Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 57, 1 November 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Borough Council will meet on Thursday, and the Manchester Boad Board, on Saturday next. The New Plymouth highwayman is out again, and on Saturday night he operated successfully on three persons. Mr Carthew (a brother of Mr Carthew of Feilding) was one of the select, and was eased of his watch and a few small silver coins. The police think the affair is now beyond a joke. We learn from the Westport News that Mr Guinness, M.H.R., is going to agitate for the abolition of Education Boards, and the working of the whole system from a Central Department in Wellington. Mr Guinness may "agitate" as much as he likes, but it will take a cleyerer politician than Mr Guinness to upset the present system. ; Addressing a meeting of miners at ; Broken Hill, (Sydney) a recently appointed Justice of the Peace urged the i workers to get into power, seize the the Magistracy and put their own men on the Bench, so that they could get the verdict they wished. Then, when they got Gatling guns and troopers, they could, , if occasion required it, trample down , ruthlessly the class which opposed them. The usual monthly meeting of the Wellington Land Board which should have been held on Thursday last, was adjourned for some inscrutable reason until ! to-day (Tuesday). As the public were not notified of this, it caused a great deal of r inconvenience and loss of both time and money, several persons having travelled from Feilding with the sole purpose of attending the meeting, and also others from ■ other districts made a further journey on ' the same errand. It would have been an » easy matter to have avoided this. At a banquet giyen to the Hon. J. Rigg in Wellington on Saturday night, Mr T. H. Hogg is reported to have said ; , " They had a first class education system, ' of which Sir Robert Stout was the orginator. " Unluckily for the speaker the Hon. C. C. Roweu was the originator ofthe present educational system ofthe I colony. There some (people in New Zealand who believe Sir Robert Stout originated the solar system — but he did'nt,

The Athletic Sports Committee will meet this evening at Mr Sherwill's office. On the day of the Colyton sale some evil-disposed person cut the wires of a dividing fence in Mr Maxwell's farm. The Official Assignee, Mr G. J. Scott, gives notice that a second and final payment of 5s in the £ is payable in the estate of Messrs Westwood Bull and Co. A meeting of the Feilding Rifle Club will be held at Mr Wollerman's Manchester Hotel on Friday next at 8 o'clock in the evening. At the Danevirke Police Court on Thursday last, a woman named Marian Williams was fined £3 and costs for having procured liquor for a prohibited person, j On Saturday last the Colonial Secre- , tary issued a circular embodying the decision of the Government that no racing clubs shall deduct more than 10 per cent from totalisator investments. Mr Christopher Brown, who was | formerly in business in Feilding, and who went to New South Wales as the more thriving colony, has again returned to New Zealand. We (New Zealand Times) hear that Mr Rotherbam, locomotive superintendent on the Government railways, is about to leave New Zealand on twelve months' leave of absence. He will probably visit the Chicago Exhibition before his return_ The Hon. Mr Seddon, Minister for Public Works, telegraphing to Mr Earnshaw, M.H.R., at Dunedin, says the only certain solution of the unemployed difficulty seemed to be to take men to the North Island, where there is any amount of road work and bushfelling. Travellers on the Wellington -Manawatu Railway will doubtless be pleased to learn that Mr Walter Freeman, (the original lessee of tbe refreshment car) has again resumed possession of the car, and is now prepared to offer a welcome to his friends and the travelling public generally. America has a phenomenal walker named Klink, who is not yet 21 years of age. He holds a record of 6min. 16sec. for a mile, 2min. 29sec. for half a mile, Imin. lOsec. for a quarter, and 25f sec for one eighth of a mile — the last being faster than many fair runners could do. Needless to say Klink has never been beaten. The cost of the police force in tlie colony is £2 9s per head, as against LsOs f d in Victoria, and LBos|d in Queensland. There is one policeman in New Zealand to eyery 1401 of the population as against one to every 754 persons in Victaria, and one to every 504 in Queensland. The programme is published to-day of the tea, concert, and sports to celebrate the opening of the school at the Midland Road on Friday next. The occasion promises to be very interesting, and as the committees have spared no pains to make them successful, there cannot be the slightest doubt that a most enjoyable day and evening will be spent. " Lady Evelyn," a sporting contributor, was very successful in her " tips " in our last Saturday's issue for the first day of the Melbourne Races. The writQr placed the first and second horses in the Derby, the first and second horses in the Melbourne Stakes, and the second horse in the Maribyrnong Stakes. She secured five out of nine placed horses for the three events, the total number of horses competing being 45. Not a bad record. During the stay of the Premier at Palmerston (says the Standard), Mr Ballance was so pleased with the cabinet photos of the Premier taken by Messrs Attwood and Co., that she ordered a considerable number, as well as a bromide enlargement. Both Mr and Mrs Ballauce expressed a high opinion of tbe excellence of the work executed by Mr Attwood. [Mr Attwood has a branch establishment in Feilding.] The first cricket match of this season will be played to-morrow between the Feilding and Oroua County, and the Manchester Clubs. The Manchester team will be selected from the following members : — Burlace, Garratt, Valentine, Keen, Belfit, Matravers, A. and R. Parr, Joe and Jack Robinson, Feck, Stevens, Parker, Taylor, Downly, and Scott. The above are requested to put in an appearance on Messrs Gorton and Son's