Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 16, 26 July 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Yesterday's express was an hour and a half late, owing to a slip on the Manawatu Company's Line, near Johnsonville. Mr J. R. Montague will hold a tree sale on Friday next at the yard of Mr Light's Denbigh Hotel, The Reefcon Guardian credits a Wairarapa paper with a local extracted from our columns, ainent "this age of progress." Mr Dibbs, the Sydney Premier, has been knighted by the Queen. The Lon. don press ridicule Mr Dibb's acceptance of the title, he being an avowed republican. On Friday, in the House of Represent tames, replying to Mr Bruce, the Hon, Postm»Bter*Generai said he would make enquiries as to the necessity for providing a mail service to the newly settled country between Waituna and Otara. We direct the attention of our readers to a new advertisement, which will be fonnd on our first page, from Mr F. J. Mansell, of the Manchester Store, Makino, in which he announces he is now holding a great clearing sale in order to make room for new seasons goods. Great bar> gains are offering. ' The Melbourne Leader s«yn :— There is comfort in the assurance thai the shearing troubles of the past two seasons are not likely to be renewed, and that the work this year will be amicably accomplished without friction between employers nnd employed. Bygones are to be allowed to be bygones, the dead past to bury its dead. As an indication that the Spring is at hand, we publish a notification to the effect that Mr W. G. Haybittle has just received early seed potatoes, a list of which is published. Mr Haybittle has also prime table potatoes, oats, fowls' wheat and chaff. He has also a larjje stock of groceries, ironmongery, crockery, &c, all of the best quality. Onr readers are particularly requested to read the advertisement.

Snow fell heavily at Pemberton on Sunday, and there nre several land slips I and fallen trees on the road. t The meeting called last night by Mr f H alley respecting the formation of ft " Working Men's Club" for Feilding, fell « through owing lo insufficient attendance. < The date of the gift auction in Feilding ■ in aid of the funds of the Palmerston North District Hospital, has been altered from the sth to the 12th of August, ; Contributions are requested to be sent in on or before the 10th instant. The special correspondent of the Napier Telegrupu wired to his journal as follows on Thursday : —The Post" master-General has agreed to allow eighteen words including the address and signature to be telegraphed for one shilling instead of a twelve word message with six words for address and signature as at present." At the meeting of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, London, Mr George J. Binns, F.G-.5., read a paper on ' Gold Mining in New Zealand. 1 It was, he said, the opinion of scientific men well acquainted with the field, that as operations were continued to a greater depth the supply of gold would not only be kept up, but would probably be increased. — Dunedin Star. It is stated on good authority, says the Lyttelton Times, that the late Mr Harry Allwright, of Lyttelton, provided in his will that a sum of L3OO should be invested by the executors, the interest on which is to be spent on May 24th of each year in assisting the deserving poor of the port of Lyttelton. Such a generous act is a fitting termination to the many good works in which the deceased gentleman has been concernedPerhaps one of the grandest compliments ever paid by one human being to another was that paid by Nicholas, the Emperor of all the Kussias, to Mademoiselle Buchel, the French actres-. When ahe was introduced to him. she knelt ; but the Emperor raised her and himself falling on one knee, said. " Thus should the royalty of rank pay homage to the royalty of genius." The following are the successful candidates from this aud the surrounding districts in the recent pupil teacher's examination held at Wanganui :— First class.— Patrick Eoache, Feilding, 73*1 per cent; second class. — James Nairn, Makino road, 62*9 per cent ; Jas. Matthews, Awahuri, 629 per cent ; third class. — Eleanor Watts, Feilding, 6l'O percent; Thomas Wilmot, Bunnythorpe, 562 per cent; Leonard McDonald, Stanway, 55-0 per cent. The London Correspondent of the Dunedin Star says: -All who buy or have bou»ht first editions of Kipling's Barrack Koom Ballads' are strongly advised to keep them clean and carefully. In a much shorter time than folks expect this volume will be worth as much as a first Swinburne's ' Poems and Ballads' is to»day. The edition was 1,000, and a fair proportion were sent to Australia a fortnight ago. It is stated, says the Mnnawatu Times, that Mr Donald Grant is about to bring an action against Government for dam* ages alleged to haye been sustained through the drains cut through his property at Kairanga by Government : also that Messrs Mayo and Sons intend to take action against the lalmerston Borough Council for £1000 damages alleged to have ke.m cansrd to their properly through the overflow of the Kawau. In order to meet the requirements of builders and others, Mr Peter Thomson is prepared to supply tanks, and fix spouting and piping, at prices to suit the times. Mr Thompson has just received a large supply of tinware, dairy utensils, holloware, ironmongery of all descriptions. He has also in stock copper boilers and furnace frames of all sizes. Further particulars will be given in an advertisement to appear in our next issue. At the meeting of St. Mark's parish* ioners, Wellington, the Her Mr Coffey said he had left the appointment of his churchwarden until the last moment, tie would now ask Mr Baggett, whom he considered an ill-used and persecuted man by the Government of New Zea land, to be faia churchwarden, if only for a short time. On Mr Baggett, giving his consent, the announcement was received with cheers. During the course of Mr Duthie's speech in the Financial debate when speaking of the great claims made by the Government for settling people on the land, he said, in order to prove the hollowness of their claims that the importation of fencing material has fallen off greatly of late. There can be no actual progress in settlement. Mr Duthie considers, without an increased demand for fencing marerial, and as the importation of that material has fallen off it follows, that the progress vaunted by Ministers is less a matter of fact than of fiction. An old Oamaruvian, now in Sydney writing to a friend here, says : — ', I have to work from five in the morning till six at night for 6s 8d per day and pay travelling expenses (Is 2d per day) out of it. , . Bread is 7d the 41b loaf ; potatoes, 5s to 6s per lOOlbs. , . . Men are asking for work dozens at 5s per day. I have no doubt you have seen by the papers the distressed state of the working classes in Sydney, and I believe it will be worse three months hence when the New South Wales productions get scarce. Then we shall have to pay duty."— Oamaru Mail. The cream separators known as De Laval's," are the best in the world, and their claim to that distinction is justified by the fact that they have gained the highest reward given by the Royal Agricultural Society at Doncaster Show. Altogether they have up to the present time taken two hundred first prizes, and there are thirty thousand machines now in use bearing Dr De Laval's patent. The latest invention is the Alpha bowl which can be fitted to the ordinary separator and thus doubles the skimming capacity. For prices and other information our readers are referred to the agents, Messrs Cummins Sharpe and Co., of Wanganui. The Minister for Lands laid on the table of the House last Friday the sheep returns, which, having been hurriedly prepared and received by telegraph, might, he said, be taken as incomplete. Still, the return was highly gratifying, showing the increase in the number of sheep in the colony last year to have been 1,721,748. The total number of sheep in the colony is shown to be 18,---475,500. The largest increase was in Wellington, the West Coast district figures being 555,213. The increase in tbe Napier district was 237,640, in Auckland 189,400, in Marl borough and Nelson 38,869, in Canterbury and Eaikoura 390,649, and in Otago 310,159. The death is announced of Mr Charles Austin, aged 87, which took place *on Saturday last at th« private residence of his son-in-law, Mr Edward Giesen, of Feilding. The deceased was a very old colonist, haying arrived in Wellington in 1857. He was for some years in business, and took an active part in local and general politics. He acted as a local preacher for the Wesleyan body. He afterwards went to Ohanu where he entered into farming on his own land, and was very successful. He came to Feilding in 1891, as his health was failing, where he remained until his demise. The funeral took place yesterday. The Key H. M. Murray officiated at the cemetery, Mr A. Eado was the undertaker.

