The Feilding Star TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1887. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 100, 1 March 1887, Page 2

The Feilding Star TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1887. Local and General News

P. R; Jackson and Co. have an engine and boiler for sale.

Some people mistake bad temper for " sensitiveness."

A bellows and anvil suitable for blacksmith's work is advertised for.

One thousand pounds to lend is advertised by Messrs Prior and Sandilands.

To-morrow the Autumn show of the Manchester Horticultural Society will be held in the Public Hall.

According to the Budget Auckland is a good market for marriageable young Taranaki ladies.

A meeting of the Licensing Committee will be held at the courthouse at noon tomorrow, to elect a chairman for the current year.

Mr Samuel J. Thompson has now removed from Grey street to his new residence in Kimbolton road, next the Red House.

The Bishop of Wellington will probably not officiate in St. John's Church on Sunday next as he has met with an accident in Wellington.

Special attention is directed to the auction advertisements which appear today from Messrs Stevens and Gorton and Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.

Mr Jeffries, of Bunnythorpe, advertises 300 bushels of rye grass seed for sale. We understand the article is well dressed, in good condition, and price reasonable.

Mr Henry requests us to announce teat he has just opened up three cases of saddlery. The second shipment to arrive shortly will be notified in his advertisement.

New advertisements appears to-day from Mr A. D. Willis, stationer, Wanganui, and from George Thomas aad Co , auctioneers and produce merchants, Wellington.

An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Manawatu Co-opera-tive Steam Shipping Company, will be held in Palmerston on Monday, the 7th instant. Killing sheep for boiling down began yester-day at Mr Bell's establishment, Makino. Mr P. R. Linton now advertises cheap legs of mutton at the Kimbolton Butchery. Since he commenced buniness as a tailor in Feilding, Mr Robert Johnston has done remarkably well and to keep pace with the times has now marked his suits at the lowest cash prices. Nominations for the vacancy in the Borough Council made by the resignation of Councillor. Lyne, must be handed to the Returning Officer oa or before noon on Thursday. We learn from the Napier Evening News that three men named Bradbary, J. Ready, and Healey, have had informations laid against them for sly grog selling at the Manawatu Gorge. I It is rumored that another walking match between Willis, of Palmerston, and Clarke, of Feilding, is likely to even- ■ tnate shortly. The contest, we understand, is to take place at the drill 6hed, Wanganui. A public meeting, for the purpose of i forming a Salvage Corps, was called for last evening at the Foresters' Hall. At the appointed time some dozen residents put in an appearance, but the Hall was found to be in darkness, and the convener of the meeting 11 on est, owing probably ' to neglect or a defective memory. It was decided by those present to hold another meeting on Monday evening next at the Foresters' Hall, when it is to be hoped a large attendance will be the result.

Mrs Henry, of Fergusson street, advertises for a nurse girl. Tenders are invited for new buildings, fencing, road work &c, on our third page. A very heavy thunderstorm passed over Feilding just before noon to-day. Some of the peals were very loud. No damage has been reported. The rain fell in torrents. j The Lyttelton Times says that Messrs ; C. Newton and Son have, during the last few days, sold to North Island sheepowners nearly 200 Lincoln rams, twotooth, at an average prioe ot £2 7 s 6d a head. Mr Charles Bray, senior, lett yesterday afternoon for Nelson, to attend the funeral of his mother v who died~u~fe'w days ago. Mr Bray hag the sympathy of every one who knews him. A. severe thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy showers of rain, visited this district on Saturday and Sunday^ last. The whole conntry looks much brighter in consequence, and the bush fires riave. been entirely extinguished. The train service to-morrow for the Palmerston Eaces has been admirably arranged for the convenience of intending excurtionists from Feilding. A special train will leave Feilding at 10.8 a.m., and leave Palmerston to return at 5.30 p.m. A notification appears fr»m Mr A. Eade of importance to persons indebted to the estate of the late Mr J. W. Eade. j Mr A. Eade also advertises that the Furniture and Bedding Warehouse is now open and business will be conducted as heretofore. Two young men of the "hoodlum" class were sent through yesterday morning by train from Palmerston to Wanganui having been committed for trial for robbing a tent on the Manawatu railway line. This is probably quite as mean a crime as orchard robbing, It is a feather m the cap of Mr McDuff our local coach builder, that the hose reel which he made for the Wangamn Brigade's team to take with them to Dunedin, has been adopted as a model by the United Fire Brigade's Association. — Wanganui Chronicle.

The entertainment at Awahuri last night was patronised by a large and fashionable audience. Th« playing and dancing of Mr Munro were much appreciated. Mr Hunt of Awahuri, and Mr F. Keen of Feilding sang three songs each, greatly contributing to the success of the entertainment. At the conclusion of the show, Mr Falloon, of the Bndymion, entertained the performers and visitors at an oyster supper.

" Place a maa in a high position," said Sir IJenry Parkes, » and if he is unfitted for it all that ft does for him is to eXpose to the broad gaze of everybody his deformities and his inequalities." It is quite certain Sir Henry knows nothing about Borough Councillors, or he would not have said that.

At the R.M. Court yesterday John Holmes, a swagsman, was charged before S. Goodbehere and J. 0. Thompson, Esqs. J.Ps., with being drunk and travelling on a railway without a ticket. The latter charge was withdrawn, and for being drunk the prisoner was fined os with the alternative of 24 hours imprisonment. The fine was paid.

We have receiyed from the Government Printer a volume entitled " A hand-book of the fishes of New Zealand," prepared under instructions of the Commissioner of Trad© and Customs, by R. A. A. Sherrin. The book is printed by Messrs Wilson and Horton, of Auckland. It is a most interesting work, and should prove of the greatest value to members of the several Acclimatisation Societies in the colony.

The Clifton Rangitoto Acclimatisation Society has decided to suggest that the season for both native and imported game open on the Ist of April and the license fee for the coming season was fixed at £1, and a member is to be given the privilege of taking out an extra tic* ket for a friend for the sum of 5s issu* able for one week.

The veiled hints it is said which have appeared in the "Daily News" and Vanity Fair" re a coming divorce suit more sensational than even the Camp* bell affair, bore reference not to the Queensbury scandal but to a quarrel between a popular naval hero and his good lady. The lady in the case is another dame of title and fortune.

The Pemberton and Palmerston Small Farm Associations have decided n«t to amalgamate for the purpose of forming a separate road district. The local association will probably attach themselves to the Kiwitea Road Board, in whose district the block is situated. By this means a great deal of the cost of admin - istration will be saved, while the Kiwi tea Read Board will be hedged in with restrictions that will prevent the money from the Pemberton settlement being spent outside the block.

A meeting of the Stewards of the M.R.C. was held on Saturday evening to consider matters connected with the forthcoming meeting. It was resolved to remove the disqualification on H. Cowper, for jostling at a former meeting, and it was also decided to request the wife of the President (Mrs D. H. Macarthur) to present the rider of the winning horse in the Ladies' Bracelet, on behalf of the Club, with a purse of sovereigns at the conclusion of the race. — Manawatu Times.