Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 120, 18 November 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

•■ ■" ■» ■ *■■ The Palmerston North District Hospital will be formally opened on Tuesday next. Mr Scobie Mackenzie at Kakanui— "l would like to bring in a measure to be called a _»oxious Government Bill for the Eradication of Political Weeds." Sometimes when people "goa-bobbin " for eels in the Pohangina river, a trout " bobs up serenely" and is confiscated as an impertinent intruder. A letter once came from Italy, direoted " Sromfridevi, London." The Post Office people directed it to Sir If umphery Davy all right. The Rev Mr Potter, of Auckland, will preaoh in the Primitive Methodist Church Feilding, to-morrow morning, and tbe Rev O. Clement in the evening. Some poor fellow recently found dead near Masterton, and buried in a nameless grave because nobody could identify bim, is now believed to be an old West Coast miner, William Carter. This is how tbe Taieri Advocate mourns the departure of a company from Mosgiel: —By the way the company forgot to pay th^ir advertising bill, and by a singular loss of memory also omitted to pay for the hire of the hall. If the Jerusalem Cy.cioraiua crowd come tbis way again we W*nt ca»h in advan.ee. An unqsual request came before the Education Board at Dunedin on Wednesday. Mr P, B, Fraser, a tocher, applied for leave ot absence from the school from Monday next to the end of the month. He said that though he applied ou personal grounds he though it right to inform the Board that having receiyed a requisition to stand for Oamaru he had decided to go to the poll. The application for leave of absence was refused by 5 to 4. The following gentlemen have been nominated for the position of country delegate of the Wanganui Metropolitan Club at the New Zealand Racing Conference:—Dr Skerman (Marton J.C), Mr D. Pringle (Manawatu RC), Mr Syme (Waverley-Waitotara R.C), Mr Goodbehere (Feilding J.C). The election | takes place oa December Ist.

The Commissioner of Taxes advertises that the land tax is payable on Thursday, 7th of December. The Birmingham v Union (Palmerston) crioket match was played on the Feilding club's ground to«day. To»day Mr S. Williamson brought up from Wellington two champion RomneyMarsh rams to be forwarded to his sheep farm at Waituna. By the mail tram this afternoon the Cheltenham Dairy Company forwarded their first consignment of a ton and a half of butter to Wellington. Captain Edwin wired at 4.25 p.m. today :— " Indications strong north-east and south winds, with rain, after twenty hours from now ; glass fall." ln connection with the Primitive Methodist Church, there will be a concert and coffee supper at Makino next Friday. Particulars will be duly advertised. Shearing is in full swing all over the Pohaugina district, but the clip is reported to be slightly below the average. Lambing has been good, so sheepowners will not have much cause to oomplain. The Rev W. S, Potter, of Auckland, will exhibit a large number of fine views of Palestine with a descriptive lecture on the Holy Land in tho Primitive Methodist Church, Foilding, on Tuesday next at 7.30 p m. Wellington Press says—" A wide« spread feeling of uneasiness is prevalent among the railway employes lest the political management of the railways should be again resumed, as threatened, by the Government. Mr A Pallant, boot manufacturer and importer, has on view in his premises, in the Square, a splendid lot of ladies' tennis shoes, which have just come to hand; also, a supply <f "electric tan cream," the only cream of the kind in the market. Two men, who were fishing off the Darling Point Wharf, Sydney, the other day, brought the, dead body of a man to the surface on their lines. A bag was tied round the waist, with a large flat stone weighing about 30lbs in it, and the man's left arm was thrust into the mouth of the bag and fixed through a hole in the sidfl. In a case of a patient recently adm it ted to the charity ward of the Bendigo Hospital is became necessary to burn his clothes, in these were found secreted £38 12s 6d. A further search disclosed £10 more and a deposit receipt for L 320. The authorities intend to impound from this money the ordinary rate charged to paying patients. • The burning coat mine (lignite) on Mr F. Richard's property at Pohangina has burnt itself out at laet, after steaming for a year and ten montha. About a month back Mr F. Richards offered a handsome reward to any one that would extinguished it, but no one would undertake the job. He has now saved that expense, as well as ridding his house of an abominable odour. MrS. Thacker, boot and shoe importer, of Manchester street, has a replace advertisement in to-day's issue, announcing tbat he has just received various new lines, and quoting tbe prices of a few, whicb, on referring to the advertisement, will be found exceptionally low. The " gigantio sale," now going on, is to be continued until the end of (he month. An alteration has been made in Messrs Eirkcaldie and Stains' advertisement, which is of special interest to ladies, Tuey are now showing the yery latest in crepons, prints, sateens, etc., the prices for which are cut down to suit the times, as will be found on a perusal of their announcement. Ladies visiting Wellington could not do better than give this firm a call. A Fruit-growers' Association has been formed in Auckland, composed of delegates from all Fruit-growers' Associations in the province. It was decided to ask tbe Government to appoint an entymologist and form a thoroughly equipped horticultural station, with entvmologists and necrologists, in connection with the Department of Agriculture, having amongst other objects the introduction of new kinds of fruit. It was decided to appoint a special committee to watch the interests of the fruit industry. Faddists and other " cranks " always tind something to fall out about. As a case in point it is reported that a society of vegetarians established for some time in France has lately become split up into three parts. One part calls itself " cerealite," to indicate that it believes only in eating cereals ; another is known as " frutariao," because it thinks fruit tbe only proper food ; and another is " tuberile," because it believes in eating roots. Of course each branch of the society thinks that the health of the human race depends on the adoption of its views. Speaking at Winton, tbe Hon J. Ward, Colonial Treasurer, said :— Regarding cheap money for farmers the office of the Agent-General could be used for the purpose of investors lending money in the colony. He was opposed to a State guarantee of suoh loans as unnecessary and undesirable. The money should be placed in the hands of the Publio Trust and Government Insurance Offices, and lent on a ' Mfc margin at pot more than 5 per oent. j The country ahould not borrow for the Enrpose. He believed a large sum could c got in the way suggested, without injuring the present financial institutions. In a few months he hoped the Government would formulate a practical scheme with tbis object in view. Mr Seddon affected great indignation at the idea of any Liberal having offered Mr Ivess £250 in caeh to retire from the contest for Rangitikei. Yet the Ministry of which Mr Seddon is Premier, it seems, has not hesitated to offer Mr Fraser £150 per annum for seven years, with a seat in the Legislative Council, if bo would reiire from the contest for the City of Wellington. Where is the difference, except that Mr Fraser was offered more than Mr Ivess f Ia it not a disgraceful condition of publio affaire whioh permits of a seat in the Legislature and a seven years' pension of £150 being ÜBed for purposes of attempted bribery and political corruption f Why should the couutry be burdened with Mr Fraser as a legislator, or tbe taxpayers with payment of a seyen years' pension to him, merely to suit the Party purposes of the Ministry by facilitating the election of a Ministerial nominee for Wellington ?— Post. Says the Welhngton Post :— Since the memorable day when, on the road to Da* mascus, Saul suddenly saw light, there has scarcely been recorded such a case of rapid conversion as that which is stated to have occurred in a railway carriage recently between Feilding and Palmerston. Mr Donald Fraser, a Conservative of Conservatives—who last election sacrificed even family ties to rote against the Liberal candidate, and who, if report speaks truly, was this time as willing to himself oppose that candidate as eyen Saul was to go to Damascus -met the Premier by invitation at Feilding, entered a carriage with him, and emerged at Palmerston North in the character of the Liberal candidate for Otaki His conversion was eyen more sudden aD 4 remarkable tban Saul's. He was not stricken blind with the light wbich shone on him, but the scales which had obscured hia political eyesight from infancy fell at once when tbe refulgent light of the Premier's countenance beatnod upon him in the privacy of that railway carriage. We should dearly like to know the arguments by which the Conservative Saul of Rangitikei was in that biief railway journey transformed into the Liberal Paul of Otaki. Perhaps next session some information on the subjeot may be elicited.

