The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1887. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 103, 8 March 1887, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1887. Local and General News

♦ . ; The Wanganui Races are being held to-day and will be continued to-morrow. Mr John Duthie has been elected President of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. We understand that tenders will shortly be called for the erection of the manse in connection with the Feilding Presbyterian Church. . At the third day's races of the Victorian Jockey Club, on Saturday last. Nelson won the All-aged stakes, distance 1 mile time 1 mm. 42f sec. The prize donations at the Public Hall the other night will do more to ensure good attendance at the State School than two truant inspectors. Among the prospectus of new cottH pauies in London a very strange one ha» ( appeared. It is the Sea of Galilee Pish" ing Company, with a capital of £10.00. A number of residents left this district for Wellington to be present at the hind sale to-day at the auction rooms of Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co. #c regret to notice that Mr F. E. Linton is so much indisposed that he has been compelled to give up business for a time and seek repose at his father's place atHalcombe, ."','' The Mttnawatii. Times learns that two more members of the Palmerston Borough Council intend r&ighing. Five seat* in the Palmerston Borough Council are going a-begging! ' The Thames (London) has told its *ha»tly tale for tb* year. A» many an 75 Indies hare been picked out of the river, of which 82 tfpuid not be accounted for with regard to the iMWsea^f deaih. whether by suicide er otherwise, and 7 were unknown. The School Committee, at Taonui, should get the Education Board, in Wanganui, to have some necessary repairs done to the roof of th^ schoolhouse before the winter months arrive. The wind has loosened the ridging and another gale will blow it away altogether. The Auckland Weekly News says:— A report from Wellington has it that the reason why Sir E. ißtout did not go to England, was, not from any pressure of political business, but because he was afraid to face the unfortunate shareholders of the New Zealand Agricultural Company. The entries for Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co.'s stock sale at Feildiug on Friday next, are very numerous and the sale pruinitfes to be one of the largest and best held here for some time. This firm will hold a sale of otock at Johnsonville tomorrow when Mr Sherwill will wield the hammer. We learn that a fatal accident occurred at the (Jorge railway works at the Gorge on Saturday by the rolling of a log down the incline. A man whose name we hare been unable to ascertain was working below, and the lop fell on him crushing him severely. He died shortly after the accident from the effects received.— Times. A Press Association telegram from Marlon states :— A fire destroyed William Smith's music store and billiard room. The premises were insured with the British £150. The billiard table and musical instruments are supposed to be insured elsewhere. Everything was destroyed, and the origin of the fire is un> j known. An inquest hat been suggested. Dunng the fine moonlight nights which we will be having during the current week, the Salvage Corps ought to get out for drill and practice. Unless they do something of the kind their services, when needed, will not be of much avail One hour every evening for a week or ten days would not be too great a task for the members. We understand, the stewards of the Feilding Jockey Club'-iwilj. alter the present site of the refreshment bboth^jOn the course in order to bring them within the limits of the Borough. The reason for this is that the Licensing Committee of Sandon, in which district part of the course lies, have made no secret of their intention to refuse any application for a I t uit to sell intoxicating drinks on the sail c< ur c. The shareholders ef the Manawatu S.S. Company met at Palmerston yesterday, and passed a resolution authorising the Directors of the Company to sell the steamer Jane Douglas. It was mentioned by the Chairman, Mr Linton, that this would not have been necessary had the shareholders given the Company the whole of their freight m place of supporting a rival steamer. As showing bow rapidly the cr»ps hare been gathered in this harvest (says the Christchurch Press) it may be men* tioned that Messrs Gould and Cameron. Methven, reaped and stacked 4000 acres of splendid grain iv three weeks and two days. Two paddocks of nearly 100TJ acres are expected to thread 60 bushels per acre while the remnindor is expected to yield about 40 bushels. Writing on the Tongan massacre the Auckland Bell says: — This not the fault •>f religion nor to its shame. But on human nature- when it does not wholly ■•therealis<» and sublime — religiousness -ecms to have the effect of turning milk of liurann kindness into curds. mil makes the ministers of religion craphie of doing the most fiendish things. We do not hesitate to say that the cruel, pit ileus conduct of the Sydney conterenrc o Tonua is enough to m.tke the eunte »f i-ieaven rest on the Austrnliiiu Wesleyan Church until this great wrong has been repaired.