Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 52, 12 October 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The resident Magistrate's Court will be held here to-morrow. - The Manchester Eifles will parade for Government inspection on Thursday next. Steyens and Gorton's next Awahuri sale will take place on Tuesday the 19th instant. ' A number of new entries are made to F. E. Jackson and Co.'s Feilding sale for Thursday next. It is rumoured that judge Ward has been appointed permanently to the judicial bench of the Supreme Court. A new advertisement will appear in our next issue from the Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, aud Grocery Company, A general meeting will be held in the Public Hall this evening to elect officers for the Feilding Sports on Boxing Day ; and other routine business. - On Monday next Messrs Stevens and Gorton will sell at their Feilding sale rooms, Fergnsson street, a quantity of household furniture and effects. The Borough Counicil will meet on Thursday next at the usual hour. We understand a deputation will wait on the Council in reference to the proposed bridge at Aorangi. Mr Macarthur, M.H.E., will address his constituents at Palmerston, m the Theatre Koyal, on Friday next. Future meetings will be held at Feildmg, Halcombe, and Ashhurst on dates which will be duly .notified. - An entertainment will be given tomorrow evening in St. John's schoolroom. As this will probably be the last of the kind over which the Eev. J Jones will preside, in Feilding, we hope to see a pumper house. We learn from the Woodville Examiner that Mr Horace Baker proposes cutting up his property at the junction of the Victoria and Main roads. It is evident Mr Baker has the progress of T^oodvUle and its suburbs at noirt. "

Mr Charles Henry will have a new advertisement in our next issue. ■ Nominations for the Wangmui Spring Meeting close this evening at nine o'clock. It is said that the Auckland Evening; Bell was sold to George Seymour for £6027. j Mr Linton, of the Kimbelton butchery, j is a purchaser of poultry of all kinds in i any quantity. It is rumoured that a dead cat will be an important witness ( in the HoustonHall poisoning case. ' ■ . I Mr S. J. Thompson has just opened a ; consignment of goods selected by Mr D. E. Lowers in the Home market., Mr Henry Blundell, one of the proprietors of the Wellington Evening Post, is at present on a visit to this district. Sir Julius Yogel underwent an operation on Saturday for a tumour at the back of his head. The operation was successfully performed by Drs Grace and Collins. We hear that Mr Lowes has disposed of the Gorge Hotel. Ashurat, to Mr Watts, late of the Denbigh Hotel, Feilding. The transaction was negotiated by Mr Axup.— Standard. A monolith representing the gold obtained in the colony has been erected in the New Zealand Court at the Exhibition. It is said to look very well, and add to the attraction of the court. In a map of the North Island, published by the Canterbury Times, showing the various railway routes, with the towns through which they pass, the townships of Feilding and Marton are omitted. December Ist will be fixed as the date for receiving application for loans from local bodies under the Acts of last session. A circular will shortly be issued contain* ing ;th e precis of statues under which proceedings must be initiated. Referring to the address of Judge Ward to the jury at the trial of Lunny for attempted wife murder, the Auckland Bell says a good deal of what the judge said was simply "flap doodle." Complimentary. The jury found Lunny " not guilty." Swift used this phrase in a letter to a friend, dated London, January, 25th, 1712:— " I value myself upon making the Ministry desire to be acquainted with Parnell, and not Parnell with the Ministry." The Parnell referred to was the poet and the ancestor of the Irish lender of to-day. Now that Colonel Gorton has directly interested himself in the welfare of the Rangitikei Jockey Club by removing the difficulty anent the racecourse at Bulls, the club will certainly regain a portion of the prestige it has lost during recent years from the successful rivalry of other local clubs. With a view of providing for the great increase of traffic over the Palmerston to New Plymouth line which will result from the completion of the WellingtonManawatu Railway, the Government are bringing up three douMe Fairlie engines from the South. These engines will be landed in Wellington, and taken up the the West Coast over* the company's line. —Post. The Hon. John Ballance has by sheer hard work, and a steady persistence in regard to Native affairs and the opening of waste lands for settlement by men of small means, made himself the most esteemed and respected member of the present Ministry. There is not a newspaper of