Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 2, 3 July 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

We understand that 215 shares hava been plnced of the Colyton creamery. The success of the venture is thus assured. We haye to acknowledge receipt of the Government Bail way Time Table for July. It is said that Sir Eobert Stout hns private reasons for not joining the Ministry. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to»day — Indications for hard frost to-night. A Palmerston contractor wns the sue* cessful tenderer for the erection of Mr J. F. Donnelly's new dwelling house in Denbigh street. Mr Haybittlo's string band has been engaged to supply music for the bachelor's ball at Birimugham on Friday next. Mr Watts, builder, is pushing on the erection of Mr Hooper's new dental surgery, adjoining MrCobbe's brick store. Mr G. C. Hill is the architect. The new saw mill now being erected by Mr Lowe, near Birmingham, is nearly completed. Tho machinery is all ready to be placed in position. Mr Jellicoe has written to the Palmerston Standard saying there is no foundation for the statement that he is about to leave New Zealand. St. Peter's Day is one of Saint's days which the banks not observe as a holiday. Akuanei 1 -*s the Maoris s>ay when they fear 1 uYtjJ**£daiU? fi '"- _ Tho Hawke's Bay Herald warns farmers against purchasing clover seed from Canterbury, whore, snjs the Herald, largo quantities have been threshed from land infested with the Caltfornun thistle The bowl against the Austrinns in the Auckland gum fields is absurd. There are plenty of them settled about the Manchester Block and they are good settlers and good neighbours. I Business is steadily increasing in Christchurch, and there is a general feeling of confidence in the future. There is a general demand for land in small farms owing to the development of the dairy industry. The light in which New Zealand securities are viewed at Home may be gathered from the following quotations 1H por cent loans on May 6th last :— New Zealand, 96J ; New South Wales, 91 { ; Victoria, 87£ ; Queensland, 85$. Wellington employs 80 medical men or one to every 1188 persous ; Auckland 40, or one to every 1800 ; Christchurch 29, or one to every 1655 ; Duuedin 83, or one to every 1894 ; Nelson one to every 693. The proportionate death rates are not given. The customs revenue for the colony last month was £118,242, as against £140,870 for the proceeding month. Auckland contributed £26,840, Welling, ton ±-27,718, Ohnstchurch £17,881, and Dunedin £28,493. J From a private telegram received in Palmerston on Saturday night, we (Standard) learn that in the action Hamilton v. Harden and Miss Crawftfd, for £250 damages, judgment was, gPfJh for defendant with costs, Mr G. Aiiyon has disposed of his valuable property of 312 apres, at Te Horo, on the Manawatu Company's line, to Mr W. B. Whishaw at a 'satisfactory figure. Mr Anyon recently purchased a section in Birmingham from Mr Holland. In a boxing saloon in JLondon a match for women only takes place every Sunday morning. The prize is generally a hat or other article of dress. This is not a result of the agitation for woman's franchise in New Zealand, but the absence of Home Rule in private families in the grand Old Country. The Wairar2»»a Daily Times anticipates that at the next) general election in many electorates a follower of Sir Robert Stout wIJJ in, found fi K hti» K M r tied don. Sir Hobert Stout having placed himself at the head of the Temperance party makes his position a standing menace to the supremacy of Mr Seddou. Entries for the Birmingham and Feildinj; stocks sales of the United Formers' Alliance are published to-day. It will be observed that both lists are extensive. These are tho inaugural sales of Mr Charles Carr, who is now the Auctioneer of the Alliance, and are indicative of the popularity of that gentleman among tho farming community. The Napier Telegraph indignantly remarks : — Sir Robert Stout hopes to shut up the " pubs." on half-holidays. What a country this is going to be I The shops closed fora generul half-holiday ; employes enjoying themselves at cricket or rowing, and not a drop of beer or shandy-guff to be had 1 Nobody dreams about giving half-holidays to printers, or housemaids. Thos. Robinson, a