Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 76, 15 December 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr A. Mackay has been elected the first Mayor of Danevirke. g|Tlic Woodville A. and P. Society propose to hold a ram fair in February. 286 women voted in the late Dunedin Mayoral election, presumably against Mr Fish. Mr Tennyson Smith will open a Good Templar Lodge to.morrow night in the Assembly Rooms. It may be interesting for 'cyclists to know that it is illegal for them to ride on the footpaths. The Government have decided to widen the bridle track between Palmerston North nnd Pahiatua. The friends of Mr Charles Wickham will be pleased to hear that he is recovering his health in Wellington. In another column Mr Wickham announces that his business as general carrier is still being earthed on, in his behalf, by Mr G. Guthrie. We have received from Rf essrs F. It. Jackson and Co., plans and descriptive catalogue of 13,860 acres of land, the .estate of the late John Manson, Esq., of " The Pines," Feilding, to be sold at Pahnerstor* ,on the llth and l'itth of January lb"^. Apropos of the Longburn Freezing (Qoiupany the Manawatu Standard says : —.'/•With a genuine practical man as {y'^irnian of Directors, or one who will allow a .. n W» y' l^ ie l '£<iuisite knowledge to run affairs' Ln the manner bett suited Ao the interests of shareholders, there can hem question ac ,fco |'he ultimate success ofJhayeature/'

Te Kooti left Taupo on Tuesday night, accompanied by forty of his followers. The plant that never dies—newspaper plant. The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on Saturday next. Angler : " How is it, Sandy, that they get bigger fish at the far end of the loch ?" Sandy : They're bigger liars ?" Tbe next quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand will be held in Dunedin on the 24th of January. The contractors are making good progress with the Aorangi bridge, which will be completed within contract time. Everyone will be glad to hear that the Premier is steadily improving in health. He is still unable, however, to receive visitors. The trial of Syms, of Woodville, for performing an alleged illegal operation, began yesterday in Wellington, It is expected to last until Saturday. Mr and Mrs Arkwnght, of Marton, are passengers by the P. and O. Co.'s steamer Australia, for New Zealand. They left London on November 25th. The Woodville Examiner reports that Mr E. S. Abraham has taken into partnership Mr A Williams, of Hastings Mr Williams will manage the Woodville business. A great clearing sale will be held to- j morrow at Mr Henson's farm, Lee's line, | by Mr F. R. Jackson. For the con- i venience of visitors lunch will be provided ] on a most liberal scale. An American paper points out that the nation now Bonsumes two and a half times as much drink per head as it did in 1874, and asks whether Americans are bßComing a nation of drunkards. " Why Bridget," exclaimed the housewife, " I can write my name in the dust here." " Deed ma'am, replied Bridget, 1 admiringly, " that's more nor I can do. There's nothin' loike education afther all, is there, ma'am ?" Holland, late accountant of the Port Melbourne branch of the Melbourne National Bank of Australasia, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on a charge of embezzling tho funds of that institution. We have received from Mr E. Goodbehere, the Feilding agent, No 1 of the Mutual Provident Messenger, published quarterly by the Australian Mutual Provident Society. It is a well printed publication and replete with very interesting reading matter. This is the method suggested by the Western Rural to cure a kicking cow : — Take the man who handles a heifer and tie both feet together so that he cannot kick ; put a gag in his .mouth so he cannot swear, and tie both hands behind his back so that he cannot pinch the heifer's teats. That would keeD a good many cows from kicking. We are informed by the WanganLi Chronicle that Mr George Signal, of Porevra, Marlon, has just returned from the Taupo country with a large mob of cattle. He is about to proceed again on another trip, and is already inundated with commissions to act for a large numher of farmers, and it is computed that Mr Signal will bring down about a thousaud head of cattle with him on his return. A few weeks ago we (Taranaki Herald) mentioned that Mr W. B. Retemeyer had taken home to Feilding two unsmoked hams from the Co-operative Society's store, for the purpose of putting them into a marketable shape. The hams have coroe back, and had tbey not been branded before leaving they would not | bave been recognised as the same tbat went away. A large number of persons were inspecting the hams at the store on Saturday. This being the day of the initial stock sale of the Farmer's Alliance, with Mr R. B. McKenzie as auctioneer, a large number of farmers and settlers went down to Palmerston by rail and by the road in their own conveyances. We noticed residents from Birmingham, Apiti, tbe Harbor Board Block, Kiwitea, Cheltenham, Colyton, and Makino and with such I a lovely day and a large attendance com- ] bined with entries sufficient to meet the requirements of all, success is un- j doubted. We have visited Mr W. Hodren 's Standard Aerated