Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 12 August 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Ellery Gilbert, piano tuner, is at present in Feilding. The Manchester Eiffoa will parade this evening for inspection by Colonel Stapp. Some additional items ere entered for Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co.'s sale on Saturday in the shape of oats and chaff.. The steamer Whampoa left Foochow on Sunday last for Wellington via Auckland. She will be due in Auckland on the Ist of September. The business card of Mr J. Madden, the popular host of that woll-known and long-estnblished hostelry, Barrett's Hotel, appears in our advertising columns. The new premises about to be erected in Kimbolton road by Mr John Bishop will be very commodious, and at the same time elegant in appearance. The architects are Messrs Atkins and Clere. It will be noticed that a full list of mails closing at the Feilding Post Office is now published above the signature of the Postmaster. We are requested to mention that mails for Sanson go via Bulls instead of via Foxton as hitherto. The Nelson Mail says : — 'Hops appears to have been moving off with some activity during the month of July, the export having: been 298 bales. This brings the total export during the four months that have elapsed since the picking, up to the large number of 3036 bales. A statement telegraphed from Napier that a Post Office clork, named Frederick Hill, charged with stoalnig letters, is a son of Mr Hill, the well-known totalisator proprietor and horse-owner, m incorrect. We have good authority for stating that Mr Hill has no son. — Exchange. We learn that a gentleman vrilh cnpitnl who has had considerable business experience in large commercial centres* hn* it in contemplation to start a lonn com pany in this dittriet, with, say, a capital of some £50,000. He thinks them is a capital field for doinc a safe and profitable business. The public of Feilding nnd District will be pleased to learn that Mr 'J. Smith, from Te Aro, ha« decided to continue bis sale in Feilding a little loader. Also that he has received a fresh supply of Bargains, such as Ladies' Kid Gloves I*, Men's Tweed Trousers 3s lid, Boj*' Tweed Trousers 2s lid; also a fresh supply of those Blanket* that everybody bate been talking about. Send and ask for the new Price List.— Advt.

We have received No. 20 of Hansard. M auhattan Islaud, Professor Fairchilrt says, is gradually sinking, and the se^ will yot cover the present site of NewYork. It is a strange tiling that the man wh> knows exactly how to run a newspaper is always engaged in some otlier kind of business. The total production of wool in New Zealand for the year 1885 amounted to S(i,soo,ooolbs of the estimated value of £3,285,278. The Australasian says :— We ore convinced that the world's production of wool per head is not appreciably greater than twenty years ago. On a card in a street car this great truth is heralded ; " Advertising is a great deal like making lore t« a widow : jt can't bo ©verdone." A Belgian physiologist concludes, after laborious investigation, that insects cannot distinguish the shape of bodies by sight. JS o ; but thoy get there just the name. Ome plank, nine feet wide and twenty feet long, without knot or blemish of any kind, and another twelve feet wide, are among the contributions of British Columbia to the Liverpool. Exhibition. In speaking to his amendment oa the Loan Bill, Mr Oh F. Richardson epijjraniinatically said: — "The Treasurer turns a deaf ear t© the Premier's preaching, and the Premier turns a blind eye to the Treasurer's practice !" A singular freak of nature is on view to-day at Messrs Jones and Duncan's stables. It is a lamb with a perfectly formed head, eight legs, and two bodies. The latter are joined at the shoulders. In every other respect the points are complete and in proportion. It was dropped on Mr Ingram' s farm who will send it away to be stuffed and preserved. Mr Macarthur is to ask the Minister for Public Works whether he will order the necessary timber and also the. ironwork for the cylinders of the railway bridge across the Pohangina river on the Napier- Pal memton railway at once, so as to avoid delay in the completion of this important connecting link of railway b»« j tween Napier, Taranaki and Wellington. Mr F. Cooper, the oldest established florist and seedsman in Wellington, has an important notice in to-day's issue. He has just published a bulky catalogue, giving full particulars of an immense variety of flowering and vegetable seeds, fruit trees, pot plants, earubs, &c. We refer our readers to the advertisement. The Woodvillians and the Palmerstonians still continue to worry over certain railway workshops, supposed to bo about to be erected at the former place. It will be a consolation to the Palmer* Unians to know that railway workshops will not be built at Woodville, and a joy ter ever to the Woodvillians to know they will not be built at Palmvrston. We direct the attention, of those interested to an announcement which appears in our advertising columns from Mr R. Martin, of the Paperhanging Warehouse, Wellington. The enterprising proprietor has recently enlarged his showrooms in Manners street as well as the adjoining warehouse, and has now in stock one of the largest assortments of paperhangings, varnishes, oils, &0., to be found in any similar establis hment in the North Island. "Puff" in the Press writes: Cattle coming in from Waitotara and Fell ding by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway ! Taihoa ? You'll see things jump presently when they get the line right through! They ought to straighten the piece from Wanganui seuthwards ! It's all wrong as it is ! They'll hate to do it some day, and the sooner the better ! The completion of the through line will make it rather a blue look out for the Wanganui harbour ! At the age of 87 the veteran dramatist Mr J. A. Herauoh, is about to publish what he announce* will be his last poem, entitled " The Sibyl Among the Tomb«." Many years ago he produced a striking composition with a strange title, which will long be remembered in connection with one of the most caustic repartees which Douglas Jerrefd ever uttered, " Haveyou seen my 'Descent into HellP 1 " asked the poet a few days after its publication, "No," growled the wit, "but I should very much like to." George Manning Bees, who last week was committed for trial on the coroner's warrant for the manslaughter of his wife, was charged with the offence at theE.M. Court, Christchurch, yesterday. His daughter, who at the inquest stated that ho had merely carried the deceased oat of the room and laid her on a bed, swore that he threw her on a bed, and threatened to thrash his daughter if she told it. Dr Blackwell stated that the deceased was very weakly, and that neglect and illtreatment had probably accelerated death. The accused was commited for trial. At the annual meeting of the Auckland Racing Club, the report stated that during the year the club had distributed in stakes £8997, as against £6092 for 1884-85. £560 was spent in improvements. The receipts for the Summer meeting exceeded the expenditure by £3100, and the receipts for the other meetings are in proportion. £4664 was spent on a new grand stand, leaving a balance of £3000, towards which £2200 is in hand. The report was adopted, and discretion was | given to the committee to regulate the use of the totalisator at country meetings, by insisting upon a certain proportion of the added money, to put an end to merely " pubhchouße" meetings. A singular ense was heard in the Police Court at Inrercargill the other day, when an old man named W. Martin, a farmer at Oterenmaika, was charged with killing two horses, the property of an adjoining settler named W. Paton, by poisoning them with phosphorised oats. The pnn • cipul evidence againut the accused was given by members of his own family. Trouble appears to have arisen through the old man objecting to his daughter's mnrriage with Paton, and he wa« recently fined for striking her in the face While her father was in gaol on remand she married Paton. She did not give eyidence ngainit her father on the more serious charge. Martin was committed for trial in Supreme Court, bail being allowed in two sureties of j£iso each, and ; himself in £300. A malicious report has bet'n circulated ■by some person that the Wholesnle Drapery, Clothing, & Grocery Company, Manchester Street, Feildmg, do not sell at the prices advertised. The manager, Mr E. J. Cottrell, will give five pounds (£5) to any person who can prove to the contrary. The Company having received such a large shnre of public support since thfir opening in Fvilding, under the new system, will no doubt account for the false repnrt being circulated. — E. J. Cottrell, Manager, W.D.C. &G. Company. ' — Advt.