LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 90, 12 April 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The death is announced of Sir Georgo Alfred Arney, late Chief Justice of New Zealand. Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew are now loading the Sarah and Mary, at Wanganui, with timber for Queensland. Her cargo will amount to 120,000 feet. The Bank of Zevr Zealand has received from the police in Adelaide, the gold that was stolen from the Tararua, and recovered in January last. No clue has yet been found of the persons who broke into tbe Wanganui railway station some weeks ago, and abstracted a considerable sum of money. The Wanganui Chronicle says that the railway authorities have laid an information against one Richard Humphries, alias A. M. Brook, of Feilding, charging him with breaking a panel of a carriage, and doing damage to the extent of 10s. The case will be heard by Mr Ward, R. M., on Saturday. Constable Gillespie escorted to Halcombe, en route for Wanganui, by last night's train, two prisoners from Palmerston. John Walsh, sentenced to three months' imprisonment for using obscene language, and W. Walsh, sentenced to four months' confinement for robbery. In the case against the Feilding Jockey Club, heard yesterday at the R.M. Court, thirteen persons were occupied for the space of three hours. These included the magistrate, clerk, constable, two lawyers, six witnesses and two reporters. And all this ado over the immense sum of forty shillings ! The proposal to establish a cheese and butter factory in Feilding is meeting with commendable approval from many settlers in the various towns of the district. The proposal is highly spoken of in Palmerston, and we have every reason to believe that good substantial support will be accorded the project by some of the leading residents of the sister township. The second specimen of the electric skate (Torpedo Fairchildi) that has ever been caught in New Zealand was captured last Saturday in the inner lagoon, opposite Weber's old mill, Napier. Mr A. Hamilton, of Petone, being anxious to secure a specimen of this fish, had offered a reward of 10s for one. The first specimen that was caught was captured by Captain Fairchild, when he commanded the Government steamer Sturl, about thirteen years ago. Our local Court of Foresters announce in another column a ball for the 11th of May next, at the Town Hall. Preparations on an elaborate scale are being carried out by an energetic committee in order to ensure a successful gathering, and we have little doubt the many votaries of Terpsichore, together with the friends of the A.O.F, will have a most enjoyable evening's amusement provided for them. Further particulars will appear in a future issue of the Stab. A considerable number of shares have been taken up by the settlers in Woodville in the proposed company to erect a cheese and butter and bacon factory in that rising township. The promoters have under offer to them an eligible site containing five acres, situated close to the business centre of the village. The farmers are sanguine that the factory will be a complete success, and that the whole of the settlers wil derive material benefit by their having in the factory a ready cash market for their produce. An announcement from Messrs Bently } Bros., late Graves and Fleming, of Palmerston, appears over the leader. They have taken over the drapery and clothing business of the old firm, and are now making extensive improvements in their premises. A very large and well-lighted show room is being fitted up, together with other improvements in the dressmaking and millinery departments. Messrs Bently, Bros., have just received their first shipment of winter goods, an inspection of which they invite on the part of customers and visitors to the " Chicago of tha Manawatu."

A good wash to prevent the hair from falling out is made with one ounce of powdered borax, half an ounce of powdered camphor, one quart of "boiling water. When cool pour into a bottle for use, and clean the head with it, applying with flannel or sponge once a week. Mr Alexander Laird's new advertisement appears elsewhere. He has received a large shipment of rye, and all the various other grass seeds, all machine dressed on bis own premises in Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. We have not seen cleaner and better agricultural seeds of various kinds than Mr Laird has in stock, samples and price lists of whicb he is prepared to forward to any applicant. We regret to announce the death of Mr B. McLean, an old colonist, formerly Provincial Tax Commissioner of Auckland. The various members of the deceased gentleman's family were present, including Mr C. H. McLean, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Foxton, and Mr R. L. McLean, formerly of the Bank of Australasia in the same town. We warmly sympathise with the members of the bereaved family. We learn tbat Mrs J. B. Dungan has disposed of her stationery and fancy goods business, at Palmerston, to Mr Park, a gentleman lately in business on the West Coast of the South Island. M r Park is now busily engaged in laying out a fresh stock of stationery, fancy goods, periodicals, &c, &c, in connection with which an announcement will shortly appear in our columns. Mr Park will also take over from Mrs Dungan the agency for the Feilding Stab in Palmerston. The Lake Country Press says :— " We are informed by a gentleman who lately crossed Ven's Pass, Greenstone, that he was tackled by a couple of ferocious dogs— a half-bred fox-hound and a blood hound— and with difficulty escaped from them by mounting his horse and putting spur to it, they paying no heed to the whip. Had he been on foot it is very probable that his life would have been sacrificed. A rabbiter whom he afterwards met informed him that there were 16 of these brutes in a pack that he was aware of, and that it was unsafe for any one to come through the Pass \ without firearms, owing to their ferocity." i Mr J. Waikley, the popular host of j that well-known and favorite hostelry, the Commercial Hotel (Palmerston), is j contemplating further improvements, which, when finished, will make it one of the most commodious and comfortable hotels on the West Coast. An addition is to be made to that portion of the building fronting Main-street, which will increase the frontage thereto by something like 30 feet These improvements will add considerably to the accommodation for boarders, besides allowing additional space for commercial traveller's goods and wares. In connection with these alterations a large sample room is to be erected (the present one proving too small) which, doubtless, will supply a want long felt by Host Walkley's numerous customers.