Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 50, 13 October 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

«. There will be mass in St. Bridget's next Sunday morning at eight o'clock. Tenders for stumping, and clearing, ten acres of land for Mr R. Kidd, of Kiwitea, will close on Saturday. Mr Carthew has just received a full supply of cricketing and lawn tennis material. Full particulars of which will be advertised in our next issue. Parliament was formally prorogued by proclamation in the Gazette yesterday afternoon, until January 12th. The Payment of Members Bill adds £10,000 a year to the cost of governing the colony. We regret to learn from the Wanganui Herald that the well-known athlete, R. Garratt, is seriously ill. Mr Glover will giye a temperance address in tbe Wesleyan Church to-morrow evening. The natives at Masterton have pre* sented Harry Laing with a purse of sovereigns. A team of Palmerston boys defeated a team of Feilding boys in a football match, yesterday afternoon, at Palmerston. by 8 points to nil. Mr F. Keen has now a good stock of running and walking shoes on stock. This indicates that the Feilding sports are near at hand. We learn from the Herald that work has been temporarily suspended at the Foxton artesian well, which is now down 212 feet and on very hard grayel. A Sydney cable announces the death of the well-known thoroughbred racing mare Volley, (Musket— Lady Viyian) who, it will be remembered, won several events in Australia in the colours of the late Hon James White. On Friday, the 21st instant, Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co., will hold a sale of oil paintings of New Zealand scenery, under instruction from Mr 3 Halcombe, in the sample rooms of Mrs Hastie's Hotel, where the pictures are now on view. John Richard Baxter, aged 80, stickmaker, of Rattray»street, Dunedin. committed suicide on Tuesday morning, by cutting his throat with a razor. He had been depressed in spirits for some time. Yesterday a man named Clarkson alias Tyson was arrested by Constable Tuohy on a charge of having stolen a post office order at New Plymouth in 1891. He was remanded to Palmerston North by Mr Sherwill J.P. The proprietor of the Standard Steam Aerated Water and Cordial Works of Queen street, Mr Hodren, has now completed all his arrangements, and the factory is in full working order. An advertisement giving full details will appear in our next issue. Besides the oil paintings of New Zealand scenery to be sold by auction in Mrs Hastie's, Feilding Hotel sample rooms on Friday the 21st instant, four beautiful steel engravings, splendidly mounted, will be offered. The latter have been on view for some time at Mr Shearer's. A new industry has just been established at Nelson (says the New Zealand Trade Review, Mr Willian Houlker having erected there a shot tower for the manufacture of leaden shot of all sizes. The import duty of 10s per cwt is thought to offer a sufficient margin on which to work the enterprise. A meeting of members of the Church of England was held at Wellington last Monday evening, for the purpose of devising ways and means to assist the new parochial districts. A resolution was passed that the people of Wellington raise a special fund with a view to assisting the work. A sum of £250 was collected or promised in the room. The statement filed by W. H. Batchelar, of Wanganui, contractor, shows — Debts, £1335 198; assets, £221 2; deficiency, £1004 17s. The principal creditor is the Manawatu Timber Company, £360. Among the list of creditors appear the following names — J. Bartholomew, £43 ; W. G. Haybittle, £15 4s 9d ; J. Smith, £15 14s Id.— Chronicle. A working party of the crew of H.M.S. Ringarooma have recently been doing up the graves of some of their comrades of the Royal Navy, who had been interred in St. Peter's Cemetery, Onehunga. It is pleasing to note the care displayed by the successive warships on the station of the graves of their men buried at the various parts, who have fallen victims to war, accidents, or disease. — Auckland Herald. Says the Chronicle :— The work of increasing the depth of water along the Heads wharf is progressing favourably. The object of removing the reef is to make the whole lenght of the wharf available for shipping, in view of the increased demand for wharfage at CastleclifE, The barque Lochnagar is expected here in the wool season, and increased wharfage conveniences are necessary to deal with the ordinary ' traffic while the barque is in port. The reef was found to be covered with stones and over 20 tons have been removed in preparation for the blasting operations. 1 On one of the goldfields lately, says ! ' Wommera ' in the Australasian, a i Scotch miner got very drunk on a Satur- . day night, and only reached his nut , with difficulty. Inside he tipped oyer a stool, and falling into the fireplace lay there. Waking somewhat near 1 morning, he looked up the chimney and saw the stars shining overhead. * Aye, Robin,' he observed, 'yon whusky'll be the death o'ye. Here ye've just 1 falen doon a showft.' So he climbed 1 laboriously up the chimney, and scran^ bling out at the top fell to the ground ' out side his hut. ' Greacht goodness ? ' 1 he said, ' here ye've bin an' fa'en doon 1 anilher* ; ye'd best bide till the morn.' When the item £500, grant in aid of , the Mount Magdala Magdalen Asylum, Christchurch, came up for discussion in , the House recently, Mr Buick said he thought the Salvation Army ought to be i included m this vote. They had established rescue homes, which were doing a good work, and saving the Colony a good deal of money. He would therefore moye that the Salvation Army Rescue Homes i be included in this vote. — This was ruled out of order, but the Minister for Education said if next year the Salyation Army or any similar body came to him and gave satisfactory testimouy to the work , they were doing, he would consult with his colleagues aa to placing a sum as a grant in aid of the same. — The vote was passed. The schedule of business transacted during the session shows that 26 Committees weie appointed, and -169 public Bills introduced, 150 having originated in i the House and 19 having beeu brought from the Council. Two private Bills ■ were introduced, 741 petitions presented during the session, and 183 divisions : recorded. There were 66 sitting days, the daily average of sitting being 7 hours 48 minutes. The questions asked of Ministers numbered 541, and 1440 entries were made in the Journals of tho House ; 274 papers wore laid on the table of the House, while 676. reports were received from .Select Committees. Of the Bills introduced 87 received tho Royal assent, whila 81 wore dropped or otherwise disposed of.

