Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 115, 26 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

A dog cart is advertised for sale in our wanted column. The 'Frisco mail will be sorted into private boxes to-night at 8.45 p.m. It is reported that another auctioneer intends to start business in Palmerston. Bishop Suter, of Nelson, is reported by Ihe Evening Mail to he improving in health. The school inspector, Mr Vereker Bindon, is at present paying an official visit to this district. The committee of the Savage Club will meet to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon at three o'clock. Mr Hal ley, of the Shamrock Boarding House has a conyenient shop to let in Fergusscn street. In future Mr Gr. W. Shailer will visit Feilding on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays as heretofore. Mr C. Bray, architect, invites tenders for the erection of an ofßce for the Manawatu Timber Company. An extraordinary gnzefte published yesterday afternoon further prorogues Parliament till sth May. Mr A. D. Thompson, the popular excaptaiu of the Feilding Football team, was a visitor to Feilding to-day. Larkin was sentenced to six and Cleary to four year's hard labour for defrauding the South Melbourne Building Society Mr James Allen is definitely out for the Bruce seat, vacant by the resignation of Mr J. W. Thomson. Mr Hanlon, Government fruifc expert* will shortly visit the Wairarapa to deliver a series of lectures on fruit culture. To cure chilblains apply opodeldoc, or equal parts of hartshorn and tincture of iodine, morning and evening. The average attendance at the public schools of the Colony last year was 97,058, being an increase of 2426 on the preceding year. For the last quarter of the year the average attendance was only 96,264. The properly tax returns for the year have exceeded the estimate. The amount received up to date is L357,51)0, whereas the estimate was L355.0U0. There is about L 6500 more to come in, but this will probably have to be sued for. The charge against T O'Loughlin, of the Wellington Club, Shannon, of selling grog without a license, will be heard at the Foxton Resident Magistrate's Court on the Bth April next. Jellicoe has been retained for the defence. Two di-jgers named Hefferman and Fitzgerald have discovered a nugget near Townsend Station, Murchison (W.A.), weighing 1440z. Two other nuggets, weighing 240z and 250z, have been found at the same spot. The Colonial Treasurer notifies in the Gazette that on Wednesday, the 13th April, he will be prepared to consider applications from local authorities for loans under The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all places southward of Napier and New Plymouth and for very cold nights to all other places. At a meeting of the Juvenile Foresters held last evening, the following officers were elected and installed into their respective offices : — Bro T. H. Holmes, C.R. j Bro A. J. Bray, 5.0. R .; Bro A. C. Foster (re-elected) Secretary ; Bro Or. McAlister (re-elected) Treasurer ; Bro W. Worsfold, S.W. ; Bro G. F. Fowles, J.W. ; Bro D. L. Foster, P.C.R., S.B. ; Bro K. A. Foster, P.C.R., J.B. Could not Ministers see their way to delaying for, say, another year, the intro duction of the Penny Post ? When we remember the strong protests made by the Opposition against the iniquity of re lieving the commercial community to such an extent, there are indeed very good grounds for asking that the matter of the reduction of postage be put off, and the money thus obtainable diverted into another channel. The Government are about to try the experiment of founding farm colonies. Would not a portion of the postal excess revenue be a very valuable assistance? — Napier News. Great moral changes are taking place in Wanganui. Whether these will make make the people happier or more contented with their lot no man can tell. A resident hinted to us the other day that overyono must be in bed not later than eleven o'clock, all the hotels are shut at ten o'clock an the boosers jerked out into the streets, people seen walking idly in the streets on Sunday are " marked," and where possible (and safe) admonished severely. No frivolity is allowed, and whistling or talking above a whisper in certain highways or roadways after dark is absolutely prohibited. No corkscrews are permitted to be sold in the shops, and tho place of the bottle washor knows him no moro. This is verily a strange picture, but although wo apply a liberal doao of salt, yet it is very nearly true.

Tenders are invited by tho E;rjm<-er [ of the Kiwitea Eoad Board, Mr 0. Bray j for public works set forth in the advertisement. Mr H. Hickford, grocer, has a replace advortisemeot in to-day to which he requests the attention of heads of families and others. At the Marton sports on Thursday last A. W. Watts won ihe 220 yds and 440 yds events and ran third in ihe 100 yds event of the Tutnemii Handicap- The) prizes were north £12 2s. | The Standard says :— A caso of attempted criminal assault occurred in Palmerston on Thursday. The culprit cleared away. The police are on his track and expect to arrest him shortly. The Manawatu Times understands that a requisition is in course of .signature in Palmerston North, asking the Hon Mr Seddon, the Minister for Public Works, to address a public meeting there at an early dateOne of the most promising features of the great Labor movement, it seems to us, lies in the f:ice that all the leaders, all the most prominent men are total ab- j stainers from strong driuk. To our minds (Napier News) the safety of the movement lies tliere. Premier Dibbs (N.S.W.) thus ad dressfd an unemployed deputntion recently: — "Well,! won't receive you, and you can do your blankest. You have put your own labor men in Parliament, and if they humbug you it is not my fault." Mr James Bell has growing at his farm at Kairanga, the plant which has just come into notice as a codlin moth catcher. The flowers appear to offer an irresistible attraction to the moths, which are caught and held fast in spite of all struggles to extricate themselves. — Manawatu Times The murderer, Deeming, parts his hair in the middle, yet the London agent of the Press Association has failed to wire that important piece of news. All New Zealand thrilled when the intelligence was flashed oyer the wires " that the murderer took in the milk with his night gown on." The Times states that the income tax forms which are to be issued on the first of next month are much shorter and less complex than either the South Australian or the English income tax forms. They will be made returnable within 14 day s after their issue, so that the public will have to avoid procrastination in the matter. The Committee appointed by the Kiwitea Koad Board to open and deal with tenders for metalling the Cheltenham, Cross road and Ferry road has accepted the tender of Messrs Younger and Laing, at 28s per chain, for the Cheltenham Cross road, and that of R. Lyon, senr , at 25s lOd per chain, for the Ferry road. A rumour prevalent for some time is confirmed that Sir Edward Watkin, the well-known railway magnate, is about to marry Mrs Herbert Ingram, an old woman of eighty, who has control over a fortune of £300,000. The Ingram family are yeheinentlv opposing the marriage, and Sir Edward is bringing libel actions for comments of the press upon his action. In order to meet the continually increasing demands of his business Mr Peter Thomson has just imported direct from the manufacturers in England a large quantity of holloware, tinware, and copper cooking vessels or a varied description. It is not too much to say that this is one oE the best importations of the kind ever made into Feilding, The quality of the several articles for mat erial, strength, and good workmanship, is unsurpassed, while the prices are very low seeing, that Mr Thomson is a direct importer. We refer our readers to the advertisement which appears elsewhere,