Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 21, 31 July 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

1 ■ The way to keep down your butcher's bill — pay it. ' . -

There will be mass in St. Bridget's Church, Feilding to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock. •-,■••■ '

We have received No. 17 of Hansard, and a batch of other Parliamentary papers. Banged end to end the ships of the Peninsular and Oriental Company would make an unbroken line of four miles.

We publish to-day the time table o the Wellington and Manawatu Eailway Company, for trains on and after Monday next.

On and after Monday next mails for Wellington, Palmerston, and the South, will close here at 10.30 . a.m. We also direct attention to the Railway time table on that day. „ „

Mr Nancarrow, Inspector of steamers and machinery, is 'about to retire on an allowance of £250 per aanum. It is rumoured that he is about to seek parliamentary honors at the next general election, and will contest the Te Aro seat. We have to acknowledge receipt of the June number of Buchanan's Monthly Begister, a record of social progress and budget of notable things, published in Melbourne. ; We publish two extracts viz. " Football in Brussels" and an article on alcohol by Eochard.

As was promised in our last issue, ire publish to-day an important annonncement from Mr J. B. Hamilton m which he declares that all goods will be sold regardless of coat for cash only. He also intimates that all current accounts must be closed by the 25th of August.

The bakers of Feilding have raised the price of bread to eight pence per four Sound loaf. The reason of this is that our has gone up to £12 10s per ton at the mill. When bread was sold at six .pence the four pound loaf flour was only £8 10s per ton, so the present rise is perfectly fair.

Intelligence to hand from Labrador stateii that inteniely severe weather hai lately been experienced there. Three thousand five hundrod Indians and Espuimaux perished from hunger and cold. An immense snovrblock occurred in a thickly populated part of the Peninsula. Ten' thousand Indians are it is feared cnt off from assistance, and must also perish.

The Bishop of Oxford sent to the church, wardens in his diooeae a circular ef inquiries, among which was :. " Dees your officiating clergyman preach the Gospel, and is his conversation and carriage consistent therewith?" The' churchwarden of Walhngford replied : " lie preaches the Gospel, but does not kesp a carriage."

Buchanan's Melbourne Register says : —Mr Justice Williams has provoked violent discussion by a dictum abeut arohiteets, requiring them to exercise somewhat of the supervision of a clerk of works. His Henpr is both .'attacked and defended with warmth, so tnat the outcome will probablj be improvement in one way or another. Property owners of course side with the judge, as against professionals. . , . ,

A Wellington paper cays :— " A report has been presented by the Public Accoumts Committee w Mr Pollen's claim fer payment ol his retiring allowance from July, 1873, to October, 1876, while he was.a Minister of the Crown. The Committee state that they see no reason for re-open-mg the question, or for recommending that the allowance should be granted for that period. This decision was arrived at by the. casting vote of the chairman (Mr Moss), the voting having resulted, in a ' tie.' " 'We have pleasure in agreeing with Mr Moss on this occasion.

A notification is published to-day, from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, that about 60,000 acres will be offered fer tender and sale on dates mentioned in the advertisement. The whole of the land to be selected from is of the best quality, well watered, and easily accessible. The small farms in Bnnnythorpe are probably equal to the beet of the whole, and should experience the keenest competition, as the soil has been proved to be unsurpassed, while the roads, and railway passing through, give them peculiar advantages. We will have more to say on the subject when we receive the plans,

In the current number of the Revue des Deux Mondes there is an article on alcohol by M. Jules Rochard, who presents the following budget as representing the direct and indirect taxation which France imposes on itself in the course of a year in honour of the great god Alcohol, Price of alcohol consumed, ±'3,639,272 ; value of days' work lost, £38,510,840; cost of treatment, £2.833,680; cost of lunacy. £92,852; loss by suicides, £126,800; cost of criminals, £355,780; total £45,559,224.

Somebody must be losing money, or else the manufacturers at Home are getting next te nothing for their goods. Mr C Smith, from Te Aro, Wellington, is selling goods in Feildmg cheaper than they could be bought iv the city of London. For instance — Beautiful Plush Beaver and Felt Hats, very neweßt shapes, 1/11; Ladies' Cloth Jackets. 3/11 ; Children's Ulsters from 1^ Ladies' Ulsters, 3/11 ; Ladies' Stbokingsj.6d. Best quality goods equally cheap. Call and see them at 0. Smith's," in Mr heading's Shop, next to Mr Eade's, Cabinetmaker.— Advt.

The new advertisement for Clairville Temperance hotel will appear in our next issue. The accident to Mr Holmes, M.H.R. for Ohristchurch South, was caused by his slipping on a piece of orange peel.

We remind our readers of the meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association to be held in Paknerston on Monday next.

Extensive additions are about to be made to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale yards in Feildmg. Several additions are made to-day to their Sandon sale on Friday next. .

A man named Holt, a passenger by train on Thursday night, was taken off the train here as he was "the worse for liquor." He was 'brought before A. F. Halcoinbe, Esq., J.F., yesterday, and fined ss.

Tender? are invited by Mr Houlton Forlong, of Bulls, for falling fifty acres of bush on section 23 of the Manchester Block. Specifications may be seen at the shop of Mr F. E. Linton, or the Highland Home, Bulls.

A terrible affray occurred at Bogota, capital of the United States of Colombia, on 18th Jane, between the guard of the prison and the members of ene of the .National Battalions.! One, general,, several'off icerii. and 30 noldier* were killed. The affray is looked upon at the outcome of an eld grudge between the guards and soldiers, and is without any political sig<i nifioanoe whatever.

A very painful report f t curivnt ednt cerning Mr K. A. IX. M ewbray, who -mm:. formerly well known ia Napier,, (says theTelegreph) he having bald the position •f accountant in the Union Bank jiere for some contiderable time. Owing ito certain circumstances Mr Mewbray was re* moved from here to Duuedin, and war disrated to the position of bill«clerk, which he has held for the last two yean. Early in this month Mowbray applied for leave of absence for two days on the plea of ilUhealtb. On the expiration of Ut« leave he did not retira to the bank, and it being learned that he had levanted with a young woman who had been serving •• barmaid, hii, office books were examined and the examination disclosed fraud. It ii thought that Mowbray has left the coloayr