Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 154, 23 June 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

It is stated that, there are 18,000 newspaper women in London, We have to acknowledge receipt of a third batch of Parliamentary papers. A % post and telegraph office is about to be established at Pahiatual The resignation is gazetted of Honorary. Surgeon Clifton Oharlton of the Manchester Eifles. . , The lake at Mr Bailey's farm at Sandon was frozen orer last Wednesday night. Wo learn from the Standard that the editor of the Mercury, Mr Wilson, haa fallen heir to a legacy at Home. Mr A. Bauckham, of Ashurst, was thrown from his horse on Saturday night and badly hurt. Mr Henry Rutherford slaughtered a pig yesterday which turned the scales at 500 lbs. We publish an " inset " from the Carl Harts! Company who play to-morrow night. The proposed tax of 2£ per cent on the totalisator will, if agreed to, cost the Feilding Jockey Club i>l2s a year. ' The Mauawatu Herald says the Maoris haye lately made some fine captures of frost fish. We remind our readers of the meeting to be held > on Friday night to discuss volunteer matters, and receive the report of the Canvassing Committee. The Minister of Education advises that parents should refuse to pay "q'uar- ! ter money," on account of their children attending State schools. j We have to acknowledge receipt of a complementary ticket for the Presbyterian concert and Social in ,the Assembly Booms on Thursday night. Ewes are fetching 15s per head m Nelson, and settlers in the Pelorus Sound, says the Maryborough. Press, anticipate getting 20s per head in August. A new terror has , been added to life in the back country, in the shape of tree hawkers, who are taking the place of the rapidly diminishing book fiends. Bronson — " Is Jones a linguist P " Smiley—" Well, I should think so ! You should have heard him just now, when he sat down on a tack I — Light. The Federation League intends to accept Lord Salisbury's challenge to formulate«a scheme for the federation of the Empire. " - _ . It is understood that the New Zealand Insurance Co. is likely to "pay an interim diyident at the rate "of 12| per cent per annum for the half year just' closed. We learn from the Hokitika Guardian that instructions have been'giyen to lay off a branch railway line from the GreyHokitika line to Kuinara the " blest abode " of the Minister for Public Works. On Saturday last a man named Ross was remanded to Wanganui gaol, pending the hearing of a charge against him for alleged fraud on a Beaconsfield settler named Bismarck. At the meeting of the Feilding Masoiiic Lodge last night Bro. Walter L. Bailey was elected W.M. for tfce ensuing year. The installation will be celebrated with a^ ball next month. ' We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr Wanklyn, Hon. Secretary of the Christchurch Hunt Club, for programme of the steeplechase meeting to be held at Riccar. ton on August 15, 1891. A. Home paper says that "Watt", the jockey, is building himself a mansion at .Newmarket which will p cost £15,000.'" This contains a suggestion to fathers with sous to proviue fot. The Endyrnion BbteJ, at Awahuri, has ' changed hands again. Mr W. Hunter, I formerly of Foxton, ia the purchaser, but he has not yet decided whether he will 1 conduct it himself, or accept an ofter which has already been made to kirn to sell at an advance. Electric motors are now used in driving* bread mixing machinery as well as in making wheat into flour. Bread is also buked by electricity. Wheat is not produced by electricity, but it can be consumed by, that agent. A remarkable invention has been made in Australia. Glass tubes project before railway trains, and if they are broken by an obstacle- an electric movement is applied to ■ the brakes, bringing the train .immediately to a standstill. Scene s A Wellington barber*s. Enter a Well-known Honourable Legislator " What ao you 1 charge for shaving?" Wellington Barber — " Sixpence, sir " Honourable Legislator — " Too much; can get it done for threepence; never pay more in Auckland." lixif. — Post* By telegraph we learn that of a total of £127,000 subscribed to* wards the Plan ot Campaign, £3000 is unaccounted for. Twenty thousand was grunted to tenants, £47,000 went in fees to lawyers and barristers, and £40,000 was spent on New Tipperary. When the 'municipal delegates assembled in Wellington a stranger remarked "What a decent looking lot of fellows, I suppose they are members of Parliament ?" "No fear," was the reply, they are members of municipal councils ; but there goes a member of Parliament, that chap with' the black eye." " Lord, Molly what a fish," was the startled rejoinder i The Wairafapa Daily says: — An M.HR. travelling from the City created considerable consternation amongst the passengers by the late train recently. The railway authorities should take measures to protect their passengers when " Bellamy " is on board. ; Te Kooti drove through. Hastings street on Friday morning on his way to Pefcune en route for 4 he great meeting to be held at Waiirarpm. ana in July He-was driV ing.nloni; in a light buggy, his followers erid'ntiy having been sent the inline! route to avoid notice.' To a Napier News representatives, who tnef. and recognised him on the Shaiiespere Ro'iul, heexpresred surprise at the marked advance of settle Oie.il/ffliickUe noted in the district.

