Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 11, 13 July 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

There is some talk of tho settlors up the Pohangina applying for a mail delivery. In a recent issue wo omitted to acknowledge an extract made from tho Mercury. Tho Chairmanship of Committees, made vacant by tho resignation of Mr Itees, has been conferred on Mr A. R. Guinness, one of the West Const members. v !\Ve (Uhroniclo) are sorry to hear that Sergeant Major Anderson's illness has taken a turn for tho worso and that only yorv slender hopes can now bo held out •'for "bis recovery. In the past winter (says the St James's Gazette) many Londonors ate. without knowing it, frosh fish brought from New Zealand and sold iv the markets. It was bluo cod— at least, so it is termed in its native parts — but the appearauce of the fish closely resembles gray mullet. Members of the Feildiug Masonic Lodge intending to assist at tho quarterly communication of tho Grand Lodgo of Now Zealand to bo held in Wauganui to-mor-row afternoon, will leave by the mail train at noon. The ceremony will commence in Freemasons' Uall at 4,30 shurp in the afiornoou. A number of Waikato Maoris have commenced to make arrangements for a visit to the Chicago Exhibition, or what is left of it after the recent fires and floods. If they "strike oil" in Porkopolis they will go on to England and give the people a treat there in the shape of hakas and war dauces. Mr Gilreeth, one of the Government Vet Surgs, left England for New Zealand on the 24th June. Mr Cliarleton, the other gentleman appointed, will be unable to leave for some weeks yet as his engagement with the Privy Council in Ireland has not yet concluded. He is expected out about September next.— Truth. An important meeting of members of the Feilding Farm Homestead Association was livid at Short* Hall on Tuesday evening last for the purpose of receiring deposits, nod other general business. Mr Bcwater, the secretary, proceeded to Wellington yesterday, in order to put in a formal application for the land, which it is proposed to call the Gladstone Block. At a place called Orni ko Rako, known bk " The Alum Cave," near Taupo, a rerj large geyser has broken ou:. It tar exceeds in mzo any of those in existence ut cither Wairnkei or Rotorua. The volume of water is immense, and has so trightcned the natives formerly residing in tin- neighborhood thnt they hare, nil left it fearing nn upheaval of some kind. Mr Walter Humphries is meotinjr with very hard luck with Auroa, as in tbo Hurdles at tbo Wellington Raciug Club's Mooting on Monday, ho ran second, and yesterday at tho Hunt Club's Mooting, tbo horse finished second in the Opon Hurdles and third in tho Welter. In tho Hurdles at Napier, Auroa was only beaten by a bend, after a splendid finish. This is indoed a record of hard luck. Tho colony gets j£Boo a year by selling the backs of postage stamps and telegraph forms as advertising mediums. The Nupier News remarks: If that bo so, then we have no hesitation in saying that the practice should fort with be discontinued. To make up for the abomination a good round sum ought to be realised. Certainly, a paltry .£BOO is not worth considering. Away with the nuisance. Our daily telegrams continue to show that amongßt the crowds attracted to this colony by the " Liberal policy of the People's Ministry," are about as undesirable a set of ruffians as can be imagined These gaolbirds have come to stay here (says the Napier Telegraph) and till they are all caught, and placed securely under lock and key, it seems they will pursue their calling of burglary and thieving. We have received from the Directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company a copy of the first edition of " The Settlers' Guide to New Zealand," a well compiled handbook. In a handy form it gives much valuable information to intending immigrants on the subjects of trade, industries, wages, cost of food, nature of land tenure, details of costs of passages to New Zealand, and a number of other useful items of interest. A long felt want has now been supplied in Waituna West by Mr A. E. Bennett who has opened a first class accommodation house in that rising settlement. The building is quite new and is fiurnished with due regard to the comfort and requirements of patrons, and is conveniently situated near Messrs Eagar and Ranoons store. We are confident that Mr Bennett will have all the success his enterprise deserves. George Gerald Marrington, 14 years of age, has won a record for regular attend ance at a board school at Earlsfield, For seven years in succession he has never been absent or late. He holds a gold medal, presented by the School Board, for this exemplary conduct. The sincerest sympathy for this poor lad will be felt by all boys, when it is remembered that 44 the other