Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 203, 1 March 1897, Page 2

Local and General News.

« The Manchester Road Board will meet on Saturday next. The Feilding Borough Council will meet on Thursday evening. Nominations for the Rangi wahia-Pem* berton sports close on 3rd inst. Mr Charles Carr will hold a sale at his Birmingham yards on Wednesday next. A mushroom 11 inches in diameter aud weighing 24 ounces, was found this morning on Mr Lethbridge's land. Mr Thomas Selson died at Home recently through inadvertently swallow- | ing his false teeth, whilst wrapped in slumber. i Entries for Messrs Abraham and Williams' Pohangina sale are advertised to*, day and additions made to the Palmerston sale of the firm. It is stated tbat Mr W. W. Collins, ex M.H.R , for Christchurch, says that he has received a numerously-signed requisition from Wellington to stand for the Suburba seat.

The rumour is gaining ground that Mr R. C. Bruce is to contest the Wellington Suburbs seat. Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : —Strong N.W. to W. and E. winds, with rain and colder weather, glass rise. Miss Constance Hatherley won a gold medal at the Wanganui Swimming baths on Friday by diviag 42ft, being under water 53 2- sth sees. Melbourne boasts of at least a score of lady detectives. One earned over £400 last year, aod still managed to hide ber profession from her most intimate friends. Typhoid is prevalent at Hawera. Fifteen or sixteen cases, the Morning Post says. The outbreak is evidently the result of the insanitary conditions which prevail. The Rev G. Clement, formerly of Feilding, will preach in the Primitive Methodist Church this evening. At the close of the service there will be a fraternal gathering. The Feilding School Committee bave decided to vote for Messrs Bridge, SanI son, and Hurley (of Patea) to fill the ordinary vacancies on the Wanganui Education Board. The " freak of nature," the six-toed boy, exhibited here a few days ago (says the Post) has been taken possession of by the police, and returned to his parents, as not beinglof age to constitute a lawful exhibit. Mary bad a little lamb with fleece as black as soot, aud into Mary's milking pan it put its little foot. Now Mary was a downright girl, and given to no sham ; so Mary said a little word that means a mother lamb. The Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Truth writes : — I hear, upon good authority, that Parliament will meet on the 6th of April. The Treasury is busy on the Estimates and other necessary preparations. An enquiry into the circumstances connected with the selection, occupation and improvement of a section of land in the McKenzie Special Settlement Block is to be held by the Land Board at Pahiatua on Tuesday next. According to Mr Jellicoe, almost the only cause of death certified toby medical men is failure of the heart's actiou. " Did you ever know," counsel asked, " of any doctor's patient who died except by failure of the heart's action ? " The sneak thief was en tour last Sat urday evening. He visited the meat safe of a gentleman and annexed the contents. To make sure of spending a pleasant Sabbath he also collected and took away with him a quantity of really excellent fruit. H. Rosenthal, who went bankrupt in Wellington in 1894, and payed ls 7ijd in the £, was made to disgorge £500 the other day for the benefit of his creditors, money he had made in Westralia, sufficient to pay another dividend of 14s 6d in the £. A social and coffee supper will be held in Glasgow House on Tuesday evening, to commence at eight o'clock. A programme has been arranged aud there is every prospect of a pleasant gathering. The proceeds will be devoted to the Wesleyan Church trust fund. A good many people in Feilding yesterday were on the look out for the cyclone which was alleged by Capt. Edwin to be then due in this part of the world. The glass was very low, but beyond the heat being somewhat oppressive, no atmospheric disturbance was apparent. It is notified to-day that the Rangitikei Sawmillers' Co-operative Association is now prepared to execute orders for all classes of timber. The offices of tbe association are at Feilding, where all orders addressed to the manager, Mr W. G. Haybittle, will receive prompt attention. At Dunedin on Friday last, at the 4th wool sale of the season, competition was brisk for fleece wool and prices ruled about the same as last sale. Bellies and pieces, however, were not so keenly competed for, and prices for these were quite id to £d below those of the previous sale. Last Friday night the store at Rata, belonging to Mr J. B. Pybus, was burned down. The fire took place ahout twelve o'clock. There is an insurance of £750 in the Manchester, but Mr Pybus estimates his loss at £450 beyond that sum. Mr Pybus suspects that the fire was the work of an incendiary. On Tuesday morning (says the Otaki Mail) Mr Byron Brown, while in his Auction Mart, heard children screaming outside, and on going outside to see the cause of the noise discovered a weasel chasing a Maori girl on the street. Mr Brown promptly killed the animal, which was a large one of its kind. Mr Charles Carr has decided to postpone his Rangiwahia sale from March 9th to 23rd idem. His reason for so doing is that the approach to the sale yards at present is in bad order, but the Kiwitea County Council has sanctioned the putting in of suitable culverts which will enable stock to be yarded without their having to pass through a lot of mud. Mr Justice Edwards on Thursday, in the case agaiust Crighton, for attempted burglary, told the jury straight that the evidence against the prisoner was incontrovertible, and that he had committed an attempt to vet into the bank premises. Tbis rises the point (says the Napier Herald) whether, after such advice, there was any necessity at all for a jury in the case. Not long since, at the lynching of a supposed negro murderer in the States, a spectator armed with a gun, losing all control of himself at tbe sight of the miscreant, fired at him just as he was being hoisted into the air. The shot missed the man, cut through the rope by which he was suspended, and he fell amidst the crowd. Ere the rope could be spliced together again news arrived that the real murderer had given himself up, and the life of the innocent darkey was saved. On Friday morning the Chief Justice disposed of the motion to make absolute the rule nisi to quash the conviction recorded by Mr Stanford, S.M., at Feilding, against A- Campion, bookmaker, for alleged trespass on the Feilding racecourse at the recent race meeting. His Honour thought the facts were identical with those in the Ryan case, in which he had already quashed the conviction. This conviction, therefore, would also be quashed, and for that purpose he made the rule absolute. Mr Jellicoe supported the motion, and Mr Gully appeared for the Crown. j