Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 12, 16 July 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The debate on tne Financial St atement commenced last night. The Kiwitea Road Board was sitting as we wont to press to-day. The case of Oldham v. the Land Board will he heard in the Supreme Court on Tuesday next at 2.30 p.m. We have to acknowledge receipt from the Registrar-General of a copy of the summarised statistics of the Colony from 1853 to 1890 inclusive. We obserye that several of our contemporaries—not always " Liberal" journals—annex paragraphs from us without the customary acknowledgment. Heavy floods have been reported from Auckland, where part of tho Kuite railway was washed away and the trains delayed. There is an association in Napier called tho " Whatsoever Circle of Kings and Sous and Daughters." Tho object of the association is charitable Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all places northward of Lyttloton and Kaikoura.

The Public Trust Office Commission cost the country £3,312. To-day Mr J. H. Cooper, of Palmerston North, dental surgeon, announces that he will pay a professional visit to Feilding at an early date. Mrs Conlon, of Kumara, has been committed for trial on a charge of having poisoned her husband. Bail was refused. Sir Julius Yogel is petitioning Parliament regarding his old claim for commission as stock agent in floating loans. The Wanganui tootball team arrived by the 11 a.m. train this morning and in the afternoon they played a match with Feilding, on the Oval. A Wellington exchange designates the Government as the " Pick and Shovel Ministry," with a "shirk and shuffle" policy. This is unkind. A preliminary notice appears to-day in connection with the Concert and Entertainment to be given under the auspices of the Feilding Employ es Association. We have to thank Mr Corkery, of Bunnythorpe, for a splendid root of celery which weighs 9flbs and measures 3ft 6in from the roots to the end of the leaves. Mr Ballance states that the law officers of the Crown hold that it is imperative that local bodies must put on a half crown stamp on their subsidy declaration forms of applications. Mr Richard Reeve, M.H.R. wants the vendors of tobacco to be licensed. This would be a tax on the cultivation of cabbages which every true- hearted Chinaman would resent. The litigation between Bessie Bell Wood an actress, and the young Duke of Manchester, is compromised, the lady receiving £500 and an annuity of £100. Our readers are reminded of the special collections to be made in the Church of England to-morrow, for the benefit of the unfortunate sufferers by the late disastrous fire in Newfoundland. Every penny given will be a helo. Messrs J. C. Morey and Co, of the Bon Marche, have a replace advertisement in to-day, in which they announce great reductions in hats and trimmings of every description. Mr Morey is determined to uphold the popularity of the Bon Marche. It is rumoured (Says the Wanganui Herald thatSergean! Slnttery, of Nelson, is to he transferred to Palmernton North to relieve Sergeant Manning, who goes to Wellington. Sergeant-Major Pratt of Auckland, relieves Sergeant Slattery, of Nelson. It seems the English elections will not terminate till the 18th July, instead of the Bth as was previously announced The polling for the Boroughs was to terminate on the Bth July, but that for the counties was to be taken between the 7th and 18th insts. A man was seen coming out of a news paper Office one day with one eye blackened, his jnw in a sling, and an ear chewed off. To a policeman, who interviewed, him, he replied: — ''I didn't like au article that appeared in the paper last week, so I went to see the man that wrote it, and he was there." One of the culverts on the Makino road gave way yesterday forenoon, and a grey horse was tumbled oyer. Mr Hughey, who was driving behind, and thus escaped without accident, gave due notice to the authorities. The Town Clerk, Mr G, C. Hill, sent up a man at once and had the place put in order again. The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Star, at the conclusion of his description of the scene in the House when the result of the Rangitikei election became known, said : M Members of the Opposition retired to Bellamy's to celebrate their victory, while the Government supporters wended their way homewards." Rumour says that two northern members on Wednesday night came to a belligerent attitude in tne lobby orer the question of the Trunk Railway route, and that peace was only restored by a burly southerner interposing his form between the heated disputants. The long and short of it was that the affair ended in words. — N.Z. Times. An exchange believes that it is the custom for a " school " of gamblers (including many influential Dunedin citizens) to hire a room in one of the leading hotels, and pay £30 per night for the privilege. Some people will swallow any "yarn," however