Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 119, 17 November 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

• The Hessian fly has made its appearanco uinongst iho wheat crops in Otago. Tho great auctiou sale of Mr John Leydon is s>]ll going on, and will be continued to-morrow aud Monday. The Exmouth Coroner, the other day, fined himself a guinea for being ktc at nil inquest, the money to go to 'a loca charity. An extraordinary general meeting of tbe L mgburn Slaughtering and Freezing Company will bo hold m tho Thoatro Boval. Pnhnorfcton North, on tho 30th instant. See advertisement. At ibo Chiistchuvcb E.M. Court on Wednrsrlny Thomas Bulliyant, liceuseo of iho JinUuiiiu Hotel, was fined £3and costs for falling to admit tho police, the conviction to be endorsed on the license. A showman and bis wife at Wakefield, Knglnn '. have been prosecuted for dyeing Lhe<<kin of an imbecile girl and then exhibiting her as a ■' humau leopard." Wh^n fully accoutred, a British footsoldier can ies in weight 021 b; a liussian (58 lb ; n French 021 b ; a German, 611 b ; a Swis-i 59! b ; an Italian, 531 b j and an Auslrinn, 4,71 b. The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodgo of Oddfellows will in future bo held on every alternate Friduy, m thn Foresters' Hall. Tho first meeting will bo held this evening. A meeting of all settlers whose land forms part of tho Watershed of the Slug. gUh C.o?k will bo held m tho School house, Cainpbolltowu, on Monday, 20th November, at 7.30 p.m. The Manchester Hifles held a duylight parade yesterday afternoon, and notwithstanding the inclement weather, thero was a vory creditable muster, SergeantMajor Macmillan inspected tho corps on behalf of the Government. We learn from tho Telegrnph that the brown beetle ha? been playing torriblo iieyoo with the fruit trees in tho Huwkes' Bay district. A weak solution of Littlo's Bheep dip, sprayed over the trsee, is sudden death to these pests She has been married to him a year, and turning over herdeMc came across his old love letters to her. " Why," said the husband, irritably, " didn't you burn the rubbish?" " Well, dear, I tried, but they would not burn. They were too green."

Uuptain Edwin wired to-day : — Same indications a 6 wired yesterday. At Coolgardie, the other day, a man paid £5 for drinks for six horses. It 18 stated that Mr D. O'Brien, the well-known racing man, has bought a place in Sydney, and intends to leave New Zealand. For downright fun and wit commend us to Mr Loydon the auctioneer. Without exception he is the most amusing 11 weilder of tho hammer " we have heard in the colony. (Jo aud hear him. I In another column Mr E. Goodbebero I publishes a requisition from a number of burgesses asking him to again stand for the Mayoralty of the Borough of Feilding, aud his reply accoptiug the invitation. The Baptist Union, in Nelson, debated an amendment on education all yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Collins (Auckland) moved a resolution against altering the present system of education. The regular monthly mooting of the Feilding Lodge JNo 41, N.Z C, will be held in the Foresters' Hull, Bowen street at 7 30 p.m. on Monday evening uoxt. Visiting brethron are cordially invited to attend. Tbe following players have been picked to represent Birmingham in the cricket match against the Union, to bo played &t Feildiug to<morrow :— G, Lowe, W. Hedges, Birks, H, S. Munro, E. 8011, I. Hyde, G. Smith, L. Carter, E. Palmer, I. W. Burne, and I). Howie; Tho Chief Justice will sit :n tho Wellington Chambers to-day to hear a motion fur a new trial the case of Grant v tho Muuawatu Road Board. Thocaso is one which £950 is claimed for damages, and was beard at tho last civil sitting in Wanganui, when the plaintiff was nonsuited. The privileges of the Feilding Jockey Club were sold to»day by Mr Charles Carr and realised as follows: -Gates £91 10s, Mr Bond ;| grandstand, lawn, and paddock, L 99 10s, Mr Younger; publican's booth, £64, Mr Valentino; refreshment booth, LlO 10s, Mr Smith ; cards, L 35, Mr Mil lard ; horse paddock. 30s, Mr Millard. Total, L 302. There ore about 230 candidates for the 74 seats in Parliament. Apart from the inoinbors of past Governments aud of present Ministers who are entitled to write •' honorable " to their names, those of the candidates who are above tho level of plain " Mister " are as follows : — Three Knights, .-six clorgymon, threo doctors, three colonels, two majors, and one captain. The Post states that two very well known butler buyers aro oxpocted in the colony immediately. Mr M'Kiovcn, a principal of tho English firm of Cooy and Co , which expended some £85,000 in New Zealand butter last year, and Mr Oerntson, of tho well known firm of Otzes aud Gemtsen, are both on their way over, aud are expected to take a large share of tho New Zealand output this season. A Home paper reports that a woman was buried at Kirk ham recently, who died through being confined of her thirtieth child. She was the wife of a local farmer, and had only been married twenty year?. Tup woman had six lots of twins. Of the thirty children six. are now living. Both husband and wife were of immense proportions, the woman weighing over 29st. This is tho way the Oamaru Mail puts it :— The flashy fooling of a flippant and flatulent talker, whose greatest claim to eminence 13 special aptitude for titillating the oars of an audience with frothy Ham and flimsy flapdoodle, is at once a comprehensive and correct criticism of the speech delivered by Mr Scobie Mac Icenzie at Palmerston." This is yory pretty. Wo hoar, on excellent authority, that a certain life insurance institution — which is the largest of its kind in the world— is about to push its business in New Zea. land. This speaks well for tbe opinion held by those at the head of the institution's affairs, of the growing importance and great future of New Zealand, We understand that one of the principals will shortly arrive in Wellington " to set the ball rolling."— Press. In our illustrated supplement, which will appear as usual to-morrow, will be found the commencement of an interesting tale entitled " Only girl at Overlook." Another Bhort story " Lovelorn Lizzie," also appears, together with various useful household bints, receipts etc. "People who go to law for damages '" will give an idea as to how some lawyers liye in New York, and other matter under various heading will be found well worth reading. " Laugh and grow fat " is a well known adage, but the reverse was the case with poor Mr Mirando, pickle merchant, of Spitalfields, who lately died from over indulcence in laughter, He was in a pub lichouse in Commercial street, and somebody told a funny story which tickled his fancy. He accordingly "laughed very heartily," and was seized with a fit of coughing, and fell down. In falling he struck his head against a form, but this was not the cause of his death. The doctor certified that lie died simply from suffocation, for which the prolonged guffaw, terminating in a cough seems to havo been solely responsible. The Wellington Tost, in an article on the work of the last Parliament, says :— " The first general legislative achievement of tho Eleventh Parliament was a complete revolution in tho system and mci^ dence of taxation, by which a Land and Income Tax was substituted for the Property Tax. It was not, of course, to be expected that a change so momentous could be accomplished without many mistakes, aud some are still uncorrected, but on the wholo.the change was accomplished with less disturbance in oithor public or private finance than might have been expected, and wo have no hesitation in saying that the cbaugo effected in the taxation has been beneficial.