Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 302, 1 May 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Melbourne Argus foretells an improvement in the price of wool. 1 The Directors of the Feilding Building Society met this afternoon at the office of the Manager, Mr E. Gooubehere. One of the patieuts at the Palmerston Hospital, Mis ■< Theresa MuKenny, died on Sunday. The deceased was formerly a resident of Pahiatua. An able-bodied and full flavoured stoat was anuexed by a cat the other day in Derby street. The light was warm while it lasted, but pussy was the victor. A gentlemen's club is shortly to be erected in Pahiatua, and efforts are being made to start a polo club in that rising little township. Tht> District Court case, Manson v. Hammond, w.ll be resumed on Thursday next. The ease will probably last several days, as there are a uumberof wituesses to be examined on either side. In response to a nufuerously signed requisition, the Hon W. P. Reeves, Minister for Education, Labor and Charitable Aid Board, will address a public meeting iv the Theatre Royal, Palmerstou, on Monday oveuiug next, at 8 p.m. A prominent Duuediu lady prohibitionist recently accosted an equally prominent Dunedtn publican and wanted to know " why he had the impudence to have his door open on Sunday." Boniface wanted to know if his exit to church was expected to be made by chimney, aud the lady retired. Experiments are to be made in England at thu rojuest of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society to ascertain whether it is possible to retard the hatching of ova of English graylings by the application of cold fora sufficient time to enable them to be successfully imported. A sum of inouey is also voted for introducing the Tasmanian crab aud | fresh water lobster to the colony.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of 5s from " A Friend " for the Charles Fund. During the erection of the new Wes- J leyan Church in Feilding services will be held in the Temperance Hall, in Manchester street. A cablegram has been received in Christchurch announcing the death in South Africa of Mr J. J. Wirth, of Wirth's circus. The hotelkeepers in Wellington are : too cute now to supply persons on • Sunday with drink who try to work the " sick frieud " dodge. Sixty-one years elapsed between the Hon W. E. Gladstone's first public speech and his last. His " maiden " was at three and twenty, his final effort at eighty-four. The Patea Press says : — " It is rather pleasant to find it possible to travel about iv a New Zealand smoking carriage with 251 bof gunpowder under the seat. Yet this occurred the other day." The Government intend to call for tenders shortly for the erection of the Mangatainoko railway bridge, which is estimated to cost between .£9OOO and £10,000. There are in N.S.W. four railway lines which entail in the aggregate an annual loss of £140,000. The whole four were built in the interests of certain landlords. A Parisian lady recently ascended in a balloon, tnking a live lion with her. The balloon and the hon returned safely, but (he lady — well, the linn smacked hiß lips and looked as if he wanted to make another ascent. Two lines of type got mixed in a southern paper, and the paragraph read as follows : — " Colonel de Quincy died yesterday while being addressed by Sir Robort Stout upon the licensing question." The Palmerston Half -holiday Football Club will play a match with the Red Star Club, ou the Oval, to-morrow afternoon. This match was postponed from Wednesday last owing to the iuclemency of the weather. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced in his budget, in the English House of Commons, the proposal to put an additional tax of sixpence per gallon on whiskey, many of the Scotch members, began to sing or whistle softly " Still so gently " to themselves. The hint was sufficient and the alarmed Chancellor said the abominable tax should only be inflicted for one year. Hoich. At the Amberley Magistrates Court last week, the Rev G. P. Hunter sued T McNaught, the reputed treasurer of the Amberley Presbyterian Church for the sum of £9, balance of stipend claimed to be owing to him. The plaintiff was nonsuited on the ground that the defendant was uot Treasurer of the Church. The S.M. remarked that it was not edifying to see a minister suing in Court for his salary, which, it may be added, was the munificent one of 30s per week. The Sydney Mail referring to 600 New Zealanders going to the new goldfield at Wyalong, says that "if the magnetism of Wyalong is felt in New Zealand so strongly as it appears to be felt, there is room for the inference that New Zealand is not quite the paradise that it has beeu represented to be." Quite so ; but there were unquiet spirits even in Milton's Paradise, who departed from thence to Shcol. Consequently, there is every excuse for New Zealauders going to Wyalong. Q.E.D. Mr W. G. Shearer, of the Manchester Furnishing Warehouse, has just com pleted, to the order of a gentleman residing at Beaconsfield, a very handsome Duchess pair. The table is in the shape of a chest of drawers, with Duchess glass attached, and makes a very pretty piece of furniture. The washstandi table and glass are all mounted in nickel silver furniture The timber used is very handsome rimu, and in place of the usual polish is oiled only — this being a style that is at present growing in tavor. The Oamaru Mail says :— It was thought that the Ministry had sunk as low as it was possible for administrators to go. To even nod to members of it in the street was calculated to cast a suspicion around one which superinduced police supervision. To shake bauds with tho holder of the portfolio of Lands was to come very near gaol. But it appears that the Ministry have not yet touched bottom — that there is a sublimer depth in the political abyss, to which they are sinking fast. Surely this is " Mighty rough." A meeting of the Shooting Committee of the Manchester Rifles was held at Lights' Denbigh Hotel last evening. Present : Lieut Bray (in the chair), Sergts. Say well, and Aitken, Vol Wilson and Secretary. It was resolved that the whole Committee be a canvassing committee, to canvass for prizes to be fired for on the 24th of May, and to arrange a social and dance for the evening of the same day. It was also resolved that the Secretary get tickets printed and distributed as early as possible. The following team was chosen to fire against the Marton Royal Rifles at Marton, on Wednesday :— Lieuts. Bray, and Burlace, Sergfcs. Say well, Aitken, and Pethenck, and Vols. Scott, Evans, Say well and Parkes ; emergency Walters. The meeting then terminated with the usual vote to the chairman. At a meeting of the Canterbury Liberal Association last week, notice was given that the Government bo asked to promote an act authorising the issue of one million in national guaranteed notes, to have a currency of ten years, and to be issued for the purchase of land for settlement and for roading and preparing public lands for settlement. It was resolved to wire to the Premier (1) ihat the Government be requested to afford immediate relief to the unemployed in the district ; (2) that the Government be asked to consider during the forthcoming session the adoption of some permanent solution of the unemployed question ; and (3) that this iissociunon protests against the tone of the Premier's remarks to tbo unemployed at Wellington. Mr Fred. Pirani, M.H.R., waited upon the Chief Commissioner of Railways (Mr McKerrow) and Commissioner Ronayne in reference to several railway matters, including the stopping of trains at Terrace End and Bunnythorpe, providing seate on the platform at Palmerston, improving the Lougburn station accommodation, &c. The Commissioners stated the Danevirke trains would be allowed to stop at Terrace End station, but stopping the mail trains at Bunnythorpe was still under consideration. Instructions would immediately ho given to alter the L -ngburn station iv the directioc coinplainod of and seating accommodation would be provided at the Pulmerst- n station. M r Piro v also referred to tho fact that g< ods shed accommodation was necessary at Bunnythorpe and would certeinly be required before next Bummer.