Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 133, 5 December 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr A. Eade, undertaker, notifies that the funeral of the late Mrs Poad will take place to-morrow afternoon. The Band of Hope meeting, to be held in the Foresters' Hull tomorrow evening, promises to be more than usually interesting, and an excellent programme has been arranged for. Messrs A. Pallant aud Co. have just received at their Foilding Branch, among other items, some ladies' tan shoes made at the Palmerston North factory. They are quite equal ,to tho imported article, and rather better work put in the finishing. The Bangatira, which arrived in Wei lington on Sunday brought a number of Eomney Marsh and Hampshire Downs sheep from England for Mr O'Brien, of Paiaparaumu; also a Durham bull for Mr Moore-Hunter, of Hawera. To-day's Wellington Times says :— A deputation consisting of Mr Stevens, M.H X., Mr J. Ivobs and Mr J. Gardiner (liuuterville), will wait upon the Premier to day in reference to the recent landslip at the railway works at Ohingaiti, which resulted in the death of the wife of one of the navvies and four children. The heavy rains which we have had during the past two or three days have had the effect of putting the Oroua and Kiwitea rivers in high flood. The Makino stream has not yet been much affected. Tho flood in the Oroua river is said to be the highest experienced for some years. Considerable damage was done to various properties along the river banks, and Mr Retemeyer and Mr Beck are losers through it encroaching and washing away about half a inilo of fence. The river has now somewhat subsided. The Feilding postmaster has been advised that the Apiti mail cannot bo delivered to-day owing to the Orona river being unfoidable.

Captain Edwin wired today : — East to south and south-west gales with ram and glass rising within 12 hours from now. A Sydney paper complains that there are 20,000 men out of work in New South Wales, and between 15,000 and 20,000 objectionable aliens making a good hying, Messrs Hamilton and O'Connor, who are erecting tho bridge lover the Makino in South street, are pushing on with their contract, and are in hopes of haying their work completed within a fortnight. A correspondent informs us that there are two trees oyerhanging the Mangaone road, at a place from six to ten chains after leaving the Makino road. As an accident might result if they fell, it is suggested that they be removed. Benjamin Franklin said once of master printers: "Six days shalt thou labor, and wait sixty days (and the rest) for your money." Things haye not changed much in that respect since Benjamin handled a " composing stick." In the Review of Reviews for October, under the heading ef ' Diary for August, 1 appears the following : — Bill passed by the House of Representatives at Auckland conferring Parliamentary Franchise on I women. | On Saturday next, in the Assembly Rooms, Mr Charlos Carr, auctioneer, will hold a miscellaneous salo, consisting of grocery, cutlery, crockery, drapery etc. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock sharp. Dr Aubrey Bo won, a well known Collins stroot medico, who married a daughter of " Monoy Miller," has toft £20.000 to hia widow to be distributed amongst such charitable or benevolent institutions in Victoria as she may think fit. Notico is given by the clerk of the Manchester Road Board that a meeting of ratepayers will be hold in Halcotnbe, in the Town Board's office, to disouss tho proposals to borrow £600 for No 2 Ward Tbe meeting will take place on Saturday cyening next, at 7 o'clock, Sir Walter Bnller has shipped to Wellington, from England, six well -grown white swan cygnets. These are the gift of the Royal Gardens at Kew, and will be placed in the Papaitonga Lake, We understand Sir Walter is negotiating for rare watertowl of several kinds for the purpose of placing them in tho same beautiful sheet of water, and thus adding one more to the many attractions of the Manawatu district, in whioh bis two sons are settled. On Saturday next the Ashurst and Maiton Chess Clubs will meet in a tournament at Feilding, and the Ashurst play era will be selected from the following : — Messrs T. Sexton, O. C. Pleasants, N Pnberg. E. Galhchan.F. Roeves, A. Gallichan, W. Maunders, T. Rimmer. and G. Hart.— lt is not expected that Mr Sexton will be ablo to attend tbe annual Chess congress at Dunedin this year, but in any case Ashurst will bo represented by M r O. C. Pleaßautß.— The Ashurst Chess Club's tournoy is drawing to an end, nine more games only having to be played. So far Mr E, Galhchan is leading.

With reference to the Bishoprio of Wellington, though several gentleman continue to be mentioned as likely to fill this See, I (London correspondent of the Times) cannot learn anything definite on the subject. A vigorous exchange of letters and telegrams with the Rev. Robert A. D. Booker, private secretary to the Archbishop of York, has elioited the facts that no appointment had yet been made. The post has been offered to and declined by two clerics, generally believed to be Canon Clarke, of Dewsbury, and the Rev Mr Ingram, but outside Bishopthorpo Palace no one really knows any* thing, Another election story from the Otaki paper is that a certain coach journeyed to a far distant part of the bush to bring a certain man down to yote, but the certain man demanded £1 before he would journey. This was refused, and he, after much discussion, was at length prevailed upon to enter the coach. Half way down he again demanded payment, without effect, so the coachman, seeing that he would not vote without the £1, drove him round all the streets, and finally turned up at the polling booth about five minutes past six, and left tho man there making yarious remarks. Owing to several slips which have occurred between Poukawa and Kaikoura on the Napier railway lino, the through train from Napier could not get through yesterday. The line, we (Standard) understand, is under water for a considerable distance, so that it le impossible to connect with trains on each side. The Danevirke train was not despatched from Palmerston till eight o'clock last night. It is reported that the Waipawa Bridge is washed away and considerable damage done to the permanent way. The telegraph wires are also injured, and it was with the greatest difficulty communication was maintained with Napier last night. We havo had occasion over and over again to quote the Feilding Star as the fairest and most honorable Opposition newspaper in the colony. The defeat the Conservatives haye sustained is acknowledged by our contemporary, and it sets an example to other papers in the following lines:— "We know it is yery much the fashion when people suffer a defeat, to cry out and say they were not beaten fairly. We are not of that kind. We acoept the position and mean to make the best of it, endeavouring to tho best of our ability to aid the cause we haye consistently and independently supported, whilst extending the utmost fairplay to our opponents."—Napier Nowa. The Primitive Methodist anniversary tea and services in the church last evening were not so largoly attended as on former occasions owing to tho inclemency of the weather, but thoso who were preseut seemed to thoroughly onjoy therm selves. The ladies provided an excellent tea, and the tables were presided over by Mrs Clemont and Misses M. Heald and M. McKeague. At the after meeting the Rev G, Clement was in the chair and solos were nicely rendered by Mrs J. C Thompson and Miss M. Heald. Short addresses were delivered by Mr Stokes (of Halcombe), Messrs J. Merrett and G, Hunt (of Campbelltown), and G. Adams A. Hickford, J. Gould, and J. O. Thompson. The meeting was brought to a close by Mr Gould proposing, and Mr J. C. Thompson seconding a vote of thanks to all those ladies who bad contributed to make the tea a success.