Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 130, 25 April 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The 'Frisco Mail will be sorted into the private boxes to-night about 9 p.m. The Feildmg Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. Visiting brethreu are cordially invited. We are glad to learn that Mr Brabant R.M. has been much benefitted in health by his visit to the Hot lakes. Major Tuke haa been appointed R.M. at the Chatham Islands, vice iVJ r Deighton, retired. All householders are reminded of the meeting on Monday night at the Schoolhouse to elect a .School Committee. The Awahuri Bridge is now open for traffic. Burglars have commenced business m Greymouth, but as yet they have not been able to declare a dividend. The census return for the Borough of Feilding shows the population to be about 1600. A proclamation vesting the control of fclieManawatu Gorge bridtfeio the Palliatua County Council appears in the last Gazette. We learn from the Wanganui Herald that the Government have decided to institute a system of penny postage within the colony. Harry Laiug aud Noble haye been committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court in Wauganui, for the alleged robbery of Mr Abbot at 1 Upokongaro. We have been requested by Mr Charles Bray, the Captain of the Feilding Fire Brigade, to state that he has to acknowledge receipt of a cheque for £5 from Dr Monckton, as a recognition of the services of the Brigade at his house on Tuesday last. A few days ago seventy-five head of cattle were sent down from the Stratford farm of Messrs Manson, of the Pines, Feildmg, to the Longburn Freezing Co. 's works. They averaged 8771bs net. The meat was of prime quality and condition. Another drove from the same herd will will follow shortly. Wo regret, to learn from the Westport Times of the 21st mst., that Mrs Brebner. wile of Mr Brebne;-, .--t*i mmaste>, died ou that date. The deceased lady was for some time resident with her husband and family, in Feilding, where Mrs Brebner left a number of friends who will deeply \ regret to hear the bad news. We sincerely sympathise with Mr Brebner in his 1 affliction. We (Herald) are pleased to learn that ; Mr Brabant, E.M., who has been to the i Hot Springs for the benefit of his health, * returned to Wanganui to-day and will i resume his duties forthwith. We are , glad to learn that Mr Brabant has derived much benefit from his visit to the Springs and trust he may continue to improve in health. Mr P. A. F. Birch, at present Registrar of the Supreme Court, Napier, who was well and favourably known on the West Coast diggings in the good old days a quarter of a century ago, has been "retrenched." A few years more would have eutitled him to a pension. Our Ministers may have no guile about them, but " Oh, man, they are leary." So far as we (Post) can read the 9igns of the times, we think another general election is extremely probable before the end of the year. Before it cau become necessary, however, the N Ceneus returns will be known, and a fresh re-distribution of representation, and consequent alteraof electoral districts, will have taken place. The Napier Telegraph says : — A retiring New South Wales rabbit inspector was asked to fill up a certain departmental return. Here is an extract from the paper he sent in : — Question, " How inauy rabbits are there in your district?" Answer, "Goodness only knows, I don't," Q, " What do you think the proper height for a rabbit proof fence ?" A., " Sufficiently high to prevent a man slinging rabbits over it. At the R.M. (Jourt, Palmerston, on Thursday last, we learn from the Manawatu Times : — Thomas Bridge pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to burn down a house m Cuba street Palmerston. After hearing eviiKsce accused was found guilty and sentenced to six strokes of the birch in the presence of his father. On the application of his father Bridge was sent to the Burnbam Industrial School for three years, to be brought up in the Church of England faith. The Faust Family performed at the Assembly Rooms last night. Although on the occasion of their last visit the Manager promised there would be an entire change of programme the same performance was repeated. This caused some signs of disapproval on the part of the audience, and in consequence of the want of accord between them and the players everything went very flat until nearly the end when the peopie got in a better humour. The attendance was not so good perhaps as the Company thought they deserved, but that is no reason why they should show pique to those who had put in an appearance. G. V. Brooke once said " I always played my best to a small audience for the reason that if they hadn't come there would be nobody there at all." This is an example which might well be followed by such companies as the Faust FamU-y.

The Hon. John Bryce was a visitor to Feilding to-day. By a GfiZ'tte issued on Thursday Parliament is called together For the despatch of Dusiq->8 "ti Thursday. 1 1 th Jun-n-xt A reply to Mr Grant's letter on " T! c Future of the Church," from " Looking Forward," is unavoidably held over till our next issue. A somewhat serious accident occurred on the Wanganui racecourse on Thursday morning, to a young lad called McKeag, while exercising the horse Matchless over hurdles. — Chronicle. The poll for a loan of £4000, under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, to be expended in the Sandon Small Farm Block, Kiwitea Road District, was almost unanimous in favor. Gazette notices have been issued defining the season during which cock pheas* ants, hare*, and qnail m.'iy be taken or killed this year within the Wanp.\nui, Ktingitiktn, and Hawera district, as between the Ist May and 3Lst July. At a special meeting of the Wellington Land Board yesterday it was decided, on the motion of Mr Maearthur, to hold an enquiry into an alleged case of dummy - isui, that of Mr H. Ratsey, selector of section I, in the Mangahao Survey District. We are advised by Mr J.. B. Hamilton that he will open in Feilding at the end of next week with a splendid stock of drapery, clothing, &c.,'&c, ex Ruapehu, now discharging in Wellington. Further particulars will be given in future advertisements. The Presbyterian tea and concert, held in the school-house, Awahun, on the 21st inst., was a great success. The room was crammed with visitors from all parts of the district. The tea was all that could be desired, and the musical part seemed to be much appreciated. Taking it altogether, it was one of the most successful gatherings eyer held in Awahuri. Mr Brent, cabinetmaker, of Manchester street, has just finished stacking on his premises, a quantity of splendid rircm timber from Mr John Bartholomew's saw-mill at Kiwiiea. The timber is beautifully grained, and in Mr Brent's hands some exceedingly handsome cabin-et-work should be the result.