Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 11 July 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

• — The postal guide for July quarter came to hand yesterday — only nine daje overdue. The hounds will meet at Mr Saxon's Potatau Farm, on Tuesday next at 2 p.m. and at Sandon on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Members of the United Hunt Club are reminded of the meeting to be held this evening at the Empire Hotel at 8 o'clock. Messrs A. J. Parsons and F. E. Jackson represent the Wanganui Jockey Olub at the conference of racing clubs now being held at Wellington, The following have joined the cricket team which Lord Sheffield is taking to ' iustrali*-: — Abel, M. Bead, Ohatterton, Bean and Sharpe. The " Old English Tea " to be held in ihe Assembly Booms next week, should itfcract a large gathering. The uiusioal portion of the entertainment promises to >c above the average in point of merit. Grown up people always defend flogjing in schools, because they experience! tin the days of their youth ; but if they inly toJd the truth they woujd admit it v&a " a horrid nuisance '* at the time. The following players will represent Lwahuri m the matoh against Palmerston or the Junior Guy to day : --Backs, Ben iett, Kiwi, Martin,. Karihana, Kookly, iloyd, Stuart (captain), forwards, Burns, Jennet (2), Munus, Stuart, McSayery, licka, Lawton. Earnest steps are now being taken to ueh the West Coast Farmers' Society, a at meeting held in Wantraimi theothor ay, the Provisional Directors were losen, the secretary, Mr Sraaile, apoiuteti. and Mr Cash, of Martou, chosen 3 solicitor. Mr J. Stevens has been apwilted broker. ' c

Tlie case of tliu Queen v. Goleman j Philips will be heard on Monday.next. A football match wks played at Timbro. on Thursday last h t-. can the Te Ante and a team from" thai place, when the visitors wer^ victorious by 6 point-* to nil. It is rumoured that the meus employed upon the relief works at Pahiatua, are very dissatisfied with regard to their wage?, nn<! are agitating to have tl.e.r grievances rectified. We have been requested to state that the well-known native lady Huke Pera, although seriously ill, is rapidly progressing towards complete recovery. She has been much annoyed by some stupid persons circulating a report that she had died. We would remind our readers that Mr Grant, of Sandon, is announced to preach in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow morning. It is most probable that Mr Grant will only be heard once more before taking 6 months leave of absence, during which time he proposes to pay a visit to the Old country. Mr W. GK Shearer, of the Manchester Furniture Warehouse, has a roplace ad* yertisement in to- day, in which he announces that he has a well-assor.ted stock of looking glasses, chairs, mats, and various other articles connected with the trade. For other particulars attention is directed to the advertisement. Miss Nellie Payne, a member of the Payne family of musicians, whose death was reported some time ago and afterwards contradicted, died at Moonta (S.A.) on June 3 from consumption. She went there twelye months ago in the hope that the mild climate would do her good. She was nineteen years of age^-Dunedin Star. # Harry Prince, once a well-known book* maker and horse-owner in New Zealand, died in the Kew Asylum, New South Wales on Ihursday,thelsth ult. Prince at one time owned the racehorses Sir Modred, Somnus, Hillarious and other good ones, and was for many years one of the most popular men of his calling in in this Colony. We learn from the N.Z. Times that arrangements have now been completed for the procuring of a stag from Nelson, and it is expected to arriye here next week. ')n its arrival it will be taken to " Miramar," and in all probability a stag hunt will be arranged to take place on either the Monday or Tuesday after the Hunt Club's Steeplechase on the IBth. The Eev H. B. Harvey, incumbent of All Saints' Church, Palmerston North, will leaye the Manawatu for a short visit to England in about a fortnight's time Mr Harvey's duties, our corresspondent is informed, will be under taken in his absence by tha Bey Mb Baikes, now residing and acting as locum tenens in New Plymouth. —N.Z. Times. Says Typo :■—'•' As Collectors of Chestnuts the funny men oE the second-rate Australian weeklies would be bard to beat. One of them, afier premising that ' the waters of the Waitemata are prolific in eels/ tells a story of 'an Auckland widow/ which is a clumsily-mangled version of tne Ingoldsby Legend of The \ Knight and the Lady. ' The stale plagiar- ; ism is now going the rounds of the New j Zealand press," | A delegation from Dr Barnardo's j Homes has reached the colonies in the ! charge of the Rev. Walter J. Mayers, j There are eight lads who have received a j good manual and musical training, and they will giye entertainments with the obiect of raising tunds for the building of a new home for girls in Essex. The , party are at present in South Australia, and are due in New Zealandjwo' months hence. — Dunedin-Sfai\ - &jafoM? i a| eps staff heard ma private letftrff&sj^l^Usot:, of a wonderful cure for ixsuraiifj* viitcn had been discovered in te* v !..,;• so he wrote over to a friend residing t^iere for the prescription. Yesterday hi received the following reply. "Dear J— The wonderful cure is 'Clements for particulars of which see 4th : puj>e Fejdldino Stab. — Tours E.K." /There could hardly be a more genuine compliment to the merits of the tonic— and the benefits of advertising. Thomas Henry Metcalfe, canvasser for the Picturesque Atlas Company was com mitted for trial at Dunedin on Wednesday last on the charge of perjury arising out of evidence given in a case against Milchie. settler on the Peninsula, who re fused to take delivery of Atlas. Mitchie, and his daughter swear tbat the order ? .was signed by pen and ink, and was for one part, whereas the order produced in the case was written with, an indelible pencil. Bail was allowed. Most of the provisions contained in Mr George Hutchison's Licensing Amendment Bill, which was circulated on Wed tiesday night, .have already been made public. The hour of closing is to be 11 o'clock, midnight licenses being abolished. Any applicant or objector feeling aggrieved by the deoision of a Licensing Committee may appeal on grounds to be set out in writing, and delivered within seven days of the deoision complained of, to the clerk of the committee whose decision it is intended to challenge. The Court of Licensing Appeal is to be held within three weeks after an appeal has been lodged. Such Court will be constituted of three or more of the Justices of the Peace resident within the licensing district, with the local Resident Magistrate as Chairman. Provision is made for the granting of a temporary license by the Collector of Customs, pending the appeal, wherever the latter is against a decision cancelling or refusing the renewal of an existing license.— Post. We learn from the N.Z. Times that :— < An unfortunate occurrence happened on 1 Thursday last on the Manawatu train i from Longburn to Wellington. When about a mile the other side of Manakau the driver noticed clouds of smoke issuing from a horsebox not far from the engine. He at once brought the train to a standstill and proceeded, with several others, to examine the burning box. On the door being opened it was found the straw t bedding in the box had in some way be- i eorae ignited. The two animals — Lucy r Glitters, belonging to Mr A. R. Fitz- ] herbert of Palmerston North, and the c well-known steeplechaser Dangerous, be- r. longing to Mr Tlmrston — were standing, t both paralysed with terror and pain and c half suffocated with smoke. The flames c had caught one side of the box, and d when discovered had a good hold. The n cloohing on Lucy Glitters' back was nearly all burnt off her, and the unfortunate mare had her feet and part of I her legs completely roasted. Dangerous b was singed about the legs, but nothing p like so seriously injured as his companion, E whose hoofs were nearly burnt off. Ihe ai mare was got out and left in a paddock te at the side of the line while the train o] came oil to Mamikau, where the guard c< reported the mishap, and a man was sent se to shoot her. Dangerous was brought on at to Wellington, but although not seriously hi burnt, he is not likely to be able to race m on Saturday. It is supposed a spark th from the engine ignited the straw. £» Messrs J. C. Morey and Co. have a big 3ispky of dress materials and kney goods o 1 it the Bon Marche. sv Tenders are invited for cleaning the., 01 PeihUag Btate Beiiooi, Teucers * u l A iloee. on Wednesday next. su

