LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 296, 20 June 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The girl students of the University of Nevada have been forbidden to skate, on the ground that the paßtime is contrary to good morals. Mrs Mark Squire, the wife of a Cleveland, Ohio, millionaire, has joined a musical comedy company at St. Lewis as a chorus girl. Included in the estimates as passI ed by the Palmerston Borough Coun- | cil are the following subsides : — Brass I band, £20 ; Salvation Army band, £10; Beautifying Society, £100. ; The next mail for the United > Kingdom and Europe via Suea, due i at London on 6th August, will close at Feilding on Thursday, the 27th ' day of June, at 7.45 p.m. Portion of the plant for the erection of the Gorge Bridge is now on : the ground, and a small cottage will shortly be erected for the cenvenien.ee of Mr H. J. Hayns, the clerk of works. One of the passengers in a motorcar which went down Kimbolton road yesterday was a fox terrior luxuriously clad in a motor coat lined with fur, and seated on the lap of a ! lady. ! At Hastings this week, the young I men connected with the local stables were entertained by the clergyman of St. Matthew's Church, in the Sunday School room. The Rev. Mr Hobbs received the guests, and at the social evening games of cards, music, etc., were provided. Mrs Finhigan to Dr. Hennigan : — "He's no betther, docther. Ye towld me to giv' him as much powdher as wud lay on sixpince. I hadn't sixpince, but I gey him as much as ud go on foive pinnies an two ha' pennies, and it's done him no gud at all, at all." A resident of Otaki, who paid a visit to Wellington a few days ago, was arrested while there, in mistake for another man, but fortunately Detective Lewis knew the man, and assured the arresting officer that a mistake had been made. Consequently he was set at liberty. Judgment in the case of W. J. Williams, hotelkeeper, Feilding, versus W. Abbott, of Wanganui, claiming £1000 damages for breach of agreement, which was heard recently in Palmerston, has been given against Mr Williams. Judge Chapman delivered judgment yesterday in Wellington. The Right Hon. Sir James Fergusson, formerly Governor of South Australia and of New Zealand and Bombay, Postmaster-General in 1891, and afterwards Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who died in the earthquake in Jamaica on January 14 last, aged 74 years, left personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £10,073 17s. In reply to a letter of sympathy from Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., the Hon. W. Hall- Jones writes:— MI have bad a rather trying time, but am thankful to say that I am now improving. . . I am advised on all hands to take a rest, and I feel that I must do so. I have been very pleased with the many communications of sympathy and good wishes which I have received from all parts of the colony. They have cheered me at a critical time. I shall never forget the kindness and goodwill shown to me, and if it is so willed that I may continue my Ministerial work, it will encourage me to do what I can to 'retain the respect and esteem of those to whom 1 refer. Prospecting rights over an area in the King Country have been secured by an Auckland syndicate which has sent Mr W. James, an experienced Thames miner, to inspect the district. The Thames Ster reports that the results obtained by Mr James have been such as to encourage the syndicate to proceed further. Reef formations have been found and some promising propositions located, but nothing has yet been don© to give the reef system a proper testing. That will probably follow later. One^thing has definitely been settled, and that is that there are auriferous lodes in the King Country, and only prospecting and development work will prove their value.

Sergt. Bowden, who has beeh confined to his bed for the past two days through illness, resumed duty this morning. A policeman named Bradford was furiously attacked by an owl at Alpington, near Exeter. He received a black eye and several cuts and bruises about the face and head. The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. R. McNab, addressed an overflowing meeting of dairy farmers at Pahnerston yesterday, with special reference to the work of his department for the dairy industry. I The next mail for the United , Kingdom and Europe via Vancouj ver, due at London on 14th August, . will close at Feilding on Tuesday, the 9th day of July, at 11.46 a.m. ' Money orders close on Bth July, at J 2.30 p.m. I During the progress of a "wake" ! in a cottage near Lurgan, Ireland, on May Bth, a gale raged. The building was blown down, and the mourners and the body were buried in the debris. Fire broke out owing ' to the smashing of a lamp in the J wreckage. It was extinguished by neighbours, who then dug out the j mourners. The latter were severely • injured, and the body was much disfigured when recovered six hours later. A strange and determined case of suicide took place on the Gemville 1 opal field (N.S.W.), last week, when 'an old-age pensioner, William j Knight, placed a charge of dynamite : inside his shirt with a cap and fuse 1 attaohed, over which he placed a ' piece of tin. A hole was made in ; the tin to allow the fuse to come : through. Setting fire to the fuse ; Knight was blown to pieces. It is ' supposed that the reason for the deed ! was that Knight's mate, Jacob ; Clarke, from whom he had been inseparable for years, had been taken . to the hospital ill. I Wairarapa people are agitating for a deviation of the Railway line ' over the Rimutakas. But they are : not very confident of getting it just now. At a meeting at Carterton on Tuesday night, " 'Tis all Lombard street to a Chancy orange," said Mr Hornsby, in reply to a question, " that we should not secure a deviation of the Wairarapa railway from