Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 137, 17 May 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

._♦ The local Star states that Pahiatua will be proclaimed a borough in a few days. Mr Tripe, dentist, will be in Feiidmg on Friday next. There will be a meeting to-night of the local Fire Brigade to make final arrangements for the Tea and Concert on the 24th instant. Railway train services for the Queen's Birthday, which will he celebrated on Tuesday, the 24th instant, are published to-day, also for the Wanganui Steeplechase Meeting on the same day. We learn from the Manawatu Times that the Club Hotel, Palmerston North, has changed hands, Mr Valentine having disposed of his interest to Mi' G. Denny, late of the Rutlaud Hotel, Wanganui. It may be interesting to know that gentlemen who act as reviewers of assessments under the Land and Income Tax Assessment Act all over the colony receiye no emolument for their services beyond bare expenses. The death is reported, in the Manawatn Times of .yesterday, of John Eowlands, a son of Mr David Eowlands, of Jackeytown. He was found in a fit in a paddock, and although every effort was made to restore consciousness he died at midnight. A cynical temperance man said in Feilding the other day " At present we have a Paper and Pothouse Ministry, and if the Hon John Ballance goes to England as Agent-General, wo will have, with tte Hou It, Seddon as Premier, a Pothouse and Paper Ministry. It is stated that the yield of fruit in Nelson this year has been phenomenal. The store rooms of the local jam factories could not half accommodate the influx of all kinds of fruits, which had to be stacked in large pyramids in the yards under tarpaulins. A few more men of the stamp of Mr D. H. Macarthur, M.H.R., for Rangitikei, to follow up our speechifying Ministers ; and put a true complexion on the roseate pictures so freely drawn for the edification of unthinking people, would very • soon educate the public to giye heed to both sides of the question. Mr Macarthur promptly followed up the Premier at • Feildiug, and converted a Ministerial victory into a dire defeat. —Napier Telegraph. It will be good news to the shareholders i in the Longburn Freezing Company and others interested, to learn that the contractors have reached a depth of 190 feet with tho pipe for the artesian well, and • have struck water in sand. The flow is strong enough to rise six feet above the r BUrface, and it is confidently hoped when more pipes have been obtained and tho depth is increased that a good prossuvo ' will be the result.— Manawatu Times. The Wellington Eyening Post says :— b The Hinemoa'e next sea trip will be to • Hobart, to meet the first instalment of i General Booth's immigrants recruited from the London slums. The Premier 1 will accompany the Hmemoa on that occasion, as, haying invited the immigrants l to this Colony, he regards them as pari ticulaily his guests, and entitled to the same delicate attentions from a deinocra- . tic Government as are being extended to • the new Governor. Whether frozen game will be sent for their use on the way down has vet to be decided by the Cabinet. , Local Special Settlement Associations will now have to wait for land until the rej quirements of the proteges of General Bootli aud Mr 13allance are met.

Some parc -bred Andalusian fowls are advertised for sale by Mi- Templerof Cheltenham, in our Wuntcd column. The ;iext English and European mail, via Sau Francisco, will close to-morrow at 3.45 p.m. We are glad to notice that the State School will be reopened to-morrow, (Wednesday), all sickness am on (4 the children haying vow disappeared. Tenders are invited by Mr G. C. Hill, architect, for the erection (labor only) of a house in Denbigh street. For particulars see advertisement. The total amount of the takings at the performance of Wirth's circus at Palmerston for the Hospital was £IQ3 13s. The expenses amounted to £'50, leaving a balance of Jto'i 13s, 50 per cent of which is £26 16s 6d. The contribution to the hospital building will, with the Government subsidy, be over £60, a very acceptable addition to the revenue. A Frenchman named AdolpheLaßose has been arrested for cremating one of las children in a cooking stove, at Montreal, and for burying two others in the cellar of his house. The man has confessed, saying that he did it in order to saye expense. He says that he did the same thing in Paris, where he formerly lived. The employees at a certain flaxmill in the district awoke one morning to find that their overseer had " done the Pacific slope " with nearly £200 of their wages in his pocket. They could not lay their hands on the man himself, but they put together a couple of dummies, effigies of their Jevanting oversser and his wife, and vented their spleen and anger on these inanimate — Manawatu Times. The police force is to be reorganised owing to the discontent which exists in all ranks of the service. It is well known that one chief cause of the trouble lies in the fact that members of Parliament, in seyeral instances, have allowed themselves to be made channels of complaint against individual constables who have "done their duty " against persons who claimed to be the " right colour." One of the best known