Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 128, 26 April 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Mass will be celebrated in Campbelltown next Sundny at 8 a.m., and at Feilding at 11 a.m. Letters of naturalisation have been issued to Christen Pctersen Jensen, laborer, of Feilding. A special general meeting of the Feildinjj Football Club will be held on Friday noxt at Mrs Oliver's Empire Hotel. Palmer's famous Musical Comedy Company will give a performance in the Assembly Rooms on Thursday evening. Everybody is going. Our readers are reminded of the Chry sanlhemum show to be held in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow afternoon and evening. All cash buyers should before investing call at the Cash Exchange Co Op, the only genuine cash general business on the coast. — Advt. The Masonic Grand Lodge quarterly communication will be held in Auckland to-morrow. IfiMr Fred Keen has just opened up a fresh consignment of boots and shoes. A replace advertisement will appear in our uoxt issue. The estimates of the Feilding Borough Council for the year ending 31st March, 1893, are published to-day. They require no special comment. Mr James Brucp, engineer, who first introduced the roller flour milling pro« cess in the colony was a visitor to Feiid ing yesterday. The Feilding State School was closed yesterday, as some fears were expressed that diphtheria had appeared at least in one ense. It is always advisable to be on the safe side in these cases. To-morrow there will be a total eclipse of tiie sun pavtialiy visible in IN'ew Zenland. It will begin at 7.26 a.m. and end at 8.34 am. the greatest obscuration being at 7.55 a.m. A fire occurred at Hal combe at 5 o'clock yesterday morning by which an un occupied cottage, stable and some stacks of oats, the property of Mr Heapy, were destroyed. According to the Observer the Hon Mr Mitchelson does not intend to seek re-election at the next general election. He has determined to retire from political life. Miss McFadjen, of Wellington, is employed by the Primitive Methodists as an evangelist. She is now labouring in the Waituna district. Last Sunday evening she gave a very impressive address in the Cosmopolitan Church there. The new residence of Mr Jones, at Kiwitea, is now finished, the several portions of the work having been com pleted to his entire satisfaction. The carpenters were Messrs Duley, Craven and Rimmer, of Ashurst, the painting was by Mr Fyfe, the plumbing by Mr Peter Thompson, and the upholstering by Mr W. G. Shearer of Feilding. Two men were driving down the hill known as " Dayies Hill," in the Waituna district, on Sunday last, when the sulky upset, injuring one of the occupants and doin& sundry damages to the vehicle. The injured man was driven into Feilding yesterday, where he consulted a medical man. Mr Clements, who was driving at the time, escaped unhurt. The Tauco correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes on Monday the 18th :— As I predicted, the heavy rain and snowfall lately has caused Ngarunhoe is covered with, snow, but it is fast disappearing. The mountain is now. discharging a tremendous quantity of steam, and during the night very heavy explosions took place. The township was visited by quite a number of earthquakes . Writing of Mr Palmer, who will appear on Thursday next, the Rockhamptou Argus said :— " A good stage presence, a maenificent voice, a most cultured and refined histrionic taste, and an artistic instinct as correct as it is chaste and pure. . . . True to nature, with a depth and intensity of passion. . . . As a vocalis Mr Palmer also ranks high, evincing the cultured and finished singer." The contractors for the various works in t lie West Waitapu were not long in commencing their several works. The contractor for metalling the cutting beyond the Waituna stream has his pit opened and a number of chains metnlled. The contractor for the erection of the bridge over the Waituna stream has commeDced operations, and the contract ors for other works further up in the block are busy packing in their goods. Duriiig the transfer of a lot of petro^ leura on March 27th, at Barcelona, some matches were accidentally dropped into a barrel of oil, and the barge was in stantly ablaze. The men barely had time to escape before the vessel alongside was also in flames, and the waters of the har« bour become a sea of flames. Seven vessels were encircled by fire and destroyed, including the man«of>war Lepanto. Ihe less is enormous. The sight from the shore was one of terrible grandeur. We observe that Mr H. G. Forloug, the well known dentist, formerly of New Plymouth, who has lately come to practise in Paimerston North, has entered into partnership with Mr Greenwood, senr, dentist, formerly of Wangnnui. Mr Greenwood is well known in Feilding and the surrounding districts from the periodical visits which lie used to pay here, and many of his former patients will no doubt be glad to hear that he is coming to resid« in Paimerston North permanently.