A meeting of the W.CTU. will be leld in the Forester's Hall, on Thursday ifternoon at three oclock. We Lave received trom Mr S. JThompson, too late for this clays issue, i list which we bc-l'eve lias seldom if ! ever been equalled for low prices for tlie articles mentioned. It will appear in Thursday's paper. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — j Telegrams to expect strong northerly j winds hare been sent to coastal stations • southward of East Cape, and for frosts lo all other places. A special meeting of the Borough Council was sitting as we went to press, to consider the Colonial Secretary's circular, re keeping Thursday, the 4th of August, as "Arbor Day," tor the purpose of planting trees, shrubs, &c. Joe Scott (Champian of the world), and Fred Bowen (champion of Australia), commenced a walking match yesterday at Dunedin, of 50 miles. Scott, after completing 40 miles retired from the contest, badly chafed and bleeding. Bowen kept going, and completed the distance. A paragraph in the Napier Inspector of Schools' report of his visit to (lie infant school rather tickled the members of the School Committee. It stated thai all appliances were in fair oroer, but he thought that such " diagrams "as " Rickelt'sßlue," "Bickett's Blacklead," and " Old Judce Cigarettes," should not be allowed in the school, whether for instrucor other purposes ! A meeting of the Wanganui Education Board was held yesterday. A circular had been forwarded to all committees requesting them to observe the 4th August as Arbor Day. Mr W. Prendergast, of Bunnytborpe, to be recommended. Poliangina ; Resignation of Mr T. F. Reeve re ceived and accepted ; the application of Mr Woodham, late of Foxton, to be forwarded for the vacancy, together with the names of Mr JTretnewin Miss Kate Warne, and Miss Lucy O'Brien. Apiti : Application for .a female teacher; Executive to select names from teachers in the Board's employ. Application for pupil teacher ; resolved that the attendance does not warrant it. The concert and entertainment to be given in the Assembly Booms, Feilding, to«morrow evening, promises to be one of the most successful amateur entertainments eve given in Feilding. The n>st part of the programme will consist of an overture by Mr Kitchen's string band, and a number of solos by ladies and gentlemen, and in the second part there will be some burnt cork business transacted, introducing a number of loc.il ''hits" and new jokes, when some excellent songs will be sung by gentlemen who have never as yet appeared before a Feilding audiance, the whole to conclude with a laughable farce. We trusi the residents will turn out well as the pro» ceeds are for a local institution, the Fire Brigade, whose funds require replenish-

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