Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 275, 30 March 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Mr Gabites, draper, Fergusson street has just imported some new fashiouei ladies' pocket handkerchiefs. On Monday next Mr Charles Carr wil sell by auction the furniture and effect: of Mr R. Somerville, at his residence, ii Kimbolton road. Messrs Gorton and Son hold a bank rupt sale of stock, farm implements harness etc., at Kilkern farm (nea Bulls), to-morrow. The sale will coin meuce at one o'clock sharp, luncheoi will be provided on the ground. In a list of teachers in the Wanganu district who have passed their last ex animation we notice the names of Jame Matthews, Herbert J. Barrett, Jamei Nairn, P. H. Roaehe in class E, Thonia B. lusoll and Joanna Prendergast ii partial D. A correspondent wants to know th' origin of the phrane, "He isu't in it.' An Eastern editor sajs that the expres sion was first used by an editor who diei and went to iienven, and looki-d uroum for the man who took his pap^r and reac 1 it three years und tbeu re;u-ed to pay fo it. The friends of the Rev W. E. Birks \rlio is about to leave the Bimiinghau district, are getting up a farewell tot and concert which will be given in tin Birmingham Town Hall on the 18th o April. Mr Birks has made himself yen popular in the Birmingham district anc his many friends, who are sorry for hii 1 his departure, are making great preparations for the concert. A member of the Sydney team whiel 1 recently toured New Zealand, has iv formed the Sydney Referee that tin wickets in general in New Zealand an somewhat slow, but they could be easih improved. One of the fastest scoring grounds and about the fastest wicket h at Wellington. The introduction of Bull soil to this ground would make it equa to the Sydney ground. One tiling that Sir W. B. Pcrccva. l said has rather struck some Lomloi readers. He observed "most of the mil lions th : colouies have borrowed have ' never left England, having becu merely handed over to British mediants in ex chango f >v goods sent out to the country I The depression of English trade just a present is largely clue to the tapering of of colonial borrowing." It is that las sentence which has set people in Eng laud thinking. It i.s quite a new ligh to them. Tho principles expounded iv HOI 3 Writ are subjected to crude interpreta tious by a multitude of fools inhabiting this earth as well as by the wise men ol th< land. There is a person in New Zea laud who maintains tbat lie i.s Christ ir a Htage of development (of course, adopting the theory of evolution; aud he is going, to work wonders shortly — this is, in a few years when he has "developed' sufficiently. This peculiar religionisi has his followers, some of whom carr) ' out faithfully his dietary treatment as c cure for all diseases. In these days of civilisation and men. tal progress it is astonishing to see ho^\ superstitious and credulous .some peopk still are. It is the belief, by at least out person not far from Mount Taylor, that " The Wandering Jew " is still in exis tance wandering about all over th< earth with his five cents, no more and nc less. This credulous person is very em 1 pliatic that our Savour ordered this one Jew away from his presence with th« command that he (tho Jew) should wander to the end of time. Tho Jew it I said to be able to walk on water, just a. 1 ' he does ou laud aud never btaud still out moment. A meeting of those interested in the game of football was held in Lowes Commercial Hotel last evening wliei about 20 were present. It was resolved to form a club to be called t ie Binning: ham Mountaineers, the colors to be reel and black. Tho following officers were elected : — President, Mr Thomas Lowos Vice-Presidents, Mr D. Mcßeth and Mi D. McNair ; Captain, Mr Frank Barlow Vice-Captain, Mr Walter Barlow; Secre tavy, Mr J. Tompkius; Treasurer, Mi Hugh Mclutyre ; Match Committee Messrs F. and W. Barlow and H. Munro the General Committee includes th( Match Committee with Messrs J. Burui aud A. Sanspn added,

The Feilding Fire Brigade will meet in the engine shed this evening at 7.30. An account of the Easter Encampment, written by ''Rotoinahana," will be published to-morrow. The Probate Bill Committee of the Tasmanian Parliament has reduced the tax on incomes to .£IOOO from Id to 3d, and made an exemption up to i'soo. Tbe rudder of the Cunard steamship Campania consista of a sin^e plate of steal 22ft by lift in, and l£in thick. It was rolled at Kvupp's German gun factory. The second half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Cheltenham Dairy Company will be held in the Cheltenham Schoolhouse on Friday next, April 6th, at 8 p.m. Notice has been given by the D.0.A., Mr G. J. Scott, that the public examination of James C. Moroy, of Feilding, draper, a bankrupt, has been fixed to be held in the Courthouse, Palmevston North, on Friday, the 6th April, 1894, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. In a communication to Mr Fred Pirani, M.H.R., the Postmaster- General states that he is making arrangements to establish a separate Post and Telephone Office at Ashurst. Owing to the high price asked for land there, it has been decided to rent a building for the present, instead of erecting an office. The entries at Messrs Gorton and Son's Feilding stock sale to-day were so large that some of the sheep and cattle had to be put in Mr C. Carr's yards. Prior to the sale, Colonel Gorton remarked there were 4000 sheep yarded more than were advertised, and thought it would be more satisfactory to all parties if vendors would give him more notice when sending stock to the sales. Over 10,000 sheep and several hundred head of cattle were submitted to auction this afternoon. A full report will be published in a future issue.