Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 29, 3 August 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers, Tt is intended to produce the Oratorio " Messiah " in Palmeroton North on the 2!Hu iustaut.

Mr W. Hutchison intends to propose an amendment to the Education Act Amendment Bill, in fayor of Bible reading in schools. To-morrow, Arbor Day, the Post and Telegraph offices will be open as usual. The Feildixo Star will be published at the regular hour. An address on the " Tabernacle in the wildorneß9 " illustrated by magic lantern views will bo given in the Gospel Hall, Warwick streot, this evening at 7 o'clock, Wo havo to thank Mr J. H. Stevens for a complimentary tiokot for Mr Bruce's lecture on " Robert Burns" on the lltb nstant. Tho Borough Council will meet this evening. It is confidently expected that, the question of the re-erection of the bridge over the Makino stream at South streot, will bo full/ discussed. Mr W. Franklin-Browno will hold a sale of fruit aud ornamental trees, etc, in tho Manchester Hotel Sample Rooms tomorrow afternoon. For particulars see advertisement in another column. " Girls," says a newspaper philosopher " are tho sweetest creatures tho Lord over made— and the dearost." Nevertheless they aro luxuries that we cannot dispense with— thoy come high, but wo must havo them. Messrs Woolven and Nisbett give notice that all persons found trespassing on thoir slaugutor yards and promises, will bo prosocutod with the utmost rigor of the law. We hear that Mr Brabant of the Bank j of Australasia in this town is to be transferred to Feilding and that Mr Scales, at present in the Feilding office, will come to Masterton. — Wairarapa Daily Times. Mr Alfred Endo has a startling roplace advertisement for to-morrow, but in the meantime he wishes his friends and cus> totners to visit the Corner Warehouse to sco tho novolties ho has now in stock. A few loads of metal would greatly improyo tho approaches to tho Court Houso, it being at prosont almost impossible to got into tho Court without going anklodoep m mud. The last meet of the Rangitikci hounds took plnco at Clydesdale, Carnarvon, on Saturday last, when about 70 ladies and gentlemen attended. The company were entertained m roynl style by Mr and Mrs T. McKcnzie, deputy-master of the club. At a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery it was stated that tho trustee of the Board did not intend to appeal against the verdict in the recent action, whereby tho church had sustained a loss through the defalcations of its late solicitor, Mr J. M. Alexander. Mr George Jones, the proprietor of the Oainaru Mail, has gone to England for a trip. Before leaving he was presented with an address by the Shearer's and Laboror's Union on account of his good work as a journalist. A presentation from the settlers is to be sent a.ttt>r Xl«r , Jone3. i From the Paraekarelu Express we j learn thai an information for sly-grog scllinc has been laid against Mrs Wheeler, of Makohine, and the chief witness in the case will be Miss Maggie Jepson, of Palmerston North, who had been engaged as companion to Mrs Wheeler, and who had left on account of being dissatisfied with her surroundings. A capital programme has boon got together for tho Kiro Brigade Concert tomorrow evouing. Ono of the features of tbo entertainment will bo v strong orchestra compnsiug tho combined Foilding und Colyton bauds who will play thrco or four concerted pieces, and thoro should bo a large audience present, seeing that tho procoeds aro to bo devoted to such a worthy institution. Tho weather has boon very unreason* ablo of lato. Although tho very best ro* gulated baromoters havo signalled ' Fair ' and ' Sot Fair,' tho rain has continued most persistently. Wo have always thought hitherto, that tho weather and the barometer tried thoir level best to pull together, so as to bo on even terms, but it would appear that belief was not based on a solid foundation of fact, An important notice from the Man. ager of New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Mr Walter G. Foster, appears today- It will be seen that arrangements have now been made with the New Zealand Land Association, Limited, to conduct (for the present) the commission agency, produce, and shipping business hitherto carried on by the first named company. Mr F. do J. Cloro, of tho linn of Clero and Richmond, architects, Wellington, has patented an invention for enabling tho outside of a window to be oloauod from the inside of a room. The modus uperundi is simplicity itself, Tho slips of wood holding tho sashes in place are folded back, and the sashes swiug right round as iv au ordiuary looking-glass, tho socret being that the cords are sesured to a small iron block attached to a pivot fixod midway down tho side of each sash. To-day's Chronicle sajs : — lt ma/ bo of interest to farmers to learn that one of the Lincoln rams sent to Sydney recently by Mr J. W. Baker, of Fordell, through the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has returned to New Zealand, having been purchased at auction at a satisfactory figure by Air Philip Throlkeld. tlyj noted South Island breeder of stud sheep. This should be highly gratifying to Mr Baker, as showing the high estimation in which his celebrated Lincoins are held by other breeders. Tho Pakipaki Licensing caso was bofore the Chief Justice ut Wellington yestorday. The Uavelock Comunttoo had refused a licence aud theu granted it, upon an order- in- council being issued validating a technical omission. Judge Prondergast said the ordor-in. council could not stand good, as tho Governor had no power under the Licensing Act to issue it. Tho Committee thoreforo acted without legislative authority, and ho ordered v writ of certioran to issue quashing the certificate. Sir It. Stout appoarod for the Maoris, who wore plaintiffs. perhaps the quaintest post office anomaly mentioned by Mr Hcnniker Heaton in his article in the Nineteenth Century, is tho following. It refers to tho local post office in the north of London;:—" Dear Sir, — The post office is open all Sunday for the sale of stamps, ice. I asked there this morning (Sunday) for a packet of reply postcards, and was told that ordinary post cards were sold there on Sundays but no reply post cards." This nice distinction recalls, says Mr Heaton, the story of the conscientious Scottish innkeeper who would only lupply small glasses of punch on Sundays, xternly replying to all remonstrances : 'Wo dinna sairve lairge glasses on the Sawbath.' " Today's Palmerston Standard says : A Palmerston resident received a letter from Mr Dowsett, a few week ago, in reference to Mr Belk'a patent, to the effect that he expected to complete arrangements with Sir Julius Yogel about tho sale of the patent very soon, and that is, to a great extent, confirmatory of the item from the New Zealand Times' London correspondent we published in our last issuo. As the result of the sale of the patent rights in London for £10,000, it is stated that three gentlemen in Hunterville will be I the gainers by £2400. A well-known Palmerston architect, too, has on interest in the invention and will, no doubt bo a participator in the handsome profits which are likely to accrue from this ingenious invention. [Besides Mr Belk, there a number of Feilding residents couuected with the patent.]

Mr John Watson will give an essay on " Daniel " at the " Mutual" this evening. Captain Edwin wired to-day: — Wesk to south-west gale with rain, and glass falling. The Wesleyan choir will hold their weekly practice this eyening instead of to-morrow. By tho mid-day train yesterday 10,000 brown trout ova were received from Mastorton for depositing in the hatchery at Aorangi, where there are now 22,000 in the boxes. The ova, under the care of Messrs Sharpe and Bull, ate doing re- ! markably well and are commencing to j hatch. Messrs Sherwill (tho local secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society). iSandilands, and Dr Johnston assisted to place the batch received yesterday in the boxes.