Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 136, 6 May 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to press. The bears are going up to Birmingham next week. In the Presbyterian Church to-mor-row evening, at 8.15, a special service wilt bo held for men only. It is reported that iron ore has been discovered in the Wairarapa district,within two miles of the railway line. j A meeting ot the town boy's football club will be held in Mr F. JBruy's on Monday night, at 7.30. The death of Mrs Tollemache, relict of the late Hon. E. Tollemache, is announced. The legacy duty on this estate will be a windfall to the Colonial Treasury. On dit that Mr George Jones, proprietor and editor of the Oamaru Mail, is lo be appointed Government Printer. Should the rumour prove correct (says the Wellington Press), the appointment will be a purely political one. Mr Jones has always been notoriously of the " right colour." It will be remembered that Mr Jones was to have been called to the Upper House, but the " labour representation " had tbe strongest pnlJ, and Mr Jones was left out in the cold, but •*** everything comes to him who waits," and virtue is now to be rewarded.

Mr R. F. Haybittle has wired to Napier to endeavour to get the Pollard Juvenile Opera Company to give a performance in Feilding. Mr W. Q. Haybittle has been appointed a director of the Longburn Freezing Company ,in place of Mr C. Bull, resigned. Our readers are reminded of the meeting to be held on Monday next in the Foresters' Hall, anent the final establishment of a Chamber of Commerce in Felling, It is stated that a cablegram has been received from the Rev. Winnington Ingram, of Oxford House, deolining to be pnt in nomination for the Bishopric of Wellington. In the course of an address, in London, Bishop Julius, of Christchurch, expressed the opinion that the prevalence of religious unbelief in the colonies was due to agnostic education. Mr A. D. Willis announces that he will oppose Mr A. J. Parsons for the Wanganui seat. It is now known that Mr Carson will not stand until the general election. It is said that Major Franklyn will contest the Inangahua seat as a supporter of the Government. Major Franklyn is a good fellow, and he has hosts of friends, DH t he wont get in for Inangahua. A German doctor claims to havo discovered that the blood of an animal which had just recovered from an infectious disease can cure another animal of the same disease, if subcutaneous injections are made. The funeral of the late eon of Mr H. Woolven took place on Wednesday afternoon, and was followed by a number of friends. The Rev. H. M. Murray officiated at the cemetery, and Mr W. G. Shearer was undertaker. Polly had been looking at a small creek and thinking very deeply about it for some time. " Come, Polly, let's go home now," said the nurse. " Wait just a minute," replied Polly, " I want to see tbe end of this creek go by." Tho Manawatu Standard shudderingly says : The mighty foundations of high society in Foxton are suffering upheaval over a scandal, far exceeding anything revealed in the slander case heard at the District Court, and all sorts of developments are anticipated. Owing to the regular meeting falling this month on Queen's Birthday, it has been decided to hold tho installation meeting of the Palmerston N. Manawatu Kilwinning Lodge on May 17th, and arrangements are now being mado to celebrate the occasion in the usual manner. A disgraceful fight took place in the lobby of the Sydney Parliament last Thursday night between Crick and Haynes, both members of the House, The former was considerably knocked about before the police and messengers separated the combatants. Some slight oxcitoment occurred on the arrival of the mid-day tram in Foilding yesterday. One of the mail bags wae thrown out before the train had stopped, and it rebounded off tho platform underneath one of the carriages. Very little damage was however done to the bag ot its contents, In addressing the Behring Sea Abitration Commission, Mr E. J. Phelps, ih« United States Delegate, spoke for forty hours. Whether he said much worth listening to is questionable Anyway, he was an unfeeling monster bo to have crushed the other delegates. There has been all sorts of indiscriminate weather in and about Hawke's Bay and Wellington, but in Feilding we have only experienced warm spnng weather oi the most balmy character. This proves the truth pf what many people have already said to the effect that our local climate is the finest in the colony. The Government (says the N.Z. Times of yesterday) have decided to define an area at Ohingaiti, under section 15 oi •' The Licensing Act, 1882," and to appoint the Licensing Committee of the Paraekaretu district to exercise special authority in the granting of licenses