Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 69, 8 December 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

A manuka rod is tho official instrumeni of punishment in this Colony. The Eesident Magistrate's Court wil be held to-morrow. Dom Pedro, ex-King of Brazil, died ir Lisbon on Sunday last. Mr Perceval, the Agent-General foi New Zealand, has arrived in London. We are glad to see that Mr Manson, o: The Pines, has quite recovered froa la grippe. The Feilding portion of tho San Fran cisco mail arrived from Wellington yes terday morning. We have to acknowledge receipt ol Eeid and Gray's Illustrated Catalogue ol Prize Machinery. A complimentary ticket for the Feildinj Sports on Boxing Day, has come to hand from the Secretary, Mr Sherwill. The next communication of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand is to be held in Oamaru on loth January. We have to thank Messrs Harcourt and Co., stock agents, of Wellington, foi a copy of the Eegister and Property Investors' Guide. Sporting men and athletes are reminded that nominations will close tomorrow, at 8.30 p.m., for the Feilding Boxing Day Sports. Captain Kane, formerly of H.M.S. Calliope, has been appointed to the position of Flog Captain on board H.M.S. Clanwilliam, at Portsmouth. The regular monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge, N.Z.C., will be held on Monday, the 14th inst. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. The residents in Minneapolis, a city oi Minnesota, propose to send to Eussia 50,000 barrels of flour for distribution among the starying peasantry. Farmers are very well satisfied with their wool -clip this season. The only thing wanted to make them thoroughly happy is an advance in the price. Tho Westport News says the Premiei has elected to be the servant of the Trades Union, and he must danea ts their piping. Thursday, 10th December, at. 5 p.m. sharp is the latest date upon which Property Tax can be paid without the penalty. At the Police Court yesterday forenoon John Coiner was fined oa for being drunk on Saturday. This morning W. Brown was fined 5s for the same offence. Mr (Jr. Kirton' occupied the Bench in both cases. News has been received in Auckland oi the death at St Louis, United States, of Mr G. W. Griffin, formerly American Consul at Auckland, and afterwards at Sydney. We are glad to know that Mr and Mrs Charles Fitzhorbert, of Cinder Hill, who have been prostrated with la grippe, have now so far recoyered as to be able to get about. We learn from the Napier Telegraph that an extraordinary flow of natural gas has been struck at the Tomoana works. It was discovered by the contractors while they were sinking a well. The New Zealand Times says : — There is no lack of aspirants to Mr T., K. Macdonald's vacant seat. A fourth candidate, in the person of Mr E. J. T. Price, landlord of the Clyde Quay Hotel, has announced himself. The popular hostess of the Empire Hotel, Mrs Oliver, has deen down to Wellington, where she has obtained a well-selected supply of the very best of all kinds of wines and spirits for the Christmas season. A cablegram has been received by Mr W, J. Eees, of Auckland, announcing his appointment by the Duke of Abercorn, Grand Master of the Freemasons of Ireland, to the position of Provincial Deputy Grand Master of New Zealand under the Irish Constitution, in succession to the late Mr G. P. Pierce. The Sank of New Zealand has purchased that Valuable. Site at CUe corner of Fergußson and Manchester streets, next Mr Keen's and opposite the Denbigh Hotel. The price paid was double what the land was purchased for two years ago. The building belonging to the Bank at Halcombe will be removed at once, and re-erected on the newly acquired section. Considerable sensation has been caused in Duuedin by the arrest of J. R. Scott, a well-known citizen. He took up a run in South Canterbury, but owins; to the rough nature of the country and rabbits, be abandoned it. The surrender appears not to have been accepted, and as men j were put on by the Babbit Inspector to put down the rabbits this was charged to Scott, and the cost not being paid he appears to have been arrested for not doing so. Thore was an unusual termination to a I bankruptcy meeting at Napier on Wed- | nosday. The victim to circumstancos was a Mr 15. Thompson, who for 12 years hud been headmaster of Napier District I School. lie was somewhat roughly handled by various creditors, but after he had calmly stood all the " hackling," it was announced that he had received a draft from relatiyes at Home which would enable him to pay 2Qi in the £. The Awahuri correspondent ofL the Advocato writes :— I had tbo ploasuro of going through Mr S. Knight's gardon the other day. Ho is one of our Awahuri gardeuors, and I mu^t admit 1 neyor saw anything to equal his roses. They are a marvel of beauty. Thoy aro growing from the front gato right up to his private houso on one side of tho path, and on the other side there are a groat number of fine blooming plants. lie has also a splendid lot of various flowering shrubs. Death has so far thinned the ranks of the Legislative Councillors since the bogjnuiug of this year as to have almost counterbalanced the appointments mado by the Atkinson Ministry whon on its political dea.thb.cd. Sjr Frederick Whitaker's death is tho sixth thai has occurred within tho year, tho other doceasod Councillors being Sir William Fitzhorbert, Messrs Reeves, Fraser, Peter and Fultou. These were nil alive when Sir Harry Atkinson added himself, Mr Fulton, and five other gentlemen to tho Council. — Post. The funeral of tlio iato Sir F. Whifnker took place iit Auckland, on Sunday. Bi< fore the procession left the house of the deceased gentleman a brief iVI.-igonic service was held in tho Free.iwisons' Hall, Sir Frcdk. having occupied a distinguished pusitiou in that order- The funeral cortege was one of the largest seen. 'in Auckland for man r years. About 150 Freemasons preceded the hcji-se. Sir George Grey, tlie Hons Dr Pollon and W. Svyanson nnd several members of the House of Representative!! wore present. The rcniuins were' interred iv St. Stephen's Cemetery, Parnell.

