Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 73, 8 December 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

— --■■ ♦ Mr Peter Bartholomew brought from Brisbane with him a young kangaroo. It is reported that Mount Tongariro has again become active, sending forth steam, mud and boulders in large quantities. During the recent heat wave in New York, no fewer than 98 sudden deaths occurred in one day. The thermometer rose to 107 in the shade. Notwithstanding the awful defeat he suffered at the last mayoral election at Dunedin, Mr Fish has declared his intention to contest the election again next year. Mr Fish is a member of the pachyderm family, and he has got it thick. Since the closing of a number ol hotels in Ballarat East, as a result of local option, several of them have conducted a temperance business ; but it has been suspected that sly grog-selling was being carried on, and accordingly an officer of the Excise Department was sent up from Melbourne at Inspector Boache's suggestion, and he visited several of the suspected places, Two offenders were caught.

The Manawatu Standard will be issued as a morning paper from Monday next. The Kiwitea Licensing Committee met at Cheltenham to-day at noon. The Manchester Road Board will meet here on Saturday next. The Wellington Evening Press business has been formed into a joint stock company. I The privileges of the Feilding Athletic Sports meeting on Boxing Day will be sold to-morrow at Mr Montague's great opening sale. We learn from the Standard that Lieutenant Montague has resigned his commission in the Palmerston North Rifles owing to pressure of business. We have to thank Mr E. Goodbehere, the Feilding Agent, for a calendar of the Commercial Union Assurance Company, Limited. Nominations for the Feilding Athletic Sports close with the secretary, Mr H. L. Sherwill, to-morrow (Friday) evening, at 8.30 p.m. Mr Carthew has just opened up a lot of very superior pictures, toys, Christmas cards &c, direct from the Old Country, They are well worthy of inspection. Archbishop Bedwood, we learn from the Standard, is at present a visitor to Palmerston North where he is the guest of , tb.3 Eev. Father Patterson. The Archbishop will shortly proceed to Italy. Mr G. M. Snelson has been elected chairman of the Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. For the future the meeting, of the Board will be held on the first Thursday of every month. Members of the Feilding Athletic Sports Committee are requested to meet at Mr Sherwill's office to-morrow evening at eight o'clock punctually. There is much important business to be done and therefore no member should fail to attend. While Mrs Eade was driving along the Taonui road, near Mr Adsett's, on Tuesday last, the horse shied, throwing Mrs Tarrant and two children out of the vehicle. Mrs Tarrant was severely shaken and one of the children had its face soratched. An uncommon sight in the centre of a town can now be viewed in the balcony over Mr Janning's store, where a large number of bees are swarming. Yesterday morning the woodwork was quite black and alive with the little creatures. The bees have had a hive there since the building was ergcted, several years ago. Mr Stead, of the Beview of Reviews, knows how to advertise himself, and he is now, Don Quixote like, running a tilt at the English Judge, jury, and everybody else connected with the trial of Mrs Maybrick who was found guilty, and sentenced to death (but was reprieved) for poisoning her husband. In view of a probable visit from the Halcombe cricket club on Saturday next the following players have been selected to represent the Feilding cricket club : — Messrs Levett, Clayton, Fowles, Butherfurd, Baillie, Hill, Strachan, Millen, Hedges, Carr, and Dr. Sorley. Flay to commence at 1 o'clock in Messrs Gorton and Son's paddock. In our next issue we will publish particulars of a highly important auction sale of 13,860 acres of land, consisting of lid farms, each varying from 20 to 1000 acres, being the four magnificent properties of the late Mr John Manson, of The Fines, Feilding. The sale will take place at Palmerston North on Wednesday and Thursday the 11th and 12th of January 1893. On Sunday evening next Mr E. Tennyson Smith, the 'Second Gough,' will commence his mission in the Assembly Booms, Feilding, The lecturer will conduct a service at 8.15 (after the usual evening services) delivering from memory one of John B. Gough's famous orations. A united choir and orchestra will lead the singing, and the Bey Mr Lyon will preside. One of the moit important sales of stock, farm implements and sundries, ever held on this coast will take place at Mr Henson's farm, Lee's line, on Friday, the 16th instant, Mr Henson having disposed of his farm in order to move on to land recently acquired at Waitapu, in the Onga survey district. The sale will commence at noon, and lunch will be provided for the convenience of visitors. " What to read and how to read '* is a subject upon which everyone is anxious to hear all that can be told by any well read man. Strong interest is being shown in the lecture on that subject in aid of the Library funds to be given by Mr Ellis in the Assembly Booms to-morrow night. The lecture promises to be not only interesting but decidedly amusing and entertaining. His Worship the Mayor, Mr W. G. Haybittle, will preside at the meeting. We have inspected Messrs Broad and Co.'s well selected stock of saddles, bridles, spurs, whips and other requisites. Amongst work turned out on the premises, we notice a set of gig harness mounted in solid nickel, also spring cart harness mounted in brass. The style and finish of these articles speak well as to the excellence of the firm's workmanship, and show that they ar« in every way worthy of support. Major Sommerville has received a letter from Lieutenant»Colonel Hume, stating that the Railway Commissioners have been requested to allow those who intend being present at the New Zealand Rifle Association Meeting to travel under the same conditions as were observed last year. The ammunition will be granted as it was last year, but it is hoped under a more satisfactory system. Tents also will be provided at the meeting. It does not seem to be generally understood as yet that what are known as "Dutch auctions" are now illegal in New Zealand, unless conducted by a licensed auctioneer, and that any other person disposing of any article by this or any other mode by which the highest, lowest, or any other bidder is the purchaser, is liable to be fined any sum from £10 to £100, Such is the law as fixed by the Auctioneers Act, 1891, Clause 2, and it is as well that the fact should be generally known. The Birmingham Daily Gazette announces that it is absolutely the first daily paper in the world that has been printed by electricity. The motors, two in number, are connected with the mains of the Birmingham Electric Supply Com pany in High Street, the current from which maintains a constant pressure of 110 roles, and are controlled with perfect ease by a few conveniently placed switches. The smoke and heat of the engine furnaces is done away with, and one great advantage is that the power is available by day and night. How women are degraded in *' Marvel lous Melbourne " is exemplified in the following paragraph from the letter of a correspondent of the Napier Telegraph : — '• A woman's tug-of-war in Melbourne has beenstrongly reprobated in the press. The women were girls of all sizes and sorts from the concert hall stage, and were driven round the city in drags during the day as an advertisement, dressed in the costume in which they were to 'tug,' and it need not be said that legs encased in tights formed portion of it. The thing was a debasing spectacle, the tugging, straining girls exposing their forms in a shocking way. The Speaker and other members of Parliament were present, and were entertained with champagne by the promoters." That the people are represented by their peers, in the Victorian Parliament, is beyond question.

