Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 22, 3 August 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet on Thurgday evening next. ; •' P. E. 'Jackson and Go. have a stock' sale at Wanganui to-morrow. ; Advices' from' Foobhow state theregare indications of a rise in the price of tea; | ■ Mr Ellery Gilbert is at present in Feildirig staying at Mr HaHtie'i Hotel. Ho will be in town for a week.' 1 Stevens and Gorton 'will hold a Btocjk sale on Thuisday next at the Borough sale yards, Falmersjon.; ( t j T> | Several additions are made to-day to: Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock aal* *t Sansen on Friday next. \ •■

Tenders are invited for 50 totara posts by Mr W. Watts, builder. We have received No. 18 of Hansard, and a batch of Parliamentary papers. . There are 2,093 newspapers published in Great Britain, a growth of 551 since 1846, 409 paper are published in London alone. In London there are 291P shorthand writers and newspaper reporters, i 134: follow Pitman, 89 Taylor, 35 Giirhey. ' The new advertisement of vMr .Gould, confectioner and propnetor of House, appears to-day.

"^" IMf:E6berli'Parr^€««irt»s1 Mf:E6berli'Parr^€««irt»s iis will personally supervise all work done at his Feilding eatabUehmeut fontheinext few weeks. • . . • : "^*3K^Hrfe'«u«bßr'bT' b 'Feiiainf gotftletfißtfwere passengers to Otaki yesterday, to be present at the opening of the Wellington • Maaawatu Bail way. . '• : It is faiftffi«tf elsewher» tt tKair^f otir&i call, . payable on Wl^inSi*o| -|h^i ; been made by thejtfajiawatu Co-operative; Steam Shipping Company.. /,;? t •;: \ >■.' The slaughter among wild pigeon^ tbi# year has been something enormoUa.. The Maoris are recl&ne^^naveshi&tfupwards of fivty thousand in this distrid't. alone; The new train arrangements have/nadei one great improvement. Correspondence from WellingVa .a^d . ; th^. Sou^can .no^r be replied toT)y the mail jwnich closes on; l '*'* "; y^ Mr John McKQ^ftadyertises, that ,£> the next sittings of the' Manchester Eoad ' Spard he will apply for a slaughtering license on sebtiba No. » 3, n Manchester Block. ■■■ j-.v ; -::..' ••?: ;;;■-:( r '■'. -rl -;c«i? Mr Stewart; who was for a time master' at the Bunnythorpe School, is now in-the Wanganui Hospital, A Wang^niji:pap«r[ says this report is entirely without foundation., .'■f.fi. i -. „,;',,.,.,<■,•;.„,:.'" ;.■

The work of carrying goods to Kiwiteau and, Special settleuients^as cpnimonce^ byMr Thomas Smith yesterday, 'promises to be a great boon t» the settlers, who are; giving a liberal amount «f patronage. Four t dozeh heads 6f| wekas/^erebraught into the secretary of , -the - : Acclimatisation Society lost week. . If this slaughter, continues, game birds and yioung hares ijj^U, have a better chance for next season. Yesterday morning Boche tog& bis departure for Greatfora^station, where he has now assumed charge. .His placed inT Feilding is temporarily bccupiedf by ''■Mr George Ayre, one of the relieving officers on the Wanganui seotioft&f railway. v\. We learrT front' the! Mail that there wks . considerable excitement, yesterday; in* Waipawa conseqifent ; upon the' Fire Insurance Companies, having ; raised,, the tariff. We refer to thiat' matter in another, column.. -„ .-.•■..:■; , f '\ A . ■■>•)•. ; : . ;•■;•■: j'j : .-.'; A serious trap accident occurred in r Wanganui on Sunday last by which.Mrs Bailey, Mr Merant Bailey, and a young sistei! were allfmojje, or les» injured. The> Chronicle Bays &c prospects of the suf-' f erers towards rapid recovery are more hopeful than from fort appearamce.sdemed likely. We hare seen the plan of the new yards about to be erected by Messrs Stevens' and Gorton. They are five large yards for, cattle^'frwo large drafting yards, and two additional sheep yards. Whencom- 1 pleted these will be the best sale yards on K'.e co »«t. Mr W. Wajfcts, builder, has been entrusted with the' work. - On Saturday last the game season, ended. Taking it altogether sportsmen have had a, very fair amount of ghopting. ( Game has not been too plentiful, buik jfo ' sufficient I ' quantities'fdr' those whd • shot : for sport. No large bags' have been' made, but few have come home entirely unsuccessful, unless, in one or two very exceptioaal'instanced. '"' ••' : : •' ' "' ' ' •

