Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 42, 24 September 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

A quantity of interesting matter will be found on our fourth page to-day. The Italian Opera Company will perform in Palmerston next week. The latest term for a crank is " paranoiac," and the word, it need hardly be said is of Yankee coinage. We have to acknowlege receipt of 14 Typo " for August. As usual this publication is full of interesting matter. The Montague-Turner Opera Company will make a tour of the West Coast and inland boroughs. Metropolitan papers say this show is good. In our last issue we stated that Mrs L. Brown was about to build in Manchester street, this should haye read Mrs M. M. Brown. The body of a gumdigger named RomiHy has been found in a well on Mrs Outhwaite's property at Kaukapalcapa, Auckland. A farmer on the Midland road has only lost five sheep and lambs out of his flock of eight hundred during the past winter. This is remarkable, and we should think a record, considering the weather we have had this season. JJb m reported that a settler on the Fe-ilcUng Ashurst roa d has lost several head of cattie from his farm. They are supposed to have heen uuno^od by some persons wbo, says the Maoawatu Timos, increase fcUair flocks and herds without the outlay oi capital,

The Quadrille Assembly hold thenusual fortnightly dance in the Forester's Hall next Wednesday. Fifty-nine employers in Wellington have declined to observe Demonstration Day as a holiday. The Montague-Turner Opera Company have engaged the Assembly Rooms for 10th and 11th of October. Shearing has already commenced in the Wairarapa and will begin at Akiteo, east coast, on October Ist. The Primate has summoned the Synod to meet in the Diocesan Library, Wellington, on Tuesday, October 4th. Yesterday Mr Carthew received his usual monthly case of books and periodicals, containing all the best of the most recent publications. The illustrated journals are particularly good. The money proposed to be taken from the subsidies to local bodies, will be utilised in helping to pay the increased salaries of members under the new Payment of Members Bill. A husband in Dunedin offered his wife for £5, yet when the suggested vendee took her, a cruel jury — or a sympathetic one — awarded damages £50. This was surely inconsistent. Mr William Baker, of Makino, has purchased from Mr Adsett that fine draught stallion " Sir Robert Bruce," which will travel this district. Further particulars in future advertisement. In our Court report of Thursday last, in the case against P. Rugsted, the plaintiff was John Thompson, not Mr S. J. Thompson, as it appeared in our report. The 30 Romuey Marsh rams, purchased in England by Mr Cobb. of Raukawa, arrived by the Coptic in Wellington on Thursday in splendid condition Some prize Pekin ducks were also brought out. The Manawatu senior football reps, play Wellington, this afternoon. The team sent down to do battle for Mauawatu is considerably weakened by several players not being able to get away. Messrs Stevens and Gorton in their auction rooms yesterday afternoon held a clearing sale of the effects of the late Captain Dalrymple. There was a large attendance of buyers present, and very good prices were realized for the various lots which were all disposed of. Dr Pollen said recently that the feat accomplished by a population of barely 100,000 adult males (of whom no fewer than half are effective producers) is producing £15,000,000 per annum in paying for imports, costs of government, and interest on public and private debts, is something unequalled in history. A sad accident is said to haye happened to a member of Parliament during his trip to Westport in the Hinemoa. While engaged in some spasmodic exercises he was so unlucky as to fire his whole set of teelh over the side, the consequence being that he cannot speak intelligible in the House until a new set of teeth shall have grown. " Well, Mr Bronson," said a dominie, " I hope you receded profit from the services this morning.', " Sir," returned Bronson, inclining to be indignant, " 1 assure you I drop business on Sundays and attend church with no hope of profit." Journalists in Japan are described as " a thorn in the side of the State." When, however, the journalists become too thorny, the simple-minded authorities " remove " them. When a Japanese journalist is removed he writes no more leading articles. He is concluded, so to speak.— Catholic Times. We (Wellington Times) notice by a recent issue of the New York Herald to hand by the last San Francisco mail, that Mr De Cobain, ex-M.P. for Belfast, who was expelled from the House of Commons for not meeting certain charges of immorality made against him, has been presiding at a series of ' Holiness Meetings ' in Brooklyn, Tbe value of land assessed as liable to pay land tax is £55,104,290, and the value liable to pay graduated land tax is £26,743,370. The total estimated number of land tax payers is 11,407, while 1319 is the estimated number of graduated land tax payers. The value of improvements upon which the ordinary land tax will be paid is £9,016,505. We learn from the Wanganui Herald that Mr J, McLaren, the popular licensee of the Anchor Hotel, and who had been in occupation for the past ten jears, handed over possession of this popular hostelry a few days ago to Mr George Lamplough, late of Westport. It is Mr McLaren's intention to reside in future on his property at Feilding. Our readers are reminded of the entertainment this evening in the Assembly Rooms by the Beaconsfield amateurs, in aid of the Tennis Club—" Three Shows in One." The only way to describe the affair is in the three words '.—interesting, amusing, and olever. It is requested that punctuality be observed as the curtain will rise on the first Tableau sharp at the advertised time. Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns, the well-known art photographers, of Wellington, have a new and attractive advertisement on the fourth page of to-day's issue. This enterprising firm have struck out a new line, and are now offering their clieuts one dozen enamelled three-quarter cabinets and a porcelain enlargement for the sum of £1 Is. For further particulars we refer our readers to the adyertisement. Writing of Mr A. McGee, who was manager of the junior rep. football team which played in Wellington last Saturday, and who has now settled in Feilding as manager of the Manchester Hotel, for Mr Wollerman, the Manawatu Times says : " Mr McGee has made himself very popular in Palmerston, especially among athletes, and in securing his assistance Mr Wollerman has displayed his usual .foresight and good judgment. At a recent School Board examination for girls (says a Home paper) one of the tasks was an essay on boys, and this vras one of the compositions, just as it was handed in by a girl of 12 — •• The boy is not an animal, yet they can be heard to a consideiable distance. When a boy hollers he opens his big mouth like frogs, but girls hold their toung till they arc spoke to, and they answer respectable and tell just how it was. A tjoy thinks himself clever because he can wade where it is deep, but God made the dry land for every living thing, and rested on the seventh day. When the boy grows up he is called a husband, and then stops wading and stays out at nights, but the grew-up girl is a widow and keeps house." At the Palmerston R. M. Court yesterday, H. J. Lloyd, who was charged with being in possession of dead hen pheasants, and taking and killing game without a license, pleaded guilty, and was defended by Mr Baker, Mr Hankins appearing for the prosecutor. Ranger ftfoopboase. The evidence went to show that defendant had been secretary of the Acclimatisation Society till it fell through, and had obtained permission to shoot over 3000 acres of Mr W. John ston's property at Awahuri, and could therefore shoot cock pheasants without a license. The hen phesants found in his trap were not shot by him ; one was shot by a friend in a thick cover, and the other was cauu'ht by a dog. Fined L 2, costs 7s, counsel's free 10s 6d in each case, total costs L 2 12s 6d, prosecutor being allowed 10s also railway )Fare from Wellington.— Palmerston

Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect frost, or a very cold night, have been sent to all places. The Rev. Mr J. Watkin, who is announced to preach in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow night, will take " The Love which Passeth Knowledge" for the subject of his discourse. The jury in the suicide case at Gis borne returned a verdict that the girl Solomon committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind. A prohibition order was granted against her father, who had attempted suicide. Says the Palmerston Times:— The insurance companies are asking for an enquiry into the circumstances connected with the destruction of Gray's barn, at Sanson, by fire. The agent is communicating with Mr Sneison, Corner, in reference to holding an enquiry. The Wellington Watchman writes : — Here is a method to make a balky horse go : Lift one of his tore feet at the fetlock and bend the leg at the knee joint, and hold the leg in this position for 8 or 4 minutes. Then let go and stand clear. You may look a little foolish while you are hanging on to the horse's leg ; but better that than you should knock the animal about. Try this simple and unfailing scheme. We have inspected Messrs Attwood and Co.'s studio, which opens for business today, in the premises formerly occupied by Mr William Steven3, in Manchester street. The studio is replete with every convenience and all necessary accessories. We notice several capital portraits of well-known New Zealanders, amongst the number are the Dean of Christchurch, Mr Ballance, Mr Seddon, Sir Julius Yogel, and many others, all very good works of art. There are also several portraits of Mr Collet Dobson, in character costumes, which are really excellent specimens of photography. We have no doubt Messrs Attwood and Co. will meet with the success which their enterprise merits. We (Post) understand that at an early hour yesterday morning a serious fracas occured in a city hostelry where members congregate when their legislative work is done, between a Minister and a member of the Opposition, in which a pickle jar, seized from the supper table, was ultimately appealed to Ministerially as a means of concilation and arbitration. Fortunately before this novel weapon could be landed on the Oppositionist's devoted head a Cabinet intervention took place, and further hostilities were suspended. At one time it looked as if there was going to be a regular " case of pickles " which would quite eclipse the recent shooting aftray in sensational interest. «^____^___