The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1887. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 42, 27 September 1887, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1887. Local and General News

It was rumoured in town this morning the return of Mr Ballance for Wanganui will be petitioned against.

A meeting of members of the Mangaone Cricket Club, will be held at the schoolroom on Friday next at 7.30 p.m.

One pound reward will be paid for the detection: and -conviction of the persons who broke the windows in St. Bridget's chapel, somo time next week.

The official declaration of the poll of the electoral district of Manawatu will be made by the Betuming Officer at Palmerston on Thursday, the 29th instant.

We have been requested to state that Mr Flyger has opened up his second consignment of goods specially selected for Feilding and its suburbs. They consist of many novelties in drapery, fancy goods, &c. The prices are such as to defy competition. A new advertisement will appear in our next issue.

An exchange says there are 1500 churches and other buildings used for public worship in the colony, there being sitting accommodation for 256.153 pert sons. It is estimated that 164,033 attend services. 963 put buttons, 114,116 threepenny bits, 41,719 pennys, and the balance look at their books, And yet this is a Christian land.

The new Tay Bridge, which has just been completed, is a much more sol idlooking structure than the first, which collapsed so tragically on the night of Sunday, the 28th December, 1879. The cost of the new bridge, which supports a double line of rails, has been about £750,000 against ,£350,000 expended on the old one, which only carried a single rail.

When a party of worshippers, who had been attending mass at St. Bridget's on Sunday, were returning home in a light dray, smoke was seen to arise from it by some passers by. On the alarm being given, the occupants scrambled out, and a few buckets of water extinguished the fire. Several of the ladies dresses were burned at the skirts, and a few sacks injured but no further damage was done,

Edward Trickett has announced that he will challenge Edward Hanlan upon the arrival of the. latter in Sydney to row at any time a three or five miles straightaway race for £500 aside on the Fitzroy Biver, Bockhampton. Trickett is said to be in excellent health, though considerably above his rowing weight, and his many friends will be glad to learn that he has greatly prospered in business since taking up his residence in Bockhampton.

The funeral of the late wife of Mr H. Adsett, junr., eldest son of Mr H. Adsett of the Manchester Mills, took place on Sunday last, it being the largest private funeral that has ever taken place in this district. The cortege included a large number of vehicles of every description, and about 170 horsemen. Mr Henry Curran officiated at the grave, assisted by Capt. Needham, of; the Salvation Army. The proceedings were very effective, and general sympathy was expressed on all sides with tlie relatives and friends of the deceased.

On the subject of dehorning cattle, a writer in the Kural New Yorker says : — " I have a small herd of dehorned Jerseys. They are all pedigreo stock, not like the ' hornless' Jerseys produced by breeding Aberdeen-Angus bulls to Jersey cows. The horns were removed from the calves when they were from four to eight weeks old, by cutting around them, and. then lifting them from the skull. I do not see that the operation is as pain* ful as castration. There is little bleed* ing-:' all know how loose the horns of a calf are. There have been only good results from this practice. The. cattle are far more gentle. But ene horned animal can drink at a tub at once. With out horns they will fill the tub with their heads, and drink without fear. The cattle herd together better and they will not use so much feed, for they take it peacefully, and do not have to pull hay out and trample it under foot. I can safely say that dehorning pays me well."

The New York correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald states that a little eleven-year-old girl had been " murdered," under very unusual circumstances, by a bane of vicious canine brutes. Her death was for an entire fortnight the theme of newspaper speculation, but the mystery is now pretty well solved. She was found dead in a marsh on the outskirts of the city, stripped of some of her clothing, and in her stockings. She had been attending a Sunday-school picnic at Fort George, but strayed somewhat away from the mam body of the picnickers, nnd when last seen wa* on a rond leading past a house where a German kept nine dogs of a peculiarly savage kind. It is now certain that the brutes were loose, that they chased her into the salt ranrsh. that they tore her clothes and bit her as she ran, that she lost her shoes and some of her clothing as she struggled through the mud, and thai; at last she fell into the foul ooze, haW slime and half water, and was clioked to death.

