Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 31, 24 August 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Tenders for a mile of wire fencing are invited by Messrs J. J. andS. Williamson, ef Waituna. We haye to acknowledge receipt of Hansard No. 24, and a batch of Parliamentary papers. We regret to learn that Mr W. G. Haybitfcle has been confined to his residence by illness for some days. Mr Greenwood, Dentist, will visit Feilding on Friday, 3rd September, and may be consulted at the Denbigh Hotel. The steamer Tui brought up eight llamas, of the alpaca variety, to Foxton on Thursday, for the Oroua Downs station. The Manchester Rifles will parade on on next Saturday evening at the barracks for the purpese of electing a Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Blackmere resigned. The following additional sums have been received per F. McLeod for the Presbyterian masse building fund : — F. B. Jackson, £1 ; F. McLeod, £1 ; James McLeod, 10s ; W. Murray, £1 ; J. Bead, 10s; J. Hastie, £2 2s; A. McEenzie, 10s; Gk E. Little, 10s; F. B. Linton, 10s;. bringing the total sum now up to £65.

Mr Burnett mil address a meeting of natives at Awahuri on Thursday noxt. Our Wanted column is made doubly interesting to-day by Mr S. J. Thompson. Captain Edwin telepraphs to-day — Warnings for gales and heary rain have been sent to all stations. If the weather is fiae, a squad of the Manchester Rifles will firo at the Butts on Saturday next. There -will be the -usual sitting of the. B. M . oourt to-morrow. The proceedings promise to bo more than usually interestlag if we may judge by outside report. Tenders are invited for 311 J acres of grass land on Mackay's Line. Particulars may be obtained from Messrs F. B. Jackson and 00. at their offices, Feilding. A tenant is wanted for that desirable residence (known as Fort's) with 15 acres of valuable land attached, with a good orchard. Particulars may be obtained from Mr Sharwill. Tenders are invited for the erection of a school at Cheltenham, by Messrs Atkins and Clere, architects. Plans &o. may be seen at the office of Mr Edmund Goodbehere. The revenue of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland decreased £21,000 in 1885, and the Free Church income fell off £31,000 during the same period. In Cleveland, a marriage license has recently been issued to August Weizorgitzerzitozki. When he starts housekeeping he proposes to stretch his name round the premises in place of a barbed wire fence. The natives, in Awahuri, intend to hold a meeting shortly to take into consideration the best means to adopt te oheok the encroachments of the Oroua river which has, during the recent floods, overflowed into the Mangaone stream. We have to direct the attention of our readers, especially those of his patients residing m this district, to the fact that Dr Spoors has gone to Dunedin where his address is at the Ootogan Chambers. We refer to the altered advertisement to-day. On Saturday next Messrs F. B. Jackson and Ce. will sell by auction, at their rooms Feilding, fruit trees from the nursery of Mr A. Laird of Wanganui, also a quantity of oats, chaff, barley &c, and a few pairs of turkeys and geese. In our report of the address made by Mr Burnett on Friday last he is made to say that he thanked Mr J. C. Thompson for his hospitality in Feilding. We now correct this error because Mr Burnett was the guest of Mr 8. J. Thompson during his stay here. * Pap,' said little Jacob, looking np from his Smnday scheol paper, * here is a piece that says 'Beer versus Whisky. Shall I read it ?' * Trew dat paber in de schtove, Shaky. Inny mans vot say« beer is vor*e as visky ain't fit for nodings except kindling veod." We direct attention to the startling announcement which appears in another column from the Wholesale Drapery. Company. Mr Oottrell, the manager, announces that the business the firm are doing, and the remarkably' lew prices of of their goods, now form the conversation at the fireride and street corners. The new advertisement should certainly lead to further business. The choir, which rendered such valuable aid to Mr Mathnw Burnett during his remarkably successful mission here, was composed of a combination from the choirs of the Primitive Methodists, Wesleyans, and Salvation Army. Our report was wrong in the respect where it stated only members of the latter body assisted. We hasten to make this correction as it might be thought the ether religions bodies had not rendered any assistanoe. We mentioned the other that a new disease bad affected the cattle in the district, and that several ef the farmers had lost valuable oowi by it. The animals, we believe, first show symptoms of a sort of giddinaeis in the head, ana* finally fall down. Mr George Colson says he has had three cows taken that way, and has cured them with the following mixture :— •' Into a quart of water in which rosemary has been boiled, put one pint of gin and threequarters ef an ounce of Epsom salts, and mix well." This in to be given in a drench.— Taranaki Herald. In the discussion whioh followed the reading of Sir Bobert Stout's paper at the Statistical Booiety, London, l)t Longsteffe, a great statistician, declared that if fall reliance could be placed en the statistics adduced in tke paper, they showed that the public debt of New Zealand ought to be considered as nothing more than a fleabite. The vital statistics also created a profound surprise, and the Agentkgeneml was directly appealed to to say whether he felt sure that no error had been made ; because they showed a death rate in New Zealshd of something bke 9 per 1000, as against ene in England •f about 19 per 1000. News from Tonga by the last steamer (says the Fiji correspondent of the Melbourne Argus) represents the persecution of the Wesleyans to fee still in full blast. One Wesl»yan native minuter named Joseph Havea had been sentenced to two years penal servitude for the heinous offence ef saying that when in Auckland the Premier, Mr Baker, went to the Wesleyan Churoh. He was also ordered to pay £20 to the Premier by way ef damages The Bey Mr Crosbie, of the Wesleyan Chnroh, Touga, has just paid a visit to the Assistant High Commissioner about this matter, but the result has not yet transpired. A good story is told of the late Mr Baird, of Gsrtsherrie. Scetland, who gave the princely donatien of £250,000 to the Church of Scotland. The first time after the gift that the donor mot his old friend, Janes Merry, Jamie is reperted to have said, " You religious auld sinner ; I see yeu hae left a lot o' siller to the kirk. Noo, I'll wager you. a hundred pounds that you canua even *ay the Lerd's Prayer." " Done, replied the munificent giver, and the money was tabled. Mr Baird sat scratching his head a little, so Jamie said, " Come, say awa." "Gi'e me time tae think for a moment." In a few minutes Mr Baird started with a triumphant chuckle ; " The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll hot want." •• Ther's the siller," said Jamie, "I didna think you could sayi!!" - There is nothing that adds to the appearance of a home, let it be cottage or mansion, like a pretty pair of Curtains. Mr C. Smith, from Te Aro, Wellington, has just received a case of the very latest designs, and is selling them at extraordinary low prices at his sale in Mr Beading's shop, next Mr Eade, cabinet maker. Lace curtains, 5 yards long, 2/6, 2/11 ; lace curtains, 6 yards long, ,3/11, 4/11, 5/11 ; lace curtains, 7 yards' long, 6/11 7/11, 8/11.— AdVt.