boy " who did this sort of thing was found dead on an African desert, from starvation. A " steam man " is the latost American norelty. The inventor, Professor George .Moon, made a similar apparatus with partial success a number of years ago, but his present venture is larger, and intended to draw a waggon. The figure, Gft high, in encased in metal, and looks like a knight iv mediaeval trmour, with helmet and visor, smoking a cignr. The cigar, however, is «n escape pipe, and the plumes on the helmet veil the top of the chimney. The furnace and boiler are contained inside the trunk, and the moving mechanism in the rest of the body; The man walks briskly at a paco of four or five miles an hour. He will be used as a debt collector. The Wellington Times says : -•« Oh Lord ! ' ' That is the exclamation which greeted Mr Bruce ou bis own side of the House when he spoke well of the Shipping and Soamon's Bill. Mr Bruce is au expert in matters naval, and an honest man as well— a very frequent combination, lot us add, iv the world. The partisan spirits of tho Opposition did not relish tho combination. They wanted Mr Bruce to sink his honesty and abuse both the Government and their Bill. But when Mr Bruce proved true to himself, their disappointment was so severe as to bo comical. Fortunately— for nothing could haye beau a sevoror condemnation of their attitudo than the protesting oxclumatioDfl which they threw at tho ouly man ou tbuir side who had tho couragu to speak the truth that was in him. Tho rocent heavy rains bavo douo a great deal of damage to tbo low lying land about Awabuii. Hundreds of a ores of the flat are still under water, and the gra*a is rotting. Feed in tbo district v yery scarce this season, uod what there is does not contain much substance owing to there being so much, wet. A great part of the Kopam ostato was ur.der water lately, owing to tho heavy floods in the Oroua rivor. Tbo stench goiug to Palm -rston is abominable owing t<> tho rotting grasfl. Tho settlers have lost a great maoy lambs lately from tho oxcossiyoly w«t weather. Grass sown ou tho Intoly burnod lands has a vory poor chumo this year, and tbo teed must perish tin hundreds of acre*. On Mr Johnston's ostute four hundred acres are being sown and a great part of this 18 under wator. Crops must be Into this yunr if tho land does not dry as the present >tate of tho ground makes ploughmg i.ext to hnpoi»tfiblu.

Cnptain Ednin wires to day :— Indications for a very cold night, and strong westerly winds Tho entries for the Farmers' Alliance sale at Feildint; to morrow are excoptionally lar^e and compriso about 3500 sboep, nnd 450 head of cattle. Tho valuable skeleton nf Aptornis dtfassor, tho oxtinct ginnt Kail of New Zealand, recently sent homo by Mr Hamilton, registrar of Otago Uiiivorsity,. has beefi pftrcha^ed by' f the trasteeSi!'of;th*&/ British Mi^nm, thq-pneo paid.boiu^XSOA We vemiivl those interested of the social to be held this evening in the Primitive Methodist Chnrch in connection with the Mmaßl'lmtttbVement Society. A good programme has been arranged and a very pleasant evening should be spent. At the Banco sitting of the Christchurch Bupreme Court this lporning, Mr Justice Denniston gave judgment in jhe Sydeuham licensing cases, granting orders for the writ of certiorrnri asked' for in each case. The result of the judgment is that, pending any other proceedings, the licenses are illegally granted. Those desirous of stocking their grounds and orchards with ornamental, fruit, and other trees, will have a splendid op. portunity of doing so to-morrow, when Mr Preece, auctioneer, will sell, without the slighest reserve, a large collection Irom the well known nursery of Mayo and Son's, Palmerston North. The sale will take place near the Denbigh Hotel, at 2 SO p.m. Captain Brown, of Manawatu, has been feeding his hoggets with chaff this season. Having lost a number from some cause not apparent, Captain Brown had tho carcasses opened, and in tho stomach were fouud hard balls, composed of binder twino, which had evidently been the cause of death by setting up stomachic trouble. It is thus evidout that it is dangerous to feed stock with chaff cut without removiug the twine bands before cutting the shonf. — Woodvillo paper. The Sunday drinkers nt Cardiff (Enjjland) hare tignin turned tlic fiink of the Prohibitionists. As shebeen after shebeen was dug out, the? meet openly in public spnoe, subscribe and buy casks of beer at the nearest whole* sale store. Then they drink— long, deep, and without rebuke. For the law — fludenr «>ld law — holds that they constitute a club. Last Sunday there were five hundred people boozing in the open <m one spot. The Sunday closer* hive put the Cardiff working-men on their iiiei'.l-', and now it is a point of honor with the lattrr to get drunk on Sunday. — Mod.-in Society.