Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 128, 18 April 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

There wi'l be a meeting of the Church of England meiubera in the Colyton Hall this evening. Jt is very much to be regretted that the excessive railway charges on fresh fish ;\ro likely to stop the supply to Feilding. Tho value of the Aorangi traffic bridge is iilreiidy being proved. Yesterday Mr I.nil sent oyer enough sheep to load nearly thirty railway trucks. The latest dodge among " spielers " is to take out hawker's licenses, so that they cannot be charged with being " without visible means of support." Footballers are reminded that the first practice game takes place to-morrow afternoon on Messrs Gorton & Son's paddock, where a good muster is expected. Mr Joseph Brown has been nominated tor No. 1 Ward in the Pohangina Road District. Mr Brown has received liberal j promises of 6upport, and his election is almost a certainty. Under " The Marriage Act, 1880 " the Reverend William Edmund links, of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, has been gazetted as an officiating minister within the meaning of th<j Act. Mr William Duncan, of Makino, has a splendid third crop of strawberries coming on. The beds exhibit quite a large display of young and ripe fruit, a moat unusual sight at this time of the year, The Secretary of the Otaki Maori Racing Club, Mr If. F. Ea<rar, publishes today in our advertising columns some particulars relating to the race meeting on •24th May, and the nominations thereto, to which we direct attention of our sporting readers. Dr Murray Moore, who has resided for nine years in New Zealand, in the course of a lecture delivered in England, is reported to have described the climate- of the colony as " an exhilarating £<mibiuation of sunshine, sea breezes, aliu wer.s, and mineral sprint/-*.'' The lecturt), which was highly approved by those present, was illustrated by capital views, dm. — -Duuediii Star.

