Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 101, 26 October 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir Robert Stout considers the single tax would bo confiscation aud robbery. The total loss incurred through tbc Panama Canal swindles is estimated at £40,000.000. Lieutenant Colonel Newall will superintend the iirmg at the butts to-morrow morning, at five o'clock. Tho meeting of creditors in the estate of Johu Murray Munro, of Taonui, called for on Tuesduy afternoon, lapsed, no creditors appearing, Debtor was examined by the D/J.A. The mortgages on the leading Melbourne Coffee Palaces are as follow :— Federal, £68,000 ; Australian, £84,000 ; Grand, £70,000. None of these institutions are said to be paying at presentNow that the " Great Liberal Party " see that if the present system of " Government by Party " is allowed to continue their days are numbered, they are desirous of putting an end to it. Just so. The body of tho late Maori chief Tapa who died at Aoraugi on Monday night, will be removed to Awahun to the Itunanga Wbare where the hinifi will take* place, Large numbers of Maoties are cow on the way to assist from other parts of this island. " Victor," the athletic writer in the Wanganui Herald, suggests the inclusion of a Maiden Hurdle Race in the pro gramme of the Feilding sports. Judging by tho number that compete for the bandicap hurdles, he thinks that the inclusion of maiden hurdles would prove profitable to the committee. The Feilding Star printing machin* ery is now diiyeu by steam power. Tbe engine end boiler were mude in Wanganui at the foundry of Mr D. Murray, and are really creditable specimens of mechanical art and workmauship. They were erected by Mr Hosking, of Feilding, and it goes without saying that everything has been done thoroughly. Mr J. Elliot, an employee of Messrs D. and W. Manson, on their Waituna estate, had the misfortune a few days ago to have his whare destroyed by fire. All his belonging were destroyed, including bank notes to the value of £15, a new breech loading gun and all his wearing apparel. The cause of the fire is unknown and Mr Elliot is a considerable loser. Electors cannot be too careful in seeiog that where their names appear on more than one electoral roll they should communicate with the respective registrars and request being struck out, so that on election day they can satisfactorily answer any challenges which may be made that they are only on the roll they tender their vote for. The perioJ allowed for such matters is forty days from the 19th of last month. A son of Mr Black, of Feilding. met with a painful accident ou Tuesday afternoon through the capaciousness of a jockey named Price. It appears that the two mentioned, in company with another hid, were riding towards Bulls from Parawanui, when Price id some manner pulled IMuck from his horse, the result beinjj that tho latter's arm was broken above tho olbow. Uuder Dr Charltou's caro tho Bufferer is prugrotuiug favorably.

The Cheltenham Dairy Factory started operations this morning. Captain Edwin wired at 12.30 p.m. to« day : " Same indications as wired yesterday." Nothing so increases a man's desire to do a bit of gardening as the discovery that his wife has misplaced the rake. Mr Gosling has had the Bank of Austrnlnsia " under the brush" lately, and the building looks all the better for its new coat of paint. 1 A young Unssian lady, rich and beautiful, shot herself dead the other day | because Prince Victor Napoleon, with | whom she had fallen in love, would not I answer her letters. The sale of bankrupt stock in the estate i of W. Bcllve, in the Assembly Rooms, to- { day, was well attended and the prices rca- ! li^ed wore satisfactory. Messrs Gorton ' nnd Son wore the jauctioneere. At nn inquest on the denlh oi a poor i miserable married fcirl of 16 and an equ* | ally wretched husband, in Hackney, a i juror remarked that " the parson that i joined them together ought to be boiled." j Mr A. Pallant, boot and shoe importer, notifies that he has commenced business in Feilding in premises opposite Mr J. B. Hamilton's and has i"700 worth of ! goods to choose from. See inset in tonight's Star. i Mr Duthie arrived by the mail train at midday and will address the electors j in the Assembly Rooms this evening. I Mr Duthie was met at the railway platform by Mr Sherwill, the chairman, and several members of Mr Lethbridge's j election committee. A quantity of trout arrived from Mosterton to-day. Some were liberated bv Mr Sharp in the Oroua at Mr Downos' farm, and the rest were placed