Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 100, 11 February 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir Walter Buller has beon appointed a Governor of the Imperial Institute. We have to acknowledge receipt of the pocket gnides of the Union Steamship Company for the current month. There will be a meeting of the Feilding State School Committee on Wednesday next at 7.30 pun. A public tea meeting in connection with the 1.0. G.T., will be held in the Foresters' Hall, on Wednesday the 15th instant. Our contemporary the Mercury has made the wonderful discovery that a person to be on the electoral roll must be an " adult." He is improving. Everyone in the colony will be glad to learn that under a combined system of massage and magnetism the Hon Mr Ballance is improving in health, Mr J. M. AWrich, of Oatoatll, xtho was at one time in business iv Wellington, has been appointed to fill the position of Manager of the Palmerston Sash and Door Company.— Post. Recently at Charlotte Plains (Queensland), at a depth of 1848 feet, the greatest underground flow of water yet discovered in the continent of Australia was tapped, and is now yielding from four to five million gallons daily. The secretary of the Education Board, Wanganui, Mr A. A. Browne, advertises that nominations for vacancies on the Board should be sent in by the several school committees on or before Saturday, the 25th instant. For other particulars see advertisement. The Wairarapa Star says that at tbe meeting of creditors of Thomas Hovvell, hairdresser, of Pahiatua, Mr Naphtali, of Napier, remarked, " The children of Israel have been fleeced this time. Dash it all, why did not you give the Christians a turn." Messrs Gorton and Son announce in another column a very important sale of land at Bannythorpe. Particulars trill be found in the advertisement. With the number of eager inquiries for land in this vicinity at the present time, there should be a good demand for these sec* tions when they are offered. The Manawatu Standard give the following timely hint : — " It would be wise for local bodies who are applying to the Land Board in reference to deferredthirds to have the particulars laid before some member of that Board, as a special meeting is to be held on the 22nd instant to consider applications for about £1000 of deferred-thirds. Messrs H. W. Robinson, R, Beetham and B. Brabant, Resident Magistrates, and Mr C. J. A. Haselden, Undersecretary for Justice, are conferring together at the R.M. Court, Wellington, for the purpose of revising the new Magistrate's Bill, and the rules connected with it, to be introduced by Government next session. The new bill is principally a consolidation of old acts relative to magisterial jurisdiction. Hayes Allied Circus on Thursday night was well patronised, all tbe seats being filled. The performance was all it was represented to be, aud the hearty applause i which greeted the several performers testified to the satisfaction they gave. The Japanese, the lady with tbe iron jaw, and Mr Organ's performances with his horses deserved special notice. Unquestionably this is the best circus company which has ever visited Feilding. A case of very considerable interest is set down for argument in Chambers on the 14th met in Wellington. It arises out of the decision of Privy Council in regard to the appointment of Mr W. B. Edwards as Judge of the Supreme Court. The decision of Court that the appointment was not legal gave rise to the question of whether the acts of Edwards whilst officiating as Judge hold good. This is the question to be decided in the case to be heard on the 14th mat., when Mr H. B. Yogel will move for a writ of habeas corpus in respect of John Aldridga, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment by Edwards on a charge of forgery. The grounds of the motion are that Edwards was not empowered to commit Aldndge to gaol. A spirited sale of Crown lands was witnessed at the Crown Lands Office at the Masonic Buildings Wanganui, when the townships of Makotuku and Opakune, in tbe Waimanno, were sold by Mr Baker, the Commissioner of Crown Lands. There was a good attendance of settlers, numbers having come down from the Waimanno specially to be present at the Hale. The Commissioner of Lands had to change the name of one of the townships, Makotuku, to Raetihi, because another township had been named Makotuku. Raetuhi had been chosen because it was the name of an adjoining block on the Makotuku river. In Raetibi 80 sections were put up, ayeragiti£ m area a quarter of an acre each. The upset prices ranged from £5 to £7 10s, and the price realised averaged £16 16s, varying from £7 to £60 The total for thin township was £1347, There was also considerable competition for the Ohakune township sections ; 40 were put up at upset prices from £2 10s to £5 104. The total sale amounted to £239, being an average of nearly £6 ; the highest price paid for one section in this l<>t was £20. The competition through" out was very keen, and every section in each township sold. Raetibi is situated about 17 miles from Pipiriki, between these and Kenoi, nnd is looked upon as die centre of the special settlements. We uuderstand that several of the buyers in* teud to build at an oarly date. — Chronicle

