Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 206, 4 January 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

♦ We (Chronicle) understand that Ser-geant-Major Anderson has tendered liis resignation as officer in charge of the Wanganui Police Station. Mr Charles Carr, auctioneer, will hold a sale of dairying stock at Mrs Duncan's farm, Makino road, to-morrow, at 2 o'clock. Mr Butler, of the firm of Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen, of Melbourne, was successful in winning the .£30,000 prize in tho Brisbane property lottery. A well-known Auckland clergyman, Archdeacon Dudley, has written to the papers rebuking the custom of applaudat the public performance of tbe " Messiah." A Christchurch paper says: — As a happy bunting ground for bankrupt lawyers, pious and plausible schemers, knav • ish ranters and hypocritical humbugs generally, Christchurch, New Zealaud, now holds the undisputed championship. No less a sum thau 1*33,675 lis was sued for on the civil side of the Wellington Magistrate's Court during the year which has just closed, of wiiich amount, i.17,352 16s 9d represented judgments recovered. Notice is giveu to-day tbat Mr Lawreuce E. Reade, solicitor for the bankrupts, will apply for the discharge of William Bellve and Frank Gay at the next sitting of the bankruptcy court iv Palmerston. Tlie following tenders were received for Mr Svendsen's shop (carpenters aud plumbers work only) : — McKenzie, and Turner, .£163 3s 6d ; Hubner Bros, A'l7s 10s ; R. Heald, .£2OO 10s ; W. Watts (accepted), i.162 ss. A Melbourne young woman said " Tobacco is woman's most successful rival in nian's affection." A cynical bachelor responded that " There was more true comfort in a plug of navy tobacco than iv a whole " Youug Ladies Seminar}'." The brute ! Yesterday the nomination of Mr C. Bray, junior, as a candidate for the vacant seat iv the Borough Council, was posted, but did not reach the Returning Officer before half past two o'clcok in the afternoon, and was consequently invalid. We understand Mr Bray will be a candidate for the next vacancy which occurs.

Captain Edwin wired at 1.15 p.m. today : — Glass further rise. i The Borough Council will meet this evening. An " inset " is published in to-day's issue from the Manawatu Farmers' Cooperative Association. At the Wanganui District Court yesterday, Joseph Temperley, saddler, of Marton, was found guilty of misdemeanour under the Bankruptcy Act by contracting debts while in a state of insolvency. The jury recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of his youth and inexperience. Judge Kettle admitted the accused to probation for 12 months on the condition that he paid all costs incidental to the prosecution. A friendly match was played at Bunnythorpe on Monday beween the cricket clubs of Bunnythorpe and Hiwinui. After a good game the local men proved victorious by 80 runs. There was a good number present, and a capital lunch provided by Mesdames Dixon, Little, Nisseu and others, was greatly appreciated, Iv the evening a dance was held in the Hall, and a very enjoyable time was spent by those present. The Post says : — It is stated that some members of the Ministry are holding conferences of railway employes of " the right colour" in reference to the Commissioners. One such conference is said to have been held at Palmerston North by the Premier a short time back, while recently a meeting of railway employes was, it is alleged, held at Christchurch. This latter meeting was addressed by the Minister for Labour, who is said to have given his word to the railway men that two of the Commissioners — Messrs Maxwell aud Hannay — would be removed. After months of consideration the Ad \ roiralty haye discovered why it was that the Victoria was lost It had nothing to do with Sir George Tryon giviDg an im possible order on the Victoria, nothing to do with Admiral Markham trying to carry out this impossible order ou the Camperdown ; but, according to the wise men of Gotham, it was the fault of Captain Johnstone, in the Camperdown, for not being prompt enough. It is satisfactory to have a professional pronouncement on the catastrophe, otherwise the public might be disponed to blame the man in the moon, Monte Christo, or tbo President of the United States. At Svdo9y recently a novel point was decided by Mr Justice Stephen, in Chambers. A man named Snowdon became iudebted to be Borough Council of Newton, on tbe 26th June last, in the sum of £3 2s 6d for sanitary work. On the 17th October he became bankrupt, and on 31st of tbe same month he was summoned by the borough, and ordered to pay the amount due with costs. This order, how ever, he appealed against, mainly on tbe ground that ins bankruptcy was a bar to the oider against him His Honor held that the liability being one imposed by s'atute was not an ordinary debt, and was recoverable notwithstanding bankruptcy. The appeal was therefore dismissed. Apropos Of the discovery at Wangarei, in the Parahaki mountain, of gold-bear-ing quartz, some eighteen or twenty years ago a part}' of surveyors when in the same locality, collected some " likely looking stone " which they made up in a package, and gave to one of tlieir Maori servants to carry. They had a hard journey to make the Bay of Islands, but the Maori who carried the specimen proved himself equal to the occasion. After the first days tramp he threw away what he considered as only useless stones, and filled up his swag with kumeras. When near the end of the trip he replaced these with stones selected at hazard from the bed of a creek. Wlien this fraud was discovered the gentle savage utterly failed to understand the indignation of his Pakeha employers.