tall, in order to " get at " the sins of their neighbors. Their own vices are quite another thing. During the sitting of the House in committee on the Electoral Bill on Thursday night, Mr Bruce, the new member for Rangitikei, entered, being escorted to his seat by Dr .Newman and MrScobie Mackenzie, His appearance was the signal for a hearty outburst of applause from the Opposition benches, and when that subsided the new member received an equally hearty ovation from the Government side of the House. — N.Z. Times. On Thursday last Mr H. Bosher, who is employed at Mr Adsett's sawmill, Pohangina, cut his right foot badly with his axe. As the wound was serious, one of the men went to bring in a valuable mare on which to go for a surgeon, but when he arrived where she was he found her dead, the animal having been staked. However, the services of Dr Johnston were speedily obtained, and all that was necessary was done. In the eyening Mr Hughey drove the injured man to his parents's residence at Makino, where he is now getting on well. An interesting rase was heard at Sydney recently, when James Lucas, a Hindoo, brought an action against Clara Palmer, a European, for £200 damages for breach of promise of marriage. It was alleged that the defendant consented to marry the plaintiff on condition that the latter cancelled a debt due to him by the defendant's brother-in law, and for which judgment had been obtained. The ]udgnient was withdrawn, but the defendant declined to keep her promise. The jury, by a majority of three out of four, awarded the plaintiff 40s damages. Any person not specially disqualified by section 11 of the Licensing Act may be elected a member of a Licensing Committee. One of these disqualifications is where a candidate has within four years been bankrupt or insolvent, and has paid a less dividend than 10s in the £. This is a remarkable provision seeing that the assetless bankrupt discharged to-day is forthwith eligible, if on an electoral roll, for election to the Colonial Parliament, and perchance to become a Minister of the Crown, but ho cannot be a member of a Licensing Committee for four years after his bankruptcy, and not then unless he paid ten shillings in the pound.— Judge Broad. Practical joking sometimes verges closely on dishonesty. .On the night of the election two settlers on the Valley and Midland roads, in the Manchester Block, left some bags of meat and parcels on a log intending to take them on to the camp where they were bushfelling on the following morning. When they came to take them up they discovered that one bag of meat and one parcel had disappeared in the night. On Saturday afternoon a constable, with a search warrant, examined a number of the private houses in the neighborhood, with the result that the owners feel somewhat aggrieved at this implication on their honesty. It happened that the parcels were left at the corner of two roads, which arc much frcquonted at all hours, and therefore it was an error of judg* ment to suspect the people living near.

A sheep dog come astray is advertised by Mr F. H. Saxon. Our Awfthuu correspondent writes: - I hear that Mr .lames Bennett, of Awahuri, hns married Miss Harris, sinter to the Rev. Mr Harris, late of Feilding. Mr H. F. Jannings, of the Ready Money Store, announces by advertisement that he has been appointed agent for H. Giblons and Co.'s well-known vegetable and garden seeds. We have seen two very nice sets of harness from the establishment of Mr M. ' Belfit. One is nickel silver and the other brass mounted, both being well finished to the satisfaction of the persons for whom they were made. When Mr L. Pearce was driving a flock of sheep into the sale yards yesterday, his horse, which he was riding, caught its leg in a defective culvert, on the Makino road within the limits of the Feilding borough, and commenced to kick, throwing its rider. Mr Pearce had one of his hands severely cut, and he informs us that he intends to take action against the Council for damages. On Saturday last an attempt was mud' lo set fire to a dwellinghouse in Halcombe, occupied by a shoemaker. Con stables Cojle and Tuohey made enquiries with the result that a very old resident, named James Keen, was arrested on suspicion. He was brought to Feilding on Thursday afternoon, nnd charged i with the offence before Mr G. Kirlou J. P., who. at the request of the police, remanded the accused until Thursday next, when the case will be heard by the Resident Magistrate. The citizens and settlers of the district are asked to give their serious attention to tho most extraordinary price list of the j Cash Exchange Co-Op. Co. All goods not enumerated in the list are equally cheap. The Co-Op. principle is highly appreciated, an enormous issue of vouchers having taken place. A good di«M« dend expected in January next. All who > have not purchased the required amount, ! £5, should not fail to do so immediately. | —Advt.