Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 8, 1 July 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

We regret to learn that Mr Ward, 8.M.; is seriously indisposed. An impounding notice appears on our third page. - Mr Chamberiam announces that he has raised tbe price of crushed oats to 2s yd. Colonel Gorton has been gazetted an agent for the Public Trustee. Mr S. M, Baker, of Foxton, has purchased the thorough bred sire Fere. • It will be seen by aur telegram* to-day that the British troops have met a reverse in Mandalay. We understand that the Charing Cross Christy Minstrola will give a performance at Bulls shortly. We learn from the local paper that a few more J.P.'s wore sworn m at Woodville on Friday last. A Pahiatur. contractor has disappeared and' left several creditors lamenting This is also progress. Mr Greonwood, dentisfc, will visit Folding to-morrow, and may be consulted at Mr Light's Denbigh Hotel. An exchange «&yn — It u esitinwtpd that the 250 pas»eugvr« by the Triumph will take £25,000 out of the colony with them. The Napier people are much exercised because a salesman in a shop has been appointed to a seat in the Hawkes Bay Waste Lands Board. A man was fined 10s and costs at Napier, for getting into a railway carriage reserved for ladies, and refusing to get out when requested by the stationmaster, Mr Coker. We learn from our exchanges that a West Coast Agricultural Association is about to be formed in Palmerston. The first meeting to discuss the subject will be held there to-day. On and after to-day the rate' on telegrams to Europe is reduced by Is 4d per word, making the charge 10s 6d per word. Still further reductions will lead to more profitable business. A telegram yesterday informed us that aMr Edward Flut, of Wellington, had attempted to shoot his wife the other day, but missed, and no cause was. assigned. We should say that it was the bad shooting. We have seen the balance sheet of the Charing Croiis Minstrel Company, for the performance in aid, of the sufferers by the T arawera eruptions. Owing to the small attendance at the hall the amount above the expense* in limited, but trill probably be augmented by a seeond performance*. Our occasional correspondent at Woodrille writei : — " The pricet netted by the Oroua Downi frozen *heep was 168, not 10s, a* made to appear by a typographical error in my last iU»tter. Ihe shipment wa< 1000 wethern and 500 Inmbx, and 16s wa* the average for the lot" -H.'B. Herald. - ..._■■ To-morrow afternoon, at two o'clock, Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. will sell, at the residence of Mr Thomas A. Price, Manchester street,, a quantity of fruit trees, pot plants, &c. ; and on Seturday, at their auction rooms, Kimbolton road, at two o'clock, a large and varied aßSortr nient of fruit trees, from the nursery of Mr James Laird, Wanganui. To-morrow morning Mr H. Doggefc will open .t large drapery., sale in the premise* ViVlj^inincr Mr M. Rien in Ferguxsoti street. The sa'e will be continued for two weeks only, but during that time Mr Dogget intends to offer the greatest bargains erer obtainable in Feilding. We understand the stock is nil new, and of the latest and most fash* ionable make and material . The Directors of the Wellington Woollen Company, at their last meeting, passed the following resolution: "That as the member* of the preseni directorate go out of office at the annual meeting, the Board desire io place on record their appreciation of the valuable services rendered by the Chairman (Mr T. Kennedy Vl acdonald) during the two yearn that he has occupied that position, and bow much the success of the Company up'tb the prevent time is due to his skillful financial arrangements and unremitting attention to fche business of the Company, and express their • ratification that he has consent, d to ajlqw hig name to be submitted for re-election. *

The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Makino Butter and Cheese Com- • pany was held in the Makino Road School room last evening, when 18 shareholders were present. The Directors report arid balance sheet were adopted An amendment, That the words recom- ' mending the voluntary winding up of the Company be left out, was lost. The balance sheet showed a loss on the year's transactions of £91 made up by loss on cheese and butter, depreciation of property, and loss on working. Steps will now be taken tq wind up the company. No trace of the murderers of the man an the Barrier Island can be discovered. As Caffrey is an. experienced navigator j,mong the Islands, knowing of many small islets not visited by the ordinary trader, it is not, impossible that he and his partner in^ iniquitv will evade their . pursuers altogether. The " Sovereign of the Seas" had a year!s provisions on , board when she! started on her piratical | voyage. She is also remarkable for her speed, and is u splendid sea boat. j iThe Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and CJiifxserv Company, who have ' purchased Mr E. J. CottrelTs premises and business lin Manchester street, are. making- grjeat I preparations to do an extensive, business. Settlers who are able to pay cash .will find that they can save a very large discount. Their principle is to sell only for cash over the counter. In many cases customers will be able to buy goods at less prices than* the retailer can purchase them from .the merchants. — Advt. . •..:.'■'; The Wellington^correspondent of the -Dunedin Star writes : — '* Mr Hobbs and: SiriG.. Grey have received telegrams from Auckland Justices of the Peace demanding that the Government should prosecute the .editor of the Bell newspaper for alleged slanders published 'concerning the Justices of Auckland:" It appears to jus thit »f ithe Auckhind J.K's are-offendtfd, they should "go for "the Bell at their own cost, and not, seek eleemosynary aid at thie expense of ;> aii already overtaxed .people. _..\ ,_ .__ v=i ._ *. [ t 'The. 'section of thejMiinaVatu Railway between, Longburn and Otaki will ibe opened for 'traffic 'lon tlie 2nd of August, to be worked in -connection with the Government line to Wangauui. The, continuation of the railway from the end of .Paikakariki will also be opened on the sjime day. ThWrrnneements for through pa«Bencer traffic decided on ar«*, that a train is to leave Wanganui at 7.15 a.m. connecting at Longburn at 12.15 p.m. The pasxengers will arrive in Wellington { nt 730 p.m. The through train is to leave Wellington at 10. 10 a.m., and pas* senders will reach Wanganui at 10 p.m. —Wellington pnper. ; > :