Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 26, 18 August 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

According to the local paper, the' Salvation Army are about to build-new barracks at Otaki. Messrs Greenwood and Forlong, dentists, will visit Feilding every Saturday at the Denbigh Hotel. It is rumoured that the Hon. Walter Johnston intends to settle in this neighborhood. Messrs A. Y. and Duncan Mcßeth have sent a mob of 800 sheep into the Coal Creek Block. The Hon. John Bryce is at present a visitor to this district, and is staying with his son, Mr Thomas Bryce, Birmingham. Notice is given to-day of the transfer of section 34 Block 111 survey district of Apiti from Joseph J. Ruscoe to Henry A. Ruscoe. We regret to learn that Mr N. Valentine's health has not improved since his removal from Palmerston. He now lies dangerously ill. A young man named Charles Hillier, a bush labourer, shot himmelf through the head with a pistol in the City Restaurant at Wellington, on Tuesday night. The separation of Pohangina from the Kiwitea Road District will involve a general election for Kiwitea District, as well as for tho .new Pohangina District. A few days ago the Pahiatua Star made certain charges against Coroner Hall, of Woodville, and proceedings for libel in connection with the article have now been mstituted. The licensee of the Shamrock Hotel Awatoto (Hawkes Bay) for permitting Yannee Grab to be played for drinks was mulcted in the R. M. Court a fine of £9 10s with costs. Messrs Martin and Fisher, the new coachbuilders, are doing good business. We have inspected some of their work, which has been turned out in a satisfactory and highly creditable mrnner. Evidently they can grow potatoes in this district. A very large one weighing six pounds one ounce, which was grown on Mr Lockyer's property at Kiwitea has been sent to us, and can be seen at our office. Mr P. Bartholomew has just erected a comfortable ten -roomed house on his land, adjoining the sawmill at Levin. The structure makes a considerable improvement to the appearance of the i locality. The Waste Lands Committee got about half-way through the Land Bill yesterday morning, and altered the rate of the " eternal lease " from 4 to 5 per cent. Tbe lease with right of purchase was also mado much more favorable to settlers. — A correspondent writes : — " Seeing that there are so many excellent livery stables in Feilding, it appears a shamo that horses should be left attached to hitching posts for hours at a time without food or water." We direct the attention of the constable to this cruel practice.

Nominations for the handicap events of the Feilding Hunt Club's steeplechase meeting close on Thursday, the 25th instant, at 8.30 p.m. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telerams to expect frost or very cold night have been sent to all places. j A meeting of sawmillers of the Wairarapa and West Coast was held yester- 1 I day afternoon in the Royal Oak, Wei lington, to fix upon a standard price for timber. The feed in the cleared portions of the Coal Creek Block is very good. The turnips are specially well developed, so that the sheep now being put on the land will have every advantage. Georgia boasts of three stin gy men. One of them will not drink as much water as be wants unless it be from another man's well ; the second requires his family to write a small hand to save the ink ; nnd the third stops his clock at night in order to save the wear and tear ot the machinery, ! The marriage of Mr Sydney Flavell, of Waimate, Taranaki, to Miss Christina McLeod, daughter of Mr F. McLeod, of The Palms, Makino, was celebrated on August 16. The Rev. Mr Lyon was the officiating clergyman. We congratulate the happy couple and wish them long life and prosperity. To show the benefits of road making we mention the following interesting fact. A certain piece of land was being made accessible by this means, and the contract was completed on Monday. On the following day a settler went out, got married, and brought his bride to her new home in the Coal Creek Block on the Wednesday. The Secretary of the Wanganui Education Board gives notice that a public meeting of householders of the Harbor Board Block will be held in Mr Pollock's woolshed on Monday, sth September, for the purpose of electing a school committee, and to define boundaries for a school district. For other particulars see advertisement. The Government Surveyor, Mr Norris, is now at work on the Coal Creek Block, laying off the sections recently sold. He is also grading the Main Ridge Road through to the Feilding Block. This means that travellers will soon be able to leave Birmingham, go through London's Road, on to the Ridge Road along Coal Creek into the Feilding Block. A widowed lady of some considerable education and refinement took up a bush farm near Levin some few years ago. With the assistance of her unmarried daughter she has now carved out a splendid home in the bush. Most of the work on the farm is done by the ladies referred to, and they are as a matter of course rather proud of their achievement — Palmerston Standard. A meeting of the United Farmer's Alliance Executive Committee was held at Palmerston on Monday, when the following directors were appointed viz : — Messrs F. Y. Lethbridge (chairman), E. J. Armstrong, A. Alison, J. A. Bailey, Hon. J. Bryce, D. Carman, John Cotter, E. C. Fletcher, Alex. Higgie, J. R. Johnston, Robert Linton, John Martin, A. Y. McBeth, E. B. McKenzie, B. S. Penny, Coleman Phillips, Geoffrey Potts, P. Stewart, T. R. Taylor, George Whitcombe. Down Reef ton way the storekeepers are a bit particular. The Guardian says " it is well-known that our tradespeople must find the practice of economy indispensable in order to make both ends meet, but it is not very often that we hear of them cutting a potato in half to avoid giving over weight. This, however, we are informed, was done the other day at one of the stores in lown. As an eyidence of a thrifty nature this would be hard to beat." It is expected that in the present frantic race for reformation — of other people — there will be included in the amended Local Option Bill the following : — Public houses, the totalisator, football and races, in fact everything that savors directly or indirectly of " beer and skittles." The consequence of this expectation is that on the West Coast diggings there is much lamenting, and the last hope of the worldly minded there is that the Honorable Dick Seddon will stick to his colors and retain for them a few of their pleasant sins. A Sydney paper says : — A wid»w of 24 advertises that she wants to meet a working man with a view in marriage. She should have no difficulty in being united if she steps up to Creer's lodging house in Prinoe Alfred Park. There are working men enough there to marry all the widows in the city, The fact that they are out of work would probably not prevent the widow making a selection, for if she can play a fair band at the wash tub she can more easily make a living for the husband of her choice than he can for her, the way things are at present His Honor Judge Broad died suddenly at Nelson last Tuesday evening. He had just sat down to dinner when he was seized with an apoplectic fit. Mr Lowther Broad was warden on the Otago goldfields and subsequently acted in the same capacity at the Thames About 20 years ago, he was appointed Resident Magistrate and Warden at Nelson ; and later on was appointed Dis» trict Court Judge. He was author of several law books, including two editions of a digest of cases and two editions the '• R. M, Court Guide and Justices' Handy Book." and several others. " The trail of the serpent is over us all." A manufacturer of funeral wreaths was recently noticed by the Paris Cus toms authorities to be doing a more than usually flourishing trade. Accordingly a special inspector was placed on duty at Romainville to examine the next consignment. This consisted of three immense wreaths, of violets, roses, and immortelles respectively. On inspection it was discovered that the wreaths contained a thick tin tube, each of which held about 50 litres of overproof alcohol. The Government Prosecutor having called for an exemplary punishment, the man was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a line of £88.