Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 116, 21 March 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

A telephone oflico was opened today in Mr Church's business establishment, Kiwi tea. A young man named Dodson, l'J years of UK, committed suicide by shooting himself lust Sunday at Wakapuaka, Nelson. A representative (Mr D. Lilly) of Messrs Hogg Bros, and Brechin, of Wanganui, will visit Feildiug, at Hastio's Hotel, on Friday next. Mr Cobbo has bought Mr J. It. &foutajjue's auction room and shops in Manchester street, ami the premises (except the shops) will be occupied by Mr Darragh as a general storo and grocery. With reference to the candidature of Mr Walter Johnston, of Awahtiri, for the I'aliuDiston seat in the House of Representatives, we are assured that he would have a large support in that part of the electorate which is in our neighborhood. At a meeting of tlio committee of tho Queensland Relief Committee Jast night, it was reported that nearly £<30 was now in hand, and several lists had yet to be returned. A sub-committee was appointed to close the fund and remit the balance to Brisbane at once. ]'>y a Wellington telegram this 'lfternoou we are informed that JL1727 had been sent, by this colony, to Brisbane. If those figures are correct, and we are j sceptical on the point, Feildingand suburban settlements did well i;i .sending .fIUU, with XOU luoru now in liaud.

Mr C. Siddels, of the Colyton Hotel, has sold out to Mr Peter Boyson, of Palmerston North, and the latter takes possession on Thursday next. In answer to a question by counsel, one of the witnesses in the alleged dummyism enquiry at New Plymouth said j his occupation was a " struggler for existence." On Sunday the body of a man, name 1 unknown, from 25 to 30 years of age, was found drowned in the Opihi riyer, at I Timaru, fastened to the bridge by strips of a shirt. j ', Captain Edwin telegraphs : —Weather forecast for 21 hours from 9 a.m. to- day— Warnings for easterly gales with rain have been sent to all places northward of Thames and Manakau, and for strong northerly winds to all other places. The following will represent the Manchester Cricket Club against Feilding and Oroua to-morrow (Wednesday) :— Parr, Kichards, Bellve, lleade, Garratt, Burlace, Henderson, Entwisle, Tucker, Garlick, and Eade. The members of the Primitive Methodist choir presented Mrs Lyon with a very handsome cruet prior to her departure from Feilding, as a token of their respect for tho services she had rendered the choir during tier residence in this town. The Palmerston people have a lot of push in them. We noticed, by the Manawalu Times, that the Mayor, Mr Robert Edwards, has convened a meeting of ratepayers to-morrow to discuss proposals for a loan, to be expended in the erection of Municipal buildings. Tho following will represent the Feilding Cricket Club in the match on Wednesday afternoon against the Manchester Cricket Club :— Millen, Sharpe, Hill, Koache, Strachan, Bartholomew, Hedges, Levett, Clayton, llutherford, and Baillie. Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, carries with him several phonographs. " One " we are gravely told, will be entirely filled with his favorite songs as sung by his wife, while another will contain a charming collection of baby's cries as uttered by bis only child." He should take a third filled with tho cries of his mother-in-law. Then he would find it quite home-like at the Pole. With reference to an item in the local columns of our last issue, anent the cricket match to have been played between teams of the Birmingham and Manchester club?, we arc informed by Mr Burlnce, tho Secretary of tho latter, that he had no communication from the Birmingham club appointing a day for the proposed match, therefore lie made no preparations for one. The fault consequently appears to be on the side of the Birmingham club. A meeting of those interested in the formation of an Association Football Club was held at Hastie's Hotel on Saturday evening. There was only a small attendance. Messrs Hare (2) and Gray wero appointed a committee, with Mr Duniel us secretary, for the purpose of taking the necessary steps towards starting the club. So far only about twelve members have joined, but it is expected that several others will do so before the season commences. At a meeting of tho Drug Company, in Dunedin, Mr Kempthome