Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 31, 5 August 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

, » The Manchester Road Board was sittiug as we went to press. I The Rev Father Patterson intends holding a Bazaar at Palmerston during Show week, Captain Edwin wired to-day :— North- , west to west gaie, with rain, nnd glass rising. Tho Wellington mail had not reached Lonjjrburn when the mail traiu loft for tho North to-dny. Mr G. M. Snelson will contest the Palmorston soat at the next gonoral election, in tho interests of tho Opposition. There will bo a farewell tea to Captain Fleming of tho Snlvation Army on Tuesday evening next, prior to his departure for the South Islaud. Mr R, T. Hanaby, of Campolltown, will bo tho speaker at Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Association meeting to-morrow in Shorts 1 Hall. Tho Feilding School Committee hnvo received a handeomo donation of 300 trees from Mr James Laud, of Wanganui, for planting in tbe school grounds. During last year the butter raanufac* tured in New South Wales amounted to 21,2U8,3001b5, bring an increnso o\ 2,935,4031bs over the total of 1891. The Amcricnn Sheepbrccder is ot opinion that fine mutton and coarse wool pny better tltnn coarse mutton and fine wool. Mr David Ross has to hand fresh supplies of packet and fancy tobaccos, cigars, cigarettes, walking sticks etc., aud solicits an inspection of his woll assorted stock. The Postmastor states that in the event of tho Wellington mail reaching Foiidiig? to-night, before 8 o'clock, tho post office will be opened for half an hour for dohvory at tbo counter. Members of the Temperance choir are reminded of the special practice to be hold in tho Presbyterian Church at 4 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. Moody aud Sankevs Hymns. The largest sheep run in the world is in the counties of Dimniitt and Webb, i Texas. It contains upwards of 400.000 acres, and yearly pastures from one million to one million six hundred thousand I sheep. The stewards of the Gr«y mouth Jockey Club intend to proceed against the Editor of t!>e Referee for libel, in connection 1 with (he Liberator ease, the dnmnges being fixed at L2OOO. The decision to adopt that courxe was not arrived at 1 unanimously. Tho Upper Taonui School which has been closed for three weeks on account of measles, vitl open again on Monday next, August 7th. The epidemic has been unusually sovoro in that district and scarcely a family has escaped being at- > tacked. It is to hored that next week will see a full attendance at school as tbe examination is close at hand. • The barque Achievement arrived at Wellington yesterday afternoon, after a passage of 172 days from Liverpool. She encountered a succession of hard gales, and the weather throughout was unfavorable. The chief officer states that in an experience extending ayer 45 years he ncyer met sucb exceptionally adverse winds. The announcement for Mr Ninian Melville's lecture on Wednesday, in next week, appears in another column. The masterly manner in which this gentleman handles the Direct Veto question, one of the most absorbing topics of the day, is a sure guarantee that a large audience will be present to hear Mr Melville on that occasion. Mr Franklin-Browno on behalf of Mr J. Laird, of Wauganui, held a most successful sale of ornamental and fruit trees yesterday afternoon in tho Manchester Hotel Sample Rooms. Notwithstanding tho unfavorable stato of tho weather, there was a good company present, and satisfactory pricos wero realised for tho various lots submitted. For next meetings of the New Zealand Rifle Association in March it is probable that Oaniaru will be selected as the site, if a luitoble range can be procured. There will be about 60 or 60 New Zea» land representatives at the New South Wales Rifle Association meeting in October, and Wellington provinco will send the largest number. An American paper announces tho ar- j rival of a large cirous in its town, with ' an extraordinary attraction iv the shape of "a hviuft man without a conscience," As tho paper expresses a doubt about the extraordinary oue'd antecedents, and is in iguorauco a* to whore he originally camo from, the editor thinks it is juat possible he may turn out to be a Now Zealand politician. In justice to our" political representatives " wo cannot allow the foregoing to pass without commenting on tbe fact that not one " momber " has yet deemed it worth his while to add to the numbor of those fly-by-night mortals who are known to the world as " Pacific elopers." A class of literature of a highly reprehensible kind is just now having far too randy a sale amongst the budding youth of our colony. We allude to these threepenny American detective yarns which are to be found in the hands of so many lads of tender years. The responsibility of parents in many instances seem s to be entirely lost sight of, in failing to select and choose for their children, reading of a kind which should be free from the objectionable and absurdly drawn heroes and heroines to bo found in such trash as it at the present time being absorbed by the rising generation. Anyone who thinks at all upon this question, must recognize that the baneful result likely to follow the wholesale perusal of these and kindred works, is certain to end in incalculable harm to a lad's moral character. c A seedy and dilapidated relic of humanity, with a wart on his rum-seasoned nose tbo size of a Pemborton spud, and a brazon front that would do credit to a Picturesque Atlas inau, solemnly elouohod up to the bar of a bush pub the other day, not 100 hundred miles from Foilding, and jauntily demanded "A wnt o' rum on the never." Ho told a pathetic story to tho landlord of his audden downfall iv thin hardened world, bow he had been com pel led to sleep in the bush without blankets the previous night owing to a hunjjrv mongrel of a dog haying dovourod his swag, and many other straugo things, which gave tho luudlord umpla opportunity for bolioving that his ' Trampship ' was not a Goorgo Washington. Tho landlord, however, took pity ou him, and gavo him a glass of rum, also a jolly good dmnor, on condition that ho would go into the backyard and chop somo firowood, a now uxo buiug handed to him for the purpose. Uo gladly consented to do as requustod, saying that ho.wao only too ploused to havo tho chance of doing somothing »v roturn for tho kindness showu to him. Iv tho course of a half-hour tho landlord went to tho backyard to soo how ho was getting on, but to hisamazomont, found tbe soedy ono had Yimiahod, and so hud the uxo. That landlord now awoure tnoro is no such thing asgratitudo iv this " world of blare and glare."

If we are to judge from tne success of the choir practice last evening, the residents of Feilding may look forward to some good singing 'as well as a good ldcture at Mr N. Melville's meeting on Wednesday next. Mr George Bartholomew wields the baton whilst the organ will be presided over by Miss Giesen on that occasion. The Directors of the Cheltenham Cooperative Dairy Company (Limited) met on Wednesday evening. The contract for building the Colyton creamery was let to Mr J. Marshall, of Bunny thorpe. There was only one other tender received. The Directors decided to order from England a refrigerating machine (Hall's No. 2), and details were left in the hands of the chairman, Mr Spencer. In future, tbe meetings of tho Directors will be held on the first and third Friday in each month, at 7.30 p.m , in the Cheltenham School* room.