Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 60, 8 November 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Nominations for the Feilding races close to-night. A batch of Parliamentary papers came to hand yesterday. Work will begin at the Wanganui Freezing works on the 14th instant. Several Feilding families are now at Paikakariki, enjoying the sea bathing. We were glad to see that Mr J. C. Morey was well enough to go out for a drive yesterday. The Feiltling portion of the San Francisco mail reached here by the mail train from Wellington yesterday. Entries for the Palmerston North Caledonian Sports (handicap events) close tonight at Palmerston. Rear-Admiral Bowden-Smith is not expected to visit this colony until the next session of Parliament. After their stock sale on Friday next Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. will sell the privileges of the Feilding races. Mr J. R. Montague has declined to allow himself to be nominated for the Mayoralty of Palmerston North. Weather permitting, there will be a large attendance of Feilding people tomorrow at the Palmerston A. & P. Show. It is reported that Sir Charles Dilke has purchased an estate in New South Wales. There will be no "^Hoine Stead" on it. Messrs Reid and Gray, the most reliable makers in the colony of agricultural ! machinery, have a new advertisement in to-day. Mrs Bramwell Booth made a bull's eye when she said much of the success of the Salvation Army is due to women's work and influence. They do things expensively over m Hawke's Bay. We learn from the Napier News that the concrete kerbing for Hastings cost £1 per chain. It is notified by advertisement that the Spring Show of the Manchester Horticultural Society has been postponed until Friday, December 2nd. Mr Mansell, the proprietor of the Makino store, announces by advertisement on our first page that he is selling new season's Roods in all departments at low prices. Messrs Say well Bros, have just completed two nice specimens of the coachbuilders' art. The first, a sulky made to the order of a local customer, is well turned out. The second vehicle, for competition at the A. and P. Show, Palmerston, IS a commercial gig, t)ie body beiiif^ painted black and green, picked out iii gold lines, trimmed with green inornoeo feather. These are both very creditable productions, and speak well for the perfection attained by our local eoachbuilders.

Mr D. R. Lewers is at present on a visit to Feilding. We have to acknowledge receipt of the Union S.S. Company's pocket guide for November. The goods and chattels of Miss Ellen Stewart will be sold under a distress warrant on Saturday next, at noon. The Wanganui Jockey Club has past the programmes of the Sanson and Marton racing clubs. At the Hawera Show, Mr John Bett, of Palmerston North, got a first prize for a slide seat buggy, and second for an English dog cart and a phaeton. The meeting of the Athletic Sports Committee appointed to be held this evening, has been postponed until Thursday evening at Mr Sherwill's office.. At the boxing match in Palmerston North, on Saturday last, Harry Laing failed to "knock out " his opponent Sam Hill. Lieutenant Leary, who was the leader of the expedition recently rescued m Greenland, declares that it is possible to construct a railway anywhere on the ice in Greenland. Victoria is promised an unusually rich harvest this summer, and it is stated that if the rust and hot winds do no unusual damage it will be one of the best harvests ever reaped in the colony. An Auckland chemist, named William Powell, was arrested on Friday, on a charge of having attempted to procure miscarriage in the case of a woman named F. J. Clark, who is at Napier. It is said in the South that owing to the Shop Assistants Act the drapers in Christchurch will be able to do without twenty per cent of the hands they employed before the passing of the Act. A local paper says there has not been a "drunk" before the R.M. Court in Masterton for six days. The question is whether the liquor is getting good or the police lazy. A three-year-old son of J. McKay, insurance agent, Milton, died on Friday night from injuries rrceived by his clothes catching fire during the temporary absence of his mother. A speculator, named George Sorrin, has bound himself to pay 140,000 dollars for the privilege of selling peanuts on ihe grounds at the Chicago World's Fair during its continuance. Owing to the labour troubles in New South Wales having reduced the revenue, the Railway Commissioners have placed all hands in the workshops on short time in order to obviate dismissals. The death is announced in Christchurch of the wife of Mr John Ollivier. The deceased lady was one of the early Canterbury Pilgrims, and was deservedly heid in high esteen. She was 80 years of age. The Americans have at last fcaken the alarm, and now there is a strong probability that the Frisco mail service is doomed the San Francisco papers want their Government to bear a share of the cost. They should have acted sooner. The Marton Mercury credits the Manawatu Standard with our paragraph anent Messrs Bosher Bros, new sawmill at Makino. The mistake arose, no doubt, from the Standard haying " annexed " that item without the usual acknowledgement. This season 136,450 young trout have been liberated in the Hutt River and its tributaries, and about 100,000 in the West Coast rivers. The Acclimatisation Society is arranging to distribute another 100,000 amongst the rivers on the West toast at an early date. On next Saturday evening a meeting of members, and intending members, of the Colyton Cricket Club will be held at the Colyton Hotel. As the business is to elect officers, and arrange for practices and matches, a full attendance is urgently requested. Captain John Cameron, oE Marangai, Wanganui, died on Sunday last. He arrived in this colony in 1840 and (says the Chronicle) he spent fifty years in Wanganui. He did good service in the the wars as captain of the Wanganui Cavalry, and was president of the W"anganui Jockey Club. The funeral took place yesterday. We have received a copy of the report and balance-sheet of the China Traders' Insurance ompany, adopted at the 26'h annual meeting, held on September 16th, and a very satisfactory document it is. A dividend of 18 per cent, was passed for payment to the shareholders, and a bonus of 15 per cent, on contributions, payable to all contributors of business, whether shareholders or not. We notice that this " completes the 15th consecutive year in which the bonus returned to contributors has not been less than 15 per cent." Messrs Barraud and Abraham are the Feilding agents. The