Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 110, 10 March 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

'•-■■■■' ■'"■-'• "'-■'#•' — — — Sporting tiOtes by " Crackshot," and the results of the concluding day's racing •of the V.RiO. Meeting; appear on "our fourth page to-day. Sailway 'enipibyes are no longer exempt from service on juries. The banquet to Mr Bruce will be held at Marton on Thursday the -19th last. ; Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. fco day Very little movement anywhere. The result of the Wanganui Cup, run to morrow, will be posted outside this office to -inorro*' afternoon. Yesterday forenoon when riding into Bulls, Oolonel^Gorton's b.orse : fell, and the Colonel had his collar bone broken. The annual meeting of the Manawatu Bushfellers' Union will be held in the Forester's Hall on Saturday next at 7.30 p.m. It is expected that 200 guests will be present at the banquet to be given this evening to Mr McGuire, M. fI. R. , at Stratford. Yesterday when the ceremony of declaring the Manawatu Gorge Line open was celebrated, the South Island sent up a i congratulatory " shake," which was civil anyway. The Wanganui Chronicle understands that Churton's College has been purchased by Mr Baker, and will be used as a preparatoTy institution for the Collegiate SchoolA murderer was executed at Munich a few weeks ago; ; From the time he left his cell 'till he was in his coffin was two minutes and thirty-eight seconds. This b rea k s the record . At a meeting -of the School Committee last evening Mass Haynes, of Nelson, was appointed to the position of assistant lady teacher In the Feilding School, vice Miss Roache resigned. " When by nignt the frogs are croaking " Kindle but a torch's fire, " Ha ! how soon they all are silent, " Thus truth silences the liar " so sang Longfellow ; but weknow"oue blight particular star " liar, not far from Feilding, who would not be silenced if Mount Vesuvius were to act as the torch. The'Kapier ]$rewß says :— The millennium has arrived'! At any rate, so it | may be concluded from the following! incident, recorded by the Riyerton Star : — ' Mr Campbell, of Howell's Point, reports that the other day he came across a happy family in the bush, viz., a number of kittens, young rabbits, and young ferrets in one nest. To-day we publish train services for the Wanganui Races to-morrow and the day following'; also additions to the tram seryices consequent upon the opening of the Napier-Taranaki conneotion. It will be seen that for the future trains will run on Wednesday from Wanjranui and Palmerston as well as on Monday, Thursday and Saturday as 'heretofore. We have much pleasure in drawing attention to ivi r R. E. Chamberlain's sale of household goods and effects, which takes place at the mill, Kimbolton road, on Thursday noxt at 2 p.m. We understand that the bulk of the furniture is all but new, haying been only a short time in use, and as the sale is without reserve we expect to see a large gathering. Yesterday's railway celebration at Palmerston and Woodville was the occasion of a " 'foregathering" of all the news paper "saints" between Wellington and Wanganui. It Was quite a pleasure to participate in the " feast of reason and flow of soul " incidental to such good company — if only as an index of what the " foregathering " will be on " Fidler's Green "in the future to come. In the February number of Typo just to hand the editor concludes a .n able article on "The Amenities of Journalism" as follows :— The ti;ne lifts come 1 for an Institute of 'Journalists in Now Zealand, with an annual convention. Let the "wretched unwritten oode of mutual discourtesy and affected contempt be repealed, and a system of journalistic ethics substituted tliat shall be worthy the dignity of a. grsat proieisioii,

Dr Dy Johnston was a visitor to Feildxng to-day. | A sitting of the R.M. Court will be held here tortnorrow., ; ; A warrant was i issued., to-day < at the instance of Mr G. W.S nailer ,- photographer, for the arre^ of an employe for alleged embezzlement, •■'.;.. The justices at Hastings recently sentenced a man named Harris to twelve j months' hard labour. When. Mr Miller, the caoler, received the warrant he .thought says the Teleyrapb, . that the justice* had exceeded their powers, and sent tii.e warrant to tlje Governor. On Monday Mr Miller receiveri a telegram siatittg that the man would have to b« i'elensed as the' sentence was not in accordance with the law. ■ In the Assembly Kooms last night Mr Collins lectured to' a moderate audience, his subject being " Shall we live after death." Mr Collins : is undoubtedly an eloquent speaker, 1 and lor an hou^r and a half secured the, close jjatfcention of his hearers. At the close^ of ithe -lecture Mr Oollinßanswered several questions put to him by gentlemen in the HailKand his ahswers> were apparently satisfactory. Mr Fraser acted as Chairman, and at the conclusion of the proceedings he was accorded a cordial vote of thanks. • We recently published a paragraph copied from a contemporary in which it was stated that two of the youns; lady members of the Payne family had died of consumption. The friends of the family will be pleased to learn (says the Otago Daily. Times) that the statement was incorrect— a private letter received by ?^Trs Silk, of Dunedin. from Mrs Payne on Tuesday last, intimated that, with the exception of ..one daughter who is suffering from a sliaKt illness, all the family are in excellenthealth. Just before the "excursion '..train;:. left Woodville for Palmerston yesterday a four-roomed cottage took fire, and caused considerable stir among the passengers. Beyond vemovine: the furniture from, the : burning building, as well as from an adjbimng dwelling, nothing f urther ap- . parently could be done. As the tram moved off the " Woodville Dark Town ■Fire Engine >r arrived on the scone and the last view of the proceedings, was an euergetic attempt on the part of the bystanders " digging for water," with longhandled shovels, to supply the engine with. 1 Mr McKay, Crown Lands "Ranger, has been suspt-nded, peniihg enquiries into certain charges made against his administrationof the Act. A lluding to this 'mat; ter the Pahiatua correspondent of the iH.B. Herald says :— ''ltisnotyet.known what the charges are, nor when: 'he; in qairy will take place-, He has numerous friends here who are all of the class who naturally believe in Beetliam rather thar • Hogg ;. they maintain that his adminis' tration has beeQ cqhscientious^ while ] suppose those who, supported the Democratic candidate mamtain the opposite.' — Pahiatua Star. ; \ The otherwise excellent train arrangements at Palmerston yesterday were somewhat marred by the want of paasengeraccommsdationori therefcurn Feild itig train. Another carriage should have been added to the train. As it was snyeral ladies and children were forced to find accommodation in a smoking carriage and the discomfort of such trayelling is bad enough at any time, but in ac " excursion • tram " it must be simplj unbearable. Another lady was foresee to stand upon the platform of a carriage ;the- whole journey from Palnierstor to -Feildiug. An extra carriage would have obviated this unpleasantness. We notice that the Primitive Methodist congregation of this district hasjusi erected a commodious and substantia" building for a parsonage. The size of th« building is forty-seven by thirty-twc feet, and comprises teu rooms, hall, anc passage, with a verandah along the froni with conservatory in one end. There art parlor, dining-room, four bed- rooms, study, kitchen, bath-room and scullery, all of which have, been finished throughout. The contractor for the builder's work was W. Watts, the plumber's wori was entrusted to Mr P. Thomson, painting and decorating to Mr A. Pope, and bricklayer's work to Mr R. Millham, the whole of which has been carried but to tbt satisfaction of the Committee. We congratulate the Minister on being so suitably provided, and the members of hit congregation on their liberality anc enterprise.