Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 3, 18 June 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The new advertisement of Mr H. I, Jones is worthy of the attention of our readers. ' The University of Cambridge has conferred the degree of D.D. on Bishop Selwyn, of Melanesia. A notice of great importance to shareholders in the Manawatu Co-operative Steam Shipping Company appears elsewhere. The Grand Prix de Paris was run on Tuesday last, at Paris, and was won by Paradox, 1 ; Reluicsant, 2 ; and Present, 3. Time 3min. A black horse branded H on the off shoulder is now in the Borough pound, and will bo sold if not claimed before the date given in advertisement. A sale of stock will be held at Messrs Stevens and Gorton's salo yards, Feilding, next Tuesday. Tho entries are numerous and are detailed in advertisement. We are glad to notice that Mr Hammond has broken the ice, and he will address the burgesses in the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening at eight o'clock. We hope that he will secure a good attendance. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day : — Barometer— Further fall at all stations north of Napier and JWanganui ; fall very soon elsewhere. Warnings for hard gales as above indicated and heavy am have been sent to all staioas. Mr G. S. Searle, an old and respected journalist, well-known throughout New Zealand, died at the Wellington hospital last Tuesday. Oa Tuesday evening, while attending at the chess tournament Mr Searle was suddenly seixed with paralysis and he gradually sank. A gentleman at Dongola, writing to a friend at Dumfries, says: — " We have just got a most authentic account that Gordon's head was cut off and put on one of the chief buildings of Khartoum. This was kept secret from the newspapers for fear of exasperating the British public." In anticipation of an increase in the Customs duties this session, the merchants of the colony are making a shot at the articles they think most likely to be effected. A few days ago the bonds were being cleared of tea and sugar ; now salmon and candles have been added to the Ust. A meeting of the provisional directors of the Feilding Building Society was held on Tuesday evening at Mr Hill's office. A report was prepared for submission to the general meeting which will be held on Monday evening next. We understand that the formation of the society may be considered as settled. The Manchester Riflesparaded on Tuesday evening for drill. There was a good muster. After the men had received a couple of hours' sharp drill in the sword bayonet exercise, an order was read out informing them that there would be no parade on Tuesday next as the Government Inspection would be held on Thursday, the 25th instant. A new advertisement from Mr W. Stevens; proprietor of the Manchester Tailoring and Outfitting Establishment, appears elsewhere. He has just received a large stock of various Home and Colonial tweeds, &c, all of which are of splendid quality, and thoroughly shrunk. Mr Stevens guarantees material, fit, style and workmanship, and should be well patronised by gentlemen who are anxious to properly clothe their outward form. The New Zealand Times, says — When the divorce case, Fordham v. Fordham aud Boyd, was called yesterday, Mr Jellicoe stated that he had been informed a few seconds before that a settlement was likely to be arranged between tho parties. The case was fixed for this day week. Up to yesterday afternoon neither Mr Jellicoe nor Mr Travers, the legal gentlemen enraged in the case, had received any intimation that the parties had arranged a settlement. Mr Alexander Laird, of Wanganui, passed through Feilding by midday tram yesterday, accompanied by a staff of workmen, and having with him 5000 trees, being the first instalment of 10,000, which he is under contract with the Government to plant on the sandy embankments of the railway near Foxton. The work will be under Mr Laird's personal supervision, and is expected to occupy about ten days. This is, however, only one of a series of similar contracts between him and the Government. The Hinemoa arrived last Tuesday at Auckland with the remains of the late John Sheehan, M.H.R., which were taken to St. Patrick's Cathedral and placed on a catafalque. At the funeral there was an assemblage of 4000, among the mourners being Sir Frederick Whitaker, Mr Mitehelson, and Major Harris, M.H.R.'s and a number of leading citizens. The Police Force, under Superintendent Thomson, headed the procession. The coffin was laden with wreaths and crosses of flowers. Masses were said for the repose of the soul of the deceased gentleman at the Cathedral ; a requiem mass was also celebrated. Mr Willis is, we hear, shortly to bring out a " Guide to the West Coast from Fox .on to New Plymouth," which is being written and illustrated by Mr R. W. Pownal. That Mr Pownal is taking great pains to ensure the accuracy and value of the various descsiptions given, while sketches of places of interest have been taken especially for the Guide by him, and will be lithographed by Mr Potts, who is well-known as capable of turning out some very high class work in lithography. We have had the pleasure of inspecting some of the views which will adorn the Guide, and also of perusing the letter press, and from what we have seen we should say that our entororising i townsman should make a big hit with h» now venture, As soon as the work is published we shall review its contents in detail. — Chronicle A Beautiful Painting.— Mr G. G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S.A., is presenting to druggists and others in this country some very fine pictures in oil ot his magnificent house and grounds nnd laboratory at that place \lr Green is the proprietor of Boseher'Germtin Syrup and Green's Augnst Flower, two very valuable medicines, which are meeting with great favor, the first as a remedy for Pnlmonary complaints, nnd Ihe Infer for l)y*pep«ia and disorders of the Liver. The:e prepare, tions have attained au immense tale solely on their superior merits and are Isold by all drng_i>t< throughout the ! world. The price is ihe same foreacTi. 3s 6d per bottle, or sample bottles for 6H. The sample bottles en.tble sufferers to prove their value at a trifling cost.

