Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 45, 13 October 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

. - • . . ♦ The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meeton Monday next. Storekeepers are paying lOd per dozen for eggs in Palmeraton North. Madame Melba has made her son a ward in Chancery, and has settled upon him a large sum of money. The Grand Lodge of New Zealand Masons met to*day in Christ-church, to hold a quarterly communication. The statement of assets and liabilities in the estate of Mr John Allan, store. keeper, Longburn, shows a surplus of £326 10s lid. The outward -San Francisco mail steamer, which left Auckland on Saturday last, took specie to the value of which is from Sydney. The annual examination of the scholars attending the Feilding State School was held yesterday and continued to-day by Inspector Eindon and his assistant. The sum of 14s, the profits from Cox's lectures in Auckland on behalf of the .Irish evicted tenants, was sent by the committee to Mr John Dillon on Saturday lasfc. A dividend of 8 per cent was declared at the annual meeting of Directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, held on Saturday. The Company paid .£33,850 in wages during the year. The Eev. Benjamin Jowett, late vicechancellor Qf the University of Edinburgh, is seriously ill, and his condition causes his friends a great deal of anxiety. Professor Jowett is 74 years of age. The unfortunate man Noble, who in a fit of madness caused by intense agony attempted to commit suicide some time ago at Halcombe, died here on Sunday last from a camplication of disorders. ■ At the great fire in Tooley street, London, a few days ago, the fears expressed as to the safety of three historial tailors were groundless, as they had luckily escaped to the Australian colonies. Yesterday afternoon y/hen Mrs Hadow was getting into her pony carriage the horse backed, slipped and fell on the pavement near Mr Carthew's shop. Mrs Hadow was thrown out but fortunately escaped unhurt^ Mrs Shaw, wife of Mr F. Shaw, of Te Ore Ore, died suddenly on Saturday morning iii the railway train, between Masterton and Carterton, while on the way to Wellington. She had been in indifferent health for some time. When the result of the Waikato election was declared at Hamilton a somewhat exciting seene took place. Mr Murray, the defeated candidate, accused the Waikato Times of partiality. The proprietor,Mr Edgecumbe, retorted by calling Mr Murray a liar. At .the B.M. Court yesterday afternoon Alex. Peel was charged, under clause 157 of the_ Public Works Act, with being drunk in a railway carriage. He pleaded guilty and was fined 5s and costs 2s. The amount was paid, Messrs Haybittle and Kirton, J.P.s, occupied the flench. Wo learn ■ from the Hawera Star, that Mr Carey, of Taonui, in writing to a friend in Normanby, says:—" We are losing a great number of ewes in this district this year, myself among the rest, but only those I had at Longburn on cocksfoot. Amongst those that I had up here, on rye grass chiefly, I have not lost a single ewo. Wo learn from an exchange that the prospectus of a compan.y, with a capital of i-50,000, has been issued for the purpnrpose of the erection of a large hotel in Wellington, embodying all the comforts and conveniences of the Honip, American, and Continental hotels. This will supply a Jong-felt want, although the amount of money to be spent appears small for the purpose. In our report of the incipient fire which took place in Messrs Cobbe andDarragh's new store a few mornings ago, we unintentionally omitted to mention that Miss Thomson, sister to Mr Peter Thomson, rendered valuable assistance in extinguishing the flames, and it was owing to her good sense that the firebell was not rung, and the neighbors needlessly alarmed. To-day Mr Archibald Williamson announces that he has common^od business as a tailor, in inctnisos opposite tho Denbigh Hotel, where ho hopes to obt;iin a sharo of public patronage. Mr Williamson has had considerable oxpoiionco in tho trade in Sydney and Melbourne, also in Ilawkcs l';iy whoro ho was an empioyo in tho well kuowu establishment of Mr John Martin, of Tennyson strcot, Napier. Mr Williamson has a fir.st-class certificate as a cutter, from the Technical College "in Sydnoy. •

The R.M. Court will sit to-morrow, The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on Saturday next. The whole .of the glassworkers in France hare struck. A young inan named McGill had his leg broken in two places on Saturday last while bushfelling at Apiti He was sent to the Wonganui Hospital yesterday. The introduction of the zone system in the Hungarian railway has increased the passengers traffic by 21,000,000. The receipts have gone up £300,000i and the expenses are only £75,000. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for westerly gales have been sent to all places southward of Napier and New Plymouth. The number of clocks imported in 18S0 was 5,876, and the average value 16/-. In 1890 the number was 21,076, and the averago value a fraction over 7/-. — N. Z. Trade Review. The traffic returns of the "Wellington and Manawntu Railway for the week ending 3rd October, 1891. amounted to £1310 9s 7d, and for the corresponding period of last year £1322 11s 7d, showing a decrease of £12 2s. The newspapers are beginning to publish cures wrought by the Holy Coat of Trevos — the restoring of sight to the blind, and the curing of cripples. An abbess had her withered arm restored. Each case reported is said to be sustained by medi» cal testimony. In consequence of it becoming known that Mr Peter Bartholomew was about to leayo Feilding m order to take up his residence in his now home at Leym, a number of gentlemen met last night at Mr Bray's office to consider the best way to show their respect and friendship for one who has done so much to promote the welfare of this settlement. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R., presided. After discussion it was decided to entertain Mr Bartholomew at a banquet, and to present him with a souvenir to remind him of the many friends he leaves behind him. A strong committee was formed to report at a meeting to be held at the same place on Monday the 26th instant. Aa Count yon Moltke poiuted out not long before his death, the days of short catastrophic wars are over. The systems of National defence are now so nearly complete, tho nations of Europe are so well matched, that tho next great war, whether military or naval, will be a contest of skill, strength, and financial enduranco on a scale of timo, space, and cost unlike anything that tho world has ever yet seen. Noarly every nation in Europe will almost certainly bo involved —except perhaps Spain and Portugal; none could definitely come out victorious, and the final result would be an oxhaustton which might open Europe to a new barbarian invasion, and a crop of international hatreds of which the French feeling against Germany at its worst is only a very faint foreshading. — Speaker. A most extraordinary story is becoming current of a species of pumpkin, said to have been discovered by Stanley in Equatorial Africa. It is annual. The leaves which are very fl-ipe'latc, measure from 6in to 7in across, and its enormous vines are from V2in to 18in in circumference, entwining round the stems and brandies of trees to tlie height of 80ft to 100ft, and in sonic instances to a much greater height ; enormous blossoms measuring from 4ft to sfb in diameter T!ie polleu, which foil in quantities to the ground, was in some places several inchea deep, and like a bed of fine sawdust, The fruit measured from 10ft to 30ft in circumference, and weighs from 5 cwt to lOcwt. They niostlj' rest in and are supported by the forks and branches of the trees, but some were seen hanging from (he trees. The fruit is eaten by man and several animals.