, The Island Bay Hotel was on fire yes* tardiiy in eight different places. A man named Mark Poswillo, coolc at the Masonic Hotel, Woodville, committed suicide by taking strychnine Madame. : vlelba. to niark her thinks and sympathy ' with Australia, has de eidcd to present a bnst of herself by Fer- • ards to the Melbourne Public Library. Mrs Grimwood has been granted a pension of £140 per annum, and' a grotatty of i'IOOO will be distributed among the soldiers who took part in Commisss ioner Quintou's expedition. ' ' Terrific rainstorms hare raged oyer the country between Ottawa, in Canada, and Peoria, in Illinois, continuing for fours hours. Th.-y were accompanied by yiolent thunder and lightning. A young: swell came to the counter of the Feilding post office this morning, asked for a twopenny half-penny stamp and threw down twopence. Being reminded of the bawbee, he said "D — the ha'penny," and walked out— That man is distilled to be a Bothachild. The case of Holmes and Bell v. T K. Macdonald, M. H.R., was to be heard at the Supreme Court tnis- morning but defendant produced- the Speaker's certifU cate protecting him. for thirty days after the session is finished and the case was adjourned. 1 The great clearing sale to be held at Mr Miller's residence Ley's line, will take place on Wednesday, Bth July. Full particulars will appeur in our next issue. In the meantime, settlers having stock to dispose of are requested to enter the game at once* i Captain -Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all places. .Captain Edwin states thereare strong indications of heavy westerly gales with 'rain between noon 25th and midnight 27th. Since publication of the Financial Statement Government have received several criticisms and suggestions respecting the incidence of the new taxes. Amongst them is one point raised as to the position of people who buy land on deferred payments and do not receive the title im mediately. The man Webster, who attempted to cut bis tiiroat at Green Island a couple of months ago, disappeared from his-house on Wednesday, night, and has not been heard of since. He left the house with the avowed intention of visiting a friend's house, but never went there, and no one has seen him since. The Carl Hartz Company will appear in the Assembly Eooms to-morrow night: We learn from our exchanges that the performances given by the talented members of this popular company ' are unexceptionally; good, an d m every part of the colony they have earned golden opinions. An apology is made for the non-appear-ance of the company last ' week, which was unavoidable. An Irishman crossing the, Channel from Dublin to Liverpool accosted a gentleman a fellow-passenger on thepacltet. " Pray, sir, can you tell me the- correct time of the day ?" ''Yes,'" was 'the reply, "it is twelve o'clock by Dublin, and twenty-five minutes past twelve by London." " Arrah, now, ! do you mean to tell you -have twenty-fire minutes more time jn London than we have in Dublin?" *;.Yes ; I be> heve that is so," replied the gentleman. " Do you call that justice to Ireland ?" exclaimed the indignant Irishman. An Auckland woman who lost her husband recently advertised in the following manner : — " Los£ 'stolen, or strayed, an individual whom I, in an unguarded moment, adopted as my husband. He is a good looking but feeble individual, who answers" to the name of Jim. When last seen he was in company with acroojs~eyed woman, walking, his arm round her waist up a back road, looking more like a fool, if possible, than ever. Anybody who will catch the fellow and bring him safely back, so that 1 may chastise him for running away, will be invited to stay to tea and see -the fun, and no questions asked,"— Dunedin Star.