Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 33, 27 August 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

We are glad to learn that Mr Hastie is rapidly recovering from his recent illness. The drawing in connection with Messrs Summers and Mayhew's Art Union has been postponed till October Ist. We have to acknowledge receipt of the Wanganui Collegian for August. As usual it is well got up and full of interesting matter. Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew are now cutting rata for the Railway department, to be used in construction of carriages and trucks at the Eastown workshops. It is probable that a Feilding man will take up the Marton Bailway Contract, taken over by the Government from the late contractor, Mr Johnston. Mr Carthew has received the Summer Number of the Graphic and Illustrated London News to-day. Also a number of new books by the best authors We learn that Mr W. F. Halcombe and family will return to Feilding in about cix weeks or two months, to take up their pormanent residence. The building of the Borough Pound was finished yesterday, having been made a good job of by the contractors, Messrs Pope and Pearson. It was no sooner completed than it was called into requisition, the "opening ceremony" consisting of the impounding of a mob of nine horses. Little children who are allowed to be m the. streets by themselves should be warned not to run in the front of horses. A youngster . was noticed to do this in Manchester street this morning, and would have been knocked down and run over but for the presence of mind, and prompt action of the horse's rider. The Faust Family appeared fer a second time in the Public Hall on Tuesday night. The audience was perhaps larger than on the previous evening. The show was most excellent, and without doubt the best that has yet favored Feilding. Like all good shows which come here the visit has proved profitable. Football practice will be held on the Oval on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. As the match with Foxton will be played on the sth prox., members are urgently requested to roll up. The recent bad success of the Feilding men having been attributed — justly — to want of practice, we hope no player will be absent on this occasion.

We have to thank the Government Printer for No. 18 of Hansard.

Mr W. H. Lash, of Halcombe, who has been so long an invalid, continues to suffer a great deal, but it is believed that a favorable change is not improbable.

Mr Heald is making good progress with the building of the new premises for Mr Eado. When finished they will have a veiy imposing appearance.

The new premises for Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill are now nearly completed, and will be ready for occupation, within contract time.

The Town Clerk notifies that section No. 438 Bowen street, has been appointed the Borough Pound, and Mr John Turner has been appointed poundkeeper, vice Mr J. McManus resigned.

The German Government has discharged all women who were employed in its postal, telegraph, and railway service as clerks, and in other capacities. The reason has not been made public.

Mr White at the Architects dinner recently held in Auckland, said that next to women the Press was the best disseminator of news. Mr White has evidently suffered.

To-day we publish an advertisement from the Railway Authorities, with reference to cheap excursion fares to be issued from the Feilding and Halcombe stations to Wellington via Foxton.

The wholesale price for hops is from 6d to 8d per pound at the outside, yet the retail price is 2s 6d. It would be interesting to know why tkis immense margin.

A rumour to the effect that Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew had purchased Mr C. Bull's sawmilling plant and business at Aorangi published by a contemporary, is without foundation. Messrs Bartholomew have purchased a piece of bush from Messrs Bull at Cheltenham, which may account for the report.

We learn from the Taranaki Budget that a case in which the liberty of the subject to get drunk if he chose was settled in Court on Friday last. His Worship decided that a man could get drunk as often as he liked, providing he could afford it, and did not by so doing run the risk of coming upon the parish for maintenance.

The following was the form of oath administered te a Chinese interpreter by the police orderly at the Magistrate's Ceurt one morning: — "Take the b»ok into your right hand John you «ha!l faithfully interpret the Chinese language into the English language and the English language into the Chinese language to the best of your skill and ability s'elp you blow out the match."

To-morrow evening at 7 o'clock a social entertainment will be held at the Foresters' Hall. We understand an attractive programme, which includes music, singing, parlor games, dancing, &c, has been arranged, providing for about four hours of genuine amusement. This, together with the nominal charge of admission to non-members of the Lyceum, should have the effect of securing a good attendance, and making the affair as great a success as was the last.

A scandalous affair has occurred at Turakina. It appears^that a young lady named Sybil Mitchell, a/ cadet at the Turakino School, was pFeceeding home, when some miscreant, who had attired himself in a white sheet, suddenly jumped out on to the road. The poor girl fell to the ground senseless, and has received such a shock to her nervous system that she is very seriously ill. We trust that the scoundrel will not escape the punishment he so richly deserves. — Chronicle.

The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star says: — From a copy of the Chicago Bail way Age, which. I came across the other day, I gather that the Americans are jubilant about Sir Julius Vogel's accusations against British locomotive builders. The Age quotes at length from the Treasurer's speech at Auckland, and expresses itself " aghast at the colossal selfconceit of the Britishers" in asking the New Zealand Government to rebuild its bridges in order that their faulty locomotives could be used.

Eeferring to Mr Thomas's cantata, a musical genius on the staff of the New Zealand Times thus sings : — The instrumentation is not always satisfactory, nor is the setting of particular phrases invariably quite happy, while the redundancy of full closes has an effect of triteness which might have been avoided by various familar devices. One or two simple modulations would also have given more freshness and variety to the orchestral intermezzo, the persistence of one tonality having a tendency to monotony after a time." We simply deny this.

Mr Henry has just received a fresh consignment of new saddles (English makers) of a quality and finish far superior to any saddlery before introduced to Feilding. The girths, stirrup leathers, and irons are of the best. Of the latter Mr Henry has a number in beautiful Victorian silver, nickel, and steel by the best and most reliable makers. English hunting spurs are a speciality, and Mr Henry invites inspection from the most critical buyer. Mr Henry is determined to keep pace with the times ; and offers the best article at the lowest possible price. — : Advt.

A Great Busikbss. — The United Stales of America is the home ef some very large enterprises, but none perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr G. G. Green, of Woedbury, New Jersey, U.S.A. He is the proprietor of the well-known Boschee'i German Syrup which is unequalled as a remedy for Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. He manufactures alsa Green's August Flower for Dyspepsia and all disorders of the Lirer. These preparations are used throughout the civilized world and thousands testify to their valuable curative properties. Both these preparations haTe reached an immense sale solely on en their merits. Sample bottles of each are Kold at 6d., or full-sized bottles at 3s 6d. Ail druggists. -