LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 71, 13 September 1904, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS.

• On page 4 : Telegraphic and general reading matter. There will be an Operatic rehearsal to-morrow at the usual hour and place. Henry Antiss, who was severely burned at Glen Tunnel, Christchurcb, on the 3rd inst., died yesterday. John Henry Woolhouse, who was arrested at Bunnythorpe on Sunday for alleged arson and wife desertion, was remanded till Friday. At New Plymouth yesterday a young man named Spalding was committed for trial on a charge of attempted rape at Uruti. Dr. George Hall announces to-day that he will commence the practice of his profession at Kimbolton on the 20th instant. A young man is anxious to correspond with a member of the fair sex with a view to entering into life partnership. That magnificent brown colt, Lord Elderslie, is advertised at the service of breeders, by the owner, Mr H. McDonald, of Waituna West. At ?> well attended meeting of memberg of the Manchester Horticultural Society, held on Saturday evening, it was decided that the next show be held in November. A large amount of prize money was offered, and some valuable trophies presented for competition. At New Plymouth yesterday afternoon the police raided an eating house called the Silver Grid, run. by Vincent Kurta, an Italian, and seiged a. quaivtity of grog, including beer and whisky. Proseoutions will follow. Tanner's Ark was towed down Wei lingtou harbor on Sunday with the intention o| making a trial trip before putting to sea. While the work of towing the craft was proceeding, she heeled over and fell flat on her pprt beam. Tanner's companion jumped into the sea and refused to go aboard again, being rescued eventually by a yacht, The ark is now anchored off Ngahauran'ga. A letter which han gone astray over isyeaps ago came to light. recen% at Jjyttelton. It bore the date of May, I 13S?, and was discovered behind a rev gister grate in one of, the public offices. It had evidently accidentally slipped down behind the grate, presumably from the mantelpiece, and remained till operations for putting m a new grate disclosed it. Complaining of the attempt by the Minister of Justice to forco on the House clauses in the Evidence J^ilJ tyhieh were rejeptetl by members in'p.rp than once, Mi' Taylor oppressed the opinion that the House oouid iinish the business of the country in three weeks if the Cabinet settled down to business. " The order paper is loaded with Bills that the Government does not really want to pass," lie said, and he declared that the Executive* had been afflicted with a listlessness and apathy that would stretch the session out to an i»r tolerable length. "We're not all professional politicians, and we don't want to stay here in perpetuity — on a 999 years' lease." — Post. Rather a good point was qiade agjiinsj; $io Gpyernineiit the cjtfre'r. evening* For two or three hou.rs mewbej: aftev member had complained of the long hours worked by asylum attendants, and the inadequate rates of pay, and Mr Herries said that the {jfovgrnmenfc h^d. gushed the Government sweater, and was now a, sweater itselt. They had complaints of sweat* ing in regard to clerks and co-operative laborers, and every other class of employees, and yet the Government pointed to the Arbitration Act as the great banner of liberty in this country, vrljil» all -tire aftcnivvn wewbere Uu\l been compluiuing that warders and nurses are paid worse than any Jew in Whitechapel. If the Government had been private individuals, it would have been up before the Arbitration Court long ago, and fined very heavily. It was quite time that the provisions of the Arbitration Act wero applied tc tryvornnient employees,

The Town Council of Prague has voted that women will no longer be allowed to . drag the trains of their dresses in the streets and parks. The Town Clerk of Westport has received tho first instalment of £500 of Mr Carnegie's gift of £2000 towards tho free publio library. "•' General business ' covers a multitude of sins," said Judge Ward during the hearing of a case at the Ashburton District Court last Wednesday. The Masterton Borough Council decided last night to purchase 50 acres of land, part of the Kakare estate, 3£ miles from Masterton, for an abattoir site. The Dannevirke Advocate says a Weber farmer has received word that his fleeces at Home have brought him 9(1 per ib, as against a meagre 4§d last year in the Colony. Customer (ordering a suit) : " I want a material that doesn't show the dust. I expect to go to the races a good bit next summer." Tailor (cautiously) : " I presume you have no objection, sir, to paying cash down ?" Mr Daniel Tole, formerly Commissioner of Crown Lands, died at his