Mr Greenwood, dentist, will visit Feilding to-morrow, and may be consulted at the Denbigh Hotel.

A new shipment of Spring Goods has just been opened to*day by MrC. Brown All the latest novelties. New advertisement in our next issue.

Jasmin (who had just broken a valuable jug while dusting the parlour) — " What a good job there was nothing inside !" ".

Some one describes a man as being " as sociable as a candidate two weeks before the election."

A Wellington man say he only backed one horse in his life, and that was into a shop window on Lamb ton Quay. — We manage these things better in Feildiag.

Messrs Stratford and Betfc inform us that, they will open the Feilding branch of their cnach faotory about the first of next month, with a full display of vehicles of all kinds. ..

An Englishman shooting small game in Germany, and talking with his host about America, remarked that there was a spice of danger in American, sport. "Ah, said the host," "you like danger mit your sport P Den you go out shooting mit me. De last time T shoot mine bruder-in-law in da shtomack."

The coming novelty in the cycling world (says a Home paper) is a combination machine which by the simplest action, is instantly conrertible from a tricycle into a bicycle. By means of this invention the front wheels are removable at pleasure and can thus be passed through even a narrow doorway ; and at very little extra cost an extra wheel is supplied which where joined to the back one, converts the machine into a safety bicjrcle.

Last Bight an entirely unprovoked attack was made on the Salvation Army by a lot of young men who should have known better. Rotten eggs, mud and other missiles were thrown at the procession when going up Manchester street and after arrival at the Barracks. As some allowance will be made for the ex* citement of election time, no proceedings will be taken against the offenders who, after all, only expendod ammunition in« tended for electoral uses.

A young man who had contracted the very common but disagreeable habit of using jam and plastering: adverbs became the husband of a somewhat determined lady, who made up her mind to cure him of the habit, at least in her presence, and had tried almost every conceivable effort without avail, until finally she decided to try the homcepathic motto similis ismilf bus curantur. He came home the other evening and remarked "It's been a h — ll of a day hasn't it?" "What in h— ll has been the matter with it," asked his wife coolly. The husband looked as if he had been, struck by a cyclone. It took just two days to break that man of the, habit, for his wife repeated with emphasis every naughty swear word he used in her presence and now when he misses a nail and hits his thumb with the hammer, he merely ejaculates some endearing remarks, and gets his wife to kiss the injured thumb. " Such is a thy power, O Love."

Said one man to another (or if he did not say it, he meant it, which cbines to the same thing) " Did yoii ever see anything more ridiculously cheap than those tweed suits at 16s 6d, 18s Gd, and 20s now going oil at Te Aro House, Wellington?"

Did you ever see anything like the bargains in p°c and Pagit coats for 7s 6d and 10s 6d, each. It tempts one to buy whether you want it or not. Fancy ; too, a choice of good, durable tweed trousers from 3s 6d to 6s 6d, and your pick of weed trousers and vests from 6s 6d, to 10s 6d at Te Aio House, Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Wellington. As for pilot and Tweed overcoats, where can you see anything to equal them at 12s 6d, 15s, 17s 6d and 20s each? No wonder such a roaring trade is now being done in the Clothing Department at Te Aro House, Wellington. Have you seen the strong Harvard shirts and the durable Crimean shirts for one shilling each, the white dress shirts at half-a-crovm each, the flannel undershirts at 2s lid each, the strong military socks at 8d per pair. All these and a number of other articles equally cheap now selling rapidly at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.

If you have not, O man, it is time you did. Come at once and secure some of these bargains. If unable to come, send your wife, who will, doubtless, make far better purchases than you would yourself at Te Aro House, Wellington. All goods purchased at Te Aro House will, if so desired, be sent to the Wellington Bailway Station free of expense.