Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 27, 1 September 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Borough Council ■will meet on Thursday next. We haye to acknowledg & receipt of a batch of Parliamentary paj >ers. Mr' Daw's coach will lea-v & .the booking office, at 7 p.m., to-morrow, to convey passengers to the dance at J\ [angaone. We are glad to learn tha t Mr William Bailey is making steady progress towards complete recovery. Mr Ambrose Pope was the successful tenderer for the painting an d paperhang.mg of the new house being- erected by Mr Balph Heald, for Mr Eir-ltmond. Members of the Manchea t<ar Eifles are reminded of the parade to be held on Thursday next at the Bar acks at 7.30 p.m. The Woodville Examiner repors that a new R. M . Court district is to be formed to embrace Palmerston, Woodvill 3 e and Daneyirke. Mr Macarthnr, M.H.U., returned to Feilding on Saturday last. He was not so well on Sunday, but since then he has very much improved in liis general health. A fair start has been made) by Mr W. Heald, the cdntractor, at the building on the corner of Stratford stroefc and Kimbolton road, to be used as a boarding house. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a-m. to-day — Barometer fall slowly after 12 hours. Telegrams to expect frost haye been sent to all places. A girl named Emma Jansoa an inmate of St. Catherine's Home (Christchurch) was found dead in bed on Sunday morning. The post mortem showed dealh to have been caused by heart disease. A man of Kent is one born East of the Medway. These men went out with green boughs to meet the Conqueror and obtained in consequence a confirmation of their ancient privileges from the new king. A Kentish man is a resident of West Kent. The costs in the Arim Donnelly y. Broughton case, in which the plaintiff was unsuccessful in her appeal to the Privy Council, amount to upwards of £2' >,(XX>. This is another illustration (says the Wanganui H< j rald) of the lawyers getting the oyster and the litigants the shells. The Union Steamship <\)nip:iny of New Zealand has kindly placed at the disposal of General Booth an alUround ticket from Sydney to Melbourne via New Zealand. The Company has also recently donati-d half-a-dozen Life- belts to the S;il potion Army Officers stationed on the Wanganui River. On Monday evening last a social tea wai hold in the Barracks in connection with the Salvation Army. Admission was by invitation, and during the tea a collection was taken up tor the purpose of defraying the expenses of the local officers to Wellington when they go down to give General Booth a welcome on his arrival. After the lei a meeting was hold, at which the Revs. Harris and Birks and Captains Cutler (nmuatrer of the Labour Hureau), Prowl and (lose, were tho speakers. A very eujo\ able evening was brought to a close with a coffee supper. The occasion was well attended, and tlie arrangements for tte entertainment of those present was creditable to the officer lv charge, Captain rf;uVt;us.

A meeting of the creditors of G. H. .lldrich will "c held at tbe Court House on Thursday next, at 2 p.m. The officers of the Feildmer Fire Brigade have been myited to attend the Social of the Wanganui Fire Brigade to j be held m that town on the 11 tn instant. A young man named George Wells, who is employed by Mr H. Rutherford, of Feildin^, was seized with an epileptic fit on Saturday evening last in Mr Butherford's shop. A brake was sent for and with Dr Sorley in attendance the young man was taken to Mr T.W.K Foster's where he board's. He is now progressing favorably. Saturdays Post says:— By this rooming's early train Mr Tregear, the officer in charge of the Bureau of Industries, dispatched 25 bush f alters to places up country, where their services will be 8/yailed of at current rates of wages. Twelye of these, it may be mentioned, were introduced to the bnreau through the medium of the Salvation Army. Five of the total number have pone to Ekatahuna, 4 to Hunterville. 3 to Pihia tua, 2 to Foxton, 1 to Ashurst, and 10 to 1< eliding. We have to go from home for news. The following interesting paragraph is taken from an English paper :— A moveable banking office proves a profitable adjunct to a bank in Palmerston, New Zealand. It is a carnage which trayels along the railway line, and halts at the way stations in the Manawatu district. The occupant is a bank clerk, who is authorised to receive money, pay it out, cash cheques, etc. He carries his cash in a satchel swung round his neck, and is well armed. A rare haul was made recently by a coloured fisherman named Louis Smith, a resident of Hobart. He returned from a cruise the other day with a piece of ambergris weighing betweeo 180 and 1 200lbs, worth £10.000. The Hobart ' Mercury describes it as about 22 inches ■ square, smelling like guano, and resem« f bling sepia in colour. It is generally ' found floating in the sea, and has oe--1 casionally been picked up on the shores > of New Zealand. Smith, it appears, got it in this way from a spermaceti whale, 1 which had been caught and tried out by 5 a vessel called the Water Witch. Amberf gns, it ma3 r be added, is chiefly used in '' perfumery, and in some parts of Africa > and Asia is greatly valued for medicinal 1 purposes. '