Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 67, 3 December 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet this evening. The postmaster has been appointed agent for the Public Trustee. Muss will be celebrated in St Bridget's Chuich, Feilding, next Sunday at 11 a.m. The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board met in Palmerston to-day for the purpose of electing a chairman. Horse-owners aro reminded that acceptances and general entries for Feilding Hack Meeting will be due on Tuesday, loth December. The Feilding Sports Committee intend to provide a good track for the bicycle race, and to supply a foot board for the ladder used in the firemen's competition. The Returning Officer for the Kiwitea Boad Board, Mr E. Goodbehere, gives notice that Bteven "Williamson, Esq., has been duly elected to represent the Waituna Ward. David Kamsay, a cabinet junker, who has resided for many years in Halconibe, died there on Tuesday night. He had been a sufferer for some considerable time from a chest complaint. The timber has been ordered for the buildiug to be erected by Mr Hugh on his sectiou in Munchoster street, next to Mr Hamilton, ami tenders for the work I will be inyited shortly. The Feilding Sports Commitfceo hayo I arranged with tho Wanganui Amateurs to send a theatrical company to play og Boxing night, and on tho night of Monday tho 28th mst. The principal piece will be "Hard Cash."

There was a sharp frost here yesterday morning. Everybody is reminded of the theatrical performance in the Assembly Booms to-night. A correspondent of the Foxton Herald adyises the use of " Extract of Eucalipti " to prevent or cure la grijipe. We have to acknowledge receipt of the Pocket Guide, for December, of the Union S.S. Company. We haye to acknowledge receipt of the Time Table for the Government Railways for December, The Auckland Concert Company have engaged the Feilding Assembly Booms for January Bfch, 1892. Special prayers have been offered up in Protestant places of worship in New South Wales, for the amelioration of the influenza. The sacred concert in the Assembly Booms will be held on Christmas night, and not Christmas eve as previously stated. By the English Mail which reached Feilding yesterday we received a copy of the 25th Annual Keport of Dr Barnardo's Homes for orphan and destitute children. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to>day — Wind between south and east and northeaflt at all places. Barometer very little movement generally. Sarah Whiting, the wife of a railway guard at Adelaide, put an end to her life in a most determined manner. She fastened a gun to her loot and a string to the trigger. Death was instantaneous. Since Mr Williamson commenced business as a tailor in Feilding, in those premises opposite the Denbigh Hotel, ho has received a fair share of support;. His new stock of cloths and tweeds have just come to hand. The programme of the Grand Holiday Concert, to be given by the scholars of the Feilding State School, on Friday, the 18th instant, will be published at an early date. We are glad to know that several of our leading amateurs have kindly undertaken to assist. The Minister of Justice and Post-master-Genera], accompanied by Mr Buick, M.H.8., proceed on Friday to Eketahuna in order to attend a banquet which the Knights of Labour have arranged to hold, and the opportunity will be seized to advance the propaganda of the National Liberal Federation. To-morrow the matter in connection with the petition of Mr T. Bell, of the firm of Holmes and Bell, of Blenheim, who has filed a petition in bankruptcy againflt the estate of Mr Thomas Kennedy Macdonald, will be argued before a Judge of the Supreme Court, Wellington. The official result is published to-day of the poll of ratepayers in the Ongo Ward in the Kiwitea Road District, on the proposal to borrow £5000 for the construction of roads. There are 81 ratepayers on the roll, of whom 57 voted in favor of (with none against) the proposal, which was therefore carried. Mr Benzon, better known as the " Jubilee Plunger," has had a windfall. In the days of his prosperity he gave an impecunious friend L 16,000. Shortly before bis death this friend came in for some money, and be has now returned the amount bestowed upon him by the " Plunger," per bequest in his will. On Tuesday nigbt Mr Charles Bray, junr., returned from his trip up country, where he has been laying off roads for the Kiwitea Road Board. He has laid off a good line of road from the top of the cliff on the bank of the Kangitikei river to the side of the proposed bridge at Otara, and sixty chains of road in the Sandon Small Farm Block. We are authoritatively informed that (he following dates have been fixed for the closing of the different banking institutions throughout the colony during the Christmas and New Toar holidays:— Friday (Christmas Day), Saturday Boxing Day), and Monday (28th December) ; also, Friday (January Istj, Saturday (January 2nd), and Monday January 4th).