honey-produc-ing plants h Serradella (Ornithopus satit vus), and in order to test its growth in various parts of New South Wales the Minister for Agriculture has imported 50lb of the seed for distribution amongst bcelreepers and others who are willing I to make the experiment of growing a small quantity. The best lime for plauting is during the present month and the early part of November. A reform which removes one of the most shocking practices of the dark ages has just been brought about through a circular sent to all the Governors in Fin--1 land, declaring the aution of paupers and lunatics to be illegal. Up till now parishes have not had asylums and workhouses for the sick and aged, but everyone who has from one reason or other had to live on the parish has once in every year to be sold at auction, and given to the bidder who has offered the lowest tender. When Billy Barlow appeared on the stage last night he said " 1 hoped to see many of my old Ballarat and Beudigo friends here to greet me." As these famous rushes were in the '• early fifties " he was disappointed because very few of the adventerous spirits who worked on these famous fields are in Feilding. Too tnauy of those gallant souls have long found their last resting places in the bosom of mother earth, and their place knows them no more. Besides, Mr Barlow forgets that all are not gifted with the perpetual youth he undoubtedly possesses. " Do yon know whether the bankrupt was given to drink ?" was asked a wit» ness in the Bankruptcy Court recently. " I daressy he drank," was the reply, " and I drink. When Igo home I shall have a drink (laughter). When I settle an account with an honest man I shout for him, and perhaps he shouts for me, What harm is there in that ?" (laughter). And nobody was disposed to say there was any harm in it.— Wairarapa Times. Many people advocate the shower bath but few constitutions can stand it ; in fact, it is highly dangerous to many persons of weakly habit, for they have no reactive power. Says a clever writer on this subject: — " Every change in our growth and development xs slow and gradual. If nature approyed of sudden changes, she might make a man bald in a single night, We cannot stand shocks, and I don't believe we were even intended to." The eversyoung Billy Barlow played to a moderate attendance in the Assembly Rooms last night. To praise this old public favorite is to paint the lilj. From the beginning to the end of his performance he kept the attention of his audience and the frequent roars of laughter testified to their enjoyment. " The Blue Tail Fly " was very funny and very clever. We are glad to announce that the performance will be repeated to«night. The Chester Chronicle records the death from old age of John Jonas, furniture broker, Chester. Deceased, who married 53 years back, had 33 children, all of whom lived to bo christened. Fif* teen times wa3 Mrs. Jonas, who survives her husband, and is in her seventy senenth year, the happy mother of twins. Ten children survive, and they number five of each sex. Three sets of twins are among the survivors. Mrs Jonas recently competed for and won a prize offered by a London paper to the mother of the largest family. Two imported stallions costing £1,700 in Kansas, America, broke down a fence , between them, and engaged in a terrible battle. The fight was the most ferocious on record. They bit and tore pieces out of each other, and their kicks and strokes with their forefeet were terrific. To separate them was impossible, and the owner had to look on. One of the horses was 2001 b heavier than the other but what he lost in weight he made up by agility, and finally got the heavier horse down and kicked and pawed him to death. The victor was so badly hurt that he died in a few hours, We draw the attention of our readers to the enclosed circular and advertisement of the popular Irish comedian, Grattan 1 Kigga, who will perform at the Assembly Kooins, Feilding, to-morrow Wednesday evening, for one night only. On this occasion Mr Grattan Eiggs will produce an entirely new Irish drama, entitled " Shin Pane," for which Mr Rigga has purchased at considerable expense the sole right for his New Zealand tour. It is not necessary to refer at any length to the merits of Mr Grattan Eiggs and hiß company, as they are well-known by all patrons of dramatic art, suffice to say that the favorable impressions created in Feilding on the occasion of his last visit should attract a large andience on Wednesday evening to bid farewell to this popular comedian and the company who so ably support him. During the course of an address at Bulls on his trip to the Old Country and Europe, Colonel Gorton said he attended a sheep sale in Suffolk, one feature of which was that the sheep were all put up in small lots, which rarely exceeded a hundred at a time. Twenty Dowus lambs which he (the Colonel) valued at 6a 6d each, brought £1 18s each. Another lot of ewe and wether lambs which he valued at 3s were knocked down at 16s 6d. Twenty half-bred Lmcolns, which he valued at 5s 6d, brought 27s 6d, and another lot brought 25s 6d, which he valued at ss. Lambs, of which the outside price in New Zealand when he left would be 7s or now 12s, would bring as much as £3 per head.

