Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 22, 20 August 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

We have to thank the Goyernment Printer for No. 16 of Hansard. French engineers are discussing the possibility of a railroad across the desert of Sahara. The total amount of sealing wax constituting a twelve months' supply for the Government weighs 10,000 pounds. Sir Charles Dilke, addressing an assemblage of 10,000 miners at Nottingham, advocated the passing of the Eight Hours' Bill. Members of the Committee of the Feilding Racing Club, are reminded of the meeting to be held to-morrow night at the Denbigh hotel. The existence of native birds in the South Island is said to be threatened, owing to the depredations of ferrels, stoats, weasels, and rats. We are informed by the Manawatu Times that seven separate charges of eyasion of the Beer Duty Act are set down for hearing at Palmerston to-day. The Vatican is not hostile to an Aus tro-German alliance. It regrets that the Italian Government is using means to hinder the solution of the Roman question. We have received a copy of theDeba'.es in the Legislative Assembly, Queensland, on Mr Glassey's motion for thp appointment of a special commission to enquire into all matters in connection with the recent labor troubles and their origin. Mr Morley gives a flat contradiction to Mr Parnell's statement made at Drogheda, that he, while knowing the verdict in the divorce case opposed his resigning the leadership. The R.M.S. lonic, from London, via the Cape, arrived at Hobart at 1 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and sailed again at 11 p.m. for New Zealand. She had 48 passengers for Australia and 60 for New Zealand. Meters Say well Bros, have just turned out at their establishment, to the order of Mr £L fiutherford, butcher, Manchester street, a very substantial and well-fitted butcher's cart, which reflects in eyery way, credit on the builder. A peculiarity about t'.e " 18'Jl " is that addirii.' tin- first figure to the second miikf-s the ihird, and abstracting the fourth figure from the third gives the second. Add.ng the four figures too ether gives us the number of tlin century. " Walter Graham," the well-known consultation swindler, is again flooding this -colony with circulars. He caught quite a number of flats last year, notwithstanding the warnings sriyen by the press, and, no doubt, will do well this year. The race of fool6 never dies out.

The settlers about the Mangaone are not satisfied with its present name, and purpose holding a meeting on Saturday to select a better sounding and less common designation. We have been requested by Mr E. Goodbehere, Secretary of the Feilding Hunt Steeplechase Meeting, to state that the name of the first race on the programme of the forthcoming meeting has been altered to read " Trial Steeplechase," instead of " Maiden Hack Steeple chase." The alteration reached us too late to make in the Club's advertised programme. The Socialist Congress which is sitting in Brussels represents 200,000 Socialists on the Continent and in Great Britain. Three hundred and sixty-two delegates are present. London, Sheffield, and other large Trades Councils are represented. Two local preachers attached to th« Methodist body in West Hartlepool (England) were recently struck off the rolls by the chapel authorites for going to see a performance of Sydney Grundy's play, " A Village Priest." The Hygienic Congress has passed a resolution in favour of cremation as the most rational mean9 of disposing of their dead, especially in case of contagious diseases and battlefields. The Government was urged to introduce legislation on the subject. John Burns, speaking at Clapham, said that the coming depression in trade would shake old-established unions, and bring about the abolition of those that had been recently formed. He adyised the workmen to look to Parliament for redress of their grievances. An entire caravan laden with gold dust to the value of some 20,000,000 roubles (about £3,250,900), belonging to the .Russian Government has mysteriously disappeared somewhere in Eastern Siberia, and is being searched for high and low by the imperial authorities. Sir Morell McKenzie, M.D-, in th? course of an interview with a representative from the Gaulois newspaper, stated that the disease of the ear from which the Emperor of Germany is suffering is serious, but it is possible that Mis Majesty would live to old age. Stanbury and Kemp intimate that they are willing to row Hanlan and O'Connor in a double sculling race for £1000 a-side, and will also row each of them a single sculling race for £500 a side. They will allow £300 expenses if the races are rowed on the Parramatta river. In the report of the Conference on Charity, of the Salvation Array one writer expresses his admiration for their earnestness and selfdenial, and his feeling that they do a great deal of good work in relieving distress, and inducing many to relinquish their vicious habits and iive a nobler life.

Our contemporary the Taranaki Herald is now in its fiftieth year, aud is therefore one of the three oldest papers in New Zealand. We hope it will jet have many years of prosperous life, and that Tara naki may never again be visited by the eyil days which have had their sad events chronicled in the columns of the Herald. News from Sydney states that : — Tbe twenty mile walking match for a sweepstake of £20 each between Goreman, of Queensland ; Bowen, of New Zealand ; and W. Harris, of Victoria, resulted in a win for Bowen, who is well known in Otago and Canterbury as a long distance walker. Time 4 hours 18|min. On Monday evening last, after nightfall, Bowerman Bros, arrived at Fairfax, near Invercargill, to deliver the Atlas, and left .£IOO \il;orth in the railway station while they went for a trap. On returning, the books were gone, and it is reported they were thrown into the Aparirna river. There is no clue to the culprits. Colonel M'Kie and StafrC'ipt. Plant of the Salvation Army have had wonderfully successful times in their meetings at ... lovercargill, Dunedm, and Oamaru, close upon 200 people having come forward to the penitent form at these three places. After holding meetings in Christchurch the Colonel visits the West Coast. The ordinary fortnightly meeting o* the Loval Manchester Lodge of the Oddfellows was held at Glasgow House last evening. There was a good attendance, and two new members joined the lodge, the prospects of which are improving. Six new members have joined the lodge during the paßt month, and two new candidates are expected next meeting. We congratulate the lodge on the progress it is making. An excellent sketch, "In a Salvation Array Shelter," beautifully and re«ih»ti<catty illustrated, the picture, " Her first night" being most pathetic-appears in the new sixpenny weekly ; Black and White". To say that it is from the pen of Mrs Lynn Li at on, is to say that it is eminently readable, and that the treatment is sympathetic. The Shelter sketched is the women's. Hanbury street, midway between Whitechapel and Spitalfields, the venue of "Jack the Ripper J *.

