Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 109, 12 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Examiner says a bowling green is to be established at Wbodyille. A medical man is about to take up his residence in Ashurst. The Earl of Denbigh is dead. He was one of tho founders of this settlement. Mr Fred Keen has just opened up a select stock of boots and shoes in his new shop in Fergusson street. The Manawatu Times reports four cases of diphtheria in Palmerston, but none of them are of a serious nature. There was a marked decline in the values realised for sheep yesterday owing to the exceptional dryness of the seasonOn Sunday morning the Olian sawmill suffered damage by fire, Mr Sherwill, agent for the Phoenix Company, in which it was insured, sent proof of loss down on Tuesday, and on Thursday the cheque cunie to hand. This promptness is his;hl v commendable. Several really good theatrical companies are endeavoring to engage the Assembly Rooms for performances at Easier, but as the room hits been already taken for a " local" performance the public are thereby deprived of a treat. We may state that the custodian is unable to inform us what the " local" performance will consist of.

There is a probability that a substantial hotel will shortly be erected at Pemberton. The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next at eight o'clock in the evening. Yesterday Mr Carthew opened his usual monthly case of books and periodicals. The assortment is particularly good. The Wanganui Herald reports that a slander case is on the iajtis as a sequel to the last contest for the Palmerstou seat. We are glad to hear that Mr Macarthur, who has been indisposed for some time, is now much better. He is at present residing in Wellington. One of our up country correspondents reports water as being scarce in some parts. Our weather prophet says it will rain at Fowlers before St. Patrick's Day. During the last month the total number of arrivals in the colony was 1384, and the departures were 1198, leaving a balance of 191 in favor of the colony. Sam Daw is doing good work in assisting to open up the country, and his coaches now run to the furthest limits of the out lying districts. Owing to the large increase in his business Mr E, 13. Pearce, the well-known land agent of Palmerston North, has opened a branch at Hunfcerville. Father Dawson, of Waipawa, has instructed Mr Larcombe, architect, Palmerston North, to prepare plans for a Roman Catholic Church to be built at Dauevirke. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday evening next to make new arrangements with reference to the further sinking of the artesian well in Manchester Square. We are glad to notice that Mr J. C. Morey, Captain of the Feilding Fire Brigade, has so far recovered from his recent illness as to be able to go to Christchurch to take part in the Fire Brigade Demonstration. It may be said that there is not an idle man in Feilding just now. Those who are to be seen apparently out of work are men who are indulging in a well earned rest after a long spell oi hard work bnshfelling. There promises to be lively competition at the land sale of the Manawatu Railway Company, to be held by Messrs T. Kennedy McDonald and Co., at Wellington, on the 22nd inst. The supply of plans forwarded to this office has already been exhausted. In the Catholic Times of the 11th inst. the editor makes great fun of a misprint which occurred in this journal, whereby the name of Wellington was substituted for that of Nelson in a contributed paragraph remarking on the most noticeable features of the last named town. The Knights of Labor in Masterton are very properly scared, and haye passed a resolution viewing with alarm the in flux of Chinese traders and workers into the Wairarapa, and they suggest increasing the poll tax on all Chinese entering the colony from £10 to £100. We learn from the Palmerston Stand* arcl that the plans for tbe new Opera House, vihich is to be erected at the rear of the Empire Hotel, have been approved of, and tenders will be called for the work almost immediately. Mr Larcomb is ihe architect. Bingo : ' I'm going to bring my wife around to call on you tosnigln.' Winterby : ' That's right, but do me a favour, old man. Don't let her wear her new sealskin cloak. I don't want my wife to see it just now.' Bingo fgrimly) : 'Why, that's what we are coming for.' A cable from Albany received yesterday states that the Arcadia had arrived there, and in the list of passengers for New Zealand are the names of Colonel Gorton and Mrs Gorton, and Captian Fox, who has been appointed to tbe chief military command in New Zea» land. Mr R. R. Curtis took 400 sheep and lambs to the Longburn Freezing Factory a few days ago, and has recoiyed returns as follows :— lst clas9 lambs, 35*171bs ; 2ndelas9lambs, 26'831b5 ; 2-tooth wethers, 52-211bs: old ewes, 48*88. These have been consigned to the N.Z.L.M. Company in London. A native who was sitting in Court on Wednesday languidly listening to the evidence in a Maori case, had rather a peculiar cast of features, and on making enquiry as to his personality, we found lie was one of Te Kooti's chief butchers in clays gone by, the events of which are probably as vivid in his recollection as though they happened yesterday.— Napier Telegraph. The contractor for Mr Wollerman's new hotel, Mr J. D. Valentine, is making good progress with the work, and the old building is now beginning to have a new appearance put on it. The work of erecting new shops for Mr Hugli on his section near the Denbigh Hotel is also being rapidly pushed on, and these will be finished early in April. A new building in Bowen street, being put up by Mr Ralph Heald, is nearly finished. At Budapest, a rag-picker while turning over a heap of rubbish and house refuse found a large loaf. It was one of the long crisp loaves generally in use, but rather over the ordinary size. The finder picked it up and thinking it unusually heavy broke it in half. Inside the loaf were the fragments of an infant's body. The child had been cut up, and the pieces had then been kneaded together with dough in such a way that the horrible contents were completely covered. The whole had then been well baked in the form of a loaf. What attracted capital of old to New Zealand more than the wisdom and moderation of Governments may be gathered from the following, clipped from a Southern paper : — In reading over some conditions of sale in connection with a property Mr Staveley waa offering for sale recently, he came to a clause which showed that the owner of the property had in 1866 raised a mortgage at tho rate of 17£ per cent, which had been since reduced to Id per cent, but was now reducible to 6 per cent. The auctioneer remarked ' Thank God the days of barbarism are now over.' A lecturer was proving, to his own satisfaction, that negroes were not men, his principal argument being based on the thickness of the average negro's skull. After he had finished, an educated negro asked permission to say a few words on the other side, and, on obtaining leave from the chairman, explained that the abnormal thickness of the negro's skull was a wise provision of Providence for the protection of the brain from the heat of the tropical sun, for otherwise, said the negro, there would be a great danger of our brains becoming as soft as that gentleman who has just sat down. The following letter appeared in the Advocate of Thursday :— " To the Editor, Sir, — I notice in your report of the Aorangi Bridge enquiry, which is published in your paper of March 7th, that Mr Grant drew attention to the names of the two Mr Knights and Mr Brogden on a petition against the erection of the bridge, and stated that I said when giving my evidence before tho Commission that they were in favour of tho bridge being erected. If your report be correct, I wish you to state that Mr Grant made usg of untruths in his statements, as I never mentioned tho Mr Knights or Mr Brogden's name in my evidence, But if it were required I would bring forward plenty of ratepayers in the Manawatu Road Board district who are in favour of tho bridge being erected. —I am, etc, P. Desmond."

