Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 52, 18 October 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Train services through the Manawatu Gorge were resumed yesterday. Heavy floods have been experienced on the West Coast, principally at Greymouth. Mr J. R. Montague will hold an auction sale to-morrow afternoon in the sample rooms of the Manchester Hotel. A meeting of the W.C.T.U. will be held in the Foresters Hall on Thursday next at 7.30 p.m. " Papa," queried little Dick after looking at a picture of a skeleton, " how did this man manage to keep in his dinner '?" The bridge over the Oroua river at Aorangi will be commenced in about a fortnight's time, so in a few months we may expect it to be completed. The Quinquennial Report, 1890, and Annual Report, 1891, of the New Zealand Government Life Insurance Department have been circulated among the policyholders. The Premier continues to progress very satisfactorily towards complete restoration to health, and purposes leaving Wellington for Wanganui at the end of the present week. j Mr Wollerman is still making considerable improvements to the Manchester Hotel, the latest being the laying clown in concrete of the back part of his premises The work has been done by Mr James Huddlestone, of the Makino road, is of a most substantial and permanent character, and reflects great credit on Mr Huddlestoiie's skill.

Cricketers are reminded of the meeting i to be held at the Denbigh Hotel to-mor-row night. London buyers complain that cargoes of oats from the Bluff have arrived in bad condition. Professor Mason will be in Feilding on the 24th and 25th October with his popular concert company. Dr Usher, of Melbourne, is studying the inoculation of anti-choleraic vaccine, under the direction of M. Pasteur. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded that there will be a capitation parade in the Assembly rooms on Thursday next. While a coroner's jury was viewing a body in Pennsylvania they were horrified to see the supposed corpse suddenly sit up The man had been in a trance. 'If I'm not at home from the party at 10 o'clock to night don't wait for me, my dear,' said a husband to his better and bigger half. * That I won't,' she replied. 'I won't wait, but I'll come for you.' He was home at 10, Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, of Wellington, advertise that they have now in stock fashionable drapery of the latest style and novelties, all of the most excellent material, quality, and manufacture. Tenders are invited by Mr Atkins, the architect of the Wanganui Education Board, for the erection of additions to the Feilding schoolmaster's residence. Plans may be seen at the office of Mr H. L. Sherwill. A slanderer of men and women is often one who thinks others have committed all the crimes and offences against morality which he would like to have committed himself— only that he lacked the courage. As soon as the Hon. Mr Reeves heard that there was to be a luncheon given to His Excellency the Governor at Palmerston, the Hon. Members of the Banquetting Ministry said : " I'm in it," end in he was. Mrs Smith announces to-day that she has commenced business as a dressmaker in " The Other House " Manchester street. Mrs Smith has had large experience in some of the leading houses in the colony. For other particular see advertisement. The Wellington Times says that the telegraph boy bearing Mr Jenkinson's (of Christchurch) nomination to the Legislative Council found him working inside a boiler, and then thrust the message through a small hole. Mr Jenkinson thought it a hoax and was only persuaded with difficulty, to write and answer, which he did without saying a word. Eighteen months ago an Apiti settler bought 72 yearlings at an average of 8s lOd. Last week he sold forty-four at £3 18s, seven at M 3s, fourteen at £B 14s, and seven at £3 10s. On his first outlay of 16a he received £279 Is, and after deducting first cost and 30s each for grass, a clear profit of £140 is made. It would seem (says an exchange) that the prospects are very favourable just now for the shipping of fat cattle from Queensland to Melbourne. Some bullocks seat to Melbourne from Mr James Tyson's station averaged £14 2s per head, and some of them fetched as much as £16 5s each. We congratulate Mr Retemeyer on the compliment paid him by the managers of the Hawera show who have invited him to judge poultry exhibits on November 3rd, and by the managers of the Auckland show to be held on the 11th and 12th idem, who have requested his services as judge of dairy produce exhibits. Owing to the heavy rain which fell on Friday and Saturday several heayy land slips have occurred on the Government Railway between the Upper Hutt and Cross Creek (Wellington). The line was blocked on Saturday night, and the down train on Saturday night was de* layed for nearly 2£ hours. Yesterday afternoon Messrs Gorton and Son, sold by auction in their rooms at Feilding, 99 acres 3 roods 21 perches of land in the Apiti Survey District, the property of the late Mr T. D. S. Potts, to Mr Spurway of Apiti, for the sum of £395. This property is situated half a mile from the township, and 60 acres of it are laid down in grass. A curious story, vouched for by the | Rev. Mr Adams, curate of Litcbam, comes from Norfolk : — " When, during the recent election Mr Arch ofiered to shake hands with the High Sheriff, that gentleman did not seem to like to do so ; and afterwards, when he had shaken hands with Mr Arch, he took out his handkerchief and wiped his hands." Mr Arch does not use a handkerchief. The percentages of lambs in this dis^ trict this season (says the North Ofcago Times) are abnormally high. In one instance the percentage was 110. Triplets have been frequent. The rains were injurious in the back part of the dis* trict.but otherwise the lambing has been a most favourable one; in fact it is reckoned to be the best but one in the history of the district. During heavy rains on the West Coast a man named Patrick Rogers was smothered by the inrushing water to the manhole of a tunnel at Duffer's Creek. Some other men escaped by the tunnel. Numbers of cows and horaea and sheep were swept out