Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 86, 7 January 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

» • ■.. Eighty-two bales ;of wool went from the Feilding station yesterday. Only eighty-eight votes were received yesterday. Seventy-eight for the loan and ten against it. The 'Frisco mail is expected by the 8.25 train from the north to-night and will be sorted into private boxes at once. Additions are made to-day to F. XL Jackson & Co. 'a stock sale in Feilding on the 12th instant. Mr John Manaon, of the Fines, invites tenders for stookmg three hundred acres of wheat. Tenders will close on Saturday, the 14th instant. - Mr Tripe, dentist, has arrived m Feilding and may be consulted at his rooms m Glasgow House up to Tuesday, the 10th instant. ■ The erection of new station buildings here is to be proceeded with at once. The work of taking down has already commenced on the building to be removed to Feilding from up the line. A requisition inviting £>r Monckton to stand for the vacancy -in the Borough Council made by the resignation of Or John Bartholomew, now lies at Mr Carthew's for signatures. The Property Tax Commissioner gives notice to-day that the duty of one penny shall be paid on the 31st instant at any post office which is also a money; order office, and at the office of the Commissioner, Wellington. A burglary was committed at Gilmer s Empire Hotel, Wellington, on Wednesday night or Thursday morning. £19 13s in cash was stolen. Mr Gilmer has placed the matter in the hands of the police to expiscate. If new chums who come to New Zea« land as a refuge would quietly go to work to better their fortunes, instead of starting right in to save the whole country, they woull be much better off, and so would the country. According to " Jason" in the " New Zealand Herald," the quickest mile race ever run in New Zealaudwas that won by Joseph O'Brien, the Australian, in .4 mm 23^sec, on the Domain. . A lawyer had just had a client acquitted who was accused of t stealing a pair of spectacles. "M y dear protector 'says the accused, " T have no money to give you, but if you want the spectacles here they are." f " / ' Marton sports are " dead broke".; over the Laiag-Matthews fight. They :put their pot on the beaten man and it .bpJ.«d over. Poor Marton! The New New Zealand Loan and Mer« cantile Agency Company hare declared a dividend of 15 per cent., and carried forward £16,053. This is cheerful news. "Puffin the Press hint's that "Jimmy Wallace" the popular manager of the Wellington- Manawatu railway will be appointed to manage the New Zealand railways as Chief Commissioner. We suggested this some time ago. In addition to the low prices ruling at the "Jubilee Store" {the most'- liberal yet introduced) special reductions will be made during January in order to reduce stock before re-stocking. This is no mere "puff" ao commonly exhibited of late, but a genuine business notice. — Abvt. Four Sydney pick-pockets were passengers by the afternoon train for Wellington yesterday. They were tney objects of much curiosity by some young Feildingites who had never seen such creatures before. Surprise was expressed that the light fingered gentry seemed so little different to other people. Mrs Blobsom: "What's thatP Oh. horrors ! the hotel afire !' Mr Blobsom : " Yes, come on. We've no time to lose,' Mrs Blobsom: "But here lamin my nightdress." Mr Blobsom : " Good enough. I'm glad you've got out of your ball-dress and into something decent." A Wairarapa paper says: — The Wellington Acclimatisation Society, with a view to stocking the Tararua Ranges with deer, have purchased three does and a, buck, and turned them out on these hills. It is to be hoped that they will be allowed to increase and multiply in their new domain. . At a meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board, held at Wanganui on Wednesday last, a petition from the settlers residing m the Pohangina district was read, asking the Board to grant a reserve for a school and schoolmasters' residence. The petition was referred to the committee appointed to deal with the endownment matter. Mr Walker, of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, told Sir Henry Parkes that he is ■' a cross between an Egyptian mummy and a baboon, a jumping jack politician and a turncoat." Whatever Sir Henry Parkes may be, he is immeasurably superior to Mr Walker, whose remark would be a disgrace to a Hottentot. The wonder is why people send such useless men to " represent" theim It is not very satisfactory to Mr Walker's constituents to know that he j claims lo be their representative ] An extraordinary new white wheat is ; described in the English papers as pro* i ] ducmg 80 to 88 , bushels per acre, with | lengih of straw seven feet, which it is thought.' will place wheat growing in i England on a better footing than has j previously been the case. This wheat is < perfectly distinct, is bearded, but the awns drop off x\t harvest. . The chuff is ] smooth, the berry ia white, and the qual- ] ity Mnusallj good for Brich an enormous yielder. I» fins bren grown* 'by Messrs i Oakshot aud Milhirtl, of .Heading. '• v . f

Mr MacMillan, of the Awahuri Store rod Fellmongery, has a notice m to-day. He also advertises 381 acres of land for sale. To conduct a business with true liber ality, to study the taste and requirements of your customers, and acting on the belief that by first promoting their interests, we best serve our own, are the surest means of obtaining public oonfi- . dence. Having applied these principles to the retail trade at the ''Gash Exchange" the increasing support we hare received is a substantial proof of the ( wisdom of such a policy. A very large and choice assortment of Kaiapoi Clothing just opened atthoKed House, they consist of the well«knowA Saddle Tweed Suits, also Boys' , and Youths' Suits, Trousers, and Trousers and Vests., Go and inspect before buy» ing elsewhere. — Advt. • -..; : ;'<>. \ Mbs Pa.btington says.— Don't take! any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to the bumen cistern : but put your trust in Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters, which 'will'cure general dilapidation, costive habits, and all comic diseases. They saved Isaac from a severe extract of tripod fever. They are the ne plusunum of medicines. -Boston Globe.' Two obgans. — Regulate first the stomach, second the liver ; especially the first, so as to perform their functions perfectly, and you will remove at least n ; rieteen-twentieths of all the ills that mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate. Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these : two organs. — Maine Farmer.