The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1894.

Feilding Star, Volume xv, Issue 335, 9 June 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1894.

Local and General News.

« A large variety of reading matter will be fouud 011 the fourth page to-day. It is stated that over 5000 sheep will be taken from New Zealand to Sydney for the Ram Fair, to be held there early in July. We understand that Mr S. R. Turner's property adjoining the Borough of Feildiug will at an early date be cut up iuto small areas and sold. Those interested in the formation of a Debating Society are requested to meet in Miss Goodbehere's schoolroom, Manchester street, on Wednesday next. Lieutenant James, who resides in Feildiug, has resigned his commission in the Manawatu Mounted Rifles, owing to the pressure of private business. The gorse hedges in some parts of Canterbury appear to be affected by some kind of blight. The gorse dies in patches a few yards apart, and looks as if scorched by fire. The ford across the Oroira river leading into Apiti is very rough and dangerous in consequence of the large boulders, and the urgent necessity for a bridge there is more than ever aj>parcnt. Item from the Morning Advertiser of a hundred years ago : — " The tax on attorneys will certain ty operate for the benefit of mankind, by lesseuiug the number of petty-foggers who have so long disgraced the laws of the country." Another divorce case is on the tapis in Napier. A man iv humble circumstances is said to be the petitioner, and there will be several well -.known residents of Napier among the co-re-spondents. Owing to some mismanagement on the part of their advauco agent, the Anuie Brandt Company did cot play in Feildiug last night as advertised. A number of people who had turned out to attend the play returned home thoroughly disgusted. Four men were shooting a few days ago at Mendoolan Station, Queensland. One of them named Hiram Smith, had discharged one shot from a doublebarrelled gun and put his mouth to the muzzle to blow out the smoke, when the second barrel exploded and killed him instantly. How many realise that eight millions of rates aud taxes are levied in London per annum, four millions are spent on charity, that London comprises 5,000,000 people, 120 square miles, 500,000 houses, 900,000 families, and criminal population of 100,000, 50,000 dossers in 1000 dosshouses and 12,000 pauper lunatics ! The engineer for the Pohangina Road Board, Mr H. J. Hayns, deserves considerable praise (says the Standard) for the energetic manner in which he has had the damage caused to the roads by floods repaired. Fully sixty men were employed clearing away slips, and the repairs to bridges and culverts wore carried out expeditiously. It should be worth remembering (says a contemporary) that no newspaper is printed specially for one person, any more than one hotel is built to specially please one guest. People who become greatly displeased with something they tind in a newspaper should remember that the very thing that displeases them is exactly the thing that will please somebody else who has just as much interest in the paper as they have. The Pob angina Road Board will be 1:15 richer by the njeeting of the Licensing Committee yesterday than the members expected. Mr B. Poole, who held a £15 accommodation license, inadvertently applied for a .£25 publican's license, which was granted. While the fee for Mr Palmer's accommodation house at Pohangina was raised .£'s (to the full amuunt allp>ypd by the Act). — Standard. Among a few Victorian public servants desirous of trying their fortunes at Coolgardie, who have been granted leave of absence without pay, were two constables, who decided some time ago to doff the uniform and try their luck on the Western fields. One, who knew something of mining, came back with £600 ; whilst his companion, who could boast of very little knowledge on the subject, got into a concern which brought him in £7000 when he sold out. A meeting of the Artesian Water Supply Committee was hold at Mr Bray's office yesterday. Present — Messrs Carthew (chairman), Fowles, Bastings and Stevens (secretary). It was decided to pay tj^p well-sinker in full* The Secretary refloated h^vin" collected .£B9 18s, and expended £81 9s 2d, leaving a nett balance on hand of £8 8s lOd. Resolved, That the Secretary take steps to siuk round the pipe and open ft drain to Kimboltou road in order to teat the flx^v -vyhj^h now shows within two feet of the surface of tlje higher ground. Mr F. Pirani, M.H.R., has received tho following letter from the Under.Secrotary of the Lands Department : — " I am directed by the Hon. Minister of Lands to say that lie has received your letter of the 10th ult., iv which you ask that the road through the Totafa Reserve at Pohangina should bo formed ho an to provide employment for the men who are out of work and are about Palmerston. Iv reply, I have to state that there are at present no funds available for the work, and it must, therefore, wait the decision of Parliament. Iv due lijjniye .&> v/IU come under consideration With && ri^'Sl^^*?; for tbe current •-•'•"

A. Hall, the well-known long distance runner, is offering to give H. R. Wcon, of Wellington, 25 yards in a mile and run him for .£2O a side. Mr Briscoe, of Awahuri, estimates his loss by the recent floods at £'1000; Captain Edwin wired at 12.22 p.m. today as follows : — Strong N.W. to W. and S. winds ; glass rising. An ' inset' is circulated with this issue from the Palmerston Branch of Te Aro House, advertising the sale of Mesdames Allison aud Bazeley's stock on Saturday, June 9th. The performance of " The Banshee " on Wednesday evening next will be under the patronage of the Mayor aud Borough Councillors, and the Captain and Officers of the Fire Brigade. The services in connection with the Wesleyan Church to-morrow will be held in the Temperance Hall. The Rev. W. H. Judkin's subject for the morning service is announced. Last year Mr Corpe drove an artesian well 123 feetathisCarnpbelltown factory, but the supply was poor. The pipes have since been driven to a depth of 240 feet, with the result that he has got a flow rising six feet above the surface giving about 5000 gallons der diem. Complaints have been made to us of a pool of stagnant water in the alleged water table opposite the school house. The water drains from adjoining sections and since the ditch has been filled up there has not been sufficient fall to carry all of it away. The Feilding football team journeyed to Palmerstou this afternoon, where they play the Kea Kaha's in the first round for the Championship. The match is expected to be one of the most eveuly coutcsted this season. Ministers were in Cabinet during the greater part of yesterday and up till a late hour last night. The most important business transacted was the appointment of Mr J. McGowan, DeputyCommissioner of Taxes, as Commissioner in succession to the late Mr Crombie. When he has concluded taking evidence in the Fox Commission, Mr O'Hara Smith will prepare his report domiciled iv one of the sea-girt and rock -bound Auckland Islands. There will bo, he hopes, no fear in that awsome place of the enterprising emissaries of the Wicked Post getting possession of a copy " surruptuously." The war steamer llinemoa will cruiso round to keep off all would-be intruders and other dangerous persons. But — let him remember the story of tho scrvaut of Midas, who, unable to keep the secret ancnt the length of his master's ears, and afraid to reveal it, opened a hole in the earth, and after he had whispered there that Midas had the cars of an ass, covered the place as before, as if he had buried his words in the ground. On tho spot [jruw a number of reeds which wheu agitated by the wind uttered the same sound that had been buried underneath aud published the secret to the world. Let O'Hara Smith beware of the telltale murmui ing ocean - and the "Jimmy Ducks " of the Hinemoa.