The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1892. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 144, 2 June 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1892. Local and General News

.— ♦ • — Next Monday will be observed as v Bank holiday— Whit Monday. Bread dropped one penny the four pound loaf in Feilding yesterday, and is now seven pence. The Senior Cup football match between Marton and Palmerston will be played at Marton on June 11. Mr Cavthew's monthly case of books and periodicals arrived yesterday. The assortment is more than usually good. Mr F. Y. Lethbridg© was elected a trustee for the Foresters last night, in place of the late Mr D. H. Macarthnr. A meeting of the supporters of Mr John Stevens met last night and formed a committee to assist in the work of the election. The tender of Mr Walter Watts has been accepted for the erection of a dwelling house for Mr Cobbe, in Denbigh street. We have to thank the District Agent of the Bailway Department for a copy of the N.Z. Bailway Time Tables for the current month. Settlement is said to be progressing rapidly in the Poverty Bay district. About 25,000 acres of bush are to be fallen during the coming year. The New Zealand Government's s.s Hinemoa, with Lord Glasgow and suite on board, cleared the Sydney Heads last Tuesday, for Wellington. j According to last Monday's Gazette, the Hon. W. P. Reeves is to be Commissioner of Stamps in place of the Hon. J. Ballance, who resigns that office. , We are informed by the Taranaki Herald that the total quantity of butter exported from the breakwater only for four weekg ending May 21, was 86 tons 9cwts 3qrs 261bs. At the Wellington Supreme Court sittings on Tuesday last, Alex. Boss was found guilty of house-breaking at Feilding, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. A meeting oi the business people of Feilding has been convened by circular to be held in the Foresters' Hall to-mor-row evening at half past seven o'clock, to discuss matters of importance. A meeting of the Colonists' Political Association was held last night, at which it was decided to support the candidature of Mr Bruce if that gentleman consented to be nominated for the Rangitikei seat. The Manawatu Standard says: — Mr Larcomb has been instructed to prepare plans and specifications for a twelyeroomed brick residence for a gentleman in Woodville, and a sixteen - roomed residence for a gentleman in Feilding. A Sydney telegram says : — " At the annual meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, held in Sydney on the 11th inst., it was pointed out that for the first time in the history of the society the reversionary bonuses had exceeded a million sterling. Mr McCardle moved, at the last meeting of the Wellington Land Board :— " That the Government be recommended to amend the regulations for village homestead settlements, so as to enable one person to select four sections instead of one, as at present." The motion was seconded by Mr Hogg, and agreed to. The drinking habits of the world cost something. The total quantity of beer brewed in 1890 was 1,956,000,000 hectohters, or 920,834,000 gallons ; whereas in 1889 it was only 1,736,000,000. Great Britain and Ireland held the pre-eminence with 567,000,000 gallons; the German Empire followed next with 532,000.000 hectoliters. Mr McKerrow, Chief Commissioner of Railways, remains in Auckland for a week. At an interview he said it was the steady policy of the Railway Commissioners to encourage the productive resources of the country. The railway traffic was steadily improving throughout the Colony, and the revenue was increasing gradually and steadily. A serious accident happened at Mangatninoko, near Pahiatua, last Tuesday. It appears that the Eev J. Farrow was crossing the bridge on horseback, when the horse kicked out at a settler named Alexander, 'striking him in the chest. Ife was picked up and taken into a residence close by, where he died. He leaves a wife and large family. One of the amusements of the Makino boys is burning down rata trees, haystacks, and sheds. The residents have put up with this with remarkable patience for some time, as they have a shrewd suspicion that the offenders were the sons of friends and neighbors ; but the crime has become so frequent of Jate that Mr Henry Penberthy and others have determined to put a stop to it, and offer a :eward of five pounds payable on the conviction of the person or persons who set Eire to his hay on Monday last. Some people will not believe ttis yarn, but it is Touched