Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 34, 6 September 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The li.M. Court will sit here on Thursday next. It has been suggested that the annual conference of the Fire Brigades be held at Marton. We reuret to learn that tho Premier is in very poor health, the work ot the ses» siou proving too much for Ii is strength. Mr Thomas Bracken, " our only poet," is at present an invalid in the Melbourne Hospital. Tho Juvonilo Plain and Fancy Dread Ball in the Assembly Rooms to-night promises to b 6 a most brilliant affair. Circus to-morrow night. Everyone should go and sco tho best show of the kind which has ever visited an inland town in Now Zealand. Election of Borough Councillors and the nomination of candidates for the Pohangina Road Board will take place on Thuisduy next. Foilding Hunt Club meeting will take place on the Old Raco Course to-morrow. The acceptances aro published elsewhere. With fine weather tho mooting should be a great success. Mr Milson has just received a large and well selected consignment of books, including all the latest and most popular literature of the day, His replace advertisement will appear in our next issue. The Minister for Lands thinks what Mr Bruce says is always worth listening to, and lii.s earnest remarks on the land question produce more effect on him (the Minister,] llian those of any olhi-r member.

We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary press tickets for the Fancy Dress Ball this evening. The fine weather on Saturday night enabled visitors from all parts of the district to come into Foilding, and in consequence all the shops were well patronised and good business was done. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect strong northerly winds have been sent to all places south- > ward of Napier and New Plymouth. ! There's a sadness in her sadness when she's sad, and a gladness in her gladness when she's glad, but the sadness of her sadness, and the gladness of her gladness are not in it with her madness when she's mad. The children attending the Fancy Dress Ball are requested to be at the Hall punctually at a quarter to seven this evening so that no delay may occur in commencing tho affair at seven o'clock sharp. The ladies committee will be there to receive the children. A challenge has been sent from Ned Ryan, from Coopers' Hotel, Melbourne, to Harry Laing to fight with the gloves to a finish for £100 a-side. Harry has accepted, and the match will be duly arranged. Ned Ryan's fighting weight is 12 stone Blbs— all good material. The Ashurst School was examined by Messrs Vereker-Bindon and Spencer on 31*1 August and Ist September, with the following results : -Presented, 130; examined. 99; absent, 31: excepted 14;! failed 23 ; passed, 62 ; per centage, of passes. 72*9 ; per centage of failures, 271. It is stated by an Auckland paper that when tho body of the late Frederick Plummer was plafted in the coffin, the bones were virtually protruding through the skin, from the effects of hunger And yet it was for taking several potatoes and a portion of a pie that he was hunted down and finally shot. The Salvation Army gave a public tea at their Barracks last night when the attendance was very good. Considerable numbers came in by rail and road in order to be present. The meeting which was held after the tea, was crowded, and the whole proceedings were most successful and enthusiastic.

