Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 43, 27 September 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Premier was not able to attend the House yesterday, having had to take to his bed again. Last night the vomiting : fits, which were so prevalent during his recent illness, have returned, and Dr Henry, his medical adviser, visited him several times yesterday, i The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday next. The Manchester Road Board will meet i next Saturday, i Quadrille Assembly in the Foresters' Hall to-morrow night. > The Manchester Rifles will parade in i the Assembly Rooms on Thursday next at 7.30 p.m. It is probable that the Awahuri bridge will be open to-morrow for general traffic, weather permitting. The idea of separating No 6 ward from the Manchester Road District has been abandoned as impracticable. A meeting of the committee of the Horticultural Society will be held on Saturday next at Mr Goodbehere 's office " That motion is out of order." said the chairman of a political meeting, as he saw a rowdy raising his arm to throw an egg. The Bank of New Zealand are about to erect new prenwsgs in Palmerstou North , on the site of the present building. The Manawatu Times says the new structure will be large and imposiug. The carcase of a dead sheep has been left lying for two or three days close to ' the road in a paddock adjoining Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale yard. As it is 1 becoming offensive who ever is responsible should have it buried. The " ingenious loafer" was at work on 1 Saturday night, and five persons obtained ' admissiou to the entertainment in the ; Assembly Rooms by means of false ' tickets. The affair has been put in the : hands of the police. i Mr Walter Freeman's tender has been i accepted by the Manawatu Railway l Company for the refreshment car on , the line for the next two years. We may mention that Mr Freeman managed | the first refreshment car ou the line. ) During the incarceration of the editor, Mr Haggen, the Woodville Examiner will ' only be published three times weekly. ' Mr Haggen arrived in Woodville yester--1 day from Wellington, in charge of a war- • der, to give evidence in the case against , Syms, to be heard to-day. 1 Yesterday morning there was a heavy ; thunderstorm in this district. The rain . fall was very considerable, but no damage has been reported. In the afternoon an j exceptionally heavy storm passed over Feilding accompanied with large hailstones, and whilst it lasted was as severe • as any experienced this winter. : The law is no respecter of persons. The Rev. J . O. Andrews, a sheep farmer ' in the Wairarapa. was fined £5 at the R.M. Court, Masterton, on Thursday, for 1 not having taken satisfactory steps to 1 destroy the rabbits on his property. This , is by no means the first time the reverend gentleman has been fined for the ; same offence. i We have been requested to state that the Money Order and Savings Bank at Fowlers (Birmingham) is temporarily i closed after to-day. It appears that the postmaster, Mr Salter, caught a chill when travelling in the train and is dangerously ill at Wellington. He cannot even speak. The postal work will be carried on as usual. Mr Stevens, the postmaster here, went up this morning to superintend the necessary changes. The match between the veterans, Jones, 73 years of age, and Churcher, 59, came off on Saturday afternoon last. The distance was one mile, and the course was from Mr Thompson's house on the Kimbolton road to the Court House. For the first half mile, the contestants kept well together, when Churcher retired owing to a severe " stitch," and left his opponent to finish alone. Jones kept on his journey at the same steady pace, finishing very strong, and completed the journey in 6min. 35sec, a really wonderful performance, which he could have done much quicker had he been pushed. There was a large attendance of spectators, and the old man received quite an ovation as he passed the post. According to the Mercantile and Bank" ruptcy Gazette, the following are the amounts at which the estates of persons who lately died in the Wellington Provincial district were finally certified, and on which stamp duty has been paid : — John Campbell, £3545 19s 3d ; John M'Kelvie, i 1 15,591 10s 6d ; William Lucena, .£56,017 4s 6d ; John Groves (the elder), £8606 7s 7d; George Bowyer, £1947 10s ; Win. Jameson, £3142 Is lid; Samuel Vennell, £9727 7s 9d ; George Claphara, £3948 8s 8d ; Ellen Jameson, £1636 16s lid. Yet another New Zealander has taken 1 high university honours at Home (says 1 the Wanganui Chronicle). Mr G. Home, who was educated at the Hawera Boys' School, and at the Wanganui Collieeate , School, has lately taken first class , honours for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Master in Surgery at the Edinburgh University examination. There were 204 successful candidates only five of whom took first-class hon» ours. Mr Home also gained the Free--1 land Barbour Fellowship in Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology, He will • return t<? this polony shortly.

Inspector Pardy conducts the case igainst Syms at Woodville to-day. A mission room for the church of England is about to be erected at Bunnythorpe. Mr T. H. James, architect, has the work m hand. The Seddon- Fergus and the McKen-zie-Fish episodes should gain the present administration the title of " The Punch and Pickle Ministry." At the Invercargill Supreme Court to* day McKae, charged with murder, was admitted to bail on two sureties of £150* He will be tried next session, In the House yesterday Mr J. W. Kelly moved that the next session of Parliament be held in Inyercargill. Of course the idiotic proposal was rejected. The Premier told Mr Wilson on Friday that he intends to consider the whole question of subsidies to local bodies, in conjunction with that of charitable aid, during the recess. Mr J. R. Montague, of Paimerston North and Feilding, has launched out into the gram business, and is at present importing oats, wheat, and chaff from the South Island. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect strong northerly winds after 16 hours have been sent to all places. Sir George Whituiore speaks of the townspeople as "an unmixed curse " to the colony. As a town member called the farmers " social pests " this sounds very like a tv quoque. The compositors on the Woodville Examiner struck work yesterday morning. The cause alleged by the men is that wages are overdue, and the directors propose to publish the paper tri- weekly instead of daily. The bullet shot into M'Donald's leg during the affray on Waterloo quay last Sunday week has not yet been extracted by the Hospital authorities, and his condition has changed somewhat for the worse. — Post. The secretary of the Eiwitea Road Board, Mr E. Goodbehere, gives notice that Mr Thomas Ryan, hotelkeeper, has been appointed poundkeeper at Chelten* ham in place of Mr James Meeham whose Appointment is cancelled. The Makino stream has been running very high all day and has encroached considerably into the bank about 100 yards on the west side of Manchester street bridge. Should any great quantity of rain fall, there is every probability that further damage will be done. Timt talented legislator, Dr Newman, thinks that the Government are converting the Pm lie Trustee into a sort of uni versal providor, and lhat tliey had better declare by proclamation that he shall run the country. This is not at all » bad idea because while there is some probability that He would " run " it better, it is certain thnt he could nof " run " it worse than the present Ministry.