Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 54, 25 October 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

" Harbour Board Ratepayer."— Your letter will appear in our next issue. Several enquiries have been made to us as to what has become of the recently formed Gun Club in Feilding. Volunteers are reminded of the Working Bee at the Rifle Range to-morrow afternoon. The Palmerston Standard understands that Mr Snelson still contemplates resigning his position as District Coroner. We remind our readers that the annual meeting of the Feilding Athletic Sports will be held this evening in the sample rooms of Mrs Hastie's Feilding Hotel. It is notified that Mr W. A. Sandilands, solicitor, will pay periodical visits to Birmingham where he may be consulted professionally. A meeting of persons interested in the formation of a Rifle Club in Feilding will be held at Wollerman's Manchester Hotel, on Friday evening next, at 8 o'clock. M. Zola is said to be collecting materials for a new novel, the subject of which is to be founded on the pilgrimages to Lourdes. The "materials " will not be deodorised betore use. The south-western train, which arrived at Junee, N.S.W., one evening, ran over a woman and child named Jones, a quarter of a-mile from Junee. Both were cut to pieces. The woman tried to save the child, who was on the line. The Canterbury Methodist Council has passed a resolution protesting against the Government grant to Mount Magdala Asylum, on the ground that State aid to religious bodies is wrong in principle. It was unfortunate that the Salvation Army and Feilding Bands clashed on Sunday afternoon last. In future, it would be advisable, for some amicable arrangement to be arrived at so as to prevent it happening again. When the talented author of "Erewhon" resided on his farm in Canterbury, in the early sixties, he was the driver of his own bullock team. He never " used language " it is true, but he said things in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, which would have been risky to translate. The Feilding Brass Band played a nice selection of music in the Rotunda on Sunday afternoon. A large number of the residents were present, and the music was much appreciated. We hope these Sunday afternoon performances will be repeated during the summer months. The Wellington Herald says :— " Having crowded out the white fruiterers and small storekeepers, the Chinaman are now taking to the boarding-house trade in earnest. The latest Chow who has started in this line named his hash foundry the Caledonian Boarding-house." The first practice game of the new Manchester Cricket Club, will be held on Wednesday afternoon next in Messrs Gorton and Son's paddock, and it is anticipated that a good number will roll up on the occasion. The club promises to be a great success, as a considerable number of members have already joined. Mr George Allerby writes to inform us that the Midland Road School entertainment will take place on Friday, November 4th, instead of Friday, the 28th instant, as previously announced. Mr Goldfinch has kindly placed his woolshed at the disposal of the promoters for the occasion. Te Kooti and one hundred followers are expected to arrive at Awahuri on the 27th of next month and great preparations are being made for his reception. The meeting which considered Te Kooti's proposition to visit Awahuri was, we understand, of a stormy character. In a letter to the Sydney Eeferee, Joe Goddard expresses the opinion that J. L. Sullivan is the biggest duffer ever seen, and that he was like an old woman in his fight with Corbett. He reckons he could have beaten J. L. in four rounds and thinks that he can beat Corbett easily. The subject of wandering and stray cattle on the roads will occupy the attention ot the Manchester and Kiwitea Eoad Boards, and the Feilding Borough Council, at the next meetings of these local bodies. Settlers and travellers between Feilding and Birmingham, are complaining bitterly of this nuisance. The Sydney Bulletin, in commenting on the character sketch of Sir Charles Dilke, published by Stead in the Review of Reviews for August last, puts the whole case in a nutshell when it says : — • Our private opinion of the Stead-Dilke row is that the world gets very tired of the same saint always stirring up the same guanoheap singing the same hymn while he doe 6 it.' The microphone, used as a death-test, recently prevented the premature burial of a women in St. Petersburg, who, when in a state of syncope, was pronounced dead from paralysis of the heart. All other tests having failed, the microphone was applied to the region of the heart and showed that it still beat, and the woman was after some time resuscitated. People are always finding out new excuses for getting drunk. The latest is by Miss Casack, the •' Nun of Kenmare," who, in a letter to the Scotsman dealing with the training of girls, emphasises the value of good, well-cooked food in preventing drunkenness, and declares the ordinary drunkard to be very often the product of the ignorant wife, who has been taught everything except what she most needs to know. Our contemporary the Advocate implies that because a person will not walk under a ladder he is superstitious. This is not the case. It is prudence. In large cities where, in the old days, building materials such as bricks and tiles, were carried by men up ladders the risk to persons who were foolish enough to walk underneath was very considerable, and many fatal accidents were recorded. Hence the advice to people " Never walk under a standing ladder." On Tuesday. 11th October, Dan Creedon and Jim Ryan boxed for the Middleweight Championship of Australia After a supcrh exhibition of scientific boxing for six rounds the New Zealunder (Crcedon) added still another to li is already long list of victories.— Charlie Mitchell, the English boxer, has just been sentenced to two monihs' hard labour for beatjng an old man. Ho has had a good few nnrrow escapes from gnol before this for cowardly violence, but has at last been brought to book. Owing to the stocks of timber in the Australian markets having worked down considerably, the £uuri Timber Com< pany have found it necessary to charter a number of vessels during the week At present vessels capable of carrying three million feet of sawn timber are under charter to the Company, in addition to other smaller shippers. The following vessels are all loading timber :— Killan Dorian, briK.-iutiqc. Jfaipar.^ to Sydney ; Pciidle Mill, bfli'^iu'jjtino, Whaugaroa to Sydney; Silver Cloud, barqueutine. East Coast to Syduey ; Ivauhoe and Eleanor, West Coast to Syduoy.

The passenger station buildings will be I erected at Te Aro. Wellington. in the course of about three months. The ship Weathersfield, so long ashore on the beach at Otaki, has been floated off. The Wellington Press says that the Government have at last discovered that the Hon. Mr Rigg- is disqualified from holding a seat in the Legislative Council. A lecture on prohibition will be delivered by the Rev. Mr Wood on Thursday evening next, in the Salvation Army Barracks. A meeting of the Fire Brigade will be held at the station to-morrow evening to elect a treasurer, and select team to complete at the Palmerston Sports. The committee of the Wellington Eight Hours Demonstration Sports have decided to run all races under the rules of the Feilding Athletic Club, as they were found to be most suitable. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for northerly gales and rain after ten hours have been sent to all places northward. The Minister for Defence has given Messrs Whitney and Co. of Auckland, an order to supply 50,000 rounds of ammunition per month for Volunteer purposes. It is stated that the contract is being taken at a price which will enable the Volunteers to obtain their ammunition at a reduced rate when the present stock is exhausted, Those who have not seen that wonderful triumph of man's genius, the Phonograph, should go to the Assembly Rooms to-morrow night. Professor Archibald, who is a talented lecturer, will demon strate the wonders of the invention, and the lecture will be illustrated by the aid of the new Etherogen Light. We refer our readers to the advertisement for full particulars of the treat placed at their disposal. The balance of the Palmerston Hospital Bazaar Goods, were offered for sale on Saturday afternoon and evening last. The attendance was only poor during the afternoon, but improved considerably in the evening, and about £12 were taken in the course of the day. There are now only some .£lO worth of goods left on hand. We congratulate the ladies of the Committee on the success which has attended their efforts on behalf of this much needed institution.