Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 278, 29 May 1895, Page 2

Local and General News.

« The Martoii Merciuy ceases publication at the end of the current week. Ladies are reminded of Mrs Matlicson's cooking lesson on Friday next. The Manchester RoacT Board will meet on Saturday next. The members of the Gladstone Small Farm Association will meet this evening. Mr Fred Pirani, M.H.R., will address the electors at Bunnythorpo on Tuesday June 4th, at 7-i3O p.m. Additions are made to-day to the entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams Palmerston sale. The final sale at " The Little Shop " in Fcrgussou street will bo held on Saturday next. The plain and fancy dress ball to bo held at Colyton on Friday evening next, will, no doubt, be largely attended. It is almost settled that a strong effort will be made to re-establish the Feilding Horticultural Spring and Autumn shows. Owing to the bad state of the roads tlic "Waituna sale of Messrs Gorton and. Son will not be held until early in October. Captain Eacle, of the Fire Brigade, informs us that Fireman Bilderbeck won Mr Davy's (of Davy and Mills) prize of 10s, and not Fireman Parkes, as reported. A man's ears are placed in such a way that he may catch the things that are said in front of him. A merciful Providence never intended that he should hear what was said behind his back. A meeting of the Cycling Club was held last evening, when business in connection with the social was transacted and 3 new members were elected — Messrs W. Light, P. Morphy and Staffou. Mr Rickets occupied the chair. The annual report of the Dunedin Acclimatisation Society states the quantities of fry distributed last season were: — Brown trout, 115,000; American brook, 22,000 ; Scotch burn, 85,000; Loch Leven, 72,000; rainbow trout, 1500. From the Wellington Society 0000 rainbow trout were received. The following cases have been set down for hearing at the next sitting of the District Court to be held at Palmerston on the sth June : — Criminal cases — George Storey, charge of opening a post letter ; and A. F. Laurenson, charge of failing to keep usual and proper books. Civil case— S. Ji. Richards v. E. F. May, claim ±197 2s 2d on dishonoured promissory notes and interest. Sir Roderick Cameron, the well known shipowner of New York, and his daughter were robbed at Victoria station, London, on April 12th, of valuable jewellery \ and notes and drafts amounting to ilO,---000. The property was in a tin case which Miss Cameron carried, and was snatched from her hand by a thief, who escaped in the confusion that followed. : Mr McEwan, the dairy expert, arrived I by train yesterday afternoon and went this morning to Apiti, where he will lectnre this evening. Mr McEwan had a novel experience at Hawera Station when he was coming down. A bank official was in possession of a revolver which exploded unexpectedly in his pocket and the bullet cut a couple of holes in Mr MeEwan's trousers. 1 It was at a Christ church choir practice. . The musical gentleman who was bossing the proceedings was very much dissatisfied with the " Ah-men." He made the ; choir — nearly all ladies— try it again and again. At last stamping his foot with 1 vexation, he said : "I do wish you ladies would pay more attention to what I say. Why don't you hang on to the men?" Mr Hyrnan Marks, of Christchurch, who died on Wednesday, has left 4:5000 for the establishment of a ward at the Hospital to be called the Hyman Marks Ward ; the sum of i:5000 to be invested and the interest applied to the Destitute Patients Relief Fund ; the sum of £2000 to be invested and the interest applied to the relief of the deserving poor residing in the Canterbury district ; and i;'SOO was bequeathed to the trustees of the Christchurch Jewish congregation. We (Standard) regret to record the death of Mr J. J. Leigh, one of Palmerston's oldest residents, at the. age of 76. Mr Leigh sustained a shock to his system a few days ago, besides having two of "his ribs broken, through being overturned by a dog in the Square, and the accident telling severely upon a man of his age, he never recovered from it, passing away last night at his residence in Amcßbury street. He was highly respected throughout the district and had many sterling qualities. -

Mr T. Watson notifies by advertisement that he has a desirable farm for sale exceptionally cheap. In the country districts the itinerant photographer promises to become as great a nuisance as the book fiend. Captain Edwin wired at 12.45 p.m. today : " Indications strong north to west and south-west winds after 16 hours from now, and glass fall." Sir Plenry Irving, the newly-knighted actor, is 57 3 r ears of age. He first appeared on the stage was at the age of 18. His real name is John Henry Brodrib. Mr Ernest Vaughan, sheepfarmer, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, and son of Mr R. G. Vaughan, of Hastings, died in the Wairoa Hospiial on Saturday of typhoid fever. The Natives of the pa at Ohaura, West Coast, took a vote recently on the question of allowing one of their number to take himself a wife. The vote was adverse, and the young man has to remain single for the present. Bishop Moran invariably insisted on the importance of having churches and schools free from detb. " The church," he was in the habit of saying, "belonged to God, and no man should have a lien on the Church of God." A public meeting at Woodvillc passed the following resolution with regard to the Gorge road : — " That the Govornrncnt be asked to take over the road and bridge, and, failing that, the local bodies interested be asked lo re erect the bridge as soon as possible." Says the AVairarapa Star — There is a good opening for charcoal burning in the Masterton district. It is said that two men could easily burn fifty bags of charcoal in a week. As this would produce 2s a bag, the wages earned by the men would be £2 10 each a week. Mr G. P. Austin^, accountant to Messrs Hallcnsteiu Bros, and Co., at Duucdin, died at Napier on Friday morning of heart disease. He had gone 'chore for the benefit of his health. Deceased was an exceptionally clever man, and will be a great loss to the firm. He leaves a wife and family. We (New Zealand Times) have ascertained on enquiry that the Government have jnst ordered from the Imperial War Office 3000 Martini-Henri rides and carbines. When these arrive, as they may h<? expected to do within the next three or four months, the whole of the defence forces will be armed with the MartiniHenri. The Bank of England employs about 1109 men, and has a salary list, including pensions, of about i.'000,009 per annum. The Governors and directors of the bank divide between them A' 14,000 per annum. Of this the Governors receive £"1000 each, and tho directors LSOOO each. According to the report of Mr Wilson Fox, an assistant to the Royal Commission of Agriculture, the "splendid agricultural county of Lincoln; has since 1879 been staggering under a succession of blows from which many predict it can never recover. The capital lost during the last two decades has been enormous the value of the wheat and barley crop alone having shrunk by nearly three and a half millions sterling. The farmers do not suggest that they suffer injustice from the "laws affecting the tenure of land, but sum up their grievances in " low prices and high taxation."