Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 150, 29 May 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Robert George Park is now tho proprietor of the Ellesmere Guardian. On Tuesday next at noon a meeting of the Feilding Licensing Committee will beheld. .. ' J A meeting of persons interested in forming a party for Kimberley wiU be held at Bellve's hotel on Monday next. The polling for the auditorships of the Borough of Foildmg wiU take place on Tuesday next. The allotment of sections in the Feilding SmaU Association was taking place in .the Foresters' Hall as we went to press. The Mayor, Mr Lethbridge, and CounciUor T. W. K. Foster were both absent from the Councd on Thursday evening, through ill health. Complaints were made by several persons on Thursday night of the " dim rehgious light" whioh prevailed in the lobby Of the booking ofiice at the rad way station," We observe that the shingles which covered the roofs of the offices of the E. and CA. Corporation, have been removed and corregated iron put on instead. The change is a decided improvement. The marriage of Mr A. • . WiHYs eldest daughter to Mr Meek on Thursday was very largely attended, both ChrisChurch and the Avenue being lined with spectators. We wish the young couple every joy aud prosperity. — Wanganui Herald. To-day we publish au advertisement re the Pahiatua Village Special Settlement on perpetual lease. As a railway station, Eost and telegraph office, with other public uildings are about to be erected and a road made to Palmerston, this ought to be one of the most ' attractive and profitable settlements lfl the colony. The Auckland Bell has altered its form of issue and now appears as an eight paged paper. Mr G. M. Reed is now the editor and has published 'the follow incharacteristic notice " Persons de-drou* of interviewing the Editor of this journal | will be so good as to call before cloven • r after three. "Between these hours he wil be invisible to mortal eyes."

To-day's Chronicle says:— lt wan rumouri'd yesterday that an insurance feud, whirh has been raging for sometime between rivul canvassers, has at last culminated in the issue of a writ for £2000 damages, for alleged deftinatorj statements made by one of the par i<*» against the office represented by the other.

Some of the Justices of the Peace in Auckland must be dreadful snobs. We learn from the local Star that some justices by appointment object to recognising at their meetings the ex-officio justices — that is to say Mayors of Boroughs. It is almost impossible to be here this, but there can be no doubt of the truth of the statement.

The great attractions offered to-night at the Public Hall ought to prove irresistible. A concert will be held, when Miss Ellen Atkins will 6iug several charming songs. The Maypole dance will be performed by the ladies who •represented the bridesmaids m Trial by Jury. There will also be a grand display of statuary and tableaux of a most marvellous description when the audience will be entranced and astonished by the wonderful beauty of the subjects. ,

A caucus of members of both Houses interested* in the Bible in Schools question has been held. About a 'dozen members wero present," tfie Hon. Dr Menzies presiding. It was resolved that the chairman f hould raise the question at an early date in the Legislative Council either.by motion or Bill, so as to keep publio in--tereßt alive in the subject, with a view of making it a test question at the next general election.

A notice appears to-day from Mr George Wickham to the effect that he has sold out his dairy business to Mr Benjamin Poole. Everybody who has dealt with Mr Wickham will regret that he has given up the business because for the quality of the milk he supplied, and his invariable punctuality he nad no equals in tho district. His successor Mr Ben. Poole is an old , and highly respected settler, and we have every confidence that he will follow the good example given him by his predecessor. We refer our readers to a notice from Mr Wickham which appears to-day.

From a remark make by the Premier when he moved the second reading of the Municipal Corporations Bill. We learn that it is proposed the Mayor should be a Justice of the Peace during his term of oftice without it being necessary for the Governor's sanction of his appointment. This was intended as a step towards elec-: tive Justices. He said further, that the member for Manawatu, Mr Macarthur, had been _:ind enough to adyise him with respoct to many clauses of the Bill, and he expressed his indebtedness to that gentleman.

The Charing Cross Amateur Minstrels played at Makino iv the School house on Thursday evening to a good house. The first part consisted of tho chair business, and some of the songs and choruses were remarkably well rendered, and elicited frequent rounds of applause. The new finale, entitled " The French Conductor," was very amusing. The second part consisted of a double sorg and dance, sand jig, and a comic song, anent. "Billy Munro," which was exquisitely funny. " The Miseries of a Photographer " brought to a clo.se what was a really creditable periormance.

Stevens and Gorton are about to enlarge their sale yards at Podding.

Mr A. Fitzherbert broke his collar bone at the Marton hunt yesterday.

To-day we publish c-itulogiie of stock to be sold hy Messrs Stevens nnd Gorton at the Piiluierstou Borough sale yards on Thursday next.

A meeting of Stewards of the Feilding J.dckey Club will he held this evening at Bellve's hoiei at ejjjht o'clock. Punctuality is requested A

Although the session is now over two weeks old, and several important Bills have been introduced and passed their second reading we have not yet received a copy of one of them.

Mr Richard Hennessy, head of the famous brandy firm, died at tha end of March at his residence at Cognac, after a very brief illness. By his death the Fiench turf lost one of its best known and most popular owners of horses.

.The Commissioner of Crown of Lands' Mr Marchant, is at present in this district on au official visit. He went up to the Feilding Small Farm Association's land to-day, accompanied by Mr Mountfort the surveyor of tho Association.

Miss Malcolm, the popular and distinguished Lady Evangelist, who has been such a success in Napier and Woodville, will conduct services in tbe Primitive VI ethodist Church here to-morrow. AH are cordially invited.

Messrs James Henty and Co. of Melbourne have commenced actions against tie Argus, Age, and Daily Telegraph for ten thousand pounds each, on account of libels, in publishing references to the firm's affairs, in reports of the last gen* eral meeting of the National Bank of Australasia.

An Exchange informs us that.— S. Brown, tho well-known Wellington contractor, is firmly convinced that the best way to encourage settlement on the bush lauds of the North Island would- be for the State to fell and burn' the bush and sow the laud in grass before attempting to sell or lease it, the cost of improrement being of course, charged against the land Mr Brown has submitted his proposals to the Minister of Lands, Premier, and Sir Julius Yogel, who hare acknowledged that they deserve consideration. Those who know the value of the b ish must condemn this project as absurd.

Within the next few days Messrs F. R. Jackson & Co. will have completed arrangements for taking over the old established businesi carried on by Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill in Feilding. We Understand that it is the intention of the local firm to retain the services of Mr Sherwill, who in well known oa all parts •f the coast, and is greatly respected : for his many ad mira le qualities. Mr SherwiU have his headquarters at Feild* ing, but his services will be called into requisition in various parti of the district. Messrn Jaok»on & do. have secured a good. site at Palmertton North, where sale yards will he erected in a short time. At Johnsonville. near Wellington, the firm's yards are now approaching com pletion. With such a field before them, and yards at Waverley, Wanaanui, Palmerstoa. Feildmij, and Johnsonville, this pushing firirn of auctioneers should find ample' ncope for their business talent* aad energies. The acqui«ition of the new business referred to aboye, with the xervices of Mr Sherwill, and the extensive additions recently made to the firm* field of action, augur well for its future prosperity. — Herald.