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day ; — Telegrams to expect a cold night hare been sent to all places. A woman in Bridgeport, Conn., while cutting bread, brought to sight front the middle of a loaf a set of teeth. A large number of persons went up to Wanganui last night by train. I here j wore ab->ut fifty through passages from Wellington. j | The Equitable Insurance Company's j receipts fur the year amount to £60.244, and the expenditure to £57.522. inclu* ding, £'467 written off and £2721 carried forward. In Mr Bindon's annual report on the schools he says : "At ene school, upon asking who was the Governor of the colony, I was gravely informed 'yourself,' while at many of the school's some boys pinned their faith to Sir Julius Yogel, and others had a weakness for Major Atkinson." The hearing of the charge of embezzlement against W. R. Waters was con* eluded at Wellington on Saturday, ac» cused being committed for trial. Bail was allowed, one surety for £200 and his own recognisances for £200. We gather from an American exchange that in some of the great sawmill estab* ! ments of the Western States circular saws | of b* feet diameter are run at about 750 revolutions per minute, though some have been drives at a speed of 880 revolutions. When working at 750 revolutions the teeth of the saw will travel through nearly three miles in a minute. When the coacb was coming through from Woodville yesterday, the passengers were shocked at seeing a woman lying on the roadside, in dangerous proximity to the edge overhanging the river, in a disgusting state of intoxication, her apparel being so disordered as to leave her aU most nude. It was time sljr grog selling was stopped. The Hon. Mai or Richmond C.8., died at Nelson, on Saturday, in his 86th year, after a long lingering illness. He was the oldest member of the Legislative Council, sod took a prominent part in the administration of tbe Government in the Cook Straits settlement. After the Wairau massacre, he resided in Nelson for over forty yew, and was Superintendent prior to the Constitution. The following cablegram from Melbourne appears in the Hobart M-ercury' : — " A well-known farmer at SHeppartop, named Culleton has been killed by his, son. They had a quarrel, and deceased threw an axe at his' son, and the latter retaliated by throwing a piffee of Quartering, which struck his father behind the ear killing him on the spot. The bonuses on Government Life Insurance 'Policies will Be declared shortly after the-' arrival of the next San FranCisco mail, due in Wellingtou to«morrow or next day. We are aware thnt alt the necessary forms have been filled up ready to be posted, to policy holders as soon as necessary confortnatory docu* rmmts have been received by the 'Depart* ment from the actuaries at Home. An accident occurred yesterday to Mr Thomas Smith, contractor. He was driving a dray ou tho Makino Road, to which was attached at the back a horse being led. On passing Mr Adam's where it had been accustomed to be driven, the led horse pulled over the dray which fell on Mr Smith, and inflicted a severe wound an his forehead, rendering him insensible. He was brought to town, and now lies at hia'own house. -' A movement to place a medallion of Sir Walter Scott in Poet's Corner has broken down in London through the cupidity of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster who actually demanded £200 for fee* before the medallion can be put up. It is said by some Americans and Colonists thnt it is always safe to " tip" a man in England no matter whnt his position is, and this beam them out. The only exception is said to be Mr Gladstone who is in a poor circumstances in consequence. A reverend gentleman in Aberdeen* shire having been summoned before the Presbytery for tippling, one of his elders, the constant participator of hisorgie*, was suinnioaed to appear as a witness against him. Weel, John." said a member of the reverend court, "did you ever see the accused the w>rse of drink?" " Wrel, I wat, no," answered John; "I've mony a time seen him the hotter o't, but never seen him the waur o't."' " But did yon ever . see him drunk P" «' That's what I'll- never see," replied the elder, " for lang before lie's half-sttokenud, I'm a blind tou.' A printed copy of the report presented at last meetingM>f shirehofderjfin the N. Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company i« now to hand. The net profit for last year inclusive or £14,965 brought forward from proceeding year, was £57,889, 12s 6d A dividend at a rate of 10 per cant per annum wus declared, with a bonua of 5 per ceut, and the reserve fund was raised to £270,000. A list of the New Zealand Wool Importers 1886 iias also been handed to us. From this we observe that the New Zealand Loan and Mercaatile Agency Company heads the list with 61.866 bales, the next on the jJist being Messrs Sanderson. Murray and ifco., with 23,680— 0n1y about one- third %f the quantity imported by the Company, the magnitude of whose operations is fercibly illustrated by this. Of the quantity mentioned 27,000 bales were from Australia. The facilities offered by the Manawatu Railway Company to reach Wellington at a very moderate outlay are certainly being taken advantage of by many residents of districts adjacent to the line* As a matter of health the outiug 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, viz., the Te Aro House, 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 ilo<>k of General Drapery and Clothing bought in the best Home 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 purrhased, and any length cut. 4th. Customers coiuingfrom the Country will effect a consiaerabU saving of time and labor by visiting th Refreshment Room on the premises, opa daily from 9 am to 6 p m., where tea. coffee, cocoa, and other sliht refreshment n may be had at exceedingly reasonabU charges. Dressmaking and Tailoring, , both first class, are other special advant | ages to be obtained only at the Te Aro I House, Wholesale Family Draper? I Warehouse, Wellington.