Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 82, 31 December 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

-♦ The Manawatu Standard reports a slip in the Gorge, at the Woodville end, which detained the train for an hour. Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 24|hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Barometer rise at all places. Mr Elkington offers a reward of £5 for information anent some stolen wool packs. Miss M. B. Crickshank and Miss E. H. Siedeberg, lady students of medicine, have been admitted to hospital work in the Dunedin Hospital. Sir Julius Yogel, in an article in the Fortnightly Review, advises England to adopt the land laws in operation in New Zealand, and extend the franchise to women. It is thought likely that Mr W. B. Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, will be one of those selected for decorating at the hands of Her Majesty at the New Year. Sunday School Anniversary services, in connection with the Wesley au Church at Birmingham, will be held there tomorrow. Mr Grant will preach morning, afternoon, and evening. We publish to-day several replace advertisements from that well known and popular drapery emporium, Te Aro House, Wellington, which should proye of great interest to our readers. The first meeting of members of the recently formed Good Templars Lodge, will be held in the Foresters' Hail on Tuesday evening next at 8 o'clock, when all members are requested to attend. On Friday January 13, Mr Montague will sell at his Feilding Auction Mart, the furniture and effects of Mr Hadow, of Awahun. who is about to leave for England. The sale will be entirely without reserve. De Loree's panorama will be exhibited in the Colyton Hall on Monday and in the Feilding Assembly Kooms on Tuesday evenings. An exchange says that '• Professor De Loree is second to none in his deflcriptive power." At the inquest at Dunedin on the body of the boy Fiddis, who died after a fight with a boy named Foggarty. the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and added a rider strongly recommending Foggarty to mercy on account of his youth. Arnott, the well-known athlete, is not likely to be a starter at the Wellington Caledonian Sports on Monday, as he is suffering from a severe cold. At the Feilding sports on Boxing Day he was so bad that he had to leave the ground and take to bed,— Post. The Manawatu Standard, a recognised supporter of the 3-overnment, says that no one could object to the selection of Mr F. Y. Lethbridge to be the successor of Mr R. C. Bruce, as representative for the Rangitikei electorate, for Mr Lethbridge is one of those men who could not be disliked. The stock department is sending to England for two veterinary surgeons, one to be stationed in the North Island and the other in the South Island, who will be required to travel through their respective Islands investigating all matters connected- with diseases of stock and giving information to farmers upon them. Very likely the fact has its gloomy side, but it is a fact nevertheless that one of the proofs of prosperity is the amount of money which some people spend in dissipation and in this or that form of gambling. Be this as it may, a gentleman who has just returned from a visit to various up-country districts says that they are all splendidly prosperous, and in proof of his view he cites the circumstance that where, formerly, one man put money on the totalieator at the race meeticgs, twenty now indulge in that exciting pastime. — Wellington Press. It is amusing to find Ministers apparently taking great credit to themselves for haying called Mr Montgomery to the Legislative Council. They have not laid him under any particular obligation by so doing. The Atkinson Goyernment several years ago offered Mr Montgomery a seat in the Council, but as he was either in England at the time or about going there, he declined the honour. It was one his position entitled him to at the hands of auy Ministry. The present Ministers are apparently terribly afraid of their own creation, although trying to keep up their courage by bluster. Two French gentlemen, with the courage of their opinions to an extraordinary extent, says the Paper Record, have patented a hypodermic syringe all over the world. This fact arrested the attention of a writer in Le Figaro, who at once became curious to know the cost of the operation. It seems there are 64 countries where an invention can claim protection, or rather where patent fees may be paid. Sixteen of these are in Europe, eight in Africa, four in Asia, 27 in America, and nine in Oceania. The total price of these 64 official scraps of paper amounts to the nice little sum of £3600. Thus the Auckland Observer: We had a par last week about a mean mau. Here is another par about another mean man. This man, like the one before referred to, employs a number of girls to help him in his business. Last pay day one of these girls asked leave of absence for a few minutes, m order that she might go and get a tooth drawn. She was in much pain and was allowed to go, But when she came back she was informed that threepence would be deduc ted from the not too extravagant sum she receives weekly as wages. Tn« credible as this may appear it is nevertheless a fact. It is computed that Auckland contains more mean men to the srjuiirc inch than any other city in tljc colony. And the latest njoan man preaches, too.

The banks will be closed on Monday and Tuesday. The Standard says it is expected the Palmerston Bacing Club will clear £700 over their last meeting. We have received from Mr E. Goodbehere. the local agent, the very handsome calendar for 1893, of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. The Manchester Rifles held the last parade of the year on Thursday evening in the Feilding Assembly Booms. There was a very good attendance. A garden party will be held at Mr Gould s Clairville House and grounds on Monday (New Year's Day), in aid of the Primitive Methodist Church. No fewer than 73 trout were caught in the Waipoua stream between Saturday night and Tuesday morning by Mr Prowse jun., of Wellington. ' Danevirke had a lively Christmas. One bank alone cashed wages cheques for £1000 on Saturday, and it is estimated that Messrs Denneby and Baddeley, hotelkeepers, put through a similar amount. The following are the statistics of Feilding for 1891 and 1892 respectively : —1891— Births 110, Deaths 33, Marriages 28. Revenue £38 10s. 1892— Births 154, Deaths 39, Marriages 32. Revenue £48 4s. The subjects of the discourses by Mr Grant at Birmingham to»morrow, will be: Forenoon—" Hope and Memory," Phil. 3c. 13v. ; Afternoon— •• The Kingdom of HeaTen," Mark 13c. 31 v. ; Eyening- " Acquaintance with God," Job 22c. 21v. Mr Syms, Chemist, at Woodville, is about to take proceedings against the Press Association for heavy damages for alleged transmission by its agent at Woodville of garbled reports of evidence given at Woodville in the DayonportSyms case. — Post. We are requested to contradict most emphatically the rumour that has lately got about to the effect that high reserves will be placed on the properties to be sold on the 10th and 11th January, on account of the estate of the late Mr John Manson, of " The Pines," Feilding. Strange things happen some times. Some mouths ago a lady missed from her writing de?k a couple of half- sovereigns and gave them up for lost. Yesterday she sent a couch, on which the desk was always placed when opened, to be repaired by Mr Brent, cabinet maker, who on removing the back discovered the missing coins, which he at once for warded to the owner. As Mr Daw's 4-horse brake was making for Pembertou on Thursday morning last, some three miles beyond Birmingham, when descending a hill, the pole of the vehicle broke, and the biake was precipitated over the cliff, the goods being scattered in all directions, The driver managed to jump off without receiviug injury, neither were the horses iujured, which, under the circumstances is most miraculous. The dnyer returned to Bir miugham with his four horses, and then rode into Feilding for Mr Daw's spring dray in order to put the goods into it, and complete the delivery of the articles. The London correspondent of the Wellington Times says:— "The Washers and Manglers Act has caused a good deal of fun on this side. It was a real good joke, and has been much appreciated. But, funniest of all, the skit was taken quite seriously bj one or two papers ; the Chronicle, for instauce, puttiug a paragraph into its ' Greater Britain ' columns headed ' Grandmotherly Legislation,' and commenting gravely on the silliness of the Bill. One or two other journals inserted ' pars,' about it quite seriously, but the New Zealand correspondent of the Pall Mall has sent that paper an explanation of the matter aud also a copy of the ' Act,' with the result that all London is laughing."