Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 93, 4 February 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The henllh of Princess Victoria of Teck has been restored. The bank note advertised in our last issue as lost, has been found. Messrs Richards and Burton have been nominated to represent the Buabme on the Kiwitea Road Board. , Chili is raising a loan of fire millions, in order to withdraw the notes issued by the late President Balmaceds, News comes from Calcutta that the natives of Ennjjoon hare resolved to pro mote the Mnhommedan religion in England. Mr Kenneth Wilson has re-opened the High School, Palmerston North, with about twenty scholars. This is a good beginning. We have to thank the Traffic Agent, Wanganui, for a copy of the time-table for the New Zealand Government Railways for February. • Ad unsuccessful attempt was made by an incendiary to burn down the JRoyal Castle at Konigsburg. The rafters of the tower were found to be saturated with petroleum. Mr David Lundon, the Collector of Customs at Wanganni, has been promoted to a like position at the port of Auckland. We are informed by the Chronicle that Mr Lundon has been a resident in Wan • ganui for 14 years. We congratulate Mr Lundon on his promotion. Sorious disorders in connection with the Salvation Army haye again occurred at Eastbourne. The mob broko the ranks of the Army procossion, and in tho melee which ensued many of the lassies were trampled on the ground, while seyeral other " soldiers " received very rough usage. On Monday last our esteemed contemporary, the Napier Daily Telegraph, attained its majority. We tender our cordial congratulations on the happy event, and hope the manly and consistent line of policy it has followed for the twenty-one years of its existence will never be departed from. If men would only eschew tobacco and avoid the wiles of the fair sex they would live for ever. In proof of this contention we quote the case of an old man named Frank (Ban) Mcllory, who has just died near Bernish Glen, in the parish of Carrickmore, Ballygawley, at the advanced aged of 111 years. The deceased, born in the year, 1780, was a non-smoker and unmarried. Although only three years old in 1788, he is said to have remembered the Legislature commencing to re« peal the severe enactments against Catholic teaching in Ireland.

The Palmereton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board met to-day. A mutton famine is threatened in Paris, owing to tho great increase in the tariff. We regret to learn from the Manawatu Times that the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr G. M. Snelson, is confined to his bed with serious illness. Messrs Bailey Bros, have now finally stopped work at tbeir Taonui mills, the timber trees having been exhausted. The machinery will be removed and erected near the Makobine Gorge. The Aorangi Bridge Enquiry has been fixed for Friday, the 12th February, at Feilding. Mr Ransom (chairman), and Cr R. B, McKenzie, are the representa* tives of the Manawatu County Council. Farmers and others interested are invited to meet on Friday next at the paddock of Mr R. H. Whisker, Awahuri road, where Mr C. H. Pickering will give an exhibition of Messrs W. A. Woods' "Single Apron Reaper and Binder," at work. In Tasmania, caustic soda, in the proportion of one pound to a gallon of water, has been successfully used for the destruction of the codlin moth on apple trees. This dressing, applied in the spring with a syringe, has also proved most efficacious in erradicating scale blight from the trees. Four cases were heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Wellington, in which the Picturesque Atlas Company were the plaintiffs. One case was given in favour of the Company and two against, judgment being reserved in the fourth. Judgment was also given in another case against the Company. An enquiry with regard to the Onepuhi bridge in the Manchester district will shortly be held in Palmerston before Mr H. W. Brabant, commissioner. The enquiry (says the Manawatu Times) is the continuation of one which was held some considerable time past in Feilding in connection with the same bridge. The following compose the team to play against Marton on Saturday ■ next, at Marton, commencing at 10 o'clock :— Entwisle, Milton, Hunter, Rogers, Levett. WeJlsman, Hi]], Stracban, Baillie, Hedges, Millan, and Udy ; emergencies : Giesen, Stevens, Bartholomew, and Lethbridge. Players are requested to roll up at the 7.15 a.m. train. A telegram from Kamo (Auckland) states that the first measurement of the work done on the Hikurangi railway route showed that the men had not earned enough to pay for their food, and that as they are dissatisfied, they propose to hold a meeting there on Thursday and protest to the Minister of Public Works that the rate of pay in their opinion is not sufficient. If the Minister has the pluck of a boiled cabbage he will reply that the work was not worth the pay. The Colonists' Political Association for the Manawatu County was much discussed at the Sanson sale yesterday, There is evidently every prospect of it becoming an accomplished fact, and steps nrc being taken to hold a meeting shortly either at Sanson oe Campbell* town. Judging by the tone of the remarks we heard, the people seem to be very enthusiastic over the proposal. — Advocate. We (Manawatu Times), gather from a " Liberal " contemporary that " Tory " newspapers are those which pay fair wages regularly and which advocate the maintenance of the rate of wages, and do not desire to see labor already in the colony placed at a disadvantage by an influx of unemployed. From this the deduction is inevitable that the "Lib* eral " organs do not study the interests of the working man. Agricultural labor is so scarce in some of the Midland counties of England that the root crops are lying ungathered. At Eyegreen, Northamptonshire, the farmers have advanced wages over 20 per cent, but still more hands are wanted. At Ramsey, in Huntingdonshire, and Chatteris, in Cambridgeshire, it is said there never has been such a scarcity of agricultural labor. Should the