Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 153, 20 June 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

- ' ' <•■ „, ' Stevetin ,and Gorton's Foildin™ sale yards,. are, being refitted and gravelled. The Rev. R. Kame will .preach in the Primitiyo Methodist to-morrow, morning and eveniug. . ' s • ' We,']eai'n from the Standard there are now sixty men, in the Palmers ton RiHe Corjs.

Mr J. S. Freeman, of Ashursfc, is opening a stationery and book store in that rising townulrip.The frost yesterday morning was exceptionally sevure, tiud the ice was very thick in man? plaues The Kiwiiea '.Road Board was sitting as we went to press.* 1 "Our. report will appear in our next issue. '' The persecution of Mr Justice Edwards, it is alleged, jsvaß. instituted by the Government to please Sir Hubert jStout. The Feildmg " portion of the 'Frisco mail arrived yesterday afternoon by the mail train* - .'.,.-- Mr ,W. G. Haybittle, the Mayor ofFeilding, - returned" yesterday from, the conference of municipal delegates at Wellington. - ■ The brick work of Messrs Cobbe and Dai fash's now. store -is being pushed on, and-the timber for the wood work is now being*Btacked on the ground. The new-sample rooms connected wwint n tbj Feilding Hotel are now finished and th"c contractor, Mr' Pope, has done the job in his usual workmanlike manner. We have to thank' Mr J. -T.Sinclair, of Wanganui, for a copy of his Manual : and catalogue of agricultural, garden, and .flower seeds. The usual monthly meeting of the Feeding Masonic Lodge will be held on Monday, next. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. - Sydenham Taylor, as the funny, man of the House, is being run., very close by Taranaki Smith. There will be a row presently.* A notice m ' connection with a piece of land set apart as a "burial ground for the Church of England, at Kiwitea, appears to-day. ' We learn from " the Wellington Watchman" that the Hon. Richard Seddon, now weai-8 a chimnej pot hat of austere demeanour. - Yesterday Mr Frank Fowleß left at our office a raspberry cane in full leaf, -with three well developed- and perfectly ■ ripe berries on it. The cane was grown in the open air and exposed to the frost. The footpaths in Grey street are a vast improvement, and the sooner the residents m Manchester Street follow the good example given tliem, the better for the appearance of the town/ and the convenience of pedestrians. Yeeterday a lad aged about nine years, a son of Mr M. Brelski, of Pernberton,,, was badly hurt by a tree falling on him. Be was broughtin to Feilding, and sent on to the Wangariui Hospital by "the 7.15 train this morning. ■ The agent of the ( Press Association in England wired out the other day " The Nile is rapidly rising." If he had only thought of it, no doubt he would have added tp the 'message the news of the demise of Pharaoh's cat. " Truth " states that the Emperor of Germany, in a letter to the Queen, protests strongly against the Prince of Wales conduct. When Albert Edward heard the news he ew.eetly whistled " Tommy make room for your uncle." The report of the Public Trust Commission appointed to investigate the mangetuentof the Public Trust Office was laid on the table of the House yesterday. The report as a whole is strongly condemnatory of the management of the department. We understand that the Government Insurance Department, recognising this as a centre of considerable importance, have decided that their chief agent for the West Coast, Mr Rogers, shall make this his home and head quarters. Ho may be expected here next mouth. Owing to activity in the building trade, the local sawmills are pretty well unemployed although not, workiug up to their Cutting capacity. After the stagnation in this industry which obtained a few months ago, this change for the better is Vo'ry" acceptable. It is stated the Secretary of the Christ-, church Licensed Victuallers' Association has laid an inforintiou against W. P. Rudd, charging him with violating the provisions of the Licensing Act, by acting on the Sydenham Committee when being a paid officer of the Government. The Hon. W. E. Gladstone talking to his son Herbert one day said " Never owe email sums of money to" 1 tradesmen, because, supposing you were indebted to twenty men for small sums, twenty men would think you a small man." • The G.O.M. never kept a store, but he has had a deal to do with newspapers. "Nemo "who writes "By-the-way" m the JDunedin Star, says that he could not interview his M..H.E. because the latter was suffering from a severe attack of " ophthalmia" which required the ap plication of a raw beef steak spread gently but expansively over the affected parts. -The affection was contracted at the GrandHotel on Saturday last. The intention of Ministers not to give fair play is sufficiently evident by the ' manner.m which they haye -packed important sessional committees with their adherents. So glaring is this that the reports of these committees, instead of rendering 1 material assistance to the House, will be necessarily received with so much suspicion 'as to he practically disregarded ; thus involving a great deal of extra work. — Duuedin Star.•The installation of Bro Thomas Flowers as W. M. of the Raiigitikei Lodge of Freemasons was ably performed by P.M. Bro. Thomas King, ia the Masonic Hall at Bulls on Wednesday in the presence of some 25 of the brethren. The newly in- , stalled master invested Bro. C. M. McLean P.M., 1.P.M., Bro. Howard S.W., Bro. Broughton P.M., J. W., Bro. J. Munro P.M., Treasurer, Bro. Edward's S.D., Bio Maneell J.D., Bro. W. R. Wil- : son J.G., Bro. Webb Tyler. — Mercury.