The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1891.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 14, 1 August 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1891.

It must be a cause of gratification to the electors whom Mr Macarthur represents, ■to know that, even on a bed of sickness, he does not neglect their interests when these are attacked. In our last issue we mentioned that a number of Maoris had congregated on a block of Crown Land near the Feilding Special Settlement, clai&iing that they had the permission of the J&oyernmenb to select 4000 acres in that locality. Mr Macarthur, imtnediabelyon becoming acquianted with the circumstance, placed himself in cominumcation with Mr Wilson, the member for Palmerston, who has asked the Minister if he had given the permission the Maoris say they have received. We would suggest to the Borough authorities the advisableness of attaching a lamp on tne telegraph post just placed at the corner of Manchester street and Kimbolton road, in order to avert any possibility of accident at night, by either norsemen or vehicles coming in contact therewith. In this connection, also, we would like to point out that numerous vehicles return to town, or drive about in the streets at night, without being provided with side lights, contrary to the provisions of the Borough by-laws. The. following are the traffic returns for the four weeks ending the 30th June, and for the corresponding period in 1890 on the Napier-Taranaki section of railway.

The total passengers were 37,769 and 34,586 respectively, showing that with the opening of the Manawatu Gorge section the number of persons travelling by rail has considerably increased. In the speech on public affairs made by the Marquis of Salisbury, at the Mansion House, in London, on the 29th ult., he said the prediction that Ireland needed a resolute Government had been fulfilled, and he asserted that it was owing to England being at the back of Ireland that famine had been averted in that country. Beferring to European politics, he said they we never so tranquil as at present. Egypt and Bulgaria were rapidly developing, which promised to solye the Eastern question, and he knew of nothing unless it was the treaties question calculated to menace the world's peace. The Imperial Government had been pressed to insist on compulsory arbitration on the Chilian Bevokition, and the reform of the Argentine Bepublic finance, but they were not disposed to encroach lon the functions of the Presidents. The Government, he declared, would duly defend and assert British interests, but would not meddle in other quarrels, and at the present time the allies of Great Britain all desired peace and goodwill. With reference to the cable message from Sydney that a new shipping company was being formed there to trade with New Zealand, on which we commented in our last issue, a telegram has been sent from Christchurch to the effect that commercial men in Canterbury scout the idea as there is. not a single shipper in that part of the colony associated with the move--ment. This is reassuring.

1891 1890 Passengers 4891 0 0 4288 8 4 Parcels, &c, 555 16 4 456 7 4 Goods 5746 13 8 6196 15 8 Mis'laneous 286 13 2 319 11 7 ,611,430 3 2 £11,261 2 11