A cricket match between a team from Bulls and a local team is taking place on the county ground this afternoon. The Upper House of Mississippi State lias passed a Bill making smoking in public a penal offence, Mr Rockefeller, the head of the Stans dard Oil Company, has ftiven a donation ot £200.000 to the Baptist University at Chicago. ■ Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather . forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — ; Warnings for westerly gales and rain 1 have been repeated to all places. ! In the case Huddleston v. <>hell, heard j at the last sittings of the R.M. Court, Mr Richmond appeared for the plaintiff and not Mr Prior as stated. Fair American: ' Say, Dr Parkinson, can't you give me a short summary of your great work ' How to Preserve the Health ?' ' Dr P. : ' Don't worry-' Chinese annals as remote as 2,000 B.c« speak of the cultivation of tea, and classify it almost as perfectly as is done t.o-duy. Its virtues were discovered by accident. James Poland, charged with being drunk in Fergussou street yesterday, was brought before Mr Hay bi title, J.P., this morning, and fined ss, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment. The Rev. Mr Lyon, who succeeds the Rev. W. Harris aa clergyman of the Primitive Methodist Church, arrived this morning. Mr Harris and family will leaye on Monday next. Mr Frank Gay will run a coach from his stables at the Empire Hotel to the Birmingham sports on Tuesday next. The coach will start at 8.30 a.m. and re» turn in the evening after the sports. Three intending selectors who went to inspect the Coal Creek Block were lost in the bush for three days until they were dropped across by other intending selectors. They came out safely yesterday. At the meeting of junior footballers held at Mr Bray's shop last ni&ht, it was decided to form a club to be colled " The Feilding Kovers." Mr D. Mac farlane was appointed Secretary, and at ft future meeting, which will be duly announced, the various officers will be elected. Twelve quarters of beef haye been sent by Mr W. Bayly, of Taranaki, as n git fc to Dr Barnardo's Homes. The Egmon l Freezing Company made no charge for freezing; the New Zealand Shipping Company sent tbe beef without charging freight. The value of the gift is between £80 and £40. " Fat's the matter wi' ye, Donald ?" said a friend, meeting Donald weeping bitterly " Oh," says Donald, " bandy Fraser's wife's dead." " And was gars ye greet because Sandy Fraser's wife's dead ?" " Oh," replied Donald, with a despairing howl, " a'bodys gcttin' a change but me." The English Jockey Club have de* clined to license any racecourse whose officials — i.e., handicapper, judge, starter, clerk of scales, or clerk of course -bet in any way ; and as the new rule will apply to all meetings at which the officials specified are not engaged, as well as to those at which they are, a flutter of excitement has been caused in English sporting circles. — Dunedin Star. For every 100 British workingmen that die out of every 10,000 the deaths out of the same number of clergy are but 72 ; dissenting ministers 73 (why ?) ; farmers, 87 ; shoemakers, 87 ; grocers ( beforp the wine licence), 90; carpenters, 94,; doctors and Eoraan Catholic priests, 105 ; miners, 108 ; bakers and grocers (after the wine license), 112 ; drapers, 117 ; potters, 138 ; cabmen, 190 ; and publicans, 200. According to the ' Tuapeka Times ' there has been some trouble in Tuapeka West over the harvest labor question. At the commencement of tbe season the men readily agreed to work at the old wages— Bd an|hour. After a start was made 9d was demanded, and the demand was acceded to. Another start was made, and then jet another advance was asked — vix., Is an hour. This was re« sisted. One settler who had agreed to 9d solved the difficulty of the Is demand by bringing a reaper and binder into his field, and allowed the men to indulge in their strike. In other cases Chinamen are engaged at Sd, and doing the work well while the white men are on the wallaby in quest of harvesting at Is an hour.