Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 133, 7 May 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Mat. JJelfit has to-day opened up a supply of new saddles bridles Ac, <fee. A letter from " A Colonist " and our Ladies' letter will appear in our next issue. We notice that Mr Grant is to preach in the Feilding Wesleyan church tomorrow morning. W<; have to acknowledge receipt of the Seventh report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. A mcctinef of the creditors of Mr Wm. Trimble, a bankrupt, will be hold in the Court House, Feilding, on Monday afternoon. The Napier News says the Ministerial candidate for the Bruce seat " has been beaten not on politics, but on religion." That is poor comfort.

A quantity of reading matter and licensing notices appear on our fourth page to-day. Also, land transfer notices. A nenspaper is likely to be started at Inj;lcwood. Mr C. l-fonore oE Foxton died yester* day, of diphtheria. The control of the Awahuri Bridge has boon vested in the Manawatu Road Board. On Thursday night a death from diphtheria was reported at Colyton. The result of the Bruce election is to leave Mr Lee-Smith still very much to leeward. Mr Charles Bray has been gazetted lieutenant of the Manchester Rifles ; date of commission, 6th April, 1892. It is notified that Mr Greenwood, of the firm of Greenwood and Forlong, den* tists, will visit Feilding on Thursday next. To-day "A poor married man " contributes an article in which he airs certain grievances, We are sorry, but can do nothing to help him out of the difficulty. As a proof of the way in which the colony has been depleted of money lately, the Bank of New Zealand had to import 25,000 sovereigns from Sydney to supply the deficiency. Colonel Gorton is to be invited to ad* dress a Palmerston audience and give an account of his visit to England and the Continent. The difficulty between Colonel Fraser and the Wellington Press has been happily adjusted by the paper apologising and expressing regret. We regret to learn from the Egmont Settler, that the Bey. Mr Clover has lost | another little one by death. The funeral took place yesterday. We tender our sincere sympathy with Mr Clover and his family in their distress. We are pleased to learn that Mr FW. Ward, brother of Judge Ward, formerly R.M., on this coast, has been ap» pointed on the staff of the London Times, as a leader writer, at a Balary of £1000 per annum. We remind our readers that Mr Mac artlmr, M.H.R,, will reply to the Feilding speech of the Premier, in the Assembly Rooms on Monday next. His Worship the Mayor, Mr W. G. Haybittle, will preside. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for heavy westerly gales have been sent to all places northward of C.istlepoint and Westport, and for heayy southerly gales to all other places. The Premier received a cable message on Thursday announcing the arrival of His Excellency the Governor (Lord Glasgow) at Colombo, Ceylon, on the previous clay. He is expected to reach Sydney about the 23rd instant, and ought, therefore, to be in Wellington by the end of the month.— N.Z. Times. The Melbourne papers tell a story of a Carlton dentist who was lately sued for maintenance. He was not long married, and when the first ardour of his affections cooled down he confiscated the presents he had given his wife, and even boiled down her wedding ring to make setting for false teeth. A crusade against the use of tobacco in any shape or form except for medicinal purposes, (sheepwas)i) has now commenced in one of the central states of America. The sin and misery resulting from the excessive use of this obnoxious weed are said to be appalling, All tobacco shops are to be closed. A one hundred aud twenty yards hurdle race has been arranged between Jas. Rettcr, Parewanui, and Arnott, the champion hurdle racer of New Zealand. 1 The race will be run at Wanganui on the 23rd inst, the stakes being £25 a side. Arnott gives Retter 10yds. The present match has a considerable amount of interest attached to it. The Rey (Jr. Carr, the gentleman who has just beeu appointed as colleague with Rev MrLyoninthe Manawatu station will conduct his first service in Feilding in the Primitive Methodist Church to-mor-row mormng. Mr Carr comes with an excellent reputation as a preacher. He has chosen Halcombe as his place of residence. A marked improvement is said to be noticeable in the Golden Lead face which is at present interspersed with numerous gold-bearing leaders. This mine is the centre of a yery extensive district, and favorable development in it would be sure to giye a much-needed inpetus to prospecting in the immediate locality. — Rfangahua Times. At the S.C.A.A. Club's meeting at Timaru on, Wednesday last, Norman L. Gurr won the 100 yds (Usec), the Halfmile Flat (2min 1 2-ssec), the Quartermile (53 4-osec), the 250 yds Flat (28 losec), and was unplaced in the 600 yds Handicap, Ruthertord (40yd «) and three others beating him. Gurr's splendid running was quite the feature of the meeting. The result of the Commission of Enquiry into the maintenance of the Awahuri Bridge is that the Fitzherbert Road Board has to pay £36 8s lOd to« wards putting the bridge in repair, after which the cost ot maintenance shall be borne as follows : — Manawatu Road Board, 37:} per cent ; Manawatu County J Council, 37i per cent ; Palmerston Borough Council, 25 per cent.— Mana? watu Standard. The funeral of the late son of Mr John Bartholomew (junior), took place on ] Thursday last and was largely attended. The Feilding Fire Brigade, of which Mr Bartholomew is a member, was represented by Captain Peter Thomson, Lieutenant Alfred Eade, Fire Inspector Carthew, and Fireman Cornish, who bore the casket to its last resting place. The Rev. H. M. Murray officiated at the cemetery, and Mr W. G. Shearer was the undertaker. Some "new chum" gold has, we are told, been found in the Kaimanawa Ranges. About twenty years ago, or more, a prospecting party of "experienced miners " were sent out there by a company, but they found nothing. A wicked scoffer, said their tools consisted of three weeks' provisions, two packs of cards, and a supply of polite literature. They didn't find any gold anyway. A Maori newspaper in the " Liberal " interest is said to be on the tapis. What is the Liberal interest as regards Maori interests? The Liberal policy of the Government in respect of native affairs as expressed by the Native Minister, is to bring the Maoris in line with the Europeans, to give local bodies power to rate natiye lands, to imprison Maori chiefs who refuse to pay Dog tax, and to abolish Maori representatives in Parliament, How much support will the natives bo likely to give to a newspaper that iv ill advocate the above views ? We hope the Maoris will not allow themselves to bo hoodwinked about this matter. They had better keep their money in their pockets, and learn to read the Pakeha newspapers. — Napier Tele, graph. We direct the attention of our readers to a new ailvertisomout from Messrs Cobbe and Darragh, which will be found in another column. Tlie New Zealand Clothing Factory have just received between 200 and 300 patterns of tweed for special measure, consisting of Mosgiel, Kaiapoi, Oamara, Timaru. lioslyn, Ashbnrton, and Petone tweeds and worsteds, all orders entrusted to the manager will receive careful and prompt attention.— Advt.