Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 74, 10 December 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

-*_ We have lo acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers. The Mercury reports that influenza has invaded Mar ton. The first stock sale of the Farmers' Alliance will take place at Palmerston North on Thursday the 15th instant. Everyone will be glad to hear that the Premier is making rapid progress towards the recovery of his health. Mr Bruce M.H.R., will address the electors at Ashurst on Monday, the 19th instant, and at Feilding on Tuesday, the 20th instant. Mr Arthur Parr has sent us a very handsome pictorial almanack, entitled " The meeting of Wellingtou and Blucher after the battle of Waterloo." A domestic servant in Melbourne lately recovered L5O damages from her former employer, because, in discharging her, he took occasion to tell her that she was a thief and a liar. On Sunday night after the church ser« vices have been concluded, Mr E. Tennyson Smith will conduct a service in the Assembly Booms, A united choir will lead the singing, and the Eev Mr Lyon will preside. Yesterday morning a couple of lads named Beck were passing Mr Hick's place, near the Aorangi bridge, where they saw a family of stoats. The old ones escaped but two of the younger members were slaia, one of which was brought to this office. The sale of the privileges of the Feildiug Athletic Sports took place yesterday at Mr Montague's Auction Mart and realised the following prices : — Lawn booth, Mr Lever, £14; outside booth, Mr J. Smith, £10 108; lawful games, Mr Hayes, 10s; cards. Kirton and Curtis, £5 ss ; Paddock, J, Smith, £10. Total, £40 os. Last year they only realised £27 2s 6d. We have to chronicle two rather serious accidents this week. The first happened to a man named Preedy whilst bushfelling at Birmingham, who cut his leg very severely above the knee cap. In the other case, a man named Hooper whilst shearing at Cheltenham, cut a small artery on the back of his hand, and lost a quantity of blood before arriving in Feilding to have the artery tied. Both patients are doing well under Dr.Sorley'B care, but <it will be some time before Preedy will be able to get about. The lecture given by Mr Ellis last night m the Assembly rooms, was not well attended owing to the inclemency of the weather and to there being three other meetings, viz., the Sports, School, and Jockey Club committees. The Mayor Mr W. G, Haybittle, presided. The lecture was i a terestmg and much appreciated by the audience. At its conclusion a vote of thanks moved by Mr Kirton, seconded by Dr Monckton, was carried by acclamation. The usual compliment to the chairman closed the proceedings. Professor Lichtwark gaye an exhibition of his horee breaking and taming powers on Wednesday last at Dr Monckton b. There was a fair number of members of the class present, and the Professor soon had the horse he was operating on, a two year old gelding belonging to Mr Pnngle, under perfect control. After this lesson, the Professor as a slight mark of his appreciation to the Doctor for his kindness, in allowing the use of his paddock, gave j an additional lecture on his methods of breaking m a horse for harness purposes. This was moat interesting and instructive.