to sea from the upper valley the Coal Creek Flat and the racecourse were under water, the cattle and horses swimming for the high ground. It is very fortunate for the town that it was not spring tide as in the Jubilee flood, which made several feefc difference in tavourofthe town. The United States of America is the most criminal country in the world. On the testimony of Mr Andrew D. White, the American minister at Brussels, murders are increasing in the United States to such an extent that they are already more than double the average of the most criminal country in Europe. There are, he adds, 6000 murders per annum. And yet only one murderer in fifty receives the full reward of his crime. Yet the tendency of the times in France, America, and to some extent in Great Britain goes to show that more toleration is extended to criminals of all sorts where the freest institutions prevail. We are glad to notice that Mr E. A, Haggen, the editor of the Woodville Examiner, was released from gaol on Saturday. The fine inflicted upon him has also, we understand, been remitted, and he has not been asked to give sureties for his behaviour in the future. Mr Haggen speaks most favourably of the management of the gaol, and has formed a very high opinion of Governor Garvey from what he has been enabled to observe of that officer's system during his sojourn in the prison. Mr Haggen is looking remarkably well after his " holi- j day," and will return to his literary labours with renewed yigour. Professor Archibald, who, will be remembered, visited Feilding some twelve months ago, with Edison's Phonograph is again in New Zealand with an entirely new and improved machine. According to the southern papers crowded houses are the rule wherever he has been. Lord and Lady Glasgow, before leaving Wellington on their northern tour, delivered an address to the colonists of New Zealand, which comes out with remarkable distinctness. Another feature is the playing of the Coldstream Guards Band. The Phonograph at present being exhibited is a loud recording machine, and the absence of the metallic sound sound associated with those that have been presented before is another feature in its favor. The residents of Feilding and district will have an opportunity of hearing this wonderful piece of mechanism on Wednesday 26th October, at the Assembly Rooms.

Fresh oysters, oranges, pines, mandarines, lemons, bananas, &c, my be had at Clementson's. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings tor northerly gales and rain after 12 hours have been sent to all places. We team to-day that Mr T. H. James, and not Mr Larcomb, is the architect for Mr Montague's new auction mart in Feilding. Mr J. D. Valentine has undertaken the work, and will commence operations at once. At Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co.'s sale of pictures on Friday next, at Mrs Hastie's sample rooms, the following engravings will be sold at the same time. " The first Born," " Bouheur au Palais," " The Soldiers Return " and " The Critic." These engravings are works of art, nicely framed, and should fetch good prices. The Wellington Post says :— The movement which has been quietly afoot for some time to organise all the butter producers of the Wellington and Taranaki districts on the basis of a co-operative association, under which all butter will be sold from brand, is making good progress The matter is expected to take definite and tangible form in the course of a few weeks. A meeting of ratepayers of No. 5 Ward Pohangina Road District, was held in Mr D. McKenzie's woolshed at Apiti, on Saturday last. The object was to discuss the question of raising a loan for the purpose of completing the roads in that part of the Board's district. The warden, Mr Burton, pointed out that the Board had made loan proposals much in excess of their borrowing powers, and at the outside No. 5 Ward could not expect to have more than -600 available for road making. Ultimately on the motion of Mr Nix, it was decided to obtain estimates from the Engineer of the coat of completing the roads in the Ward. Mr Cummeraeld proposed, and it was seconded by Mr Duncan, that the first loan money available be spent on the main road, and if any balance be left it be expended on giving settlers an outlet who haye not got one. — Carried. The meeting then closed. Mr Justice Denman, iv charging the grand jury at the Liyerpool Assizes lately, referring to two cases of wifemurder, Bald lie was sorry to say tbere seemed to be an idea prevalent amongst a certain class of people that the lives of wives were less sacred to husbands than the lives of other persons, and the number of cases of violent assaults upon wives, cruel treatment of wivi s, and brutal, assassinations of wives were far too frequent in a country calling itself a Christian country. That might be partly due to the feeble administration of the law. Possibly encouragement had been given to violent attacks upon wives by the leniency shown towards the persons who committed such acts, but he did not think it was a wholesome state of society in which anybody should be able to say that offences of this kind were frequent. Two journalists of Ver/no, S.S. Biasoli and Poggiam, have been courageously distinguishing themselves in the cause of chanty. They proposed to M. Valtran, the owner of the travelling menagerie, to enter a den of lions iv company with himself, provided he would devote the entire proceeds of the entertainment to benevolent purposes. He consented, and an immense crowd of spectators assembled to witness the incident, The two pressmen went into a cage containing five lions and calmly seated themselves, while M Valtran opened a bottle of champagna, and the three drank it to the health of the public. One of the lions rose to his feet, and looked as if he meditated a spring upon the intruders, and there were loud cries for them to retreat, but M. Valtran succeeded in dominating the brute, and the two journalists eventually quitted the cage safe and sound amidst the enthusiastic plaudits of an excited crowd. [Both of these men had been collectors and canrassers for their respective journals in the days of their youth.]