Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 129, 28 April 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Dillon has decided not to retire ' iiii political life at Home. Qvieen Victoria has left Hyerea for Dariußtaclt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, in Germany, Australian brokers are negotiating with the owners of the Tyser Line with a vie* to putting a stop to the keen competition in freights for cargoes to the colonies.

The Turukin* school committee includes a Maori named Tiki. Mr J. S. Milson, bookseller,.is authorised to sell postage and duty stamps. It is said that Mr Buick, M.H.R., the Government lecturer, will visit Feilding shortly. A young man named Richardson committed suicide at Wellington yeeterday by banging himself. The Bright Lights will give their | clever and popular entertainment in the Assembly Booms to-morrow night. Mr A. Williamson, tailor, Manchester street, has just received a supply of serges and coatings for the winter. It is announced to-day that Mr Walter Bentlly the distinguished actor, will ap« i pear in Feilding on Wednesday the 4th inst. Mr Macarfchur, M.H.R., /Will address the electors in the Assembly Booms on Monday, 9th May, 1892, at eight o'clock p.m. There is now abundance of good grass on the Feilding Small Farm Block Several new houses have been erected lately. The Fahiatua Star, which enjoys the confidence of the Cabinet, says the Government do not expecfc to tide over the coining session. The bankruptcy of Wm. Trimble, auctioneer, is notified to-day. The first meeting of creditors will be held in Feilding, at the Court House, on Monday 9th May 1892. Mr Walker, the great temperance lecturer, will be in FeiMing on Wednesday, 4th May. Three church choirs hare united, and are practising for the occasion, | Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day— Warnings for southerly gales and rain have been repeated to all East Coast stations. The New Plymouth Dick Turpin is yet at liberty, the police having " no clue " as to his identity. We would not be surprised to learn that the affair was a practical joke— carried a little too far. In Austria it has been found that the slanting of letters causes curvature of the spine, due to the position maintained at the table or desk ; and a supreme council have recommended that upright, letters be cultivated in schooling. The Manawatu Times says :— Mr Park declined to stand for election ns a school comuiitteeinan, giving as his reason the fact that he supplied the stationery to the school, and that in his opinion no one in that position should stand. There was a heavy thunderstorm at at Apiti last week. The lightning struck a large totara tree on Mr Mcehan's section and broke it into splinter* some of which were cast a hundred yards from the stump. Mr It. F. Haybittle, who has been for some time acting as book-keeper for his brother Mr W. G. Haybittle, in Feilding, has accepted an appointment as com" inercial traveller for Messrs E: W. Mills and Co., of Wellington. A new system of shoeing horses, has recently been invented in England. By it the iron shoes are fixed to others made of *ait canyas, which are then cemented to the hoof. Shoes fixed this way have been worn quite thin without moving. We learn from the Wairarapa Daily Times that the Government intend sending out six more surveyors to the eastern slopes of the Puketois to enable the settlers who belong to the various special settlement associations to get some bush felled during the present season. At the District Court last Friday morning, Alexander M'Naught, for contempt of Court in declining to answer questions re bankruptcy, was committed to Dunadin Goal for an indefinite period until he chose to express hia willingness to submit to public examination.— Oamaru Mail. A lady is applying to the authorities in Vienna for permission to disinter the body of her sister, who was buried ten years ago. She had verv valuable jewellery buried with her sister, and being herself reduced in circumstances, she has no other means of getting out of her misery than by appealing to the dead, The humble bee has found its detractors in Tasmania. The Launceston Examiner says : — Those who speak from experience assure us that the advantages which are derived from the presence of I bumble bees are far more than counter* balanced by the amount of damage they do. They increase most rapidly, and do an immense mischief to flowers. Tbe New Zealand Times says : — Large numbers of men have been applying for work at the Labour Bureau recently — more in fact than the Bureau could provide with work, but fortunately a bit of the Hunter ville railway is to be commenced. Consequently 25 men will be despatched to the scene of operations on Monday morning, and a similar number later on. Mr Chris. Dinsen, working m nis claim at the Bough and Tumble (No Town) last week was the lucky finder of a welcome little stranger in the shape of a nugget of gold weighing nine ounces eleven dwts. A correspondent of the Brunner News say a that the nugget was unearthed in a block of ground that had been prcriouslj worked all round years back. Bough and the adjoining creek. Cooper's, has in the past been celebrated for its coarse run of patches. — Beefton Guardian. A correspondent sends the following letter to the Chronicle. — " Sir, I see that the Premier told the electors of Feilding that he was in favour of giving com pen* sat ion to publicans who are refused a ve» newal of their licenses. Can you tell me if Mr Bal lance was a member of the House whon the ' Education Act, 1877/ was passed, and if he proposed to give compensation to proprietors of private schools which "Would be closed through the Government of the colony taking over primary education, — I am, Ac, Inquires."