Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 72, 18 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

— ♦ There will be mass at St. Bridget's Church to-morrow (Sunday) at 8 a.m. The bad weather we have experienced lately has apparently extinguished our local cricket club. Mails are made up and despatched for Wanganui daily at 7 a.m., 11.30 a.m. and 4.45 p.m. The Kiwitea Road Board met this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. Mr G. W. Fowles has just imported a new timekeeper called "the handloss watch." It is a marvel of ingenuity. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Charles Patterson will be held in the Court House, Feilding, on Tuesday the 2lßt inst. In connection with the proposed bridge oyer the Oroua, we may state that it will be free of all tolls or charges of any kind, foot passengers, yehicless, and stock of all kinds.

Mr G. P. Church's new advertisement j reached us too late for publication to-day. Mr Oarthew has just opened up a lot of new books and periodicals. The sheep districts of New Plymouth. j Wanganui and Runsiitikei have been amalgamated into ono, to be called the West Coast sheep district. A number of the Manchester Rifles paraded this morning for judging distance drill under Sergent-Major Henry. An advertisement appears to-day from Mr Bush, of Wanganui, relative to a sale of bankrupt stock now going on iv Fergusson street in a shop near Stevens and Gorton's, The Cash Exchange is to the front with some splendid lines of seasonable clothing, including ladies silk jackets, &c, but Mr Train has no Cheap John stuff, nothing but genuine goods of the best quality and make. To-day Mr Donkin publishes an advertisement showing the new and fashionable stock he has to offer for Christmas. His numerous friends and clients will find a variety to choose from, seldom equalled in Feilding. One of the largest firms in the United States is busily engaged in carrying out a large contract for the military authorities at St. Petersburg for metal sheeting, the cost of which will amount to nearly £1,000,000. A divorce case, the parties to which are well known in Chnstchurch, will be heard in Dunedin next month. The petitioner is a musical conductor, and the respondent a well-known sporting medico who hails from Ashburton. We are glad to learn that Mr Blackmore, although confined to his room, is making steady progress towards recovery. He expects to be about again in a few weeks. He has suffered a great deal of pain, but has been much easier lately. The Gazette contains the notification ot the appointment of 36 Mayors of Boroughs as Justices of the Peace under the Municipal Corporations Act. Amon<( them are the Mnyors of Wellington, Wanganui. Marton, Feilding, Palmerston North, and Masterton. In the Divorce Court at Invercargill, on Thursday last, a decree nisi was granted in the case of Sheridan v. Sheridan and Johnston, a husband's petition for divorce on the ground of adultery. The co-respondent is a youth of 17. No costs were asked for against him. Mr Gladstone has made the following reply to a letter fi-orn a prominent Liberal who proposed the presentation to him of a national testimonial : — " 1 do not desire, iind should resrr«>t a presentation of any national testimonial, even if the desire sprang from a feeling widely spread, which feeling I do not think exists." On Thursday afternoon when a man employed by Mr Jennins, of Cloverdean, was driving a trap along the Awahuri road, a boy rushed out of the flax and startled the horse which shied and upset the vehicle smashing it considerably. As the driyer had been " looking at the wine which is red" he was only slightly hurt^ Leoni Levi says : — " lam persuaded, however, that the exercise of energy in work depends in a great measure on the possession of strength and health; for it is impossible to work well unless we are in health and comfort. The body must be in full vigor, the vital energies must be elastic and fresh, the mental faculties must be quick and active, ere we can give ourselves to patient and persevering labor." An instance o£ an honorable mind came under our notice yesterday. A gentleman whose name appears on the ratepayers roll, but who had parted with the property which qualified him to vote, was invited to atteud at the .polling booth to record his vote in favor of the £1000 loan. He declined to do so until the purchaser gave his consent, which we need hardly say was readily granted, as he would not wittingly vote for an increase in taxation, which he would not himself haye to pay. Very few men would have shown so much consideration. Mr Bauckham, a brother-in-law of the late Mr Battersby who died a few days ago in the Wanganui Hospital, desires us to make public his high appreciation of the kindness and attention his late relative received at the hands of the Hospital surgeons and attendants during the illness which proceeded his death. Mr Bauckham informs us that Mr Battersby, before his death, expressed his thankfulness and gratitude for the services rendered him, as well as his conviction that all had been done in his case which could be expected of human skill. A writer in the Temuka Leader says it is stated, on very good authority, that since Hall's conviction he has written a letter to his wife asking her to remain faithful to him, and not to seek for a divorce, as he expects to be released from gaol in two or three years. He says that his uncle is bound to get into power very shortly, and that then he will set him free again. When free he will have no means of subsistence, unless his wife will remain faithful to him, and support him out of her income. On these grounds he asks her not to seek a divorce, but to remain faithful until he returns to her. The following items are from the Wanganui Herald : — We learn that the Hon. J. Bryce will address his constituents towards the end of next month. Mr Bryce has not exactly decided whether he will speak first in Wayerly or in Wanganui. — Finding that the demand made on his health by the amount of work he has to got through is very great, the Rev. Father Kirk has secured the services of a curate. The Rev. Father Prendergast is the name of the gentleman at present holding the position. — A strong 1 movement is on foot to have Monday the 3rd January proclaimed a general holiday, so that employees and others can have three dear days holiday. — A man named McSweeney was killed on the road between Bulls and Turakina on Wednesday by the capsizing of a dray. — Mr Battersbie, of Makino, who was sent to the Wanganui Hospital suffering from strangulated hernia, has since died. " Well, 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 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, I shall cortainly try them, and I shall muko it my business to : tell all my Friends to go strait to the ; Wholesale Drapory, Clothing, and Grocery Company's Store, Manchester Street. Foilding, E. J. Cottrell, Manager." N.B, No one is pressed to buy, and Goods are delivered all over the District daily. — Advt.

Mr W. E. Waters, of Wellington, morchout, has filed his schedule. We publish wilh to-day's issue an " inset" from MY C Brown, of Manchester House, announcing a number of startling bargains for the Christmas season. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Telegrams to expect strong southerly winds have been sent to all places on the coast. Owing to pressure of new advertisements a quantity of reading matter, d|nsistmg of correspondence, and reports, . is unavoidably crowded outThe death of Mr J. L. Coster, M.H.8., is announced. The deceased gentleman •was one of the founders of the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company andthe'New Zealand Shipping Company. An alteration has been made in the arrangement of the Feilding Sports programme to the following effect, but which refers to walking events only, No 20, one mile "walking, will be contested in place of No 7, two miles walking, and No 7 will take the place of No 20. The handicaps of the latter will be declared on the ground. Our weekly supplement to-day ,con« tains a quintitv of interesting reading matter. A number of advertisements also Appear, including a sensational advertisement for the Christmas season, from Mr S. J. Thompson, of the '* Bed House." The Hon. Mr Bichardson will pass down the line on Thursday. It is probable a deputation from the Borough Council will wait on him with reference to the present timetable, and other lotfal matters which the member for Manawatu, Mr Macarthur, has already been pressing on his attention. j Apart from the genexalbenefit of the Oro- I ua bridge to business people, it must be remembered that much danger . to human life will thereby be averted. Should any person be drowned at the ford within the next few years those who voted against the proposal will be individually responsible for the death.