paddock at 2 p.m. sharp. One of the most commodious and comfortable family hotels in Wellington is the Oriental, opposite the Catholic Times Office, Willis street. The hotel has lately been entirely renovated and refurnished, and for comfort and general convenience is not to be surpassed by any hotel in the Empire City. Mrs Ormsbee, formerly of Wanganui, who is well known and highly respected on this coast, is the proprietress; and Mr Fred Brough, lately in charge of Mr Wollerman's Manchester Hotel in this town, is manager. The Napier News says, sadly : — What with the introduction of pipe-organs and the praising of God by machinery, the abolition of the grand old institution of " toddy," and the growing unpopularity of oatmeal — we tremble for the future of good old Presbyterianism. What would Knox say to his degenerate descendants of to-day if he could rise from his grave ? The same high standard of doctrine cannot be maintained on tea and confectionery as was maintained on meal and " whuskey." " Stands Scotland where it did?" asks the poet. Geographically it does, but this process of dilution in cold water is going to rob the people ot their grand, qualities and their religion of its stern distinctiveness and colour. The Glasgow Trades Council does not love Mr Carnegie, At a recent meeting a shoemaker's delegate moved " That this Couucil feel constrained to tender their thanks to Mr Andrew Carnegie, and whilst enrolling his name on the roll of fame along with the names of Judas Iscariot aud James Carey, believes that he has been the means of providing the world's workmen with the most powerful object lesson as to the relations of capital and labour which could possible be giveu, the recent affair at Pittsburg being more instructive than all the libraries he has ever founded.' The motion was carried almost unanimously, Our Beaconsfield correspondent writes : —"A very interesting and instructive entertainment was giveu here last Monday by the Wesleyan Minister from Marton. It consisted of a series of magic lantern views of Stanley's expedition into Africa to trace the River Congo to its mouth. A coffee supper was also given. I speak advisedly when I say interesting and instructive. The magic lantern pictures were instructive and the coffee supper was interesting, not that the views were not inteiesting also. Oh dear no! Not a bit of it. I wouldn't say such a thing for the world. On Tuesday the entertainment was repeated for the benefit of tho children of the district. Both evenings there was a very fair attendance. A curious case ot a white man turning black is just now exciting great interest in medical circles in New York. The patient is a native Irishman, who has for some time been an inmate of one of the city hospitals suffering froni some mys« terious disease. At fir^t his skin only showed dark patches here and there, but gradually they extended and joined, and now he is black nearly from head to foot. Speculation is rife as to whether in a preceding generation there was a marriage with one of neero blood, or whether this condition of nigrescence arises from the absorption into the system of some microbe peculiar to the negro race. There haye previously been other cases of tho kind, but up to the present time they remaiu unexplained.

The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday the 7th instant. Mr O'Hara Smith has been gazetted Auditor of Land Revenue, and Mr W. Matravers a Land Purchase Officer. The Wellington people have been laughing at a witness in Court saying he saw a dead clog masticating a dead lamb . This is nothing. We haye known a " dead horse " eat a live man. The Ashburton shopkeepers have decided to give the half holiday two months' trial trom Saturday. At Christ" church 400 tradesmen have signed a document in favour of Saturday. At Wanganui the latter day is also favoured. To-day Constable Bleasel, who has been stationed at Awahuri for some time, left by train for Waitara to take up his duties there. During his residence at Awahuri Mr Bleasel gained the good will and esteem of the residents there as a courteous and efficient officer. Miss Forbes arrived in Feilding to-day, and may be consulted at Mrs Somerville's, opposite the Assembly Rooms. Miss Forbes gives lessons in the Excelsior System of dresscutting and fitting by which pupils without any previous knowledge of dressmaking, may be perfected in six lessons, For other particulars see advertisement. Mr R. R. Collins, the well known saddler, has just opened up 14 cases of general goods ex s.s. lonic from London. Amongst the items he has a splendid assortment of bridles in snaftles, Pelhams, Weymouths, with solid nickel bits, also Crown all metal bits whicb are now so favorably spoken of in England and the Continent as being equal in brilliancy to the best silver plating, and as bard and as durable as the finest steel. Mr Collins invites inspection. A new advertisement will appear in our next issue, As it is the busy season (writes a corre spondent of the Canterbury Times). I will here give a splendid recipe for sore shoulders in horses. It was told rae by a friend who cured a most obstinate case with it in a very short time, and I have since tried it on several horses with the most satisfactory results. When you take the collar off rub some kerosene well into the sore, and when putting it on again, soften the part of the collar which comes over tlie sore by hammering it until soft. You will be surprised at the good results obtained. To day's Chronicle says : — Mr W. F. Downes, manager of the local branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has received information by wire that at the half yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the Bank, held at the chief banking house, Sydney, yesterday, 31st October, the usual dividend of 15 per cent and bonus of 2J per cent was declared. A sum of £10,000 was also added to the reserve fund, making the total of that fund £1,000,000. Tbe half yearly balance sheet, which furnishes all details, will appear in our advertising columus in due course.