Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 74, 23 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The Insurance Offices lose £16,150 by the Napier fire. Sir Julius Yogel is at present in Auckland. The wreck of the Tin has boon abandoned. A steam laundry is to be started in Wellington. "We are pleased to know Major Atkinson is now quite restored to health. Mr Marchant, Chief-Surveyor was in Feilding yesterday Mr Wm. Baker has laid poison on his section No. 27, Bunnythorpe. The population of this colony was 617,054 in 1885, according to the Begis-trar-General. Advertisers will please note the Star will not be published on Saturday, Christmas Day. A Gisborne boy — says the Napier News — was killed last week by eating green gooseberries. Boys convicted m Auckland of orchard robbing are now punished with the birch, well laid on. We have to acknowledge receipt of Press complimentary tickets for the Concert of " Trial by Jury" on Monday night. We understand that Mr Glover, the Temperance lecturer, will probably visit Feilding about the 19th or 20th of January next. Mr Morey is still carrying on his cheap sale in Fergusson street, and publishes his price list as an inset to-day. Yesterday morning, Mr Goodbehere, Mayor of Feildmg, was sworn in by Mr Ward, R.M., as a Justice of the Peace. Mr Alex Munro, of Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, has just received his new shipment of this season's Indiau Teas. Detectiye Benjamin was in Feildiug last Tuesday and Wednesday, making inquiries into the origin of the fire in Warwick street Our readers are reminded of the concert to be held in the Public Hall on Boxing Night, when the favorite operetta " Trial by Jury" will bo giyen. Tenders are invited by Mr Eliot Warburton, solicitor, Palmerston North, for leasing the farm of Mr Peter Manson, deceased. The farm comprises 120 acres close to the Terrace End station. We are glad to notice that an opportunity is now offered to those persons who wish to acquire family burial grounds in the Feilding Comotory. The objectionable custom hitherto followed of selecting burial .sites without reference to regularity, position or aspect will no longer obtain. The Town Clerk notifies in another column that a plan of the cemetary may be inspected at his office. Yesterday a defendant in a judgment summons cane was asked by Mr Prior, " Have you any family ?" he repliod " Bather'!" The R.AC. Mr Ward, politely asked him how many children " rather" represented. The reply was " six". This sets a much vaxed etymological question at rest,

Mr C. Brown has a notice in our wanted column. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — i Barometer further rise slowly every* where. We understand tlie Feilding Brass Band has been engaged to play at the | Awahuri Races en Tuesday. Mr W. Carthew announces that he has a number of Wellington almanacs for < sale. j I Our weekly supplement, containing a quantity of reading matter and advertisements, is published with to-day's issue. I Mr Daw's brake is advertised to leave I his stables to-morrow at 9.30 a.m. for the Cheltenham races. 4. brake will also convey passengers to tiie Awahuri races on Tuesday, leaving the stables at 10 a.m. Enquiries hare been made as to the reason why the school (acting) fire bell was not rung on the occasion of the recent fire in Warwick street. Probably the subject will be discussed at the Council to-night. Our collector will pay a few visits tomorrow. We hope those concerned will have their several amounts propared for him. At this season of the year overdue subscriptions should be promptly paid. Mr Carthew has opened up his last shipment of new prize books, and periodicals. Works of fiction, by the most popular authors in their most elegant editions, are now crowding the shelves. The show of toys is something to be seen to be appreciated. The Eey. J. H. Bateman, yicar of Haile, Cumberland, was convicted at Carlisle Assizes of felonously solemnizing a marriage of a youth under age and without license or previous publication. The sentence was eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour. We publish to-day the catalogue of Stevens and Gorton's next Feilding sale which will be held on Thursday the 30th inst. There are 10 beef, 15 fat cows, 90 steers and heifers, 18 mixed cattlo, and 620 sheep — fat and stores. Further entries will appear on Tuesday next. The earning power of the Australian community is greater than that of any other population in the world. Accord* ing to Mr G. Mullhall, F.S.S., the annual earnings per head in Australia are over £43, as against £35 in the United Kingdom, £27 in the United States, L2b* in Canada and Holland, and L 25 m France. We are glad to see that Mr Price, who has been for some time in the Waugauui Hospital, has returned to Feilding, almost entirely restored to his wonted vigor. Mr Price has retired from the AX 1 . Force with compensation allowance, and will now settle in Feilding where he holds a considerable amount of property in huusus | and laud. . Mr Kirk's New Zealand Forest Flora is ready for the press, and will shortly l)f put in hand by the Goternment Printing Office. The lithograph plates will be done under the Direction «»f ihe > Survey Department. It is intended tv ' run into six or .seven parts, nisd the cost • to the Government will exceed Ll,<H)O. > The Borough rates have been coining ; in very freely siuce the last meeting of ! the Council. All of thu defaulters who . were summoned to the it.M. Court, paiJ , the several amounts due before their cases were called. It would be au excellent ') plan for the council to keep up the system of summoning for overdue rates. it; • would save the borough about £'60 a year 1 m bank interest. " A Wellington telegram the other day L mentioned that the officers of Naval Brigades had waited on Air Uallance with the request that captains of long standing should bo eligible for a higher title. Mr Ballanoe is said to have promised that the brevet rank of Lieutenant- Colonel may be conferred. This is good. In the "Queen's T navee," a man may rise to the rank of commodore or admiral, but in his wildest . dreams of ambition no naval officer ever hoped to be a colonel. That is reserved for the marines. A lively young gentlemen (says the Wan^auui Herald) supposed to be souie--1 thing in the way ot au organ grinder- no tuner — whom a leading firm of muxio i sailers are now advertising as not being connected with them, cleared out sudx denly last week. It appears that he went to a boarding house und made himself comfortable, explaining that his 3 luggage was coming by rail in a few days. The luggage on the day appointed 3 did not turn up— in fact it had gone on - to Feilding— but the lodger brought home an important looking parcel. Since then he has gone — but forgotten to pay | his landlady — and the parcel has been opened only to disclose the fact that it contained nothing but very badly burnt goods from Bell's sale evidently picked ' up for next to nothing, and carried home as a blind to the landlady. May this I gentleman soon find secure quarters at , his country's expense! (This " lively young gentleman" was not " unknown to I fame" in Feilding where " Moore's , Melodies" have to often been heard r especially from boarding house keepers, who u«ed to say to him " Fly not yet" — but he flew for all Miat, | v In the stilly ' night ere golden ,chains had bouud " him."