Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 2, 14 June 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

. mf Miss Jennie Nye is goiug to open a public house at Ballarat. Large quantities of fruitand forest trees are now arriving in Feilding. Every train brings in a greater o: less quantity. The funeral service of the late Mrs J' P. Lenry will be preacher in the Wesleyan Church, Palmerstor, to-morrow. The Duke of Manchester arrived in Sydney to-day. It "v not decided ; whether he will visit N**w Zealand or not. j The following nominations have been i received for the vacancy in the Wanganui Education Board :— T. Awdry, J. W. Baker, and J. 11. Fry. Mr Amos Burr will address the electors at eight o'clock this evening in the Public Hall. His Worship the Mayor will take the chair. We notice in both the Herald and tho Chronicle that two "sacks" of wheat were destroyed at luvercaigill, valued at £200. Good wheat this. It is rumored that Sir William Fox may succeed Sir Diiion Bell as AgentGeneral. We think this rery unlikely uuder the present condition of JTew Zealand politics. In consequence of the increased water supply in Wellington, ths Insurance | Companies have under consideration the I propriety of reducing the insurance rates in that city. A new advertisement from the firm of Messrs Wollerman and Hutjheson, wine and spirit and general merchants of Palmerston, will appear in our next issue. A few days ago we were iaformed by wire that a member of tie Atkinson family discovered a Cuttle fish on the | sea beach at New Plymouth. A strange [ affinity ! | Mr Lyne and his staff of assistants are making rapid progress with tie diversion |of the Kimbolton road drain. Both the material which is being used for the culvert, and the work itself aro apparently first class. Two large parties left Feilding for Palmerston this afternoon, one to do battle with the Palmerston faotballists, and the other to give an entertainment in the Foresters Hall this evening. The Otago Daily Times stntcs that on Monday last a hawker, whilst travelling j ntang the road to Cardrona, near Lake Wanaka, lost his purse, containing over £'80. It was found by a Chinaman, ani faithfully returned to its owner ;he same day. The Chronicle says : — We learn that the Dunedin Jockey Club have agreed to endorse the disqualification recently placed by the Wanganui Jockey Club on j Gundagai and Messrs Wood and John- i ston for several matters in connection | with the Feilding races. ! A man named Carr, who reccitly ap- | peared as attorney for Mr John Ander- j son in a Court case here against Mr Price, | absconded to Auckland where he was arrested on Thursday for misappropriating his employers money. Mr W. G. Haybittle. the well-known watchmaker and jeweller, of Palmerston, has removed from his former shop near the Ready Money Store to new and more I commodious premises next to the New Zealand Clothing Emporiuon the Square We trust this change will be followed by benefit to Mr Haybittle in his increasing business. We are told that the price of Circassian girls has lately dropped to 600 dollars, the lowest figure ever known. This is not the case because during the Russian j War several lots were sold at rates ranging from Is to 3s lOd. Tins comes of ' scattering the images of <»ur professional Knglish beauties broadcast upon the j world. It is *aid that Sir George Grey intends t<> bring in a Bill providing that all articles in newspapers shall be signed by the name of the writer, as is tbe custom in France. This, he contends, will have the rfEect of materially improving the condition of the journalist by enabling lu'm to achieve a name for himself, instead of remaining in modest obscurity, as he has hitherto been content to do. We would suggest to the Master in charge of the scholars at the Corporation Barracks, that a caution be given to the children to keep off the railway line. The school is dismissed at noon, and as at that time the Wanganui train run* into the station, considerable risk exists of some of ihe youngsters being hurt at the crossing Yesterday one little girl stood close to the rails holding out belli and to touch the Engine. Fortunately she failed to do so otherwise she would _.uve been swept in and killed.