Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 21, 25 July 1893, Page 2

Local and General News

Tho financial debato is not likely to end before Friday. Wo havo to acknowlodgo receipt of a couplo of batchos of Parliamentary papers. Tho Wanganui Infants' School has j beon closed owing to tho prevalence of j tb« measlep. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day : — North to south west gale with heavy rain in 6 hours. Owing to tho gates being loft open, all traffic through tho properties of Mr Pefer Stowart and C. Purkiss is now stopped. A Tasnianian solicitor namod Hudson, after apologising for attributing unjust conduct to Mr Justico Dodds, has been sont to gaol for a month and fined £50. Mr Shornley, of Midlnad road, is mak* ing oxtonsivo improvements to his sec tion and has now on the ground the timber for a new dwelling house. Mr John Prior, Solicitor for tho bankrupt, gives notice that at the next meeting of the Bankruptcy Court to be held at Palinerston North on August 3rd, J. R. Lever will apply for his discharge. Two or three parties of Feildiug sports havo had groat success pigeon shooting in tho Apiti Block, and have returned home with excellent bags and delighted with their outing. Lord Randolph Churchill, who was never a strong man, is said to hare be* come a physicial wreck aud mentally a hypochondriac. His brother, the late Duke of Mariborough, was not robuit. A meeting of Provisional Directors of tho Feilding Permanent Building Society was held last night in the office of the manager Mr E. Goodbebero and an amount of formal work done. Mr John Coyle. says the Advocate who has resigned hie position in tho police force, was presented on Saturday even* ing at Bulls, with au illuminated address and yaluable gold chrouograpb. Mrs Coyle was precontod with a beautiful gold brooch. The balance-sheet of the Bangitikoi Racing Club, road at the annual meeting on Saturday, showed a cash balanco of £363 lOi Hd, with no liabilities. Mr J E. lionry was re- elected hand:capper. It was decided that a meeting should bo held on tho 27th September. It is reported in legal circles that the Official Assignee m Chrutchurch has decided to institute criminal proceedings ugaiust three members of a certain firm, whose sensational bankruptcy has recently excited considerable attention, both in the colony and at Homo, a large number of the creditors being English capitalists. -Post, Some country visitors staving with friends in Newtown, a suburb of Wellington, evidently not used to trams, were ho iilarined on bearing one rattle by the house, thought an earthquake bad happened, and two of the yonng men in their fright put their heads up the chimney, about the most unsafe place they could have made for, had such a thing as an earthquake happened. Messrs Allan and Co bave re-place advertisement* in to-day's issue, in which they direct attention to new consignments of gardeu and flower seeds grown by Mr W. Eowe, of Norms n by. They have also on band the famous white elephant sood potatoes which arc one of the earliest and most prolific varieties in tho market. Messrs Allan and Co invite a trui of thoir Indian and Ceylon teas which for purity and flavour are unequalled. Mr Franklin-Browne will make his first appearance in the rostrum bofore a Feilding audience to-morrow, when he will bold a clearing sale at the Parsonage at 11 a.m. Proceedings will commence punctually at the hour named, as a large number of lota are to be submitted, as may bo seen by reference to the advertisement in another column. No doubt thero will bo a largo attendance of buyers and we wish Mr Frankim-Browno every succoss* There are some people (and tbeir name is Legion, for the welNknown reason.) who can find no better employment for what they doubtless call their brains, and Pro fessor Huxley describes as "grey pulp," than constantly and forever contradicting what other people have asserted, and this from no desire to correct an error but purely and simply by this cheapest of all cheap ways of being impertinent to assume an air of superior and mysterious wisdom, which, as a matter of fact can only deceive the more raw and naive of country cousins. A New South Wales writer has the followiug :— A jockey applied to a traiuer presiding over a notorious " waiting " stable for a billet, and on boing asked for references replied, 4< Well, I caught hold of a fence tho other day and pulled throe pauols out, and my friends ear what Donald Dinnie can't lift, I can throw over my ehouldor." The trainer thought those credentials just a trifle too strong to fill tho bill, and fearing that tho great power might be applied when not roquired, ho decided not to ongago the boy. A correspondent writes from Napier : -"I had a letter from my sou tolling mo that some evil disposed person has shot a valuablo dog, the property of a rdlation, out of malice or revouge, As you know I am going to settle in close proximity to those ehootistß " who 'ore they bo " it makes one foel a bit anxious to know the kind of people I am bringing my wifo and family to reside amongst One reads of " such behind tho hedge crimes " in Ireland but it appears wo are not so far behind. The locality of tbe tragedy is somewhere in tho Harbor Board Block. The science of character reading by palmistry has a number of modern l>«---liovors, and it is maintained that a certain amount of knowledge of disposition and character oan be deducted from the open palm. Those who are curious iu such matters, may put this theory to tho test, by paying a visit to Mrs J. £1. Hicktou at premises adjoining Mr Syendsen's in Manchester street, who will read from the bands tbo character of those submitting themselves to her professional scrutiny. Mrs Hickton may be consulted any hour after 2 p.m. to-morrow. Whilo burning out an old swamp in Foxtou a short time back a gout lorn an oamo across a number of sheep's heads that had oyidently been hidden there from time to time. Theso heads were on tho gentleman's own property, and were riddled with shot, as tho lead could bo picked out when noar tho surface. Theso shoop must havo been stolon and shot, tho heads cut off and thrown into tho Bwatnp, and tho carcases taken away, because the present owner bough tho land many vears ago aud has nevo himself shot a fiheop on it. It is gonor lly »up. | posed that a good deal of sheep stealing ; has boon done about the Foxton district but the thieves have never been caught, as perhaps tho real culprits hayo uoyer I been t>uspt.ctod.