Madame Sarah Bernhardt's Australian season has been a great success. Her private secretary, Mr Symondson, states thnt during the two months the company have beeo over there the takings amounted to £~36,000, "but," added Mr Symondson pathetically, "We are taking very little of it away with us, the expenses have been so heavy. We have forty people to pay, and of cause Mr Williamson, who had the theatres, took a Inrge share. Madame is very highly pleased with Australian audiences.

At a thoroughly representative meeting the Peinbersfcon settlers have passed a resolution vigorously protesting against the action of (loyernment in handing over to Maoris a large portion of the Otamakapua Block. The resolution sets <»ut " that the fact -of a large area of land being held by the Crown, ostensibly for European occupation, has been one of the principal inducements for men to make their homes here; also, they have been, encouraged by the prospect of the land' being taken by desirable settlers to encumber themselves by raising a loan of £5000 for the purpose of making ore main road, which would not only benefit themselves but give access to and enchance the value of the laud beyond for settlement ; therefore, the settlers protest that the U-oyernment are acting in the matter with injustice and with a disregard for their interests." The Maoris who were camped on the land have left for the present. They intimated, however, that they would return shortly to plant potatoes, etc.— Advocate.

A, large quantity of stone will shortly be shipped from Oamaru to Melbourne. The timber is now being put on the ground tor Mr W. G. Shearer's new shop in Manchester street. A letter written by Queen Victoria to the Empress of Russia, wa» eold m London recently for £7. The warm rain which hns fallen lately has done an immense amount of good, and the grass is growing rapidly. Tapper's case was argued yesterday morning in Banco, Messrs Jellicoe and Skerrett for, and Mr Gully, Crown Prosecutor against. The grounds belonging to the Church of England, at Cheltenham, are now being cleared with the yiew of laying them down in grass. There wa3« heavy thunderstorm in the hills this morning, and "the loud rattling of heavens' artillery " roused everybody from their slumbers. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for gales and much colder weather have been sent to all places. Horse owners are reminded that the i nominations for the United Hunt Club Steeplechase Meeting must be in by 8 p.m. on Saturday, the 22nd August. The playing of baccarat has increased since the extensive advertisement of the game ; but the fashion will die out when the novelty has disappeared. A Leeds (England) dentist is said to have a small boy sit in his office and yell at the top of his lungs occasionally. It lends an air of business to the establishment. Yesterday Mr M. S. Quinn, one of the most popular and respected officers attached to the Government Life Insurance Department, was a visitor to Feilding, where he received a cordial welcome from many old friends. The next time Palmerston plays Fielding football, they will have— it is said —a solicitor to watch the case on their behalf. This is as it should be, and we stronglv advise Feilding to follow so characteristic an example. The fad idiot who is so rampart in New Zealand, wants bachelors to be taxed, and also disfranchised. He may save himself the troubla, because the bachelor i are fast leaving the country and there will soon be none left to do anything with.

We are informed by Mr Daw that he does not expect to extend his line of coaches as far as Pemberton until about the end of the year, some days before Christmas. Owiiig to the immense traffic the Kimbolton road is very muddy just now. Two evictions took place recently at Northampton, Western Australia. In one case a woman and her children, and iu another case a man, were turned out by the sheriff's officer, and immediately afterwards the cottages wen* destroyed by fire. " | The King of Denmark bears a bitter grudge against Germany on account of Schleswig-Holstein ; and hence he avoids all intercourse with his neighbor. When, as now, he patronises Wiesbaden, therefore, he goes privately and his presence there is not officially known, A new style of blinkers has been inyented by Mr R. R. Collins. They are a vast improvement on the old form, because they permit the horse to see on each side, as well as in front, so that it is less likely to be startled by anything unusual on the road, and thereby caused to shy. The Wanganui Chronicle says:— Mr McNaught, new relieving teacher appointed by the Board of Education, arrived from Wellington yesterday. It is probable that his first duty will be to open and take charge of tbe new Spur Road School, in the Mangaone district, pending the appointment of a permanent teacher, Judging from Mr Trimble's adver» tisement which appears in this issue, h<> should have a large gathering at his mar! on Saturday next, when we notice there will be a great number of lots offered without reserve. The sale will start at I.3i> so as to give the auctioneer time to get rid of the balance of Mr Richards stock.

Another large slip ia imminent in the Gorge about half-way through. All day yesterday a large gang of men were engaged endeavoring to prevent it, but the mass of earth is so large that with further ram it is almost certain that it will come down. The through train yesterday was brought through the Gorge at a funeral pace. — Manawatu Times. At a recent meeting of the New South Wales Parliament, the proceedings closed with the discussion as to whether the members of the Hansard staff should remain when in the interests of law and order in became necessary to clear the House of strangers. Mr E. W. O'Sullivan created some interest in the minds of new members by his realistic descriptions of some of the scenes which had occurred on such occasions, and went so far as to declare that he had seen legislator "jumping around the Chamber like a madhouse full of monkeys,"