Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 8, 30 June 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

We have to acknowledge receipt of a quantity of Parliamentary papers. The Manchester Rifles will parade this evening at the usual time and place. There was a sale at the pound yesterday, and a small black pony brought £4 7s 6d. A noble London clubman recently expelled was indebted £2000 for "brandies and&oclaV We learn from the Napier Telegraph that Mr Tanner has decided not to contest the Taurunga seat. i Mr Berry, builder, was the successfu tenderer for the erection of the new sale rooms for Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill. . The Building is to be coinploie! on Sept. 9th. The Feilding Band played on the Square . ou Saturday evening. The selections were excellent, and were very well rendered. The continued practice of its members in bringing this Band up to a very good standard. - Since it was publicly known that new books were ordered for the Feilding Public Library, several names have been added to the list of members. This con- ' firms the ; idea jof those -• councillors who were of opinion that plenty of books would attract plenty of readers.

" Truth" is to be found at the bottom of the well — and of the poll. We have received the N.Z. Industrial Gazette dated June 25th. There was a good attendance at the meeting of the Choral Society last night. We hope this society will be able to give a concert at no distant date. A man named Wallis was fined 20s, costs 7s, Is damages, and 21s counsel's fees for having damaged a file of newspapers in the Wanganui Public Library. The election of officers for the Feilding Masonic Lodge, 1940, E.G., took place last night— Bro D. H. Macarthur, W.M.; Bro P. Thomson, S.W.; Bro H. L. Sherwill, J.W. ; Bro Roche, treasurer; Bro Gichard, tyler. The installation will take place next month, and will be celebrated with a ball. Another big sawmill (says the Telegraph) is about to be erected at Matamau, Mr Mortensen having leased the bush ob both sides of the railway line from MataI mau to Piri Piri.- Mr Mortensen has j applied for a siding with every prospect i of getting one. Another sale of fruit trees will bo held at the sale rooms of Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill on Saturday next, when a choice collection of fruit trees, shrubs, &c, from the nursery of Mr Bolton, of Nelson, will be submitted. Those who were purchasers last year are entirely satisfied. Instances of a terrible hereditary disease were reported during a Sheffield mission. Mr Thomas, of the local hospital, mentioned that children of eight were found suffering from delirium tremens, and babes at the breast were to be met dying from the gin drinkers' liver. We (Manawatu Herald) learn that the meeting of Master Masons held last Thursday evening to consider the advisability of establishing a Lodge at Foxton was a very satisfactory one, and that as the result of the meeting it is probable that steps will be immediately taken with the objects of inaugurating a Lodge. Mr Baddeley, the E.M. at Ashburton, says the Christchurch Press, of the 24th inst. gave judgment in the railway by-law cases heard before him last week. The judgment was to the effect that the by-law stating that persons shall not ride or drive over railway crossings other than at a walking pace was ultra vires. The cases were therefore dismissed. On Friday Mrs Carver, mother of Mr B. W. L. Carver, died at her son's residence, Awapurua, at the ripe old age of 84 years. The deceased lady had (says the Woodville Examiner) been 31 years in the colony, and had been a teacher in the first Church of England Sunday-school established in Wellington. She was also for some time a teacher in the native school at Putiki, Wanganui. The other day an Italian who was suspected of lunacy was examined by a medical man as to the state of his mind. The doctor returned a certificate, of which the following is a copy :— " I have found that the man has been suffering from a hallucination caused by reading a paragraph in a newspaper which he misinterpreted as affecting his character. This appears to be all that is the matter with him." The man was permitted to go at large. A newspaper in Madrid, called the Correspondencie, is peculiar in its way. It has the largest circulation of any paper in the capital, reaching to 200,000 to 300,000 a day. It has no editor, but a dozen wideawake reporters, who scour the town for every kind of information. They come to the office ancTdrep their manuscript into a bag, aad there it remains until the foreman wants copy. Everything is then thrown into the formes without regard to order or anything else, and the paper is read from end to end in spite of the fact. In England a medallion has been struck for circulation among the friends of the late General Gordon. On one side of the medal is placed a bust of the late General, surrounded by the words, " General C. G. Gordon, C.8., B. E. the latest Christian martyr." On the reverse, within a laural wreath, are the words, "Sent by the Gladstone Government to the Soudan with one companion, January, 1884. In March he asked for 200 ef British troops, but was deliberately abandoned to bis fate until too late." Among the passengers by the s.s. Zealandia, which arrived at Auckland from Saa Francisco on Sunday last, are the following: — Dion Boucieault, the wellknown dramatic |author and comedian, D. G. Boucieault, and Miss Boucieault. Miss Balon, trance lecturer and test medium, under engagement to the New Zealand Pyschological Society ; also Messrs Tracy and Badger, of St. Louis, in connection with the extradition of Maxwell, alias Danquier. the alleged murderer of C. Preller, of St. Louis. A correspondent writes :— " There was a race meeting outside Suakim the other day, and it is gratifying to have to record a signal victory for Australia in the Steeplechase, the only race in which Australian horses could run. The event waa won easily by Lieut. H. P. Airey, N.S.W. Artillery, on one of the gun horses, which was hard held all the way. General Graham complimented the winner by remarking, 'If you Australians can fight as well as you can ride, you will be able to give a good account of yourselves.' The Australian horse could run down nearly anything in the camp. We have received from the publishers ef the Wellington Landed Property Guide, Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co., the June number of this valuable publication and direct the special attention of our readers to' the book which will be supplied gratis and posted to any address regularly on applying by letter to the publishers,, Panama street c Wellington. The Guide this month gives a general report on the land market throughout the colony with tabuellated statement of sales of .private and Crown lands and a spirited and able article, "Future prospect of Wellington " from which we quote—" The construction of the Wellington-Mana-watu Railway Line is being energetically prosecuted, and that -work when finished and connected with the Main Trunk Line, will bring thewhole.pf the fertile country of the West Coast from the foot of the Paikakariki Hill, right up to Taranaki, in direct communication with, Welling* ton, the TJToduce of which country will then find its way to Wellington, and greatly advance its commercial prosperity. The establishment of a direct line of steamers has brought a steady stream of the right sort of settlers. The export , i of frozen meat is developing into a trade of vast proportions, and promises to be permanently remunerative to the graziers and sheep farmers of the West Coast and Wairarapa. Settlement in the country districts of the province is progressing satisfactorily, and production, as in the shape of sheep, cattle, horses, and live stock generally is largely increasing. This commercial development will have the natural effect of enhancing .the value bf real estate and house property generally in the city