near the junction of the Kiwitea stream with the Oroua river by Mr Sherwill. Mr S. Thacker, haying decided to ro» linßuieh business in Feilding in the boot line, will to morrow commence a gigantic clearing sale, and will continue the same until the stock is disposed of An lusot appears in to night's Staii giymg particulars of the sale. There is one class of laborer-, says the Duncdin Star, who never strike and sol* doni complnin. They get up at fiye o'clock in the morning, and go to bed at eleven or twelve at night. They die in hames?, and are supplanted as quickly as may be. These are the house keeping wives of laboring men. A Sunday school teacher told his class j that Satan was chained up but nevertheless went about liko a roaring lion seoking whom he might devour. " How can ho do that," asked an inquisitive, " if ho l* chained ?" " His chain, my boy," roi p!»<d the teacher, " is so long, that it j ti aches all round the world." After pondoritig iur a fow moments tho lad looked up at bis meutor aud remarked, "Ho | might as well bo loose." j The total private wealth of Australasia is about i.1,160.454,000, being equivalent to £:>O9 per head, and is distributed as follows:— New South Wales, ±'412,484,000 — £•368 per head ; Victoria, JL'344,224,000 — £304 per head; Queensland, ±117,414, 000 — .£3Ol per head ; South Australia, : £99,141,000— £310 per head; Western Australia, £10,619,000- £2lB per head; Tasmania, £34,360,000— £236 per head ; New Zealand, £150,192,000- - £240 per head. There was a fair muster of cricketers at the practice yesterday afternoon, amongst those present were Messrs Burlace, Reade, Baillie, Innes Jones, Wellsman, Young, Henderson, A. and R. Parr, Richards, Stinson, Gibson, F. Foster, Bishop, Galland. and Hill. Sides were picked by Messrs Reade and Henderson, the former's side winning by 70 runs to 66. Messrs Baillie and Burlace bowled ' for the losing side and Stinson and Rickards for the winners. In the batting Wellsman was top scorer with 41 runs to his credit. The Chnstchurch Press says:— By the victory of Tim Swiveller in the Caulfield Cup, Miss Myra Keinble, tho well known aud popular actress, is the winner of £10,000, hating been the holder of a ticket on tho hoi so in one of the big Austrulian sweeps. Miss Eemble's luck will be beard of 'with great satisfaction by her numerous friends in Christchurcb, and, indeed, in New Zealand generally. [By last night's cable it would appear that Miss Komble instead of receiving £10,000 will only get about £200, Tim Swiveller beiug disqualified.] A travelling company were performing " The Merchant of Venice " in a country i town. One night during the performance of the piece that part was reached where Portia says to Antonio : " You mii6t prepare your bosom for the knife. . . . Therefore lay bare your bosom." A voice up in the "gods" broke the stillness with : " Gar'n, yer silly. 'Ow can he bar his bosom ? Doan't jer see that his shirt buttons down the back '?" The audience was simply convulsed with laughter, and all the seriousness was knocked out of tho piece for the rest of the evening. It is said that the Premier, at the earnest request of a few of Mr Stevens' supporters, has been urged to deliver a political address at Ohingaiti on behalf of the Government candidate, and that he has consented ro speak iu that township at an early date. Mr Ivess, the second Liberal candidate (says the Paraokarelu Express) has determined to stand by his cun.«, and will speak in opposition to the Premier's right to como between him aud his supporters, with a view of coercing their votes in favour of his nominee If tbo Premier should bo guilty of such a questionable exhibition of bad taste, he may expect to moot with a littlo wholosoine opposition, tho result of which might somowbat stagger him. In reply toquestions at his last meeting in Wellington Sir Robort Stout said: — With reference to a State Bank thev had practically oue now in the Savings Bank, Public Trust Office, Life Insurance Do partment, and by last session's legislation they now issued postal notes, but he be* heved they would in time hare a Bank of Issue and u Land Bank to deal with tho accumulations in tbo Public Trust nnd other offices. What was mostly desired was a feeling of security that any money invested should be safe. He believed the Married Women's Property Act would have to be extended, aud that the Scotch law should be introduced, so that a man could not by will leave his wife without property. The law he suggested had worked well in Scotland and France tor generations.