bookmaker, known as * Murrumbidgee.' recently brought an acliou nfittinst the stewards and secretary of the Town nnd Suburban facing Club, Nnpier. claiming £500 for fnlse imprisonment. Plaintiff was laying totolisntor odds on the oourse when ordered to leave; he refused to do so, and ultimately he was given into enstody and looked up at Taradale Police Station. Judgment for defendants with costs. A son of Mr R. Robinson, ot Makino, met with a peculiar accident last Friday. He was riding a horse and leading another when the latter began to play up, and trod on a piece of wood which flow up and indicted a severe gash across the forehead to the corner of the eye. Dr Sorley was called in nnd dressed the wound, which had to be sewn up, and tho lad is now progressing favourably, as most fortuu* atolv the eye escaped injury. Imprisonment for debt has long been abolished, but imprisonment for contempt of Court for not obeying an order to pay is sb much of a muchness that Mr Seddon has introduced a Bill to abolish imprisonment for debt below £100. This will have the good effect of stopping credit, but it will be hard on many poor people who depend on a little credit when work is BCiirco. Mr Seddon's Bill, says the Telegraph, in putting a stop to recovery of KiimJl debts by judgment summons, will make tradesmen demand cash. Sonic f jjnp n^'o the Lnnds Department issued n Jiutfee to B))i-pin| Sr-ltlement Associations tlial, with a view ofincrensing the facilities for taking up hind, it had been dctermind to modify the condition rcqmridg an uppliuudon foe of 2s Gd per nc:o by making this deposit payable in two instalments, viz. Is 3d an acre upon iipplicnlion. nnd the balance nt a subsc tjuciit date, both payments to be credited us mat. This easement of terms hua I < givea general satibfuction.'^liiyes. j

'We hnye to acknowledge receipt of a b[.tch of Purliamentary pipers. The Wellington Press was nine years old yesterday. We congratulate our contemporary on its vigorous youth. There^will be a, meeting of the creditors of Mr F. (Troves held at the S.M. Court house to-morrow afternaon at two o'clock. Land purchasers are reminded of the sale by public auction of the Pohangina town sections, to take place on Wednesday next. ■ .. "* *%>;-.:'"':' ' ■'■ - rf Mr Ben Poole leaves Feilding to take up his residence at Apiti this \rfok. The hotel will befitted up and ready for business by the 14th inst. The funeral of the late Mr John Henderson ' took place Inst Saturday. The Key. A. Hermon ofliciated at the ,gra\v, and Mr A. Eade was the undertaker. Members of the Foildinj; Small Fnrm Association will meet nt Short's Hull to morrow evening at 7. 80 to receive the report of (he members who were sent (0 inspect the land that lias been token up. It is snid that no less than £'50.000,000 is lying nt the present moment in the bnnks of Scotland in the shape of unclnimed deposits, i»nd one of the Inmost bnnk buildinus in Glasgow is believed to have been built out of such funds. What have all the nest of kin agents*, been doing? At lost meeting of the Wellington Lnnd Board schedules of thirds accrued in the following road districts were submitted nud passed for pajment : — Alfred ton, Ekotahuun, Kiwitea, Mnnawatu, Mastertin, Mauncoville, Waitotara, Momohaki. Whirokino, Pohangina, Featherston, and Taratahi-Carterton ; also Eangitikei, and Waitotaru Counties. An old woman named " Biddy," 73 years of nue, is still fossicking for gold on the banks of the Buller river. She has followed this occupation over thirty ■ years, disdaining nil eleemosynnry nid. Her photograph is exhibited in one of the shops in Greymouth, showing the orthodox long-hnndled shovel, piospcct ing di.-k, pnnnikin, and black cutty pipe. H. F. Greenwood, an ex-Wanganuite, a member of the Melbourne Harriers, placed two wins to his credit at a recent 6ports meeting in Melbourne. In the Quarter, Greenwood got home from scratch in the fast time of 53 8-sth sec. In tho Hundred Yards Handicap, Greenwood was ngnirt on scratch In the final heat all gnt awny to a good start, but nt the half distance Greenwood hnd caught his men, and when within twenty yards oflho tn>pf, cmrid with a fine rush and won in 10 4 Oth sec. The track wns heavy and rough, which makes the performances of the ex-New Zealander the more meritorious.