for by quite a number >f respectable persons:— "A lady died :he other day in Rome, and when her spill was read it was found that she had jequeathed the whole of her fortune, imountmg to 50,000 francos to the editor )f a paper, perusing which had given her nany happy hours. It is said that the 'ortunate Italian editor has refused to ivail himself of this unexpected windfall, md has distributed his legacy among the rarious charitable institutions of Rome." The death of Mr D. H. Macarthur, nember for Rangitikei, is more the loss >f the colony than the loss of his party. ?ewin the South known how powerful in he counsels of Parliament was the still trong voice of this northern representa ire. It is one of the misfortunes of New Zealand's geographical peculiarities that aany a true servant of tho public lives, nd fights, and works, and dtei, unknown a his true worth to the majority of his ellow colonists. Mr Macnthur was one f those rare public men who detest and lespise the current art of blatant self* dvertisement. It was nothing less than oathsome to him in others, and therefore t was impossible for him to practise it timself. He did his work as he did his ay, fearlessly, but without a trace of ither brag or blustar. Had he lived, he rould unquestionably bare been colonial treasurer in the next Government. His tealth has long been precarious, and he ins died in harness, as good, honest, as lodest, and as able a public man as the olony, in a long list of good and worthy ervants, has to inscribe upou its records. -Otago Witness. ]

The Cabinet will place £3000 on the estimates for the purchase of the Little Barrier Island, Auckland, as a reserve for the preservation of native birds. Mrs Thomas Lowes has very generously presented the Wesleyan Church at Birmingham, with a yery handsome cut glass baptismal font. We learn from a local paper that Mr I W. B. Edwards (formerly Judge Edwards) intends to resume the practice of his profession in Wellington. When Mr Anyon was driving down the Kimbolton road this morning he saw a family of seven or eight young ferrets, sandy colored, cross the road towards the j Kiwitea stream. The Feilding Half-holiday Football Club sent a team to Palmerston yesterday to play the Palmerston Early Closing Association, and were defeated by seven points. We have been requested by Messrs H. Collier and Co. to announce that Mr Martin, the piano tuner for the firm, is now visiting Feilding and the surrounding districts. Letters or communications may be left at the Star office. A writer in the Otago Daily Times calculates that if sheep instead of rabbits occupied the country, the total value of the wool and sheep sold would have been about £775,000. Thus rabbits, cost the colony about £585,000 per annum. The following Junior Cup football matches will be played on Saturday next, June 4 : — Awahuri v. Pirates, at Palmerston ; Feilding II v. Palmerston 11, at Feilding; Kea Kaha v« Hunterville, at Hunterville ; Bulls v. Marton 11, at Bulls. A telegram from Invercargill states that there is considerable activity in the oat markpt. Northern speculators have purchased in Inyercargill 90,000 sacks in one line, an other large transactions are pending. Minister, meeting a small boy on San* day afternoon carrying a string of fish — " Johnny, Johnny, do those fish belong to you?" Johnny -"Y-e-s, sir. You see, that's what they got for chasing worms on Sunday." Messrs Mnrray and Casey, of Wellington, are at present holding a great sale of drapery and millinery in The Other House, next door to Eade's Furniture Warehouse. The replace advertisement will appear in our next issue. The purifying of New South Wales rolls has disclosed the astonishing fact that dead men — dead these ten years — have been in the habit of voting at elections, and that four people were registered as living in a house which was pulled down years ago ! The New Zealand Times states that Ministers have no intention of adandoning the proposal to bring in an inland penny postage. It will not be practicable to make a change for several weeks, however, on account of various details haying yet to be arranged. An extraordinary gold find was made at HoTcilika on Monday last. In wash* ing some potatoes a fair prospect of gold was obtained; the dirt was then taken out and washed, and found to be payable. The potatoes were grown at Kokatahi, about 12 miles from Hokitika, and several diggers have gone to the locality. The western district of Victoria is becoming highly moral. At Coleraine legal business is almost at a