' , :3 Mr Ol E?Haythora v 6inviteß;'tottderß : forr ' fa'llmg 200 acres' of bueh in^he Eiwitca'. ' Pafliicdlarji m»y> be 'hid 1 on appliicatabii^ta adjoins tb6' latid where the work is .to be done. We understand • that Mr Haythorne jsrilL settle in Kiwitea, as he is about t<j part with his interest in his Taonui property to his partner, Mr ßerington Jones. Mr Macarthur hat had a new claun« in> •erted .in ,th« v r jffii, > Chanf a,bjl.e. Ins'itutibn*B.)H adjusting the represeni* ;ioaon United Boards oh the tame..prm% ciple at I'istrtct B<>ardi, whioh^roTinion moved by the Premier' ' r 4'ecid«i lihtQl' be' proportioned to the amount of c'ontribu*' tiont paid by the rarioui contributory ■ local autudritten.'the? maxiAom^uinberJ of meiuberß allowed each' beinV toutl r '_ ■ Some time ago there appeared a para* graph in the World that W, W^Dundsi, wan alowly dying. *ete.»*. and: tgen^raJly making allusions that were not complimentary. Mr Dundas, who it najr~xes. siding in Chriktchurch, intends taking proceedings against the proprietors of the World, in ihe iihape T b| a' libel action; iji" 6rdc(r to cbnTince them thai' he I*' hot dead, and resents the remark* which were made aboßt him. ..-.<* r; ■:,, ■■■v • -'■■ At Messrs T. Kennedr Macdonald aid Co.'s auction sale of properties on Friday last, the piece of land ; situa|ed: ; in the Manchester Block, containing one acre, being section 84, suburbi of Feilding.. together with a four ■roomed ' house/was sold to Mr W. M. Whiteliead fo^irp^ The other property on the catalogue was" not offered ai the mortgagor h^dmade^ arranitemeats, and settled with the mortgagee. „-— -.

The editor of % Canterbury .pupar has taken to writing poetry, ar^e following will ihow:— ""ln there a man with soul .10. dead, who, never to himiel f hath laid ; • I will n>y country p«,p«r ti,ke, ; both for mine own and family's lak* P* if nuc^h th«re/b«. . Jet* him >f pent,, and have the paper to' him ; sent i and if h»'d passia; happy wi«t«r, he in advanoa should the printer;"- Now thatiwhiat has joae up we expect this poet hai ! n« ' more heed to??:«ng/ ? i" - .■'}■■' ■i.ii^i-->d ~ir--: ; >- .•■' j; : ! "TK^ fbllowinjj circular,' yJQJ*) the ;Wan,gan«i Heraia) fbrwiirdjP^ by Tth» (t Define? IJepaiptnient.to «fficer«' coramnhefing. die- I t'fieiii,' will 1 1» int'^siing to ' Volunteers ': i —"'lt ha vibe been decided ihatthp^uno- ' her of drills; to qualify for capitation •hall be increased, I have the honor to inform you,that bj. /tha.'.he^iwgiilatio^s. akodt to be published, girri)t«u cerp« wjll : be required to attend, eighteen drill*, and country corps eight drills,' but this; year only 1 fifteen drjll.i- will be required for garrison and "everf ;f or couhtr, jr corp» respectively. I inform you at the earliest possible '-.date; in order that your ioorpn may ; be enabled to qualify for capitation." Some people argue that it is' , false economy t* buy anything that you have hot aa' immediate use for. I "contend if you can; savo.2s to 35 per cent, by buying, . say/ three' months earlier than you require, that is true economy. Mr 0. Smith, J*oni : Te : Atii, Wellington, is selling quite 25 to 30 per cent, cheaper them other storekeepers in Feildingthereifbre 1 would advise careful, and economical buyers 'to' lay in a stock:— C. Smith; m* Mr Reading's Shop, next to Mr Ea,de'sj Cabmetmaker.~Ai)VT. •