— Wanganui Herald. The duty collected by the Customs last month was £117,569 14s lid. For the corresponding month of last year the sum received was £127,364 8s 3d, and for the previous month (October) of this year, L 139.757 17s lid. Last month theprinci« pal ports contributed as follows: — Auckland, L 26.235 8s 3d; Wellington, L 23.742 15s 6d ; Lyttelton and Christ ~ church, L19,5556s 7d ; Dunedin, L 26.035 3s, The amount received for the eight months of the financial year is L 1.046,166 5s lOd, which, compared with the Treasurer's estimated for that period} shows a surplus of L 22.832 19s 2d. A spectacle as rare as it was interesting was witnesssd in the Avenue. Wanganui, on Saturday evening. A lady, who had evidently been lying in wait for her prey , inflicted a sound horsewhipping on a luckless swain of her acquaintance. The interview was productive of considerable dismay in the mind of the latter, to leave out all mention of physical inconvenience. The castigation was not so soft-hearted as might have been expected, and her victim, if he does not in the future flee her presence, will probably decide not; to do it again, supposing he has already done anything — a supposition, by the way, of which we are by no means certain. — Chronicle. We congratulate the Manchester Highway Board on their public spirit in meeting the Pahiatua County Council in the way they have done by taking over the Gorge Boad, and knocking off the toll at the Gorge Bridge. The public will in future have one less toll to pay. Since the railway opened traffic on the Gorge Boad fell off very much owing to the high charges levied through the tolls. Now that this arrangerneut has been made the reduction to one toll, with the fact that the road will be kept in good order, will again popularise the road, and we have no doubt the increased traffic will prove highly satisfactory to the Manchester Boad Board. The arrangement will place the Gorge Boad in a better position than it has ever been in the way of reduced toll charges, and will prove a boon to the settlers of both coasts. — Woodville Examiner. The sins of New Zealand are visited to some extent upon Australia, for if one colony sets the example it is assumed that others will follow. The fear is unfounded to a large extent, for there is every reason to believe that the Conservative forces in Australia are coming together for a rally that will set labor damagogism aside for many years to come. We are a community of freeholders. The freeholder is never a plunderer, and he is to be the main factor in the coming struggle. Mr Ballance, it is to be noted, talked the old talk last week about rendering New Zealand attractive to the working man, but so far as Victoria is concerned that rubblish has had its day. We have plenty of labor here to meet present wants. "What we want is to make this a colony that will attract capital and will keep it hero when it has been attracted, so that wages and values may be kept up to a high normal standard. — Argus.

The Hon. B. Seddon has la grippe. 88 Frank Slavin and Peter Jackson fight for £2000 in June next in London. In the sculling race for the Sportsman's Challenge Cup, East defeated Perkins by fifteen lengths. The race was rowed on the Tyne, England. We learn by wire from Palmersfon N. that F. Y. Lethbridgo, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester Boad Board, has been elected Chairman of the new Palmorston North Hospital District. A Bill has been introduced into N.S.W. Legislature to legitimatize, on the marriage of the parents, children born out of wedlock. This has long been the law in Scotland, and it is difficult to understand how any country professing to be liber a 1 in polirics and Christian in religion could be otherwise. It is barbarous und illogical to continue to punish innocent children for the laches of their parents,- and the only fault with the measure under notice is that it does not go far enough. The splendid assortment of new boots and shoes, for ladies, gentlemen, and children, now open for inspection at Mr Keen's, is certainly unequalled anywhere on this coast. Mr Keen informs us that he has now quite recoyered from la grippe, and will consequently be able to see that the public on the Manchester Block will be better shod, and therefore of better standing, than any others in the colony. His policy is : Good value for your money ; and his motto " There's nothing like leather." Speaking at East Sydney, AttorneyGeneral Barton said that Pulsford's ex* cuse when he resigned the N.S.W Free, trade secretaryship was that " the creatrue Protection " was dead. " Whereas," said Barton, " it seemed thnt it was only the N.S-W. Freetrade exchequer which -was deceased, and if Protection was really dead, how con it that they now found a live Protectionist Ministry in office ?" " Pooh ! " said a voice in tho crowd, "that is only a resurrection!" " Resurrection," replied Barton, "is tho beginning of immortality." We learn that a new firm is shortly about to commence operations in Palmerston North, Messrs Stevens and Gorton, the well-known auctioneers and merchants, having sold part of their business to Messrs E. N. Barraud and L. A. Abra - ham. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will retain the auctioneering and stock agency, whilst Messrs Barraud and Abraham will take over the grass seed, grain, wool, produce, and general' merchandise departments of the business. Mr E. Noel Barraud is well known in business circles in Wellington, having been for the past 12 years chief clerk in Messrs Murray, Boberts, and Co.'s office, where he has donbtless gained a large amount of experience that will prove valuable to the new firm. Mr Lionel A. Abraham is a brother of the resident partner of Messrs Stevens and Gorton at Palmerston North, and has been connected with the business there for about seven years, and is widely known and deservedly popular in the district. — Post.