Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 69, 11 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

It is proponed to change the name of the Poverty Bay district. Song for Napier newspaper men — " Lillibulero Bullen a la." Mr Charles Patterson, of Ashhurst Road, has filed his schedule. Nominations for the Feilding Sports will close to-night. The fruit crop in Foilding this year will be almost a complete failure. Tenders for grass-cutting on the Bailway line -will close on Wednesday next. Moderate showers of rain fell yesterday and to-day doing an immense amount of good. Mass will be celebrated in St. Bridget's Catholic Church to-morrow (Sunday) moning at 8 o'clock. To-day we publish a notice from the Mayor of the Borough anent the poll to be taken on the 18th inst. to raise a loan of £1000. There are 280 private schools in the colony, employing 645 teachers, with 11,---989 scholars, and an ayerage attendance of 10.243. The New Zealand Cross will be presented to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas MeDonnell to-day, by Lieutenant-General Sir George Whitmore. The roadman is mowing down the grass growing on the sides of the roads in Manchester Square. The general appearance of the square is much improved. On Thursday last furious gales raged in Eugland and Ireland. They were violent in the south of England where numerous wrecks occurred causing much loss of life. A new advertisement appears to-day from the Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and Grocery Company, in which the arrival of the second shipment of summer goods, and other interesting items, are notified. Burgesses are reminded of the meeting to be held in Mr Bray's office on Tuesday evening, to appoint a working committee to attend t© business connected with polling for the proposed bridge at Aorangi. Mr Carthow has made some very convenient additiens to his shop for the purposo of tho bettor display of the Christmas goods he has now opened up. It is worth while to call if only to see the surprising novelties he has on hand. Mr Dare, tho bank manager, in Melbourne, who behaved so pluckily whon an attempt was made to rob tho bank, has been presented with a cheque for 100 guineas by the diroctors. It has been recommended that bank officers keep up their revolver practice. I Tho Minister for Public Works will ; leave Wellington ou Monday noxt. lie I intends visiting Napier, Woodville, Wan- ' ganui, and New Plymouth to make a ' general inspection oi public works m j progress. He will be "waited ou by a i deputation in Palmerston. ;

