Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 99, 18 February 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Emperor William will pay a visit to the Chicago Exhibition. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the parade this eyening. Massenet's opera, " Werther," has been produced at Vienna with brilliant success, Colonel Olcott has resigned the Presidency of the Theosophical Society, on the ground of ill-health. Mr Carthew's usual monthly case of books and periodicals arrived yesterday. The list is better and eyen more varied than usual. It has been finally decided that the intended appointments to the Legislative Council will be dealt with by the new Governor, Lord Glasgow. The sailors belonging to the United States warship Baltimore, who were injured in the street row, are claiming 200,000 dollars from the Chilian Government. A fierce easterly gale, with heavy snow falls, has been experienced in the greater part of England, delaying the trains and interfering with telegraph communication. Professor Morland, the tutor at Oxford University, who was exposed by Truth for feloniously blackmailing Lord Hothfield, has been arrested on the charge and remanded. In order to be suitably prepared for the advent of Lord Glasgow, the good people of Wellington are now dieting themselves on burgoo, tempered with a dash of Burn's poems. We have to thank Mr G. Duncan, of Apiti, for a sample of " Breeze's Prolific " potatoes, grown on his iarai in that rising district. The tubers are well formed, of good size, and in eyery way perfect. By the death of the Hon Algernon Tollemache, the New Zealand Government will receive about £50,000 stamp duty, the property of the deceased m the colony amounting to half a million. Mr Larcomb, architect, has accepted the tender of Mr J. D. Valentine for the erection and bricklaying in connection with Mr Wollerman's new hotel at Feilding, and that of Mr W, Rawlins for the plumbing work. It was just 21 years ago on Monday since the first Scandiuavian settlers arnyed in Palmerston, and one of their number, Mr A. O. Chnstensen, informs us that all are still living. — Mauawatu Times. During service in the Berlin Cathedral, at which the Emperor was present, a lunatic shouted " The Millenium has come." A panic was excited, as the congregation feared that the Anarchists were about to make some hostile demonstration. It has been arranged that Mr Justice Richmond should on the 25th inst. hear argument at Wellington in support of an application to make absolute a rule stnk« in^ off the rolls a solicitor foi 1 receiving the moneys of clients and applying them to his own use. Yesterday afternoon when Mr Alexander Dunbar was mounting his horse, the animal turned restive, and before Mr Dunbar was seated in the saddle he was thrown violently to the ground, and his left shoulder dislocated. He was brought to Dr Johnston, who did all that was necessary. The Service of Song to be held in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow night promises to be in eyery way a real musical treat. The children of the Sabbath School and the members of the choir, havo been diligent at rehearsals, and no pains haye been spared to please the expected audience. Admiral Sir W. P. Provo Wallis, G,C.8., whose death was referred to in a cable message, in our last issue, was the oldest officer in the Navj. being over JOO years of age. He was the sole surviyor of those who took part in the celebrated Chesapeake- Shannou battle on Ist June, 1813. At the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway a six-wheel coupled engine and tender, weighing in working order 67 tons 14 cwt., was commenced at nine o'clock on Thursday morning, and was turned out of the shops at a quarter past nine on Friday morning in running order, having been built within ten working hours. It is with sincere pleasure that we publish an advertisement notifying that the talented and popular Payne Family will appear in the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday next. The merits and excellencies of this troupe are so well known and appreciated that it is unnecessary for us to do more than to announce the fact of their coming to ensure them a hearty welcome. There are considerable improvements being made in the well-known business premises in Manchester street, the Cash Exchange, by the proprietor, Mr J. C. Thompson. The whole of the interior is being renovated, and new shelving placed for the better display of goods. Mr W. Watts is the contractor. Mr Thompson expects he will be able to commence business in a very short time, and will conduct it on entirely now lines. ; It is stated that the Bishop of Dunedin is carrying on a correspondence with the Primate on the subject of the measures taken by the latter to prevent the Rev Mr Howell from being allowed to preach in any of the churches of the Wellington diocese, and Dr Nevill has plainly intimated to the Primate that this correspondence will be published by him, except under certain conditions, the nature of which may be easily guessed. There was a case on once at the Twelve Mile (Aytoun) on the West Coast. A witness deposed "We was under the smokefly demonstrating a proposition in Euclid." Are hearing was granted, and when this witness was again giving this part of evidence he said : ." We was under tho smokefly demonstrating a proposition in Algibera." Warden Kynnersly ejaculated, '.' Why, in the first hearing you said it was a proposition in Euclid." The witness i&pljed with a look of scornj i' And wherjs tho blazes ia ihe d^eronce ?" The Courfc smiled,