In the Feilding Lyceum, Foresters' HaU, Mr Sexton will deliver an address on Sunday evening. Mr Radcliffe, who will appear in the Public Hall next Monday, is said to be the finest flute player in the world. Mr Retemeyer went down to Wellington to-day on business m connection with the recent sale of the Westoe estate. Mr J. Herbert Hankins, solicitor, has been appointed agent at Palmerston for the New Zealand Land and Mortgage Company. Mr Ernest Carr notifies that he has applied for the transfer of section 30, block IX, Pohangina, to Mr William Miers. On Wednesday, the 9th of September, at half past seven in the morning, or less than half an hour after sunrise, there will be an eclipse of the sun. Mr Roe, of the Denbigh Hotel, is en larging and greatly losprovmg his sample rooms adjoining the hotel. Mr Nicholas is the contractor for the work. A sale of ornamental trees and flowering shrubs, from the nursery of Mr James Laird, is to be held at Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill' b rooms on Saturday. The Rita-Radcliffe combination wiU appear in the Public Hall on Monday night. This company is highly spoken of by the Press in other parts of the colony. On Tuesday next the diorama of the Soudan War will be exhibited in the Public Hall. As the subject is of peculiar interest just now, we may expect a crowded hall. Mr Hamilton, draper, is altering and enlarging his premi.es ia Manchester street, for the purpose of making dwelling accommodation for his brother-in-law, Mr Donkin, the manager of the establishment. Speaking of Sir Julius Voeel's recent illness, the Parliamentary correspondent of tlie Taranaki Herald says that he has been working hard and is a good deal worried because of Mr Fisher's opposition to the creation of local boards in connection with Government Insurance. There is likely to be some fun in the grave atmosphere of the Legislative Council, anent recent appointments to that august and exclusive body. We devoutly hope that a number will resign in disgust, but fear that the adhesion of cohesion caused oy the attraction of £210 per annum will induce the offended ones to pocket their pride. A correspondent of the Standard, writing from St. Petersburg on the Russo- Afghan outbreak, says;— " The general public, even here in the capital., has not an inkling of what has happened, and thus there is before me the extraordinary spectacle of a nation of ninety millions of people on the very brink of a calamitous war, and, with the exception of a more handful of people, all utterly ignorant of the fact." John Murphy, alias "Dublin," was brought up at the court house yesterday, before F. Y. Lethbridge, Esq., J.P,, charged on the information of Constable Meehan with being drunk on the streets of Feilding on the 16th instant. He pleaded guilty. The magistrate cautioned the prisoner, and said that as this was his second offence he was liable to a fine of £3, or 7 days imprisonment. He would inflict the moderate penalty of 10s or 24 hours in the lock-up. Tho fine was paid. Mr Jeffries, of Bunnythorpe, writes to the effeot that on Saturday last, when riding to Feilding on the road alongside the railway line, he had a narrow escape of his life. In a place where the road is particularly bad, his horse slipped and fell. Mr Jeffries was able, fortunately, to jump clear of the falling animal and save himself. He was uninjured, but as ho fell into a pool of mud and water reaching up to his waist, he had to return home and forego the important business he was going to Feilding to transact. Mr Jeffries says this is the third occasion on which he has had a narrow escape with his life in the same spot, and thinks it is high time the Road Board took the repair of this part of the track in hand.