Thursday the 9th inst. wast tho anniversary of the death of Alfrod Dawson, who was drowned on that dato throe years ago. A concert will be givon in Feilding, early in January, for the purpose of raising funds to clear off tho debt on the Catholic Church. To-morrow afternoon, at three o'clock, tho Rev. Mr Gordon, of Marton, will preach a sermon to children, in tho Presbyterian Church, and ho will also officiate in the morning and evening. The Mayor of Wellington, Mr A. W. Brown, has suggested that future mayors of the Empire City, should "wear a distinguishiug mark," and be provided with proper official livery. This reminds us of the story of dear old Captain Jackson Barry, who, when Mayor of Cromwell, said whoa Sir George Grey was about to visit that place, "I will receive him properly, in a cloak lined with vermin." We learn from the Palmerston Standard that the following gentlemen will act as judges at the forthcoming elocutionary contest. — Messrs D. H. Macarthur, M.H.8., F. E. Watson, and J. H. Hankins. We bolieyo there will be about 12 competitors, including Messrs Eichardson, Haybittle junr., Pascoe, and Leary of Palmerston North, and Messrs Bircham, Sandon, and Monteith, Woodvilla Our Borough Councillors are determined that the rates should be paid. On Thursday night a ballot took place, when fifty names were drawn of defaulters to bo sued at the noxt sitting of the B. M. Court. Among others oar reporter noticed tho Duke of Manchester, and Lady Feilding, so tho other forty-eight were in good company. Admitting that Mr Burnett, who went down by train onThursday, has caused 15,---000 persons tobocomo total abstainers daring the past year, this will account for a portion of the deficiency in the revenue of about £60,000. It would therefore pay the Now Zealand Government to send Mr Burnett away to Australia to lecture, and pay him a salary of £10,000 per annum. A number of those who "run" Mr Ayers for the Christchurch mayoralty have sent in little bills, and it is estimated that if these were allowed the contest would cost the successful candidate closo on £800. By fifteen votes to ono the whole of the votes were rejected as exhorbitant ; hut gratuities were voted to some of the canvassers who had been specially active. A bush settler's credit was stopped by his creditors. — "They told him gently trust was dead ; He spoke of assets and 6milod. They pushed him gently from the room ; And he wont off and filed. But now the lawyer has the dibs. ; A div. he will not pay ; He gently smiles on them and says ' I am not built that way.' " The unhappy creditor who composed these touching lines is a Feilding man. A meeting of the managing committee of the Boxingday Sports was Held last mght. The entries for this year are numerous, aud many of thorn are from the South Island. A resolution was passed instructing the secretary to write to the Manager of the WeUington-Mana-watu railway on the subject of the train service on.Boxingday, and to endeavor to get the excursion tram from Wellington 1 to run up to Feilding in time to bring visitors to the sports. A new cure for consumption has been originated by a Teutonic doctor. He makes his phthisical patients pnsg the night m the open air of the Thurinciau forest, well wrapped up, and sleeping in light hummocks so n« to avoid all damp from the ground. A watchman keeps off any intruders who might dixturb the night's rest, nnd hitherto the experimenl iuu proved wonderfully successful. The first stop to be taken by the Government in tho direction of retrenchment is in the reduction of the number and salaries of the Civil servants. If this it true — and there seems no reason to doubl it, as the Wellington Poßt says so, and that journal's sources of information ar< generally reliable — then the Governmenl practically admits the Civil service to b< over manned and oTer paid. Be that at it may wo sympathise with the hundreds oi men who will for the next month or two live in a state of doubt and uncertainty as to their fate. The man who puts his 6on into the Civil Service of New Zealano is an ass, and the father of as-es. A bolt took place yesterday forenoon Mr Bolden, of Makino, had hitched hii trap and horse to a verandah post of "Th< Red House," and left it for a few minutes, when something startled the anhna' which bolted up Warwick street, and turning the corner at Mr S. Goodbehere's galloped down Manchester street througl tho crowd of children just leaving the school, fortunatoly without injuring anj of them. It cannoned on Mr Train's verandah post and brought the vehicle tc singular grief. Kicking itself clear o1 the debris, it continued down the street until it was stopped by Mr Fowles opposite his shop. Nobody was injured in any way. The change that is fast taking place in the view with winch the Scotch Presby* terian clergy regard Sunday observance is strikingly shown by the remarks made by the Bey Principal Cunningham at a harvest festival at Crieff Parish Chnreli •a Sunday, October 17. He fiftid th&t his parishioners were in a great measure | to blame for the present di»a»tr«us har* vent. On a recent Sunday when all the crop was in a fit state to be gathered m, the farmers and their servants were either m church or in bed when they should have been in the fields. The country woHld suffer in almost every respect on account of the bad <arve«t. All this was caused by the too rigid and puritanical observance of the Sunday in question. In conclusion, the reverend gentleman said that the late disastrous sensonsjwould work good in the end. They were on the verge of a revolution both in regard to the land laws and agriculture in general. Everything in connection with agriculture must be greatly changed, nnd a season like the present would greatly hasten that day, " Well, Mrs S , I shall certainly take your advico on this matter, for I know "you are a good and careful Housekeeper ; but do you know, I have always got niy Stores and Drapery from the same Shop since we came to Feilding, and somehow I am not much of a one for changing. Since you tell me the saving you make by getting your Goods at the Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and Grocery Company, 1 shall certainly try thorn, and I shall make it my business to tell all my Friends to go strait to the Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and Grocery Company's Store, Manchester Street. Foilding, E. J. Cottrt.ll, Mauser." N.B, No one is pressed to buy, and Goods are lolvvorod all over the District daily. — !LDVT.

A new advertisement appears to*day from Mr Brown, of the Manchester House. Entries for F. R. Jackson and Co. 'a sale at Palmerston, on Friday next, appears to-day. Captain Edwin telegrupha tcday — Warnings for hard iralcs and colder weather have been sent to all stations. A settler, Mr Batterby, from Makino, •was sent yesterday to tho hospital m j Wanganui, suffenng from strangulated hernia. Boy—' Mi«ter, do you wanter hire a boy ?' Young doctor (dubiously)— • What can you do P Read, write, cipher P Have a recommendation from your last employer P' * No, sir ; Ut I'm a dread* ful liar, and I know every bill collector in the city.' 'Come around to-morrow morning at 9,' The engineer of the Krwitea Boad Board, Mr 0. Bray, invites tenders for forming and metalling Taonvi Boad; for felling about six miles of road line in the Feildmg Small Farm Block; for forming about ninety chains, and metalling about ten chains of Williamson's Boad. To»days Times says;— A proclamation, published in a special Gazette issued laßt night, further prorogues Parliament from the 16th of the present month — the date fixed by a previous proclamation - to the 16th of February. The prorogation is merely a formal one, as it is not intended that Parliament shall meet then for the despatch of business. An intimation appears in another column from Captain Newbold, CO., that William Bamford, Evangelist, popularly known as "The Great Torpedo," will give addresses at the Salvation Army barracks this evening, and all day to-morrow. On Monday evening he will also preach, when he -will be assisted by Captain Whyte, and Lieutenant Owld, from Palmerßton. Everybody is invited. Our weekly supplement published with to-days issue, contains the following interesting reading matter : — ' Shocking Tragedy in London/ ' Agricultural Implements, 1 'The Mayor of Sydney in Trouble,' ' Catecbißing,' 'A Terrible Story.' ' A Tall yarn/ 'The Office Towel,' &c. A number of advertisements also appear, including a special Saturday announcement from Mr S. J. Thompson, of the " Bed House."