Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 32, 6 August 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

There will be mass iv St Bridget's next , Sunday at 8 a.m. ' The owner of a cheque found cm Kir- t boltou road, is advertised for. t Mr C. Carr will hold a sale at his \ Feilding yards to-morrow. ; Messrs Gorton and Son will hold a ' stock sale at their Bulls yards on lues- ' day next. Messrs Abraham and Williams will ■ hold a sale at their Colyton yards on Tuesday next. We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of the railway timetable for the current month. It is rumoured that Sir James Prcndergast shortly resigns his position as Chief Justice. On Wednesdey next Mr C. Carr will hold two important sales in Feildiug, particulars of which will be found in another column. The Ruabiue and Tararua ranges are covered with snow. Their appearance is remarkably beautiful both at sunrise and sunset. On the body of a notorious brigand recently killed in Turkey was found £4000 and a note book which showed he had murdered 192 men. A sign of the times. The Mail reports that over 50 applications were received for the position of assistant overseer to the Waipawa County Council. Messrs Wood and Judkins announce that at their usual weekly sale on Saturday next they will offer a quantity of furniture, etc. Particulars are given iv , the advertisement. Mr George Anyon having been appointed registrar of births, deaths and marriages, for the district, including Birmingham, Ruahine, Kangiwahia and 1 Pemberton, is already proving aconveni ience to the settlers in the localities named. I The Nelson Mail hears that a settler ; in the district has consented to allow two of his daughters to go to America with some Mormon elders. One of the girls ' declined to go, but it is likely, unless the law is set in motion, that her sister (aged 15) will be taken. In a Scotch bank there still lies the fortune of a young lady who ran away with an English officer to Gretna Green. Her family discarded her. After her ■ death her husband received a letter to the effect that her money was lying in I the bank for her children. He threw the letter into the fire, and the fortune is still unclaimed. a According to the London World, "It is notorious that many West End trades- . men are on the verge of bankruptcy, 1 and it was hoped that the Court would have seized upon the opportunity to as- . sist them. The collapse of agriculture and the long-continued inactivity in the \ city have seriously affected eyery class in the West End." Ii is rumoured that the Licensed Victuallers Association, as a counter blast to the Prohibition party, intend employ- ' ing a lecturer to place the views of the 5 trade before the electors at the forth- • coming licensing elections. It is said that a well-known Hawke's Bay journalist t who is a good platform speaker, will shortly assume the position. There is more hard drinking done in Clutha than any other part of the colony and referring to the question of the success or otherwise of " prohibition " in the Clutha district, the Bruce Herald pays it is a strange commentary on pro- ■ hibition to hear of a prohibition order being taken out against a resident of the Clutha district. As there are no hotels, ou whom is the customary notico to be served ? A rather extraordinary case has oc curred at Okahama, the new developed territory in Western America. A few ' months ago a member of the State AsI sembly brought in a Bill providing for . the enactment of a death punishment ' for murder- The Bill was greatly op- ' posed, but the eloquence of its introducer carried it through. Shortly after the iutroducer quarrelled with a man, and in a passion killed him. He is now lying Hinder sentence of death — the first criminal convicted under his own Bill. The Bill to amend the Abattoirs and Slaugterbo.useg Act Amendment Act, 1b96, provides thai; in any proceedings against any person for permitting or ' suffering drainage to flow from any ' abattoirs or slaughterhouse into any 1 stream running through a borough it • shall be a sufficient defence if he satis- " fies the Court that the stream is not thereby polluted : Section sof the Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act Amendment Art, 189fi, is to be read sebject to this section. Two extra veterinary surgeons and • Dairy Inspectors at £200 a year each, and an analyst at £300, are to be added to the staff of the Department of Agriculture. The vote for travelling expenses of the officers of the department is increased from £5,500 to i £6,500 ; that for experimental stations is iucreased from £1300, to £'2000; while the yo.tes for the encouragement ! of the dairy industry for the establishmiut of dairy schools, an,4 for the cool 1 storage of dairy produce #b£sr jteduc 'i "I'll put a girdle round the earth ' in forty isjnutes," said Puck in the Midsummer Night's Dream. This is what gave the idea of sub-marine telegraph cables which help tp girdle the earth. When Mr Sam Wellex, ia the famous historical trial of Bardelt versus Pickwick, said i» reply to Sergeant Buzfuz, " Yck, I havea pair of eyes, and that's just it. If they was » pair ©' patent double million magnifying gas microscopes of hextra powt r, P'raps I mwht be able to see through a flight o ' sew* and a deal door ; bu. bem' only eye- von see, my wision's limited, sow we have, thanks to Sam. the Rontgen X rays, wfaiefc CS» accomplish All Sam wanted*

