Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 36, 10 September 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The 'Frisco mail is expected to arrive by mail tram to-day, and will be sorted into private boxes by 5 p.m. A counter delivery will be made from 8 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Mr R. W. Brown was elected chairman of the Nikau School Committee, Mr Bruce has presented a petition to the House from J. Shannon for a military land grant. The Young Australians will perform in the Assembly Rooms this and Monday evening. Mr J. C. Morey, who headed the poll at the Borough elections on Thursday last, returns his most sincere thanks to the burgesses. The lady burgesses showed an excellent example at the election on Thursday, and oyer twenty of them registered their votes. A stoat has been killed in the centre of Wellington. It had gone from the Wairarapa to get a billot from the Labor Bureau. Mr Parr informs us ho has been offered £350 for the patent rights in Victoria, for his patent for improvements in four wheeled road vehicles, but has declined to accept this sum. The lambing season promises to be exceptionally good out Colyton waj. Mr Pearce. on the Taonui road, so far, has an average of 102 per cent, and expects it will run to about 120 per cent.

Mr Milson will have a big show of { books and birthday cards in his window this evening. We are glad to learn that the health of the Hon. Mr Ballance is so far improved that he hopes to take his place iu the House sometime next week. It is quite on the cards that the cholera scare in Europe will drive " bloated absentees " back to New Zealand, where they are safer. Mr W. A. Sandilands returns thanks to those burgesses who were kind enough to record their votes in hisjfayor at the recent Borough election. Hugh McPhee, 22 years of age. shot himself through the head while rabbitshooting at Middlemarcb, (Ocago), last Thursday. Mr Earle, the Government Surveyor, and his staff, whilst going to survey a block of land in the Kakariki district were stopped by the natives and had to turn back. A replace advertisement is inserted today by Mr W. G. Haybittle, who has just received from London per s.a. Ruahine a large assortment of ironmongery and general merchandize. Mr Bennett, the local representative of the Government Life Insurance Department, has made arrangements to take the house occupied by Mr Cobbe in Grey street, and will enter into possession about the middle of next week. The commercial classes all over the colony are protesting against the notion of the Government resuming control of the railways. As the commercial classes pay the largest percentage of the freights, their opinions are worthy of respect. Messrs Attwood and Co.'s photographic studio, in Mr Steven's premises, Manchester street, is nearly completed, and will be open for business in a few days. We notice in their window several excellent likenesses and really first-rate works of art. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for southerly gales and cold weather hold good at East Coast stations between LytteJton and East Cape. Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all other places. The Wellington Times says:— The member for Rangitikei, Mr Bruce, was so wrath at the continued refusal of Ministers to postpone or amend the one man one run clause in the early hours of Friday morning that he left the chamber and the building in disgust. The total number ot local governing bodies in the Colony is 2125, with a total membership of 13,981 persons. Local sehool committees come first with a total of 1075, »ad 7525 members ; next come licensing committees, 403 and 2015 members, followed by road boards, 207, and a membership of 1185. The Returning Officer for the Pohangina Road District, Mr E. Goodbehere, notifies that Messrs Messrs F. W. Arbon, and R. F. L. Barton have been elected for Nos. 4 and 5 wards, respectively. An election for Nos. 1, 2, and 3 wards will be held at the office of the Kiwitea Road Board, Feilding, on Tuesday, the 20th instant. Henry Brown's sawmill, on the Mountain road (New Plymouth), has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated »t £2000, and Brown was uninsured. The origin is a mysterr. It will be the means of throwing 66 hands out of work and will represent a loss to laglewood of about £300 a week, which was the sam paid to the men as wages. To-morrow is Home Mission Sunday with the Primitive Methodists in the Manawatu circuit. The preachers in the Feilding Church will be, Rev. W. C. Wood of Wellington, in the morning, and Rev. T. H. Lyon in the evening. A public meeting is to be held at the Church on Wednesday night when Mr Wood will be the principal speaker. Mr Brent, of the Furniture Warehouse, Manchester street, has just executed to order a splendidly designed hall table. He has in hand a set of bedroom furniture which when finished will be very pretty indeed. We do not see the reason why people should go outside of their own district for furniture when they can get such articles as we had the pleasure of inspecting at Mr Brent's. A man named Munro, a resident of Feilding, sustained a frightful injury to his left foot last week while engaged bushfelling at Makuri. The tree which caused the accident split up and came back on Munro, pinning his foot to the ground. The sole of his boot was torn right off the upper, and it is probably owing to this fact that he did not lose hi? foot, as the sole of the boot seems to hare acted as a buffer As it was the foot was frightfully crushed, and it will be some time before he can get about again. Munro left for his home on Tuesday. — Pahiatua Star. In our issue of August 25th we published a paragraph commenting on the condition in which a certain parcel reached our office through the post office. Since then we are indebted to the courtesy of Mr Gray, Secretary to the Post Office Department, for the information that he had made all possible and necessary enquiries, and found that the post officer officials were in uo way responsible, as the damage complained of had been done in transit. In the same paragraph we inadvertently used the word " letters" instead of " commercial papers," and thus conveyed a wrong impression, which no one can regret more than ourselves, and which we now hasten to do our best to remoye. The New Zealand Herald, in a lead» ing article, says : — ' We are sure men of all political parties will be grieved to hear of the serious illness of Mr Ballance and will join in the hope he may soon be perfectly restored. The news that it is feared he may not be able again to take his seat in the House during the present session, will be received with universal and profound regret all over the Colony. Mr Ballance is the head of a political party, and so has to take many hard hits as will as to give them, but his most bitter political opponent has no feeling towards him but that of high esteem He is an amiable and generous man, and during the long time in which he has been in the front rank of politics, we doubt if he has made a personal enemy. The article then goes on to say that Ministers have attempted to do too much id one session. Apropos, of the wet and mud. the following rather good story, which is vouched for by one of the most veracious settlers, comes from the Harbor Board Block :— Two young settlers whose selections lay away back in the unroaded portion of the settlement, had occasion to como down to the more civilized part of the district for provisions. With a month's supply strapped securely on their backs, these sturdy backwoodsmen essayed the return journey through eighty miles of mud, They trudged along cheerily side by sido for some time, but the stronger gradually forged a-head, Lookiug back suddenly he saw no trace of his companion, but was considerably startled at hearing a famt cry for help Hurredly retracing his steps he discovered his unfortunate mate embedded to the armpits in the mud, from which all his attompts to rescue him proved unavailing. Thoroughly alarmed, he now made his way as fast as possible to the house of our reliablo informant;, who was quickly on the spot with ropes and pulloys, by the assistance of which both provisions and settler were soou landed in a place of safety, little the worse physically, but sadly in need, of a bath.