LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 5, 1 July 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ratepayers are reminded that the polling for the £o,ol*o loan eluses al, 0 p.m. to-night. I lie San Francisco Mail arrived in Feilding on Thursday evening, and was delivered I)}' the postmaster with his customary promptness. We are glad to see our friend Mr John Hughey about agiin, apparently quite recovered from his severe attack of illness. ' TBe usiial monthly meeting of the M-arivltester Highway Board will be held at the Board's ollices on Monday, 3rd instant, at the usual hour. On Wednesday last Mr Bryee took .through, to Wanganui a "Day Dawn ' colt, named "The light of other days." for Mr Higgie, the well-known stock raiser there. The colt was bred in Napier. The price was fifty guineas. and Sherwill will hold an eJctfra stock sale about the 18th inst. Vhey have already some large entries for the forlheoming sale. There appears to be an increasing demand just now for stock of every description. I SH. 161 " 0 ii-/\pwa gcj^cl opening in Feilding for a barber and hairdresser, as this industry is now unrepresented. To any respectable and steady professor of the tonsoriai art no better opportunity could jqffer thaji the present for making a good livrng." "' We are sorry to be unable to report any progress towards complete recovery in the case of tiie son of Constable- l J rice» whoffwaj s^alcfdd severely some weeks ago.l -Tfte poor little fellow bears his affliction manfully, and it is likely that his pluck will bring him through a;l right. Considerable improvements are being j effected in Manchester-street by metal-, ling, especially near the premises of fhe two banking institutions. It is a fair evidence of the prosperity of a place when the $pprsaojbef to the banks are continfciajljg wj&ntihg repairs, from the large traffic to and from them. Mr Linton's land sale at Palmerston on Wednesday was very successful, being well attended and the bidding brisk. We notice that Mr Macarthur, of Feilding, bought some sections fronting the Square at an average of £7 os per foot. It was Mr Linton's first effort as a knight of the hammer, and he certainly won his fours'. A boy working at Mr T. FraserV, Awa Huri, was dangerously wounded in the. eye on Wednesday last, the sight of which, it is feared, is irrecoverably lost. It appears that while working! with the men he unfortunately thrust his head in the way of a hayfork, and was injured as above. Our contemporary the Hawera and Norman by Star, now appears in a larger and improved (> form. We congratulate fhji proprietofK^Messrs Armit and Iness, 6n the suc*ce*ss that has attended their efforts in the past, and trust that their hopes of increased prosperity to themselves and Hawera will be realised in the fujture. _, £ j : Si J.-' Young Cornelius Thompkinsj of Saif-. son, who was accidentally shot in« lhc arm a few days since, is likely, to have his arm saved, which at one time was feared would be necessary to ajmput.ate'.' We are informed that Drs Johrtston and Frood are of opiuion his recuperative powers are considerable from hin youth There is a block of and containing 200 acres, situated near the supposed rail,tf,ay*ni^c\ipti~at(\sttX»etpiT, which was 1 sold Tor'£2tf per acre-^tfJOD fur the lot. Mr E. Riddiford, of Wellington^ was the purchaser, and Messrs Brenaan and Mou-shall, ■ tho^-Ft^dpr^ who, j we are pleaspd \6 sayMifrVe J pWcnased tfrom Mr London a section on the Kjimbolton Road, (lately occupied by Mr Tod), to s<ktleau 'f eildmg;YV7 r\ j': 'Te Whiti and Tohu have returned (jo Christchurch, having been shown most of the sights down South. They w\U, it i is,said, go to the Malvern district shortly aqd wi^'lgo^doirtiO|(?M#i| lieli and, other well-known mines. [We learn b}' telegram that Te Whiti and Tohu's pleasure trip i» not yet ov r. Thej.dre now touring in Invercargill, and to-day (Satuffti® itoi|C^llfO\?est Coast Sdunds. and will proceed thence to Nelson. '! ruly the lines of these chiefshave fallen in pleasant places.] j : . The W e "in^i' f ii^ c Ql^ppnd i ent of the Wahgafctfi HtirJ&Q^ijjptiJuiis follows : — Tite House to-night, (Thurs XfLV), #resenis tae most deserted and mani mated appearance. Many members have gone south, and others have gone to the ball given by the Ho^jl WflcttPr" Johtistun. and a quorum is with difficulty kept together. No such indifference to public business has been exhibited for many years. It appears as though the majority of luernber&art glad of any excuse to shirk their duties. '- Wslien#n«<i I tf&i:i*if u fi question, comes Ju p. however, there will be a. fulland deeply interested house. The settlers? in this district, and espet'W alfaj'thpse re.sid,entjit Asharst, will regret to neairtliat khe^mA^staw Wiio gave his. name to that township died at his residence, the Old Court House, Rich month" on unda}'. the 23rd April, from paralysis,! <>.f,t^e brain. Mr Ashurst had been a PjreetoT of the E« WfhQi Aid Corporation; since its con^mraeemeTirin-'l v ß'(39, and was a'eonstmt attendant at the board meetings in London. In addition to holding a large number of shares in the Corpora- I tiou, lie always took a great interest in. , the settlement and in the welfare of the emigrants. We learn that although the late Mr Ashurst had never been in New ZealaiCSie trained much practical esperi- . encemiM m colonist during many years' l^- ' ' sidence in South Australia and Tasmania, where lie was highly esteemed. < ; '-'

