Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 69, 29 November 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ Wednesday will be observed by the banks in Feilding as a whole holiday, and Thursday as a half holiday. Our readers are reminded of the Flower Show to be held in the Assembly Rooms on Friday next. The poet said, " Learn to labor and to wait"— for your money, sadly adds the newspaper man. The next meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held on Monday December sth 1892. Dysentery is becoming very prevalent in Wellington, and several cases of our old friend La Grippe are reported.— Times. Members of the Feilding Athletic Sports Committee are reminded of the meeting to be held this evening in the office of Mr Sherwill, the Secretary. The value of the estate left in New Zealand by the Hon. Mr A. G. Tollemache was £464,201 15s lid, on which L 35,640 duty is payable to the Government. A very appropriate selection of music was rendered by the Feilding Brass Band, in the Rotunda on Sunday afternoon. The public mustered in good force, and spoke very highly of the excellent music provided. The balance-sheet of the Longburn Freezing Company shows a loss for the year of i' 2265, caused by loss on stock purchased and frozen by the company at its own risk; A private telegram from Woodville sa y B : — << An immense crowd assembled in the Drill Hall last evening at Mr Tennyson Smith's opening meeting. Ninety six pledges were taken." We learn from the Otaki Times that La Grippe is very prevalent at Levin just now, and Mr Bartholomew's mill is at a stand-still on that account, only three men being able to work, the others all being unwell. We learn from the Pahiatua Star that a woman named Mary Ann Smith, a fortuneteller, was found dead in bed at Maaterton, on Wednesday last. It is reported Bhe had been married five times. What became of the husbands is not mentioned.

A meeting of the Manchester Cricket Club will be held at Mr Wollerman's Hotel on Friday next at 8 p.m. The Wesleyans in the Kiwitea district hold a social in the Eiwitea Hall tomorrow evening. We publish with to-day's issue an "inset " giving a list of the prizes in connection with the Druid's fifth annual monster art union at Christchurcn. Mr F. Butler, bookbinder, etc, of Pal* merston North, has forwarded us the first pictorial almanack of the season, being a well executed view of Kenilworth Castle. Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for northerly gales and rain after from 16 to 20 hours, haye been sent to all places southward of Napier and New Plymouth. Three men engaged in bush felling on Mr Pollock's property in the Harbor Board Block, whilst at work on Friday last, had their tent and belongings entirely destroyed by fire, nothing being saved except a watch. It is worthy of note that the acceptances for the first day races in Feilding number 76 for seven events. For the same number of events for the Palmerston Boxing day's races the nominations are only 78. The nominations for Feilding were 138, for the first day. A cyclone of considerable violence cut a track three chains wide along a portion of Poverty Bay flat at noon on Saturday, uprooting and breaking down trees, levelling several buildings, and doing considerable damage. Fragments of several sheds were carried over half a mile. No one was hurt. The funeral of Mr H. J. Booth's infant and only child was attended by a large number of friends and neighbours. Tjie interment took place at the Feilding cemetery on Sunday afternoon last at 4 o'clock. The Rey. A. Hermon officiated at the ceremony, and Mr Alfred Eade was the undertaker engaged. Mr J. Notman informed us last Saturday that the Pohangina township sections will be sold by auction in Feilding in about two months. Lithographic plans of the sections are now in course of preparation, and the sale will be duly advertised in the columns of the Stab. A young woman who must have been born under a lucky star, had the temerity on Saturday last to iutnp after her hat off the train when it was going at a good speed between Halcombe and Makino. She was fortunate enough to escape uninjured, but history fails to tell us how the hat fared. We desire to draw our Birmingham readers attention to an alteration in the running of Mr Managh's coach. In future owing to the half holiday in Feilding falling on Wednesdays, Mr Managh has decided to run on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays ; the other dates in the week will remain as heretofore. We remind our readers oi the grand entertainment to be given in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening (race-night) by the Feilding Amateurs. The company will be assisted by several first-class vocalists, and a crowded house may be safely predicted. On the following evening (Thursday) a concert will be held, to be followed by a dance, at which firstclass music will be provided. According to the Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette, stamp duty has been paid in the Wellington district within the last month on estates of deceased persons valued as follows: — William Coulter, £998 19s lOd ; Charles'Federick Barker, £969 19s lid ; John Jones, £'6642 Us lid ; George Coleman, £121 16s ; Rudolph William Basil Feilding (Earl of Eenbigh) £34,211 4s lOd. A Wellington paper says — " A sad accident occurred recently to the infant child of Mr and Mrs Spencer, who live in Wright street, off Hankey street, Wellington. The youngster, a mere infant, was on the ground playing with a small toy cup. Unfortunately the cup got into its month, and before its parents could give it any aid the poor child was suffocated. Dr. Alexander was at once called in, but he arrived too late to be of any assistance. Mr Thomas Evans, one of the canvassers for the Horticultural show, has been very successful and desires, through our columns, to thank those who so liberally contributed to the fund. Mr Evans informs us that although canvassing is seldom a pleasant task, yet he has met such kindness on the present occasion that should his services be at any future time required he will gladly place them at the disposal of the committee. The names of donors will be published in our next issue. The sensational drama, "A Royal Pardon," was played by the Dampier Company last Saturday evening. The play gave Mr Dampier a splendid opportunity of displaying his versatility as an actor, in the three characters of Job Tatterag (an inebriate), Fitzroy Grosvenor (a crushed tragedian), and Victor Mouchard (a Frenchman), and he treated his audience to a really highly finished and capital rendering of these parts. Mr Dampier was ably supported by the rest of his Company, and the piece was well received by a rather small, but highly appreciative audience. The following books have been added to the Feilding Public Library, 'An Old Fogey,' ' Beatrice," • Modern Ulysses,' 'Old Maid's Club,' 'When I was in Bohemia,' Diary of a Pilgrimage,' 'Nada the Lily,' ' What's Bred in the Bone,' 1 The Morayl of Ellinso,' • The Wrecker, 1 ' Seventy times Seven,' ' A Rough Shaking,' 'Kathleen,' 'Our Village,' • Pretty Polly Penaberton,' ' Natalie,' •Australian Life,' 'Dolly,' 'Nature's Serial,' 'There and Back,' « Little Mother Bunch,' • Stories and Interludes,' ' Palmyra: its Last Days,' 'In his earliest Youth,' • Donald Ross, 1 ' Uncle Piper of Pipers Hill,' ' Taas of the D'Arberyilles,' 1 Countess Kate,' ' Night and Morning.' On Saturday afternoon a man named Harry Dunn, a wel known wrestler, jumped off the mail train from the north, between Halcombe and Makino, and disappeared into the bush. Information was given to Mr Watts, the stationmaster, on the arrival of the train at Feilding, and the police went out in search of the man. When the train from Wanganui was coming down xa the evening, some clothes were seen on the metals, and it was feared an accident had happened, but it appears Dunn had stripped and placed them there, because when he was found at 4.30 on Sunday morning he was quite naked. He was brought down to Feilding and locked up. He was suffering from the effects of drink and was inclinded to be violent. Yesterday morning, Messrs Kirton and Sherwill J.P's visited the accused in the Feilding cells and, after hearing the evidence of the arresting constable, Dunn was remanded to Wanganui gaol for medical treatment.