Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 94, 28 January 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir William Fox recently celebrated his Blßt birthday. What we cnll barbarism now, was in its day the height of civilization. The Woodville Examiner reports the bot-fly has made its appearance in Pahiatua. We learn from the Manawatu Standard that Father Patterson drew the first prize in Mr Riley's art union. Mr G. C. Hill was the Agent concerned in tho purchase of Mr Retemoyer's property by Mr Bradford of the Feilding Horse Bazaar. Messrs Ratliff Bros, hcye disposed of Mr A. Morgan's property of 300 acres at Pembertou, to Mr S. J. Thompson, of Feilding, at a satisfactory price. The Telegraph reports that a Napier resident, who was not satisfied with the pri/.e received by bis child at a local school at the breakiugup fast year, j promptly returned it. j Nohco is given to-day of tho bank j ruptey of liic-iird ileanjje, of Apiti, A meeting of creditors will bo huldon at the Court House Feilding do Tuuwlay the 7th February.

The Wanganui Education Board will meet on Monday next. The Advocate says that Mr Arkwright has consented to contest the Rangitikei seat at the next election, in the Liberal interest. Yesterday Mr James Fraser, who was badly injured in one of his feet a short time ago, was able to come into town for a short yisit. We are glad to know that hB is mailing good progress towards complete recovery. It is reported up at Pohangina that Mr Arthur Rallinger, the champion shot of New Zealand, is about to bring an action for defamation against a Wellington Journal for publishing an alleged portrait of him. We publish with to-day's issue a n " inset " from Mr James Smith, the spirited proprietor of Te Aro House, Wellington, giving particulars of the great sale now going on at his popular drapery emporium. The total area of Crown lands sold m the Wellington district between the 30th December last and Wednesday, was 12,816 acres 2 roods 4 perches. Since April Ist the total area disposed of is 72,627 acres 2 roods 18 perches. The Surveyor General has written to the Land Board stating that the Government, bas been advised that the right of purchase in perpetual leases is confined to the first 12 years mentioned in section 150 of the Land Act, 1885. At the Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow the Key. T. H, Lyon is to conduct the services. The subject of the morning's sermon will be ' Second sight,' and that of the evening ' The use and abuse of the tongue.' The sale yards at Birmingham for the United Farmers' Alliance, will be completed in good time for the initial stock sale there, now advertised to take place on Wednesday next, by Mr R. B. McKenzie, the Auctioneer of the Alliance. Mr F. Pirani, as a member of the Wellington Land Board, is evidently going to disappoint his enemies. The report of the share he took in the proceedings of the Board at its last meeting shows that he will quite justify his selection for the position. The Wellington Harbour Board account [or the year shows -£_458 to credit of profit and loss accounts. The amount for repairs, maintenance, and depreciation is i' 9302. The total tonnage which came into the harbour was 884,146. The poods traffic shows a considerable increase, flax beinj; the only item in which there was any decrease of consequence. The Christchurch Board of Education havo resolved ' That in the opinion of the board it is desirable that the amount voted bj? Parliament for the erection and maintenance of school buildings be dis- ; tributed to the several Boards of Education throughout the Colony, upon the j basis of population or of number of children on the school rolls in each district.' • Wo notice from the Herald that the Wangauui Gun Club intend holding a special meeting towards the end of Februury, when prizes amounting to £15 will be given for a pigeon match. This ought to act as a stimulont to our local gunners. The fishiug seasou is nearly oyer, and therefore no time should be lost in getting the Feilding Gun Club uuder weigh. A Feilding gentleman who is not of a bibulous hubit. took a few extra glasses of ale the other night, and, dreading the after consequences, when he arriyed at his home he inconsiderately devoured a whole box of Beecham's pills — bar two consumed by another member of his family. Next day he was seriously ill. and now he swears he will in future " give the beer a show," no matter what happens. Mr Kitchen, who has for some time past been in the employ of Mr J. B. Hamilton in this towu, is leaving here on Monday next to take up a billet with Mr Wickett, of Palmerstou North. Mr Kitchen has been connected with the Manchester Rifles, and also with the Feildiug Brass Band as well as the String Baud, aud his services amongst the music lovers of our community will be greatly missed. It seems an extraordinary thing to hear of potatoes being grown froai parings, yet a Hereford farmer says: — I told the cook to save our potato parings for two days, not stating the purpose for which they were required ; these were in due course laid in a trench, side by side with some early potatoes. They came up well, running rather to haulm ; but when we took them up, we fonnd we had an