LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 20 October 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Crowded Out. — Owing to extreme pressure on our space our Patea letter and other matter is crowded out of our present issue. Changing Hands. — Thompson Bros. of Feilding have sold their business as general storekeepers to Mr George Crichton, who will for the future carry on the business. Feilding Stock Sales. — Messrs Halcombe and Sherwell will hold the first of a series of summer stock sales at their sale yards, Halcombe, on Friday, November 10. Severe Gale. — During the severe weather which was experienced throughout the night of Wednesday last a serious of accidents occurred to the Harbour Board’s punts, one of which was sunk, and another much damaged. Feilding Spouts. — A public meeting is to be held in Feilding to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock, at Roe’s Hotel to receive from the the sports committee the balance-sheet and report for the past year, and to arrange a programme for this season. The Veterinary Art. — The world-re-nowned veterinary surgeon and vendor of patent and successful horse medicines, Mr S. Slesinger, has arrived, and is now staying at the Victoria Hotel, where he is prepared to receive orders for the supply of his medicines. Colonisation Company. — A great demand has sprung up in Wanganui during the last twenty-four hours for shares in the Auckland Native Lands Colonisation Company, and Mr Whitworth Russell, the local agent, has been obliged to send north for additional forms of application. Diphtheria. — The many friends of Mr Roberson Perston, formerly manager of the Bank of Sew South Wales, Wanganui, will sympathise sincerely with him in the sudden loss of his youngest daughter at Home, the intelligence of whose decease from diphtheria has just been received. Weekly Chronicle. — This journal will be published on Saturday morning, instead of this morning, so as to enable us to place before our readers full accounts of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Annual Show, and of the Spring Meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Club, which takes place to-day. Mr S. J. Thompson. — This gentleman has resigned his seat in the Feilding Borough Council, and the Feilding Star understands that he purposes leaving the district and settling as a farmer on another part of the coast. Mr Thompson will be greatly missed in Feilding, where he is very much respected and esteemed. Train Traffic. — An unusually large number of people availed themselves yesterday of the facilities for travelling provided by our railway line, no fewer than 450 people coming to town by the trains from the north and south in the morning, for the purpose, doubtless, of attending the show and probably of being present also at to-day’s races. Marton Horse Fair. — Several horse breeders from New Plymouth and the West Coast generally have been urging on Messrs Beckett, Hammond, and Dick, the wellknown Marton auctioneers, to hold at an early date a sale of horses, their last sale at Mr Hammond’s farm in March of this year having been such a great success. We have reason for believing that arrangements will be made accordingly. Princess Theatre. — The Theatre was crowded last night in every part, the programme consisting of “Milky White” and the burlesque “Black-eyed - Susan.” The excellent acting of Mr Beckett in the former piece was decidedly the feature of the evening, but the burlesque excitited roars of laughter throughout, and was admirably performed. The programme will be repeated to-night, until after which we must defer any detailed notice. The performances are in aid of the Public library funds. Singular Bolt. — A very strange runaway took place yesterday, though fortunately it was unattended with any serious consequences to those concerned. A settler was driving his family out in a spring cart, and, when about Westmere, he, for some reason, removed the blinkers from his horse. The consequence was that the horse bolted, nor did he stay his course until he had accomplished the distance to town. Fortunately, the occupants of the trap all retained their seats save the baby, which was thrown out by its mother during the horses mad career, and which was ultimately picked up unharmed by later travellers along the road, and returned to its anxious parents. Thoroughbred Stallions. — Some confusion was caused at the show grounds yesterday through one of the assistant secretarys issuing a first-prize ticket to the Stud Company’s sire Cap-a-Pie, who was awarded second prize, and also a similar ticket to Hippocampus ; the consequence was that the groom in charge of Cap-a-Pie imagined that his charge had been awarded first prize, and duly attached the card to his horses bridle. It, however, soon became apparent that two animals in the same class could not both be first prize-takers, and the attention of the stewards having been drawn to the incident, the mistake was rectified, and a second prize card attached to Cap-a-Pie, and an impression that had got abroad to the effect that the judges had been unable to decide as to the merits of the two sires was quickly dispelled. Awkward Accident. — Two enormous bullocks were exhibited by Mr J. Davidson at the show yesterday, and elicited a large amount of admiration, especially from the judges, who were enthusiastic in their praises of the qualities of the huge quadrupeds. They were almost too big for their pen, however, and one of them, rendered somewhat restless probably by a severe flesh wound which it had given itself across the nose, succeeded in breaking a panel of the prison, from which they were transferred to another and seemingly stronger one. Here, however, the wounded animal became more restive, and in the course of its plunging from side to side as admirer’s interviewed it, it suddenly slashed out with its hoof, hitting Mr Wright, of the Brunswick, who happened to be in close proximity, a nasty blow in the face, blacking one eye and knocking out several teeth.