The closiug dance of the Quadrille Assembly last night was largely attended and was a success in every way. Two large pearls, valued at £1000 and £700, have been found at the north-west pearling grounds. Western Australia. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been sent to all places. The Scotch municipalities are asking Mr H. Gardner, President of the Board of Agriculture, to enforce the labelling of foreign meat, so as to prevent deceit. At Foxton yesterday Henry C. Cockrane, for sometime agent of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Company, was arrested charged with alleged embezzlement. A meeting of those interested in forming a cricket club in connection with the Wednesday half-holiday will be held tomorrow evening, at 7.30, in the Denbigh Hotel. For sometime past some light-fingered persons have been robbing Mr Joseph Bray, of Makino, by annexing his ducks and hens eggs, during his absence from home. In order to put a stop to this petty thieving Mr Bray offers a reward of ten shillings for the detection of the offender. In order to show delegates to the Stock Conference to meet at Wellington, every courtesy and attention, the Hon John McKenzie has invited a few ot the leading pastoralists to meet them when papers ot interest to the colonies will be read and discussed. It is understood that Mr John Roberts, C.M.G., and Mr Thomas Brydon will be the Otago representatives. We have receiyed from Mr T. Hall, who is at present in Apiti, a limb cut from a tree called " The Red Caldwell " apple. It is almost entirely coyered with fruit blossoms. As the tree from which the branch was taken was only three years old, it is an evidence of the excellence of the variety, as well as the qualifications of the soil for growing this valuable and wholesome fruit. A few days ago a sheep worrier was caught in the act by two settlers near Apiti. They went to the camp of the owner of tbe dog, who was engaged in bush felling, and told him that tbe dog had killed two of their sheep. The owner promised to shoot the animal, but the two men said they wanted it for their own satisfaction. Tbe dog was handed over to them and, with two sharp slash hooks, they chopped the poor brute to pieces. A correspondent writes : — " I have looked in vain for vigorous protest from the Press against the brutality of the 500 mile ride in Europe, where we are calmly told 64 horses succumbed. If Constable Tuohy had the donor of the silver bust, or the riders, in Feilding, he would treat them to the mercy of the cruelty clause of the Police Offences Act. The thing is a blot on the name of humanity and of true sport. Every Englishman must be disgusted with it." With reference to the remains found in a tent a few days ago telegraphed from Greymouth, the following, sent by a correspondent to the Kumaru Times, shows that the " tin man " was evidently known in Kumara : In your account of the finding of a man's body a Barrytown the other day, it was stated that a tin mask was found in the tent. Perhaps some of your Kumara readers may remember .that some two or three years agojconsiderable astonishment was created in the place by the appearance of a swagger evidently of the genus " sundowner" who perambulated the streets disguised in a perforated tin mask and also wearing a sort of back board of the same material. Can this be the unfortunate fellow whose body was so tragically found? It was generally supposed that the man was a little out of his mind. The last seen of him in this district was as he was making his way down the track leading to the old Lamplough. A well attended meeting of shareholders in the United Farmers Alliance Company was held at the Occidental Hotel on Tuesday, Mr F. V, Lethbridge in the chair. The business was mainly of a formal character. Resolutions were passed changing tbe registered office of the company from High street, Marton, to Waterloo Quay, Wellington, and giving the Directors power to call up further capital, if necessary, so as to increase the borrowing powers of the company. It was also resolved that the certificates for shares should be issued on payment of the allotment money. A deputation from the Mana \ watu Farmers Co operative Association waited on the Directors and urged upon them the advisability of amalgamation. The deputation pointed out the benefits 1 which would be likely to accrue to both Associations by amalgamation- After hearing the various reasons urged, the Directors unanimously decided not to entertain the proposal. It was reported that the shares in the United Farmers Alliance are being taken up freely, and there is every probability of the list being finally closed at or before the end : of the present year.— Manawatu Times.