Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 139, 21 May 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feildino Star will be published on Monday next, Tuesday being a holiday in honor of the Queen's birthday. The inward San Francisco mail should arrive in Auckland to-day. It is rumoured in "Wellington that the Hon. John Ballance will be Knighted on Her Majesty's birthday. Mr H. H. Port, who died at Eiverton on Tuesday, aged 92, was the oldest Oddfellow in the colony. He was connected with the Order for 60 years. At the meeting of the Eiwitea Road Board to-day Mr T. R. Taylor was reelected chairman. Mr Taylor has been chairman since the inception of the Board. The Inangahua Times remarks that " The Feilding people must be as fickle as the average young lady, and cannot boast ot as much grit and determination." Much thanks. Mr George Robertson, the newly-ap-pqinted manager of the Wellington Di3trict of the Government Insurance Department, was a visitor to Feilding yesterday. The publicans and the sharebrokers of Reefton are going to have a tug-of-war. The publicans are confident of victory, while the sbarebmkers feel sure they are going to win, so there will be some fun. We are sorry 10 have a second death to report in the family of Mr John Humphrey, of Makino, his youngest son having died yesterday. The funeral will take place to-morrow, according to notice given by Mr A. Eade, undertaker. The Bishop of Waiapu, in presiding over a meeting of the New Zealand Alliance at Napier on Thursday night, expressed his opinion that the prohibition of the liquor traffic in New Zealand now came within the scope of practical politics. A close holiday will be observed by the p O st and telegraph ofiice on Tuesday, 24th May. Mails for despatch will be closed the previous evening at 8 p.m. A delivery of letters will be made at the counter on Monday from 8 p.m. to 8.80 p.m. A couple of young lady students at the University of Otago who are proceeding for their degree in medicine, made last week their first appearance in the dissecting room. Their presence there was viewed with anything but equanimity by the male students present. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Warnings for northerly gales and rain after from 12 to 20 hours haye been repeated to all places south of Napier and New Plymouth. Messrs Carhle and Thomas found in growing turnips this season a capital and effective remedy for the turnip fly. By solidifying the ground by tnmphng it with sheep they found that the fly did very little damage, the close tramping of the sleep destroyme the larvae in the ground,— Examiner. Mr J. G. Wilson, M.H.R., addressed the electors in Palmerston North on Thursday night, and we learn from the Manawatu Times he achieved a success. A vote of thanks and confidence in Mr Wilson was carried. A motion that the meeting accord thanks for the speech and confidence in the present Government was lost. Out of one hundred and twenty- five applications received for a block of land in Maharabara by the Crown Lands Board recently, there were only forty one different names! Which goes to show that members of families apply for land which is offered by ballot in order to have more chances of securing it for the head of the house,— Napier Telegraph. The Taranaki News says : — The mortality amongst the Maoris living at the Mangaone pah, near Bell Block, is becoming alarming, and we consider it is high, time some steps were taken to prevent the natives indulging in the hideous orgies i and drinking bouts that have been so frequent of late, and which appear likely to continue for an indefinite period. We are glad to be able to say that the public of Feilding are responding very liberally to the solicitations of the canvassers appointed by the Fire Brigade to raise money and material for the tea on the afternoon of the Queen's Birthday. The officials have every confidence that a big slice Will be paid off their debt on account of the engine. This is as it should be We hear it is suggested to call a meeting of the business people of Woodville to endeayor to make arrangements for carrying on a strictly cash business in the town, as the tradespeople assert the large number of theatrical companies that are coming round are taking all the money out of the district, while the tradespeople have to wait for theirs. — Woodville Examiner. A telegram from Perth in a Sydney contemporary says : — A drowning fatality has occurred at Albany. A boy named Ogg, aged 10, son of the captain of the Orient hoik Camilla, while ia a dingy, fell oyerboard and was drowned in sight of his father, who swam after him. He got within 50 yards of the boy when the Utter sank. Last Thursday night the boy' 9 mother dreamed that her son was drowned. The Wellington correspondent of the Wairarapa Daily Times aays : — Mr Macarthur