Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 54, 16 October 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Trade is improving in England. A new advertisement from Manchester House appeal's to-day. Additions to Messrs Steyens and Gorton's Awahuri sale, appear to-day. The Kiwitea Road Board met to-day. A report of the proceeding will appear in our next issue. The Parnellite Press ridicule the reported scheme of local Government for Ireland. Stevens and Gorton will hold a sale of furniture in Feilding on Monday, and of stock, at Awahun, on Tuesday next. To-day Mr S. J. Thompson publishes as an inset the announcement that his new store will be opened m a few days. We are compelled to hold over a quantity of reading matter, and our usual weekly weather report, ©wing to pressure on our space. An advance has taken place in the English hop market and choice qualities are in demand at the maximum price of £o ss. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day-— Warnings for easterly gales and heavy rain have been sent to all places north of the Thames and Manakao. Nineteen trucks, containing 115 head of cattle, were taken down by special train yesterday afternoon en route tor F. B. Jackson and Co.'i next sale at Johnsonville. To-day we publish the catalogue of Messrs F. B. Jackson and Co.'s sale at Palmerston on Friday next the 22nd instant. We learn from the Manawatu Times that to Mr Elliot Warburton will belong the honor of having taken the lead in establishing the telephone in Palmerston. The sister of Professor Holloway intends to dispute her brother's will. Thus wires Beuter's London agent who thereby gives the pillman's wares a cheap advertisement. Mr F. W. Eyu«« fell down in a fit on the railway platform yesterday afternoon. He wm qnickly recovered and went on by the train, in which he was a passenger, to Mnrton. In the libel action the National Mutual Insurance Company v. Loudon, the jury found for the plaintiffs on the first count — Damages Is. The question of costs was held over for consideration in Chambers in Wellington. The unfortunate man Johnston who was injured last Thursday by a tree falling on him while working in Mr Man* son's bush, died in the Wanganui Hos» pital yesterday morning at seven o'clock. The mail steamer Mararoa arrived at Auckland yesterday with the San Fran* cUco mail. The mail news by her has been mostly anticipated by Beuter. The Feilding portions of the mails will arrive here on Monday night. The last New Zealand Loan of £1,567,---800 does not appear to hare been very eagerly sought for by English financiers. When the tenders were opened on Thursday the total amount offered was £2,000,---000, a marked Contrast with the amount of tenders on previous occasions. A fatal accident occurred in Blenheim, on Thursday evening, to a man named Robert Avon, a grazing farmer in the Awatere district. He was driving home in a dray, and when about a mile from the town, fell from the vehicle, which passed over his cheat. Death was instantaneous. The Press is glad to learn that one order has bean booked by the Wellington Woollen Company which will take at least three months to complete. Such genuine appreciation of our industries is most satisfactory. The " Bed House" is now a household word for cheapness and quality, and Mr Thompson is determined to keep up his reputation. In our Wanted column today ho has a number of paragraphs of a most startling description. A meeting of the Committee of the Feilding Sports, was held last night. All the routine work was completed. The committee will meet next Friday night to draw up the programme which will be, we understand, on a scale even more liberal than any of its predecessors. General regret will be felt at the resignation by Mr Eade as a Borough Councillor, the state of his health preventing the possibility of his leaving his home at night to attend the meetings. Mr Eade during the time he has boon in office, has proved a very attentive and efficient councillor. We hope to soon see him restored to his usual health. To-day we publish a very important notice to Bee-keepers from Mr Wildbore of Taonui. Mr Wildbore has secured the best machine yet invented, for making the famous and useful comb foundations which havo been applied to such immense advantage and profit in the United States of America. Bae-keepers on inspectingthe samples will see at a glance the superiority of the article offered by Mr Wildbore. While awaiting with considerable anxiety the bows of the expected outbreak of war in Europe, our readers will be pleased to learn that War in the Boot Trade of Feilding has been declared by Mr Colville, of Palmerston, who has taken the shop between Mr G. W. Fowlos and Mr Carthew. Mr Colville aunouncos in our issue to-day that he will commence a great sale of boots and shoes on Tuesday next. There will be no masp at St Bridget's Catholic Church to-morrow as Father Patterson -will be holding a Jubilee Mission at Foxton on that day, but on the Sunday following he will open the Jubilee Mission in Feilding at the 11 o'clock Mass. Father Patterson has given four days mission in Wanganui and the same in Palmeraton and will now commence j with Foxton. He intends giving a mission throughout the wholo of his district. It will be interesting to know how many dogs will be registerd in the Boroughrduriug the year. One moonlight evening last week no less than twenty-eight were counted in less than a third of a mile on Manchester street. A gentleman whose milch cows have been worried at night by larrikin "tikes", offers to wager that there are over one hundred dogs owned in Feilding. At any rate the council's revenue from that source is only one fourth what it should be. At the last meeting of the Hospital Board held in Wanganui, it was decided that stretchers for country patients must be provided by the districts requiring them. As bnshmen in our neighbourhood are peculiarly liable to dangerous | < accidents, we would suggest tho Kiwitea : and Manchester Road Boards, with the Borough Council, j nin in proviriingstretch- ( crs fit to be sent into the bush to carry out wounded or injured me i, with ease i to the sufferers, and conveni< nee to the bearors The stretchers sliou d also be so constructed as to allow of their being slung in a railway van. j

Tlie windows of the Wholesale Drapery ! md Clothing Compuuy'a Premises were lit up list night, and a big display made sf miliiuerv and fancy goods. The Manchester Rifles paraded for Government Inspection on Thursday, evening, but the required number not being present, owing to the inclemency of the weather preventing many of the country members from coming in, Capt. Macarthur arranged for another parade to be held at some future date. About thirty men, including the Band, fell in, and Sergeant Henry gave some useful instruction in. company and battalion | drill. After some manual and platoon exercise, from Lieutenant Kirtbn, the men were dismissed.