It is understood that Mr F. Y. Lotbbridgo has consented to stand for the Raugitikei seat in tho opposition interest. Mr F. G. Phillpots, of the Harbour , Board Block, has just returned from an extended holiday tour in Australia. In the sly-grog selling cases at Ohingaiti several of the defendants were fined £25 each, and costs ; in default — Wanganui gaol. The express from Wanganui was three quarters of an hour late yesterday, owing there not being sufficient steam power to drive tho engine over the hill near Tura- \ kina. Mr J. Garhck, of tho Foilding-Ashurst road, left for England on Saturday last, for tho purposo of consulting an oculist. Mr Gaihck's sight has been falling for some years. On Thursday next, at 7.30 p.m., tho officers and members of the local Fire Brigade will meet in the engine shed to discuss important matters in connection with the well being of the Brigade. It is reported that Mr J. Paul, the well-known horse owner and sport of Wanganui, still complains bitterly of the treatment his horses receive from handicappers, and talks of retiring from racing altogether. The attention of members of the Feilding Football Club is directed to an advertisement which appears in another column, a general meeting being called for Thursday night next, when important matters will be brought up. The settlers of Cheltenham, and district, aro reminded of the meeting which is to be held in the Cheltenham school house on Friday, the 21st instant, when Mr J Sawers, tho Government Dairy Instructor, will deliver an address on the advantages of co-operative dairying. Mr Phil Armour, the Chicago millionaire and philanthropist, has a delightfully epigrammatic way of voicing his sentiments, lie says he believes in religion, sixteen ounces to tho pound. And he doesn't care whether a man was bapti/.ud in a soup basin or in a river. Judgo : " What induced you to break into that bank r" Burglar : " Tho monoy there was in it. What ycr s'poso. Think I did it for frlory ? Ain't money what wo all aro aftor ? Ain't that what you got for trj'ing those cases." At Port Chalmers John Watson was fined 40s and costs for having a number of girls employed on Good Friday. It was stated that an order for mourning came in on the Thursday, and those girls wlm were willing were asked to come back next day, receiving a holiday on the following week. Tho Colonists Land Corporation have disposed of two sections in Manchester stroet. to Messrs M. Bulfit anil J. 11. Worsfold respectively, at LlO a foot. Thoro aro also numerous enquiries for other sections belonging to tho Corporation, a very slight difference only separating buyers and sellers, and mutual concessions will eventually load to business. I was travelling from Inverness to London, and my only companion in the third-class carriage was nn elderly Highlander, who sat in a corner with his plaid wrapped round him, and an expression of supreme content on his counternance, only stirring occasionally for tho purpose of taking a swig at his flask of mountain dew. Not a word was passed for some two hours, and then, tiring of the monotony, I ventured to suggest : " This is a very fatiguing journey." " Ay, and so it ocht to be. Twa poon's twa shillin's and sixpence." Tho attention of residents in Birmingham and district is directed to an advertisement which appears in another column, in which Messrs J. F. Stevens and Co. notify that they will start in business as tailors and habit-makers in premises centrally situated in that rising township, on the 2-ith inst. Mr Stevens for two years was a cutter to the celebrated firm of Monsieur Varanquez, of Paris, so that customers may rely upon getting a good j stylo and fit at the " Don " establishment. We congratulate Messrs Stevens and Co. on their enterprise, which will no doubt meet with the patronago it deserves. A return enckot match ia to be played in Messrs Gorton and Son's paddock tomorrow afternoon commouciug at 3 '30 j sharp, botween toums of fifteen school boys and olovon town boys. Tho follow- i mg players havo been selected : — School 803-8. — A. Gioaoa (Captain), S. Campbell, S. Strachan, K. Foster, E. Roade, F. Gabitos, A. Reade, W. Bronnan, 11. Greon, C. Reado, E. Wlntohoad, D. Whiskor. G. Fook, A. Toy, G. Haybittlo. Town lioys. — H. Gieson (Oapt), W. Hicks, W. Gosling, E. naybittle, E. Hicks, C. \ Dowdlo, J. Rosaman, W. Dais, F. Taohv. B. Uamiltou, and A. Bray. The Palmerston papers record the death of Miss Plwjtbe Leary, daughter of Mr J. P. Leary, who is one of the oldest settlers of Palmerston North, at the early age of 22 years. The deceased had been suffering for sometime from an internal complaint, and was recently taken down to tho Wellington Hospital, to see if the medical skill available there could restore her to health, but without avail ; and the unfortunate lady died at the Hospital last Friday morning. The body was brought to Palmerston and the funeral took place last Sunday in the public cemolovy, in tbo presence of a large assemblage of relatives and friends of the ! deceased and her family. Wo deeply sympathise with Mr Leary in his* bereavement. Mr I. Pike has a lot of young fowls killed on his farm at Gladstone, and it was evident from the marks left on some of the bodies that the ferrets have been in Ins poultry yard. His loss readied to between sixty and seventy fowls and several young ducks. He set rabbit-traps baited with tempting young chicks, but to no purpose. Then he tried a square wire trap, and on Wednesday night he caught from the same nest a ferret and two rats. Mrs Pike was near by at the time, and saw tho ferret coino out of the hole followed by tho rats. The ferret spied the bait and entered the trap, followed closely by a big Norwegian rat and another much smaller. The three were captured. The large rat was a doe, not fur off littering, and its mate was evidently the ferret. What kind of vermin such a progeny would prove, and their eliect on the farm remains to be discovered. — Grey town Standard. On Saturday afternoon, when Mr Adolphus Goldfinch was driving to Palmerston North from his farm on the Midland road, accompanied by Mrs Goldfinch and their three children, the mare took alarm at something and bolted. When the trap reached nearly the beginning of Mr J. G. Bray's property, on the Taonui road, the vehicle was upset and the occupants thrown out into the gully with considerable violence. Mr Goldfinch was badly cut about tho head and bruised in the chest. Mrs Goldfinch fell on a log, and tho box of one of the wheels of the trap rested on her chest, hurting her considerably, Mrs Bray witnessed the accident, and Mr Goldfinch went for Mr Bray, who was engaged on his furin. With the assistance of the latter, tho injured persons were conveyed to Mr Bray's private residence, where such temporary relief as was available was afforded. When Mrs Goldfinch had somewhat recovered from the shock she, with tho children, who fortunately had escaped with only a few scratches, were drivoti to their own home by Mr Bray. Dr Johnston was .sent for and did all that was possible under tho circumstances, but Mrs (■uldtt'nrh is still confined to her room. This is tho becoiul mishap Mr Goldfinch has had in tho sauio locality.

It is calculated that Great Britain spends L 185,000,000 sterling per year in \ buying food from abroad, not including wines and spirits. A Napier runholder states that the entertainment of swaggovs costs him about L2OO a year, and that very few of these men are really in search of work. They aro merely passing the time away until the elections are on. Messrs Gorton an.i Sou on behalf of ; Monsieur Both, sold a large collection of Japanese goods and novelties at Mrs Hustle's Sample Kooms to-day. The attendance of buyers both in the morning aud afternoon was good, and excellent prices wpre obtained for most of the lots". Captain Edwvn telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain hold good at all places northward of Lyttelton and Hokitika. Mr F. Arkwnght, of Rangihkei, has been nominated by the District Grand Lodge, Wellington, to succeed the lato Sir Harry Atkinson as District Grand Mastor under tho English Constitution.