frost intervene before the potatoes can be got in, the result will be disastrous to the farmers. As an outcome of the scare caused by the mortality amongst the Natives on the East Coast, north of Gisborne, a few months ago, the residents in the district have guaranteed £200 a year for any medical man who will settle amongst them. This the Government has pledged itself to supplement with another £100 a year. Up to the present, however, no doctor has been attracted by the inducement thus held out. Probably because medical men do not place the most implicit reliance on 'guarantees' given during scares. There is a want of attractive solidarity about these things. A contemporary, with reference to the Government Labor Bureau, 3ays : — " The Bureau cannot make employment for other than a limited number of men. Once that limit is passed the unemployed will range the. cplony and produce a new element of competition into the labour market, which will be irresistible. We affirm that a State guarantee of employment even at six shillings a-day will flood the colony with new arrivals. New Zealand is offering a higher bid to the unemployed than any other colony, and the unemployed will be knocked down to us. Twelve months hence, if the present Ministry continues in power, we shall expect to see wages come down to five shillings a-day. The harvesting in the Awahuri district is progressing satisfactorily. If the fine weather lasts another fortnight or so, the crops will all be safely got in. The farmers generally seem satisfied with the yield, but in some instances the crops are rather light. A few more showers just previous to Christmas would have been a great benefit. Fruit is scarce in the district, there are only one or two good orchards, and these suffered much by the recent gale, in fact where the trees were at all exposed to the wind they were completely stripped of both fruit and leaves. Plums and peachea are almost unknown in this part of the country, or, at least, none appear for sale. There is plenty of call for fruit if any could be got. The anniversary of the Wesleyan Sunday School, Palmerston North, will be celebrated on Sunday next. Great preparations haye been made and no pains spared to make this occasion even more attractive than usual. The Hallelujah Chorus will be given, with other selections from the Messiah, and from Fawcett's works. There will be a splendid orchestra, Messrs Isherwood, Cohen, Bellman (of Wellington), and a number of other talented musicians, being among the players. Three services will be held on Sunday, and there will be a tea and public meeting on Tuesday. Tea will be on the table at 6.30 p.m. A large gallery has been erected across the end of the the church, on which will be seated one hundred children, all trained singers, besides the adult tenors and basses, and twelve boys who will sing alto. It is not too much to say this will be the greatest treat of the kind ever before provided in the district. Visitors from Feilding and neighborhood are cordially invited to assist by their presence, when they will be accorded a hearty welcome. Look out ! For f . B. Hamilton's first great bargain sale is now on when the whole of this wqjl known fashionable drapery stock will be offered at sweeping reductions. Every article is marked in plain figures and goods will be sold for cash only. This sale is the cheapest ever known in Feilding and will be a regular shelf-clearing sale, as all unsold summer goods must be clean slaughtered in price so as to sweep out the whole lot. — Adtt.

I Mr T. VV. Fisher, who has been apS pointed to succeed Mr Macarthur, ; M.H.R., aa a member of the Land Board, is a farmer in the Waitotara district. Mr Whibley wires from Wellington :— The Registration fee of all our Small Farm Associations have been paid to the Surveyor- General. Surveying will be started soon. 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 places on the eastern coast northward of Kaikoura. The Feilding Jockey Club have arranged to hold a two-days' race meeting at Easter. Some members are inquiring why snch an important step was taken without consulting them as a body. Captain Morey has requested us to state that nominations for the position of Foreman in the Fire Brigade will be received up till 8 p.m. to-morrow. The election will take place at 9 o'clock the same evening. A member of his congregation, Mr Peter Murphy, has presented Father Patterson with a very valuable section of land in the Birmingham township, fronting the main road. Mr Lowe, of the Birmingham Hotel, has also presented a section for chnrch and school purposes. The New Zealand Herald says that the Ministry is endeavouring to force on Lord Knutsfoad the appointment of Sir Robert Hamilton, now Governor of Tasmania, as Governor of JNcw Zealand, because he is an old schoolfellow of Sir Robert Stout's and shares that gentleman's advanced liberal views. It will be observed from our advertising colums that Mr Nicholas Lawson has assumed the management of the Wellington provincial branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Mr Lawson has been connected with the Company for a considerable time, and for the past eight years has held the position of assistant manager at the Brisbane branch, previous to which ha held positions in the service in this Colony. The Melbourne Argus says:— "There are signs already that the people of New Zealand are by no means proud of the legislation which has been forced upon them by a band of faddists supported by another band of labour agitators. An attempt to degrade the Council by nominating a number of dummies, or mere time serving creatures of the Ministry, would give pith and vigour, to the Op« position. The New Zealand peoplo are certainly patient. It may be because their amusements are few that they allow their property to be experimented upon continually by legislative theorists, and follow the consequences of each blunder with a certain mournful interest. But even those who may wish to see the nominated Council reformed can hardly care to see one of the Houses of Parlia* ment deprived of its independence."