Water Works in Queen street, and find all (he facilities for turning out every description of non-alcoholic beverages. There is a capital spring of water on the premises with an unfailing supply. Mr Hodren's family have a first class reputation for the excellence of the articles which they manufacture, his father having made a name for himself in Wanganui, by the superior quality of the beverages provided for the public taste. We have sampled Mr Hodren's ginger beer, horehound tonic beer, and ginger ale, and find them most superior, palatable, and pleasant drinks. j A Palmerston medical man had a lively I experience recently when he was called in to examine a case of suspected lunacy. The patient suddenly became yiolent and she rushed out into the road where the doctor's horse and trap were in charge of his little daughter who was standing on the road holding the reins. The woman climbed into the trap, seized the whip and was just about to beat the horse when her friends fortunately succeeded in restraining her.— Manawatu Times. A full list of Justices on the Commission of the Peace including the names of new justices, was gazetted last night. The following is the number of justices in the various provincial district :— Otago 417 ; Auckland, 406 ; Canterbury, 301 , Wellington, 238 ; Hawke's Bay, 105 ; Taranaki, 97 ; Nelson, 87 ; Westland. 73; Marlborough, 54. Among others we notice the names of Mr Peter Bartholomew, of Leyin ; Mr T. R. Taylor, of Kiwitea ; and Mr Thomas Manson, of Bunnythorpe. Tbe Belfast News Letter, in a recent issue, has an article on the public career of the Hon. the Premier. It eulogises the perseverance, energy, and industry by which Mr Ballance has attained the very honourable position which he now occupies. As Mr Ballance was educated at the Belfast Model scheel, and after wards served his apprenticeship to the hardware business with a Belfast merchant, it is not unnatural, says the Napier News, it should chronicle the Premier's success in life with, some feelings of pride. An advertisement appears to-day which is of very considerable importance to those who are unfortunate enough to be afflicted with impediments in their speech of any kind. Mr H. E. Crofts, who has been for many years Assistant Master in the New Zealand Deaf and Dumb Institution at Sumner (Christchurch), announces that he will be in Feilding on Thursday and Friday next, when he may be consulted at Mr Wollerman's Manchester Hotel. Mr Crofts has first class credentials, and his guarantee to effect a complete cure in every case he undertakes, is perfectly bona fide. A short time back the engine driver of a train near Montreal saw a large dog on the track. He was barking furiously. The engine driver blew the whistle, but he did not stir, and crouching low he was. struck by the locomotive and killed. „ was a bit of white muslin on the locomotive, and it attracted the attention of the engihedriver who stopped the train and went back. There lay the dead dog and a dead child, which had wandered upon the track and had gone to sleep. The dog had given his signal to stop tile .train, and had died af< his post.

A well-known Auckland cricketer, J. Mumford, dropped dead at the Domain cricket ground yesterday, whilst batting at the wicket. Mr Dahl, of Palmerston, has now in stock canvass rick and stack cloths, tarpauhus, and water proof sheets. It not obtainable at the local storekeepers, send to the Depot, Palmerston North. Captain Edwin telegraphs .-—Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for heavy westerly gales with rain have been sent to all seaports and for heavy westerly gales with rain to all other places. With reference to an advertisement which appears in to-day's issue, relative to the construction of the Oroua Coal Creek Road, Mr Turner, the road surveyor, with Mr Gibson, overseer, proceeds to-morrow to inspect the surveyed line and will have all the information ready by Monday next, and will be in a position to let the work in terms of advertisement. Appearances indicate that a most successful start will be made by the Good Templar Lodge which is to be opened at the Assembly Rooms by Mr Tennyson , Smith, after his meeting to-morrow night (Friday). Refreshments will be provided at 9.30 for the members joining, and the initiation ceremonies will take place immediately after. About 30 ladies and gentlemen have already handed in their names to join the lodge. Mr A. E. Tennaut, an old resident of Hokitika, died in the hospital there on Monday, last. The ' West Coast Times' says : — " He arrived in Canterbury early in the sixties a young man, well connected at, Home, and with every prospect of a brilliant career. Entering the ser | vice of the Canterbury Government, he was transferred to Hokitika shortly after the gold rush as clerk to Mr Commis sioner Sale. On the formation of the first Coaaty of Wesfcland he held a position in the County Treasury, and on the county becoming a province hp held a position in the Superintendent's office. When the provinces were abolished he obtained an appointment under the General Government in the Stamp office. Bad times then swept over him, and he commenced to drift." Mr Tennant wus an enthusiastic cricketer, and was an excellent all round player.