standstill. The customary court business consists of a debt case about once in a month or six weeks, with a few drunks thrown in between. Lawyers are scarcely ever re quired, a judge never. j Litigation is expensive. The case Spackman v. Wairarapa North County I Council cost the corporate body, notwith- ' standing that the decision was eventually i given in its fayour, no less a sum than £102 3s 6d. The Council has requested its solicitor to modify his claim, otherwise it will be taxed. Captain Mowlem has been elected Chairman of Directors of the Manawatu Permanent Building and Investment So- { ciety, vice Mr D. H. Macarthur, deceased. The Directors of the Society have in- j I structed their Secretary to send a letter of j j condolence to Mrs Macarthur. — Mana- J watu Times, We have Mr Stevens' authority for saying that if he is returned at the present bye-election, he will, if required by his friends, not contest the seat against Mr Arkwright at the next general election, j Mr Stevens and Mr Arkwright had an understanding not to oppose each other j for the Rangitikei seat. — Marton Mercury. The people in Napier must be finan* cially iv a good position (or be passive liars), jadging from what occurred at the Cathedral during one of Mr Grubb's sermons. The preacher, rightly enough, had been inveighing against getting into debt, and he concluded by calling upon everyone in the Cathedral who was in ■ debt to stand up. Not one person rose, — Exchange. It is expected that the work of erecting the Telephone Exchange in Palmerston will be completed within three weeks. There will be in all 21 miles of wire. The gang of eight men employed on the work succeeded in erecting sixty 30ft poles, twenty- three 35ft poles, and fifty- five 25ft poles within a month, which must be regarded as very smart work. — Manawatu Times. Some papers are praising the Auckland Charitable Aid Board because they have recommended the Government to obtain from the Salvation Army a guarantee that no one connected with the oversea scheme shall at any time become a charge on the charitable aid boards of the colony. Our experience of the Salvation Army is that they do as much already as many of the boards in the way of charity, and we think the implication is quite undeserved. On Monday next the Calliope Variety Company wUI give an entertainment in the Assembly Rooms in aid of the Palmerston North Hospital Fund. Of a performance given in Palmersron the Mana. watu Daily Times said it was an enjoyable one, which would bear favorable comparison with many professional companies which tour the colony. The singing of the members of the troupe is exceedingly good, and certainly above the average. The programme is published elsewhere. A young lady in Finland, Mrs Anna Sainio, having been convicted of causing the death of her husband — a professor at the State College at Tavastehus — by wilfully administering poison to him, was last week sentenced to be beheaded, and afterwards burnt. Mrs. Sainio was only 22 years old, and had been married to her husband, eight years her senior, since IS9O, She had forged his name to a cheque, and when rebuked poisoned him. The Auckland Herald says :--" Great regret will be felt throughout New Zea» land at the announcement of the death of Mr D. H. Macarthur, the member for Rangitikei. Mr Macarthur has sal in the House for several sessions. He was highly respected by his brother members of all parties, and was held in esteem in the district he represented and tho adjacent country. Mr. Macarthur diss tinguished himself in the House by his intimate knowledge of the finance of the colony, and there is no doubt that if he had lived and had remained in politics, lie would have been Colonel Treasurer. Mr Macarthur's death has been some what sudden, for be addressed his coutituents in the town hall of Feilding on [he 9th of May. On that occasion Mr Macarthur ably criticised the Ministerial policy, especially ia regard to finance." .

Mr Seigel, pork butcher, has an advertisement in to-day. A meeting of the shooting committee of the Manchester Rifles will be held this evening at 7 o'clock at Mr Bray's office. Ministers were in cabinet the greater part of yesterday dealing with the Esti- j mates. Socialists who attempted to rescue a convict in the streets of Berlin were dispersed by the police with drawn swords. Several of the Socialists were wounded. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Telegrams to expect strong south easterly winds have been sent to all places southward of Napier and Wanganui.