tile Rimutaka for twenty years, if the Government purchased the Manawatu railway, because all the heavy haulage from up country would go that way. The deviation ought to be made. It would be true economy to make it, but unless persistent agitation got it, there : was not much chance of it for a good many years." ; The Christchurch Council had a rather peculiar request before it on Monday night. They received a letter as follows : — " I have had the privilege of inspecting the City Destructor, and find there a chamber called ' a blast furnace. Although not up-to-date as a first-class crematorium, still it would admirably answer that ' purpose. Now, gentlemen, I I write to ask if you would allow a , body to be cremated there, if the ! person when in life had expressed a wish so to be disposed of." The Ma- ! yor said that the Council could not jdo such a thing. It had no conveniences for the puropse at the destructor. Councillor Allison said the matter of a crematorium was already in the hands of the Reserves Commit* tee, and he suggested that the letter should be referred to it. The Mayor said that the matter was under consideration, but the idea of using the destructor was absurd. The letter .was ultimately referred to the Reserves Committee. Mr H. W. Lucy writes to the Sydney Morning Herald : — "In the social campaign there is shown a disposition on the part of the older Premiers to tail off. They still dine out, but draw the line at supper. General Botha, recovered from his recent indisposition, stands undefeated in this field. Doubtless his regular appearances at a succession of 'At Homes' is due to the influence of his daughter. Young Eighteen, clad in a frock fresh from Paris, enjoying her first London season, is not disposed to stop at home when invited to such parties as, for example, that given by Lady Brassey in Park Lane. Miss Botha is more like a French belle than the realisation of the British idea of the daughter of a Boer homestead. She is exceedingly popular, and has the happy faculty of thoroughly enjoying herself. It is pretty to see her father, the hero of a hundred desperate fights, watching her with smiling eyes as she gaily chats with a throng of admirers. An interesting incident at Lady Rrassey's party was the presentation of the Boer General to the wife of the gallant defender of Ladysmith. General Botha had a long, friendly chat with Lady White. The pianist attached to a travelling show had a rather exciting experience in a township not a hundred miles from Palmerston South., one evening last week (says Friday's Palmerston Times). It had been announced that the exhibition of pictures would be followed by a danceJ and about thirty young people paid? a small charge for admission to the latter function. The "management," after collecting the admission money, quitely took its departure, and the dancers were left to the tender mercies of the piainist. After playing a couple of dances, the dispenser of music refused to go on, and , the danoers demanded the return of their money. The pianist was, however, obdurate, and after allowing the ladies to depart, the young men locked the doors, and kept the professor of the pianoforte a prisoner for a couple of hours. Ultimately a compromise was effected. The pianist was promised his freedom on condition that he sang three comic songs. After some parley the terms were accepted, and the prisoner was ultimately allowed to depart in peace. British Columbia has a woman's franchise trouble all its own. It is of rather a different type from the English variety; for the suffragists have triumphed by a ruse, and the masculine community is diligently plotting to rob them of the fruits of victory. By one of the clauses in the Municipalities Act of the province a person who pays a two-dollar dog-tax is entitled to a vote for the Mayor and aldermen, and at Victoria 8.C., there has been a tremendous run on dogs, so that there have not been enough to go round. Women with no other qualification for a vote have hastened vo the Revenue authorities to take out dog licensesrand v-liere there were not enough dogs in a family half a dozen women have voted on the same dog. One lady who was without a canine companion, and could not get one in time, took out a two-dolUr license for a china dog, which stood on a mantelpiece, ond voted on that qualification. All this feminine voting has created a fueling of rebellion in the other sex in Victoria, and the British Columbia Legislature is being petitioned for aid. The d<*mand is that the municipal franchise shall be taken away from women altogether. The London Daily Express of May 10th says:— THe good work which the Fresh Air Fund is doing for suffering slum children all over the kingdom by giving them a much-needed country holiday once a year has become widely known as far away as New Zealand. It may be that some young men and women, who m their early days benefited by the *F.A.* ., have carried the news of. what has been done by the movement for a* many years past for poor little waifs in the homeland to that far away country, and so stirred kindly hearts to help on the work. ft .«w rate, the honorary secretary of the F.A.J. has received a sum of £11 Ms iW from Mr John W. McDougall, editor of the Daily Telegraph, Napier, New Zealand, as representing f" rth « r^°: nations received from readers ot tnat paper who are in symi&tn?,^-* n *H G Sini of the F.A.F. ».¥^SfS had previously forwarded quite a large amount contributed by his readers, who express the hope that the little children they ha ve thus helped to make happy will have a mosT enjoyable holiday. Another friend of children, an Englishman this time, sends under Jhe simple style of "A Friend" a sU-_Fof £ Zs, fltt %cient to provide •Js*V J* 200 children, and an »ddi* lon»l?ve:--pound not© to enable each child to be presented with a new sixpence.