A letter from Mr W. G. Pearce, of F Colyton, will be published on Monday. A tree blown down in a gale lately al Argenton (Tasmania), fell across a house 1 and wrecked it. A child sleeping in bed had both its thighs broken by the fall, and has since died Its mother, and another child sleeping alongside the little . victim, escape inj ury. The family is now destitute. We learn irom the Post of yesterday that the stud sheep on board the s.s Waikato, due in Wellington in a lew days, include two Romney Marsh rams, and ten ewes ot the same breed, for Mr G. Wheeler, of Halcombe. They were bred iby MrFNeames, of Faversham, Kent, who says that they are a particularly fine lot. Mr G. Wheeler was again to the front with his Romney sheep on Monday last, at the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Show, having obtained prizes in three olasses, young rams, ewes and fat Bheep best fitted for freezing. He nlso obtained the first prize in the Hereford class of oattle for his Nizam, a bull calved since June 30th. 1892 first prize for a heifer calved since June 30th 1890, third prize for a cow in milk, and was in addition, commended for a heifer calved since June 30th, 1892. Last night tbe choir of tbe Primitive Methodist Church held a very successful practice ofthe cantata "Under the Palms," to be produced shortly. Mr Simpson is the conductor, and as he is an experienced musician, having been choirmaster of the Primitive Methodist Churoh in Auckland, he is thoroughly capable of making it a success. Miss Thompson has been entrusted with the organ accompaniments, a duty she is well qualified to fulfil satisfactorily. One of tbe most beautiful features in the cantata is the song, by the juvenile choir, of " Little Ones of God are we." The choruses are also remarkably beautiful. The Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows, which in future is to meet fort nightly in tbe Foresters' Hall, met for the first time in that building last evening. A large number of members were present, including several visiting brethren from the Wellington and Lower Hutt Lodges. Not a great deal of business was transacted, but two new members were pro posed and two initiated. After the initiation, the Lodge adjourned and went into harmony, when a very enjoyable hour or so was spent An excellent supper had been prepared by Mesdames Watson and and Parker, and this of course was done ample justice to. Songs were sung during the evening by Bros Baker, John Watson, Woulfe, Saywell, and a Visiting Brother, each one coming in for an encore. Bros. Parker and James Watson each made a short speech, in which they encouraged younger brothers, and urged one and all to stick closely together.