. A Senior Cup iuuuoa.i ruaooti, between j Murtou ami Feilding, \v».s -oing played on the Ov»l this afternoon as we went to press. Mr C. Bray, Engineer to the Kiwitea Road Board, invites tenders for certain works in the district, particulars of whioh will be found in the advertisement. On Thursday last Mr Trimble held a very successful sale of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs from the nursery i of Mr Laird, of Wanganui. i Alfred Eade's expected consignment of • New Zealand cocoanut matting arrived i to day. — Advt. A young woman visifed a mu»eum of natural history, and for the first time in her life saw a human skeleton. "Doar " me," she exclaimed, " how mortifying it 1 is to think that one will look like that ! ■ It makes me ashamed to be seen !" ' Some jurymen at Nelson who were un« \ able to agree on a veHici; were locked up ' for the night; and blankets were provided them from .Nelson gaol, They now complain that the bedding wr.s "All alive ■ <0 !" There is nothing like puuishment to 1 make jurymen agree. A correspondent of the Queen hag ' lately had an interview with Mr Walter ( Beaant and discussed with him aathos- , ship as a profession for women. The conversation naturally led ud to publish* ers, and on this point Mr Bosant said of 1 the aspiring authoress : — " She may fall mto the hands of a sweater. The worst 1 sweater is a certain religious society, L which is in the habit of giving its authors 1 from £5 to £30 for work which it knows ' it can sell so as to produce a profit of ' over one hundred to five or six hundred 1 pounds." , Mr Booth, the chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, during the course of [ his speech at £he laying of the foundation , stone of the new building on Thursday last, gave some very interesting statistics , as showing the progress made in Welling - , ton during the last few years. He said in 1882 the length of berthage at the wharf was 3560 ft, while now it was 6850. The registered tonnage of vessels coming 1 to the port in 1882 was 356.000 tous, last ; year it was 782,000, During the same period of eight years the number of bales of wool and flax had grown from 43,300 ; to 129,300. '. In a recent issue of Typo appeared the : following, which was published before an alleged libellous article appeared in a , Wellington paper. The paragraph reads : • . " There is something in the praotice of certain professions which tends towards neutralising those results which the pre--1 liminary mental training is intended to ' secure. Every experienced journalist, 1 with the fear of libel before his eyes, knows that of all contributors, those he must watch the most closely are lawyers and clergymen. From no other olass of • educated men comes such loose, inaccurate , and reckless writing. At first ,sight this may seem strange, but the reason, after all, is not far to seek.A meeting of the Fire Brigade was held lost night, Captain Bray in the chair who said the meeting had been called as the annual one for the election of officers, and he would not be able to stand for re - election, as his duties so often called him I away. He would still remain a member. j The meeting expressed regret at his giy- ! ing up the command, and passed a hearty. vote 'if thanks to him for his pa.<&2:years services* It was arranged to holdauother general meeting: on Monday night next for the election of officers, and a committee was appointed to suggest dorn^pecial means of raising funds, and report at said meeting. Mr J. Bishop sent £1 in recognition of the Brigade putting out his burning chimney.