Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 25, 16 August 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Nelson Acclimatisation Society have ordered thirty thousand American brook trout from the Mastertoa fish ponds. The Marquis of Salisbury will accept, on retiring from office, the Dukedom he declined in 1889, and also on the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee, 1887. An advertisement from Mr H. Fielder, the well-known furniture dealer of Palmerston and Wellington, will be found over leader in to-day's issue. Yesterday Messrs Belk and Parr received letters patent for their invention oi " Improvements for four-wheeled road vehicles " from New South Wales and South Australia. In view of the fact of the size of several buildings round the Square deadening the sound of the fire bell, the Brigade should take steps to have the tower raised at least twenty feet. They were talking about the tax on the totalisator. One man said triumphantly : " Well, they got nothing out of me lasl races." " Why, how was that?" eagerly enquired a listener " I never got a dividend." We direct the attention of our reader to a business notice from the well-known and popular art photographers of Wellington, Messrs Wriggles worth and Binns, which will be found in another column. A correspondent writes complaining of the dangerous condition of tho Awahun bridge, especially of the absence of lights in the night lime to indicate the position of the pile driver now being used in making repairs. Says the Wanganui Chronicle : MiNicholas, of the local telegraph department, who came up from Blenheim about nine months ago, has received notice that he is to be transferred to Wellington during the present week. The Wairarapa Daily Times says : — Colonel Roberts, R.M., does not think a man who values furniture a professional man, an esquire, or a merchant, nor is he a person entitled to a guinea a day for his attendances at Court. The New Zealand Herald says that people do not recognise that a man may know enough to be a Minister of the Crown, and yet not know enough to edit a newspaper. It is well to have a good word for ourselves sometimes. The Giant Powder Works, situated about 11 miles from San Francisco, blew np with such tremendous force that the concussion fractured the window panes in all the principal buildings in the city. The shock was felt 150 miles at sea. The number killed was over 100, but with the exception of three whitemen they were all Chinese employes. The explosion was due to carelessness of the employes in watching the tanks in which nitric and sulphuric acids were being mixed by glycerine. If these tanks are not properly watched there is always danger of explosion from this process. Parsimony is alleged against the company luring small aged Chinamen, ignorant of the nature of the business, and suits for damages is spoken of on all sides. The property owners of Berkely have sued for an injunction against the re-erection of the works, and the directors have stlected a site nioro remote. The Company lose 10,000 dollars by the catastrophe.

A Prohibition League has been formed in Wellington. In a football match on Saturday Auckland defeated Tauranga by 28 points to 12. The " Octoroon " will be pronounced in Feilding on Wednesday, 7th September, steeplechase night. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the parade (undress) on Thursday evening. The letters of Mr Deverell in reply to Mr Goodbehere, and on the " Defence of Protection," will appear in our next issue. A grand meeting of members of the Feilding Fire Brigade is called for Thursday evening next at the station, at 8 p.m. A full attendance of members is requested. Mr Tripe's next visit to Feilding will be on Friday, AugUst 26th. For the future Mr Tripe will visit Feilding every sale day, and may be consulted at Mrs Richard's residence, Warwick street. Sir George Grey intends to introduce a Bill making it necessary for lawyers to pay money received for clients, or for disbursement on their behalf into a separate trust account, and not into a private or the firm's account. A similar legislative provision exists with respect to auctioneers. We notice, by the Pahiatua Star, that a resident of that rising settlement received the following interesting communication recently :— " Pay your debts, sir. A silent knife can find )'our heart in the dark. (By Order) invisible regulators, Caput. Mortem, hon, sec." There are so many " dead heads " knocking about that it will bo hard to " spot " this one. The curator of the Masterton ponds states that the trout in the rivers are in forward condition and feeding well, so it has been decided to recommend the adoption of last season's regulations, and fix the same dates for opening and closing the trout fishing season— viz., 15th September to 15th April. Trout are re- : ported as being exceedingly numerous, and good sport is anticipated. The following are the rateable values (supplied by the Land and Income Tax Department) of the various districts contributing to the Palmerston North Hospital Board : — Kiwitea Road Dis* trict, £547,688 ; Halcome Town District, £14,307 ; Manchester Road District, £224,864; Manawatu, £539,318; Fiiz. Herbert, £275,099; Sandon Riding. £195,273; Waitohu £114,147; Mount Stewart RidinL', £103,591 ; Campbell, £129.284; Carnarvon, £109,769; Kaw.i Kawn, £119,362; Awahou. £101,058; Paimerston Borough, £478.051 ; Feilding £139,024; Foxton, £83,693; Total, £3.674,526; The newspaper men in Reefton are on the way to repentance, whether they will ever get there is another thinn, but the following incident, which we quote from the Reefton Guardian, shows there is yet hope for them. At a recent open air seirice of the Salyation Army Sergt. Major Harford extended a special mvi lation to the ' paper men ' to ' come along to the barracks and get saved,' nn.t he feelingly ejaculated " God bless the paper men." All the soldiers present, including the lassies, responded with a loud, earnest, and fervent volley of " Amens," in a tone which cheered the hearts of the pressmen who were present and almost made them weep for joy. , This is very touching. The Waikato Times says Tawhiao i has broken the record, for recently in the tnative Parliament House, at Maunga- ' kawa, he delivered the shortest " Speech from the Throne " we have ever met with. It was as follows : — *• Listen to i uiy words, my friends, the chiefs, and all assembled ; pay great attention to i my words, for I will not hold back • anything I have to say. The lands are ' the Oovcrnment's now. In former days ' they were ours. Let my words now be published throughout the islund. so ■ that pakehas and Maoris can all see and hear that is what I wish. Ido not ) wish for us only to hear, but that all shall hear. I wish all visitors from a ■ distance to return to their separate 1 kaingas." He then asked the .Vlaung> akawa and Maungatautan natives to '< remain and meet a representative of the Government. Poraua Te Ori Ori said : — " Suffice it ! Let me and my people return to Maungatautari till the arrival of the Government official. When he • arrives we will meet you again." This , was a short session with a vengeance l and it certainly denotes that Tawhiao lias " caved in," aDd intends owning up to the pension.