Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 25, 27 August 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr John Duthie will leaye for England in the lonic next month. Mr and Mrs Foley gave two successful entertainments last week at Birmingham. The hurdle race arranged bet ween W. Watts and J. Troy did uot eventuate on Tuesday. Mr Hankins, of Palnierston, placed 5000 American brook char in the Pqhangina river yesterday. The body of the Jate A. Dundlas was buried to-day in the Palmerston cemetery The Caulfield Cup acceptances closed on Tuesday night, when 120 were received. Among other enemies to the lambs are the hawks, which are playing sad havoc among them. We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary tickets for a social at the Army Barracks on Monday next. A carriage with about a dozen members of the craft lefl Feilding this forenoon to assist at the consecration of the Masonic Loi^e at Ashurst. The schedules for the corning shows of the Manchester Horticultural Society, adopted at the last meeting of the committee, are far superior to any of their predecessors. The marriage is announced to-day of Mr W. F. Elkington, to Miss Clairmonte which took place in Wellington on Tuesday last. We tender over most hearty congratulations to the happy couple. The settlers at Mangaone have decided to adopt Colyton, the name of a market town in Devon, England, as the future designation of the place, provided always that the Postmaster-(ieneral approves. Mass will be celebrated in St Bridget's Church, Feilding, next Sunday at 13 a.m. Mass will also be celebartedin Campbelltown at 8 a.m., and evening services at Hal com be at 7 p.m. On receiving the prize in a footrace the successful competitor said — " Gentlemen. I have won this cup by the use of my legs, i trust I may never lose the use of my legs by this cup," The value of good business sites in Feilding is steadily increasing. A purchaser who gave .£950 a few days ago for a section in Manchester Square has been offered £1400. The offer was refused. A rumour was current on Tuesday to the effect that two or three Palmerston residents who have friends on the Ministerial benches are about to be cilled to the Legislative Couueil. — Manawatu Times. The Feilding Hnnt Club steeplechase meeting to be held on the 9th September promises to be most successful. The course is now almost complete, and nothing is being left undone which will contribute to the pleasure of the spectators. The unexceptional hard winter we have bad has not been the only cause of mortality among lambs in the Kiwitea. We leara from the Advocate that a few days a«o Mr W. F. Mcßeth, of Kiwitea, travelling round his sheep, which had just ! commenced lambiug, found nearly every , lamb, some twenty or more, dead, and all from the same cause, a wound on the top of the head. Mr Meßeth, who is a good manager and very successful, was horrified in makin» the discovery that a sportive coU in his paddock had started a new kind of hunt, hounds not being required. This is nob the first time .ynm«j horses -have done damage uaion^iauibo,

We have to acknowledge receipt of No 18 of Hansard. Blonde hair is the finest and red the coarsest. The total number of parishes in con nection with the Church of Scotland is 1335. Thp proportion of Anglo Saxon words in the English Bible is 97 per cent, of the whole. It was forty-four years ago that the Irish Catholic dignitary, Archbishop Croke, was ordained. • Clocks and watches were taxed in 1797, but the tax, being very obnoxious, was repealed in the ensuing year. We remind pleasure seekers of the fancy dress ball in the Assembly Rooms to-night. Mr B. Tremewan, of Bunnythorpe, ha 3 sold his farm to Mr Hudson Little, a Canterbury man. Mr Grlaisher states than m 3500 balloon ascents only 15 deaths have occurred-, that is, about four per thousand. It is reported that £20,000 worth of watches have been stolen from the South Eastern Railway Company's depot in London. Severe earthquakes have been experienced both at Lisbon, and Verona in northern Italy, causing great alarm, but no damage is reported of any consequence. We learn from the Post, on Tuesday, that our contention the " great sea serpent," seen by some people on board the Manapouri. was a thrasher, turns out to be correct. The Wellington papers say Mr Fish has turned his coat. This is wrong. He has only changed his scales. Most appropriately he has joined the Great Middle Party — the Pish to the Fieher is quite natural. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain hold good at all places northward of Lyitelton and Hokitika and have been sent to-day to all other places. Some sensation was caused in Dunedin -recently by the statement in Court of a ..Mrs Eobinson that she had been driven ;"to steal articles because she and her family were starving. The matter was taketi up by the benevolently inclined, and though it was shown there was little ground for her statement, furniture bedding, food, etc., were supplied.

We notice that many Opposition papers are complaining of the Labor members — ,aad the others — being to greedy in the matter of payment to themselves. This is a mistake. They should rejoice and be glad because these cormorants have thereby shown what kind of birds of prey they are, and the electors — male and female — will remember them when the time comes. Yesterday we saw a sulky, made by Mr Parr, coachbuilder, to the order of a local farmer, which deserves special mention. The material, workmanship, and painting, are all first class, and reflect great credit on Mr Parr and his employes. No greater testimony could be giyen of the quality of the yehicle than the fact that since it was completed, two more have been ordered. As soon as Mr Henry Tolley, who at present is residiug in Warwick street, gets his premanent house erected at Birmingham, he will reinoye to that rising township where his son will start in bu-i---ness as an engineer and smith. The latter has had great experience in these trades, and will therefore be found a valuable help to the millowners, farmers, and others already settled there. We have no doubt of his ultimate success ; while we must express our regret thai the family intends to leave Feildmg. A neat story is told of a Catholic priest down South whose sermons are usually of a practical kind. On entering the pulpit one Sunday he took with him a walnut to illustrate the character of the various Christian Churches. He told the people the shell was tasteless ami valueless : that was the Wesleyhn Church. The skin was nauseous, djsagreeable, and worthless: that was the Presbytesian Church. He then said he would show them the Holy Roman Apos tolic Churoh. He cracked the nut — and found it rotten ! Then his reverence coughed violently, and— pronounced the Benediction ! With reference to the Oroua Downs mystery, the Manawatu Herald say;s : — About fourteen months ago Mr Hamper was erecting a fence on the road line ne ar the entrance to the land where the skeleton was found. A man about five feet seven' inches in height, carrying a swa g, came up to a portion of the fence, and Mr Harper walked up to speak to him. The man edged away and refused any answer. He then got through the fence into the paddock on the Oroua Do - wns Estate, and Mr Harper called out to Mm to ask if he knew where he was go ing. Again the man refused a reply. Mr Harper is of the opinion that there was something wrong with the man, and xt might be his skeleton which has aroused so much curiosity. We believe that Corustable Gillespie has also other evidence which will dovetail into this statement and help to clear up the identity of th c subject of the inquest.

Our contemporary the Napier Telegraph piou.sly writes: — The fleslipots of Bellamy's have become sweet to the taste of Mr Earnshaw. He hais eaten of the I fruits of political life, an 1 the bread of labor is no longer to his liking. He is not the first man who ha.s been wrecked on the Parliamentary rook. There are plenty of men who, because they 3iave once been members of the? House of Representatives, have felt utnable to rejfoin their companions in toil. Mr Earashiaw in pleading for J63OU a year, said thai mow he had sat in Parliament he could not go back to the workshop amd work with the men as he had formerly done. Perhaps; notj but the member for the PeninsuJa should have though of t;hat before standing for Parliament. With gentlemen of his stamp it is not at &11 uncommon for political success to increase their dimensions beyond the capacity of their boots." Poor Mr Earnshaiv 1 j