Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 23, 11 August 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The trees planted at Awahuri by tho school childron ou Arbor Day, were presented by Mr Weightman. Professor Galton is proposing to signal Mars by means of a telescope at the Lick Observatory. War clouds are rising in the East, and a regiment now at Aldershot is under orders to prepare for service in India. The press in Calcutta is demanding that India shall be represented in the House of Commons iv future, by fifty members. We regret to learn that Mr N. Valentine, recently of the Club Hotel, Palmerston North, lies seriously ill at Petone, near Wellington. Tho committal of Dr and Mrs Iloadloy for trial at Blunhoun the other day for cruelty to their b:iby. reminds the Manawiitu Standard of some curious facts in connection with Iho worthy pair's family. In Ilnwke's Ihy, one of their childron foil out of a trnp they were driving in and was killed, another was burned to demh tlirout'h euiching fire while in the mother's mtmis, and a third died through being {,'iyeu ,i dose of pi'ison for a drink in mistake for water

Mr Tripe, dentist, will visit Feilding to-morrow. The train service has been resumed through the Manawatu Gorge. A new hotel 18 about to be erected at Fowler's Birmingham. At the R.M. Court this morning a pro- i hibition order was granted against an I inebriate. We have to acknowledge receipt of a i complimentary ticket for a concert to be held at Kiwitea to-morrow evening. The Dampier Dramatic Company are j to giye two performances in the Assembly Rooms, Feilding, on Friday and Saturday the 25th, and 26th, ot November. The Buller Lion sajs the House of Representatives is a pandemonium, and fur' her asserts that no person can act conscientiously after being in such a place. Wia Eetemeyer, of Feilding, is petition ing Parliament asking that his claim for land under the Navnl and Military Settlers Act, which was sent in too late, should yet be heard by Parlianent. Besides the public ceremony at Palmerston on Arbor Day, the Rev Father Patterson and tho Catholic School children planted 150 trees in the Catholic School grounds. Young Orphan : " Ma, wbere'3 Pah* ang ? " Widowed Mother : " Pahang's in India, my dear or somewhere out that way." " Oh, ma, do tell me what he was hanged for. The Auckland Agricultural Society has asked the Acclimatisation Society to take measures for the introduction of swallows, goatsuckers, and flycatch" ers. On and after Monday next the charge for ordinary telegrams will be one shilling for eighteen words, and for delayed telegrams sixpence for eighteen words including the address and signature, which have hitherto been free up to six words. Al next sitting of the District Court a slander case will be heard by Judge Kettle. The parties interested are local residents, whose aspirations have lately induced them to take part in amateur theatricals. — Manawatu Standard. Steps are being to arrange for an aquatic display by the Maoris on the occasion of the visit of the Governor to Auckland. It was proposed to have a war canoe, small canoe, and canoe hurdle races. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been sent to all places northward of Napier, Taupo, and New Plymouth. In our last issue in a paragraph relating to the transfer of a certain lease the name of die firm of Messrs Goodbehere and Richmond appeared instead of Mr Edmund Goodbehere who was the negociator. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Primitive Methodist Anniversary services on Sunday and Monday next. For other particulars our readers are referred to the advertisement. A telegram from Tauranga gives particulars of an extraordinary accident to a native named Pukepuke, who tried to extract a charge from a shot gun by sucking it out of the barrell, when it exploded. His cheeks were blown away, and his condition is precarious. A curious way of paying a debt was related in the House by Mr W. C. Smith He said that he was in a shop a short time ugo, and a young man came in anil said : " I have owed you £5 for a lottg time, but I am goiug to the races and if I am successful at the races I will come and pay you." The anniversary of the Feilding Wesleyan Sewing Bee will be held, as usual on the 9th of November. Weather permitting there will be a picnic, but otherwise there will be a tea meeting in the Assembly Rooms, the whole to wind up with a grand entertainment in the eyening. The amount advanced by the Government Life Insurance Department on real estate, by way of mortgage during the year ending March 31, 1891, was £53,430, at an average rate of interest of £6 11s 5d per cent ; during the year ending March 31, 1892, the amount was £185.---720, at an average rate of £5 15s 6d per cent. Details as to similar transactions by the public Trust Office on" property are as follows .-—Year ended 31st March, 1891, £46,340, average rate of interest £5 19s 8d per cent ; 3lst March, 1892, £80,---392, average interest, £5 13s 7d. There is considerable trouble among heads of families in Wanganui, because the local butchers have raised the price of meat. " Ready Money" in the Chronicle writes that hotel-keepers and boarding house-keepers will go to the country for their supplies rather than be charged such rates. " Cold Veal," in the same paper, says the charge for beef in Wauganui is very nearly as much again as what the same article is sold wholesale in London." Still, as the butchers have now to pay more for stock than they have had to do for some years past the consumer must suffer. In the matter of women's rights Abyssinia is far ahead of Europe. According to Signor F. Martini the house und all its contents belong to her, and if the husband offends her she not only ( can but does turn him of doors till he is duly repentant and makes amends by the gift of a cow or the half of a camel —that is to say, half the value of a camel. On the other hand, it is the privilege and duty of the wife to abuse her husband, and she can divorce herself from him at pleasure, whereas the husband must show reasons to justify such an act on his part. Robert Bonner, the great American horseman, in one of his instructive letters, says : " I expect to see the day when horse shoeing will assume its proper place as one of the professions. Doctors and lawyers keep their diplomas hung in their offices. Why should not the farrier be compelled to pass an examination and do the same thing? A horse's feet and limbs aro the most important parts of his body. He seldom has troubles which cannot be traced to them. And yet even colts, forced as they are, frequently show signs of break* ing down m those delicate members."