Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 67, 7 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The Resident Magistrates court will sit at Peilding to-morrow. Newspapers published in Duuedin on Friday evening were delivered in Foilding yesterday morning. It is said that when the Tui is raised she will be put on the Wellington-Wan-ganui trade. The Taranaki Budgot advocates a tax on non-intoxicant beverages as well as intoxicants. Tho Manawatu Daily Times objects to PalmeTston Borough Councilloi-s accopting tenders at a secret meeting. Our readers are reminded of the meeting 1 of ratepayers to bo held in the Public Hall this ovenmg. The hero of a recent elopement from Taranaki will shortly meet with a vory unromantic experience, a warrant for his arrest haying been issued. He is charged by a Nelson house with having embezzled £oQ or so. Yesterday morning whon Mr Blackmore was mounting his horse to proceed to Ins work, the animal being fresh from want of exorcise, did not allow Mr Blackmore to become properly seatod before it began to play up. Mr Blackmore was thrown and foil on the edge of tho footpath m his garden. Ds Johnston was cent for and on examination found no bones were broken, but the snfforer was so much shaken that he will be laid up for some weeks. " Woll, Mrs S , I shall certainly take your advice on this matter, for I know you are a good and careful Housekeeper ; but do you know, I have always got my Stores and ])rapory from the same Shop since wo came to Feildmg, ; and somehow I am not much of a ono i for changing. Since you tell me the ! savins' j r ou make by getting your Goods ; at the Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, au<l i Grocery Company, I shall certainly try • .them, and I shall make it my business to ! tell all my Frionds to go strait to the Wholesnlo Drapory, Clothing:, and Grocery Company's St f -re, Manchester Street, : Feilding. E. j. Cottrell, Manager." N.B. No ono is prossrd to buy, and Goods are : delivered all over the District daily. — AIWT.

Another attempt is to be made to ligbit Palmorstou with gas. Mr Von Stunner, R.M., has been appointed judge of the Assessment Court for the town district of Pahiatua. Wo have received from the Government printer " A Manual of Instruction for raising mulberry trees and silkworms. We liavo to thank tho local agent of the New Zealand Insurance Company for almanac and calendar for 1887. It is understood Inspector l?ullon, at Napier, will shortly change his station with Inspector Acheson, of Nelson. Yesterday morning Mrs E,. Bowler, the wife of one of the oldest settlers in the Borough, burst a bloodvessel in her lungs, and now lies dangerously ill. The cheese made at the Makino Factory by Mr Davis continues to maintain j its high character, and the only complaint is that the supply is necessarily limited. Tenders are invited by the Chief Surveyor, Mr J. W. A. Marchant, for Waitapu roads contracts 18 and 19, and by Mr Fowles for a concrete footpath. F. E. Jackson and Co. will hold a sale of stock at Feilding on Thursday next. Additional entries nave been made since our last issue. Mr Albert Barns, at his auction rooms, Wanganui, will sell a valuable farm containing 221 acres, situated at Halcombe. Tho sale will take place to-morrow. Correspondents are requested to write on one side only of their paper. "Failure to obserye this rule prevents the insertion of many letters otherwise interesting;. According to a press message from Wellington, the hours of civil servants are, aftor the New Year, to be extended from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an hour for luuch. Dr Johnston intimates in another column that he has returned to Feilding and resumed his practice. He may be consulted at his surgery, Kimboltou road, as usual. The proprietor of "The Other House' has just received a consignment of china prosorves, in the shape of crystalled ginger, lemons, &c. Ho has also opened a splendid collection of dolls and other fancy goods. Sir George Whitmore is promoted to tlie rank of major-general. Tins would havo been tleno boforo. but thoro were doubts as to tho power of the colony to mako general officers, and these have now boen settled. " How do you soil theso bustles ?" enquired a lady of one of our local shopmen the other day. Ho looked in tho direction indicated, and then blushed clear to the roots of his hair as ho explained to the lady that they were not bustles, but fencing masks. A brass band has beou formed in Pal" merston under tho leadership of Her 1 Norberg. We hope, in the near future' to sue a contest between the Martou, Pal" morston, Feilding and Makiuo baudsSuch a meeting would be of incalculable benefit to the performers individually and collectively. Owing to tho fact that Mr Ballanoe' Minister for Defence has failed to redeem his promise to station