Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1896, Page 2

Local and General News.

-•- : Members of the Manchester Rifles arc reminded of the Government parade to- j morrow. ' This week Queen Victoria's reign vill i exceed in length that of auy other English sovereign. A very interesting advertisement on a j discovery by which gardening is made ! easy for ladies will appear shortly. j The Committee of the Star of Cheltenham 1.0. G.T. Lodge return thanks to all those who assisted iv their cou- , cert on the 18th inst. A very important notice to the ladies' I of Feilding and district will appear in our to-morrow's issue from Mr Beckley, of Sherborne House. Additions are made today to the entries for Messrs Gorton and Son's Feild ing sale and Messrs Abraham and Wil- > Hams' Palmerston sale. The collector of the Manchester Road j Board will atteud the Theatre Royal, i Ashurst, to-morrow to receive all rates \ due and owing to the Board. Tenders are invited for catering to a banquet at Apiti ou the occasion of the | opening of the Apiti Oroua bridge. Tenders will close on Saturday next. Today a rooster and two hens, of the beautiful Andalusian breed of fowls, arrived in Feilcliug, to the order of Mr H. J. Bailey, of Taonui. They are of the purest breed. At the Temperance! meeting at Bunnythorpe ou Monday evening there was a'large attendance to bear the Hcv Mr Harrison, of Feilding, give an address on " lemperance work iv England and Now Zealand." The Japanese concert will be given in J the Assembly Rooms this evening in aid of the Young Men and Boy's Club, by the Ladies' Music Club. A splendid programme is provided and as the object is a deserving one there should be a very large attendance. £ir Robert Stout arri\ed in Palmerston last evening with Mr James Ashcroft, O A Both gentlemen are there in connection with the case Regina v Scott and < oorubes Sir Robert appears vice Mr ,~-kerrett, who is unable to bo present for tho defence. — Mercury. Jame Burgess, who has taken the place of Peart in Fitzgerald Brothers' circus, dived from the top of the Belmore bridge into the Hunter river the other day. He intends to dive from the mast of a ship in the harbour at Newcastle. Burgess is a native of Queensland and is about 21 years of age. It will be seen by referring to the advertisement auent Mr Isitt's meeting that, as before, the doors will bo open for ticket holders only from 7.15 to 7. .'50, and doors open to free seats from 7. 80. Tickets for reserved seats may be had at the Hall from 7ir>. It is also notified to day that his Worship the Mayor will preside. Advices were received from Melbourne, says the Napier Telegraph, to the effect that the rates of freight on wool by both mail anrl cargo steamers, on and after the ISth inst., will be M and gd per 1b for greasy and scoured respectively, whilst the mail pteamers towards the last chance for November sales will, as usual, expect even higher rates, say, £d per lb greasy, and {d per lb scoured. " Another matter upon which we all leave with fixed ideas is that Australia does not need from the Old Country me cbanics or unskilled labourers. What the colonies seem to need is a steady and abundant stream o( agriculfcara) labourers. These the Mother Country can supply with advantage."— Farewell remarks of the Manchestsr delegates. Many of our readers have no doubt seen in the illustrated English papers pictures of the relief of a store besieged by natives near Salisbury Laager by a mere handful of volunteers— in fact a patrol. Among the party was Mr St. Hill, son of Canon Si Hill, oi Hayelock, and The Times' correspondent, in telegraphing an account of the incident, specially mentions Mr St Hill as distinguishing himself highly. Mr St Hill was through the last Matabele war as a volunteer, and so was another Hawke's Bay boy, a son of Mr T. Tanner.— H.B. Herald. At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, before Mr R. L. Stanford, S,M,, William Coombs was charged with attempting to defeat the course of justice Dy accepting a bribe, viz., a cheque for £83 from one G. J. Scott to abstain from giving evidence on au information in a certain case of sheep stealing ; and Geo. Johnston Scott was charged with attempting to defeat the ends of justice by endeavouring to dissuade W. Coomba by means of a bribe of £33 to abstain from giying evidence in a certain case of sheep-stealing preferred against H. Scott. Both the accused were committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Wellington. Sir Robert Stout, instructed by Messrs Hankins and Innes, appeared for the accused. So far as New Zealand was concerned the Co operatiye Wholesale has had business relations with a number of producers here for some years past, and the deputation believes operations will be greatly increased as a result of their visit. The article they have had mostly is butter, but only to a small extent. They say the Australian colonies are in a magnificent position for taking possession of the British market whenever they chose to increase the area of ground devoted to dairy farming and increase the production of their butter for export. There is no doubt whatever of their superior capacity over Denmark, Sweden and Germany at an extremely profitable rate to themselves, and it wiii be their own fault if they don't oust the Danes and their Baltic brethren. A very pleasing ceremony took place at tho Buanythorpe Wesleyan Church on Monday evening when Mrs J. Dixon, the organist, was presented with an electro plated tea and coffee service and a beautifully illuminated address signed by nine trustees of the Church, on the eve of her resigning her position. The presentation was made on behalf of the congregation by the Rev Mr Richards, who while expressing regret at losing Mrs Dixon's aid and skill, referred in handsome terms to the ten years faithful service which had been given to the Church by that lady, and remarkable of all was that during wet or fine weather she had never been away from her post. Mrs Dixon, in reply, expressed her most heartfelt thanks for the valuable presents, which were quite unexpected. She could not help saying that she hardly deserved them as the work was one of love — Standard. A Dublin correspondent writes:—According to a Mayo paper, Mr Justice O'Brien fined the High Sheriff of Mayo £500 for disrespect to himself as the representative of Her Majesty. One morning the High Sheriff's carriage did not reach the Judge's quarters in time, and His Lordship, having assumed bis robes, walked to the Court. His first official act was to direct a police officer to bring the High Sheriff before him. He was forthcoming in a short time, and was conducted to Mr Justice O'Brien's chambers, where the angry Judge gave him a severe admonition, and fined him .£SOO. The Sheriff was loud in his protestations of regret, but His Lordship marked bis sense of the slight cast upon him as Her Majesty's representative by imposing ' the fine mentioned. Not for three hours did the Judge relent, and then the fine was withdrawn, with an injunction to the Sheriff to be more careful in the fa* ture."

After the parade of the Manchester i Rifles to morrow night, the shooting I committee will submit their report and balance-sheet for the last twelve months. Members of committee for coming year will also be appointed. Schoolboys in Wellington are now playing a game called the "Politicians' P.R." The characters represented are " Scotch Mac, Patea George, and Pacificator Richard." In the melee the latter generally gets very roughly handled — for stopping the shindy. The anti-toxin remedy has been tried with much success in the Auckland Hospital in cases of diphtheria. Of 23 cases treated during the year only five died, i two beiu^ moribund on entering. The Medical Superintendent thinks that antitoxin has proyed itself a most valuable remedy in the treatment of diphtheria. The editor of the Wairarapa Daily I Times considers that the rooster would | be a mucli more popular bird if he could j only be induced to feel that there is no j real vital necessity for his reporting his i whereabouts between midnight aud H a.m. We know, says the editor, that he is at home, in the bosom of his family. So are we, but we don't get up in the i night to brag about it. — In this connection we may say that the Feilding roosters are learning to crow in whispers, in j order not to betray their whereabouts to the sneak thief !