Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 78, 31 December 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Manchester Eoad Board will meat on Saturday next. The Wanganui employees are moving to have a half- holiday on Thursday afternoons. The Feilding Jockey Club paid £28 lis Gd amount of Totalisator Tax for the last meeting. At the Police Court on Tuesday two "drunks" were fined 10s each. Messrs W. G. Hajbittle and J. C. Thompson, were on the Bench. Wilson and McGuihn, the prisoner 8 who escaped from Milford Sound, hav c been captured at Mossburn, near Lak e Te Anau. Another nor'-westerly gale was Wowing to-day. Result: Further destruction to orchards, and another indulgence in " classical language " on part of our local pomologists. Several owners are complaining that cattle.and- horses have -.■'-«• gone- astray " lately in a, manner not to be accounted for. We' would advise them to communicate with the police. ' Holiday excursionists complain bitterly of the inconveniences they have to put up with' on the Wellington-Manawatu Company's Line. The carriages are miserably insufficient for the passenger traffic; . . Mr J. P. Bryant, a highly esteemed settler in Fitzherbert, Palmerston North, Where he has resided for about nine years, was thrown fromrhts horse not far ; from his home on Saturday evening and sustained injuries which resulted fatally. We have to acknowledge receipt from the author, Mr A. E. G. Rhodes, of an interesting pamphlet entitled " The Taxation Muddle " or " The Treasurer y The Commissioner." The object of the author is to decide who is the most ignorant, the author of the Land and Income Assessment Act or the Administrator. The Masterton Beform Association has secured a block of land containing 10,000 acres at Puketoi, for a special settlement. This association is, we learn from the N.Z. Times .identified with the Knights of Labor. Many a good Liberal will be made a bad Tory by becoming a land owner in this way. - A Dunedin correspondent writes :— Mr Pinkerton, M.H.R., has knuckled down to his boot mending and patching like a brick. It both pleases and amuses us to see him in the eyening homeward coming, grimy and black, and unprepossessing looking, trudging along Princess street like any other ordinary individual. A black, hairy caterpillar (similar to that frequently found on the common ivyjhas made its appearance in the district in large numbers, but at present its food is a weed bearing a yellow flower. If weeds alone are to suffer the caterpillar will do an immense deal of good ; but we /Pahiatua Star) fear he will change his diet presently. We have been favoured with a copy of the Christmas number of the Canterbury Times, and we must congratulate the management on the success they have achieved. The stories, most of which are onginal, are interesting, sometimes exciting, and all clever. The other articles possess literary merit of a high order, and assist to make a most excellent publication, besides being a real Christmas paper. Yesterday we received from Mr Lowes, of Fowler's, Birmingham, per favor of Mr Managh, proprietor of the morning coach to Feilding from that rising township, a box containing some branches cut from black-currant and gooseberry trees. They were literally loaded with fruit, and wonidfcake a prize at any Horticultural Show in the world. Without exception such luxury of production wfl haye never before seen. The Fahiatua Star says; — The great bugbear of the Ministry has even invaded the grand co-operative system of Public Works which is to do so much for their especial protege, the. "poor working man." Dummyism has been found rampant at the railway works at F^ketahuna, men having had lengths of thirty chaius of formation let to them, who are said to be merely the nominees of gei'tam wellknown large contractors..

