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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1647, 1 March 1886, Page 4

The following is- the .tex-t-oiUa ireqnieition presented to hla Worship ,the\ Mayor of Feilding. Sir — We,' the un,de,rßJgned.residents of the Borough of ; Feilding, having \seen \vilh pleasure that the Palmeraton Racing Ulub, have decided not to iuterferu with- our local races, and wjsjiing to enjoy a holiday, do respectfully beg that you will proclaim Wednesday, 3rd March, 1886, a public holiday. - The Star says that the glare of the bush fires in Fitzherbert' on Fridiivi night, illuminated the sky very brilliantly, and there was considerable attentiou excited in Feilding as a rumour got about that the Square in Pahn'eraton was in flames. . : x The trial is now proceeding in: Rome of a butcher, his wife, son, and daughter accused of the murder of . another butcher, at Monte Rotunda. According to the indictment,, the victim was entrapped into a cellar, killed and cut in pieces, and his blood boiled into black puddings and sold in the shop. One of , the accused told the story of the ■ crime with such cold blooded synicism that lie provoked a storm of popular fury. The paper says that Macara's coach from Tahoraite on Thursday night met with a mishap. On coming down Mata-iwi hill the brake broke and the coach was overturned. No one was hurt.

The Woodville paper lias a very untruthful and unfair attack on Mr Mncartbur, accusing him of political treachery to bis district, tergiversation, moral cowardice, &c, &c. He is also I accused of having assisted the party who I prevented the Gorge Line being carried through. Possibly personal feeling is at the bottom of the attack. Wo learn that on Saturday last there was a considerable seizure by. the police of malt and spirituous liquors, on the road bet,wfcen Woodville and Danevirke, where "it is known that sly grog selling has been going on for some time past. The stuff seized has been brought in to Woodville. The alleged guilty parties are to bo prosecuted forthwith, tho police having obtained ample evidence, aa they affirm, to connect the offence with those believed to both legally and morally responsible for its perpetration. One of the former attendants at the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, by name Miss Cameron, has died in the hospital. In December last she was deputed to. watch a patient who had attempted suicide. During the time that Miss Cameron was. on watch the patient..' jumped up and* caught her by the throat. The assault, added to a debilitated condition; gave bar sucl> a shock Jthat she was obligod to enter the hospital where . she died. She was 19 years of age, and formerly resided'at.RivertoOi ,1/ ■■'•>•• - The School Committee niepts this evening. . •t, • , •..:;;.«:• i **„,, iThe next meeting of the Road ' Board will be Held on Wednesday week,' the 10th inst. ... Mr T. Lowes, of the Gorge H&el,^ advertises for a *aau cook. "*■' , '. "'.'.' Attention is directed to Mr Fred Beaven's advertisement on the fourth^ page announcing a great clearance sale, in which special inducements- will be held but to cash^purchasbrs. : >^J The final rehearsal of tho Choral Society will be held to-morrow evening, .in Bank Chambers, when a full attendance is specially n quested. The Timaru Herald has just become . the property . of Joseph Ivess, M:H.,R., arid Mr G. G. Fitzgerald, late M.H.R., . takes, the editorship. ' ' ' According to the Chronicle the Wanganui Borough Assessment Roll has been upset by the Judge on the grounds that , no appointment of valuers was legality and properly made. A new roll lias now to be prepared at tho expense of the rategayers. The Chronicle blames the Town . lerk for the omission in not havingjseen that- the necessary formalities were carried out, by having the names of, the . valuers inserted in the resolution passed by., the Council. : . ; ~ j " We learn that the insurance company, which had a policy on Mr Renlriant's house damaged by fire last week'^ h|aye appropriately ; recognised Miss" Bryant's efforts to prevent the spread, '^f -thie flames. „'," From all we can learn it is probable that the school committees will express their preference for Messrs Ross, Carson, and Fry, or possibly Awdry, to "fill the vacancies in the Education' Board* •» Serious obiectiohs'to Mr Wicksteed, and also to Mr Thynne are entertained by many of the committees, and Mr Bamber jun. i lacks age and experience. „^>- . : Pro-silver has come into vogue in . England as a material for table cutlery!, It does not become stained 6r''retain . flavours ; it looks like silver, is readily sharpened on a steel; does not wear rapidly, and the price is reasonable,- , „ Some time ago a watchmaker in Liverpool succeeded in drilling a hole through a sixpence edgeways; The diu'meter of the hole in the coin is 4,Goofch p%rt Qt'an inch in size, and barely sufficient. to admit a fine hair.-- ■> - l