a policeman at Pahiatua the present Ministry is doomed. The local Star says indignantly " so long as tho present Ministry are in power wo need expect no mercy from them." Poor Ballance. A speecinl to the Aye dated November 2, siiys : — Gaudnur. the American oar* sman, who was defeated by Beach after a hard struggle m the recent match for the scullinsr chiiinpiouship of the world, has publicly protested against the claim of Edward Haitian, the Canadian rowor, tv the championship. Reports recently received in Paris from Algeria giva an extraordinary account of tho state of affairs among the French military forces m that country. There is an almost complete ab.sonoo of discipline. Duels are fougnt daily, and sanguinary fights take place between rival companies of Chasseurs and Zouaves, while foreigners are assaulted by native soldiers. Tho following items are from the Pahiatua Star : — We have ordered our coffin. A subscriber has stopped his paper. Reason — No notice was taken of his song in report of last concert. — Rather a good thing has boon told us of a recent interview between several gentlemen from Pahiatua and Sir Julius Yogel re the Post Office. " D — n your private townships," says the Colonial Treasurer, and the conduct of Ministers proves that we are being damned pretty considerable. At the recent International Congress, held in Copenhagen, a committee was appointed to inquire into the causes of cancer, and to investigate particularly tho supposed association between the disease and the use of certain sorts of food, the influence of worry, anxiety, and the depressed state of health in giving rise to tho malady, and tho extent to which it is hereditary. Many efficient physicians are on the Committee. Their report is to be submitted at the Washington meeting of the Congress in 1887. The Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and Grocery Company, of this town, has just received their second shipment of goods by the Manawatu Railway. It consists of the most fashionable goods ever shown m Feilding, the dress materials being superb. Ladies' capes, 6fcraw hats, and fancy collarettes are beyond description, in fact tho shop is crammed with new goods. The manager, Mr Cottrell, informs us he intends exhibiting some of , the goods every evening in the windows, ! which will be lit up with the silver light j burners. The new advortisemout will appear on Saturday next. Some interesting details (tho Levant Herald says) have come to haud respecting the capture by brigands of Monsignor Kyrilios, Greek Metropolitan of E'assona. Tho captors of the Greek prolate ask a very large ransom, knowing hrn to be: very noli, and in a position to pay tho i amount. It is said the brigands cause ; the bishop to read a mass every day, and oblige him to pray for the success of thoir undertakings, after which they all kneel ; clown and piously receive his episcopal ; benediction. These religious bandits treat their prisoner very humanely, and do everything in their po-wer to make him while away the tedious hours of solitude iv an agreeable manner. The bishop is trying hard to convert these outlaws, ami it seems that liis exhortations have at least had a temporary effect, I as all the bandits have, with a touching unanimity, declared upon their conscience that they will abandon their terrible calling and retire into the town for the purpose of plying an honp.st trade — as soon as the bishop's ransom is paid. [The ! Crre'.'k bandits who rer-ently captured tho i Archbishop of Elassnna m Macedonia, '' a~id demanded a rsinsom of £4000 for his ' release, were attacked l\v a force of 600 Turkish froops sent out acrninst- them from Salon ica, and forced to surrendor thoir captive."]

Our Wanted column is interesting todao. Mr Young advertises that he has just received a quantity of fresh fruit. The Manchester lliflos will parade for Government Inspection on Friday next. The Hon. John Ballance will address his constituents iv Wangauui some time in January. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Telegrams to expect strong easterly winds find rain hare been sent to all places I north of East Cape and Raglan. The Russian novelist, Tolstoi, has written a play based upon the legends of his country relating to tho invention of brandy by the devil. The characters are all demons. Mr Peabody, the American millionaire and philanthropist, said, shortly before he died, ' ' I owe much of my happiness and prosperity m life to the influence of newspapers and newspaper men ; a judicious adyei'tisement was as a gram of mustard seed which grew into a mighty tree." Those members of the Manchester Rifles who did not attend the judging distance practice last Saturday, are warued b}' advertisement iv another column, that they must attend the practice next Saturday. No excuse will be accepted for nonattendauce.