Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 76, 24 December 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Stab will not be published on Saturday. On Christmas day there will be mass in St Bridgets at eight o'olock in the forenoon. The Awahuri bridge is reported to be in a dangerous state from the number of holes in the planking. Mr M..S. Bell died at Napier on Sunday from an attack of influenza, aged 75 years. Mr W. Macinillan, of Awahuri, is a son-m -law of the deceased gentleman. We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary ticket for the concert and entertainment in the Assembly Booms on Christmas night. On Christmas Day (to-morrow) there will be services in St. John'a Church at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and at St. James, Halcombe, at 8 p.m. For other particulars see advertisement. The quarterly meeting of members of the local Lodge of Oddfellows was held on Tuesday evening last. There was a good attendance, and several visiting brethren were present from Palmerston. The following are the names of the members of the Wellington team to play here on Monday next .'—Messrs Frith, Lynch. Beid, Cope, Wilson, Leckie, Brookfield, Webb, Buckle, Knapp, and Sanderson. That strawberries need not be scarce the following statement will prove. Mr J. H, Staff, of Campbelltown, has already supplied oyer 700 -quarts sinoe the commencement of this season, principally to Feilding buyers. Three capes of diphtheria in Oampbelltown have terminated fatally. The outbreak of the disease is attributed by the settlers to the poisoning of the air by the carcases of dead sheep left lying on the ground to decompose, instead of being destroyed or buried. The Prophecy Investigation Society of Great Britain predicts England's loss of Ireland and India before 1893. After earthquakes, &c, one and forty thousand M living Christians " will be transported to heaven without dying, on March 5, 1896. The millennium is to begin in April, 1892. Twentyfour applications were received from various parts of the provincial dis« trict of Wellington yesterday for the post of Engineer and Inspector of roads for the Eangitikei County Council. Mr A. A, McKay, late Crown Lands Hanger, was duly appointed. Mr Charles Bray, junr., of Feilding, held third place in the voting. Among the performers at the concert, to take place in the Assembly Booms on Christmas night, is Mr Walter Haybifctle. He will sing " Nazareth " and " Calvery," and as bis voice has the same range and compass as Santley, the greatest barytone of the age, a treat may be anticipated. Mr Haybittle has recently been studying vocalisation under first-class masters. On Tuesday Mr Justice Denniston decided in re the bankruptcy of John Mann and the proof of debt of Samuel Garfortb, that a creditor holding as security a life insurance policy of the amonnt protected by the Life Assurance Policies Act over the life of a bankrupt, need not yalue such security in proying against the estate. Yesterday a " drunk from the country " was seen (and heard) in the Post office lobby, vehemently urging on the " lightning jerker" to S9nd for the most prominent lawyer in Wellington to " knock chucks" out of somebody. In the end he had to " put up," in a double sense, with Constable Tuohey, who could teaoh him all the law he wanted to know. John Teemer, the one time champion oarsman of America, says he will row James Stanbury for the Sculling Championship of the World and lOOOdol. aside. He also offers to take Stanbury as a partner in a double scull and row any two men in the world any fair course in America, Ed. Hanlan and William O'Connor preferred, for any sum up to 2500d01. It will be seen by our advertising columns that the Public Trustee is calling for tenders for the purchase of the stock and goodwill of that well-established business known as the Post Office General Stores, Makino. We understand that the stock is yalued at about £800, and there is no doubt that a good opening now presents itself to anyone desirious of going | into a ready made business of manageable l dimensions and profitable character. To a courteous invitation to drink he made reply. " No, mate, I will not drink with you now. I am full of beer as it is, and I don't wish to spoil the liquor that is in me. Tou, besides, are a good deal drunker than me, and it is too much like waste of good money to drink up to you, and may be not catch you then. Go and lie down, and when you are ready to start at scratch I'm your man, but I'll not take a handicap from you or any man even in drinking." He walked haughtily away leaving his interlocutor crushed and dismayed. We are glad to state that Mr. H. San» son has been quite successful in his boring operations for water at Campbell* town. Having obtained a deptnof 135 ft. a strony current of water was tapped, which now rushes up the pipes and rises about Bft. above the surface. Messrs Mudford also have tapped for water, and Messrs Maclean and Green, are boring for it, the particulars of which operations and the quality of water hitherto ob- 1 tamed, will be given in a few days. — Advocate. The French law or, moro correctly, Frenoh juries, allow a husband to revenge himself upon a guilty wife, and it was therefore not surprising that a man named Emile Eobert, who had killed his wife in tho open street whilst she was walking with a lover — an old schoolfel* I low of the husband -should have been acquitted. He is a civil eugiueer, and went to America on professional business, but suspecting from his wife's long silence that she had found someone to console her in his absence, returned suddenly to Paris, watched her until his suspicions were confirmed and then shot her. The verdict of acquittal was reoeired with applause. It is fortunate for M- Emile Robert that he lived in France, where tho law allows its functions to be exercised by private persons,

We have receiyed a couple of very handsome pictorial calenders from Messrs Gobbe and Darragh, and one from Mr S. Svendson. When the "unemployed " were returning to Wellington by the mail train yesterday, one of them flourished a cheque and said : "We got this ont of the blooming squatters, and when it is done we will get more." Of course ne wsb OrunK. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for southerly gales with rain and colder weather have been senb to all east coast stations and to most places m the South Island. The Secretary of the FeildinK Jocksy Club notifies that the public will be admitted on Monday at reduced Tates. We are glad to say the course is in splendid order "and the racing promises to be better than on any previous occasion. Yesterday an old man named Henry Moore, aged 73, residing at Halcombe, was run over by a cart. Several of his ribs were fractured, with rupture of the I left lung. Dr Johnston was sent for and rendered the necessary surgical assistance. Moore was sent to the Wanganui Hospital by the express to-day. When Mr Lucaschewski was riding between Feilding and Halcombe yesterday he was thrown from his horse. He fell on his right eyebrow and was cut to the bone, making a wound of an inch and a half in length. He lay unconscious for twenty, minutes, after which he got up and rode into Feilding where his injuries were attended to by Dr Johnston. The writer of a letter to the Otago Daily Times says : — " I have not read Sir Eobert Stout on ' Liberalism, Old and New,' and don't intend to. But how any man can talk an hour or so on such a subject is to me a mystery. In an hour 55 minutes must only have been verbiage, 1 padding.' Why, it is as plain as AB C what the two are. Old Liberalism — write it in capitals — was glorious freedom, what our forefathers (I am Scotch) fought and died for, and left us as one of the noblest heritages that God ever bestowed on a nation. That's the old. The new is the tyranny of the masses, urged on by demagogues, trembling and pandering to them. Men whose only god is their yamty, whose only religion is their hatred of every man who has shown him. self to be a nobler and better man than themselves. That's the new Liberalism, and what more can be said on it ? I don't know."