Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 53, 20 October 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

. — • The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on Saturday next. The Hon. Mr Seddon is going to make speeches at Otaki, and Palmerston North. The Manchester Rifles will parade this evening for Government inspection. We hear that Mr J. B. Pringle, of Colyton, has sold his farm to a Canterbury man. To-day we inspected a number of | Christmas cards painted by Mr Milson. They are very cleverly done, neatly mounted, and should find a ready sale. Mr Hodren has sent us some samples of his aerated waters and we can pronounce them to be excellent of their kind. 1 Mr Wollerroau's new advertisement anent the famous " Galley " whiskey will appear shortly. He desires us to state in the meantime that his stock has been recently added to. Mr J. R. Montague held an auction sale of the effects of the late H. J. Lee, yesterday afternoon. There was a good attendance of buyers present, and the various lots realized very satisfactory prices. Yesterday morning a shed attached to the premises of Mr Leary, chemist, of Palmerston North, took fire and damage was done to the extent of £700. The fire was promptly extinguished by the Brigade before it was able to extend to the adjacent buildings. Professor Mason will lecture in the Assembly Rooms, Feilding, on Monday and Tuesday the 24th and 25th instants. It was previously intimated that the Professor would occupy the Rooms " until further notice " but he desires us to state that he will be in Feilding for two nights only. Bishop Julius, in opening the Diocesan Synod at Christchurch, said, referring to the temperance question, that though he admired the earnestness of the Prohibitionists, he could not work with them, because he could not deny liberty of conscience and the right of any man, except a drunkard, to take alcohol in moderation. Though they would not accept what seemed to be an extreme and dangerous policy, likely to produce a reaction, they could and ought to promote that moral sentiment which must accomplish the same ends. On Saturday evening last Mr Joseph Saunders received a telephone message at Awahuri to the effect that the ship Weathersfield was afloat off the Ohau beach, but the sea was too heavy then to moye her. The ship was being dragged off the beach by means of a mushroom anchor placed some 2000 feet out, and in her light state it wonld no doubt not be deemed advisable by those in charge to take her out in the heavy surf which must have been caused by the recent gale. The intention is when the conditions are favorable to tow the ship to Eapiti, where she will be ballasted, and then towed to Wellington. The enterprising owners of the vessel thoroughly deserve the rich reward they are likely to obtain for their long and persistent efforts in placing the vessel once more in her native element. — Manawatu Times.