residence, Ponsonby, yesterday morning. Deceased had been m failing health for some time. The Hon. A. J. Tole, Crown prosecutor, is a brother of deceased. A lecture on the Essays of Charles Lamb will be given, under the auspices of the Feilding Literary Society, in the Presbyterian schoolroom on Tuesday next, 20th inst., at 8 p.m. Further particulars .Till appear during the week. The Manawatu Timber Co.'s tender was accepted for allotments Nos. 4to 14 inclusive, and J. L. Bath's tender tor allotments 1, 2, 3, and 15, situated in Fergusson Street, between the Empire Hotel and the Railway Station. The following will represent the " Always Busy Store " in the return football match against the Drapers and Saddlers on Wednesday next:— A. James, Pawson, Woolven, Laurenson, Shirley, Bramwell (3), Struthers, Trevena, Fisher, Holliev, TownsencL_ Par~ kinson, Lange, Nesbifc- ' A man named Scotty Mclntyre, carpenter at Turangareri, was* found buried in the mud up to his neck on Sunday morning near Taihape. The Maoris cut a channel in to the man and rescued him. He was taken to the pah, washed and nursed, and has now recovered. At the Arbitration Court, Dunedin, yesterday, a claim for compensation by Robert 'Keith, employed by Thomas Spain, hotelkeeper, as a farm laborer, was heard. On July Ist, while crossing a gully he fell, owing to the slippery nature of the ground, and fractured his shoulder. He was awarded 12 weeks at 19s 3d, plus £o 5s costs and expenses. Rudyard Kipling : was enthusiastic over a week's cruise he once made on a battleship. Ho described the Sunday morning service on board, which was very well attended— every sailor not on duty being there. After it was over he said to one of tho jackies, "Are you obliged to attend these Sunday morning services?" "No — no-o," said tho sailor, "not exactly obliged, but our grog would be stopped if we didn't j" When the Masterton lady hockeyists were in Carterton last week, one ab-sent-mindedly left her purse on the window-sill of a shop and walked off, On returning a considerable time after tho purse was still there. "Now, there's honesty for you !" said a proud Cartertonian. "But I guess nobody passed," returned the ungrateful Masterton maiden, as her gaze wandered ov«r the uuci'owded landscape. — Wairarapa Age. The Mayor of Christchurch (says the Press) has been considering the advisableness of having the corner street tamps, more particularly those" in the outer wards, fitted tip with something that would indicate the name of the street at night time. He proposes to ask the Municipal Council to consent to this. The cost would be small, while the service to the public would bo considerable. This bint, we hope, will not be lost on the Mayor of Feilding. The Bulb Show to be held in the Drill Hall next Friday, promises to be a great success. A number of amateurs have signified their intention of competing in the various classes enumerated in the schedule. There will also bo exhibits by Mr Weightman, of Awahuri, Mr Cooper, of Wellington, and Mr Sinclair, of Wanganui, so that an unusually fine display is anticipated. During the show a promenade concert will be given both afternoon and evening. Refreshments will bo procurable at a stall presided over by the members I of St. John's Guild, under whose auspices the. show is being held. It appears to be becoming quite the fashion for jealous married ladies to throw cups of tea over their rivals in full view of the public eye. Recently one episode of this "kind was recorded, and several days ago another happened under somewhat similar circumstances in one of our most fashionable tea-rooms. A well known professional man was entertaining two lady friends, when, to the amazement of everyone, a stylishly dressed and yeyy an,gry« looking woman huriuect in, seised a cup of tea from the table, and throw it fair into the face of one lady, and then proceeded to present the other lady with a similar token of her regard. The angry woman, it is superfluous to say, was the professional man's wife. A well attended mooting of the Waituna West branch of the New Zjea.lancj Farmers' Union was held at the school house, Waituna West, on Sep-* tember 10th, when the following resolutions wero unanimously carried, via.: " That the members of this branch are opposed to the extension of the County Franchise:" also "That the Colonial Executive bo requested to publish the names of all M's.H.R who failed to fulfil their pledges to the Farmers' Union, by not supporting the Freehold Tenure." The question of .wool carting for the coming season was dealt with, and other matters of looal intex-est were discussed. The ladies then went into committee, to make arrangements for the social to be held in the Rewa' Public Hall on the 28th inst,