Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 43, 19 September 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

I The Tongariro's English mail arrived , by the noon train to-day, 1 The Rev. J. Jones returned from the I Synod to-day. The Hon. Mr Bryce will leave for England by the Kaikoura on Monday next. Mass will be celebrated in the Catholic i Church to-morrow (Sunday) at 8 a.m. | We have to thank the Government Printer for No. 25 of Hansard. Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will hold a land sale on Saturday next. For particulars see advertisement. Au addition of ten forward cows is made to-day to Stevens and Gorton's sale at Cheltenham, which will take place on the 22nd inst. Owing to pressure on our advertising columns much interesting reading matter and telegraphic news is unavoidably crowded out. A very important advertisement appears to-day from Messrs J. Hutchins and Co., Land Agents, Woodvillo, in which they intimate that they have 700 acres of totara bush near Halcombe for sale. The Deputy Official Assignee in Bankruptcy intimates that the first meeting of creditors in the estate of P. J. Miller will be held at the Court House here next Saturday at 2 p.m. Messrs Beethune and Hunter will sell in Wellington on Tuesday next that valuable property, consisting of section No. 304, on the plan of Feilding, with all the buildings erected thereon. The excitement in the Hutt tarring and feathering case is likely to increase, as we hear that Messrs H. T. Gillon, of the Evening Post, W. K. Waters, and the Hen P A. Bueklej have been sub« pined as witness. The opening of Mr Linton's now shop has" had the effect of reducing the price of meat in Feilding. Mr Gichard has determined to keep pace with the keenest competition and has issued circulars to his clients intimating that he will sell at the same rates. Proceedings have been commenced by one of the organists in an Anglican church in Dunedin against one of the choir for libel. Damages to the amount of £200 are claimed for defamation to his professional character. " How these musicians love one another." The price list of Mr D. R. Lowers, which we publish to-day, is one deserving of the attention of every careful housewife, inasmuch as the charges are so low as to defy competition, while the quality and brands of the various items are of the best description. Persons buying in large quantities have special inducements held out in the lower quotations which will be made to them. The Manchester Eifles will parade for drill on Tuesday evening next. As the Government quarterly inspection will take place on the Thursday following, members should attend in order that they may be thoroughly efficient when Colonel Stapp has them /in hand. The men of this corps must riot forget that they have a reputation to keep up. The village sections, and small farm sections in and around the new Government township of Hunterville, are now open for selection. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, publishes an advertisement by which intending purchasers are informed where plans and forms of applications may be obtained. We draw special attention to this notice which appears on our third page. Out «f a total number of 23.649 policy holder!* in the JScw Zealand Insurance Association on'j 4.793 live in the provincial diMrict r>f Wellington; and out of a total of £6.298,483 assured Wellington policies represent only £872,479. Yet the policy holders of the Wtliington provincial district were practically able to swamp the proposal to establish Local Boards. The inaugural sale at Messrs Halcombo and Sherwill's new rooms iv the Kimbolton Road, will be held on Saturday next the 26th lust. To mark such au auspicious occasion a large stock of very superior drapery, clothing, &c, will be offerred. The catalogue comprises a selection, the particulars of which will be found in the advertisement that announces the sale and to whiwh we refer our readers with confidence. On Monday evening next a service of song entitled Jessica's First Prayer, will be held at the Bunnythorpe Sunday School. This is the first entertainment of the kind that has been projected in Bunnythorpe and strongly marks the steady progress the enterprising settlers there continue to make, not only in worldly but it spiritual matters. We hope the attendance will be large and the performance a success. Nothing succeeds like success. Mr J. B. Hamilton has experienced this in Palmerston as well as in Feilding, but especially as regards his Feilding establishment under the judicious management of MrDonkiu. The large business which the latter has secured, makes the demand on special lines of Spring and Summer goods so great that the immense addition made to the stock, as indicated in the new advertisement which appears to-day, was made absolutely necessary. Wo are glad to see that Councillor Nicholas has an abiding faith in local talent. When it was proposed in the Council the other night that legal advice should be sought in Wellington to settle a very trival matter, he strongly opposed the motion, and was successful in gaming his point, that Messrs Prior and Sandilands should be employed. Mr Nicholas does not believe in " distance lending enchantment to the view," and he is quite right. The following letter from Mr W. F. Brooking, Secretary of the De Burgh Adams Lodge, wax read at the meeting of the Hospital Board on Menduy :— " I am instructed by the above lodge to request you to he good enough to convey to the j Steward of the New Plymouth Hos. ital 'Mr John Drew) the best thanks of the members for the unwearied care and attention bestowed by him upon their laic Brother Foulis, whiUt in hospital during his late illness, and to congratulate i he Board upon baring on their Ktaff mo kind nnd efficient an officer —Budget. , With the presence of Mr Peter Thomson at the Council table, that free and easy conversational way of doing business, which has obtained for some time past, is doomed. On Thursday night he directed the. attention of the chairman to the infraction of politeness and by-laws committed by Councillors addressing the chair from their seats, so that during the latter part of the evening tke rule was observed with, advantage to all. We expect the next reform he will introduce will be that of only debating one resolution at a time. The practice now of considering two or three subjects at onetime is conf using to the ordinaryvaiind,