The R.M.S. Coptic arrived in Wellington last night. The estimated damage by the fire at Hastings is £30,000. A meeting of tbe Feilding Band of Hope will be held on Monday next in the Foresters' Hall at 7 p.m. Parents and friends are invited. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Warnings lor westerly gales have been sent to all places. Tt is notified that contributions towards the relief of the sufferers by the floods in Queensland may be forwarded to the Fbildino Star office. Such contributions will be acknowledged in our columns. The Dunbar-Burkley Dramatic Company which is at the present time touring in the north, will play in Feilding in the course of a few weeks. Mise Helen Fergus, a lady of considerable talent, and Mr Orattan Riggs the popular comedian are included in the company. Mr Frank Miller, the proprietor of the Otaki Times, tells the Wellington correspondent of the Wairarapa Star that he intends contesting the Otaki seat at the general election. Mr Miller will have the Government support, which be avers would put in a Chinaman for his district, and he is promised almost universal local support. Mrs Wright, a lady evangelist from Wellington is to conduct the service in the Primitive Methodist Church to-mor-row evening, and will also hold services there throughout nest week. Mrs Wright is well-known in Wellington and throughout the colony for her labours in connection with temperance and evangelistic work. She is a vice-president of the W.C.T.U. m the Empire City. The following strong team of veteran " wielders of the willow " may be expected to give a very good account of themselves on Wednesday next, in their match against the Manchester Club, viz. : — Messrs Reade, Sherwill, Graham, Walter Bailey, Hill, Lloyd, Retemeyer, F. Letbbridge, Levett, Garlick, Nolan, Light, Giesen, Matthews, and Peter Thomson; emergencies, Churcher and Carthew. To-day Mr Jubal Fleming, of Palmerston North, publishes an advertisement whicn appears on our third page enumerating a few of the titles of vocal and dance music to be obtained at bis establishment. What should prove an attraction is their cheapness, combined with tbe fact that among them are to be found every composition that is new and chic. We learn from the Manawatu Standard that about nine o'clock last night Mr J. T. Walker, of the Ashurst read, was picked up unconscious on the Stoney Creek road. The unfortunate man was carried into the Clnb Hotel, Palmerston. Dr Satchell found Mr Walker to be suffering from an injury to the brain, most likely due to fracture of the skull, and very little hope of his recovery is held out. It is conjectured Mr Walker was thrown (rota bis horse, as be left Palmerston on horseback for home yesterday afternoon. The Rev Father Patterson requests us iManawatu Times) to state that a new sister arrived in Wellington by the Hauroto from Sydney, and came to Palmerston last Thursday evening. This makes five professed teachers for St. Patrick's school, hayiug an average attendance of 150 pupils. Father Patterson is having the school again enlarged. The Sodality of Children of Mary established in St. Pa trick 'B Church held their annual picnic at Aorangi on Wednesday. They had a special carriage, and left by the 6.80 a.m. train, returning by the 9.5 p.m., having enjoyed a very pleasant day on the banks of tbe river and in Feilding. Mrs F. O'Riley, whose death is else.where announced, was one of the very early settlers, haying come to New Zealand in the year 1846. The deceased was the first European woman in Turakina, where her husband carried on business, first as storekeeper, and afterwards as contractor and hbtelkeeper, for many years. She leaves six daughters, all married, and three surviving sons, one being in Australia, one in South Africa, and one in Wellington. There are also about 40 grand -children and 20 great grandchildren. In the early days of Turakina the late Mrs O'Riley did very beneficial service among the settlers, when a doctor or surgeon was not obtainable, and many of them will regret to hear of her death. Her husband, who survires her. formerly belonged to the 65th Regiment.— N.Z. Times. Our esteemed contemporary the Napier Telegraph considers " The best answer that can be given to the assertion of Land Nationalists that the possession of freehold is only foolish sentiment is to be found in the fact that people will commit perjury, make false declarations, and otherwise render themselves liable to fine and imprisonment in order to get hold of a piece of land that they can call their own. The best thing that can happen to New Zealand will be in the result of the wholesale prosecution of the settlers of a district for evasion of the Land Act. When scores of families are rendered homeless and penniless, when scores of hardworking breadwinners are wasting their lives in prison because they have infringed the provisions of tyrant M'Ken2ie's law ; when the country is languish' ing for the want of courageous settlers, and natnbypauiby associations of the teetotal-Christian-purity persuasion of town-bred-soft-banded unionists have mopped up the land in quarter-acre sections, then the colony, such as is left of it, will rise up in its wrath and pitch " Liberalism "to Hades." Surely this is written in anger ?