Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 24, 7 August 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Bomigh Couacillon art hankering after a firebell. ■ Mr F. B. Linton has a six-roomed cottage to let; We publish an interesting supplemem torday. , :; .■ . .■ ■■ , ..■.;■■■ ,■ ■ The Manchester Bifles will: parade for Government Inspection on Thursday next. The Manchester Bo ad Board met this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. Several additions are made to-day to Messrs P. B. Jackson and Co.'s stock sale at Feilding on Thursday next. The tender of Mr T. Meehan has been accepted for the supplying of totara posts advertised for by Mr W. Watts. A few slight showers of ram fell last night, but altogether insufficient to d© any real good. The settlers at Te Aroha are about to form the district, within certain limits, into a Borough. They want a loan. In our Wanted columns to-day Mr S. J. Thompson has some interesting items well worthy of the attention of our readers. Owing to the weather the Feilding Band coold not play in the open last night. The programme will, however, be gone through on Monday evening, should we circumstances permit. Mr J.Burnes, of Kiwitaa, has sent to Mr 8. J. Thompson a potato weighing dlb lOoze. This remarkable evidence of the superiority, of the land in our neighborhood is now on view at Mr Thompson's store. Mr T&. Skerman, who was appointed from Feilding to the Masterton branch' of the Bank of Australasia, has been removed to Napier. We regret to learn that. the change was made necessary by the state of Mr Skerman's health. "How is it you keep yourself and family so well and neatly dressed, and yet I, who receive the same wages, cannot come up to you ?" " Well, .lames, I pay cash at the cheapest store in town, which is the Wholesale Drapery and Clothing Establishment in Manchester street. I reckon I aave seven shillings every week by this ! You try, and ste if i you can't do the same." *I mostcer- j tainly;wilV was the reply. — Advt. '.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day : — Warnings for gales and cold weather have been sent to all stations. We are glad to hear that Sirßobert Stout is improving in health ; also that Mr Fisher has been, able to return to his duties in the House. Tenders are invited for the erection of Mr S. J. Thompson's new state. Hans and specifications may be seen at the Stab Office. Lord Harris has been appointed Under Secretary for the War Office. This will stop his cricket for him. He will now have to study the nobler game of war. Notice of dissolution of the partnership of Messrs Halcombo and Sherwill is published to-day. Mr Halcombe will wind up the business of the late firm. | We learn from the local paper that the celebrated temperance evangelist, Mr Matthew : Burnett, will .deliver a course of lectures in Marion on an early date. fourteen trucks of stock went down by train yesterday, for F. R. Jackson's and, Co. 's first sale at Johnsonvill on the Wei-' lington-Manawatu railway. It is expected that the extension «f the Wellington-MauriceTille line to M:>ngnmahoe will be ready for (traffic ■• before the end of October next, in time to bring town next season's wool, . • , The editor of the Wanganui Chronicle calls the editor of the Herald "a pragmatical paragraphiat." This is surely bad language, and calculated to provoke a breach of good manners. A splendid opportunity is offered to-day to any industrious man desirous of estab 7 lishing himself in a comfortable home in the rising district of the Makino. Mr Bishop advertises forty acres, to let or sell. There is a comfortable cottage on the land. •- The managers of the London Stock Exchange recently bought a piece of Land in Old Broad street at the rate of £88 per superficial foot. That v a big price to pay for real estate, even in London, and especially during a period of financial depression. ■■'■•■■■• Wood-carving is now the most fashionable occupation for aristocratic amateurs <in Paris. They rise earlj and spend the morning in copying some antique piece of woodwork, choosing such subjects 'as a Diucent from the Cross, if the carver be a devotse, or a Flemish Elermesss if of rhore mundane tendencies. A wire strainer has been patented in j Wellington, by the inventors, Messrs Jensen and Bergersen, of • Feilding and j Palmerston. The inventors claim that their strainers