Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 126, 21 April 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Influenza has reappeared in Sydney and numerous cases are reported. j The health of Sir Harry Atkinson has ] not improved dunug tho recess.

Sir Julius Yogel is writing another book. We hope it will merit a better fato than his first one did. Deer are becoming so plentiful in Otago that in a very few years frozen venison will be exported to England. A Salvation Army funeral took place this afternoon in connection with the infant child of Mr Wratt, of Taonui. The United Hunt will meet at Tawa , Flat on Saturday next. The hounds will '; throw off at three o'clock in the afternoon. i Mr John R. Russell, formerly proprie- ! tor and editor of the Foxton Herald, has : joined the staff of the Manawatu Daily Times. It is not improbable that Mr Seddon instead of Mr Buckley will leaye in the Hincmoa for Sydney to welcome the iSew Governoi. Captain Edwin telegraphs ;— Weather forecast for '24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all places. I Professor Edison claims to have invented a flying machine and electric motor, by which rain can be produced by means of dynamite. The Pnltner Dramatic Company will visit Feilding next week. They are very highly spoken of by onr southern contemporaries. In consequence of the death of Mrs Sherwill the presentation to Mr Peter Bartholomew will not take place tomorrow, but on Friday, 6th May. It is becoming fashionable in the English upper circles to drink tea from the saucer, but the lower orders still continue to take theirs from the neck of the bottle. On Saturday night . Messrs Allan and Co. will have their shop lighted with one of the newly-invented sunlight lamps, which were first introduced into this colony by Mr Benson, of Feilding. The following has been received by Mr Carthew for the Barnardo fund since March 1st :— Miss Reid, 14s ; Pastor Gaustead's Lecture, 11/11 ; Little man at tho Door, 18/3. The destitution in Brisbane is becoming daily more apparent. Scores of families are starring; and many decent, steady men assert that they have had no food in their houses for several days. Children are sleeping on heaps of straw. We learn with extreme regret that Bishop Suter experienced another seizure on Monday the llth instant. The attack Wi»s a very bad one, and at one time the Bishop's state became very grave indeed The latest advice that we have is that he is slightly better.— Nelson Mail. The past year is reported to have been the worst ever known in the history of the principal fire insurance companies, all of which have suffered severely by the numerous fires whicii have taken place not only at Home, but. in the United States and Canada. However, they can well afford to have a bad year, as most of them have very large reserves. On (lit (says the Mount Ida Chronic'e) that a bank manager who some yenrs ano suddenly departed from Dunedin for England, taking with him the wife of a highly respected citizen of Dunedin. is in a stale of complete destitution, and that the misguided woman, his paramour, lias had to suffer privations which, when her former position is considered, must have hern worse than all the repronchi'S that could have been heaped upou lu-r, The form of nomination paper for school committee elections prescri ed by the Act is as follows :— " To the chairman of the school committee. I, the undersigned, hereby nominate [ehn>tian name and surname of candidate] for election as a member of the above school committee for the ensui?:g year. (.Sic nature of nominator. J —I hereby consent to the nbove nomination. I Signature of candidate. J— Dated April — , 1592." On Monday the members of the Pn mitive Methodist Church, Awahuri, held a tea and public meeting in the Maori Mission House. Both the tea and the after meeting were well attended Mr James Bennett, presided at the public meeting. The Rev T. H. Lyon, and Messrs Bennett, Phillips, Gould, and Broadbelt addressed the meeting. During the evening it was reported a section had been obtained on which a new church was to be erected. It is wonderful what changes time brings about. In the good old days on the West Coast, not so many years ago after all, when people took their walks abroad at night they were each contented with a candle stuck in an " Old Tom " bottle. Now they must, forsooth, have the electrict light. Surely the race is becoming effieminate. In Rnfton the other night the papers said, because the electric machine went, " the town was plunged in darkness," whereas in the old days when the light went out it would have been said " Be jabers Pat has plunged in a hole." The Hon. the Premier, accompanied by his private secretary, Mr A. M. Smith, arrived by the mail train this afternoon from Wellington, and was received by the managing committee, and also Mr T. R. Taylor, chairman of the Kiwitea Road Board, and several other prominent residents of the town and district. This afternoon Mr Ballance wa3 driven round the town, and shown the racecourse, the oval, and several principal places of business, &c. Later on several deputations from Small Farm Associations of the district waited upon the Premier, the results of which will be published in our next issue. A wedding that attracted considerable attention in Makmo was celebrated ou Wednesday, at the " Wattles " the residence of Mr John Ashworth, when MiErnest Short was married to Miss Jessie Ashworth. The Key T. H. Lyon being the officiating clergyman. The brido was charmingly attired m cream serge with satin trimmings, and her bridesmaids, Misses Sarah and Mary Ashworth wore maroon drosses. After the ceremony about fifty guests sat down to a sumptuous wedding breakfast which had been laid in a large tout erected for the occasion. The happy couple left in the evening for their new home at Waituna. To-day we publish an advertisement over leader from tho Feilding branch of the New Zealand Clothing Factory. The premises, which will be open on Saturday next, have been built and fitted up specially to meet the requirements of the firm, and are situated at the corner of Manchester and Fergusson streets, opposite the Denbigh Hotel. The stock opened up consists of clothing, including Mosgiel and other tweeds, together with a large assortment of mercery, hosiery, waterproof clothing, &c. The firm of Hallenstein Bros, is well and favorably known throughout the colony, and we trust their latest eftort in opening a branch in this town will meet the success their business enterprise deserves. For further particulars we refer our readers to the advertisement. A frightful accident, by wbich a little girl lost her life, is thus described in the Waikato Times of the 14th inst. :— On Monday a daughter of Mr James Bregman, settler, Aotea, aped 12, wont out with a 3'oung brother to play whore a pig had been scalded. Her dress accidently caught lire, and when by the cries of the lioy the attention of her people had been to drawn the fact, she was completely, enveloped in flames. Tho more tliey tried to catch the girl the faster she seemingly ran away from them. She was frightfully burned all over, and, though apparently in no great pain, vre rouret to ] wy at about J.O o'clock last night she I succumbed to the severe injuries sus* ' taiued,