Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 90, 5 February 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Macarthur, M.H.It., will address his Feilding constituents in the Public Hall on Tuesday next at 8 p.m.

The Manchester Road Board met this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue.

On Thursday night some garden thieves stripped the nectarines from the trees in Mr Goodbehere'g garden.

The Feilding Brass Band have now in rehearsal several sacred pieces, among which are selections from Mozart's 12th Mass.

We remind our roadors of tho lecture by Mr Clapcott, Government Life Insurance officer, to be given in the Foresters' Hall, on Wednesday next.

Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co. held a j large sale of drapery to-day at their rooms Kimbolton road.

The British war scare of 1885 cost the British Government £1,117,000 for the hiring of transports which were never used.

The business at the sittings of the E.M. Court, on Wednesday next will be a lengthy one, from the number of small debt cases;

Tenders are invited by Messrs Atkins Clere, architects, for the erection of a house at Beaconsfield. Plans and specifications may be seen at the offices of Mr Edmund Goodbehere. 1

"We direct attention to Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co.'s sale at Feilding on Thursday next. Catalogue, with additions since our last issue, appears on our third page.

The walking match between Clarke and Willis .will take place in the public Hall, Foildmg, on Saturday the 12th inst. For fnrther particulars see advertisement and posters next week.

The Old Soldier's Claims Commission have finished their report, and forwarded it to the Governor. It will be found that very few of the sixteen hundred od^ claims have received favorable consideration.

The members of the Wanganui school committee have resigned in a body con-r sequent upon the action of the Education Board in the Feun flogging case. This sort of thing is very like the action of a few pettish children.

The Minister of Justice intends to arrange if possible to have an early sitting of the Court of Appeal to consider Hall's case, instead of waiting till May. It is understood the Chief Justice is favorable to tins course.

Mr Lundon the collector of customs, Wanganui, paid an unexpected visit yesterday to Mr Scott's brewery, in Warwick street. He found everything in first class order, and expressed himself well satisfied with the manufactures.

The entire horse Somnus arrived at Waitara from Auckland yesterday morning just too late to catch the through; tram. Somnus was visited in Auckland by Yatterina, Fanny Fisher, and several other of Mr Walter's best mares. He had a good season in evory respect.

Mr B. Thompson, the owner of the racehorse Jessie, has sent a letter to the Takapuna Jockey Club (Auckland), claiming the stakes of the Anniversary handicap; also for the amount of two totalisator tickets. This is the outcome of the fracas at the close of the races.

We direct attention to the enlarged advertisement of The Other House which appears to-day on our first page. MiMcLean has succeeded so well in his business that ho will be able for the future to have even better and more reguluar consignments of fresh fruit than he has in the past.

The Borough Council is so delighted with its financial position, which is awing to the rapidity with which the rates have been paid in under the terrors of the R.M. Court, that the process will bo repeated. Eatepayers would do well to take the hint as regards the Laan Rate now due.

A foreign doctor has started a cuiious and not very enticing business. He engages to tell the character of persons by an analytical examination of their old boots ; and ho is stated to bo so very successful that phrenology and chiromancy will shortly be at a complete discount. He calls the now fanglocl scheme Scarpology.

An application was made recently m the District Court before Mr Wuon, in tlie absenoe ot the Judge, upon a petition filed by the Bank of JN'ew Zealand, to abjudicate Francis J. S. Pringle, at present of Feilding, a bankrupt. Mr Barni* cout appeared for the petitioning creditor and Mr Prior for the debtor- An order was made as prayed. — Htrald.

In consequence of the demand which has arisen in England for tinned moats, the Gear Company and Wellington Meat Preserving Company are making arrangement? for largo shipments of their manufactures. Every inch of space on board the Rimutaka which can bo ilovoted to cargo of this kind will bo taken ad-, vantage of.

The Palmerston Times says: — It is stated that an attempt will shortly bo made to produce " Pirates of Ponzanco" in Palmerston. Tho success of Fuilding m " Trial by Juay" and " Patience" has caused a feeling that Palmorston is being left behind in musical matters, and some of our local amateurs aro determined to show their skill.

It is announced that Mr Gladstone and Mr Parnell have agreed to unitedly oppose any scheme of the Agrarian Con« spiracy Coercion Bill to be introduced under a new name that will not apply to the whole tJuited Kingdom, and will be so stringent that Jo«eph « hamberlain's trenchant speeches may bring him under its operation.

The firo which started some few days back in Messrs Bailey's bush, at Taonui, rocoived a great impetus from tho gale blowing on Thursday. It was carried along at a great rate and tho neighborhood was quite illuminated, the sparks igniting stumps far from the actual tiro. We are sorry to hear that a large lot of tramway and fencing has been destroyed, and Mrs Prendergast's house was in great danger, as her property was surrounded by burning timber, happily no damage was done. The fire is still burning.

" Puff" in the Press says :— The lightfingered fraternity are carrying on rather too merrily in Wellington just now : Two or three burglaries and robberies a daj are too much joy ! It's time to give the thing a rest! Wellington will be getting a bad name ! Wellington getting a bad name? Oh, come, that's rather too good ! Wellington can't afford to pile on morality too thick! It is'nt a few speelers or prigs that give a place a bad name! It's the other sort of coveys! Why don't the police look after them? Why don't we hear of "clever captures" and all the rest of it, where the sums amount to thousands and the "parties" implicated are— Hum, — yes- -well, I see what you mean ! But that's the way of the world, dear b >y !

A correspondent of the Poverty Bay Herald writes: — The natives say that when Te Kooti was on his way to Po» rongahau last month, one of the survivors of the massacre here, when Major Biggs and Mr and Mr Wilson were brutally murdered, went out in a train expecting to meet this miscreant, who, if not the actual murderer of those twentythree persons who were horribly killed at M nt» whero, was accessory to the fact. The police heard of the young man (the saryivor nhove»named) being in the tr.iin. Te Kooti, who had just arrived at Waipawa in a buggy, was at ence sent away and planted in an out-of-the«way place, on an island in the riTer in the Waipawa township.

A strong gale of wind from the N.W. accompanied by moderate showers of rain prevailed for some hours to-day.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day ; — Warnings for heavy northerly gales have been sent to all places north of Napier and New Plymouth.

The facilities offered by the Manawatu Eailway Company to reach Wellington at a very moderate outlay are i certainly being taken advantage of by many residents of districts adjacent to the line. As a matter of health the outing is enjoyable through the pleasant railway trip to the Empire City, while as to material and economical advantages ..these only want to be more widely known to be thoroughly appreciated. As the stream of visitors is steadily setting in towards one of the finest and most attractive buildings and businesses in the-City rr viz., the Te Aro Mouse, Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, where the following combination of advantages are offered: Ist. A fine roomy, lofty warehouse, with, abundance of light and all the latest conveniences, so as to- ensure the utmost comfort in buying. 2nd. A magnificent stock of General Drapery and Clothing bought in the best Some markets, directly, from the manufacturers. 3rd. All goods are marked in PLAIN FIGURES, are sold at ACTUAL WHOLESALE PRICES, and any single article can be purchased, and any length cut. 4th. Customers coming from the Country will effect a considerable saving of time and labor by visiting the Refreshment Room on the premises, open daily from 9 am to 6 p m., where tea, coffee, cocoa, and other light refreshment's may be had at exceedingly reasonable charges. Dressmaking and TAILORING, both first class, are other special ad'oantaqes to be obtained only at the Te Aro House, Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Wellington.