— —^ ii— — t^mmm — —— — ■^^^m The Manchester Eifles paraded last night and had a good muster. We have received the Government Railway time-table for January, 1892. Captain Russell broke one of his legs -while playing lawn tennis at Napier yes« terday. The banks will be closed on Friday to Monday (inclusive) for the New Year holidays.. „.-.-. „,= , •We a|e glad to see\that Mr F. Y^Leth-bridge,-who has had rather "a sharpattack--of hay -fever, has sufficiently recoyered to get about again. Captain Edwin ..telegraphs:— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- day — Warnings for westerly gales have been sent, to all places north of East Cape. The Chinese are picking out the golden -heart .of Northern Australia. Que hundred pounds of gold has gone to ChiDa from North Queensland this year. Mr J. H. Worsfold publishes his t banks for the assistance given by the Fire Brigade and the public, in putting out the fire on his premises to-day. .He has also handed us a cheque for £2 for the Brigade. Yesterday Dr Charlton extracted a 1 ranula from the mouth of a young man. This isa chalky formation caused by the stoppage of the flow of saliva and wais the first case seen by the doctor daring , his, practice in Feilding. The improvements to the Bank of Aus (ralasia have now been satisfactorily completed by Mr Watts, builder, the .-eon* tractor. The painting, varnishing, and pajperhangmg was done by Mr Batter* . shall ra a neat and workmanlike man ner. The new Act relating to bakers came into operation at the beginning of this month, which provides amongst other things that in every bread dart there shall be a pair of scales wherewith to weigh the \ bread. ; ?The Inspector of weights and' measures has been on the ; war-path in Auckland, and several bakers have been fined, >. ■' Mr Grattan Biggs, the famoua Irish comedian and character actor, who concludes to? night a -week's engagement in Palmerston North, will visit Feilding on Wednesday next. Mr Biggs, who is suppbrted'by a yery strong Melbourne 1 and Sydney company, will appear in I Dion Boucicault'er celebrated drama, *f Atrah;-na-Pogne." Full particulars will be. given oh Saturday. j : The Christohurch Press states : — In I spite of the assurance given by Mr Bal'lance to a member of the House of Bepresentatives; it appears that building societies are not to be exemßtedffom the land tax. . They haye been required to 'send in refairna ofjill morJbgages._jrhe 'Premiefwas understood to say" that these societies would remain in the same position as for the purposes of the Property Tax. /'The Pahiatua correspondent of the Woodville Examiner writes on Thursday last :~ About''" 40 men came in from MakurTyeaterday who had been working some eight months and over bushfelling. Naturally, after .such a length of time, tßey expected to Jhaye a good cheque to 'spend, butj^ini this case, the stores' ae* count Jias; run away with ; all the, profit, and^s^far asC.L can le'arni the' men are being offered less than a third' of what is ■ actually due to them. A boy eight years of age', named John Paton, went out on Boxing Day to Lowry Bay,, Wellington, with" some friends and wandered off into, the Bush. Finding a karaka tree covered with berries, they ate several; and shortly began lo vomit, Paton going into convulsions & becoming unconscious. Emetics were administered by a doctor, who happened to be attending the picnic, and he was removed to Wellington, where Dr Rawson was soon in attendance, but he died the following morning. A man named John Eell has been arrested at Auckland on a charge of murder arising out of a drunken brawl. He and a man named Maloney went to the Queen's Hotel, but the landlord refused to supply them with liquor as they were drunk, and they were put outside. It .is stated there was a scuffle, and Maloney fell on the kerbstone. He was taken to the Hospital, where he died from pressure of blood on the brain. [Kell has since been discharged, Maloney's death being accidental.] A rather paltry protest was entered by -the- second man-in-the 440 yds, at the, Feilding sports, won by Norton. It was lodged on the grounds that Norton when sending in his performances when norn« inating for Feilding, stated he, won an event at the last. Caledonian, meeting at Marton off the four yards mark, when it should have been from the three. We are pleased to learn 'that, the matter has been referred'to ttie' secretary of tne local club, and that he finds that Norton had four yards in the event in auestion as stated by him when sending in his performances* The protest is therefore sure to be dismissed.-— Mercury. A few minutes after noon to-day the fire-bell was rung, and within six minutes after the alarm the" Fire Brigade^ with their engine, were on the spot at Buckingham Palace Restaurant, iwhere the fire had broken out in the roof of the bakehouse. . Luckily the services of the Brigade were not required, because the fire had been got under by the proprietor, Mr J. H. Worsfold, and his assistants, with the help of a few neighbors. We noticed that Messrs Peter Thomson, F. V, Lethbridge, J. G. Cobbe, and J. Elliot were well to the fore. We really must congratulate Captain Morey and the other officers and men of the Brigade for their smartness in turning out. The Oamarn Mail reports that the brown beetle, which paid a visit to Feilding a few days ago, is committing great depredations on plum and cherry trees in the North Otago district. Apples and peaches escape almost untouched. The pest makes its appearance nightly at about eight o'clock at present, and after half an hour's preliminary exercise in wheeling round the = trees,, settles down upon the leaves and upper branches, and begins its work of destruction. After filling itself, it drops ofE .and burrows into the ground, where it remains during the day, often penetrating to a; depth of three or four inches. Some of the fruit trees are being absolutely denuded of their foliage. To-night will be the last opportunity of secunng the two shillings in the pound discount on, drapery and men and boy's clothing bought at J. B. Hamilton's. The premises willremain open until ten o'clock being New Year's Eve, All are invited to participate in the reduction. We fully expect to see this fayounte Drapery Emporium crowded out. — Advt.