LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 47, 29 November 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feed oat* are very dear at present, 3s 9d per bushel being the ruling rate in the Manawatu. Between four and five thousand acres of land are under crop in the Sandon district this season. Letters of naturalisation have been issued to James Eugone Hugli, watchmaker and jeweller, of Feilding. The first meeting of the Manawatu Highway Board was held 3'esterday at the Town Hall, Palmerston North. Mr Justice Gillies has beeit appointed one of the Judges of the Supieme Court of (he Wellington District. Alexander Mackenzie, Esq., has been gazetted warden for tho Pohangina Ward of the Kiwitea Highway District, County of Manawatu. Seventy-three commercial travellers have passed through Feilding since the Ist day of November, and the cry is " Still they come." Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., and Mr James Hull, passed through Feilding by train on Monday night, en route, we believe, for Napier. An advertisement calling for tenders for the erection of additions to the stalionmaster's dwelling-house will shortly appear in our columns. A fatal fire took place on Monday last at Nelson, by which an unfortunate woman named Margaret Fitzsiuions lost her life. It is to be feared the fire was the result of a drunken orgie. The Government Gazette of the 21th instant contains the schedule of regular tions of the volunteer force of New Z"aland. It consists of 27S clauses, '1 appendices, and 21 forms. A lucky member of tho " Foorce," stationed at New Plymouth, has received a cheque for £1350, being the price of his .■6l ticket in Ada Mantua's Melbourne Cup Consultation. He was fortunate enough to draw The Assyrian. Our local storekeepers are still suffering inconvenience from the want of a local cooper, to make kegs for the export of butter and tallow. There can be no doubt that a good living is to be made by a good tradesman here. We learn from tho Australaiian that Warnambool displayed flags on hearing, on the 2nd instant, that the Loans Application Bill had passed through committee. It is estimated that property has risen 20 per cent, in value prospectively. We will be glad to see such a demonstration in Feilding some day. The following boys have been chosen to piny a cricket match against the Palmcrston Lillywhito club on Saturday next, at Feilding : — W. Grantham (eapt.) H. Koberls, J. Itobinson, M. Belfit, J. ! Jackson, G. Adsefcfc, Watts, Beilre, G. Foster, Gordon, Corkery. Emergency — Keen. W. Belfif. A cricket match will be played by the Manchester nnd Foxton clubs, at Feild* ing, at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday next. Following are the names of the local team: — Messrs Nix, Hoe, Rowley, Fearon, Sherwill, Smith, G. Bartholomew, J. Bartholomew, J. Fowlos, and Jackson. Kmergencies : Fitzherbert, Haleombe, and Greenwood. Last Sabbath the Rev. H. M Murray announced his usual monthly lecture for Sunday next, tho subject being "Astronomers and the predicted end of the world." The increased attendance at each recurring lecture marks lue 'popularity which they have attained, and as a means of promulgating kn >\v!r»dgo w<* caa strongly recommend them to a!'.

The cnmrt was distinctly visible last ■ night from about 9 o'clock. To-morrow being St. Andrew's day will be observed as a bank holiday. Fnris, according to a late census, cont.iini 2,2<>9,023 inhabitants. j I Vc understand that a meeting of Good • Templars ami IJechabites will take place ! next Saturday evening in the .State , , schoolroom. j The schooner Clyde, now lying at Fox- j (on, is being loaded by Messrs Bailey i and Bartholomew for Lyttleton. She j will take G5.000 feet of timber. A bazaar in aid of the Primitive Methodist Church takes place to-morrow and Friday at Haleombe. On Friday evening the goods remaining unsold will be brought under the hammer. The initiative steps towards the formation of a brass band for Feilding have been taken. We wish the promoters every success, and hope that under good leadership, the support of the public will be secured. i Tlie long and bloody struggle between the Republics of Chili and Peru is at last likely to terminate. Negotiations fur peace have been entered into, and the bitter hostility previously prevailing has given pace to a more amicable feeling between the two countries. An inquest was held to-day, at Foxton, before D. H. Macarthur, Esq., coroner, on (he body of Mr William Osborne who is supposed to have died on Friday last at Foxtou. Ihe deceased whs found dead in his bed by Mr Barber of Wellington. He was a resident of Christchurch for some years before his arrival in the Manawatu. We would call attention to the Weileyan Bazaar, which takes place in the Forester's Hall, Palmerston, to-day and to-morrow. There is to be music and other amusements each evening. Great interest is being taken in the affair, and no doubt it will be well patronised. The gift auction will be conducted by Mr Snclson on Friday evening next. Mr David Murray, of the Wanganui Foundry, visited the scene of the Cheltenham fire on Monday last, in order to inspect the destroyed machinery with ■i view of assessing its value on behalf of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Mr Htiwlinson, engineer, of Halcombe, lias also inspected the machinery in the interest of Mr Death. Tiie Court of Appeal, at Wellington on Monday last, upheld the points raised by counsel on behalf of the prisoner Adams and his daughter, who were recently convicted of conspiracy in the ca.°e of George Longhurst. Adams has been liberated, but it is probable a fresh information will be laid against him. The question now is, what is to be done with Longhurst ? At a meeting of the Foxton Harbor Board, (says the Foxton Herald) held on Saturday last, a resolution was passed asking the Government to allow white pine for transhipment to be carried over the railway line at the reduced rate, providing the sawmillers made a declaration that such timber was for bona Jide transhipment. A resolution was also passed asking the Marine Department to allow the Board the use of two unoccupied cottages at the river mouth. A case important to persons impounding cattle (says the Press) was heard at the Itaugiora Magistrate's Court when judgment was given for a small amount of damages against a Road Board IJnnger who had not complied with the Trespass Ordinance and the Public Works Act in driving the cattle seized to the "nearest public pound," but impounded them in a pound which was shown to bo a mile at least beyond the distance to the nearest one. Wnilst the case was heard it tran?« pired that poundkeepers were not always careful to immediately advertise or give the owners of the cattle impounded notice of the aame ; any neglect in which respect would probably bo the cause of a similar action for damage.