Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 94, 6 February 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

A severe gale has caused a number of wrecks in the Channel. Horses in London are suffering extensively from influenza. Mr Clampett will probably hold a concert in Feilding in a short time. General Booth characterises New Zea- : land as a garden for emigrants. We regret to learn that Mr F. Y. Lethbridge is aguin indisposed and confined to his room. The appointment of Mr J. H. Blackmore as Poundkeeper and Banger is gazotted by the Town Clerk. Train services for the Wanganui Earn Fair on the 10th and 11th instants, are i published to-day. We have received the Uniou Steam Ship Company's time table and pocket guide for February. A coroner's jury at Eketahuna brought in a verdict of " He lost his life through accidental death." The Manawatu Times reports that a branch of the N.Z. Clothing Factory is to bo opened in Feildiug. Mr Elkington wants six hundred acres of gras3, with water. Price to be sent under coyer to the Star office. The Maoawatu Times has been informed that the Palmerston Fire Brigade Band will shortly be incorporated under the Companies Act. On Thursday, at Dunedm, Mrs Emily Shallack, aged 30 years, died while under chloroform. She was having some teeth extracted. The circus will be here on Friday next. Our northern exchanges inform us this is a good show. For other particulars see advertisement and bills. We understand that a case arising out of the recent bush fires where some grass seed was destroyed, will be heard at the next sitting of the R.M, Court. Notices in connection with the sittings of the Assessment Court at Feilding and ilaleouibe on Friday the 26th instant, are published to-day. A meeting will be held in the Assembly Rooms on next Tuesday 9yenmg to make tho necessary arrangements for a visit of the Premier to Feilding. The Rev W. Harris advertiees a memorial service for the lato Rev C, H. Spurgeon, in the Methodist Church tomorrow night. Mr W. A, Watts, at Hunterville, on Thursday, won the Bracelet and .the 220 yards flat. On touching the tape ju the lattor race he was badly spiked in one of his feet. A sporting gentleman who has had experience on nearly every race course in the colonies, informed us yesterday that in his opinion tha new race course at Feilding is one of the bast he has eyer seen. There is no other in New Zealand to beat it.

; The Agents General will jointly apply I to the War Office for a military adviser i for the Australasian colonies. Mr Peter Bell has been elected to the Wanganui Borough Council. He beat his opponent by 131 votes. The nsiug at Pahang.near Penang, has been suppressed, but the leaders fled into the jungle and escaped capture. The modus vivendi' agreed to with respect to the Behring Sea dispute will probably be renewed for a year, pending the result of arbitration. Cooper, one of tho Englishmen imprisoned on a charge of espionage at St. Etienne, appealed, and got his sentence increased. An American company with a capital of two millions, has made arrangements for establishing a gambling resort on the lines of Monte Carlo in an island off tho Mexican coast, near Vora Cruz. Baron Hirsch is favourable to the establishment of a Jewish colony in Western Australia, provided he is assured that it will be countenanced both by the Government and the people, The resuscitated firm of Baring Brothers show a profit for the jear of £112,000. Fifty thousand will be carried to reserve and a diyidend of 5 per cent declared. The Hawke's Bay Herald says :— The editor of the new Wellington journal will be Mr G. M- Beed, formerly of the Auckland Star and Bell, and more lately of the Australian Star. The Hon. Mr Beeves will, it is said, be one of the staff, Owing to the heavy fall of rain yesterday the exhibition of the " Walter A. Wood's Eeaper and Binder " advertised to take place in Mr Whisker's paddock, did not eventuate, but arrangements haye been made for the display on Monday next at 2 o'clock in the same looahty. Increased thermal activity in tho Lake T»upo district is reported by a correspondent of the Herald* He states that an immense volume of steam is issuing from Buapehu, and that Ugawarnhoi, the active volcano on Tongariro, is hot down to its base-. "An evening with the Rev Charles Garretfc of Liverpool " is the subject of a lecture to be delivered by the Bey W. Harris, in the Methodist Church on Monday night. The lecture is to be followed by a coffee supper. There should be a good attendance. See advertisement. *It is pretty well known/ remarks a contemporary, ' that the Hon Mr Seddon is a favourite at Government House, His Excellency and Lady Onslow distinguishing him with social regard and attention. ' Dick ' is the strongest and most popular Minister in the present Cabinet, and also, as it appears, tbe most acceptable to ' exalted personages.' A meeting of Past Masters and Masters of Lodges nailing under the New Zealand Constitution was held in the Masonic Hall, Boulcott-street, Wellington, on Wednesday evening, when matters of interest to the craft were discussed. Among them may be mentioned the question of a more satisfactory distribution of benevolence, and that of the formation in Wellington of a Masonic Institute. B.W. Bro. H. J. Williams, P.M., G. Supt. of the district, presided. — Post. On Monday last as Mr Scheidt was driving a two horse dray, laden with wood, on Dixon's road, Bunnythorpe, where the grade is particularly steep, a log fell forward onto the back of the shaft horse, which then attempted to bolt. The driver immediately detached the leaders' harness from the dray, and headed the shafter at the bank. The result was hardly what either horse or man expected, because one wheel running up the incline, horse and dray were completely overturned. No damage was done. The Government have just purchased 3^,600 acres in the Pohmuiatane Block from the native owners, who have re* served 5000 acres for themselves, The price paid we hear was about 5s per acre. The land is said to be of fairly good quality, though covered with bush. The negotiations were conducted by Captain Butler, Land Purchase Officer, who also succeeded in getting land through the Native Land Court, so that the titles might be individualised, and each owner's interest determined. — Wanganui Herald. A naval officer, writing from Bombay, sends the London Globe the following :— " The Clive, an Indian Marine ship, was in dock the other day and some high official at Poona telegraphed down to her to be ready by the 17th. The people here wired back, ' Clive neaped [i.e., imprisoned in dock by neap tides], cannot be ready till 25th.' Back came a wire, ' Clive to be uoneaped at once.' Another lime they sent for a new topsail-yard, as the old one had been carried away. The authorities promptly wrote back to know ' when and by- whom ?" "