the burgesses iiow to vote. Captain Edwin telegraphed to day: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day: — Telegrams to expecct frost have been sent to all places. On Tuesday last we made a correspond ent say the Mangaoue people liked a '•lot of good wholesome whisky " what he did say was a "tot" of whisky, which is a very different matter. I The Town Clerk publishes a notice of 1 the intention of the Borough Council to ['strike a general rate, and a library rate for the year ending 31st March, 1892. TeKootihus declined the offer recenilv j made him to no on tour throughout the Australian Colonies for show purposes, unless Lord Ofslow will consent to underfake the business management. — Catholic Times. The Rev. L. M. Isitt, preaching at Christchurch recently, taid he believed that within the next hundred years the Nonconformist bodies— such as the Methodist, Presbyterians, Baptists and Con^regationaiist — would coalesce He said that the scandal of cut-throat com petition between the churches for an ex« istence has gone on long enough, and that in many piaces one church would suffice where five were planted at present. There is at present a native residing m the vicinity of Taupo who is known as "Te Kooti's butcher " He was one of the Poverty Bay murderer's followers in the old days, and, we believe, one of his right hand men. None of the natives in the Lake district associate with him ; in fact, they shun him, and he is obliged to live away in a separate pah, with a couple of wives and a small family. "Te Kooti's butcher," although adyanced in years, is still strong and healthy, and is a fine specimen of the noble savage.— Napier Telegraph. An accident happened to the morning train from "Wanganui yesterday, when some two miles this side of Terrace End. Behind the first engine were two trucks of firewood, and following there, were another engine and several passenger carriages. A piece of firewod fell in front of the second engine's cow-catcher, "with the result that the " catcher " became doubled up and several bolts smashed. Fortunately the train was stopped and the cow-catcher removed. The train was some twenty minutes late in arriving at Palmerston. Had the damaged cow: catcher struck against a sleeper a serious accident would have resulted. : Conversation overheard between twn working men: — ''I say, Bill," said Jack, " You spend a lot. of money in drink. Now, you nn> 50 years old ; how much, a week do you srend in liquor ?" "Oh may be eis;ht or ten bob a week." " Well, in 3D years, iliaf, would come to about £'750 wit hout interest. You might hnve owned a fine property if you had been a teeto taller" '"Quite true," smd Bill, " but ioplr iiere, Jack, you never spend a copper on' drink, tind blow me if you hare, as good a home as I have, and you don't own any property yourself. What have you d>ne wiih your money ?" Bill is still waiting lor an answ.er