Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 97, 21 October 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr J, P. Leary is announced as a candidate for the Palmerston seat. Poachers are reported by the Wairarapa Daily Times, to be dynamiting fish in the Lower vallfy. Payment has been stopped of a cheque lost yesterday on the Kimbolton road, see advertisement. A meeting of members of the Union Cricket Club will be held on Wednesday evening next in Mr Goodbehere's office. An addition is made to the Wanganui Harbor Board Endowment advertisement bf which it is notified that tenders for works will close on Saturday the 28th instant. A meeting of the Provisional Directors of the fVilding Permanent Building Society will be held in the office of the manager, Mr E. Goodbebere, on Tuesday next at 4 o'clock iv the afternoon. Smallpox of a most virulent type seems to be spreading in South Africa. The Johnnesburg Star of 15th September announces eight new cases oa thiepreri. ous day in a single street, and telegrams from Natal and Pretoria also speak of the disease in those places. At the magisterial enquiry touching the death of Alice Blanche WooJaou^ht, aged ii'l, unmarried, who died fronj poison at Stoney Creek, Melbourne, the evidence showed that deceased had been suffering from religiuuu uiauia, aud had taken strychnine.

Mr Harry Clifton will be Cheltenham's postmaster and telephonist from Monday next. TheLiliputian Operatic Company passed through Feilding by the 11 a.m train to--1 day, on their way south. Referring to this colony a paper called , the Weekly Delta, published in California, says : — New Zealand is a little irregular . shaped spot on the map located in the South Pacific, and used for a rabbit pasture." To-day's Chronicle says:— The Premier, the Hon Mr Seddon, visited Marton yesterday, and was announced to address a ' public meeting in the eyening. It was rumoured that he intended going on to Hunterville, with a yiew of inducing Mr Ivess to retire from his candidature for ' the Rangitikei sest in favor of Mr Stevens. The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times supplies the following item :— The Hon Mr Rigg, M.L C. re- [ signed his connection with the Wellington Trades and Labor Council because Mr James Mackay declared that Mr Rigg and - | a certain other member were as marionettes in the hands ot the Minister for Labor. i An unpalatable truth. j The Rer S. Barnett, of Welfington, will | preach in the Primitive Methodist Church i j Feilding, to-morrow night, also at Camp- | belltown m the morning, and Colyton in ; tho afternoon, Mr Barnett will also doliver an address on Missions, at the Home Missionary meeting in the Primitive Methodist Church Feildmg, on Monday night, at 7. 30. About thirty women electors were present at the meeting held in Messrs James and Heaps' office, Kimbolton road, yestorday afternoon for the purpose of fur- : thering the candidature of Mr F. Y. Lethbridge, as member for the Rangitikei dfstrict Tho usual formal business, and some useful work was done, and the meet mg adjourned. Aumversary services will be held in i I the Birmingham Wesleyan Church tomorrow, at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m The Rev G. Clement, who is to conduct the services, will preach his sermons from the followmgtexts : — Morning: " The nature and foundation of the true Church" ; afternoon : " The Influence of Christian people in the world"; evening: "The 1 call of God to man.'' Since the Carcoar Tragedy, C. Jenkins. a road supenuteudant at Inverell, New South Wales, has kept a cocked revolver under his pillow. As be was retiring to bed on Tuesday night, the revolyer slipped from beneath the pillow and exploded, , .shooting his wife in the head, at the back of tho ear. The bullet penetrated an inch , and a half, and Mis Jenkins is in a most precarious condition. They had been married only three months. Russia. Roumania, and Seryin, are the most illiterate in Europe, 80 per cent of tin* people being unable to read or write Spain is the most illiterate of the Latin ! races, the percentage of those unable to j read or write being (35 per cent. Italy i follows with 48 per cent illiterate ; France and Belgium about 15 per cent. In Hungary the illiterate number is 43 per cent ; in Austria, 39 per cent ; and ■ ii Ireland, 21 per cent. In India, only about 11,000,000 out 250,000,000 can read and write. A conference on the question of Scriptural text books in the national schools, was held in the Young Men's Christian Association's rooms Auckland, yesterday. Bishop Cowie, was voted to the chair. The following resolution was adopted : — " That it is desirable that a text-book of selections from the Old and New Testaments be adopted for use in board schools of the Colony." A resolution was carried recommending that the text-books drawn up by Irish commissioners, and at present used in New South Wales, be em ployed. The Wellington Times 6ays : While Mr Travers was describing the barrenness of the country between Nelson and Reefton at his meeting last Thursday night, an individual in the audience interrupted him more than once, and so aroused his ire that he threatened to put him out. As the oflender did not even then desist, Mr Travers showed that be was a man of his word by peremptorily marching down from the platform, seizing the offender by the shoulders, and putting him out of the room. Mr