Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 57, 23 October 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Captain Edwin telegraphs to«day: — Warnings hold good at all places. Mr G. C. Hill, C. E., advertises a number of town and suburban properties for sale and to let. Motto for Maxwell, the Bailway King — " Ministers may come, Ministers may go, but I go on for ever." The Town Clerk notifies that the bridge over the Makino in Denbigh street is closed for traffic until further notice. AJsale of furniture was held this afternoon by Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co., at the house of Mr Heaton, Eyre street. Upwards of 150 head of great cattle have been added to-day to Stevens and Gorton's next sale at Feilding. ■ We have to acknowledge receipt of Messrs T. K Mac Donald and Co.'s Wellington Landed Property Guide for Ocber. Messrs B. aud E. Tingey have secured the right of advertising on the FoxtonNew Plymouth railway lines for the next 12 months. Mr Svendsen, bootmaker, has just opened up a fine assortment of ladies and children's boots and shoes for the summer season. The meeting of the Feilding Sports Committee which was to be held last night, has been adjourned until next Tuesday at 8 p.m. Mass will be held in Feilding to-mor-row (Sunday) at 11 o'clock, when the Jubilee Mission will be opened. Evening service at 7 p.m. in Feilding. . The Feilding sale of Messrs Stevens and Gorton will be held next Thursday. The catalogue with additions since our last issue, appears on our third page. A notice is published to-day to the effect that jurors summoned to attend the District Court at Palmerston on the 27th instant, are not required to do so. Tickets for the farewell tea and concert to be given to the Rev. Joshua Jones prior to his departure for Wellington, are now in the hands of the Churchwardens and are meeting a ready sale. Three wheeled cabs are now running in London. The advantages claimed for this noyel conveyance are room, comfort, and convenience. Ladies will be able to use the cab without fear of soiling their dresses when alighting. The Hawera correspondent of the Patea Mail suggests that stock should be killed along the line at Hawera, Patea and Waverley and sent direct by train to Wel» ington. He considers that the slaughter yards would give employment in many ways. The testimonial fiend is abroad again. We learn from the Canterbury agent of the Press Association that it is proposed by some sympathetic idiot to get up a testimonial to Miss Houston for some reason or other. Now if it had beeu mooted to give a testimonial to Dv McIntyre or to the nurse, who did her duty so nobly, we could have understood it J and sympathised to the extent of adding our mite ; we certainly think they should j be honored first. j A meeting of delegates from the Bor- j ough Council and Manchester Road Board and a deputation from, the settlers was held at the Manchester Road Board office on Thursday night. As no invitation was sent to the Press we can give no detailed report of the proceedings, but we understand that the Borough Council and the Manchester Road Board have agreed to initiate the necessary steps to take a poll of the ratepayers, and apply under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act for a loan sufficient to erect a bridge at Aorangi. On Thursday afternoon another man was hurt on Mr Manson's land, near the same spot where Johnston was fatally injured a few days ago. It appears that Doak, one of a party of bushmen, was under a tree when a limb fell and crushed him to the ground. On his mates going to luh assistance they found he was so badly hurt that the Bervicos of a eurgeon were necessary. Dr Monckton was sent for and on his arriving and examining Douk, discovered the inusoles of he left haunch wore much bruised, but nt bones were broken Aftor the injun'pp were dressed he was tnken to the retid* nee of Mr Goldfinch, near Taouui, where he now lies. (

A supposed case of hydrophobia is re- | ported m Martou by the Advocate. The mad dog was proinply cured with an axe. Humour secured the Tsland Bay. Ha ndicnp, and Fie b»olev the Hurdle, race at the J* and .Bay Races at Wellington yesten lay. The following is the programme to be gone through by the Feilding Brass Band this evening, weather permitting: —1. Quick March, "Always Eeady." 2. Over- ! ture, " Znlieka." 3. Lancers, "Thp Old I Original." 4. Valse, " Dreams of Beauty." 5. Quick March, " Eldorado." 6. Cornet Solo, " Gates of the West." .7. Schottische, "Promenade."" 8. Gallop,* "Herry .Wives of Windsor." "The National Anthem." — Samuel Daw, Bandmaster. The tenders received for the Woodvjlle railway contract were: — Accepted — Sealley, and McGrath (Napier;, £3319. Declined—Glendinning and Griffiths. £3492; Gifford and OConnor (Wanganui), £3501; Wilkieand Wilson (Wnngnnui), £3$T9 ; J Shannahen iMauricenlle), £3684; Ft. Burgess (Wanganui). £3741 ; John Wilkie (Waitotara), £3859 ; Daniel Scally (Wanganui), £3948'; J. M. Watson (Wellington), £3949; I. McLean and Son (Wellington), £4067; Bryant and Warshnp (Waipawn), £4992; W. Kelliher (Wellington), £4997 ; Alexandar and McFarlane (Wangantiij, £6202; D. L. Sinclair (Palmerston North), £6180. " Talk about reporters not being truthful and honest," said Her. Dr Talmage, when his attention was called to a recept report of an occurrence in New York City, " I think that they are, as a class, more truthful and honest than those who say they are not. I personally know a great many of reporters on the papers in New York City and they are all perfect gentlemen. I have never been misrepresented during all the years that I have been acquainted with newspapers, and newspapermen. I have never had a reporter break fnith with me. . Whenever they have promised to return a manuscript or omit anything they have invariably done just as they said they would. That there are mistakes in newspapers 1 am willing to admit, but I am not willing • to admit that they were made purposely. The trouble with most men is that they are constantly trying to keep something back instead of being perfectly open frank and free. This the reporters invariably discover and they will invariably find out what that something is. Mo*t i of the mistakes and misrepresentations made in reports are mistakes that can almost always be charged ut> to some one outside of the newspaper office — usually an interested person."