The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on . Saturday. Johnson's Family Circus is coming down the coast. Mass will be celebrated in St. Bridget's Church, Feilding, next Sunday at 11 a.m. A special train containing the Governor and suite went through to Wangauui yesterday afternoon. | The plans for an hotel building to be j erected at Colyton have been prepared, , and the work will be gone on with at an ■ early date. The contractor, Mr J. D. Valentine, will commence work on the new hotel on Monday morning. The time of the contract expires on June Ist. The contractor, Mr Marten, who is sinking for artesian water in Manchester Square, has now driven 48 feet, and is very hopeful of early success. In London in 1890 the new houses built numbered 10,935, with 167 new streets, measuring 25 miles. This beats either Feilding or Palmerston— especially Palmerston. At Makino on Friday, last, Mr J. H. Taylor slaughtered a young cow which, when dressed, turned the scales of 1072 lbs. She was bred by Mr Malone, of Makino. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect strong northerly winds after from 12 to 20 hours have been sent to all places southward of Napier and Wanganui. Under the imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act a judgment creditor may, after obtaining a judgment charge the debtor interest at the rate of five per cent until he takes out a judgment summons, or until the money is paid. The Manawatu Times is surprised to learn that between Wellington and New Plymouth, inclusive, there are no less than 53 day's racing during the year. This a record which, comparatively to the population, is unbeaten in any part of the globe. Members of the Manchester Eifles who. have yet to be measured for their new uniforms are requested to be at the Barracks this evening at 6.30 so as to get the work done in time to allow the representative of the N.Z. Clothing Factory to leave by the 8.25 p.m. train. The following team will play a cricket match with Wanganui College, at Wanganui, on Saturday next : — Millen, Entwisle, Strachan, Hill, Bryant, Levett, Hedges, Bailey, Tompkins, Shannon, and Bishop; emergencies: Broughton, Wellsman, Hedges, and Lethbridge. The team will leaye by the 6.15 train on Friday night. The gold output of the world for the five years 1884-8 was 25,277,506 ounces. Of this Australasia produced 7,268,406 ounces ; United States, 7,920,615 ounces ; Great Bntian, 7071 ounces in 1888 ; Russia, 5,277,524 ounces. The remainder was made up by Sweden, Germany, Austria - Hungary, Turkey, Italy, British India, China, Japan, Africa, Mexico and the Southern Republics of America. The Hon the Premier addressed a crowded meetingat Palmerston North last night. The Premier dealt at length with the various political topics of the day, and entered into an exhaustive defence of the Goyernment proposals. At the conclusion of his address Mr Ballance received three hearty cheers. A vote of thauks to the speaker and confidence in the Government was carried by acclamation. A station-master on a Scotch line was tendered a Bank of England note by Lord Glasgow, the father of our new Governor. He asked him to endorse the note according to custom, and when he received it back from his Lordship the station-master only saw the word " Glasgow " on the note. He said, " I don't want to know where you are going, you old fool, I want you to write your name." Lord Glasgow reported the man, who was, of course, sacked under a monarchical government. In New Zealand " the great Liberal Party" would haye made an M.L.C. of him. " Just fancy yonr sending us a lamb ! I think for sweetness and quality it, in many cases, excels our own. We haye been having very little New Zealand meat lately from London, for. the prices here (twenty miles from London) are so enormous that I cannot, and will not, pay them. Look at these prices : Breast of mutton, 7d; neck, lOd; shoulder, lid ; and so on, per lb. No one will encourage such dreadful prices. Fancy having lamb at Christmas !" The above is an extract from the letter of an English lady, whose brother in Feildiug sent her a frozen lamb as a Christmas-box.