Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 38, 26 September 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. " General " Booth sails for New Zealand on October 14. ' A branch of the Colonial Bunk has been opt«ued at Ashuvsfc. The Manchester Eoad Board will meet thus day week. Very heavy rain fell yesterday afteruoou. We ha^e fo ncluiowlerljjo receipt of a batch nf Purliumenlary pupurs. Mr Carthew'a usual monthly case of books and periodicals arrived ye&lerday. The Bisli.ip of iSi pU-.in experienced finolher seizure on Tliur-d;iy pvoriin". itid \rn« unconscious for some lime. Ha ■. is now rulijing-

The Dobson-Kennedy Company will pay a return yisit to Feilding within a few weeks. Even the frost fish which have hitherto been peculiar to New Zealand, have joined m the exodus and lately appeared on the beaches near Sydney. We live in a queer country as regards law. It is le;?al to raffle the picture of a dog by Art Union, but is illegal to raffle the dog. A six-roomed house in Wellington was destroyed by fire on Thursday evening last through the bursting of a kerosene lamp. To-day Mr Carthew opened his " Penny" in-the-slot" box and the collections for the week amounted to 9s 10£ d for credit of the Dr Barnardo fund. On the Supplernentry Estimates there is a sum of £208 set down for Constable Gillespie, the cost of defending the charge of perjury brought against him in Taranaki. At the Terrace End >'chool (Palmerston) examination the percentage of passes on the number examined in Standards, omitting exceptions, was 82 - 7. The percentage of passes on roll number was 46 9. The Representation Commissioners— Colonel Haultain, Mr C. M. Crombie (Property T«x Commissioner), Dr Hislop vlr P. Smith iSurvevornGeneral), and Mr D obson (of Christchurch)— held their first meeting yesterday. It may not be generally known that, among other innovations, " Genpral " Booth intends in London brewing a nons intoxu-atingdrink.to be called " Salvation beer." He also promises some " refreshing coffoe," which he hopes to retail at 4d per pound. Joe Dicks, formerly hotelkeeper at Sydenham, who was arreste.i at Oam.iru with £973 on him, has been committed for trial on a charge of attempting to leave the Colony with property worth over £10 he being adiudicated a bankrupt at the time. The Government having made no provision for » grant to the New Zealand Rifle Association towards the expense of forming a permanent range in Wellington, the next annual competition of the New Zealand Rifle Association will probably' take place at Auckland. Mr R, P. Abraham informs us that his remarks at the Sandon sale in regard to sheep branding were slightly misreported. What he did say was that the sheep owners numbered 900, and that to secure the clause b^iog rendered inoperative, it would be necessary to obtain ihe signa tures to the petition of a majority of these or about 450. — Manawacu Times. The Chinese Commissioner reports that the Chinese are anxious to eradicate lep rosy, and for this purpose have killed several lepers in Columbia. There is a fine and unstudied simplicity about Mon golian hygienic methods. This cure for cholera is both ingenious and effective — they walk over the patient's stomach until the cholera is gone and the sufferer dead. — Catholic Times. The Libel Bill will probably be carefully placed upon a shelf labelled " This side up with care." The present House contains too many gentlemen who do not desire to give the press any further powers than it has, and who would, indeed, be glad enough to shoot New Zealand editors at sight and confiscate the papers to which they are attached. The Great Liberal Caws doesn't believe in a free press — except for itself. — Catholic Times. By a typographical error in our last issue we marlo Mr Hamilton's para arlvf.. read "winter " instead of window display, v wide difference. The exhibition of spring goods made includes some of the most beautiful articles of the season and are worthy of inspection. The goods to be shown» to-nifrht by Mr Hamilton only left London seven weeks ago, therefore many of the fashions aud patterns correspond with those in the Fashions Journals leceived by Mr Carthew yesterday. Mr Rolleston declared in the House the other night that Mr Taylor (Sjdeu liam*), although he w.is fond of posing as a "'working mun" member, was no real working man, but would take fully a \v>'ek to do a day's work. Mr Taylor re» plied indignantly that he had donq as much work in his lifetime as Mr Rolleston had done in ten sears. Thia was probably not what lie intended to say, and he seemed surprised at the roar of laughter which followed the remark. The Wairarapa Daily says : '' In