Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 71, 18 September 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

« Capt. Edwin wired at 12.25 p.m. today : Indications for glass falline, with easterly winds. The Feilding Debating Society will meet at 7.30 this evening in Miss Goodbehere's schoolroom. Detective Herbert, who has been in Palmerston for several days in connection with the recent fires, returned to Wellington last evening. — Standard. One of the patients at tho Palmerston Hospital, named Mrs Strain, who was admitted from Waituna a little over a week ago, died yesterday. The next quarterly communication of tbe Grand Lodge of New Zealand will probably be held in Christchurch at the end of October. A Masterton lady was taking ber child home from a visit to the doctor's the other day, when the infant died in her arms in the street. The Gaming Bill received His Excellency's assent yesterday morning, so that any person betting totalisator odds is now liable to prosecution. The carcase of a pig, which weighed 5041b5, was recently on view in a Christchurch butchery establishment. The head alone weighed 441bs. Writes an American editor : " Coming home a few mornings since we met a man attempting to walk on both sides of the street. By a skilful manoeuvre we passed between him. In tbe cartoon of Truth (Christchurch) entitled " They are being driven along like dumb cattle under the whip," by tbe Premier, " Riccarton " Russell and Collins are represented as heifers. Mr Carr has received instructions from Mr W. Fletcher, who is leaving the district, to sell by public auction at Messrs Bramwell's store, Colyton, all his furniture and effects, as detailed in the advertisement. The Tapanui Courier states that the recent snowfall was the heaviest experienced since 1878. In some portions of the district there were drifts from Sft to Bft io depth, and in sheltered gullies in the Bleu. Mountains 10ft and 12ft of snow. The Clydesdale draught stallion Waitapu and the thoroughbred stallion Vulcan are advertised by the owner, t£r R. Bnrne, to stand at his farm, Birmingham. Tliese horses will make a trip through the Pemberton and Apiti districts some time this week. The Oddfellows' Lodge at Apiti, which was opened by the District OiSioers -ton* i Wanganui a short time back, is making '• rapid progress. Already about thirty ! members have been enrolled, and at the next meeting several others will be initiated. Advance Birmingham 1 The fame of its mas-tfactures is spreading. The latest instance is that of Mr J. H. Richardson, saddler, svjbo manufactures leather portmanteaux which are well finished and find a ready sale. A number bave already been disposed oi in Feilding, and a few days ago Mr J. Cobbe received a consignment. On Saturday, the 29th inst., a special meeting ot the Pohangina Road Board will be held for the fWJK>W» of making a special order to provide the invest and sinking fund on a loan of £549, being jIQ per cent, additional on a loan of £'5493 raised by the said Board for completing the main road in No. 2 Ward of the I Pohangina Road Board District. Mr Kottheroft, addressing a young | man named Patrick Casey, brought before him at Aucidadad on a charge of deserting his three children, suggested that men wilfully failing to suppoit f their families should be flogged. The charitable aid boards, he thought, mado matters worse by allowing such men an opportunity to cast their children on the charity of the public.

A mishap occurred to-day at the bridge on the Cheltenham Cross Road, now in course of construction, whereby some damage was done to some of the timber work. A spree for a shilling. Tobacco is now sold in Melbourne, " to meet the times," by the pennyworth - the third part of a threepenny plug. Wooden pipes are sold at a penny each, and beer at three-half-pence the half pint. It is reported that owing to the dul - ness of trade the Westport Coal Company are contemplating discontinuing one of the shifts at their mine. Should this step be found imperative it will mean the loss of employment to upwards of 100 men. It is intended that the valuers for th c j cheap money scheme shall receive salarie 8 lof £600 each. The Treasurer says that pood men are worth that. . The solicitors shall have salaries ranging from £1000 a year in the lareer centres to £400 a year in the smaller centres. Says to-day's New Zealand Times:— The Colonial Treasurer intends to bring down a Bill this session providing for tho conversion of the loans of all local bodies. The Bill will safeguard the Colony from any guarantee in the matter. The Public Trust Office since its estab lishment has advanced on mortgage £453,475. and of that has only lost £4099 or taking into account the sales of properties on which losses haye been made, £2100. The Government Insurance Department has lent under the new Board £518,000. and has lost only £1000 A man broke into a church at Ealinggreen recently. After packing up the communion plate ready for removal, he drank half a bottle of sacramental wine. Enveloping himself in a cassock he fell asleep, in which condition he was discovered when the caretaker arrived next morning. The euphonious name of " Three Log Whare " for the progressive settlement near Ohingaiti is likely to be changed soon. Some Parliamentarians casting about for an appropriate substitute have fixed upou " Stevensville," in compliment to the member for the district, and it is understood that that name will be the chosen one. — N.Z. Times. The Wairarapa Observer says an amusing incident happened at Greytown tho other day. A young man took a walk up the Rimutaka and found a reef of mundic, which he put down to bo gold. He pegged out his claim of some two acres and then, knocking off as much of the stone as he could stagger 1 under, he plodded off home with the prize and landed it in town almost exhausted ; but when a practical man examined the metal and told him its value he lay down and fairly cried.