Anglican Church Congress opened at Folkestone on October 16th, After an address of welcome a procession was formed, headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, which marched through crowded streets to the church. A number of Low Churchmen took up a position near the passing procession with a banner inscribed, "We represent Ridley and Latimer, the state exhorting churchmen to withstand idolatory, priestcraft, ritualism, and Popish processions." They tried to follow the procession, but the spectators set upon them and tore the banner to ribbons. Mr Parr has entered for competition at the Palmerston A. and P. Show a doubleseated buggy fitted with Belk and Parr's patent turning gear, by means of which the conveyance can be turned in its own length, and it is impossible to capsize the same. Mr Parr is also showing a handsome rustic cart, the body is of hickory and kauri wood, mounted on three springs, with lancewood shafts on whip springs. The body is finished in wood color, with ornamental panels ; the trimming is of a light corduroy material. The workmanship and style of both vehicles are excellent, and reflect great credit on Mr Parr's skill. Two lady evangelists from America, Mrs. E. Wheeler Andrew, M.A., and Dr Kate Bushnell, will arrive from the North by train on Monday night, and will address meetings in Wesley Church, Taranaki-street, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Mrs Andrew was formerly editress of The Union Signal, and Miss Bushnell is a thoroughly welleducated physician, of several years' practice, having been a pupil of the late Dr J. S. Jewell, the celebrated specialist in nervous diseases. The ladies are yisiting the colony in the interests of temperance and social purity, under the auspices of the The World's Women's Christian Temperance Union.— Post A correspondent writ9S to the Welling ton Post as follows :— " It is high time that the Opera House directors procured a proper act- drop, to obviate the necessity of destroying eyerj tableau by lowering a hideous inharmonious advertising screen upon scenes which are carefully thought out, and which are genuinely artistic effects of grouping and colour. Just as the minds of the audience are filled with the stage picture, and while they contem plate the sensuous beauty of a beautiful stage effect, their sensibilities aro jarred, and a shudder goes through the house as an incongruous invitation to buy coal and tooth brushes, basjnettes and photographs, firewood and babj-hnen, jg thrust on their viqws, and shuta the vision out. Several companies have attempted to make a stand against this sacrihgious destruction of their work, but havo beon coorcod into dropping tho curtain by threats of legal proceedings,"

The Banks will be closed to-morrow. Mr J. H. Cock, of the firm of Turnbull & Co., died at Nelson, yesterday. Sir Robert Stout has gone to Samoa, as leading counsel for McArthur and Company. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for gales and vain after from ten to twenty hours have been sent to all places. Bishop Luck, of Auckland, returned to the colony by the Alameda on Saturday last. At a public reception, his Lordship announced that he bad collected the net sum of £3000 for the diocese during his visit to Europe. We learn from the Standard that the police are putting a stop to Sunday trading in Palmerston North, and informa* tions will probably be laid against three Celestial storekeepers for selling and exposing goods on a prohibited day . At Wanganui a second water bearing strata was struck yesterday afternoon at 215 feet, after passing through 75 feet of blue clay. There was a good flow at the surface, which was rapidly increasing when work was struck for the day. The Engineer, Mr C. Bray, was engaged yesterday in pegging out the site for the new bridge over the Oroua river at Aorang;i. A considerable quantity of the timber is already on the ground, so the work will be started almost immediately. Mr Alexander Britten; a well-known journalist, died at Sydney on the 26th ult. fie served for some years on the staff of the Melbourne Argus and Sydney Morning Herald, and at the time of his death was engaged in writing an official history of New South Wales. Sheep farmers on all parts of the coast are complaining of the injury done to their flocks by dogs. It is not stated that the latter are stray or wild dogs, but the property of individuals who ought to exercise more care and keep their canine pets on the chain. We have not heard that the Jockey Club officials have made any application to the Department to have a telegraph office opened on the racecourse on the occasion of the Spring meeting, although ifc is understood that very few difficulties are likely to be raised by the Department. We are pleased to observe that a son of Mr Bennetts, travelling representative in this district for the Government Life Insurance Department, has obtained a scholarship at the Greytown School, of £'60 per annum, tenable for two years, and congratulate Mr Bennetts on his son's success. A Press wire from New Plymouth skates that news was brought into town of the drowning of two boys named Sampson and Phelan in the VVaiongona river, near Sentry hill. The boys were bathing when one got the cramp and the other tried to save him. Both were drowned^ and the bodies were recovered. A man in London has written to the Government to forward him full particulars of the habits and customs of the Maories, together with portraits of the chief's daughers. Should every thing be satisfactory he is willing to marry one of the girls. This will, no doubt, inspire our paternal Government to start a matrimonial agency. There is evidently money in it. The clerk of the Manchester Road Board, Mr C. Bray, gives notice that a special order will be proposed at a meeting of the Board to be held on December 10th, anent borrowing £2500 for the erection of a bridge oyer the Oroua river at Aorangi. He also intimates that a special order will be proposed at the same meeting to the effect that the Board iuteuds to make bye-laws regulating the traffic over the roads and bridges under the control of the said Board. We need hardly remind our readers of the annual tea, social, and coffee supper to be held in the Assembly Rooms tomorrow, under the auspices of the Wesleyan Sewing Bee. Great pains have been taken to make the affair as entertaining as possible to the patrons. The tea will be on an elaborate scale, and in the social, some attractive items in the shape of instrumental and vocal music, etc., will be introduced. We have no doubt that this annual gathering, will be a yery successful affair.