Travers walked back to the platform amidst thunderous applause, and the meeting went on in peace. The Miowera, particulars of the wreck of which we have recently published, is well-known in New Zealand, having traded last summer with that other fine steamer the Warnmoo between this Colony and Australia. The wrecked vessel was a steel twin-screw steamer rigged as a threemasted schooner, her dimensions being — Length, 357 ft over all ; extreme breadth 42Jft ; moulded depth, 28ft— giving a gross tonnage of 3320 and a net tonnage of 2270. The boilers and engines were constructed by the Wallsend Shippingand Engineering Company. She was a splendid ship, with most complete accommodation and fittings, and cost £90,000. Already the comments on the enfran* chisement of women are coming from Europe. The Secolo, for example, the famous Florentine newspaper, has the following :— " Triumph of the women in New Zealand. It is not Revolutionary France, not sleeping Italy, not Liberal England, not Socialistic Germany, but it is New Zealand that will be noted in history as the first country that has officially recognised women's rights. A telegram from Auckland, dated August 11th, announces, in fact, that the House of Representatives of that country had adopted the Bill confirming the right to vote to women, and to the indigenous Maori." A young couple from the bush were married in Opunake the other day, and oq their way home (after the cMemonv was orer), attended a sale, where after some spirited bidding, they succeeded in becoming the purchasers of a couple of dimmutive porkers and a quantity of cabbage plants. After the sale was over the bridegroom placed a pig in each pocket of his overcoat, mounted his horse and trotted quickly home accompanied by his better half laden with cabbage plants. A thriftj and economical couple this, evidently! Wedding festivities and by menial joys were all forgotten in their anxiety to purchase " the jintleman that pays tho rint.' The sort of colonists to succeed, these, observes a contemporary. The Bocial held last evening at Awahuri, in connection with the 1.0. G.T. Lodge, passed off very successfully. Mr J. B. Merritt, of Campbelltown, occupied the chair. A long programme had been provided, including items by members of the l'almerstou Lodge, but they did not turn up. The following items were then gone through :— Song, ' On the Banks of the Clyde,' Mr Anderson ; recitation, •The Sign-board,' Miss Phillips; song, ' Home Boys Home, 1 Mr F. Bray ; recitation, • The Yarn of the Nancy Belle,' Mr Merritt; song, 'On Guard,' Mr Anderson ; song, » Farewell,' Mr Hansen ; recitation, ' Found Dead ' Mrs Bowajer ; reading, • Pat's Goose,' Mr M. Copestake ; song, 'Dorkins, the Jester,' Mr J. B. Merritt ; song, • Three Jolly Britons,' Mr Tuckjer ; recitatiop, ' The Quack Doctor,' Mr Pilkington ; song, Dutch, Mr F. Bray ; recitation, • A Christmas Gift,' Miss Phillips; song, 'The Gum-free Canpe,' Mr Runciman ; song, • The Lifeboat,' Mr Anderson. During the evening an abundant supply of first-class refreshfuents were handed round and thoroughly appreciated. On the inotjon qf Mr Mi! Murray, seconded by Mr If arisen, a hourly vote of thauks was paeued to those preHent fur their attendance, and especially to njembers of the Feilding hoigo fur the valuable assistance they had rendered.

The Kiwitea Road Board was sitting this afternoon as we went to press. Several letters addressed " G.J.," are now lying at the Feilding Post office. The Seventh-Day Adventists are preparing to hold a camp meeting in Wellington. We learn from the Wairarapa Daily ■ Times that a ladies' cricket club is to be i formed in Feilding. ' As a result of the scene in the Diocesan Synod in Wellington recently, Mr W. A. , Blundell has resigned his seat as a Synodsman and also as a member of the • Church of England. ' Sir Robert Stout says he does not think 1 there are too many lawyers in Parliament [ but there are too many men there who think they are lawyers. The ladies to the front ! A Mrs Han- , cock seconded the vote of confidence at , Sir Robert Stout's meeting in Wellington in a very appropriate speech. i Captain Edwin wired to-day: — North- ' west to west and south gales with rain ; ■ glass falling, but will rise after 16 hours i from now with heayy southerly gales and much colder weather. On Thursday the 26th instant Messrs . Gorton and Son will hold in the Assembly . Rooms au auction sale of the bankrupt stock of W. Bellve consisting of saddlery ■ etc., also a " Mistress " stove, jellies, potted meats etc., drapery and a quantity i of sundries. 1 The Palmerston Standard says:— A nine-year-old daughter of Mrs Ward, of Broad street, sustained a severe bite from a dog in the square on Wednesday afteri noon, one of the child's bands being pierced right through. It is said the dog was suffering from hydrophobia. At a meeting of the Anglican Synod last night, the committee appointed to consider estimates of receipt nnd expenditure for 1893-4 reported an cstimntcd deficiency of £172 17s. The committee , drew attention to the want of punctuality in the payment of assessments. The clergy in the country districts, with few exceptions, do not receive their stipends with any regularity, and this is a blot on the General Church Fund which ought to be removed. It is proposed to discontinue the allowance of £25 per year i for house • rent in the Bulls • Sandon district. — Times.