Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 153, 5 June 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Christopher Brown's cash sale commenced to-day. We have to thank the Government Printer for the first number of Hansard, whith has just come to hand. The Manchester Road Roard held a meeting to-day. A report will appear in our next is<ue. F. R. Jackson and Co. wiU hold thoir great sale at Mr Jackman's farm Kapa Kapa, on Monday next. A cattle dog has been found at Halcombe, apphcation is requested to be made there to Mr Fred Marsh. The Manawatu Times reports that the Woodville Examiner is about to change hands.

The first stock sale of Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. will be held iv Feilding on Thursday next. The Opera House m Palmerston will soon be an accomplished fact. Nearly aU the shares have been subscribed.

The Borough Council invites tenders for the construction of two groins in the Kiwitea river. Tenders to close on Thursday the 10th instant.

Mr H. Coombe advertises that he has for sale or to let a four roomed house, dairy and stables, with 4£ acres of land. The House fronts in Grey street.

Several important additions are made to-day to F. R. Jackson and Co.'s sale on the 10th instant, viz., 63 head of cattle and 330 sheep and tambs.

The Kiwitea and Halcombe Licensing committees met on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. In each case all the members were present. AU licenses and transfers were granted there being no opposition.

Mr Watts who has just sold out his interest m the Denbigh Hotel, will not leave the district. We understand he will make a brief visit to A straha, leavhis family here, and on his return be wiU probably settle in the Manchester Blook.

We draw attention to the new advertisement of Mr S. J. Thomspson which appears to-day. The prices are truly startling and Mr Thompson shows that he intends to fiud a market for his goods by offering them at extraordinary reduced prioes. .

Farewell services will be held tomorrow in the Salvation Army Barracks, when Captain Alsweiler will give his parting address prior to his leaving for New Plymouth, then new soene of his labors. A farewell tea meeting will be held on Tuesday.

A splendid opportunity is offered to-day for anyone desiring to secure a valuable section of land suitable for a farm. One hundred acres are cleared seyenty acres of which are down in graes. Its situation— in the Wanganui Harbor Board Block — is a sufficient guarantee as to the quality of the land.

The Post save that private letters from Home state that our ex-Governor Sir James Fergusson is about io be married, for the third time. Few Wellington ladies who remember his Excellency will be inclined to envy the bride. This is rough on Sir James, any way.

The drawing of Mr Cottrell's bean competition took place last night Mr Sherwill counted the beans, assisted by others interested. The number amounted to 2246. The following were the nearest guesses :— Mr H. Dowden, Ist prize, 2260; Mr J. H. Ashworth, 2nd prize. 2211. W. Reid and J. H. Ashworth tied at 2300. Mr Dowden had 9, Mr Ashworth 12, and Mr F. Brvce 11 chances. Everything was conducted ma most satisfactory manner.

That well-known and popular hostelry, the Denbigh' Hotel, has again changed hands at a most satisfactory figure. The now proprietor, Mr William Light, was well and popularly known in Wellington as the ""proprietor of Barrett's and the Queen's Hotels, which he successfully conducted for some years. The tact' and hiisiness knowledge he displayed there will be equally developed in Feilding, where we hope he will take an active part in promoting the progress of those among whom he has oast his lot. We wish Mr Light every success in his new venture.

The prospectus oE a new moruin^ paper has been issued iti Dunedin. Mr A. FitzHerbert left lust night for Wellington en route for Kimberley. There will be mass in St. Bridget's Churcli, Feildinsr, to-morrow (Sunday) at 8 am., but there will be no mass in this church on Sunday, 13th June. Two thoroughly equipped parties, co sisting of six and four men respectively, wiii leave Feilding for Kimberley on Monday morning.

Old Mrs Darnloy is a pattern of household economy. She says she has made a pair of sock* to last fifteen years by only knitting new feet to them every winter and new legs every other winter. j Wauganui is all behind again. A j Napier paper states that Dr Von Mir* bach, now a Waipawa resident, is a ' cousin of the Captain of the Russian war vessel Vestnik. The doctor is well known j in Feilding, having practised here some j six years ago. I A robbery — one of the most daring in j our history— was committed on| one of . the railway trunk lines out of Chicago on March 13. The robbers entered the express department ef the train while in . motion, murdered the messenger by cut- j ting his throat from ear to ear, took ■ £5,000 in money, and got off the train without leaving the faintest clue by i which to trace them. j It is eyen possible for a member of Parliament to be narrow minded. Dr Newman does not see why natives should not be allowed to take contracts \ along the North Island line of raUway, j and he is going to move that they be open to Europeans and Maoris for tender. We hope the Government wttl "sit upon" the Doctor. A Wellington paper says — Notwithstanding its ultimate curious collapse, the recent Parliamentary debate was Of exceptional rhetorical merit. Most of the speeches were good in substance and weli delivered The best were those of Major Atkinson, Sir Robert Stout, Mr Fisher, Mr Bryce. Mr Ballance, and Mr Bruce, all of whom spoke with exceptional power and effect. New Zealand has had few Parliaments, if any, superior to the present House in debating ability. On the whole, were I a young, strong man, of temperate habits, sound constitution, and with £150 in my pocket (says one who knows the country), I would cortainly try my luck at Kimberley. One can but die once, and it is net by excessive care and anxiety about one's physical health that we English have carried our flag into every corner of the globe. I candidly confess that I don't think much of your extremely prudent young men, who are afraid to brave hardship, or even death, lor a sufficient cause. Mr A Southey Baker appears en be- . half of Dr Rockstrow in Wellington next week to defend the action brought against him by Mrs Symes and also for ■ Mr Fletcher the co-respondent in the case of Fardon v. Fardon. There is a possibility of the argument ia the aotion of Arihi Te Mahu and others against Tanner and other*, affecting the titles to a very large and valuable part of the , Heretaunga Bloc*> , coming on for hearing i< Wellington at the same sittings instead of Napier as at present set down. — Manawatu 'limes. Medical science is making itself felt in the French Criminal Courts. A young girl named Annette Gaudin, accused of 1 petty larceny, was convicted and im--1 prisoned. Counsel carried her case to the Court of Appeals, and argued that his client acted " nnder. the influence of hypnotic . suggestions." The tribunal instructed three medical experts to investigate the case, nnd they reported thnt the offence must be considered as " one of those intestine solicitations which, in a mind debilitated by the malady, find no sufficient counterpoise of reflection and resistance." Ttie girl was acquitted. •'Puff" in the Press writes :— Smith sent Stout a telegram giving full partioulars about the Kimberley goldfields I Very kind of Smith ! I thought he'd be over there among the early ones ! Oh, bnt this chap's acting Colonial Secretary ! He was there before ! Ah be must be a brother of the man I mean ! Same name, anyhow ! He says everyone going to Kimberley from New Zealnnd should bring his own horse and dray ! Good gracious ! V thought you had to Ho in a steamer ! So you have, but he means you should bring yonr own horse and dray with you in the steamer! But suppose you hav'n't got a horse and dray of your own P Well, then you must get> somebody else's ! That would'n't b* your own ! Seems to me Smith's a sort of a fool ! Oh no, he is'n't ! His telegram -gives a lot of information in a handy form I I wonder Stout published it, though ! It showslpeople how to clear out from New Zealand ! They'd soon have found that out ! What it really does is to warn people against going who are not in a position to face the difficulties i