Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 9 July 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

There will be a dance to-morrow night in the Mangaone Public Hall. We have received No. 4 of Hansard, and a batch of Parliamentary papers. The Manchester Rifles will parade this evening in the Assembly Booms at 7.30_ An agency of the Bank of Australasia has been opened at Hunteryille. The Government Auditor, Mr Stevenson, was on an official visit here to day Mr G. V. Shannon arrived in Feilding yesterday en route for his farm at Wai tuna. A tangi is now on at Aorangi over the remains of two Maoris who died there recently. Lambing has commenced in earnest and large numbers are to be seen on each side of the railway line up to Wanganui. Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co. held a stock sale here to-day which was well attended. Report of prices &c, will appear in a future issue. It is stated that Mr Jackson Palmer, M.H.R., intends to proceed against the Wellington Press to recover L2OOO damages for libel Mr Trimble held a most successful sale yesterday at Mr Miller's place. The attendance was very large and most of the item 8 were disposed of. Mr J. E. Henry is beina; congratulated on all sides because of his very successful handicapping for the Canterbury Jockey Club, New Zealand Cup. The flaxmills in the locality of Orona Bridge are getting into full working order again, in consequence of the advanoe in the price of flax. It is stated that there are 160 members in the English House of Commons who who abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors. * At .^tratford-on Avon, last year, 20,000 vigitors from more than thirty countries paid to see the home of ShakesDeare. An advertisement is published to-day in connection with the football match to be played on the Ovnl on Saturday, be« tween Marton and Feilding. An •« Old English Tea " will be held in the Assembly Rooms, on Thursday, July 16th, in aid of the funds of St John's Church of England. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been Bent to all East Coast stations. The new landlord of the Endymion Hotel at Awahuri has taken possession, and, we hope, will make this hostelry what it should be, one of the best conducted on the coast. The Teiterden steeple was (he cause ot of the Goodwin Sands, and Mr Valentine, M.H X, attributes the exodus entirely to the presence of Mr Ba I lance and his colleagues on the Government benches. The adjourned meeting of the members of the United Hunt Club will be held at Mrs Oliver's Empire Hotel on Saturday evening, at 8 o clock. The Committee ■will meet at 7 p.m. The Feilding Secretary of the United Hunt Club has had a most satisfactory reply from Mr Lingard, the Wellington Secretary, and the hounds will meet at the Potatau farm, the residence of John Saxon, Esq., on Tuesday next, at 2 p.m. Mr Peter Thompson, plumber and tinsmith, is having erected a storeroom attached to his shop in Manchester struct, this is necessitated by his having ler a portion of hi.s premises to Mr Suott. who intends opening a watchmakers and jewellers shop.

The business at the X.M.. Court yes« t terday occupied' ten hours. Messrs J. 0. Morey and Co. have a replace advertisement m to-day in which they announce the arrival of two case 9of ball materials. Eor further particulars sea advertisement. WeHear- of several cases which indicate a return of the influenza epidemic in a more severe form than that of last year. Among others, Mr W. Macmillan, of Awahuri, ,is reported to be seriously ill from its effects.— Manawatu Times. The following notice is now exhibited at the Post office :— The public are reminded that book packets and circulars tnust.be open in such a way that the contents may be withdrawn for inspection. Those which ko not comply with this regulation will be surcharged. According to Mr R. Thompson the experience of every settler on tbe land is that he roust work from sunrise to sunset. As soon, therefore, as the hon. gentleman hears agitators talking about strikes and eight hours, he concludes that they haye no intention of going on the land. The Manager of the Manawatu Kailway has (says the Manawatu Herald) led the settlers at Levin to understaud that he purposes shortly to erect a suitable station anil to place an officer in charge, as the trade has so increased that it is one of tho best paying stations on the line. .. It is asserted by a " social pest " m the Washdyke district, near Timaru, that he loses about 1000 sheep each year through the prevalence of shesp-steahng. Perhaps it is just as well he should lose them t hat way as by " liberal taxation . There is only a difference in the name of the thing. Sir John Fowler, tbe pmment engineer, reports that it is imperative to rebuild eighty of the cast iron bridges on the London, Brighton, and South Coast line, consequent upon the increased speed and weis/ht of the locomotives. He also reports that the bridges on most of the other lines are equally dangerous, and will probably cost millions to rebuild. The ways of auctioneers in different parts of the world vary greatly. In England and America the seller usually bears the expense of the "sale, but in France the purchaser bears the cost of 5 per cent being added to his purchase. In Holland it is still worse, the buyer being required to pay 20 per cent additional for the expenses of the sale. Tbe United Hunt Club at Wellington have determined to have something better to chase than a man with a bag soak id with aniseed, or a timid hare They as* pire to ihe lordly stag, and to that end intend getting two full-grown animals of that persuasion over from Nelson and to have the first stag hunt held in the colony a few days after the Club's Steeplechase Meeting which is fixed for the 18th inst. At the last meeting of the Wanganui Harbor Board, we learn from the Herald : A letter was read from Mr C. Bray in regard to opening up a road to the back boundary of the Pohangma block, the esti mated cost of which was £618 15a. The Board decided that they were not in a position to entertain the proposal at present. — Mr Hunt wrote asking for leave to fence in about two acres at the Pohangina School for a horse paddock, and the permission was granted. A. petition was laid on the table on Tuesday from Annie Chemi9, wife of Louis Cheruis, convicted 14th July, 1889, of the murder of Thomas Hawkings. The petitioner, set forth that her husband'.^ counsel died during the progress of the trial, and that subsequently his desire to retain Mr Jellicoe was strenuously opposed by the Italian Consul (Mr G. Fisher), a police constable, and others, and that a general unwillingness was manifested on tbe part ©r the Crown officials to admit Mr Jellicoe to the posi« tion of defending counsel* Petitioner further set forth that the grand jury was composed chief'y of partisans, and that the evidence on which Louis Chemis was convicted was slenHer and impugned thi* credibility of the police, and she pray«d that enquiry muht be made in the case. Yesterday afternoon the funeral of Mr B. Douglas' little girl, aged ten years, took place. The funeral cortege started from the parents residence at Taonui, where a short service was held, and was met in Feildingr, at Eussell street, by the local contingent of the Salvation Army, to which religious body the parents belong. From there th 9 Army band headed the procession, playing appropriate pieces of music; then came the coffin borne by little girls, with the children of the Army, all of who wore Army sashes, in close at^ tendance; these were followed by the mourners on foot and in vehicles, numbering about 120 altogether. All the soldiers wore the regulation band of white ribbon with a red letter S on the arm. The procession, which presented a pretty but sad appearance, marched up Man Chester street as far as the English Church, where those who were walking got into trapa and buggies and proceeded thence to the cemetery, where Captain Stevens officiated. Mr Lucas and Mrs Chnstensen also spoke a few words suitable to the occasion at the grave. We cordially sympathise with the parents in their bereavement, as tho death was some what 'sudden, tha child having died on Monday last after only one week's illness. The cause of death was inflammation of the bowels. Mr A. Wratt was the under • taker and he carried out his duties satisfactorily.