The say and festive stoat is still on eridence in various parts of the Borough, i Mr Svendsen caught one " prospecting " in his fowl yard, on his property off the KimboUon road, on Saturday last. Notice is given to-day by Mr Charles Bray, clerk of the Manchester fioad Board, that it is the intention of the Board to hold a meeting on Saturday June 4th at 1 p.ru to consider objections lodged against taking certain, lands, as detailed in advertisement, "< for road pui'poscg. The funeral of the late son of Mr J. Hnmphrey, of Makino, who died last night, will lake place to-morrow . afternoon in accordance with a notice published by Mr A. Eade, undertaker. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Wind between north and west and southwest at all places. Barometer further rise everywhere, but falling at all places southward of Napier and New Plymouth after 12 hours. In the international tug-of-war coutest at Wellington on Saturday evening, the New Zealanders beat the Welshmen, England beat Scotland, and the Scandinavians beat the Australians. Last night the Welshmen beat the Scotch, and the New Zealanders the Scandinavians. This ends the contest, the Colonials taking first prize and the Englishmen the second. The Monster Tea and Concert in aid of the funds of the PeildiDg Fire Brigade will be held in the Assembly Ilooms on the afternoon and evening of the 24th instant. Preparations of the good things of this life have boen guaranteed in ample supply, the quantity and quality ot which will meet the appetites of the most eager, and the most fastidious. As might have been expected Mr Kenneth Wilson's High School has become very popular, and at the present rate of progress the limit of pprese t accotnmoda tio n will soon be reached. Mr Wilson has certainly no cause to regret his enterprise in providing such an excellent institution in Palmerston North. The next term begins on Wednesday, 25th inst., the evening classes resuming on Friday 27th instant. Both telegraph cables over Cook's Strait were reported broken yesterday. The only means of communicating with the South Island, therefore, is by the Wanganui cable. It is conjectured that either there were volcanic disturbances during the late gale, or the wires parted under the extra strain of Ministerial messages. [The Postmaster desires us to state that urgent telegrams only can now be accepted for the South Island, and that these may in all probability haye to be sent by steamer to Blenheim, whence they will be telegraphed to their distination.] The Wellington Post records the following little bit of fun in the Court-of« Appeal the other day, to wit :— The Eev. Mr Stanford had given evidence in ihe case before the lower Court as lo value, and as evidence of knowledge mentioned that he had made money as a (.r izier of cows. Mr Jellicoe objected to iug other side using his evidence, as Mr Stanford was a clergyman, and not an agricultural expert, " But," drily commented Mr Justice Richmond, "you will at least admit that he had extensive ' pastoral ' experience." The Hon. W. "E, Gladstone does not approve of land nationalisation. He said recently .—I declare to you that I think the nationalisation of the land, if it means the wilful plunder of the proprietors and sending them to the work house — that, I consider, is robbery. I think nationalisation of the land, as far as I understand it, would be folly, be cause the State is not qualified to exercise the functions of a landlord. The State could never become the landlord ; it would overburden and break down the State. Wellington was visited on Saturday by one of heaviest gales experienced therefor years. A portion of the railway line between Wellington and Petone was injured, causing suspension of traffic, and a considerable amount of damage was caused in various parts of the city by the gale. Fences, billboards, trees and chimney pots were toppled over in all directions. Several yachts in the harbour were blown ashore. The Wairarapa train ran into a tree which had fatleu across the line about 12 miles from Wellington, resulting in the engine, two trucks and two of the carriages being derailed, luckily without injury to anyoae, A meeting on the Palmerston Plat« form yesterday between Barlow and an old friend, was highly amusing, and quite in the Stanley Livingstone style in one sense. The friend inquired : "Mr Barlow, I presume?" "Yes, sir," was the reply ; " bat you. certainly have the advantage." " Well," retorted the friend, "perhaps you will remember me when I recall to your mind the endearing title you gave me as we parted some 27 years ago— a d d Scotch- Yoritshire«lrish* Yankee!" The jolly face of the showman illumined into a smile of the broadest, and seizing his friend's hand, he gave yent to one of his heartiest guffuws, that made the station vibrate as from an earthquake, — Manawatu Times.