Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 14 August 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The bankruptcy is announced of Mr S. J. Gamman of Bunnythorpe. A direct English mail will arrive in Feilding by the 6.30 train to-night. Mass will be celebrated in St. Bridget's Church to-morrow, the 15th instant, at S a.m. Constable Price has returned to Feilding on two months leave of absence on account of ill-health. The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection on Thursday, the 9th of September. We understand that Mr Blackmore has resigned his commission as Lieutenant ©f the Manchester Rifles. We direct attention to. a new and startling advertisement from Mr Charles Henry. The Feilding Brass Band will perform on Manchester Squar* to-morrow (Sunday) at 2 o'clock. Applications are invited from persons willing to undertake the duties of Ranger and Poundkeeper for the Borough. On dit that certain changes of officers are likely to be made shortly in one of the banking institutions on this coast. The Official Assignee intimates that an interim dividend of 5s in the £is now payable on approved claims in the estate of G. T. Currin, of Eiwitea, a bankrupt. Tenders for the erection of Mr S. J. Thompson's new store will clobo on Monday next. Tenders are to be addressed to the Stab office. Stevens and Gorton will hold a stock sale at Awahuri on Tuesday next. Several additions are made to the catalogue t»-day. In the case of Captain Pope, of the s.s. Tui, who was fined for an inadvertent breach of the Sheep Act, the Public Petitions Committee recommend that the fine should be remitted. Mr Gladstone discovered when it was too late, that the failure of his Home Rule scheme was entirely owing to the fact that he did not make it public sooner. He said "HI had only advertised Chamberlain and the others, it would have been a success." For having only a shilling stamp on an agreement leasing a block of land at five shillings per week, a plaintiff in the Nnpier Court a few days ago had to pay a fine of: £5 before the case could proceed, and increase his stamp from one shilling to half-a-crown. An apprentice named John O'Brien, aged 14, was killed on Thursday afternoon by a fall of gravel in a tunnel at the rear of Thomas Ballinger's gas fitting shop, Wellington. The deceased was playing with other lads, when he accidentally knocked away one of the props supporting the roof, and about fifteen tons of gravel fell. Death was instantaneous. The other lads escaped. In the Napier R.M. Court on Monday, a solicitor created much amusement by reading out a list of agencies held by a debtor who was brought up on two judgment summons, and insisted that a man m such a position, able to drive about town in a dog-cart, could well afford to pay his just debts at the rate of £6 per month. In defendant's absence, the R. M . concurred, and orders for the amount named were made. A return laid »n the table on Wednesday shows that the railway revenue from the Foxton Wharf was £1451, against an expenditure of £504, to which is added £600 for maintenance and depreciation. With reference to this return, Mr Macarthur is going to ask the Minister for Public Works if, seeing the large profit derived from the Foxton Wharf, he will now remit the exceptional charge of Is per ton now charged at the Foxton Wharf ? (Since this was in type we learn the Minister refused the application.) The following extract from the Detroit Free Press i* gaing the round of the New Zealand papers : — " Thirty-five years ago three sisters worked in n cotton factory in Lancashire, England. They all married machinists, one going to America The latter was Mrs Wm. Shearer, whose husband settled in Atlanta She never heard a word from her New Zea'nnd sister until Monday last, when a letter informed her thnt her sister's husband had made £100,000 and had died childless and that last December the sister had diod, leaving £30,000 each to her sisters in Australia and America. " Per- i haps some of our readers know the persons referred to. We had the pleasure yesterday of witnessing at work the new wire strainer, patented by Messrs Jensen and Bergen86H. This useful and ingenious invention combines in one instrument — a strainer, hammer, splicer, cutter, and staple extractor, the whole weighing only six pounds eight ounces. From what we saw we formad the opinion that it can be worked fifty per cent, quicker than the ordinary strainers now in use. It has immense power, which is easily controlled. Accompaning the patent are buttons with keys for stopping the wires should staple? be dispensed with, and holes bored through the posts. No special knowledge is required to work it and the veriest noyieo could, with its assistance, put up a fence as well and as rapidly as a skilled workman.

