Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 104, 10 March 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

•> . . The Industrial Gazette fpr the current i month is to hand. _ . A notice to; timber thieves and trespassers in our Wanted column. Major Gudgeon -was in Feildiug to-day on business, connected with his Department. '..' ... \ i .-., : Nominations for the PeildiDg Easter Races-, must be sent in by Monday next, at 8.30 p.m; We learn from the Manawatu .Times that the " fatal accident" reported from the Gorge was a hoax. . ' c The Equitable Insurance Company has settled the claim |of Mr Pollock in c©n» nexion with the recent fire. The Premier, Sir Robert Stout, will address a public meeting in Marton tomorrow night. The Feilding boys are going to start Football practice orf Saturday next. It is expected the men will follow this good example at the end. of the month. It is rhmoured in town that MrM. Keen, spotted the winner in the Wanaanui Derby, and potted a good dividend. There's nothing like leather for luck. Captain White, of Auckland, secured the Rifle Championship with a score of 475, and Gunner McCorkingdale, of Oamaru, tne Carbine Championship with 478. • A meeting of the Sandon Licensing Committee was held yesterday and a transfer of the license of the Endymion Hotel, Awahuri, was granted from Mr H. McLeneghan to Mr A. Falloon. Mr Arnott has been lucky again. His pure-bred shorthorn cow, Lady Dalamont has dropped a bull calf to Diuder, purebred Shorthorn. The youngster will be called Dinder No. 2. A Feilding man was insulted the other day because he was told a certain document was non est inventus. He said he was unaccustomed to haye bad language used m his presence and left in a huff. This is quite a new line m expletives. The Revd. H. Clarke, of the Primitive Methodist Church here, will proceed to England as soon as another clergyman arrives to relieve him of his Feilding. charge. It is the intention of Mr Clarke to attend Mr Spurgeon's College for a few years. We received yesterday a letter posted in Foxton on the Bth inst. It bears the following date stamps— R.P.O. (1) Marton, Palmerston, 3,P.p.£2)» and Feilding, all of the 9th inst., so the letter has had a good fly round and a deal of punching in its time. The second instalment of the Loan Rate, for the current financial year of the Borough, is now over due. Burgesses failing to pay this before Slst March will be put on the Defaulters List, and excluded from the BurgSss Roll then to be made out. The amounts outstanding will be sued for without further delay. The Mayor of Christchurch, Mr A Ayers, instead of spending money in opening the new municipal offices in that city, bas decided to lay out the cost of entertaining a favored few at the opening ceremony, in the purchase of fifty tons of coals to Rive to poor people during the coming winter. A miner named Allen Ross was found dead in a claim at Blue Spar (near Hokitika) on Saturday afternoon. Deceased was working by himself, and was last seen alive on Friday evening, when a man named Bowden spoke to him. He was found next morning covered with earth, up -'to the hips, dead. Deceased had been at Blue Spur for the last 17 or 18 years. An opinion has been expressed that it is a mistake for a tradesman to sue his long winded customers as it interferes with business. This idea is quite erroneous, because it stands to reason that the custom of people who do not pay until they are compelled to do so, is not worth having. As aa-ule they apend their ready money for luxuries, and get in debt for the necessaries of life. They are frauds. The following incidents of the recent great fire in Wellington are extracted from the Post of March sth : — When the fire had made some progress in Thomp--son, Shannon & Co.'s premises, a rumor got abroad that there was still a man in the top floor of the building. Mr Shannon at once rushed up stairs, though they were burning near the upper landing, and ran right across the warehouse to satisfy himself that nobody was there. He returnd to the first floor just in time to meet the policeman who was making the final round to clear out the men who were saving property. — It has been asserted that a large number of employes of the firm of Messrs JThompson and Shannon will| be losers by the fire by being thrown out of employment. It is true that about 180 persons are temporarily unemployed owing to the destruction of the firm's promises, but they will be gainers rather than losers, for Messrs Thompson and Shannon have, with great liberality, informed every man and woman in their employ that the whole of them will receive pay equal to their qiv dinary earnings until the business is again J resumed, (We understand the hrm hap now recommenced business.)

i It is highly probable that the famous : glass blowers will give an exhibition of their ekill in Feilding m the course of a few days. The railway line Napier to Woodville, will Le opened on Tuesday, the 22nd i inst. High jinks at WoodviUe on that day. I The pair of spurs wore by Fred, Archer •. when he rode Ormonde in his lastdrace at Newmarket, together with the saddle used on that occasion, have been sent to •■' (he Prince of Wales by the executors, in compliance vrith a wish expressed by his Eoyal Highness to have them ih his pos* session. | In the Wellington RM. Court, Mr H. S. Wardell refused to allow a plaintiff interest in a long-running account. .He remarked (as. he had done on other occa-sionsj-fch^ihterest could not be charged . on accounts as a matter of course, unloss j the defendant had agreed to pay it. yThe ; plaintiff inquired when, according fo his ' Worship's ruling, interest - could be , charged on accounts, to which Mr Wardell .replied that it could be claimed only when notice had been giren defendant in "writing that the charge would be made. The plaintiff pointed out' that notice was printed on the aoconnts. His Worship -said that was not sufficient, as the defen- j daiit 'might' not always get' the account | with 'the goods. The ; item .was. therefore -j ; struck out -T- Press. . ; .., -, y.---. x •■ ••,. The New. Zealand Times says :*-*Thos» who are fond of railing. at the, Colony; | and declaring that it is rapidly drifting to utter shipwreck, and that farming operations at present prices .would pay ho- man, should have been' -present 'at Messrs T. Kennedy Macddhald : *nd -.Go's great sale of the Company's lands yesterday. They would then have seen some three* or four hundred yeomen — men of much intelligences-bidding! keenly and sensibly for the sections of land as they were put up, and when men like these are found investing to the tune of over j £17;000 on a summer afternoon in unimproved country lands, it is a' piktty fair proof of the true soundness^ theCbldny and the genuine .belief *©f jts; workers, jn the profitable character of the lands they are occupying. :, The facilities offered by the Manawatu Hallway Company to : reach ! Wellington at'a very* moderate outlay are. certainly, being taken advantage of by many residents of districts adjacent to -the^ line.Asa matter, of health; the outing is.^enjoyable through the pleasant railway trip j to the Empire Oity, 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 Home, Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, where the following combination of advantages are offered : Ist. A fine roomy, lofty, warehouse, with abundance of light ahd 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 Home markets, directly from the manufacturei's. 3rd. All goods are marked in plain figures, are sold at actual wholesale pbioes, 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 sliht refreshments may be had at exceedingly reasonable charges. Dressmaking and Tailoring, both first class, are other special advantages to be obtained only at the Te Aro liousE, Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse. Wellington.