Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 141, 21 May 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

There will he tnaßS in St. Bridget's ou Sunday next at 11 a.m. Karori, a suburb of Wellington, is about to be created a Borough. Dr Charlton has resigned the position of Honorary Surgeon to the Manchester Rifles. The North Island will gain two members of Parliament in the uext distnbu tion of seats. Dr Johnston has now removed to his new residence, near the Red Ilouse, and to-day publishes hours. of consultation. The -NelSon people are too lazy to be wicked, so the Government have closed the prison in that town. A correspondent in the Kiwitea asks :— '■')*. Is^ it legal to shoot a book agent ?>V.-'. No/ it. Ib notLleual, but, no j,u^^(2iiMi£aa_ad^

i. ttjduiu Edwin t-eleg.'aphs : — Weather forecast foi- 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-daj r -- Warnings hold e^ood fco expect frost. The concert in. tho Makino School room, w'_i_u wat) lu'iiavu h-wen held on the 25th inst, has been postponed until Friday the 29th inst. A man named C. H. Trainor, a cooper, has been arrested at Hokowuitn, near Palmerston North, on a charge of alleged sheepsteaiing. The Feilding Dramatic Club will play on Monday next, in the Assembly Rooms, the great original drama "Blow for Blow." For other particulars see advertisement. In honor of the Queen's birlhd;iy,therf* vviil be a to Ia I eclipse of the moon on the 24tli in<t., between the hours of 5 20 and 6.40 a.m. We notice that captamß in the service of the Union Steam Shipping Company who have ' ' accidents " are promptly "retired." • The Wairarapa Daily calls the political supporters of Mr Hogg, M.H.R. "Hogg's lambs." Would it not be briefer to call them " hoggets "? Reseigh Martin, a Sydney journalist, sentenced to two years' imprisonment for libelling Railway Commissioner Eddy, was recently removed from Sydney to . Maitland Gaol, chained by wrist and leg j as a convict- felon. Having in view the possibility of a dissolution and consequent general election, the Government are " dumping down " the Unemployed in "weak places " where they may be useful as " free and enlightened " electors. We notice that Miss Stewart has ex tended her premises by taking the shop formerly occupied by Mr Henry Lee, who has decided to carry on his trade in his private dwelling in Manchester Square. The Emperor of Germany proposed to bring a retinue of seventy persons with him on his visit to England iv .Juiyhuithe Queen requested hitn fco red ue^ the number as she could not afford to stand their tucker bill. , * The Napier Telegraph says: — Mr Bai lance's Civil Service Bill, which is to put everything to rights, we merely regard as a measure to secure to the friends of (he Government the offices to which they have been appointed, to give legislative effect to the axiom that j has been set up, ;.hat " the spoils* go to the victor:'" In another column we publish the state* raeut of the assets and liabilities of the Bank of New South Wales on the 31sfc March last These figures must prove highly satisfactory to. the shareholders, as they eyince the careful matiagement of. the Directors as well as the diligence of the officers of the Bank m conserving the best interests of this prosperous iustitution. We are informed by Mr Strachan, the Secretary of the Feildiug Football; Club, >that Ailr Galway, who is a good all round player himself, has presented two handsome silver medals to the first fifceeu. One medal for the best forward, and the other for the best back. Mr J. '■__. Henry has also presented a medal to the second fifteen. These medals are to be won under the same couditious as those for the Donnelly trophy last season; A correspondent writes :— Eyen Lin a prosperous community there are invariably one or more poor families. A rather pitiful instance came under our notice in which several ladies oh charity bent have interested themselyes. The replies ofthe little woman of nine years, who is Lin charge of the large family during the father's absence, are really worthy of be ing penned and pencilled by a Dorothy Tennent. This little lassie says she can cook " because she learned before she was seven." The father has been suffering from an injured wrist and has also been the victim of a levanting bush contractor. The mother has been dead about two years.