At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows, held on Tuesday last, at which P.P.G.M. Smith presided, the customary routine business was transacted, and one mew member was initiated. Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Wind between N. and E. and S.E. at nil places. Barometer fall everywhere. Telegrams to expect strong easterly winds have been repeated to East Coast stations between Kaikoura and the East Cape. H.M.S. Orlando, the flagship of the Australian station, is to leave Sydney early this monthjfor Melbourne, Adda" id©, Hobarr, and New Zealand, bringing the new Rear- Admiral, Sir N. BowdenSoiith. She is expected to arrive in Auckland early in January. Mr J. B. Hamilton's extra special reduced price list will appear in our next \ issue, and judging from the extraordinary bargains in drapery and clothing ofiered specially for the Christmas trade, the announcement should certainly draw crowds of customers to that well known central drapery emporium. In our advertising columns to-day Mr John Maginnity, of Wellington, directs attention to his special brands of wines and spirits. The reputation which he bears as an importer of the choicest wines needs no comment from us. The residents of this district have now the opportunity of confirming his announcement by forwarding him an order. A new advertisement will appear in our next issue from the proprietors of the Red House, giving particulars of some of the new goods just opened up. We believe it is not the intention of |the firm to issue price lists (price lists are misleading), but they respectfully point out that, being cash buyers of all the goods kept in stock, low prices may be looked for, combined with excellence of quality. "Victor" in the Wanganui Herald says : — I fancy that the Champion Race at Feilding this year will prove the most exciting yet run. Even supposing that J only A. H. Holder, A. W. Watts, and ! A. N. Norton were to start, it would, I am certain, create more excitement than any since the inception of the race. Each one of these three men have numerous admirers, and the distance (200 yds) is considered by each party right into their man's hands. I will be quite prepared to. see fast time recorded that day, which ever man gets home, provideJ the course is in its usual condition. As the entries for this race are to close next Friday, I will not at present say who I consider will prove the champion, but I can assure everybody who takes any interest at all in sprinting that this event alone will be worth going down to see. Yesterday afternoon Mr W. Baker, of Feilding, had a very unpleasant experience while taking advantage of the Wednesday half-holiday and the beautiful weather. It appears he was driving a pony sulky, and all went well until he was turning off the Ashurst road, at Colyton, to go up the Taonui road, when he gave the horse a touch with the whip, which the animal resented by kicking up, one of its hind legs getting over a shaft. This alarmed the horse and it tried to kick itself free, but Mr Baker pluckily stuck to the reins, jumped out, and lifted the lady who was accompanying him out of the vehicle, and with the assistance of several persons who had hastened to the scene the animal was released from the harness. No injury was done beyond a few scratches to the horse. Not to be out-done, Mr Baker rode back to Feilding to procure a fresh horse to continue his journey.