Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 149, 9 June 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The R.M. Court will sit in Feilding tomorrow. Mr C. H. Hinman will lecture in the Gospel Hall on Thursday and Friday eve, commencing at 7 o'clock. The Manawatu Times pays it is a certainty that the present Ministry will not hold office for another month. . . Professor Blaekie says that TSdinbnrsh is the least Scotch, the most flunkeyfied, and the most snobbish city in the world ' On Thursday next, at their Feilding stock sale, ' Messrs Freeman <R. Jackson and Co, will also sell about 30 acres of turnips adjoining the Feilding township. An objection has been lodged with Mr Bray, the clerk of the Ashurst Licensing. Committee, against a license being granted to Mr T. Nelson for his hotel at Ashurst. Those who are desirous of obtaining some first-class fruit aud ornamen'al trees, can do so' to-morrow at Messrs Stevens and' Gorton's sale at their auction rooms iv Fergusson Street. At the annual show of the Wellington Kennel Club, held at .Wellington last Friday, we notice that in class 13, Irish setter dogs, Mr W. G. Haybittle's " Rock "'secured first prize from a good list of entries. This is the second time " Rock" has secured first prize. The 1 Wairoa . murder trial case at Auckland was concluded on last Friday. Dr Walker depoVed that he had examined the prisoner- and had come to the con* elusion tha the was only feigning in sanity. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of mans'auehter, and the prisoner was sentenced to 15 years' pen il servitude. Oh Saturday afternoon the snowfall was very heavy and came very low down on the. ranges. At Birmingham and Ashurst snowballing was indulged in by men aud boys with keen enjoyment. On Sunday the weather was fine, and cle.ir, but at night one of the hardest gales felt for some years was experienced. A labour bureau has been opened by the Salvation Army in Christchurch, with branches in all the chief towns in the colony. Every officer is an agent, and correspondents are" to be appointed in every. town in the colony. A domestic servants' registry is a separate branch of the .bureau. The officers of the Army are to be congratulated on having undertaken a useful work m praot'eal Christianity. We have been requested by the Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society. to .mention that certain resident " sports" have been taking out licenses m the Wanganui district where the cost is only 10s, J and then presuming on the courtsey of the local society to shoot here. This is illegal, and consequently offenders may find • themselves . in a> position; to be ' mulcted of more than the few shillings sayed.

Up to the time of our going to press, bhe results of .the Ongo election had not reached Feilding. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24, hours from 9 a.m. to day -- TV-leiM-Hnis to expect frost or a very cold night have been sent to all places. The famous Indian Water Buffalo, which was on view in the room adjoining the Assembly Rooms yesterday, was visited by a great number of persons who were much pleased with this strange animal. -- A medical notice is published to-day by Dr Johnston to which the attention is directed of those who are indebted to Dr^ Charlton for professional attendance from 12th July, 1889, to 12th January, 1890. Such fees are now payable to ; Mr Sherwill, Dr Johnston's authorised agent. A number of persons in Feilding are in the habit of posting letters addressed -to Makino with only one penny stamp affixed.' Although this was permitted for some time by the' officials they have now decided that the full charge, of twopence will be made, and, therefore,, all letters with only a one- penny stamp on it, will haye a fine of two pence inflicted for insufficient postage. : ■ ■ Messrs "Stevens and Gorton baye de cided to -hold quarterly horse sales in future, and the first sale wdl be held at the Palmerston yards on Saturday, June 13. The firm have decided to take this course in order to avoid selling horses on ordinary stock sale days, when they are too busy to pay proper attention to the sale of horses. No doubt .horse owners will find these periodical .sales much more satisfactory and advantageous than the old system. — Manawatu limes. Stoats are , rapidly increasing down Levin way, notwithstanding that a bloody war is raged against the intruders by the infuriated cats on who domains the stoats are encroaching. In this connection a little affair occurred at Levin which may be interesting to the students of natural history. . A gentleman heard a peculiar squeak in his barn, and on going in saw his domestic cat in the act of depriving, a stoat of a mouse the latter had just made prisoner. The cat marched off in triumph with its tail expanded like a brush bottle cleaner, while the stoat retired swearing after the manner of its kind. The Oamaru Mail says:— Things are coming to such a pass that presently it will not be safe for a respectable citizen to be seen speaking to a member of a t Liberal Ministry. They are such a dreadful , lot, those Liberals — so vulgar, so ignorant, so dishonest,; and so, desperately wicked— that -the. only wonder ls'that they are permitted to dwell on the same sphere with highly respectable Tories." This is rough on the Ministry and their supporters, but, the editor of the Oamaru Mail notwithstanding, we have known many .Liberals who were neither "vulgar nor ignorant." Voltaire said, " When thou eatest, give to thy dogs, though they bitethee in return i" One of the most interesting books which has been published recently is '" The Black Police," by Mr A. J. Vogan. The author gives a yiyid description of the murders and cruelties perpetrated on the Australian Blacks, by the settlers as well as by the native police who are employed against their fellow countrymen. ' What Mrs Harrett Beecher Stowe, with " Uncle Tom's Cabin," did for the negroes in America, Mr Vogan hopes to do for the unfortunate Australian aboriginies against whom a war of extermination has been carried on since the first settlement of the whites at Botany Bay. Mr Carthew has sent us a copy, . which we have read, and can recommend to the perusal of all who have the true interests of humanity at heart,