Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 83, 5 October 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will moot this i evening. The District Court of Bankruptcy sa t in Palmerston North to day. ; Tho Hon John Bryce savs the policy of the Government may be sajd to bo a policy of fads tempered by deception. On Tuesdav last eloveu thousand Loch I^eyon and brook trout woto sent from Masterton to Hawera. Mr George Glenn, formerly of Grey* mouth and Westport, died at Manaia on Jnwsday Uet.

Yesterday 3000 young trout from the Feilding Hatchery were liberated in the Oroua by Messrs Sharpe and Sherwill. Owing to the unavoidable absence of the Resident Magistrate, the cases appointed to be heard to-day were adjourned until Thursday, the I6th instant, by Mr Kirton, J.P. The editor of the Wairarapa Daily Times says piously that " the black sheep I of our Parliamentarians are to be found ! on the Liberal benches and we trust in J the coming election they will meet with their deserts at the hands of women voters." The football match on the Oyal yesterday afternoon, between the Red Stars and the Unionists, was a very good game, and after an exciting contest was won by the former by 6 points to 2. W. James scored a try and potted a goal and J. Robinson secured a trj for the winners and Morris scored a try for the losers. At Cotta, in Saxony, the names of peri* 90ns who did not pay their taxes the previous year are printed and hung up in all the restaurants and saloons of the city. The proprietor* dare not serve those mentioned in the list with food or drink, under the penalty of losing their license. This afternoon Captain Turner went up by Mr Maitland's coach en route for the Marton Small Farm Blocks Nos 1 and 2, beyond Pemberton, to make the roads in the Blocks. The work will be done under the co-operative system, and, if possible, settlers in the locality will have the preference ; if not, men will be sent for from other places. At the Church of England choir prac> tico last erening Miss Bellve was the recipient of a handsome marble clock, which had been subscribed by members of the choir, in recognition of her long services for the church. The Rev. Innes-Jones, in a few well chosen remarks, made the presentation, A silver plate was let into the clock, with the inscription : " Presented to Miss Bellve (on the eve of her marriage), by the members of St John's choir, Feilding, October 4th, 1893." Now that the summer is coming on the attention of most people will bo' in the direction of securing some cool and ro« freshing beverage. To meet that requirement Mr W. Hodren, cordial manufacturer, has now a plant fitted up with all the latest improvements, and not the least important is a good supply of pure water. Mr Hodron was fortunate in finding on his land a spring of beautifully pure water, and from this he can make an ar tide to satisfy the tastes of the most exacticg. A correspondent in the New Zealand Times writes :— Sir,— Thore is a great rampage over tho female franchise at present. Now, sir, I would like to ask you this question. If a man and a woman get married, and the woman swears to love, honour and obey her husband, is the woman compelled to vote as her husband tells her ? As there is at present a shameful attempt made to wreck the Liberal Party by tbo teetotal and woman fran» chisers, perhaps the clergy would giye an opinion of this question. The quarterly meeting in connection with the Sandon-Feilding Wesleyan Cir« cuit was held at Sanson yesterday. Them* come was slightly below expenditure, bat the amount was subscribed by tho Stewards present. A proposal to amalgamate with the Palmerston North Circuit was negatived. A resolution passed at a former meeting, " That steps be taken to procure a resident minister for Feilding " was affirmed, and it was decided to ask the district meeting for permission to build a new Church at Feilding, A meeting of the 1.0.G T. was held on Tuesday last in the Forosters' Hall, when there was a good attendance. After the usual routine business the Lodge went into harmony. Bro Burrows sang " Far Away " very nicely, and was followed by Bros Foster, Boyd, Henderson, Black* more, and Bray. Bro S. Daw made a few appropriate comments on the satisfactory progress being made by the Lodge. After this Bros Borrows, Foster, Boyd, and Henderson again favoured the audience with songe, which were much appreciated. Bro *Bray's Dutch song was deservedly encored. This brought to a close one of the most successful gatherings the Lodge has held aince its inception. A lady, says " Atticus," in the Leader, who is interested in temperance, was the other daj talking to a member of the W.C-T.U,and the conversation happened to turn on Shakespeare. " For my part" said the latter. " I think people spend far too mnch of their time reading Shakespeare ; they can": get any good out of those nastj immoral piajK, I'm sure." My friend was a little surprised at this outburst, and at once became possessed of the notion that so sweeping a condemnation might possibly be founded on imperfect knowledge ; so she replied, " Well but surely you don't include all Shakespeare's plays in that category? Novr, for instance take Don Jaan ; you can't find anything to object to in that?" The other was constrained to admit that perhaps there might be exceptions, and that she had for the moment forgotten Don Juan, " though I knew it very well, as my husband often reads it aloud to me in the evenings.,, A staid and highly respectable alderman in Liverpool some years ago at a City Council meeting listened patiently for a long time to a speaker who kept dragging the word ratepayers into his discourse every other minute. It was the ratepayers this, the ratepayers that, and the ratepayers tbo other. At last Alderman X murmured to himself sotto voce, ' ' Ob, d — — = the ratepayers." He was quite unconscious of haying been overheard till he saw the posters of the evening papers, and read to his horror." " Alderman X damns the ratepayers." In vain that poor mau wrote to the papers and explained elaborately he meant no disrespect to anybody, not even to the speaker, whose tiresome reiteration of a word had caused him to anathematise it. It was no good ; at public meetings ever since some one is sure to cry out " Ob, d the rate payers ?" This story reminds us of the fate of a high official in the service of this colony. Ju his haste he said "Oh d tho public." Unluckily for him, the pub* he heard of it, and he was " Iked " out of his billet in quick sticks.