Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 102, 16 February 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

_♦_ Subscriptions to the Queensland Belief Fund are coming in very freely. The Kiwitea lioad Board will meet on Saturday next. The Manchester Rifles will parade this evening. Very heavy rain fell in this district on Tuesday evening and yesterday. The shipment of butter from Melbourne j for the season just closed amount to 3(500 tons, valued at .£400,000. We understand Mr Millen has disposed of his interest in the Colyton Hotel to Mr McLaren, and Mr Millen has purchased Mr Boyd's farm. The Hon. Mr Sedclon, who is a passenger by the express train this afternoon, will receive a deputation headed by His 1 Worship the Mayor, Mr E. Goodbehere. We hear that ft concert is likely to be given shortly, in aid of the fund being raised for the benefit of the sufferers by the (Queensland floods. Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 21 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Warnings for westerly gales and rain changing to the southward after 10 hours have been sent to all places. The officers of the llangitikei Liberal Association will meet at Birmingham [ to-morrow, and at Beaconsfield on Satin--1 day. The match which has been looked ; forward to with so much interest amongst cricketers, Veterans versus Manchester Club, had to be put off, owing to the unfavorable state of the weather yesterI day. It is rumoured that Colonel Fox will recommend the abolition of all country volunteer corps. If this is carried out the colony will have a pretty penny to pay for • compensation. The match between the Kungitikei Cavalry Volunteers, and the Manchester Uitles will be lired at Bulls, on Wednesday next, the 22ud instant. The conditions are eight men a side, ten shots each at 200 and :JOO yards. We publish to-day the programme of the Auhurst Athletic Sport? to be held on St. Patrick's day March 17th, l.Sfly, on the Kecieation ground at Ashurst. It is worthy of note that the prizes aro liberal und should therefore be the means of . .it trading good fields. Every event is open. f Mr Ernest Adama, of Makino, firewood dealer, has a renewal notice in to-day to j which we direct the attention of our , readers. As the winter is ij.ow rapidly ' approaching we would remind priident householders of the urgent necessity 1 which exists for them to lay in a good stock of firewood while the tine weather lasts, and fuel can be carted easily and at a minimum of expense. ' There was a big flood in. the Qtaki district yesterday, aud, consequently, considerable loss of property ; but hnppilv, through the action of Mr Carkeek, J.P., ( assisted by Hori te Warn and Hoaui Tawhiri, no lives have been lost, as they rescued Mr James (settler) and his wife and family troru the centre of tho Otaki river by /ypans of a boat. Tho Hood is | Vj abating, i Says the Melbourne HeiaJd «f .January ; :50th : — John Daly, a lad about I J yuaro ' " of age, had a narrow escape from 'Imwn j > ing on Saturday afternoon, lie was' amusing himself, with several companions, on the jetty opposite Messrs lioburt Harper and Co.'s factory, Port Melbourne, when he fell into the l>ny. A young man nnme.il Arthur Sandilauds, son of .Ml 1 ; , Sundilanils, solicitor (and brother of Mr ; W. A. Saudihinds, of this town), without waiting to divest himself of his clothing ! ,'tiiunpd into the water, and at consider j i \\\g xi^ vpscuovl the I ml, \vh», wlit»> • ] taiieo iwLoi-.c, was in a very exhausted ' condition.

Entries for Messrs Gorton and Sons Feilding rani aud sheep fair on Friday the 24th instant are published to-day. Messrs ! Gorton and Son specially point out that all sheep must be legibly branded. Says the Standard : —Tho Advocate has a ridiculous article about the traeic crnelty of the Liberals in compelling Mr Ballance to remain in office in;his s'.ate of health; Our contemporary can rest easy, for we were assured by Mr Ballance the ©ther day that he has neither the slightest intention nor wish to resign office. It will be interesting to those in the habit of studying ocean currents to learn that a life buoy with lighting apparatus attached belonging to the illfated steamer liuettn, drifted ashore uear the mouth of the Manawatu about three weeks ago. It was found by one of Mr G. Huff's children. — Manawatu Standard. A newspaper proprietor up Paten way, who had been pounding away at his delinquent subscribers for some time, finally brought them to their sense of duty with the following poetical parody : — "Lives of poor men oft remind us honest toil dou't stand a chance ; more we work we leave behind us bigger patches on our pants. On our pants once new and glossy now are patches of different hue ; all because subscribers linger and won't pay up what is due. Then let all be up and doing ; send in your mite, however small, or when chills of winter strike us we shall have no pants at all. We are informed that some people are killing humble bees ou suspicion of being the dreaded bot fly. The l?alnatua Star mentions one instauco of an ahirinod settlor impaling one of the former useful insects with an inch nail, and a case oc cuowl m Feildwg j«st«rd«y where a humble beo, imprisoned on suspicion in a ui:itch box, was handed to the Mayor, Mr E. Croodbehere. As the Minister of Agriculture is preparing a " leaflet " describing the real offondor, we trust that in a few days all possibility of injuriug I any respectable member of insect society will be reinovod. Last Sunday, in the Primitive Methodist Church, extra seats had to be placed in the building to accommodate the members who gathered to listen to Mrs Wright, the evangelist who is at present conducting services in Feilding. Mrs Wright hns some excellent qualifications for her work as a public speaker. She is able to present her message lucidly and attractively, and her manner is both gentle and quietly impressive. On Sunday, her text was taken from the passage of scripture " Behold 1 stand at the door and knock." The speaker illustrated her points in a very beautiful way, and her large audience, from first to last, followed her with the closest interest. Tho Dunedin correspondent of the Cromwell Argus is responsible for the following,: — " A somewhat extraordinary statement is current concerning Mr Pink orton. the senior M. H. B. for Dunedin. It is alleged that he has somewhat lost caste with the Labor Party, and is not in such good fnror as Mr Earnshaw. The reason for (his you would never miess. It is this. Mr Pmkerton has considered that notwithstanding his being an M. H- It. if was his duty to slick to his trade and not become a mere place hunter. His resolye has been regarded ns very wise by most people, who have lauded him for not being above his trade merely because a wave of feeling led (o his election, but according to the new creed he is anathomatised. If he yiive up his work he would make room for another worker. They contend that having taken to politics he should make n living out of it. This is a new gospel with a yengennce, but it is the gospel according to the Labor party." The followinu speech of a female suffragist in America is given in the Woman's World : — "Miss President, fellow women, and male trash generally, — I am here for the purpose of discussing women's rights, recussjng her wrongs, and cussing men. I believe women were created equal with men, although they die a little morn equal now. As a success man is a failure. I bless my stars mj mother was a woman. They say man was created first Well, suppose he was. Ain't first experiments always failures? The only decent thing was a rib, and that went to make something better. They throw in our faces about Eve taking an apple, but I bet five dollnrs Adam hoisted her up the tree and only gave her the core. What did he do when found out ? True to his masculine instincts, he shrank behind Eve and said, "It is not I, it is she." This woman had to father everything and mother it too. What we want is the ballot, nnd the ballot we mean to have if we have to let down our back hair and swim in a sea of gore."