Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 70, 1 December 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

« The Colonists Land and Loan Corporhave sundry town and country sections for sale. Mr Svendsen, boot and shoe importer, has a replace advertisement m to-day's issue. The B.M. Court was opened this morning, and then adjourned to the 15th instant. Some dried peas have recently been taken from the hands of an Egyptian mummy, a princess. They are 3042 years old. A Clergyman who sold his surplus butter has been fined at Gloucester, in a nominal sum, for using unstamped scales without fraudulent intent. A breach of promise case will occupy the attention of Mr Justice Williams in ihe Dunedin Supreme Court this week, the plaintiff being a domestic servant and the defendant a tram way serviceman. Damages are stated at £350. We understand that Mr S. M. Baker intends entering an action against tno Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association for the recovery of the first prize in thoroughbred horses. It will be remembered that Mr Biker entered a protest against Forester bezng awarded first prize, which the Stewards dismissed. Manawatu Times, The chairman of the Auckland Board of Education says he would " rather be an agricultural labour than an inspcctoJ under the Board." He was sick ot afctacks on the inspector. As soon as there was an unfavourable report from any school, the teacher either wanted a fresh examination or aa inquiry into the conduct of the inspector who conducted the examination.

The flax industry has reviyed iv Taranaki, The Borough Council will meet this evening. A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Feilding yesterday morning, about 7 o'clock. Mr Bobert Edwards was elected Mayor of Palmerston with 246 votes, his oppon« ent, Mr James Linton, polling 171. Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day— Warnings for westerly gales after from 12 to 20 hours have been sent to all places. | Governess : " The sentence is : ' The sick boy loves his medicine ! ' Now what part of speech is the word ' love ? ' Billy ; •' It's a bloomin' lie, ma'am ! " Mr Bruce, M.H.R.. will address the electors in Feilding and the other centres in about a fortnight. The actual dates of the several meetings have yet to be arranged, The President of the London School Board recently stated that eight out of eyery 11 girls in the London schools are members of the Band of Hope, and a greater proportion of boys. A Government licensing bill in the Cape Colony proposes to make 6 p.m. the hour for closing drink shops on week days, and in all centres of labour the hour of noon on Saturdays. An image of the Virgin in the church built on the spot where the late Czar was assassinated, is said to work miracles, and people are worshipping it. The story, it appears, was concocted to move people to subscribe to the building fund. The doctors state that the Premier is not suffering from either heart disease or cancer, as has been rumored, but his illness is solely attributable to indigestion, and if his mind is kept free from worry he will rapidly recover. No positive information has been obtained by the detectives as to the person who attempted to assassinate Mr Eirkbride in Wellington, but they- have suspicions which may lead to some startling developments. Figures published of the loans obtained by various Melbourne institutions show that during the past five years on less than £75,000,000 of British money were borrowed and spent in that city of some half million people, The United Kingdom Labour Electoral Congress, assembled at the Westminster Town Hall on the 20th May, adopted the direct veto, i.e., complete local option, as a plank in the labour platform, with only one dissenting vote. Habitual drunkards in Norway and Sweden are cured by a most ingenious system of treatment. Fed on nothing but bread steeped in wine, they soon become so disgusted at the taste of alcohol that the work of reformation is speedily ac^ complished. Mr Snazelle was very rough on the Pahiatua people because they did not sufficiently patronise his show. The tables are now turned and an information has been laid against Mr Snazelie for a breach of the Police Offences Act, in charging for admission to a concert on a recent Sunday evening. On Saturday last an influential ratepayer called on us and complained that although he had large interests in the Pohangina Road District, yet, as the advertisement giving notice of the date of polling for the loan for the ward Mr Dicken represents, had not been published in the Star, he had been prevented from exercising his right as a voter. No doubt others were in the same predicament. Mr H. Wollerman has informed the Standard that he feels compelled to resign bis seat in the Palmerston Borough Council for No- 2 Ward, owing to the multiplicity of his business engagements. Since his residence in Feilding, Mr Wollerman has attended the meetings of the Council at his own expense, and his eemal countenance will be missed at the horseshoe table. The Chicago Exhibition buildings will be opened on May 1, by the Marquis de Vpraqua, a descendant of Columbus. The Marquis is too old to go to Chicago, but he will set in motion the steam machinery in Jackson's Park, Chicago, by pressing an electric button at Madrid placed in direct communication with the World's Fair by submarine cable. As a London correspondent remarks, what a change from the days of Christopher Columbus Mr Montague will hold his opening sale in his new mart on Friday the 9th instant when he will sell the privileges of the Feilding Sports, periodicals for the Feilding Club, and a quantity of sundries as detailed in the advertisement. Mr Montague also inserts a business notice in which he informs the public that he is prepared to undertake all kinds of auctioneer's and commission agent's work, make adyances on goods entered for sale, supply furniture on time payments, lend money. Auction sales will be conducted in the Feilding mart every Friday afternoon, .and Mr Montague intends by having new lines of all sorts of goods at command to place before the public, to make his establishment the most popular commercial institution in the North Island. Mr Montague claims to be a business man, and he means to do his utmost to assist in the progress and development of Feilding and the surrounding districts, and hopes by tact, energy, and honesty, of purpose to receive a liberal share of public support. The following is a list of the names oi the persons who have subscribed towards the Feilding Horticultural Show : — Messrs W. G. Haybittle, Ll Is; F. Y. Lethbridge, Ll 10s ; Brisco, Ll ; T. Evans, ss ; A. Eade, value of 14s 6d ; Cobbe and Darragh, value of 10s; P. Thomson, value of 10s ; W. Carthew, value of Ll ; C. Bray (junr.), ss; M. Belfifc, value of 7s 6d ; J. B. Hamilton, value of 5s ; T. A. Garratfc, value of 8s ; Burlace, value of 10s 6d ; J. Fraser, 10s 6d ; W. Pearson, value of 10s 6d ; J. Bishop, 5s ; A. L Parr, ss ; E. Martin, 53 ; Allan and Co., yalue of 10s ; Chamberlain Bros , value of 11s ; EatlifiE Bros., 10s ; H. F. Jannings, ss ; E. R, Collins, yalue of 7s 6d ; S. Sveadsen, value of ss ; J. H- Worsfold, 5s ; S. Daw, 5s ; J. Saxon, 5s ; J. Taylor, 5s ; J. C. Thompson, yalue of 8s 3d ; Leng Kee, value of 3s ; Lever, 3s '■ H. Hickford, 2s 6d ; C. H- Hosking, 3s ; W. G. Shearer, value of 5s ; J. S. Milson, value of 2s 6d ; J. Dunlop, value of 5s ; W. Belve, yalue 12s 6d ; G. W. Fowles, yalue of ss ; C. Green, value of 2s 6d ; W. A. Sandilands, 10s j J. C. Morey and Co., value of 10s ; and Mes» dames Hastie, 10s ; and Higgin, 5s 6d,