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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 102, 6 February 1886, Page 2

Mr Rop, the proprietor «f the Denbigh Hotpl. has let that pulnblishment to Mr Watt, ionae time of Marton. Pos«e»sion will he Riven to the new landlord in about a week.

Local and General News • — The Juno Company nave engaged the Makino Brass Band to play for them at the Town Hall this evening. The Rev Mr Murray is at present in Auckland attending the sitting of the Presbyterian Assembly in that city. Mr Henry Burrell, Kimbolton road, invites tenders for about forty chains of stab fencing. Titokowaru has had a threshing ma- I chine seized in default of payment of dog tax. A pawnbrokers shop has been opened in Palmerston. This is not an evidence of legitimate progress. The Hon. Mr Tole, Minister of Justice, will address his Auckland constituents in a few days. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. We have to thank Messrs Williamson and Co., Financial Agents, Wellington, for a copy of their " Share Beport and Investors Guide" for January. A vestry meeting of St. John's Church will be held at Mr Goodbehere's office on Monday next at 4 p.m. Mr Eade has just imported a quantity of new mouldings for picture frames, and fancy China matting of the most exquisite colours. There was a meeting of the Manchester Highway Board being held as we went 'o press. A report of the proceedings will appear m our next issue. The weather report which appears today is worthy of notice as showing the heavy and welcome rainfall during Jan- i uaiy. Mr Newman has been endeavouring to make arrangements for a grand display of fireworks in Palmerston on race night. We hope he will succeed. The members of the Manchester Rifles will assemble for church parade on | Sunday evening on Manchester Square at six o'clock. A meeting of the committee of the Acclimatisation Society will be held at Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill'B office on Friday the 12th inst., at 8 p.m., to arrange the opening of the shooting season. The New Zealand Temperance Alliance will hold a conference in Wellington on tife Ist of March, Delegates from all the principal towns in the colony are expected to attend. On Monday next Messrs J. H. Bethune and Co. will hold a land sale in Wellington, when a number of valuable sections in the townships of Palmerston and Feilding will be submitted. The Engineer of the Feilding Borough Council calls tenders for trimming and metalling certain streets, also for forming and metalling a small piece of the east end of North street. We regret to learn, as we go to press 1 of the very serious illness of Mr James Mowlem, of Fitzherbert. His condition is such as to cause his friends very grave anxiety. — Manawatu Times. A presentation was made on Thursday night to Mr James King, who is leaving for the River Plate, South America, by the residents of Palmerston. Mr King was a very old resident and highly respected. Amongst the candidates for the post of common crier and sergeant-at-arms to the corporation of the city of London, the salary of which is £250 per annum, appeared the name of James Grant, the novelist. The price asked by the Minister of Justice — on behalf of the Government- Ifor the Mount Cook site of the Wellington prison iB £36,600. The Wellington ratepayers will not care to indulge i» this luxury at such a cost. Cambridge, was brisk last week owing to £700 having been paid to the natives for land. £300 went to one agt-nt ; the rest procured brer, for which there was. u« usual, a large demand. The women were by far the heaviest drinkers. The hour of commencing the auction tion sale, to he held by Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill on Thursday next, has been altered from 1.30 p.m. to one o'clock owing to the great length of the catalogue of stock, &c, to be offered. The yearling, filly bj Mnalcet, out of Sylvia, fall sinter to Martini- Henry, passed in at the late sale at Sylvia Park. Auckland, was recently purhased by Mr J. Pliilson for 600 guineas. The purchase it is said, was effected on behalf of the Hon. W. Kobinson. " The Codlin Moth Scare," lays the Hawke's Bar Herald, " is nothing but an organised effort to raise the price of New Zealand grown fruit bj prohibiting competition. It is Protection in its wont form, masquerading in the cloak of pliilan trophic patroitism. The Codlin moth is here and has been here for year*." In the course of his lecture on Thursday night Dr Gilbert said that until he visited New South Wales, he thought the Yankees were the tallest yarn spinners in the world. Since he came to New Zealand his views have changed again, and now he thinks New Zealanders can beat the New South Wolchmeu in wonderful stories. Just so. It is rumoured that Mr Swift has been boycotted by the Government sending round to the heads of each department forbidding them to employ him. This is a most discreditable proceeding, if true. It will be remembered that this gentleman was a plaintiff against the Insurance Department for overtime wages, some few days ago, and that he lost his case through a technical point. Owing to the incumbent of St. Thomas/ Auckland, indulging in very advanced ritualistic practices, there has been a great Recession on the pnrt of members of the congregation. A Northern exchange nays:— "The charge is now in such a ■tatc of disruption and confusion as to hold out but little hope of any salutary improve ant under the present incumbency." To-day Mr James Curtis advertises that he is desirous of disposing of his section of land at Taonui. We understand that Mr Curtis is about to remove to a farm he has purchased near Woodville and on which he will permanently settle. iWe wish him pi o p ritv in his new home, i believing that if industry and uprightness of character can command it, our desire will be fulfilled. At the conclusion of Dr Gilbert's lecture on Thursday night, a couple of dogs found mutual complaint against each other, and started a lively battle. This action on th>-ir part became so interesting that their respective owners also took a hand in the game, and punched each other heartily. So much po indeed that the i R.M., Mr Ward, will probably be called ] in to prove who was the best man, and I who had right on his side in the quarrel, i The revenue of the colony will probably i be augmented by a few shillings. i

The Wellington Post says that in view of the great probabiliy of an early dissc lution, and a consequent general election within the next few months, it is extremely desirable that the Electoral Rolls should be revised, and that everyone who is entitled to the franchise should see that he is properly enrolled.

It may be news to some people (says the Chronicle) that a sister of the Sight Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, the leader of the Home Radicals, is at present on a visit to Wanganui. (Every* body's relations always turn up in that favored township, but there is a monotony about it which spoils the eff<-ct )

A very polite snub was conveyed in an intimation from the Survejor General to the Land Board on Thursday to the effect that "while the Government would always be glad to receive the advice of the Board in all matters pertaining to the settlement of Crown lands, it was thought best that the appropriation of the votes by Parliament for opening roads through Crown: lands should remain with the Government as the responsible authority."

Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. propose extending their business cennectionto the' very doors of Wellington City." A tite for saleyards has been secured at Johnson* ville, a township within half a dozen miles of the city, and through which the Wellington-Manawatu railway runs. Messrs Atkins and Clere have the plans and specifications in hand, and the work will be commenced forthwith. Messrs F.B.Jackson and (o.'s project will be hailed with satisfaction by the stockbreeders on this coast.

An American, making a European tour, visited Glasgow. He boarded a passenger steamer at the Broomielaw, and being thoroughly disgusted with the appearance and odour of the river, he accosted the captain, and said — " I say, skipper, do you call that 'ere affair a river P You should see our rivers ! You bet they'd make you stare. Why, one of them would swallow the whole of your country !" " Man, ye dinna ken whit yer talking abeot," replied the captain, with a look of scorn. " God Almighty made a' your rivers, but we made this one ourselves.