Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 118, 2 April 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

During a dispute which occurred in a church in Georgia, a Negro bishop was shot dead in the pulpitArchdeacon McLean, who was a visitor to Feilding a few weeks ago, is about to leave Greymonth, having accepted the incumbency of Greytown, Wairarapa. The sale of privileges of the Feilding Jockey Club > will be held by Mr W. * Trimble, auctioneer, on Saturday, the 9th 7 instant, at 2 p.m. For other particulars 5 Bee advertisement;. Notice is given to-day that the partnership hitherto existing . between Messrs " Pike and Entwisle, butchers, Colyton, has • been dissolved. The business wijl bo carried on in the future by John Entwisle ' and Joseph Fitch, who will pay and re- ' ceive all accounts due from and to the late firm. There is a very undignified squabble being carried on by the New Zealand Times and the Wellington Post on the subject of mutual grammatical errors, bad spelling, punctuation, and a few other small matters. Alleged leading journals in the Empire City should endeavour to . show a better example, which the several editors should remember what Dr Watts f said about " Dogs delight " and " Their t little hands were never made," and so on. Bad temper makes bad journalism.

A notice from the Commissioners of Taxes, is published to-day. The Manchester Bifles held a company parade on Thursday last when there was a niustea of twenty -five men of all ranks. During two days Emmett and Hughes are reported to have taken 27000z of gold specimens from their mine at Hill End, New South Wales. Onr report of the meeting held last night, in connection with the Women's Temperance Union, in the Foresters' Hall, is unavoidably held over. It is stated that a cream separator has been introduced in America which is also a butter extractor, thus doing away with the churn, that bane of the dairyman. The Cash Exchange Co-operative Company will open in a few days, when every customer will be a shareholder and can have goods at minimum prices. — J. C. Thompson, manager. — Advt. A now system of shorthand is taught by Mr A. Kuutzen who advertises to-day. We have seen a number of testimonials from well-known gentleman, and they all speak yery highly of the new system. Mr S. J. Thompson has pleasure in announcing the arrival of a very large variety of seasonable drapery, and would solicit an early inspection. Most of the goods will be ready for inspection this evening. Captain Edwin telegraphs :•— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Warnings for easterly gales and ram hold good at all places northward of Lj ttelton and Hokitika for frost have been sent to all other places. The Rey W. Cannell will preach his farewell sermon in the Feilding Wesleyan Church to-morrow night. Mr Canuell has been appointed to the Manaia circuit, and purposes leaying this district sometime next week. • Some excellent bedroom lamps of nickel silver have recently been imported by the proprietor of the Red House. They give a remarkably bright light, consume very little oil, and are perfectly safe. They are also very cheap. There is a big drop in the prices obtained for sealskins in the London market. This will do more to accomplish finality in the Behring Sea difficulty than acres of paper covered with official and diplomatic correspondence. We learn from the Wairarapa Daily Times that Archie Manihera, a young Native of the Wairarapa, well-know in Masterton, who has lately been finishing his education in the Te Ante College, died at Waipukurau on Monday. To-night Mr J. B. Hamilton will make an elaborate window display of the very latest and most stylish millinery, novelties, and effects, just opened, ex Kaikoura, from London. Ladies are specially invited to go and see the first show of the season to-night at Mr Hamilton's. Poultry -keepers should keep a sharp lookout for their feathered friends since the destructive weasel is now to be found in the more thickly populated parts of the Borough. On Thursday last one of these unwelcome visitors was destroyed at the Manse, Grey street, by the Rev. Mr Murray's cat. The concert to be given in the Assembly Rooms on Friday, the Bth instant, in aid of the Wesleyan Church building fund, promises to be a great success. The promoters have secured some of the best and most popular amateur talent in the colony. The programme will be published in detail on Tuesday next. We understand that Mr John Blackett has communicated with the Government, asking to be relieved on the 3lst October of his office as consulting engineer in Lon don. which carries with it a salary of LSOO a year. The Government have accepted the resignation as from the date indicated. Thers is no intention on their part to fill up the vacancy It would appear that the Ministry have accepted wiser counsels and decided to postpone the penny inland postage system until a more convenient season. The only objection we have to this change of policy is|that Feilding will not now have a town delivery of correspondence, which, we understand, was contingent upon the introduction of the cheaper system. The Hon. R. J. Seddon addressed a crowded meeting at Palmerston North on Thursday night, and received an unanimous vote of thanks, with a vote of confidence in the present Government. He dealt principally with immigration and withdrawals of capital, pointing out the increase in the immigaation returns of late, and the opinion of high financial authorities in contravention of the assertion that capital was being withdrawn. As to the Land and Income Tax proposals, he cited figures to show that this tax bore much less heavily on farmers than the Property Tax. Since Mr Billens, of the firm of Billens and Bunting, Palmerston North, has come to Bulls, he has done a very large and successful photographing business. One of his best pictures is that just com pleted of the officers of the Masonic Lodge at Bulls. The photograph was taken on the tennis club lawn, having the macrocarpa trees for a background. The officers are ranged in a semi- circle, in a standing position, and came out in the photo with remarkable life^likeness. When in the frame of heavy guilt mouldbeing, which Mr Billens supplies the appearance is very much enhanced, nnd makes a picture worthy to adorn the finest of walls. — Advocate. All Fools' Day is traced through eyery country in Europe, to the Hundus. The rublic' Advertiser, of April 13, 1789, contained the following paragraph : — " Humorous Jewish origin of the custom of making fools on the Ist of April. This is said to have begun from the mistake of Noah in sending the dove out of the Ark before the water had abated, on the first day of the month among the Hebrews, which answers to the Ist of April ; and to perpetuate the memory of this deliverance it was thought proper whoever forgot so remarkable a circumstance, to punish them by sending them upon some sleeveless errand similar to that ineffectual message upon which the bird was sent by the Patriarch. The custom appears to be of great antiquity, and to have been derived by the Romans from some of the Eastern nations." Tenders are invited for the erection of the hospital building at Palmerston North. mmmmmmm ___