an address at (. arterton on Saturday nigh i Mr Hogg, M.H R . gave an account of the time when he himself worked with a pick in the shaft, and loaded waggons with mullock, and said he would rather work a week at brain work than a day at his former arduous duty." Just so i here are some kinds of " btain " that do not get fotifcued ; also there are some kinds of (alleged) "brain work " whifh do not necessitate brains ; likewise there are some sorts of " brains " which never really work ; furthermore, the result of some sorts of reputed " brun work " i* simply to fatigue the uufortunates who are condemned to listen to it. Finally M.H.R . and trains are not necessarily synonymous terms — Catholic Times, Meu may change their skies, but human nature remains the same. The following extracts reminds one of tha " good old days " in England when " wreukors " considered their trade a lawful occupation : —Reports from Melbourne of the behaviour of certain settlers on the Victorian coast at the wreck of the barque Fiji show a most disgraceful state of affairs. It is said that there was an indiscriminate raid on the flotsam and jetsam from the 'wieols, npd that a, uumber became intoxicated on spirits washed ashore. The soeno at night, with the rescued men lying incapable of action through their night of hardship on the wreck, corpses of drowned strewn on the beach, mtermingled with bodies of drunken men, was described as terrible. The gay and festive unemployed who travel the country at the country's expense, aro apt to be somewhat peremptory in their demands occasionally, but as in the country towns Charitable Aid officials don't care a snap of their fingers for these pets of a Liberal Government, they don't get their wants so easily supplied as they can in town, whore they can bully with profitable re suits a Minister who only sees in each threatening visage the face of an irate elector who may avenge himself in the near future at the polling booth. Apropos of this, one of these " free and miepenienta " called on a local Munu-pal officer here not lone ago and (lemaiid'.'d a railway ticket to Wellington, whaiice he desired to go and pee his wife. On being quiotlv refused, the man assumed a ihreateuing altitude said ♦You'll have to do it" and was oulj calnujd down by the name of Constable Tuohy being whispered in his ear.

The Moscow Gazette says Eussia has guaranteed Turkey against British aggression. Mr .T G. Hnagflrf, Postmaster General of Cnnadn, is accused of having mode a profit out of Government contracts. Mr Bassett had a fine show of lamb" today, from the flock of Mr Fry, of Makino. This is the first lamb of the season. Sir i. D. Bell declined the farewell ba quet which the Agents General wished to offer him, on the occasion of his retirement. The names of New York residents figure largely in the petition for the release of Mrs May brick. Mr B. Lincoln, the American Minister in London, will present the petition to the Queen. In response to a requisition, in order to save time on the drill night, October 8, a meeting of the Manchester Rifles is called for "Wednesday next at the barracks at 7.30 pm. All members are requested to attend as the business to be transacted is of importance. Egeson's "three years' drought," for the prediction of which he got into such disgrace with his chief in the Sydney Observntory, is now a standing joke in Sydney and other parts of New South Wales The '"draught" has meant some months of almost incessant rain. Professor Vambery, an Eastern traveller and an authority upon questions con nected with Central Asia, declared that Russia is advancing her frontier in Asia, despite the Kusso- Afghan treaty. It was only Captain Younghusband's promptness that preveuted them occupying Lrilghit A six-year old youngster, whilst listening to a conversation in a family circle concerning suitable employment for boys and girls, logically remarked : " If girls learn to play marbles like boys, why shouln't they learn to make telegrams and papers (meaning of pourse working at trades) like boys and men ?" The Dunedin Star's Parliamentary re« porter says : — The legal profession has every reason to regard the Hon. W. H. Reynolds as a particularly bloodthirsty individual. When speakiug on the Law Practitioners Bill the other night, he remarked that if he had his way he would hang half the existing lawyers and quarter the other moiety. Grand Window display now on at J. B Hamilton's, the very latest craze in xviish and lovely new Millinery. Hundreds of the most fashionable straw shapes to c oose from. Wanted all the Ladies in Feilding and district to com*- and see this charming display of .New Spring Millinery. — Advt.