Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 87, 12 January 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir William Fox has gone to Wellingfon on a visit. Acceptances for the Foxton Races close this evening. I The Pohangina Road Board will meet I on Snturdav next. Sullivan, tho ex-champion " pug " has heart disease aud will box no more. There will be Mass on Sunday next in St. Bridget's, Feilding, at 11 o'clock a.m. Mr Owen Pleasants has sold one of his ■ improved farms at Colyton at a highly satisfactory figure. A few plants of the sisal hemp, obtained from America, have been planted in the • Auckland distiict. Mr James Mackay, J. P., is about to erect a commodious dwelling house on his farm on the Kimbolton road. ' We understand that Mr Wollerman has leased the Manchester Hotel to Mr Horace Bastings, late of Otago. The Longburn Freezing Company's works are now m full swing, and there is every indication of a very busy season. Rudyard Kipling, in The Times, describes New Zealand as " the loveliest land in the world." He places British Columbia next. La r/rippe has been very prevalent in Feilding lately, and several of onr employees have been laid up with slight attacks. The death is announced, by cablegram from London, of Hawloy Smart, tho well-known author of many interesting sporting novels. ' Messrs Thacker nnd Pallant will open their new Boot and Shoe Depot, in Montague's buildings, on Saturday next, with :i really well- chosen stock. Mr Turnbull, who has been appointed to the management of the Palmerston branch of the United Fanners' Alliance, ' has arrived there and taken over charge. Mrs W. Donc-m notifies to-day that I she will resume her instructions in music and singing on Monday next, at the residence of Mrs G. C. Hill, Denbigh street. Feilding. I A man uamed John Williams, who was walking with a young lady at Studely Park, Molbouruo, fell down death This ought to act as a severe caution to yo vug men A member of tho Victorian Legislature has suggested that tho Government should start a faucy bazaar, bocauso by such means many a church has been helped out of debt. Not a bad idea. In the case Police v James O'Maley, for unlawfully exposing liquor for sale at Ohiugaiti on the day after the sports, Mr Brabant convicted O'Maley and lined him £';■"> and costs. Mr J. R. Montague will hold a big sale to-morrow, when the whole stock intrade ot a grocer will be disposed of witliout the slightest reserve. All the goods are new and of prime quality. Mr Thomas Lowes, of Birmingham, is the highest on the list for the Christmas offerings in favor of the Rev. Father Patterson. Mr Lowes has also promised to give land and a title free for the new Catholic Church. On Tuesday last a section of land fronting Kimbolton road, next to Mr Sherwill's office, was sold at the rate of. £12 per foot We understand that an auction mart and wholesale warehouse will be erected thereon forthwith Apropos of the trouble anent the limited space in the Wellington Hospital, we venture to express the opinion that if the Wellington people had a tithe ofthe go tliere is in the people of Palmersion North, they would have had a suitable building erected long before this. A cablo message from London, of December 29, states: — " * Billy ' Murphy, formorly of Now Zealand, and ex-cham-piou feather-weight of tho world, has fought a match with White, at Sau Francisco. The match lasted 33 rounds, and was finally drawn." Tho Manawatu Standard says : — " We notice that Mr Harkness denies the statement that he intends to stand for tho New Plymouth seat. If that is so, he should not have asserted the contrary on the Palmerston railway platform." No doubt tho antagonism to his candidature, shown by the people he intended to honor by representing in the House, has induced Mr Harkness to change his mind. Tho New Zealaud climate seems to bo all astray this seasou. We (Wanganui Chronicle) got it cold whou it should be hot, aud (.moro rarely) hot wheu it should be cold. A well known settler near Hawera lost 400 newly sheared sheep duriug oue of the very cold nights last week. If a farmer cannot shear with safoty iv the middle of January, wheu is ho to do it y Tho only thiug to bo rogretted is that we cannot blamo tho Government for the wretched weathor. A correspondent informs us that Te Kooti was christened " Scot" by a missionary, and the present name is a corruption of that. In his 'teens he was called " Scot the Sabine" because he stole a girl away from Matawheo pah in Poverty Bay. There was going to be a fight over this. The friends of the mother of the girl built a fortified pah, as also did the friends of the ''Sabine," but tho rowwas stopped by each calling relations out, so that in the end there was no one left to tight, and the amorous couple were left in peace. An American has, says Iron, taken tho trouble to ascertain, according to nationality, the average annual salaries earned by 9000 workers in '^01 trades in 25 towns and villages jn the State of Michigan, The result of the candid scribe's labours is manifested in the following table ; — Scotchmen 1115 7s 3d, Englishmen £113 Is, Irishman £103 Gs Bd, Canadians £100 •Is -il, Dutchmen £92 8s Bd, Americans £91 7s 9d, Germans £87 lHs 3d. Mr li. A. Shorrin, a well-known New Zealand journalist, died at tho Costley Home, Auckland, 011 Saturday. Mr Sherrin was at one time editor of the South Canterbury Times, and the Freeman's Journal m Auckland, lie was the author of the " Handbook of New Zealand Fishes," published by the Government, contrjbutpd one section of tho " Early History of iS : ew Zealand," and before he was disabled by a paralytic ' stroke, had done a considerable aujoimt j of miscellaneous literary work. j It may not be generally known that a (•.ireful revision of the Apocrypha has I been in progress for some years. The J j agreement with the University Presses of ; I Gxford and Cambridge, dated 1872, bound j ' the two '■' companies '' who revised the ' Old and Nfuw Testaments to undertake | this work also. Accordingly- un the (-ouipietioii of their labours ou the New i TuHtameut tho revision of tho Apocrypha ! was commenced. The result of the revisers' work will be published by the uuivtToiiius.

