Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 149, 14 June 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

" Cassius 1 " letter on the Cake and Apron Fair will appear in our next issue. The Herald says that the surplus shown by the Budget this year will be about £20,000. A letter from Sir James Hector in the N.Z. Cockchaffer will be published in our next issue. It is understood that the Government propose to put a heavy additional impost on patent medicines. For the larceny of a Bible at Auckland recently Eugene Kolks was sentenced to four month's imprisonment. He desired some wholesome literature, but is now in gaol pondering over the hardness of life. Officers of the public service have been informed that in future all artisans and laborers must be engaged through the Department of Labor. All applicants will be registered, and branded (if necessary) for further identification. A flow of 65 gallons of water per rain- • ute has been obtained at the Longburn freezing works by the sinking of an ar« tesan well. The depth of the bore is 275 feet and water rises to lift 3in aboye the surface of the ground. A meeting of those interested in the election oi Mr H. U. Bruce for the Rangi fikeisenb will be held in Mr F. Owen's office in the Corporation Buildings, on Thursday evening at half past seven o'clock. In taking the census of the State of New York a family was found in the (own of Warrensbury in which the baby was three months old, its mother was not 15 years old, its grandmother was 33, and its great«grand mother 54. The slave trade flourishes in MoroccoThe Sultan and his gon recently received a present of 200 slaves to celebrate the event of the marriage of the heir to the Moorish throne. Girls from lo to 13 years of age fetch from £16 to £24 each. There was a very heavy tnunderstorm here on Sunday afternoon accompanied bj hail, rain, and heavy wind, No accidents have been reported although a tree on the Kangitikei line was atruck by lightning and shattered to pieces. The Christchurch Telegraph calls the present " A conceited Ministry," and that before long they will have to depend upon something more substantial for the support of the electors than the empty platform utterances that have been their mainstay in the past. A Band of Hope meeting is announced for this evening in the Methodist Chapel. Two strange reverend gentlemen are ( xpected to be present and take part in the meeting. Besides which a good programme is anticipated. Workers and ' the public are requested to be in time. The meeting will begin promptly at 7.30The Tarawera eruption placed about • three hundred natives in the Botorua district in a landless position, and the Hon. Mr Cadman proposes to give each . native nn allotment of land, The rent 5 will be low, and occupation and eultivaj tion will be insisted ou. We have to acknowledge receipt of the first number of the Horowhenua Times, j published at Ofcaki. The editorial matter is good, and three columns are in the Maori language so that both Europeans and natives are given the same advant- ' ages in Otaki as far as local literature is concerned. We wish the proprietor, Mr F. Webbe, all the success his enterprise deserves. A man when clearing out a well in Franco came upon a subterranean passage . in the chilk. Exploring this, he reached p a spacious room, in which he observed the l bodies of two soldiers, one leaning against the wall and the other seated at the table, It is supposed they took refuse in the under-ground apartment during the war 3 of 1870 ; and Germans filling up the well - the victims were buried alive. A young lady of Maslerton narrowly ? escaped meeting a horrible death a few nights ago (says the .Times). She had been reading whilst in bed, and fell off to sleep with a candle at her bedside. » When she was awakened by other members of tUo household, who oWrveJ smoke issuing from beneath the door and rushed to the bedroom, the bed clothes were in flames, the paper on the wall was on fire, and the very p-llow on which her head rested was smoulder* • iug. The escape was both providential . and marvellous.

Mr W. G. Shearer adverties for a young man as an apprentice to the cabinet making. Marriage, rightly understood, givesto the tender and the good a paradise below. So said Cotton. The case against the Hon. J. B. Whyto and Baggott, for using land scrip, has been adjourned to the 28th instant. Mr W. Bellve has just completed a very handsome set of Uarness of light j colored leather with silver mounting, to the order of a gentleman in the country. We hear that a letter from Sir Robert Stout is beini? circulated among the natives, and that he urges the natives to accept the West Coast Settlement Be serves Bill. Today Mr W, G. Haybittle gives notice lo all whom it may concern that in order to facilitate stocktaking a settlement of all outstanding accounts must be made on or before the 30th instant. At the meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge last night Bro. H. L. Sherwill, S.W , was elected W.M. for the ensuing term. The installation will be celebrated by a banquet in July. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for north-easterly gales and rain after from 12 to 20 hours have been sent to all places southward of Napier and New Plymouth. The Post says: -The Feilding Patent case was not heard on Saturday, as had heen contemplated, and it has been indefinitely adjourned, pending the fixture of a date by the solicitors engaged. To morrow evening Mr John Stevens will addres the electors in the Assembly Rooms in support of his candidature for the Kangttikei seat. We are certain that Mr Stevens will receive an attentive and impartial hearing. The returning officer for the Eangitikei electorate announces the list of polling places for the coming election. The date of nomination is fixed for FrN day, July Ist, and the election will take place on Friday, July Bth. Constable C. Bleasel, who for some time past past has been stationed at Lyttelton, has received notice of removal to Awahuri, where he will be in charge of the station. During his slay at Lyttelton he has made quite a number of friends, who will wish him every success in his new sphere ol action.— Christchurch Telegraph, June 11. Eating the pudding is the genuine test. Try the prices of the Cash Exchange Co-Op. in the same common sense way and surprise and satisfaction will follow. Great success of the Co»Op. principle. Nearly 2000 vouchers have been used. The Co* Op. is permanently the peorle's Store, Great reduction in all depart* meats. — ADVT. A curious case is set down for trial at one of the English assizes. A baker has instituted proceedings against one of his employes for theft, the charge bein» based on the fact of the latter having appropriated to his own use a prime cut or two off the joints the master's cus» tomers sent to be cooked in the baker's ovens. The defence is that the man merely followed the usual custom, and that it is the practice of his trade to •• take toll " of the joints sent to them for cooking, in addition to chaiging for cookins;. Although Mr J. E. Montague's large auction mart and every article in his immense stock were destroyed by the fire at Palmerston on Sunday morning last, his characteristic pluck has not failed him in the least. Already arrangements have been made to rebuild the premises, and replenish the stock on a more exten» sive scale than eyer. With reference to the Feilding branch, at The Other House, the fire will make no difference, unless for the better, as we are informed to-day that new goods have been ordered specially tor Feilding, and will be on view in a few days. One of the many advantages of life insurance has been forcible illustrated in connection with a policy on the life of the late Mr J. F. Anderson, of Paraparaumu, who lost his life by falling off the Manawatu train a few days. He took out a policy in the Government Insurance Department in 1885, but ceased to pay premiums in 1889. He made no enquiries regarding the policy, and was evidently under the impression that it had lapsed, for on the day of his death he was can^ vassed by Mr W. F. Shortt, an agent of the Department, and stated that he would reinsure with the Government. It turns out, however, that his policy was kept alive by the surrendei value, so that the sum assured, with bonuses added, less arrears of premium, will be paid to Mrs Anderson immediately the necessary proofs are lodged. — Post.