Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 84, 24 December 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

_ The Feilding Stab will not be published on Boxing Day. lt is now unlawful to keep tame rabbits in New Zealand. The sum of £400 has been subscribed, at tiie Thames towards the establishment of a School of Mines. The decorations to Mr Eade'i Furniture warehouse, and Mr Pollock's enn tectioner shop to-day are vory tasteful. The Premier addressed his constituents at North Dunedin last night, reviewing: and contradicting most of tbo statements made by Major Atkinson at Hawera. We regret to learn that diphtheria has made its appearance in Gladstone street and two children died yesterday morning. Tho sufferers are of a family which recently arrived from the Wairarapa. Wo may state that snlpher is a never, failing preventative and remedy for this disease. It is stated that the Agent-General of this colony, Sir F. D. 8011, has informed the Government that he will be glad to be relieved bf his post before next year's exhibition. We suppose Sir Dillon has Seen the rianios of the . Commissioners appointed out here, and rather ]ibs onhaving to associate with them in the Old Country. v -;

A lawn tennis club is about to be formed in Feilding. The banks will be closed on Friday and Saturday next. To-duy we publish an amended advertisment re small grazing runs, Wanganui district. Mr James King, of PalmerstoD, is about to try his fortune at the River Plate. Mr Rotheram, formerly manager of this section of railway, went north by train last night. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R., has been elected President of the Palmerston Choral Society. A meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening to receive tenders for certain road work. Mr J. C. Thompson took his seaton the Bench as J.P. at the R.M. Court sittings yesterday. On Monday next hack race meetings will be held at Halcombe and Awahuri. The Feilding Band will play at the latter. Captain Edwin telegraphs to*day. — Barometer: Fall at all places north of Napier and New Plymouth within 12 hours. i Several members of the Church of I England, ladies and gentlemen, were engaged to-day in decorating the interior of the building for to-morrow's services. The proprietors of No 2 Booth at the Sports will introduce a great boon in the shape of hot dinner and tea. See our Wanted Column. We learn that the Makino Brass Band has been engaged to play at the MartonBangitikei Races on the Ist and 2nd of January. The Cheltenham and Kiwitea Sport* meeting was proceeding* as we went to press. The Makino Brass Band was playing. A report will appear next issue. We need scarcely remind our readers of the Feilding Sports, to be held on the Oval next Saturday. If the weather keeps fine we can confidently predict an immense attendance. Mr Clere, of Atkins and Clere C.E. and architects of Wanganui, bas been engaged to draw the plans, aud superiendent the erection, of a now hotel to be built at Huntorrille for Mr Dalziell, of Bulls. The Australian has published its annual article on the Victorian wheat crop. The estimated land under wheat is given at 1,060,000 acres, and is expected to yield 10,000,000 bushels, or an average of 6*46 bushels per acre. The total surplus available for export is expected to reach 82,000 tons. A shoal of anchoives visited the Wanganui river on Monday night having cvi. dtntly been chased in by some larger fish. The fishermen did not know what the risitors were and did not take steps to catch any of them. On Tuesday morning the training walls and the beach were lined with them for some distance.— Herald. We remind our readers of the grand dramatic and musical entertainment in aid of the funds of the Feilding Brass Band, which will be held in the Town Hall on Boxing night. As the object of the show is a roost deserving one, we hope to see erery section of the community well represented. A despatch from Whydah, dated Bth September, says :— " It is reported that the commander of a Portuguese gunboat had arranged to buy 1200 slaves from the King ot Dahomey to work on the coffee plantations of St. Thomas, an island in the Gulf of Guinea, belonging to Portugal." The display of China ornaments in Mr Haybittle s store, v Tery handsome and many of the articles are of great beauty, on the other hand there aro a few which possess a grotesque ugliness which make them attractive from their novelty. Mr Haybittle invites his friends and customers to see them, through our Wanted Columns. In one of the State schools of Canters bury a £1 note was picked np last yoar by ono of the scholars, «rho handed it over to tho teacher. The committee retained it for some time, when it was changed by their orders, and ten shillings handed, in tbe presence of the whole , school, to the boy who found it, "as a token of his honesty." Tho remaining . ten shillings, we suppose, the committee kept for their honesty. Christianity, if it moans anything' means sixteen ounces to the pound, three fret to the yard, a just weight snd a jnst measure. It means honesty in dealings, a seven-days-in-the«w#ek religion, purity in conversation, a broad charity towards our fellow men's failnro unflinching integrity, sympathy, and humanity. With these there can bo no compromise. David Home, tho historian, observed tbat all tho devout men ho had met with were melancholy. Bishop Homo remarked in reply, that this might vory probably be the ease: for, in tho first Elace, it was most likely he saw very few, is friends aod accauaintaneos being of a very different kind ; and. secondly, the tight of bim would mako a devout man look melancholy at any time. A bogus excise officer has been having a luxurious time among the malt spirit, uons collections of the cellars of East London.- Upon being arraigned at a police court, it was found that it was no offence nnder tbe British Revenue Aot to Csrsonate an officer of the department. ut be was held on the charge of obtaining goods upon false pretences. In order to add to tho good appearance of his hotel, and to make it attractive to visitors to Feilding during tho Christmas holidays, Mr Beilve has had tiie building repainted and renovated within and without. The outside of the hotel now presents a very handsome appearance. The entrance hall, and public har, have been Oared, varnished, and otherwise taste[y decorated. The billiard room, bar. parlor, and dining room have also been nicely done up. Ti» whole of the work has been well and faithfully execnted by Messrs R. and E. Tingey, of Wanganui and Palmerston. We must net omit to mention that the writing above the front door; of the name of the licensee and other particulars, has been remarkably well done, reflecting great credit on the artist.