There was a smart earthquake here arly this morning. It was preceded by , lond rumbling noise. Captain Edwin wired at noon to day : -Strong N. to K. and S.E. winds with am and glass falling. It is proposed to form a rowing club d Levin. A good five mile course has >een secured on the Horowhenua Lake # At Marton yesterday, the Huuterville [uoit players defeated Marton by six >oints. There were ten men on each ide. A " Pablic Notice " appears to day in >ur advertising culumns over the signaure of the Rev Alan S. lanes Jones, to vhich the attention of those whom it nay concern is directed. Mr Meredith, M.H.R.,—" We must ar•ive at this conclusion — that our boys tnd girls receive their ftrsfc lessons in 'ambling at bazaars and lotteries carried >n by Christian churches." The member for Clutha has introluced a bill, to provide that, in prohibiiion districts, there shall be provided >ome suitable inn accommodation, under i public regulation, and apart from the ;ale of alcoholic liquor, by means of •egisteriog certain buildings, to be known is registered hotels. At tho first meeting of creditors in tbe estate of S.M. Baker, held at Wanganui, t was decided that the D.O.A, bo requested to demand from the debtor possession of the liorse the Artist, which lie said belonged to Mrs Crammond, and in the event of a refusal, the D.O.A. be instructed to take such proceedings for the recovery of tbe horse as he may be id vised. Mr Hankins appeared for the D.O.A. Mr Lewis, M.H.li., in the House: — ' "What is the root of all evil ? Money. Then let us abolish money from the the country. And what is proverbially :he greatest of all evils '? Women. Then let us abolish women from New Zealand Let us abolish gambling, liquor, money, nurl women from the colony and then New Zealand will be a very excellent country to £,'et away from." Another crank, in the person of A. W. Macdonald, the chief apostle of the new Gospel ot Yegetarianism-cum nudity Socictj', leaves London for the Australian colonies shortly. He advocates vegetarianism and nudity. When Mr ilacdonald walks about iv "the altogether " las Trilby would say) unonlighteued women scream, whilst men ask, " Where are the police '."' 31 r E. M. Smith, M.H.R. , in tho House, — Sir, I was iv London the other day ! I had a long interview with the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain ! I will say to the people now, as I will say to the electors wheu the time comes, " Rise, ye champions of the public cause, embrace in me a young aspiring brood. What may we not achieve iv this great cause ■.' Not party praise alonu — a gaudy flower — but solid pelf enjoined by solid power." That's me — the people's choice ! According to a late issue of the London Daily Graphic, a man between 70 and HO years of npe was found by the police wandering pbout Lavender Hill, Battersea, aud, being unable to give an account of himself or his friends, was conveyed as a " wandering lunatic " to the Wandsworth and Clapham Union. It was then discovered that he had in his possession a pocket-book containing nearly £'40 in gold, and an envelope addressed " W. C. Deuneson, ' Danevirke,' Hawke's Bay, New Zealand." A Nonconformist minister in North Yorkshire tells how a year ago his wife traded a barrel of his old sermons for a new bread pan. The next spring the rag man came round aud asked if she had any more sermons to sell. " Why do you want sermons ? " " Because 1 did so well with those I got here a year ago. I got sick in the autumn, and a preacher in Cumberland boarded me and my horse for three months for that barrel of sermons, and he has since got a great reputation as a preacher up there. I will give you fourpence a pound for all the sermons you have got." A special meeting of the Presbytery of Wanganui was held at the Rev Gordon's manse, Marton, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the commissioners from the Feilding congregation re the call to be presented to the Rev Frederick Stubbs, late of Dudley, England. The call, which was an almost unanimous one, being laid upon the table and the commissioners having given their report, the Presbytery decided to sustain the same. The Rev Mr Stubbs, being present, tbe call was then presented to and accepted by him. The induction, together with a welcome tea, will probably take place on Tuesday, the 18th inst., when the presentation to the Rev H. M. Murray will also be made. The education of our Maori fellow subjects is progressing apace. Lately, a business man urgently requested a Maori to settle up a long standing account, intimating that if not paid legal proceedings would be taken. Shortly after, the native called, and civilly asked for three month's more grace. This was granted. Tho time elapsed, and one day the creditor saw his Maori friend in the main street. Beckoning him (the creditor) to come over to him, the creditor readily complied, expecting his oot. But instead, tbe Maori joyously shook hands with him and said " Kapai the law ! Me free now. It over six years. Kapai the law I" The blessings of education are many and great. — Napier Telegraph.