Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 19, 22 October 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Influenza is spronding in Paris. Cholera is raging (a Syria, a province of Asiatic Turkey. One local firm of sawmillors pays £6QQ every four weeks in wages. Mass will bo celebrated in Sfc Bridget's Chureb, Feilding, next Sunday at S a.m, The use of Dr Koch's tubereuline has been forbidden in Russian military hospitals.

The first race meeting at Wanganui was held on December 2lst 1848. The French Government has issued an order forbidding the Salvation Army to parade the streets, A return presented to the-recent Methodist Conference at New York, estimates that the total number of Methodists in the world reaches 30,000,000. The officers and several members of the Feilding Masonic Lodge, will pay a fratormal visit to the Manawatu Lodge, Palmerston North, to-morrow evening. On Saturday night Mr Eogers, agent for the Government Life Insurance Department in this district, had a most successful meeting at Bulls. The Payne Family of vocalists, instrumentalists, and bellnngers, will giye one of their highly popular entertainments in the Assembly Eooms on Thursday the 29th instant. Secretaries of cricket clubs in this district will oblige us by forwarding scores of matches played, and short accounts of the games. We are anxious to assist in populanaing the game.' Miss Menie Muriel Dowie, the author or ' A Girl in the Karpathians,' assumed the dress of a boy on her travels through the region her book described. Miss Dowio is under 21 years of age, and made her journey without companions. Another action is likely to arise between the parties to a suit which was decided at tho last sitting of the E.M. Court. Charges of assault and battery will be heard at any early date between the German litigants. A well-known solicitor, of Auckland, James F, Haultam, has been adjudicated a bankrupt on the petition of a creditor. Mr Haultain left his place of business recently in a sudden manner, and nothing has since been heard of him. The footballers are again reminded that they are to meet at Mr Donnelly's on Saturday at 4 p.m. for tho purpose of being photographed. Those who have not got jerseys are requested to borrow from the second fifteen. The photo will probably be taken at the Pines. The Eoman Catholic Soiree at Palmerston North on Monday last, was a brilliant success, due no doubt to tho untirinS energy of the pastor the Eev Father Patterson, who was ably assisted by his congregation. The Manawatu Times says oyer 800 people were present. Information is requested by the Wan« ganui Herald concerning a young woman who has been missing for some days past. She is about 22 years of age, ruddy complexion, very fair hair, wearing a grey dress and jacket, black velvet hat and of slovenly appearance. We said in a recent issue that the famous tailors of Tooley street had emigrated from London to New Zealand. Our readers will be pleased to know the three are now located in Auckland, where they are members of the Borough Council of Birkenhead. Walter Besant's query, " Where have all our poet's gone ?" seems to have met with a response. The annual report of the .Nomstoivn Insane Asylum Superintendent says that 83 per cent of the patients confined there are addicted to writing verses. On Friday evening last, Mr C. Eogers, agent for the Government Life Assurance gave a lecture in the Cheltenham Schoolroom, on the " Benefits of State Security." In spite of the wet woathor a great number attended to hear the lecture. Mr Eogers enlivened the proceeding by several recitations and songs, which were much appreciated. . Tho Wanganui Herald holds this opinion ; — lf the coming man is to be a teetotaller, he will not be made so by Act of Parliament, or by one section of the community attempting to curtail the liberty and privileges of the other by means of the ballot»box and hysterical accusations against those who prefer to make glad the heart of man. The Trehair-Osborne Concert Company opened at Palmerston last night aftertouring the Pahiatua and Woodville. "At each of the towns the press and public have been most enthusiastic, and requests have been numerous for a return visit. The Palmerston papers aver that no eoinpany/of such merit ha 3 eyer appeared at that town ; being quite glowing in their criticisms. The company finished at Palmerston last night, singing at Feilding tonight, Bulls on Friday, .and Marton on Saturday. The party comprise the Misses Trehair-Osborne, Parsons, Johnson and Gardner, and Messrs Nairn, Kilner, and Frank King. On the subject of the fishing in the Oroua river a gentleman, who is a devoted desciple of the gentle Isaac Walton, wrote to Mr Sherwill, the secretary of the Acclimatisation Society : " I fished last Monday in the Oroua in company with another fisherman, and