Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

,—+ TheE.M.S. Kaikoura arrived at Mcl bourne from London, ria the Ctpe, las Sunday. It has been stated in the House that the Government were considering the question , of having telegrams type-written. Messrs Tennent and Simpson rfcently sold a number of bullocks from Brandon Hall Estate at £7 10s per head. Owing to slips on the line the mai train was about two hours late yesterday afternoon. Captain Baldwin, a former proprietor of the New Zealand Times, was on a visit to Feilding on Saturday last. Mr Tripe, dentist, will visit Feilding on Friday next. He will be iv town from 9 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. at Mr Richards, Warwick street. A child named Benjamin Nettleship, 18 months, was burnt to death through the capsizing of a kerosene lamp at Wellington last Saturday . Mr E. Woods, agent for Mr Abraham, was at Colyton recently for the purpose of arranging to hold regular stock sales there. The Evening Press is informed on the very best authority, that the Goyernment have decided to ask the Earl of (Glasgow to mskc nine or ten nominations to the Legislative Council. It has been decided to give a Juvenile Fancy Dress Ball in aid of the Palmerston North District Hospital ffunds, by the children of Feilding and district. The great success and pleasure attending the one lately held in Palmerston shows it a very attractive way for obtaining charitable aid for such a necessary and deserving purpose. Mrs Hastie has kindly given the Assembly Booms for the occasion. Mr J. Hyde Parker will be musical director and manager. Further particulars will be duly advertised. The Tax Commissioners' report on the Land and Income Tax as been presented to Parliament, The taxable value of land is fixed at £55,105,000, which at a penny in the pound would give £229,---608 rerenue. The Graduated Tax is estimated to produce £72,307 Companys' Income Tax (including tax on debentures, the gross amount of which is put down at £10,000,000; is £47,000, The Income Tax on persons and firms is calculated to bring in £87,943, but this may be increased by some £4000, while the other amounts mentioned may be dim nished slightly. It does not do to cry before you are out of the wood. " A young man from the country " got drunk in Napier a few evenings ago, and, we learn from the Telegraph, he went to sleep in the road with the kerbing for a pillow, and tho blue sk.y for his covering. When the " gentleman in blue " roused the sleeper the latter used language. He was haled before the justices and pleaded guilty to being drunk, but as an extenuating circumstance alleged the Napier whiskey was bad. This was adding insult to injury so the prisoner was sent up for fourteen days. He will speak more respectfully of Napier whiskey ; when he gets out.

Our local postman has fifteen miles to walk every day. Mr Bethune, the Inspector of the Bunk of Australasia, is now on an offi cial visit to Feilding. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for southerly gales and cold weather have been sent to all places. In the Kumaru poisoning case the jury returned a verdict of " death from arsenical poisoning, but by whom administered there was not sufficient evidence to show." At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operation Association the" directors report recommending a dividend of practically 11 per cent was unanimously adopted. It is stated that Mr Bryce although not pleased with the manner of the proposed " whitewash," will accept the decision of the House on the motion to be moved by the Minister of Education. We have to hand a copy of the Canterbury Times of June 80th, This is an exceptionally good number and the reprint of the cartoon " Canterbury Punch Revivals " of July 22nd 1865 is especially interesting. The Borough Councellors whose turn it will be to retire in September are Messrs W. A. Sandilands, S. J. Thompson, and W. Watts. We are informed that there are now several aspirants for the position. It is expected that Dr Lucas, the great Canadian preacher and temperance lee* turer, will visit Feilding on Friday next. When official information has been re» ceiyed due notice will be published by advertisement. Mr McLean, Government veterinary surgeon, leaves for the North tomorrow and will be pleased to meet settlers along the West Coast in regard to the diagnosing and treatment of diseases which are carrying off sheep in such large num* bers. At the funeral of a Native woman at Waikawa recently, says the Dunedin Star, the service was conducted by a Native minister in the JMaori language, and after deceased's body had been lowered into the grave her earthly possessions, in the shape of a sewing machine, bedding, clothes, etc , were placed on top of the coffin. We direct the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Messrs Martin and Fisher, who have commenced business as general blacksmiths in premises next the Denbigh Hotel, Manchester street. They bring with them first class recommendation from Christchurch, and hope by good workmanship and attention to business to merit a fair share of public patronage. The Feilding Early Closing Association are working up a concert to be produced on the 27th instant. Every person who is taking part in the entertainment is determined to spare no pains to make the affaic a success. Several ol the performers are new to a Feilding audience, and tkeir endeavors to provide an evening's enjoyment should be much appreciated. The proceeds, we understand, will be devoted to some local institution after expenses have been deducted. Mr Sampson, of Sydney, on a visit to Melbourne, was making his wav to the Grand Hotel about midnight, after visiting a friend in East Melbourne, when in passing through Treasury Gardens, he was stopped by a man and civilly asked for a match. While feeling m his pocket he was felled by a ' blow on the back of the head and rendered insensible. On recovery he found that he had been robbed of 175 notes, and a gold watch and chain valued at £16. Describing a Chinese opera company, now in Victoria, a Melbourne paper says that there is too much crime in the country without letting Mongolian warblers loose to excite the people to gory assaults and midnight murders. The weird wail of the pagan tenor is a mixture of scared pig, ungreased waggon wheel, intoxicated parrot, bagpipes, cats, and the hee-haw of a lost jackass, and the white man does not live who can listen to it for two minutes and not want to go up to the oblique-eyed soloist and cleave his sacred occiput with a blunt axe. The usual monthly meeting of the Band of Hope was held in the Primitive Methodist Church last night. Unfortun ately owing to the inclemency of the wejther, there was only a small attends anee. The Misses Campbell. Curtis, Whisker, and Worsfold, and Mr J. C. Thompson contributed to the programme which consisted of son^s, recitations, and readings, and a pleasnnt and enjoyable evening was spent. The Chairman (Rev. Mr Lyon) suggested that a deputation be formed to wait upon the various religi- : ous bodies in Feilding, with the view to the formation of a Prohibition League in this town. A resolution to this effect was carried, and the Eev Mr Lyon was requested by those preseut to act as the delegate to the other Churches. A number of hymns were sung during the evening, and a yote of thanks to those who contributed to the programme closed the proceed i ngs.