abundant crop of remarkably line potatoes. — Woodville Examiner. The Bishop of North Queensland, lately travelling by coach from the coast to a gold field, stayed for the night at a well-known bush hostelry kept by a coreligionist of his, who, never having had the honour of receiving a bishop under her roof^tree before, wa9 untiring in her efforts to please. She hovered round his lordship's chair during his meal, lifted flies out of bis tea with her finger, presented him with a raw onion from her pocket as a delicacy, and paid him many other charming little attentions. To-day Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, of Wellington, publish an important intimation in connection with their semiannual sale which has now commenced. During the first weeks of this great sale special and extraordinary bargain lots will be offered, and sweeping reductions made in dress fabrics. During the continuance of this sale the usual bonus terms will be suspended. Visitors to the Empire City, and clients in the country, are specially requested by this enterprising and popular firm to note the liberal prices detailed in the adyertiseinent. Mrs H. M. Stanley and her husband have commenced a joint work describing their Australian tour. Mrs Stanley will contribute sketches as well as letterpress. Mr Stanley has by no means abandoned the hope of representing ' Darkest Lambeth.' Like a great many other peoplo, ho expects a general election about next August, and by that time he hopea to hayo solidly won his way with the constituency. Part of Mr Stanley's programme is to give a monthly address at one or other of the political clubs in Lambeth. He is great just now on i ' Uganda.' the value of which he thoroughly understands. The following paragraph is from the Chronicle of Thursday ;— A man was brought in by train last night from Feilding, suffering from a broken leg, the result of a tree falling upon him while he was employed at bush work. The sufferer was in great pain when he arrived, and as no word had been sent that he was coming, nobody was present when the train arrived to receive him. Constable l'ennefather, who happened to be at the station at the time, quickly took in the position, and having secured the willing help of three lodgers from the Custom House Hotel, had the unfortunate ux&n conveyed to the hospital. A meeting of the Farmers' Alliance was held at Palmerston North last Thursday, to discuss the possibility of fixing the ratos of produce with a view to farmers getting fair remunerative prices. The chairman, Mr F. Y. Lethbndgo, pointed out that prices in this district* were regulated by the prices obtaiuing in the South Island. Ultimately it was decided " That the directors of tho United Fanners' Alliance bo requested to supply all tho shareholders with a Ust qf the current mavkot prices, and at tfye same tiiuo request tho shareholders to place thojr produce in the hands of tho Alliance fur sajp,"

Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been sent to all places northward of East Cape and New Plymouth, and for northerly gales to all other places. Says the Palmerston Standard : —At the Land Board meeting on Thursday, an application for land for a cemetery at Ballance whs objected to because it was on the banks of a river. Mr Hogg re-mai-ed that the Masterton cemetery was od the banks of the Wnipoua river and the trout in the stream seemed to thrive remarkably well. The Waipawa Mail, like ourselves, does not approve of the objectionably unclean articles which have lately appeared in the Review of Reviews. The editor of the Mail thinks " it is open to grave doubt whether there is iv this ! world a more impudent man thau Stead. He is not only impudent but contemptibly so. fie is a nuisance." Few chess players could gnesa the origin of one of the most important terms in their game. The word " chess" is said to be a corruption of the Arabic word " sheikh," meaning chief or king. The game came westward by way of Persia, where the word "shekh" becomes "shah." It was the game of the King. The term " check" is merely to give notice that the King is attacked, and " checkmate" means " the King is dead," the verb " mata" being from the same root as the Spanish matador, the slayer of the bull. The word " check," whether verb or noun, may be traced through several curious ramifications back to the Persian and Arabic. Even the word exchequer is curiously tangled up in thi3 verbal network. — Wanganui Herald. The newly appointed member of the Land Board, Mr Pirani, is not enamoured of the Perpetual Lease Tenure, which he regards as an unjust one as regards the mass of the people of the colony. Mr Hogg, on the contrary, is its valiant champion, and claims for it that it has struck the death knell of the bloated land monopolist. Mr Hogg likes phrases of this kind. Apropos of the " eternal " lease, Mr J H. Baker, Commissioner of Crown Lands, this morning said that when the tenure was legislated for, it was never contemplated wliat an ndditioaal expense it would be in the lands administration. It would mean doubling the Land Office staff, and cost fully £1000 a year for clerical work in the Wellington district alone, although it meant no increase ia revenue. — Wellington Press.