"We regret to record the death of Mrs Coleridge, widow of the late Mr J. N. Coleridue, well-known in Wellington for a number of years as a civil engineer. Mrs Coleridge, who was attacked with pleurisy a short time ago, died at the residence of her father, MrW. L.Travers, Wellington terrace, early yesterday morning. Tho deceased lady leaves four children to mourn her loss. — N. Z. Times, A schoolboy was recently given some questions in physiology. The following was one of his answers : — " The head of a person is made up of the head, the thorax, and abdoman. The head cou* tains the brains, if there is any; the thorax contains the hart and lungs ; the abdoman contains the bowels, of which theie are five, a. c, i, o, v, and sometimes w and y, A gloye contest has been arranged between Harry Laing, the champion of New Zealand, and Milton Orbell, a wellknown artist with the mittens, for twentyfive pounds aside. Laing has undertaken to knock Orbell out iv six rounds, and the knowing ones say it will •' take him sotr.e trouble to do it." The affair will come off in the Assembly Rooms on Saturday the 17th instant. The Canterbury Times, of September Ist, was published in a special editiou. It contained two illustrated supplements, one of which was headed " Colonial Enterprise," showing how a racing cut produced in 1875 was again utilised in 1892; the other was a "Canterbury Punch Revival," being a cartoon published in 1865. The reading matter, 48 pages, is interesting, and bears internal evidence of careful preparation as well as judicious selection. The Pahiatua Star says .—The member for Kangitikei has been bringing up the question of the working of the Truck Act in districts such ns this. In one respecthis action has done much good, for it has cleared up a doubt. According to the Hon the Minister for Public Works it is perfectly legal under this Act for an employer to supply each man employed bushfelling with goods to the value of £16 This is equivalent to two months' wages, nnd should meet the require-, nients of both employers and employed. By getting an authoritive opinion on this important question Mr i3ruce has done the State good service, The recent election in England is cal» dilated to cost the country about a million and a quarter sterling. From a Home paper we learn that the last general election cost £1,025,645 or close on <ts 6d for each vote pollod. But these sums were small compared with what they were in 1880. The general election which took place in that year cost about two millions sterling or about 15s for each vote pulled. In some counties the price of a vote was £1. Since that time an Act has been passed limiting the expenditure on elections. In the early pan of the century as much as £13 on an average was spent for each man's vote. In a large constituency we can fancy what this would have amounted to. Messrs Wirth Bros gaye their last performances in Wanganui on Saturday evening. The tent was again well filled, The Arabs and Japs gave excellent exhibitions of their skill in their several departments. The latter are most accomplished jugglers. The manipulation (if the word is permissible) of the screen with the feet shows shigh state of pro< ficiency, and it is equal to anything of the sort one would expect to find at the Westminster Acquarium The Arabs' gun-spinuing is a novelty, but apart from that the dexterity shown in the feat would make it acceptable to the most critical audience. The horizontal bar performance showed great skill and daring, and tlie youthful acrobats do* seryed the applause their work drew forth. Among the feats on horseback the back somersault turning was tho most prominent and clover. Tho show was n good one in every respoct, and it well deserved the patronage it received. Messrs Wirth announced their intention of returning here in about 10 months. ■- Chronicle. The larrikins of Feilding were in an exceptionally mischieyous mood on Sunday night last, and two or three instances of damage which they committed have been brought under our notice. A buggy standing in front of Messrs Say well Bros, workshop, had the seat and splash board broken, and one of the panels smashed in. A large strong-room door placed against the wall in front of Messrs Say well Bros, blacksmiths shop, was laid across the footpath, and had the night been a dark one, any unfortunate pedestrian might have met with a serious fall or injury. It required three meu to put the door into its former position so there must haye been a good number of lads who took part in the mischief. A large notice board in front of tho Assembly Rooms leaeed to Messrs Wivth Bros, was carried awaj and hidden. These are at present the only instances which hayo been brought to our notice, but they aro sufficient to show that thero is a turbulent and disorderly soctiou in our midst, which will require to bo doalt with in a sovore manner when the delinquents arc found out, and ii stern and sharp punishment will bo necessary, as j tlio.so ooiitmuod i.ict-3 of larrikinHin must bo put down.

v \ c n.ive lo acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers. Mr Job Vile has been elected ihe first Mayor of Pahiutua. It is estimated Victoria will export 3000 tons of butter this year. Fond mother to little boy : " Johnny, if you c:it all those bananas you'l! be too ill to «o to llie circus.' 1 Liltle hoy : " JN T o boy can be ill when there's a circus. Its agimist unture." ! At Kketaluma the funniest stories are told of the co-operative works, due party (says the Pahiatua Star) is men-' tioned who never worked more than five hours a day, and never made less than fifteen shillings per day. The following gentlemen were elected as a school committee for the Harbor Board Block : — Messrs Finnis, L. Brown, E. Harrison, G. Shannon, H. Stewart, P. Hannigan, R. Brown. The name of the new school district will be Nikan. At the last Committee Meeting of tinWanganui Jockey Club, a number of programmes were submitted and held over, pending the decision of the dele-

gates at the Conference to be hold in Wellington on Thursday.— Herald, The services at the opening of the new Wesleyan Church at Birmingham on Sunday were very well attended. The building in the evening was crowded. The Revs. Messrs Birks and Stewart tok the morning services. The Eev. Mr Stewart preached the evening sermon, The collections amounted to £7 15s. Our readers will perceiyo by a notice elsewhere, that Messrs Greenwood and Hooper are now iv partnership as dentists (Mr Forlong haying removed to Wanganui), and that one of them will visit Feilding every week on Friday's, and may be consulted at Mr Garratt's, chemist. We hear that Mr Joseph Browne will be nominated in opposition to Mr G. R. Lucas for No 1 Ward in the Pohangina Road District. This is contrary to expectation because many of the ratepayers were of the opinion that Mr Lucas should have been returned unopposed as a compliment for his exertions in obtaining separation. The United States having myited the European Navies to send representatives to the Chicago Exhibition without m-

eluding New Zealand, it is rumoured the Minister for Defence, tho llou Richard Seddon, will ask the President of tho United States whether the slight is intentional. The Hon. Dick knows that Capt. Fairchild would knock the gilt off most naval " representatives,"