It will be seen by an advertisement elsewhere that Mr Macarthur has resigned the office of Mayor of Feilding. F°u.r hundred Lincoln ewes vere sold by Mr Bryce, at Fern Flat, for 15s 6d per head, during the week. yVe fapar that Mr Cooper, a gentleman lately from' Canterbury, is completing nritangeineptsjfoi- 'tlje erection of a Fellmo^igi'ry establishment ou the Kiwitea stream, near Fe_ihUn£. Mr R. London has disposed of a second j blockof land to Messrs Marshall and | Been nan. containing five acres, situated immediately off the Kimbolton-road. lhe price obtained was £23 per acre. We understand that a commodious 'Sixroomed house will be erected at once. "Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew have received an order from the So'-th for 200,000 feet of first quality timber. It will be completed by the sawmills of Messrs Bartholomew. Feildiag ; ; and Bailey Bros., Taonui, and forwarded via Foxton. • \ .■■ The cry is still they come ! "We learn,'' just as we were going to press, that Messrs Haleoinbe an I Shenvil', the wellknown auctioneers, have disposed of two .suburban sections for £22 10s and £1.4 per acre respectively. The first section contained 33 acres, and the latter 25 acres. The purchaser is, we believe., a new arrival in Feilding. The Cheltenham sawmill proprietors, Messrs Munro and Temple, have made a good beginning. They loaded during the past week the schooners Aspasia and Emerald, at Foxton, for Southern ports, for which dest nation they will probably leave to-morrow or Monday weather permitting. The total quantitj' forwarded was about 40,000 feet. It speaks well for the quality and value of the timber, when it is known that the. whole has to be brought to the Feilding Railway Station! by dray for a distauce of about nine miles. We barve heard lutaors of late referring tg several land transactions on a large scale having taken place within the Feilding district, among them being the purchase or lease of a blork of bush for timber purposed" Not being' possessed of details,, we can at present only casually refer to them. These tran- , sactious, coupled with several minor land purchases chronicled elsewhere, ali point to the fact that better times are dawning upon 1 eilding, and a period of prosperity setting in that -will b& heartily, welcome, to the .town and districts. /, -$ „ * The London Lancet says that there i 8 absolute unanimity among medical on n, whatever their Other views on the drink ' question, that spirits, wine, or beer ] should only be taken with food. Bonnor, of the Australian team, won £100 immediately on arriving in England by wagering to throw a cricket ball 115 yards the day after he landed. He threw ; it 119 yards. ■ The Wanganui Herald states that a proposal is on foot to place in the Wan- ' ganui-Wellington trade a steamer that for speed and accommodation will equal ' tiie latest ventures of the Union Company. • We wish the promoters every success L Victor Hugo, the distinguished French ;. writer and poet, has issued a characte i*- ; tic manifesto on behalf of the persecuted • usso-Jews, and strongly denounced the > criminal apathy, if not complicity, of the l .Ku-sian Government with respect to the s outrages. . r 7 Poor Mr Saunders was riot only Badly [ beaten in the Wakanui election, but he • W;ti howled down by a noisy mob when ■ attempting to speak after the declaration , of tie poll. They would not let him u.n- --• burden his mind ; vet he must, h.ivu had • a lot to say. Mr Saunders is a colonial . . " . logeiies ; and. ver-wise, disappointed, ; soured old man. — Wanganui Hera!d. Among notes on the Exhibition, written .. specially for the Globe by a lady, is the ;■„ following: — In the western octagon is a ; 'weighing machine, presided over by one 1 of our "American cousins," a dark;'g<>od- .' Hooking man, who, in dulcet accents, asks 1 j f ou to be weighed. A comfortable look- > ing dame was induced to get on the stand, and then our Spanish looking .friend said — "There, madam, you are just fourteen stone," on which she turned ' to him and said, "And a very good weight I, f^r a woman as has .had fourteen chil- ' ili-en. You'd look all the jbefter, young [ man, if you had a little more flesh on your bones." " Yes, madam, I wish I had,', was his answer. " Well, young ma'nj you take my advice: you eat porridge and'drink new milk; that will do jou a jnower of good," said the kindly j o'ld' dame." For variety and excellence of design, ' durability of quality, and suitableness .for the winter wear, the Kaiapoi Tweeds at R. Loudox's are the best ever shown in Feilding, and at the most reasonable, prices. — [Advt.J ' ' ■/ / ;