has spoken, and the verdict given on a former occasion has now been completely reversed in the most emphatic manner. The exultation of the Government in their so-called triumph has been short-lived and the verdict from Feilding, taken with the blow delivered by the men of Bruce, should do much to weaken that already tottering and gigantic fraud — the Great Liberal Party. When Lord Glasgow arrives in Wellington the bands at the reception will play, as a graceful compliment to the nationality of the new Governor, " There's nae luck about the hoose when oor guide man's awa' " ; the official cook at Government House will " Mak a clean fireside " and" put on the muckle pot" while the tidy housemaid will " Gie little Jean, her Sunday goon, and Jock his Sunday coat." The young New Zealanders of Scotch parentage will sing " Kapai the haggis, tulloch gorum, for a' that and a' that," and drink for " Auld Lang Syne." The cowboy exhibition, to be held on the 25th instant, will be interesting as well as exciting. Mr F. Y. Lethbridge has granted permission to Messrs Feliz and Felton to tackle a couple of bullocks, old in sin and utterly tameless, which have roved in freedom over the run for the last ten years. Their peculiarity is that they won't go through a gate, while they resent with considerable force any attempts to persuade them to allow themselves to be enrolled in the ranks of civilisation with a poll axe. Ladies and children will be able to witness the marvellous feats of lassooing in perfect safety from the grand stand on the new racecourse. A remarkable case of religious mania is reported from Konigsburg. A peasant named Puschke, living at Dulach, lately joined a newly-founded religious sect, and soon after showed signs of insanity! A few days ago he entered his stable and attempted to crucify himself. He first bound his feet together at the ankles, and then drove nails through them, fastening them to the ground. Then, lying outstretched on his back, he further nailed the left hand to the ground, and with the right hand stabbed himself repeatedly in the chest. Hia wife found him lying unconscious on the earth. It is expected that he will survive his wounds.

A letter from " A Colonist " will appear next issue. The Kiwitea Road Board was sitting as we went to press. Dr Lemon anticipates that the threecore cable will be spliced before the House meets. At Palmerston yesterday two women, Cecilia Jacobsen and Emma Hill, charged with sly grog selling, were fined £10 and costs. It has been decided to hold the Palmerston Agricultural Show on the Bth and 9th November, instead of 2nd and 3rd as previously arranged at last meeting. It has been decided by the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, that, under rule 16, persons taking any part in tugs-of-war will be classed as professionals. There will be a meeting of the Master Builders, of Feilding, held in the Deubigh Hotel on Monday next, when matters of interest to the trade will be fully discussed. Tuesday next being Queen's Birthday, the usual Wednesday half-holiday will not be observed next week. To-morrow the pulpit of the Feilding Wesleyan Church will be occupied by the j superintendent of the district (Rev. W. J. Watkin), at both morning and evening seryice. The first of a series of dances of the Feilding Qimdrillo Assembly will be held in the Foresters' Hall on Wednesday evening next. As the evenings are now getting cold, there should be a good muster of the young folk. A notorious thief, whose father was I hanged, used to describe that father's decease in this way. "My beloved parent," quoth be, " bad the misfortune to fall off a scaffold outside Newgate whistle talking to a clergyman." The question of members of the Great Liberal Party being Knighted has been submitted to the Trades and Labor Council, who were graciously pleased to give their consent on the sole condition that they be permitted to nominate the intended recipient of the honor. An English financial writer who lias been studying probate statistics, asserts that among the 130 or 140 persous who in each of the past four years have left fortunes exceeding £100,000, each in personalty, " there is hardly to be found one in each year whose wealth appears to hare been the result of speculative financial operations. When the earth was young (says the Astronomer Royal for Ireland) it spun round at such a rate that the day was only three hours long. The earth was liquid then, and as it revolved at that fearful speed the sun caused ever«increasing tides upon its surface, until at last it burst in two. The smaller part became the moon, which has been going round the earth ever since at an increasing distance. The influence of the moon now raises tides on the earth, nnd while there was any liquid to operate on the moon the earth heaped up much greater lunar tides.