are the cheapest and yet most powerful of. any yet made in the world. They will have them on view in about a week. The fine weather which has obtained on this ooast during the past six weeks — whole every other part of the colony has been visited with . either gales of wind, - heavy rains, hailstorms, or snow— is only -.another evidence of the yast superiority of this locality over the others. We do not take, the credit to ourselves for all tie blessings we enjoy, but thuey are indisputable, facts. ..;... V ....' . , Tke river of bvrnmg lavs which is creeping slowly down the slopes of Mount litna threatens to overwhelm the town of Nicolosi. For days it has been getting noarer and nearer, and the inhabitants have desorted the place, taking withithem all their goods, as well rs all the images and other sacred trappings : from the churches. The soldiery alone keep sentinel OT«r the doomed town. ; . •■: .'■:• „-.■: .... The Christchuroh Press, after a.careful examination of tho estimated yield of wheat and an examination so far ai possia ble of tho quantity exported, arriVek al the conclusion that we have already over exported more wheat, by about 160,000 bushels, than we can afford to send away. As it is well known that export engagements have po «n mad* for months in advanco of the present time, it would appear that oof ore tho end of the present frain season wo shall be compelled to import" a considerable quantity of wheat- and flour to supply food for the population. v The modesty of Mr Dargaville, the member for Auckland West, will not interfere, with his success in political life. He has expressed a wish that mem* bers of the House may be enabled to send delayed telegrams to their constituents on public matters- during the session at double the rates charged for Press ; messages. We would have thought M.H.B.'s could afford to pay for their telegrams to their political supporters out 'of the liberal allowances made to the a by their country .without farther encroachment on the revenue. The* next thing "we' shall hear of will be some hon. member asking that whiskey imported by members of the House, "to be drunk on the premises," bo admitted duty free. ; , . Notwithstanding all oar boasted civilisation, a disgusting exhibition, viz., an arranged prizefight between two woman, took place in Cbllingwood, Melbourne, on Wednesday, the 2 1st ultimo. A large crowd of the supporters of the combatant* witnessed the fight and yelled out encouragement in the most filthy expres* lions. Both women fought with the determination of infuriated beasts, and displayed considerable science m the "manly art," and by their skilful tactic* prbred | that they had been carefully trained for the contest. Each woman was severely punished, but they took the punishment with remarkable coolness. They hugged and tussled and battered one another until it seemed as if the? rere fighting to the death. At the «nd of half ««n- hour one of 'the women was led off badly hurt,' and the other was a disfigured, but a jubilant, victor. " . ' At the ineetrag of the Loyal Manawatu Lodgp, 1.0.0. F., 6420, held on Thurxday eyening, a committee was . formsd with a view of testing the feelings of all the Friendly Societies between Wanganui and Wellington as to the feasibility of holding a monster Friendly Society re-umon or demonstration at Waikanai on the 9th of November, the day ot opening the Weir lmgtou-Manawatu railway line. Should the lodges decide to hold such a demonstration we believe the Wellington-Mana-watu Company are prepare! to meet the various societies in a liberal spirit as to tho fares etc., to and from Waikanai, and we have no doubt but that the Government would also assist the sooioiss between Wanganui and Longburn liberally as to fares from the different towns represented, so, as'to connect with the Wel-lington-Manawatu line. : Some people .argue that it ' is false economy to buy anytMng that you have not an immediate use for.:."!* contend -'-'-if you can saV^£s to 35 per cent, by buying, say v thrpe;J!hbn.tlis Wrlier than'iy^u require; that ' is 1 • feue economy. Mr 0. Smith, from Te Aro, Wellington, is selling quite 25 to 30 per cent, cheaper than other storekeepers [, in,. Feilding therefore" 1 would- ;adyise v ;.caveful. aii<i economical buyers; to .|ay in. a stock.— C.' $mith, m Mr; Reading's' Sh'bpv next to Mr Eade's, Cabmetmakeri'-^ADVT. -