Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 140, 2 June 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough. Council will meet this evening at the usual hour. The French call New Hebrides " a nest of fever and Methodists." Tho Manawatu County Council met at Sandon to-day ' We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers and Hansard No, 6. The Feildmg Licensing Committee will meet at the Court House to-morrow at noon. Mr Haybittle has just received a well assorted consignment of ironmongery. Particulars in future advertisement. Tracheotomy has been attempted on horses m England to cure them of roaring, and tried with success. A new repeating rifle, the invention of a blind man, has been submitted to the military authorities of London. The next land sale of the Wellington Manawatu Railway Company will be held by Messrs T. K. McDonald & Co on the 24th instant. Mr John Hughes, Mayor of Westport, is a candidate for parliamentary honors. Wo hope he will succeed as he is a thoroughly good man and universally respected. The Emperor of Russia is about to publish a book. Tho dynamiters will now let him alone, and await with patience his death at the hands of the critics. The famous Epps's cocoa still preserves the foremost place among all beverages of the same character. The experience of years in its use has proved that its virtues are infallible. The Governor of Heligoland has ordered the inhabitants to lay in a stock of provisions, as a war might break out at any moment, and communication with the island bo interrupted in consequence. The funeral ef the youngest son of Mr James Hastio, who died on Monday last, took place yesterday. There was a large attendance of friends of the parents of tho deceased, who were conveyed in private carriages, brakes, and on horseback to the cemetery where tho Rev. H. M. Murray rendered tho services of the ■lead. Tho following are the uames of the f^oilding team to play at Foxtou for the '"'up football match on Saturday iu:xt : — !<'ull back : F. Roe ; bait' backs : A. Parr, md lirnugh -ton ; quarter backs: Manning, ■md F. &iy WL'il ; forwards : Gregory (cap,';iin), Fetch, Wilds, Ward, Can-, Evans, •T, Whisker, Kitchen, 0. Bray, and lloeves; f n j •_>?"•?• mi <:-i «s : IVnmo, and Taki. As this is th<j firnt inati-b for the Cup players are rcKjUG.stevl to roll up.

We regret to learn that Mr Hill, our | worthy Town Clerk, is again unuoh.! to attend to liis duties from illness. He is now suffering from measles. A meeting of the Licensing Committee was held at Cheltenham yesterday. A renewal wsis grouted to Air Stewart, of the Cheltenham Hotel, and an Accommodation license issued to Mr Thomas Lowes for a building in the Birmingham Small Farm Block. * Since 1575 the cost to the colony of the Governor's establishment has grown from L9d»l to L 10.4-93 last year; of Ministers, From Ll 1,724 to L 13.036; of the Legislature, from L 31,632 to L 46.572 and of the departments, from L 752,037 to L1,i>74,553 ; making a total increase of the expenses of Government from L 504.794 to L 2,144,654., 144,654. The President of the Berlin police calls attention to the advant»ges accruing to police authorities everywhere by taking profile photographs of criminals which will distinctly show the left ear. He says that while the features of tne face change iv the course of time, the ear retains its shape for ever, and furthermore, there are no two persons tvhose ears are identically formed. Mr Retemeyt;r advertises to-day that ha has now opened his bacon factory on the Kimbolton road, about two miles from the Post Office, Fetlding. As he has taken prizes for his hams aud bacon at Chnstchurch, and all the Produce Shows on this coast, the quality of his produce stands deservedly high on all sides. We are fully assiired that this factory will be a success in the bauds of its energetic proprietor. An extremely painful event has just occurred in St. Petersburg, at a masked ball got up for the bent-fit of an orphan asylum by the Princess M. De Curoussow. In the midst of one of the dances a young lady from Eiew, Mdle. Dayydow, who had recently arrived in the capital, dropped dead in the arms of her partner. The cause of death was paralysis of the heart, due to tight lacing. With a decreasing " Drink Bill, ' and an increasing population ; with an army' numbering a quarter of a million young people, total abstinence; with a yearly decrease in the number of '• old topers,' and a yearly increase of Band of Hope children, the future of the Colony, pres* ents an outlook that is both cheering and hopefnl.— C. M. Gray in the ' New Zealand Methodist. ' We learn from an exchange that the Government have insured to their full value the Telegraph and Post Offices in Christchurch, Auckland, and Dunedin, the risk in each case being divided be* tween the five New Zealand offices, viz, the New Zealand, JNational, Colonial, Standard, and Union. Tue propriety of iasuring all Government buildings in the colony above £5,000 in value is under consideration, and the insurance companies have been invited to make proposals on the subject. We regret to learn that Messrs Baker and Co.'s thoroughbred imported horse Feve died on Tuesday afternoon, at the proprietors' stables, Foxton. Feye was an exceptionally well-bred animal being by the groat St. Leger winner, Lord Clifdeu, out of Haricot. Feve stood the last season iv this district, and it was | the intention of the proprietors, had Feve lived, to have kept eithor him or Somnus in the district next season. They had not quite decided which. The death of the former has, howevor, settled the question for Sonimis to remain in the district. Feve sired a number of good horses, in the Waikato district, notably Victoria, Victory, and Patrician, as well as some of the best hacks in the north. His loss will therefore' be felt not only ! by the proprietors but also by owners of brood mares. The Queen's Jubilee is a subject thati ha 3 been engrossing the minds of British people " the wide world over," and in none more so than in the colony of New Zealand. Various and multiplied are the proposed methods of celebrating the event, but there are none so worthy of consideration or of such practical benefit to tho masses in town and country, as that now commenced at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House. Wellington. Listen to it ! From this date, up to, and inclusive of Saturday, the 25th of June, in addition to selling goods at wholesale prices for retail quantities, we shall present customers with jubilee 'gifts according to the following scale, at Te Aro House. Any one purchasing goods to the value of 10/-, 15/-, 20/, 25/-, 30/-, 35/-, 40/-, 45/, 50/, 55/, 60/, 70/, 80/, 90/, and 100/, will receive gifts worth 1/-, 1/6, 2/-, 2/6, 3/-, 3/6, 4J-, 4/6, 5/-, 5/6, 6/-, 7/-, 8/, 9/, 10/, and in the same proportion up to £50, and £100, at Te Aro House. The gifts comprise a multitude of useful and ornamental articles, specially selected by our buyer in London, and fitted to be a standing memento of the Jubilee year. Orders received by post, if accompanied by cash, will receive the same consideration m this respect as personal presence at Te Aro House. Coustky residents visiting town, are reminded that they can b© proyided with necessary refreshments in our Refreshment Roem which is open evory day, during business hours, at tho Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro T-T n I