Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 114, 24 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Parliament will probably be opened on June 11. The Foilding Chrysanthemum Show be held on Wednesday, April 27. Mr John Bartholomew has a letter in to-day on the subject of Messrs Belk and Parr's invention. We have been requested to state that Miss McDonell, of Aorangi, assisted at the concert at Sanson on Thursday last. Parnell's personalty is proved at L 12--,-000. His friends intend to present the the City of Glasgow with his portrait by Herkomar. We regret to learn that a daughter oi Mr Hitchman, on the Kimbolton Road, lies dangerously ill. We hope that a change for the belter will soon take place. The Feilding Masonic Lodge will hold an emergency meeting on Monday next at seven o'clock in the evening. Brethren are requested to note the hour. At his farm on the Cheltenham road, Mr W. E. Elkington has had erected a first-class sheep dip. The work was done by Mr Chell, bricklayer, in a yery satisfactory manner. The Railway Works now at Napier it is understood are soon to be removed to Terrace End, Palmerston North. This will make an influx of nearly three hundred families. The Commissioner of Police has issued an order directing Inspectors and others in charge of stations to exert themselves in suppressing larrikinism and loitering at street corners. It is estimated that the consumption of • butter per head per annum of the entire population of New Zealand is 201 b. In England the consumption per head per , annum is 131 b; in Germany, 81b ; Holland, 61b ; France, 41b ; Italy, lib. Davy's Bright Lights played to a good house on Tuesday night. The Comedy was entitled " The Belle of the Kitchen " ; and was yery amusing. At the conclusion of the performance it was announced that the company would pay a return visit at the Easter races, if arrangements could be made to rent the hall. The Pahiatua Star has it on the very best authority that Government will pro ceed at once to make a bridle«track over the ranee to connect with Palmerston. Although only a bridle track is mentioned at present, it is more than likely a dray road will be made. A Wellington paper tells of a certain aristocratic lady wlio went to church the other Sunday and took her four-yenr»old boy for the first time. Upon hearing the organ he jumped up on his seat. •• Sit down," said his mother, " I won't," he shouted, " I want to see tlie monkey." The Government intend next session to offer bonuses for the establishment or creameries and dairy factories through- ' out the oolony. The system has worked with good results in Victoria. TheGov- : ernment intend to institute a supervision i st the ports to see that the bulter sent away is properly branded and what it represents to be. Overhead during a recent theatrical performance at Opei*a House, Wellington. Local person (to gorgeous younu globetrotter in a massive collar) ; ' What do you think of Bentley's I'avid Garnck P" Globe Trotter : " Fair, vewy fair, for the i Kawiinies ; but I've seen David Garrick himself in the part, dontchersce ; in London, dontcherknowP— Catholic Times. M> ft meeting of the Executive of the Education Board on Tuesday, tho tender was accepted from Messrs Hubner Bros, for the ereotion of a school building at Midland Eoad (Aratikij, near Feilding. For the Hunterville addition a tender was was accepted from Mr G. H. L. Morris. It was decided that the proposed additions were quite sufficient for the purpose. — Wanganui Herald. Justice Richmond pave judgment at the Wellington Supreme Court on Mon- ■ day in the case of Stevenson v. the Wei- • lington and Manawata Railway Company. , His Honour gave it as his opinion that the railway company were bound by the same rules as were in force on the Wellington and Masterton section of the Government railways, and as return 1 tickets were issued every day of the week on thp Government line the company were also bojjad to issue daily return ' passenger tickets. We have to thank the Goyepoment ■ Printer for a copy of a pamphlet entit/ed "A Compilation of Acts and Instruments relating to the Constitution and Government of New Zealand and the Ofijce of Governor of the Colony, togathe)? with an appendix containing Parliamentary Papers on various Constitutional Questions." In the preface wo are informed that this compilation is a repubheation of one of a like nature made in 1882. It was originally intended to have included the electoral law, but the Electoral Bill introduced list session not having become law it has been deemed advisable to print only such Acts as relate to the General Assembly as a whole. The present publication is, however, complete in itself.

The Cash Exchange will be open in a few days and run on sensational lines. Mr E, H. Crease, merchant, of Wellington, is at present on a visit to this district. The annual Sunday School picnic, in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church; was held on the Oval yesterday. As is usual with a gathering of this kind, it proved a great treat for the little folks. We have been asked to mention that in consequence of Mr Trimble having a stock sale at Cheltenham on Saturday, there will be no sale at his rooms on that date. Captain Edwin telegraphs '.—Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Warnings for easterly gales have been sent to all places northward of East Cape, Tanpo, and Raglan, and for frost to all South Island stations. Complete specifications have been accepted nt the Patent Office, and are now open for inspection there as follows : — " No. 5460, 7th March, 1892,— John Bartholouiew, of Feilding. An invention for a sixth-wheel cross-action gear for vehicles." Mr Martin started driving fresh pipes this morning some little distance from the spot where the old pipes stand, for artesian water. We sincerely hope this second eflort will prove successful. The attempt to draw the old pipes proved a failure. The Salvation Army's famous "Lasses' Band," consisting of twelve musicians performing on twenty-four instrumentsbrass, string, timbrel, and vocal bands in one — will appear in the Barracks on Monday next. They visit Halcombe on Tuesday. It is gravely stated by a contemporary that a French scientist has invented an instrument with which he claims the soul can be seen passing from the humau body at the moment of dissolution. Here's a chance for some one to try the above experiment on the miscreant Williams, the Windsor murderer, when he makes his exit from this earth with a rope round his neck. It would be interesting to watch the route his precious soul will take. The Electoral Bill drafted by the Go • vernment contains /lmilar provisions to last jear's Bill as it stood when intro* duced into the Legislative Council, and it is proposed to add a clause, placing commercial travellers and shearers on the same footing. Respecting the franchise, the onc«man one-vote will be rigidly adhered to, and no person will be allowed to be on more than one electoral roll. The following is from an exchange :— •A little boy was reading in his Scottish history an account of the Battle of Ban* nock burn. He read as follows: 'And when the English. A-rmy saw the new arm j on the hill behind, their spirit became damped' The teacher asked him what was meant by damping their spirits, and the boy not comprehending the meaning, simply answered : 'Pittin ' water in their whuskey !'