The Jubilee Singers are doing good business in Dunedin. Twenty-two pages of the British Museum catalogue are required to contain a list of Mr Gladstones writings. It is computed that no less a sum than £15,000,000 is annually spent on Sundaydrinking alone in the United Kingdom. Our readers are reminded of the eale of oil paintings and pictures at Mrs Hastie's sample rooms to-morrow afternoon at two o'clock. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Warnings for southerly gales and rain have been sent to all places. We would suggest to the numerous new arrivals in this district from other parts of the colony, that they should have their names placed on the local electoral rolls at once. Mr Joe Poole, the well-known totalisator proprietor and tnetallician, is in a bad state ot health, and has been taken to the Hot Springs at Auckland for a change. The Wairarapa Daily Times publishes a rumour that Mr Rolleston is not unwilling to retire from the leadership of the Opposition, and that Mr Bruce is favourably regarded as the coming man, Do dogs reason ? Possibly not, but we've observed a dog, on seeing a boy with an old kettle, examining his pockets as if for a piece of cord, take a deep interest in something about a mile away. We are informed by Mr Bray, the Engineer of the Manchester Boad Board, that Mr McKenzie, the contractor for the Longburn to Campbelltown bridge over the Oroua river, will commence work on Monday next. The annual general meeting of the Feilding Athletic Sports will be held in the sample rooms of the Feilding Hotel on Tuesday eyening next at 8 o'clock. Three members of the Ministry, three Legislative Councillors, and eleven members of the Assembly in South Australia are natives of the province, and expenhas proved that they are in no way inferior to the imported article. The crew of a Danish schooner, which was wrecked at Yarmouth, attempted to swim a distance of eigtit miles to the lightship, and although a mountainous sea was running, the captain and cook succeeded in reaching the vessel. On Friday last while fishing for whitem the Avon, below Dallington, Mr G. W. Hill caught a remarkably fine gold fish, weighing over three quarters of a pound. This is one of the first of these fish taken in the river. — Christchurch Telegraph. Edward Bok says that there are only four authors who earn £4,000 a year with their pens, and these lucky ones are Wilhan Dean Howells, Bobert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, and Mrs Burnett. Lew Wallace received £20,000 in eight years in royalties from 4 Ben Hur.' During excayations in an old barn at Newtownsands, Scotland, the body of a man in a remarkable state of preservation was discovered. The body was clothed in a minister's gown. The barn had at one time been used for religious purposes. A meeting of the directors of the Manawatu Farmers' Alliance will be held in Wellington to-day to discuss the oppointment of an auctioneer and other important matters affecting the welfare of the Alliance. — Manawatu Times. Mr Lawson, of Brayton, eldest son of Sir Wilfred Lawson, thu9 began a speech addressed to a Gladstonian gathering of 3000 persons at Maryport :— " Traitors, humbugs, hypocrites, and blackguards — beg pardon, I men ladies and gentlemen." Naturally the audience was astonished. Some grocers at Wblverhampton were sued for including the weight of the paper with articles sold. The magistrate held that, though sanctioned by custom and practice, it was a deliberate fraud on the purchasers, and convicted accordingly, but granted a case for the consideration of a superior court. In the Caulfield Cup on Saturday Mr Geo. Watson, the starter, fined every iockey, with the exception of Gainsford, £5 for crossing the line, and bis action occasioned considerable excitement Messrs Cook and Dowden interviewed the stewards, but their efforts to have the fines remitted were unsuccessful. A meeting of the parishioners of the Pohangma district is to be held at the schoolhouse for the purpose of arranging for the purchase of an American organ for the services. The committee already hare about £S in hand. The curate, the Eev Mr Dereaish, holds service once every fortnight in the afternoon. Last Sunday the first christening was held. Knew his business.— First Pickpocket : " Say, you getting religion P I hear you have been going to church pretty regular lately." Second Pickpocket : " I went there to work. And I haven't had a bite to eat for two days." First Pick" pocket : " You never did have any business sense. Come on, and I'll nil you up, I've been out to the races— where people take their money along." An aged man, Dearing a swag and named O'Grady, arrived in Greytown last Fnday afternoon. He purchased an axe from one of the storekeepers there and immediately commenced reducing a telegraph pole on the main street. On being asked the reason he stated that he wanted to get into gaol. A few minutes later his desire was gratified, for the local guardian of the peace promptly arrested him for maliciously destroying public property, and introduced him to the " Wooden Jug."— Wairarapa Times. In noticing the exhibition of Edison's Improved Loud-speaking Phonograph by Professor Archibald, M A., at the Opera House, Wellington, on Wednes* day last, the Post says:— "There was a large gathering at the Opera House last evening to welcome back Profess or Archibald and his phonograph after an extended pilgrimage through India and the East, and it was evident from the repeated applauses that Edisons' wonder had lost none of its interest, while the new records gaye the entertainment fresh zest. It is said in well-informed circles that the Government, in nominating Mr John Macgregor, who is a brother-in-law of Sir Robert Stout, and a brother of Dr Macgregor, laspector of Hospitals i and Lunatic Asylutnsjfco the Legislature Council, bad an important ulterior object in view. It is believed that Mr Mac* gregor is " the coming man " for the next appointment to the Supreme Court Bench, and that this is the first step towards familiarizing the public with his name. Should the above suggestion proye to be correct, it will be very evident why so much trouble was taken to upset the Edwards appointment. — Press. To those who are interested in the preservation of eggs it may be useful to know that the prizes at the Birmingham Exhibition went to eggs preserved simply in lime and water, or packed in salt. The first prizetaker thus dest cribes the process : -" Souk 41b of lime in two gallons of water in an earthenware jar ; stir occasionally for two days ; the eggs are put to within three inches if the surfuce." Greasing the egi^s was tound not to have improved them. Of the eggs preserved by the dry process those pack in common salt were the best, and noadditions to the salt seemed to lux ye improved the result, greasin. and oiling before putting them iv not being advan* tageous.

The body of a man named Peter White was found in the Wellington Botanical Gardens, yesterday, in a state of advanced decomposition. It is supposed to be a case of suicideThe men employed on the Denver- Rio Grande Railway (New York) have struck work, compelling the suspension of all traffic. The first Feilding stock sale of the firm of Messrs Gorton and Son, will be held at their yards in Manchester street, on Friday the 28th instant. The list of entries is published to-day and comprises some very saleable lots. The Victorian Legislative Assembly has debated a motion in favor of a progressive land tax. An amendment to the effect that a system of mis* mg revenue by means of direct taxa« tion of land values irrespective of improvement, would greatly promote the welfare of the colony was agreed to. We direct attention to an advertisement over leader in to day's issue from Messrs Ratliff Bros., (late of the Makino store), Messrs Ratliff Bros have taken offices adjoining the Corporation offices, and have started as land, commission, and estate agents. The members of the firm are well and favorably known in this district, and we wish them every success in their new venture.