Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 57, 1 September 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The District Court will sit at Wanganui on Monday. The Manchester Road Board met today. Temperance items aud other reading matter will be found ou the fourth page. The requisition to Mr Sandilands in connection with tho Feilding Mayoralty is published in another column. Messrs Bindon and Spencer, school inspectors, are now on an official visit to this district. To-morrow's services in connection with the Wesleyan Churoh are announced. A tea will be held at Campbelltown in connection with the Primitive Methodist quarterly meetiug on Monday nest The committee of the Feilding Cricket Club will meet at Mr Sherwill's office at 8 o'clock this evening. Some Petone (Wellington) people talk of forming a syndicate, with a capital of £200, in order to send two prospectors to Coolgardie to prospect. Tenders addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Mangaonoho, close at noon on Monday for alterations and additions to the Palmerston Post Office. Mr O'Regan, M.H.R., says he would be very sorry to think that the 75 men wbo constitute the present Parliament represent the cream of tho intellect of tho colony, On Monday afternoon next an adjourned meeting of St. John's Vestry will be held in order to ascertain what support is likely to be given towards the assistant-Curate fund. The monthly meeting of the Prohibition League will be held in the Temperance Hall on Monday evening, when an interesting programme will be presented. All are invited. We learn from the Manawatu Times that Thomas Print, one of tbe early settlers in this district, died in the Palmerston North Hospital on Thursday evening. He had been an invalid for several years. On Monday an excursion train will run from Palmerston to Wanganui, at reduced fares, in order to allow persons in this district to witness tbe football match to be played there against New Soutb Wales. The Kiwitea County Council Clerk, Mr Edmund Goodbehere, gives notice that a special meeting oi the Council will be held on Saturday, 25th September, to confirm " Special Order," particulars of which are detailed in the advertisement. Captain Russell does not think the Vaile system would be suitable to our population. Though cheap fares would induce large numbers to travel on a holiday or some special occasion, next day free passes would not induce the great majority to move. The Feilding Debating Society will be held in Miss Goobehere's schoolroom on Tuesday evening, at 7.80 The subject of debate is: "Should alien immigration be restricted ? " Mr S. Andrews will lead in the affirmative, and Mr W. Giesen in the negative. A party of miners in Shanghai accidentally came upon no ancient shaft which had been closed since a great calamity happened 400 year* ago They d scovered 170 bodies lyin.' just where tbey had been overcome font centuries buck. The corpses wore not 10 ihe least docayed. aud looked as fretih ur* if death had taken pWe only a few hours. There is some person or persons in this district whose time apparently hangs so heavily on their hands that, in order to lull it, they resort to such a senseless amusement as anonymous letter-writing. It would be far more " manly " and wisa if these individuals procured a " rattle " or some other child's toy with which fc» arouse themselves, as tbey would then ran i>o risk of getting themselves into trouble. j The Clerk to the Manchester Road ' Board gives notice to-day that it is the intention of the said Board to borrow the sum of _210 for the purpose of providing one-third of the cost of erecting a traffic bridge over the Kiwitea stream on the Cheltenham Cross road. A special rate is to be struck iv order to pay interest on the same. Full particulars will be foand in the advertisement in another column. A record prioe wns "biained at Chria le'f-few week nfjo. :Sir Joshua Reynold'- beauiifu picture of L >d v Betty Df-laie and .chli jvu realised the highest price everobta'iied ixl auonmn in En_Und After a spin coj.i;^._t between Mr Charles Worth** m arid iVljt Au/ipw, the former receipt the prize for M.OOGgs.or 400 above the sum pajd for " TKeCr^ci- 1 fixion,*' by Raphael, i» th« Dudley snle two years ago, hitherto the *' record price ' We have received a copy of an interesting pamphlet, entitled " Tlio | Liberty of the Press and the Law of j Libel," in which is compiled the opinions of the various newspapers in the colony on the Hon. J. McKenzie's '• Newspaper 1-imitation Act, 1894." We can t>ay, ■wdtiAout fear of contradictiou, that no more remarkable evidence has ever been giwen iv the English speaking world of the unanimity oi the press of ail shades ol political opinion when it is made necessa y fqr ihrui to dt-fend the right of freed > v of speech, ox the sacred liberty oi tho Press.

The Awahuri and Campbelltown public schools will be examined on Monday next. Mr Pirani wishes the Government to compensate indigent persons whose cattle may be destroyed by order of the Government Inspector. The larvse of the horse bot fly have been found in large quantities in the stomach of a sheep in Victoria. Both the Chief Inspector of Stock and the Government Entomologist state that it is most unusual for this fly to attack sheep. They believe the sheep in some way picked up the eggs or young larv_. An incendiary has been lynched at Brodjance, in Southern Hungary. Several unexplained firps had followed each other in rapid succession. Two natives of the village came across a man m the point of setting tire to a barn. Tbey at once stunned him and threw him in the flames. Both peasants have bean arrested Says the Standard:— Three boys, whose ages were between 14 and 16, attracted some attention yesterday by tramping through the Square with swags on their backs. It appears that they have travelled all the way from the Waikato on foot, where they had been engaged in the work of greasing kauri logs up the Waikato river. They are now on the way to their homes in Canterbury.