A Kimbolton corespondent writes under date 19th June:— To-day Mrs Pratt gave a golf afternoon on the Kimbo'ton links. Mrs Palmer won the ladies' and Dr. Becdie the gentlerien's competition. Several Feilding players took part. There were in all ; 24 players. Afternoon tea was provided in the golf house, and a very enjoyable afternoon spent. Hotel property is looked upon with considerable favor, at least so far as the Oroua electorate is concerned. Mr Baker, who disposed of his interests in the Ashhurst Commercial Hotel a few days ago, only occupied the premises for a few weeks, and cleared fully £500 as a result of the transaction. Mr Baker has a great regard for Feilding, and it is possible that he may become a resident of this town. The proceedings at O'Neill's buckjumpers in Palmerston last evening were enlivened by a riding contest in which some excellent horsemanship was shown by Mr J. Thorpe, who is employed by Mr Andrews, at the Victoria Stables, Feilding. Thorpe rode three horses, one after the other, in the final, not a single one of them being able to move him, and he was only beaten for the prize by an Auckland man, who had a spell before mounting each animal. Thorpe was accorded a great ovation at the conclusion of his performance. Canada is rigorously excluding undesirable immigrants and deporting them to Liverpool, where intense feeling is being aroused between the Poor Law authorities and the shipping companies. Nearly two hundred of these undesirables have been dumped in Liverpool recently, and being completely destitute have become chargeable to the public rates. Most of them hail from the East End of London, and are what the Canadians call "riff raff." A Canadian official says the whole trouble is due to certain passenger agents. The Liverpool Poor Law authorities are seeking relief rom the Board of Trade. Mr Birrell, Secretary for Ireland, in the course of a speech at Halifax on April 26th last, said: "We have heard lately a good deal about Empire, and we have in London the Colonial Premiers, whom we rejoice to see. These Colonies are now independent States, and the youngest of them is represented by General Botha. (Cheers.) I have been to one or two of the banquets. Heaven forbid that I should nave been at them all. (Laughter.) Had I been there I could not have been here. (More laughter.) I sat, happily for myself, a silent guest. One thing, however, struck me a little uneasily. On all these occasions, and during all these speeches, I never heard mentioned, as I should have liked to hear mentioned, the name of Ireland. Somehow or another, it is left out as if it were a spectre at the feast, a Cinderella in the Palace. Surely it is an inconceivable thought that people should meet to consider how best to consolidate the Empire and leave Ireland out of account. (Cheers.) The true path along which we should all tread is that we should have at the heart of & great united, and free Empire a truly united Kingdom; but Aye have not got it. The aims and the ideas of the Irish are peaceful, and they can be "attained by constitutional means." (Cheers.) The ranger for Waihemo County, driven to his wits' end to know how to deal with a horse which persists in grazing on the roads in the Dunback district, has appealed to the County Council for assistance (says the Otago Daily Times). The hor.se, it is stated, is a noted kicker, and displays a pronounced antipathy to rangers in general and to the Waihemo ranger in particular, and when the latter approaches to drive it to the pound, the animal sets his ears back, opens his mouth, and charges furiously, wheeling round when he comes to close quarters, and letting out vigorously with his heels. On one or two occasions the ranger has had a narrow escape from injury in these encounters, and has been compelled to beat a retreat. The crack of a stock whip or the war whoop of desperate horseman, instead of causing the animal to fly in terror, merely adds fuel to fury, and all forcible and persuasive measures having failed, the ranger suggested that the owner should be proceeded against by summons and be compelled to keep his quadruped from grazing in the " long paddock." When the matter came up for consideration on Saturday, a Councillor remarked that the horse was only vicious when an attempt was made to drive him; he was as quiet as a sheep at other times, and could be led anywhere with a halter round his neck or with a bridle over his head. This Councillor also said he would undertake to get the horse to the pound without difficulty if his expenses were paid. The Council, not wishing to risk lnjuTy to its ranger, or to risk the loss of a useful member of its Council, 'decided to write to the owner warning him that if he did not keep his fiery steed off the roads ho would be prosecuted.