Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 41, 3 October 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Manchester Koad Board was sitting as we went to press this afternoon. The Imperial Parliament has been further prorogued until the lOfch December. Two sections, extending seyen miles, of the Manchester Ship Canal, have been opened for traffic. The funeral of tho late Miss Shailer, which took place at Palmerston ou Thursday afternoon, was very largely attended. The flags on tho vavwiis business places were flown at half-mast, Captain Edwin telographs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m, to-day — Warnings for northerly gales and rain have been sent to all places south of east cape, Taupo and New Plymouth.

A daughter of Mr Holmes, of Makino lied to-day of peritonitis. We have!to acknowledge receipt of Hansard and a batch of Parliamentary >apers. Mr Carthew opened his "Dr. Barlardo " box this morning and the collecions for the week amounted to 7s 6d. Half the Feilding residents went to Palmerston to-day to see the football match between Palmerston and Feilding, A. very successful dance was held at Bulls last night, in connection with the football club, when yisitors from the adjoining towns were present. An authority, referring to the present lamentable mortality among sheep says : — One of the causes, if not the principal cause, is the want of change of pasture, and the overstocking of the land. Mr Rutherford had a splendid show ol beef, mutton, and small goods at his establishment last evening. Among the goods were some fine lambs, from Mr Rutherford's farm at Beaconsfield. Weasels and stoats continue to increase every day notwithstanding the fact that when ever one is seen it is killed, or the attempt to do so is made. This morning the corpse of one of these pests were hung on Mr Carthew' s verandah post. The prospectus of the new evening paper which Mr Parnell is about to establish has been issued. The name of the paper is " The Irish Independent Evening Star," and the capital of the company is £60,000. An Auckland Justice of the Peace was recently committed to the Whau Lunatic Asylum, the certifying doctors stating that he had been insane for years. Yet during this period he had beea discharge ing judicial functions. During his trip t© the Fouth Island Mr W. Manson, of the Pines, purchased 125 Lincoln rams from tbe flock of Mr Menlove, of Windsor Park, Oamaru. They arrived on Thursday and were put in Ediukillie Park near Palmerston North. The Dunedin Star says that :— Two of the labour representatives hailing from Otago, who went to Wellington^ at the beginnine of the session holding views in favor of the abolition of the Legislative Council, have returned as strong converts to the existence of a Second Chamber. In the Diocesan Synod Mr Jellicoe gave notice to more that women be elis?» ible to act as members of church vestries. This a good idea, and would lead ultimialely to a great reform in the manage* ment of the internal economy of church affairs. The Grand Master of New Zealand has granted a charter for the constitution of a new Masonic Lodge at Hunteryille, ami it will be opened towards the end of the present month. A charter has also been applied for to establish a Lodge at Otaki, And will no doubt be granted in due course. — Post. The Hawkes Bay Herald remarks : — The "exodus" still continues to grow worse. Yesterday another couple of hundred people left Wellington for Sydney. Apart trom all political portizanship, is it not a strange thing that this " exodus," which the present alleged " Liberal " Government undertook to stop, has grown worse and worse ever since they assumed office? It is very amusing to notice that each English Globe-trotter who touches at the Australian and New Zealand ports in the course of his travels, when he pub lishes an account of his journeyings, nearly always leaves the impression on tuo minds of his Colonial readers, that the said trotter believes he was the original discoverer of those Island*, and invented the people who inhabit them The Chief Inspector of Stock and a Veterinary Surgeon visited Mr Reid's farm this morning with the view of making proper enquiry and examination into the causes of the mortality among sheep in this district. Their report will be forwarded to tho Head of the Department, and afterwards published. We may state that thi ej i-lemic, whateyer it is, has appeared also in the Wairarapa and New Plymouth. At the Wellington Land Board on Thursday Mr Maearthur, M.H.R , moved that the Commissioner of Lands be em» powered to t-ike any steps he may consider nooessnry to obtain an opinion from a Judge of the Supreme Court as to thi? improvements required lo be effected by selectors in terms of clause 16 of the Land Aef, 1887, before they can ol:t;iin their titles. The motion was seconded by McCardle and carried. — Post, The Feilding Band will (weather permitting) play on the Rotunda on Monday night, commencing at 7.30, when the following programme of music will be put through : — Quick march, " Belphegor "; Scotch selection, "Robert Burns "; schottische, " Rosaline "; valae, "The Arrival"; quadrille, " Canterbury"; operatic selection, " Genevieve de Brabant" ; valse, " Sommer Regen " ; polka, " Hit or Miss" ; vftlse, " Silver Rhine" ; galop, " Madcap." On Thursday last a very handsome banner was presented to the State School Football team, by Mrs Light. The banI ncr is of black velvet, with monogram, nnd white tassels, the whole being a yery neat piece of work. This is not the only act of kindness on the papfe of Mr Light, for she collected enough money to giye each player a suitable jersey, and the surplus cash was handed over to the Secretary of the Club. It is worthy of note that the boys won every match they played this season. From the schedule which was presented to the Wellington Land Board on Thursday, it appears that the total amount of land selected from 27th August to 30th September was 5851 aOr 28p, the upset price realised being £434 18s Id. The total area selected from 2Qth March to 30th September was 49,2d1a 3r 13p, the upset price being £32.483 13a 6d. During the past month there were 34 selections taken up, comprising 4 selections of rural lands on perpetual lease, 1 selection small runs, 2 on village settlement for cash, and %5 on village settlements on perpetual lease. At a circus in Chicago, while Miss Una, a well-known snake-charmer, iraa going through her performance, one of the reptiles attacked her, She had wound a 14ft python round her body, and was about to lift another snake out of the basket, when the python tightened its coils and caught her arm in its jaws. The excitement in the circus was intense. Hundreds of people f}ed, and many women fainted. Miss paa svas very pool, an 4 called three attendants, who released her after a fearful struggle with the python. The jaws of the snake had to be forced open, and the wound was afterwards cauterised. We have the pleasure to announco the arrival of our Qrst shipments, pfnew spring and summer goods for tho present season, ex s.s. Riinutaka and lonic. 46 cases and packages arc already to hand nnd opened out. The selection in ladies Dress Goods, Mantles, and Millinery for J,ho present season, excels anything previously shown in Palmerston and wp respoc.tfl*ly i.nyite the residents of this ais* trict to inspect our present disply at the Bon Marche", Palmerston North. Boss ihd Sandfobd.— Advt.