stated that the company had not been able to get nearly enough linseed. He disposed of the sample grown by Todd, at Taieri. The yield was SJO bushels to tho acre, and at f>s per bushel. Todd would get Ml 10s per acre. The company could put enough linseed through to supply the whole colony. He feared that when the farmers found how linseed growing would pay, they would rush into it too much. The Native Minister is in receipt of telegraphic information to the effect that four native men and 11 native women of the Tuhoi or Uriwera tribe appeared on Saturday before Mr Hush, R.M., at Whiikatane, charged with obstructing Mr 1 Q, M. Creaph in his surveying operations at Kuatoki. The cases were proved, and the defendants were sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Mount Eden gaol, Auckland, tho imprisonment in the case of the male prisoners to be accompanied with hard labour. General Booth, in his regulations for Salvation soldiers, says : — " No engagement should be made, and no marriago tuko place between parties who havo not a reasonable prospect of maintaining thouisolves and their families, when marnod, in decent comfort. Tho Army will uot sauction or take part iv any marriage which seems like to end miserably, owiug to tho difforenco of ago, circumstance, or position of tho parties, or of tho inubihty of either party to perform tho duties that would devolve upou them in their now relation." The Sunday School Anniversary services conducted by the Rev. Mr Clement m the Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday last, were well attended. The preacher delivered three impressiye sermons to attentive congregations. The subjects were appropriate and ably treated. The new minister has evidently made a very favorable impression ou the Feilding public. He is to receive a public welcome at the usual banquet and tea, held to celebrate the completion of the parsonage, on Good Friday, particulars of which will bo given in a future issue. Mr John Burns, M.P., who justly claims to have had "unequalled experience of, tho largest meetings of the unemployed ever held," warns us that before the unemployed question can be properly dis--1 cussed and dealt with, "we must learn to distinguish between the laborer and the loafer." Till the tramp, thief, and ne'erdo well, however pitiable they may be, are dealt with distinctly from the genuine worker, no permanent benefit will, in his 1 opinion, result to any of them. " 1 have seen," he adds, " the most genuine and ; honest men at meetings mixed up with the laziest and most drunken scoundrels." i These latter get together for a purpose — they have but ono object, that is pillage. > Tbt? following blocks hare been set apart for special settlement : — Lcppcrton (Tnrannki),32<X) acres; Swinburn (Ota^o), :<OOO acres, Moanatuiri (Tumuaki), 4608 acres ; Gat ton, Terrace End, Alangaehu. Llewi-llyn, Eliham, and Kailiako (Taranaki), 31,000 acres; Kaitaneitvhcnui, 1 Mocwutea, aud Whenukura (Tarauaki) ' 33,000 acres; Coomoor, (Wellington), 3000 acres ; Wanganui United (Welling 1 ton), 10,000 acres ; Hunterville, 1, 2, and ' 3, (Wellington) 28,000 acres; Waiwera > (Wellington), 3900 acres; Hall (W«-l linKton), 3200 acres ; Mekalicksione, i Woodvilie No. 2, L'aliintua I\ T o. -i. , Kaikoura and Danevirke Centennial i (Wellington), 2y,290 acres ; Tararua (Wellington), -1000 acres, Marlon 3, 1. and 5 (Wellington), 30,000 acres ; nnd . Wellington Fruit Growers' block, 2050 ; acres. As an article of food the days of tripe are likely to be over. It has been disP I covered that when tanned and dyed it ' makes a leather exceeding in softness and * beauty tho well-known Morocco. This | tripe-leather can be split like ordinary j skina, and tho spongy part tlion makes a 1 durable, soft, and lustrous article, admirably suited for bags, purses, and other 1 articles. There are from 15ft to 20ft of i tripe forming tho stomachs of the larger i ruminant animals, so that, especially in ■ tho great cattlo • slaughtering countries sncli as Australia, New Zealand, mid the i Argentine Republic, a new industry ought ! to spring up. This is a severe blow. The ! next thing will be the discovery of a mode i of converting the onion into material for nniking hats. Thus are tho dearest and sweoteFt boons of a well speut life torn from us by the progress of speculative science. The trail oi tho microbe is uyer us all.