Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 26, 14 August 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

Our Pull's correspondent's letter is crowded out of to-day's issue. The Otamakapna Bock has been gazetted as Waste Land's of the Crown. i A meeting of the Borough Council will i beheld to-night. It is probable that the small-pox scare will be considered. A meeting of the council of tlie Manchester Rifles will be held, in ,§TAE, office ( to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. Among other business the annual volunteer ball will probably be arranged. : . . : - The,-Secr.etary of the Wanganoi Dairy Factory- has sent a sample of its- cheese! to Mr Ballance, M. U.K., in Wellington,' with a request' that he will put it" on the table a> Befla^ny's. Each ( M r H.Jf,;iwill! be expected to find his own biscuits. • ; We are glad te notice that .our contemporary, the Wanganui Herald, on; . Tuesday last followed. •_ the., lead wej, ,<eave| some time ago anent the trash which wasj "sent along, the, .wires" by, the , Press! Association as news worth paying for.j Writing of the "-Salvation Army elope- 1 ment" which .was nnnec£Bsarily,e!aborated! in the Press telegram the Herald says : - -^Thitf iis too bad; and the sooner suclf a njstem of reporting is stOjiped the bitter otherwise this'maelimery^ of the Assbcia 1 tion will '■bejeome/iibe . meiins ! <if ipi-eadinJEr scjindaf and tlttlei-tinttW' brodde'afst. We iriisittße mjinagyfoi the'oTginization will for the future exercise better supervision; over the work of his subordinates and make th^Assoc'ialion of some' real benefit to those who sub.sTrrbr to it, as it is not •giVingf satikftfction stipresent: r *

The next district meeting of the 1.0.0. Foresters will be held at Blenheim. Mr Haybittle's new advertisement will appear in our next issue. Mr Elli-ry Gilbert will visit Feildine about the 15th of September. The Khedive of Egypt is a Mason, and during the recent war tiie brotherhood atood firmly by him. i ' ' By t is morning's train from Palmer- ' .stem seven trucks of eatth*. aiul 10 > sheep weie forwarded to Wan^anui, en route fo-r Greyumuth, by Mr. Manson. Messrs Reid and Grey, agricultural implement nmuufaelurers, Dunedin. employ 250 lianas and. pay £'20,U00 per annum ill wages. . It appears from an advertisement that the Makino Brass Band will hold a grand j plain and fancy f dress ball in the Town Hall on Wednesday next, in aid of its funds. We find we were misinformed as t'io Mr Wells being about to -undergo thiel amputation of his injured limb. He 1 writes ; to us stating that it is only a piece of dead bone wliich is about to be removed. The contest for the Wellington "Mnyoral chair next November promises to be a severe one. Three or four candidates are I already mentioned, $n<\ ainony tlieiu is of | course to be found the inevitable Air \Ym. Hutcbinson. It is stated that the Princess Alice wan the most original thinker among the Queen's children, and m:\dc ht>r family nervous by her freethinking ti-ndeneies, but after the death of her child she rejoined the Church. It is stated that the Ho.ns J. Paterson (Otago), G. Buckley (Canterbury), and H. R. Russell (Hawke's Bay), have forfeited their seats in rheliPgislnlive Council in consequence of being absent tor a lengthened period without leave. The authorities areensjaged in making enquiry in the matter and turning up records. The weekly Penny Reading's at Taonui are still going on and on Monday evening a very pleasaHt entertainment wa* again provided although the audience was not quite so large as usual. The usual'gentlemen assisted. These entertainments have now become well established, and it is hoped may be continued for some time to come. Our Palmerston contemporary, the Manawatu Standard yesterday published that "an order of discharge has, been granted to Mr Keen, shoemaker, of Feildr ing by the Wellington Court, on the application of Mr Brandon, |unr." Mr Keen desires us to state that his 'discharge was granted on February 7th in response to an application made January 28th in the Supreme Court, Wellingtou, by Mr Brandon. In another column is published a notice from Mr J. McElwain, photographic artist, next to the Ready Money Store ai Palmerston. We hare seen specimens of his carte and cabinet photos, as w«U as views taken by him of various places and buildings in the neighborhood, all or which are excellent; but we would make special mention of a picture of the Club Hotel, and some views of the Gorge, &c; which are really splendidly taken. Ye>terday Mr Mowlew, of Palmerstoni proceeded to Makino to fit up the machinery and plant of the Makino Cheese and Butter Factory. This plant which was purchased from Mr. A. Ferguson of Paluierston, was imported by Mr Fi Monrad of the same township. We understand that operations will begin at an. early date. Shareholders in the-Com-j pany are reminded that' a 1 call of one pound is due and payable on Monday the 25eh ihst. ' • - ; . < ■ ■ An advertisement appears elsewhere from Messrs Sunmonds and Peg/len., of Palraerston, who have' recently opened a furniture, bedding, and carpet warehouse, on the Square. Their establishment, is next to Messrs Wollerman and Hutcheson's, and is well stocked with everything in the above lines, as well as some fine pictures of various kinds, including oil paintings, "oleographs, chromos,! engraving.", &c. Tlrese, as woll as their large stock of nick-nacks in «reat variety, are well worthy of an inspection. The Primitive Methodists of Feilding will celebrate their church anniversary; on Sunday the 17th and Tuesday thr 19th inst. respectively. .On Sunday ibe Rev J. W. Worboise will preach both morning and evening.' Special selections of hymns will 'be sung at both services.: Qn Tuesday the annual soiree,, will be held in the church at 6 p.m'. v af^er..w J h,io f h;: a meeting will be held over,; which, Mrd Robert Linton of ,H alcom.be ; will preside as cha : rmnn. Several ministers will give' addresses suitable and' appropriate for! ■ the occasion. ■ • • ' . < • A new advertisament 'from Mr Ende, : occupying half a column, appears.on our thicdpaße. The Fsilding fufflit.we.,bed. . ding and carpe't"wnr©l)ou»e in Manchester 1 sheet is so well -and favorably .known, and we hav^so recently gi£<*f a^e^crg)- \ of the fine stock contained therein, ;tU«t j it woi^ld be superfluous for v* to, a£«in i enter into details, an 4; instead of doing so wo.u}d .only i^ecomuien^ aUjwhOf want « first-class goods .on reasonable terms' 'to pay a yisrt to Mr Ehd^sestaWisEnwSt j and see for thleniselve*i" f r) jj Mr J. Jen.sen f -black>«niHh,;of Feilding.j -h.ai| applied for a patent, f pr.% cpn| rif anr^, ! which, for cheapness and utility, i» almost! certain to. meet witlj j 4efaetfal approval | -and adoption* i Thd ißrentioßrrcftrtsiltßjof j a mode for placine a hot water fountain J on/bars or raHßi"which are securely: &xud on a f,r^ni<B,wor.ko|., Uoii. , .'JJtiejriounjfc'^n j .can ,be shifted easilj and put^ on .any; pm^t ; of the'fire 'uhdeniealhi'Wiiiie tli.ejoth«r , bars can be used for other purposes, jj : I'Wo'tfld'bejinu-isdfoV'iis trf.^Wt fa'fffiM-i particulars iiiftfl itl^^n'Pi^^^plete. i Tlie model is now Ott'viUw at Mr Jenseu's 1 shop. • • ' ' .■ • ■ ■■;■■ • »