Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 137, 12 May 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Trimble had a most successful sale on Saturday of general merchandise, but there were no offers for the town sections A fishing company has been started m Wanganui. With good management this should prove a useful and paying institution.

An a recent fight id" America the referee held a revolver in each hand. Hi3 decisions were received without a murmur. There will be an uniisnaliv heavy day nt the It M. OoVirt mnioriiiw. anrf several important us well as interesting cases vrill ?e heard. There is no truth, we (Times) learn from thf Government, in the story that Ministers have decided to makeadditions to the Legislative Cjuncil. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day— Warnings for northerly gales and rain after ten hours have been sent to all places. \. man taken in charge at Sydenham, for being drunk, on being searched had in his possession deposit receipts amounting to £505 os 7d, and £10 16s 9d cash. On Saturday afternoon, when Mr N. Charlton was riding ou the Awahuri Road, his horse put its fore feet through a rotten culvert. Mr Charlton was hurt a little by the fall, but the horse is almost ruined. The following Sydney telesrram appears in the Hobart Mercury :- -''lt is reported that large defalcations huve been discoy ered in the New South Wales Treasury, and that a high official is implicated. Efforts are being made toavoia prosecu tion." We have much pleasure in drawing attention to the notice which appears in our advertising column, mtimatiug that the popular and talented Dobson-Ken-nedy Company will play " Little Lord Fauutleroy," on Monday, and "Neck or Nothing," on Tuesday night, in the Assembly Rooms. This company have been attracting crowded houses every whore, and the two pieces now mentioned are the best in their repertoire. The census shows the total population of Duneriin to be 22.389 a decrease since 1886 of 867 persons. The mules number 1 ,436 and fema'es 11,943. The total population of the suburban boroughs i 11.356 males and 12,<>94 females a total of 23,450, being an increase of 491 prisons in the wiiole census of the district, comprising Dunedin and suburbs, the Taien. Peninsula an j port. Owing to the fact that he has had several sheep destroyed by dogs, Mr E. Giesen publishes a notice that in future all trespassers on his farm, on the Awahuri Eoad, will be prosecuted. The nuisance he complains of is that on Sundays a number of young men assemble with " Both mongrel, puppy, whelps, and hound, and curs of low degree," with which they course hares, quite indifferent to the damage they do to his breeding ewes. Not one of the young men has taken out a game license. The Manawatu Times says : — " It appears that there is still an incendiary at large in Palmerston. On Sunday night, at about 10.30, a deliberate attempt was made to burn down the premises at the rear of Mr Cherrett's printing office in the Square. Fortunately, Mr W. Park's attention was attracted by a light in the place and on proceeding to investigate the cause, he found that some paper and shavings had been collected together and a lighted candle placed in the midst of the heap. When discovered by Mr Park the fire had already taken hold, and but for his timely discoyery there is little doubt another disastrous fire would have occurrred. An English contemporary, referring to the decision of the Judges in the Jackson case, details of which were given in our columns recently, remarks that this decision, though in accordance with mod ern sentiment, has come upon the public »s a surprise. The question natrunlly -•irises If a wife may, at her own discretion, quit her husband, may not a husband leave h s wife if he feel so inclined ! Again is a husband liable fot necessaries ..btainci by his wife after she has voluntarily separated from him ! These are quer es which are of special interest to bodi'-'s entrusted with the administration of charitable aid. On light sandy or river-bed soils we have an abundance of the wood known as " Ake Ake " which, true to its name, (for ever and ever) will last for centuries if not exposed to the weather. It is so hard that the best steel axe will be gapped upon it. As fuel it is equal to coal, anrl leaves no ash, and no other wood gives the same bright embers. A settler built a fence of it last year, expending m> little labour in cross- cutting every stab which resisted the axeman's attempts. Now he finds the whole fence rotting at the ground from damp, which is not a little disappointing and surprising con sidering the extreme hardness of the wood. On Sunday night, at Birmingham, the local larnkius of all ages and sizes, made themselves very objectionable to some worshippers. It appears that a local preacher was holding service in the Public Hall, -when tbe larrikins assembler! in force and pelted the building with stones. Some of the missiles were thrown through the windows, and the preacher had some very narrow escapes from being struck. This sort of brutal lty should be put down with a heavy hand, and we trust, for the credit of the place, and to maintain is character for respectability, the settlers of Birmingham, will take this thiug in hand, and prevent, a recurrence of such disgraceful conduct. We learn from the Waipawa Mail that an amusing case transpired at the Waipawa R M. Court during the week, and great interest was manifested in the proceedings. Dr R. Von Mirbach preferred a charge of assault against William Buckley. The defendant was travelling from Palmerston North to Waipawa by train. Mirbach got on the train at Ormondville and took Buckley's seat, Buckley having stepped out to speak to a friend. Buckley returned and told Mirbach that it was his seat. :V1 lrbach refused to give it up, and Buckley went out to speak to the guard. Not finding him, he (defendant) returned and lifted Mirbach from the seat, slipping underneath. Mirbach than sat oa Buckley's knee. Buckley threatened to use a pin. Other gentlemen in the tram assisted Bnckley to get Mirbaoh off Buckley's knee, and pushed Mirbach towards the door. Mirbach whs warned before he sat down by another passenger that the seat was taken. The case went m favour of Mirbach and the defendant was fined.