in about an hour and a half I got six fish of a pound to two pounds, but saw no large ones. When I got to the Kiwitea it was so discolored (I fancy from a thunderstorm the previous day) that fishing was almost hopeless. I did fish, however, and close to the edge in the shallow water, numbers of small trout came to my minnow, some of which I caught and put back, There were apparently two seasons' fish, those that you turned out last year, and the year before, about six inches and ten inches respectively, I should . say the river it now fairly stocked, which yon will be glad to hear." The Central Nevadan thus tells <he story of the best paying mine property in iheNevada State :— " Simeon Wenben had run the Garrison tunnel at great expense and was left a poor man, owing his creditors 150,000d01. There was not a pound of ore in sight whereby the debt might be paid. As a last resort, with a forlorn hope, after the mine had been closed, Simeon Wenban drilled a hole in the hanging wall and blasted out a huge piece of rock, which he found to be almost a solid block of metal and part of an immense vein which had been paraN leled hundreds of feet. This fortunate last effort marked a sudden change that seldom falls to the lost oE a man. It was Wenban, the poor man, the labourer, before that blast was fired ; it was Simeon Wenban, the millionaire, but a second thereafter. The first month's run of his little mill gave him 30,000d01, and ever since he has grown more wealthy."

Cholera is raging in Turkey and Asia. Very few Feilding people went to the Wanganui races to-day. A stoat was killed within the Borough yesterday. Through the agency of rainmakers, the drought has been averted in Texas. King Leopold declares that the strength of Belgium lies in her neutrality. The services of a station master, ore urgently needed at the Ashurst station. The Graschdanin, an organ of the Bussian aristocracy, says that England is Eussia's only enemy. The programme of the concert of the Trehair-Osborne Company is published elsewhere. Mr Carthew has now received liin monthly case of books and periodicals, containing all the latest and best publications. The Advocate reports several cases of influenza at Turakina, some of them of a severe type, while at Marton " la grippe " is playing sad havoc among the people. The popular Anglo-Indian author and journalist, Rudyard Kiphnjt.is at present in Wellington en route to Samoa, where he will be the guest of J. L. Stevenson the novelist. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Telegrams to expect strong northerly winds after 12 hours have been sent to all places. A general meeting of the Feilding Cricket Club 'is invited by Mr C. Nic» holson, the secretary, to be held at Donnelly's on Monday evening next at 8 o'clock. The Premier received a splendid welcome at Dunedin, and Mr Ballance said that his reception, on addressing a Dunedin audience for the first time, had been so flattering that probably he would speak to them again at a future date. A stoat, or "weasel, entered a fowl house at the the Pines a few nights ago, and slaughtered a magnificent; rooster and a fine clutch of young ducks. The only mark on each of the defunct was a wound in tho neck. S. J. Thompson has pleasure in informing his lady patrons and the general public that he has secured the services of a first-class milliner in the person of Miss G. Brown, who, for a number of years, has been in the most fashionable establishment in Wellington. Further particulars about the show-room and millinery department, at the Bed House will be advertised. The case in the Supreme Court, Wangaxiui, Collins v. Pollock, was decided as follows: — Defendant to pay to the firm £125, which sum is to be divided among the partners, the share of plaintiff to bear 5 per cent interest from the date of the sale ot the premises. Each party to pay his own costs. This is practically a victory for Mr Pollock. A divorce, case, Woolford v. Woolford, was heard at the Supreme Court, Wnnganui, on Monday. William Young Woolford, labourer, of Hunterville, was the petitioner, and the defendent did not appear. Petitioner stated that in 1884 he married Louisa Jones, a domestic servant, who ten weeks after absolutely refused to liyo with him, without giving any explanation of her conduct. He had only seen his wife once since, namely in Wanganui, about 12 months after marmiage, Mrs Foster, jnid-wifo, of Feilding, proved that petitioner's wife gave birth to a child in Feilding last year. His Honor granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute at the first sitting of the Court in Wellington, after the lapse of three months. — Chronicle. J. C. Morey and Co.'s new advertise" ment will appear on Saturday next, in the meantime they would call special attention to the immense display on their shilling table. __ J