j I The Bed House has now in stock a full r i supply of Christmas requirements of all , : descriptions. r A bundle of -'Frisco letters intended for > Peildinpf were rods sent to Napier, and only reached here last night. I Mr Eade requests that his customers ) and clients will read carefully his replace \ advertisement to appear in our next issue. 3 "While some young men, were bathing i in the Oroua river on Sunday they found s a dead trout, which weighed over four j I pounds. I On Friday last Mr Hurdle, carpenter, . was badly kicked by a horse in the face and chest, and he has been confined to the house ever since. The piles for Messrs Cobbe and Darragh's new sheds and out-houses are now on the ground, and the buildings will be pushed -on with all speed. Mr W. Watts t is the contractor. Owing to the ill health of Mr Sandi- ' lands, several cases in which he is concerned in the E.M. Court to-morrow, will i bo adjourned by consent of the other counsel. r The new stock of silver and electroplated ware, jewellery, clocks, &c, which n arrived in Wellington by the Aorangi for Mr Scott, will be open for inspection on Thursday next. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24-hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain . have been sent to all east coast stations . between Ly Helton and Tauranga. The window of the grocery department in Messrs Cobbe and Darragh's shop was j yery prettily decorated this morning with all the necessaries and condiments for Christmas cheer in the way of sweets, &c. Yesterday when a son of Mr Jesse 1 Mexted was felling bush,}|at Colyton, the limb of a tree struck him m the throat, i and inflicted a terrible wound. DrJCharl- :• ton wasflsent for and did all that was • ecessary. We regret to announce the death of ■ Mrs Gwynne, of Hawera, formerly of • Turakina, a sister of Mr J. Wilson, of \ Feilding. Mrs Gwynne was well known in Feilding, where she has left many friends to mourn her loss. She has left a t large family. The cause of death was la grippe. The Christmas gift auction held on the j Primitive Methodist parsonage grounds , yesterday afternoon was well attended. , There was a dinner and tea, each of which ' was well patronised, and in the evening a " social " was held, at which a number " of songs and recitations were given. 1 Everybody, young and old, returned home 1 well satisfied with the afternoon and evening's amusement. 1 The Napier Telegraph says : — As ' showing the saving effected by the use of ' shearing machines wo are in a position to say that Mr Leslie McHardy, at bis : Blackhead station, reckons that he has i sixty bales of wool over and above what > he would hnve had if his sheep had been shorn with ordinary shears. The sixty bales thus saved more than pay for the machines and the setting up of the plant. ' His station. has turned out 950 bales this clip. A meeting of the Feilding Friendly ' Society -was held in the Society's room, t Glasgow House, last evening, when there was a fair attendance, and all the mem- | bers took a lively interest in the proceed--1 ings. A most onjoy.able evening was [ spent, at which a number of readings and • recitations were given. The next meet--1 ing will be held on Monday evening next, ■ for which occasion a good programme has been arranged, including several i musical pieces. 1 A meeting of the Executive Committee 1 of the Education Board was held on • Friday. The tender of W. Watts for additions and painting the Awahuri School was accepted, the question of covering the roof with iron being left over until the architect visited the school. i Permission was given to the Awahuri School Committee to close the school ( owing to influenza, and re-open on January 4th instead of the cud of the month. — Chronicle. On Saturday a trotting match, two and a half miles, on the old race course, for £5 a-side, took place between horses owned by Mr Jenkins, of Taonni, and Mr Pickering, of Awahuri road. The former won easily. Yesterday another raoe came off between a horse owned by Mr F. Gay and another owned by C. Frarnpton, for £5 a-side. Gay's won easily. - There was a good attendance of onlookers on both occasions. The funeral pf tho late Mrs Mingins took place on Sunday afternoon last, and was largely attended. Before leaving the dwelling of the family, Mr W, W. Corpe, of Makino, held a service, after which the cortege started which consisted of about fifty carriages and a number of . followers on horseback. Arriving at tho cemetery the f iweral service waa most impressively performed by Mr Corpe, assisted by Mr Dallas. The undertaking was performed by Mr Alfred Eade. The following funny paragraph is from the Wnngnnui Chronicle : —The Premier will assuredly never die of suffocation, or he would long ere> this have been choked] in endeavouring to swallow the rancid butter wrappgd up in his own paper. But, although his swallow may be sufficiently large to pprmit of his partaking with perfect safsty of thnt which would kill almost' any other man, yet is ' he not exempt from deadly danger in other respects. Strangulation — journalistic strangulation, that is — is a peril of which ho has need to stand in hourly dread. Apropos of the statement mado by Ministers regarding the antagonism shown towards their alleged policy by the newspapers of tho colony, a Wellington man informed us that the system of ■' advertising on telegraph posts and postago stamps " introduced by the Government was really intended as a blow at the nowspaper owners. Perhaps the Minister of Education, the Hon Mr Eeeyes, who is the only man in the crowd who claims to bo a classical scholar, had iv his mind the mutilated statue in Home, dug up ueur tbo shop of Posquin, a cooler, wlio was famous for his jokos. Satirical papers wore attributed to the figure and pasted on it. and we are told pasquinades woro to the Empire City what the liberty of the press is to us. It will be hard if real live newspapers can't hold their own wilh telegraph posts.