Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 82, 19 December 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

The tobacco workers in Spain escaped the cholera. We have to thank the Government Printer for a batch of Parliamentary papers. A gospel address will be delivered in the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening at seven o'clock. All are invited. In our Wanted Column Mr Saxby advertises that he is open for an engagement as engine driver or blacksmith. Mr Nettleship has opened up a stock of watches and jewellery in the shop next to Mr Fowles' Manchester street. The average income of the 509 Lords of England is over £24,000 each. Their gross income is about £15,000,000. The Kiwitea Road Board met at noon and the Manchester Boad Board at two o'clock to-day. Reports of both meetings will appear in our next issue. There will be mass in the Catholic Church, Feilding, on Sunday, 20th Dec., at 8 a.m. ; also on Christmas Day at the same hour. The usual service will be held in the Gospel Hall, Warwick street, at seven o'clock to-morrow evening. Mr Hinman will deliver the address. Owing to pressure on our space a number of advertisements and some reading matter, including our weather report, are unavoidably hold over. We have to acknowledge receipt of a member's ticket from J. King, the courteous secretary of the Manawatu Racing Club, for the Palmerston Boxing Day races. Sister Anne. — "Now Ethel, be sure and pray God to make you a good girl." Ethel( praying). — " Dear Dod, pleath twy and make me a dood 'ittle dirl, and if at firth you don't thuctheed, why twy, twy, twy again." Some idea of the warlike conditien of Europe may be gained frein the fact that the various Governments last year expended in armaments £183,519,993. Out of this Russia spent about £33,500,000. France £31,500,000 and England £22,500,000. We publish to-day the Christmas and New Year notice of the proprietor of the Denbigh hotel. Country and Borough subscribers will observe that they can have assorted cases mado up of every variety of wine, spirit, malt liquor, or cordial sold in the trade. By the Ruapehu, direct steamer, Mr J. W. Eade has just received a large consignment of chamber sets of the best English make, novelties in chairs, perambulators, &c, &c. A visit to his establishment will amply repay the trouble. Te Kooti is on his way to Poverty Bay, the scene of his cruel massacres. If he values his skin he will retrace his steps, for there are those in Poverty Bay who have 'sworn to avenge the slaughter of their relatives^ and they will keep their pledges if Te Kooti comes within range of their rifles. In the Palmerston Friendly Society's Sports, on New Year's Day, the prizes in the " Go as you please" have been increased te Ist prize £3, 2nd £2, and 3rd £1. We have been requested^ to notify that in the event of the walking match falling through a mile race will be substituted. The prize distribution at the Collegiate School will take place to-day at noon, when A. F. Halcombe, Esq , a member of the beard of trustees, will preside. "We h»ve no doubt thnt the occasion will be graced by a large attendance of the relatives of the pupils, and of the many other friends of such a popular institution. — Chronicle. The s.B. Macgregor, which arrived from Whangarei last Monday^ brought up a man named Clark, seriously ill from blood-poisoning. He was conveyed to the hospital in a cab. It appears that soine time ago Clark was fighting with another man and struck the latter on the teeth. He sustained a slight wound on one hand, blood-poisoning set in, and has since assumed a very serious phase. — Auckland Star. The Wanganui Herald says that Major Atkinson's meeting at Ha*rera on Thurs* day night was not by any meant as sue* cessful as it was anticipated would ha?* been the case. In the first place, the meeting was half an hour late in starting, owing to the small attendance at the advertised hour. When fairly started, the Major did net meet with any enthusiastic response from his audience. This was noticeable all through, and especially at the close when the vote was taken, the sprinkling of hands held up being ridiculously small. Amongst those present at , the meeting were Colonel Trimble, and Mr Mftcsrthur, M.H.K.'s. At the hospital meeting on Wednesday Mr Macarthur mooted the idea ef baring cots which could be swung «p in Government trucks for bringing in patients from the country districts. At present the arrangements are certainly defective, patients with broken limbs being greatly inconvenienced, and pat to unnecessary pain by being laid «n the floor of the guard's van. If a few bolts were pat in some of tho cattle trucks, and cots left at each of the main stations along the line, patients could be placed on a mattress and carried in with ease and some degree of eemfort— Herald The following are prize winners in F. Bradey's Art Union :— No. 22, J. Waldegrave, Palmerston, Ngahauranga line. No 129, W. G. HaybFttle, Palmereton, Bush Scene, Bunnythorpe. No 65,. 0. J. Hill, Sandon, Porirua Bay, moonlight. No 141, J. W. Beadey, Bunnythorpe, HorewhenuaLake. No 93, A. Broadbelt, > Bulls, Otaki Hirer. No 126, J. Thompson, Sandon, Paikakariki HilL No 117, Miss Gallagher, Palmerston, Steamer Ruapehu. No 106, T. Harris, Sandon, Maaawatu River. No 122, J. Bartholomew, Feilding, Lake Wanaka. No 38, A. Bailey. Sandon, Ship Wild Duck. No 39, J. H. Hanki.s, Palmerston, Fishing Boats. No 56, G. Williams, Sandon, Waterfall, Pahautanui. . At l**t meeting of the PalnWraton Borough Council Cr McNeil gare^ftotice of a motion which has much to commend it, and which, we trust will be carried. Shortly stated the motion has for its object the publication of the reports of the various committees before the meeting of the Council at' which they am to be discussed. Publication beforehand will Rife each member an opportunity' ef thoroughly examining the report and being prepared, to vote or speak on it with some idea of the real pesitjon •rVaffiirs. It will also give the ratepayers an tunity of knowning "wltat is to be done, and.' if necessary, conferring with ttieit representatives as to its adrisabiHty*Tor otherwise. The practice it oue.-Jrtjich has been adopted in most town's 'of importance, and Cr MoNeil has done good service in bringing ; tho matter forward,-rAfaqairnta Tinief . •';■ <■• /

Mr A. Fergusßon, the Mayor of Palmerston, was a visitor to Feilding to-day. As soon as the handicaps for the Feilding Sports reach ua, we wil publish them as an extra. Another evidence of the depression is discovered in the fact that Boucicault received only L2OOO for his six weeks tour in New Zealand. If all the railroads in the world were joined one to another, they would go around the earth on its longest circumference more than ten times. On Tuesday next Sir William Fox will address a meeting in the Temperance Hall (next to the Feilding State School, Manchester street). The door will be open at 7.30 and the lecture will begin at 8 p.m. sharp. As Sir William Fox is a very popular lecturer we expect to see a bumper house. " My dear," remonstrated a wife, peering out from mnder the bedclothes, " I do wish you would vie the word ' sbeol.' It sounds better.'* "It may sound better at times," replied her husband, wh» wai noisily nursing his heel, "bat when a man steps on a tack he wants the eld version." — New Orleans Times. A shepherd named Thomas Atwoed left his home near Dover (Eog.) at an early hour to attend to his flock. Not long afterwards a passing traveller noticed him leaning against the fence, while his dog barked violently at the sheep which were gathering at the treugbs beside him. Soon the dog directed the atten* tion of the traveller to the shepherd, and became mort, excited. An examination showed that thr shepherd was dead from heart disease.