Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

We have to acknowlege receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers. Our readers are reminded of the drapery | sale now going on next to Mr Eade's. i Stevens and Gorton will hold a stock sale at Awahuri on Tuesday next. The Banks will be closed on Monday the 14th inst., being Whitmonday. Several impounding notices appear in our issue of to-day. JJSome additions are made to Stevens and Gorton's Awahuri sale on Tuesday next. Af''' There wdl be no mass in St Bridget's Church, Feilding, to-morrew (Sunday) 13th June. I Miss M IcoJtn, the "a ly evangelist, will conduct (he services in the Primitive Methodist Church to«morrow, in the morning and evening. The distance from Feilding to Tarawera. as the crow flies is one hundred ahd sixty ' miles, from Blenheim jto Tarawera two hundred and seventy. The increase in tho price of flour has caused an advance of £d in the 21b loaf in Auckland. The price of first class flour now £12 10s, and of household flour £11 10s. Bobert Jones, clerk in the Wanganui Customs department, was arrested on Thursday night by Detective Benjamin, on a charge of embezzling a sum of £30. belonging to the department. The French Cabinet have rejected the proposal for the expulsion of tha Orleanist Princes. The committee of tde Chamber of Deputies are desirous of banishing all the members of the late regnant families*. Mrs Prim overheard her son Johnny -swear like a trooper. ' Why, Johnny,' she exclaimed, ' who taught you to swear that way !* * Taught me to swear P' exolaimed Johnny, * why, its me Who teaches the other boys.' •Ephie,' said a oountry woman to her thriftless neighbour, ' I woador ye can sleep wi' sac muckle debt on your head ;' to whicii Ephie quietly answered, 'I oan sleep fu' weel, but I wunner they can sleep that trust me.' Wo direot attention to the advertisement re the Pahiatua Village Special Settlement twhioh appears on our fourth page today. The terms are remarkably §" ood and should prove attractive to bona de settlers. To-day we publish .as- an "inset" a handbill from the Palmerston branch of | the New Zealand clothing factory. We have pleasure in directing special attention to this in these days of keen trade competition. No steamers were able to leave Foxton yesterday on account of the heavy gale blowing. It is singular that during the ftrevalenee . of those, storms, within the ast- few weeks in the South, we have scarcely felt a breeze of wind in this neighborhood. ' On Monday last, at Jackman's sale, a too inquisitive grey hound was interfering with a young calf running at its mother's foot. The latter relieved her progeny of the intruder by driving her horns through him and pinning the poor brute to a box which was - lying near. The dog is dead. The Pall Mali Budget of April 22 «ay» ' that Sir Charles Dilke ha* forwarded the , Queen's Proctor " his full, formal, and detailed denial of the truth of Mrs Crowi ford's confession." I bis official, we also , learn, is in possession of a good deal of other evidence not before the Court when 1 the docree nisi was granted. * Encouraged by his motion in favor of > Bible.reading ia schools having be<n affirmed by the Legislative Council, tho . Hon Dr Menzies is about to introduce a ' hill to give eSvct to the motion. This i may pass the Council, but it will most . certainly be rejected in tk» House. Tho Legislative Council, in the views it en* 1 tertains on this question, does not at all l represent the opinious of the country. — Post. , Mr J. A. Froude, interviewed lately by an American reporter in London, said : — - " I think granting Home . Rule to Ireland i is an experiment which we are exceed- ( ingly likely te make, but which is exceedingly likely to turn out very ill." He added that with the American system of , Government the demand would uot be listened to for a moment, and he though t England wonld ere long have to adopt the American model. * We publish to-day an advertisement in another column from the New Zealand Clothing Faotory, at Palmerston North. The advertisement be found well worthy of the attention of our readers, . and at this season of the year the firm's special, shipment. Of Mosgiel goods should command a ready sale throughout these districts. We note with pleasure that the branch is now under the able j supervision of Mr W. A. McDowell, one ht .the most popular drapers on this coast. I We haye every confidence v . that Mr MoDewoll wiU prove successful in his new appo'a ment, and are equally sure his well-knowu tact and ability wiii rapidly' extend the business operations of the firm's branch in Palmerston. In order to relieve the Government of the difficulty which; must attend the selection of a suitable person for the Governorship of ' the Kirmadec Islands, from the multitude of candidates for the position, we would suggest that the choice oe made irom members of the House, and that the Chosen one be the Honorable member for Parnell, Mr Moss. That gentleman has many high qualifications for the position. His education haß not been neglected, nor have lessons of politeness been forgotten to be inculcated in him. His voice is musical as 'the dove crying in the wilderness," although he does not always know what to cry about. He is eminently a self contained man. As the Representative of Her Majesty, his position on the 9 igved rooks of "Kermadec would be, in the language of the devine William "most appropriate". Salary no object.