The San Francisco mail will arrive this evening by train. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R., left by train last night for Wellington. On and after this day the post office at Trondheim will ba closed. An English mail, per Aorangi. will close here at 7 p,m. on Friday next. The new advertisement of Mr J. Jensen, blacksmith, will appear in our next issue. It is expected that Constable Gillespie will visit Feilding to-morrow. His wife and family are still residents here. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Warnings for heavy gales and heavy rain have been sent to all places north of Lyttelton and Westport. The Makino Band played a selection of music in capital style near the Makino station on Saturday evening last, to the delight of numerous listeners. To-morrow a post office will be opened at TaonuiJßaileys' mill). Mails will be closed at Foilding at 11.30 a.m, Mr W. L. Bailey has been appointed postmaster. To-morrow night the Bita-Badcliffe Company will appear in the Public Hall. As the whole Press of the colony has spoken in the highest terms of this talented company, we may safely recommend our readers to attend. Of the three principal informers in the Phoenix Park trials — Carey, Joe Smith, and Kavanagh, the carman — Carey was murdered; Smith died recently after a long illness, principally induced by the continual fear of being assassinated ; and Kavanagh has been driven insane by the same cause. A man called J. C. Harris, in Wellington, was one of a deputation to wait on the Befreshment Committee relative to the vending of alcoholic beverages at the Exhibition. Ho Baid-— " It seemed to him a rathor mean thing of the Government to enter into competition with the publicans. Hotelkeepers had not been doing very well lately, and it was well known that they had been looking forward to the Exhibition season to make a little money. If a bar for the sale of alcohol were opened in the Exhibition he thought a great injustice would be done to the publicans." So in the mind of this person the Exhibition is being got up for the benefit of the Wellington publicans.