within such area. A gentleman in town informs us that coming down to his office yesterday morning he observed three swallows flying southwards. This phenomenon (says the Napier News), for phenomenon it is here, quite surprised our friend. But for the hour the reader might imagine he had seen double or treble. Such was not the case, however. The swallows were genuine, and they numbered three. Tbe Feilding Mutual . Improvement Society held their meeting as usual on Thursday evening. The President, the Rev. G. Clement, read a very instructive paper on " Mohammedanism," describing the rise and growth of that religion in a very able manner. After questions had been asked and answered a hearty vote of thanks to the essayest was passed on the motion of Mr Carty. The time will be occupied at the next meeting, on Thursday, May 11, with impromptu speeches. In New South Wales, sheep-farming is the pre-eminent branch of the pastoral industry. The net value of that colony's past year's wool production, estimated at £10 per bale, amounts to £9,172,120, as against £10,059,996, the estimated value of the preceding clip of 838,333 bales, taken at £12 per bale. The increase of the output will be seen, therefore, to haye largely counterbalanced the loss occasioned through the fall in market rates, but the decline in prices occasioned a loss of practically £1,000,000 to New South Wales. A peculiar case was heard at tbe Christchurch R.M. Court recently, when a mau was charged with having wild ducks in his possession before the shooting season opened. Defendant showed that the ducks had been shot last season and had been kept in a freezing chamber, but the Acclimatisation Society asked the Bench to decide whether this was a lawful excuse. The Bench dismissed the case, holding that a person had a perfect right to send ducks to be frozen within the season, and it would be absurd to attempt to prevent him taking them out when he pleased. Souquet Brothers gave their first exhibition, with their performing bears, before a large audience in the Corporation Paddock last night. The animals are splendid specimens of the grizzly and cinnamon varieties, are under perfect control, and go through a number of clever feats, such as dancing, wrestling, drinking from bottles, allowing onlookers to ride them, and then showing their trickiness in unseating their riders, &c. The an hence was kept in a constant state ofj laughter by the amusing, and perfectly safe, programme which was gone through. The performance will be repeated this evening and Monday evening, and those who want a hearty laugh should not fail to be present. Previous to the death of the Hon. John Ballance, the registrars throughout the colony were instructed to prepare the electoral rolls and get them printed. Tenders were, therefore, called for the work, but a good deal of delay has taken place in regard to their acceptance, which indicated that some uncertainty existed in the Ministerial mind as to what should be done. Yesterday morning, however, Mr Ross, Registrar for the Rangitikei electorate, received a telegram stating that the rolls would not yet be printed, but that the work wonld be put in hand later on. This may possibly indicate that the Government intend to pass the Electoral Bill, conferring the franchise on women during the coming session,aiid are deferring Che preparation ofthe rolls until their names can be legally included. — Adyocate.

Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Warnings for westerly gales and rain have been sent lo all places north of Napier and New Plymouth, and for southerly (rales to all places from thence ] southward to Kaikoura and Hokitika: Our contemporary, the Wanganui Chronicle, in the course of an article on Mr Parson's candidature for the Wan ganui seat, makes use of the expression, "he must find some means of drowning the seductiye whisper." We have come across a good many queer metaphors in our dav, but the " drowning of a whis per " surpasses all. The police report two arrests on tho part of individuals for mistaking the difference between " meam and tuum." In the one case, Arthur Young, and Murdoch McLean, have been apprehended for stealing cattle at Manaia, and in tho other instance, a jockey named William Simmons, has been taken for horse stealing, and larceny from a Maori chief, named Honi Waterc, at Turakina. Mr H. Harvey, of Taonui, had the misfortune to lose bis watch and chain a few days ago. It appears that during his absence some slippery individual borrowed the articles in question and conveniently forgot to return them. As tho police are making enquiries into the matter, it is quite possible that the thief will soon be sorrowfully lamenting the folly of" sneakL ing a ticker," as the late lamented Captain I Mac Heath would say.