A malicious report has been circulated by Romp person that the. Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, & Grocery Company, Manchester Street, Feildme. do n<>t sell at the prices advertised. The rnnnneer, Mr E. J. Cottrell, will give five pounds (£5) to any person who can prove to the contrary. Th<> Company having received such a lnrge share of public support since th^ir opening in Feilding, under the nev\ r system, will no doubt account for the false report b<*ng circulated.— E. J. Cottrell. MnniiK«r,W.D.C.&G. Company. — Advt.

Our contemporary the Standard copied "The Old t oust Lino" from the Star without acknowlodgeinout. The timbor, piles &c. for Mr S. J. Thompson's new store, are being put on the ground all ready for the successful tenderer to start to work on Thursday next. On Wednesday last a meeting of the Makmo Cheese and Butter Factory was : held and a resolution passed to wind up the company. The Manawatu footballers went to Wanganui by the morning train. They all looked very fit and able to give a good account of themselves. Clarke Russell, the marine novelist, has sailed for the Cape of Go»d Hope under great disability from chronic rheumatism, leaving behind him the manuscript of a new romance called The Golden Hope. In the Hobart Mercury of July 31 we find the following telegram : — " Welling- . ton, July 30. Te Whiti, leader of the Maens, now out on bail, is suspected of inciting the natives to commit outrages on the settlers." We should say the man who sent that wire was, of vivid imagination. Many enquiries having been made to us on the subject we append the cost of first and second cla*s tickets to Wellington by rail and coach: — first class, Feilding to Otaki, lls Id; Otaki to Paikakariki, 10s; Paikakariki to Wellington, 6s Id; total, £1 7s 2d; second class, £1 2s ; When the train runs through the cost will be reduced by about 4s 6d. As the Rotomahana was lea ring Anckland for Sydney recently a Jcab horse swerved alongside, the cab going over, and getting jammed betwaen the wharf and the ship. A lady inside Mrs Atwell, fell into the sea; aiio the cabman named Menzies. The traces were cat. but the horse got drowned. A steward of the Hotomaliana, named William Smith, jumped overboard and rescued the woman. He got kicked in the belly by the struggling horse in the water, but Hot seriously. Menziea was got out safely. Truth says '•Spofforth's mantle seams to have fallen on Giffen. Never has the South Australian bowled §o well as recently ; in fact, it is doubtful whether for a series of matches, his figures have often been surpassed. Australians claim Giffen to be the best all-round man in the world, and whil» we cannot, so long as W. 6. Grace and A. 6. Steel are still to the fore, admit the claim, it must be owned that the skilful colonial has at present few equals." Mr. Macarthmr is about to direct the attention of Government to the necessity for a wholesale and thorough revision of the electoral laws of the colony by asking the Premier, whether, in yiew of the approaching general election, the Government will bring down Bills early next j-ession to amend The Elections Petitions Act, 1880 ; The Corrupt Practices Prevention Act , Is 8 1; The Regulation of Elections Act. 18S1 ; and The klectors Registration Act, 1879? Another old lady colonist and Wellington resident has passed away in the person of Mrs Martin, widow of, Mr James Martin, who died some seventeen and a half years ago. The deceased lady was born at Barnby, Gloucestershire, in 1807. Mrs Martin came out with her husband to Port Nicholson in the ship Clifton on the 18th February 1842, and Mr Martin thereafter followed his profession of a coach-builder until his decease. He was a member of the Antipodean Lodge of Oddfellows, being a Past Grand of the lodge. He took an active interest in its welfare and assisted in laying the founda tion of its present financial properity. She had been ailing for some ten weeks past. Mrs Martin leaves behind her to mourn her loss a large circle of friends and a progency consisting of two sons, four daughters, thirty-four grand children, and eleven great grand children. The public of Feilding and District will be pleased to learn that Mr 0. Smith, from T« Aro, has decided to continue his said in Feilding a little lomger. Al*e that he has received a fresh supply of Bargains, such as Ladies' Kid Gloves Is, Men's Tweed Trousers 3s lid. Boys' Tweed Trousers 2s lid; also a fresh supply of those Blankets that everybody has been talking about. Send and ask for the new Price List. — Advt.