Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 73, 17 December 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

There was a severe thunderstorm here on Tuesday afternoon. ' One flash of lightning was of an unusual brilliancy. The next wool sale of the N.Z. Loan & Mercantile Agency Company will be held in Wellington on the 28th mst, at 11 a.m. The " certain Cretan philospher," who said " all men were liars," had served his apprenticeship with the debt collector of a Liberal newspaper. Some hoggets on Mr Eutherford's farm at Beaconsfield were shorn yesterday, and yielded the splendid return of 121bs. of wool each. The fleece of one hogget weighed 12ilbs. Captain Edwin telegraphs -.—Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Warnings for easterly gales end ram after from 12 to 20 hours haye been sent to all places north of Kaikoura and Nelson. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Grand Holiday Concert to take place in the Assembly Booms to-morrow evening. The Rev Mr Harris, Primitive Methodist clergyman, who has been a resident here for nearly four years, will leave for another sphere of labor early next year. Owners are reminded by the Hon. Sec. Mr J. E. Eussell, that nominations for the Foxton Summer Meeting on January 22nd, 1892, will close ou Monday the 21st instant. Britain has already annexed oneseventh of the globe(not reckoning water), and holds one»fourth of the human race under her sway. Her foreign possessions are 65 times larger than her own area. The Savage Club room, at the rear of the Corporation offices, is now open, and is well supplied with papers, books, periodicals, &c. With good management the future of this useful institution should be assured. The acceptances and general entries received on Tuesday- night for the Summer Meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club, are very satisfactory, and a good day's sport is now assured. We publish the list elsewhere. The JNelsoa Evening Mail says that no better selection could be mnd.e of a travelling M imster frvm the present Government than Mr Seddon. " Ap» probation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed." This morning Mr Oorkery, of Taonui, brought us in a dish ,qf strawberries of large size and good flavour. Eacfy berry weighed and ounce, and several of thyein were a little over. They were grown in Mr Corkery's garden at Bunnythope.. The survey of the steamer Wairare, for the Wanganui up-river trade, has been completed. The steamer made a trip up the river yesterday, with 100- passengers on board, and the outing was greatly enjoyed by the excursionists. A talented company of musicians will appear m the Assembly Booms on the 3lst mst. It will include Mr Williams (tenor), Mr Prouso (barytone), Mi- Puff Boyd (voilin), Miss McLean (soprano), Miss Foster (contralto), and Mr Parker (piamst). It is rumoured that Mr Espiner, the State School teacher s.i JBunuythorpe, is likely to be promoted. This will fee a loss to the children at Bnnnythorpe ns Mr Espiuei" has proved himself to be the right man in the right place. He is well liked by both parents and scholars. With reference to the formation of a ■foresters' Court at Fowler's we are in.formed that Bro. T. W. K. Foster, P.C.R., lias been deputed to act ou behalf of the District Executive to represent them at the opening ceremony of Court Loyal, Ijiriuiugham, on Saturday next. As evidence of (he great amount of traffic winch is being done in wool this season if. may be stated that the New Zealand Lo:im and Mercantile Company have paid railugc amounting to over LIOO fov one week, (lie wool being consigned principally from Palnierstoa and Feilding.— Manawdtu Rime's/

It was a woman who said that n man was either a coward or a scoundrel. *Mr Trimble will hold his next sale at Halcpm.be on Wednesday, 6th January, 1892. The funeral of the late Mrs Williamson took place yesterday and the cortege consisted of eight carriages and about twenty horsemen. The Rev H. Murray officiated at the cemetery, and Mr W. G. Shearev was the undertaker. The Feilding School Committee met on Tuesday evening last. Present — Messrs Lethbridge (chairman) Worsfold, Shearer, Gould, and Morey. It was resolved that all accounts be passed for payment, and after arrangements had been made for the concert the meeting adjourned. At the Gisborne Police Court yesterday Alfred W. Croft, late Deputy Official Assignee, appeared on eight charges of embezzlement of moneys totalling £132. Four charges were heard, the accused being committed for trial on each, and was remanded on the four others until Monday. We regret to learn that Mv J. Nicholson, a brother of Mr Chris. Nicholson, one of our prominent athletes, lies dangerously ill at Mrs Oliver's Empire Hotel. He was first prostrated by la grippe, when staying with Mr Boyd on the Valley road. Later on more serious symptoms were developed of a pulmonary complaint which have assumed a very threatening aspect. A consumer should study how much he can pay, not how much he can owe. Some men seem to think that because they know themselves to be '• good for all they owe " they needn't trouble about paying their debts. This feeling of self satisfaction may be all very fine for them, but rough on tradesmen to whom they are indebted. A bad pay is a poor man, no matter how well off he may pretend to be. Mr J. A Browne, police magistrate, and the author of " Robbery Under Arms," was placed in -a rath,er peculiar position at Germanton, nearly Albury, recently, when called upon to adjudicate in a case in which a mm named Splat t was charged with sticking up the mail coach. Sp'.att said he had been inspired by beer and the perusal of " Bobbery Under Arms," to bail up the coach for a lark. He was fined L2O for his little lark. The ' New Zealand Herald ' states that though Sir George Grey may go to Queensland and deliver an address at Brisbane, in response to the invitation of the labor unions, he will not go to the inland districts, as he is anxious " to return to the colony in time to attend the next meeting of the General Assembly, when his voice will probably be heard in earnest protest against the noxious measures which Mr Ballance is seeking to impose upon the colony and upon the working classes, under the guise of Liberalism." General Booth's social scheme athome (says the London Chronicle) has come into interesting and amiable contact with the War Office. It seems that some 30,000 worn-out military helmets have been lying as so much lumber in the army stores. A large proportion of them are said to have been used duriug the Egyptian war The Salvationist authorities were asked if their " Household Salvage Brigade " could make any use of them. This offer was promptly accepted, and already a few cartloads haye been conveyed to the " Darkest England " depot at Ba(fcersea. There the helmets are to be taken to pieces, and their com* ponent parts used for any purpose to which they may be adapted. If General Booth can only go on serving the War Office in this way he may, by and-by, have his commission as " General " con« firmed in the regular army.