The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1891. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 31, 10 September 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1891. Local and General News

The Euapehu, from London, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning. Ellen Howard, alias Eowe, has beei .ommitted for trial (at Auckland) on ;> jharge of larceny of a cash box and consents valaed at i' 1328. Mr J. H. Hankins, of Palmerston, ha> liberated in the Pohangina river 5001; American brook char, which he has re cently received from the Masterton hatch erie 6. Everybody wiil be clad to learn Him Se talented and popular Dobson-Ken ledy fiuunany purpose piiying Feildini»n r-iMurn visit io the course of a week 01 two. A number of Waikato settlers are filling ipa requisition to Mr W. A. Murray to tand fur the seat. Mr Murray was for , jany years the representative in I'arh- liiieiii of ihtt Bruce distnci, iv Otago,

Mr Trimble's horse fair will be reported j in our next issue. I The sale at Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s Feilding yards to-day was well attended and the prices realised were satisfactory. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day - Warnings for gales and rain haye been sent to all places. Mr Hei bert Chester representing anntn ber of English fi<ms is at present vi>il;ni tins district, with the object of arrant: ing for purchases of butter, cheese, and other produce. There was very little active interest taken in the election for three Borough Councillors, which took place to-day. The polling was proceeding up to the hour o f our going to press, when 153 votes had been registered. The Chronicle s&ys :— The man Noble an attempted suiciJe, was discharged from the Wangnnui Hospital at thi> end of last week, and subsequently be'mn brought up at the Police Court, he was remanded to Feilding to appear there on on .Monday, the 14th inst. A young man of Adelaide was suer l for kissing n, girl without^ her permission.. He said he thought she was his sister, which, says an exchange, made the girl so mad that she wanted to double the amount of damages claimed. A woman wants to be kissed for herself, or not at all. There was a very good attendance at Mr Foley's entertainment last night. Before the commencement of the entertainment the Feilding Brass Band played a selection of pieces in good style. The , pantascope was much admired, while the performances of Mr and Mrs Foley wefe more than usually cleyer and amusing. Mr Jacob Frankel, a dealer in secondhand goods, when near his residence in Bowen street, Wellington, was attacked by two men, who robbed him of 25s and several papers. One purse containing a fair sum of money, was missed by the robbers. Mr Frankel, who is about 80 years of age was rather roughly handled. A meeting of settlers will be held at Pohangina on Saturday next to consider the question of separation from the Kiwitea Road Board, and to constitute a Road Board to be known as the Pohangina Road Board. A petition, will also be prepared to ask the Government to construct a road through to Norsewood. At a meeting of Hamilton factory milk suppliers last week, it was stated that during the year, ending 30th June, the firm had paid the milk suppliers to the Waikato factory the sum of A"10,000 for milk alone, independent of the other cost of working the factories, &c. During the same year they had exported 150 tons of butter from Waikato. The following advertlsemt nt nppeared in the Auckland Her ild : -'" Wanted -A member for Waikato. Must be absoiu'eiy peni.iless, and vote as ordered. Sal ay, £240 per session (tins sum protected by law against debts to irade.-nvn.) No objection will he tak<>n to applicant having i-erved a term in Mount Eden for larceny or any other slight,idio*.yncn.ey. — Apply Wellington. Under the heading of '- Sporting notes" in the N.Z. Times of yesterday, referring to the Hunt Club meeting, the writer said " The acceptances wliiob. were declared on Monday night, 'have not como to hand." There must be a mistake somewhere, because they were duly forwarded by the Feildiug Ag'eni s of the Press Association to Wellington, at 9 a.m, on Tuesday morning. ' The quarterly meeting of the board of the Primitive Methodist Manawatu Station was held at Campbelltown on Monday, when the local preachers, with the Rev. W. Harris, transacted the usual business. The quarterly tea meeting was subsequently held, and was yery well attended. The after m eeting was conducted by the Rev. W. Harris, when addresses were given by Messrs Stokes, Linton, Curran, Fidler, and J. C. Thompson. The following are the results of the examination held in the Awahun State School on the 4th inst :— Standard V. : 5 presented, 4 passed, 1 failed. Standard IV. : 13 presented, 8 passed, 2 failed, 2 excepted, 1 absent. Standard 111. : 9 presented, 6 passed, 2 failed 1 absent. Standard 11. : 13 presented, 12 passed, 1 failed. Standard I.: 11 presented, 11 passed. In class subjects the following marks were made. History : — Standard 111, 100 ; Standards IV and V, 80, average 90. Geography :— Standard 11, 80 ; average 75. Total percentage of passes iv the school 87.2. The Inspector remarks that the order and desciphne were excellent. The following peculiar advertisement appears in the Hawkes Bay Herald: — " I, Patrick Gorman, Proprietor of the Criterian Hotel, challenge John Knott to prove by personal appearance who of the two looks most like a toper, to be decided by a jury of six abstainers and six moderate drinkers. I undertake to prove also that I have been an abstainer tor a longer period than the said John Knott. The loser to pay £20 or .£SO into the Napier Hospital. Or, as an alternative, I will (though I am a stout man) run him 100 yards, swim him half-a-mile, row him single-handed for five miles, drive against him in a four-in-hand, or ride a steeplechase with him. The following is going the rounds : —A weli-kuown solicitor in the Borough Council expressed the opinion the other evotnug that the action of the Town Clerk in reference to the Borough Council elec tion was in order and was legal. Next morning the Town Clark was talking over the matter with another legal gentleman in a friendly way, and pointed out the sections of the Act on which he relied. The second lawyer also agreed that the Town Clerk's action was right ; until m the course of conservation the Town Clerk unluckily happened to lemark thai th<> legal councillor had also expressed that r>[ mion. Thereupon a change came over the scene, and lawyer No 2 went through the whole thing very carefully again, and finally decided that the Town Clerk and ihe Mayor assisted by the legal acumen of their brother couucillor were all wronjj mid that the election was illegal.— Ha wera Star. A sad story of a spend lli rift md i. •'runkurd comes from Melbourne. D You I !»• 1 I an inquc-t at the Melhouruuiol concern ngi he deaf h of a man name' 1 William Ellis-, fifty on- years of nm\ wlu ie.l in ihe gaol. Th ■ st ry >f the Je "eased was a particu'nrly sad une, as told nth • eridence Formerly a farmer. •'.His had sold out. his h-ilding for some lrng betwet'ii £2000 ond £3000. and hiiil •••me to Melbourne to see ami enjoy liftIe spent his money freely, and drunk to •xeess. 'Jh' 1 refill »i< ih" usual on" ilis little foit'ine vani Ovd. :ind Kllis fefi i to the hands of the police for brini. 1 I riink .'till disorderly. Me was hroiuh K'fore the. City Court., and us he appeared o be much in need of medical i refitment. !.' was committed to the hospital. (> i he loth lie was still unable to appenr in 'o'lrt, in*! was Mg-iin remanded until tin 7th, iuii the last remand was longer that ru<! nei'Ossary, f"r early on t be inornin; if the 12 h he died from a wpjik heai md n constitution btolien d«>wn '\y nlpo iolic excess. Such was Uk- . • diet of tin jury. - "