We beg to acknowledge receipt of a handsome pictorial almanac from Mr W. Bellve, saddler. Letters received at Whangarei, Au<jklaud, state that the New Zealand Proapecling Syndicate, whose object is to obtain the investigation of the mineral resources of Puhipuhi, has been registered in London. Mr Montague's opening sale in his Feilding Mart yesterday, afternoon was a ■ great success. There was a large attendance of buyers present, and fairly good : prices - were realized for the various lots. At the meeting of the Kiwitea Licensing Committee held on Thursday at Cheltenham, a license was granted to Mr Galway for the Pemberton Hotel. We understand that a transfer will be made to Mr Dixou who has purchased the Hotel from Mr Galway, through the agency of Messrs Dwan Bros. At the Primitive Methodist Church to»morrow morning the preacher will be MrJ. Gould, and in the evening the Rev T. H. Lyon will deliver a sermon on " The Golden Rule." The evening service is to commence at 6.45 to allow of the congregation attending Mr Tennyson Smith's lecture at the Assembly Rooms. At the Gisborne Resident Magistrate's Court two proprietors of dressmaking establishments were fined Is with 8s costs, for breach of the Factories Act in no£ giving their girls a half holiday on Saturday. They pleaded that they had given their assistants a whole holiday on Wednesday, and the girls were willing to work on Saturday. The Launceston Telegraph says :— " It j is a deplorable fact that the Tasmanian Parliament has terribly degenerated. There has been a steady deterioration during the last decade, until at the present time our politics are a little better than a farce, and our Parliament has sunk to the level of a fairly well conducted country municipal council." The marriage is announced to-day of Mr Jamieson, of Cairns, Queensland, to Miss Annie the second daughter of Mr John Bartholomew, of Feilding, which took place on the 30th November, the Eev. H. M. Murray being the officiating minister. We have pleasure in wishing the newly married couple eyery happiness and long life to enjoy it. A contemporary tells the following good yarn : — A worshipper of Tennyson followed the poet, who was accompanied by a lady and two children, for two hours about the South Kensington Museum, hoping that he (Tennyson) would speak, At. last the poet made signs as if he was about to do so, and uttered the memorable words : •' Yon take care of the children while Igo and get some beer." This is very pretty. This morning when Mr B. Beattie was driving a trap belonging to Mr Revmgton Jones, of Taonui, one of the shackles of the spring broke, and . this frightened the mare, which bolted, and ran the trap into the lamp posb near fche private residence of the Postmaster, Mr Stevens. Bejondjbreaking a lamp, and one of the steps of the vehicle, no harm was done. Neither the mare nor Mr Beattie was in - jured. To-day we publish the advertisement anent the great land sale to take place in Palmerston North on 11th and 12th of January, consisting of 13,860 acres, divided into farms of from 20 to 1000 acres. The property which was picked by the late Mr John Manson, of The Pinee, Feildmg. consists of some of the best land in a district remarkable for its universal excellence whether for grazing or agricultural purposes. The terms are very liberal. In our advertising columns it is an nounced that an important sale of Crown Lands will take place at the District Land and Survey office, Wellington, on the 29th mat, and by auction on the 12th of January 1893. We hope to have plans giying full particulars in the course of a few days, but — as will be seen by the advertisement — they may also be obtained at the principal post offices. When they come to hand we will announce the fact. Master Hugo Wollerman, the eldest son of Mr "Wollerman, of Feilding, has come home for the Christmas holidays. Master Wollerman has been attending St. Patricks college, Wellington, and gained the following honors at the last examination : — First prizes for algebra, German, botany, book-keeping; next in merit, for Euclid, music, diligence, literature, commercial correspondence, freehand drawing ; history, geography, and arithmetic. This is a good record alike honorable to the scholar and creditable to the college. Mr Bradford, who has now become the proprietor of the Feilding hvery and bait stables (late Gay's) has a notice in to-day to which we refer our readers in town and country. Mr Bradford comes to Feilding with a splendid reputation as a good man in his business, and already shows that he is determined to keep it, because he notifies that he intends to fit up a waiting room for ladies, with every convenience, in the course of a few days. We are sure that his enterprise will meet all the substantial encouragement and public support it deserves. The advantages of the First Offenders Probation Act were well exemplified in the case of Henry C. Cochrane, who was admitted to 12 months probation at last Friday's sitting of the Wellington Supremo Court. Our readers may recollect that the case against this young man cropped up ia the Feilding R.M. Court some two months ago. Mr Garvey, the probation officer, gave Cochane a good character, and the latter was reinstated in his employment by the Colonial Mutual Life Insurance Company, who have made him town canvasser for tho city of Wellington. An English paper says : — " The Dach* ess of Teck and Princess May are both of them very greatly interested in General Booth and his army, and his philanthropic scheme. Well, we may j or may not like the way General Booth's j friends understand doing Our Lord's will, but that they endeavour, and with no small measure of success, to do it is beyond all question, and there are so called " officers" in this strange organisa* tion now working in the slums of London and other big towns in England, who accomplish in one week more real, solid, practical good in reclaiming drunkards, fallen women, saving children, and so on, than all the men to be found in Crock* ford's Clergy List put together do in a period of twelve months." A reception meeting to Mr and Mrs E. Tennyson Smith was held in fcbe Primitive Methodist Church on Thursday evening when addresses of welcome were delivered by the Revs. H. M. Murray, T. H Lyon, and other friends who referred in eulogistic terms to the work accomplished by the lecturer in the Old Country, and to his equal success in the colony, where he had become a prominent figure in the temperance movement, and said his visit to Feilding had been looked for with great expectancy. Mr E. Tennyson Smith then responded in an earnest and telling address, which alternately moved his hearers to laughter or tears as he vidily portrayed the various phases of the drink question, and would doubtless have the effect of stirring up the workers to enthusiaßiu in the work of the mission. He said in England he had been fighting for posterity, but in New Zealand he realized that in a few years prohibition might be gained and he intended to remain to see and aid ia the victory.

_ The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to press. Applications are invited for the position of ranger to the Kiwitea Road Board. See advertisemeut. A young man named Mr Kinley was drowned when bathing in the Tiraumea river at Kaitawa, on Thursday evening. Messrs Ratliff Bros, commission agents, | have been appointed agents for the i National Fire and Marine Insurance ' Company ; also agents for Mr T. H. I James, architect, Palmerston North. A lieutenant of Te Kooti was in Feilding this morning. When questioned as to the date of the proposed visit of his chief he was very reticent. He said when it was necessary for people to know — they would be informed. Mr Holmes, Resident Engineer of Hunterville, has been instructed to fit out a survey party for exploration purposes in connection with the North Island Main Trunk Line. This is being done in accordance with the report of the Parliamentary Committee. The country between Mokau and Makohine on the Central route, will be first explored. The following transfer ot Police Inspectors is notified :— lnspector Pender, from Christchurch to Wellington. Inspector Broham, from Auckland to Christchurch. Inspector Thomson, from Wellington to New Plymouth. Inspector Pardy, from New Plymouth to Dunedin. Inspector Hickson, from Dunedin to Auckland, Inspector Emerson, from Hamilton to Napier, The following players have been chessn to represent the Feilding cricket club against the Wanganui Collegiate School on Friday 16th instant : — Levefct, Lance, Clayton, Coote, Tompkins, Hedges (jur), Millen, Entwisle, Carr, Hartgill, and Bryant. Emergencies, Dr. Sorley and Fowles. The above players are requested to attend practice as often as possible and get into some kind of form. The match will commence at 11 o'clock sharp on Gorton and Son's ground.