any repute m the colony which has a fault to find in him as a Minister. Mr Donkm advertises to-day a most attractive list of spring and summer goods now on yiew in the Ready Money Drapery, Manchester street. Mr Donkin is determined to be in the van of progress, and will make powerful efforts to have the earliest consignments of the newest and most fashionable styles of goods forwarded to him direct from the factories each succeeding month. The Christchurch Telegraph says : — It has been cynically remarked by some steady-going people averse to anything of a disturbing tendency, that the newspapers were responsible for much in en« couraging a morbid taste for sensational reading. They however are not the only offenders in this way, for on the 25th July the Rev. Mr Spurgeon preached a sermon upon secret sins, under the title of " Hideous Discoveries." Qu«sen Victoria's dislike of Mr Gladstone is well known, but the cause of it is not generally understood. It dates back to tb£ time when she hesitated about signing the Irish Church Disestablishment Bill. " But. madam, you must sign," said Mr Gladstone. The Queen indignantly ri joined : " Sir, do you know who lam ?" " Yes, madam," responded Mr Gladstone, " the Queen of England. But does your Majesty know who I am P I am the people of England." Tobacco blindness is becoming a common affliction. At present there are several, persons under, tretment for it in one London hospital. It first takes the form of colour blindness, the sufferers who have smoked themselves into this condition being quite unable to distinguish the colour of a piece ot red cloth held up before. them. Sometimes the victim loses his sight altogether. Although xmokinp is to a large extent the cause of the malady, heavy drinking is also partly responsible. Last night a man named Morns Conner, a passenger by train from Halcombe to Palmerston, had a very narrow escape for his life. He was somewhat the worse for' liquor, and when* standing on the platform of the carnage, he fell off when the train was about two miles from the Makino station. His mate saw him fall but did not give the alarm to the guai'4 until the' tram had arrived at Makino. The guard and several passengers went back and found Conner uninjured seated by the side of the metals smoking his pipe. As he was still inebriated he was ioft behind so he and his mate elected to complete their journey ©n foot. We regret to learn that a somewhat serious accident happened on Saturday to the eldest son of Mr Christopher Brown. The lad was riding a mare belonging to his father, carelessly, with the roms lying loose on her neck. On approaching a pool of water she jumped it and threw her rider into 'the pool. His right arm was fractured at the wrist but the mud and water broke the fall somewhat, and no donbt paved him from further injury; As the sufferer was lying helpless on the side of the road, young McAhstor, who is employed by Mr Gichai'd delivering meat, came along on horsebsck, and seeing an accident had occurred he promptly dismounted, and putting "the" 'lad on his horse, brought him to town, showing a degree .of kindness and humanity, for „ which he was gratefully *. -thanked by Mr i and Mis Brown, thw parents of the boy. The fracture was set -by -Dp. Johnson and is doing very well. This M the, third time the same ai-m has hee» brokea.

A brewery is about to be established in Feilding. A meeting of St. John's Church Vestry was held at Mr Bray's office this afternoon. Captain Edwin leU'grapha— Warning* for strong northerly wind? have been sent to nil places south of Napier an^ Wanganui. We regret that pressure on bur space compels us to hold oyer our -report of the very interesting proceedings at the Anniversary services in connection with the Primitive Methodist' Church, held on Sunday and Monday evenings. We are glad to announce that Mr Eade is making rapid progress towards complete recovery from his' recent severe illness. We regret Mr Eade will not be able to attend at the next meeting of the Borough Council, as his medical adviser has absolutely forbidden him to go out in the night air. The travelling public will be pleased t» learn that the Hallway Department are going to build two composite bogie carriages similar to those in use on the Wellington- Manawafu railway, for use on the express trains when the through line is completed. These carriages are to hare hinged seats adopted on the Manawatu line, which are made to face either way, and regarding which traveller* apeak so favourably. The line is likely to be open right through by the 9ib November, but, as an indication of the progress made with it, we may state that Mr -I aekson expects t« be able t» take his next lot of sheep and cattle right through to Johnsonviile in the trucks in which they are first placed— Herald,