A Maori youth coverod 4Gft hl-in in a hop, step, and jump at Tokauno, Taupo, ; the other day. ' Messrs Bailey and Co aro about to erect a new sawmill on then* bush land at Poukioro on tho Central Railway line.. Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 21 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Warnings for hard southerly gales and rain have been sent to all places. A boy named Ivan Sinclair, six years old, died at Oamaru from eatiug the poisonous berries of what is commonly known as the thorn apple. So far this season 34 common phe.isants and throe golden pheasants have beeu hitched out at the Wellington Acclimatisation Society's grounds at Masterton. The funeral of tho late Mrs Wright took place yesterday afternoon. The Rev A. Uermon officiated at the cemotery and Mr F. Pope was the undertaker. As we were going to press this afternoon we learned that Mr J. Fraser had met with a severe accident, one of his heels being caught in the cog wheels of a sausage machine. Dr. Sorleywas sent for. lii the Supreme Court, Wellinuton, to-day, judgment was given in favour of Belk and Parr restraining Mr J. Bartholomew from infringing their patent, with 40s damages, aad cosls wn the lowest scale On the 25th 'Jctobor last a number of icebergs were seen off the Chatham Islands — a most uuusual occurrence. One of the bergs, according to Mr Gascoyue. the magistrate at the Island, was half a mile long aud 500 feet high. The clerk of the Manchester Road Board, Mr Charles Bray, publishes a notice to-day in connection with the loan to be raised, under the Loans to Local Bodies Act 1886, for tho erection of a bridge over tho Oroua River at Aorangi. Mr S. Svendsen, tho well- known boot and shoo importer, Manchester street, has iust opened up a fine assortment of ladies' dark canvas shoes, ladies' glaced strap shoes, kangaroo shoes, etc. Mr Syondson guarauteos these goods to be the best and cheapest in town. To«morrow the United Farmers' Alliance will hold a stock sale in their Feilding yards when some line lots of sheep and lambs will be offered, together with some valuable cows and hifers Other lines are detailed in the advertisement over tbe signature of Mr R B. McKenzie, the auctioneer. Apropos of the stated intention of Mr Harkness to contest (he New Plyirouth sent, lhe Earaont Settler says ■ -"Should Mr Hurkness lie so ill advised .is to per sist in his intention, we f.-iiic*- he vrill receire a lesson that will be more pain*ful to his feelings tirm flattering to his vanity." This is exactly our opinion. Notice is given by an advertisement which appears in auother column that there will be a sile of Crown Lands, at the Crown Lauds Oilier, Wellington, on February 3rd ; and at the Survey Office, Wanganui. on February 9th, 1893. Plans containing full particulars will be obtainable at the principle post offices, and at this office in a few days' time. We will intimate their arrival iv our local columns. In his address at tho tenth aunual meeting of tho New Zealand Educational Institute hold at Wellington last Tuesday the President said: — In his opinion, teachers should be giyen moro freedom in classifying and teaching their schools. tie doplorod tho small number of males. Tho causes that deterred young men from entering and romaming in the service wero poor pay, tho few good positions, insecurity of positions, constant criticism, and tho frequent vexations and humiliations that come upon most teachers. At the salo of Education Reserve leases, held by Messrs Abraham & Williams on Tuesda}-, the following sections wore sold .-—Section 36, Block XIV., Pohangina, 50 acres, Mr W. Dixon, 4s per acre ; seotion Sl, Mangawhoro, 400 acres. Mr R. Killburue, ls per acre; section 46, Tirivaukawa, 627 acres, Mr W. A. Floyd, ls 3d per acre: sectioas 795 and 796, Maungakaretu, 742 acres, Mr 11. Collier, ls 3d per acre ; section 229, Hunterville, 50 acres. Mr D. McKay, 50s; section 47, Marshall, IA acres 20s. The sections at Carnarvon and Levin wore passed in.