Mr J. S. Milson has now on iianJ a full supply of footballs, 3y request, we re*publish to-day the article "Onions for diphtheria "from the Scientific American. Miss Lucy Bo th is about to marry Singo, the chief native officer of the Sal vntion Army in India. To-day an old man, a tailor by trade, named Joblin Watts, was found dead in an outhouse at the back of the Denbigh Hotel. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for southerly gales and much colder weather have been sent to all places. The settlers around the Waituna district intend to have a tea meeting shortly the proceeds of which will be devoted to lining their church and providing more convenient seats. Mr T. Evans has been re-appomted ranger for the local branch of the Wellington Acclimatsation Society, and intends prosecuting anyone caught shooting without a license. The West Waitapu has made rapid strides since the block was opened. We don't think that any block of land in the island has so much work done on it in so short a space of time. The ranger exprdssed surprise at the amount o£ improvements accomplished. Advertisements in connection with elections of members of the Manchester Road Board appear to-day. Messrs Lethbridge, Purkiss, Wheeler, Pearce, and Eeeve have been re-elected. Nominations for No 4 Ward will be received by the Returning Officer, Mr Charles Bray, up to Monday, May 2nd. After a sensational trial lasting, several days the Bey Samuel J. Cotton, of Caraso, Carousb, Ireland, was found ■ guilty on March 29th of the manslaugh* J ler of a boy named Brown, and of charges of cruelty. Cotton is almost 70 years of age, and has been a Protestant minister for 45 years. He was in charge of an orphanage, and it was shown on his trial that he had ill-treated and starved the children. A fifteen -year- old negro girl was lynched at Sayyille, Ma., on 12th March, for attempting to poison a family of nine persons with " Emgh on Rats." It ap» pears that a coloured woman employee) about the house had offended her, and she proposed to revenge herself by killing everybody in sight. The i?i rl acknowledged wnom she had intended to kill, but said also she did not parlicularly cure who else suffered, ! The general public little imagines, (says the Napier Telegraph) the heavy cost the station holder has to bear in respect of the " swagger" nuisance. On one station alone in this district it tukes Ll2 10s per week to keep this "floating" class of individuals, an amount equal to the employment of seven extra hands. Some of the runholders ardentlj hope that the coupon proposals of the Government will have the effect of ridding the stations of swaggers whose Government coupons will now provide them with accommoda^ tion at neighbouring hotels. lv the British Empire there are now ! 28 Roman Catholic Archbishops and 97 Episcopal sees ; and 23 Vicarates and 10 I'erfectures Apostolic. Including twelve coadjutors and bishopssauxihary, the number of archbishops and bishops now holding office in the British Empire is 154 —that is, in England and Wales, 17 ; in Scotland, 6 ; in Ireland, 29; in Malta, Noza, and Gibraltar, 3 ; in Canada, 36 ; in Africa, 7; in Asia, 31 ; in Australasia, 25. The numbers of the clerjjy m the United Kingdom are — in England, 2478 ; in Scotland, 352 ; in Ireland. 3394. An unusual iucident happened in St. Mark's Church, Wellington, on Sunday last, which caused a little sensation among the congregation. The Hey R CofEey made reference in his sermon to the Rev Mr Grubb's recent mission ser* viceß in Wellington, and expressed iris J condemnation of the conduct of those members of the Church of England who had attended them. He it as strongly of opinion that by supposing such services they had been guilty of causing schism in the Church. On hearing these strictures a prominent member of the congregation, who had acted as one of the Rev Mr Grubb's committee, rose from bis seat in the middle of the church and walked slowly out. Mr Coffey said he could not help it if people were offended at what he said. H? had always been ' accustomed to say what he thought, and should continue to do so. — Times.