Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 10 January 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

; Marriageable girls fetch ten dollars each in Japan. Wf tare to acknowledge receipt of the Bible-Standard for the current monthA direct mail for Europe -will close here to-morrow at 4 p.m. A upecial train went down last night laden with itook for Wellington. '. Tenders are invited for the ereotion of a cottage. Plans and specifications may be seen at Mr O«rthew>. • : f eatt%ne of entoes^ Messrs F. % Jackson & Co.'s sale at Feilding en Thursday next, appears on our third ,' The Manchester Bifles will parade on Friday night, At the conclusion of the drill the new great coats will be served out Hanlan signed articles on the 23rd December for his match with Trickett, which it to come off on the Fitaroy, Bockampton, on 3rd May. Mr Kennedy will: on Wednesday re- ! move hia barber's shop to those premises j at the corner of Manchester Square on Kiiabolton Hoad, opposite Mr Haybittle's ' store. . ■:■... | The Betnrning Offloer, My GF. 0. Hill, gives notice he will receive nominations for the vacancy made in the Borough Ceuacil by the resignation of Mr John Bartkokntiew, ori FtmUt. the SMttiim will take pk» <«

The Wellington City Buffet la to be rebuilt without delay. .Mr Bradbury, of Mnkino, received hi* N.Z, war medal this week. The Squadron, comprising' four vessels, ; with the Nelson as flag-ship, arrived in Wellington yesterday. j Feilding will be well represented at the Foxton Races if the tram arrangements are at all convenient. v " '■"■' Dr Monckton has consented to stand for the vacancy in the Borough Council. The«requisitiott-aiiift%b"^ply%iU^p]pear^ in our next issue. ; Heavy floods hire been experienced in the Southland district, involving great J destruction of crops, aod gardens. .A man named Cassidy was drowned. j Harry Laxng is so popular: among the Natives just now that if ; there was a vacancy ua the West Coast Maori elector- j ate he would have M.H.R. after his name in the twinkling of an eye— so to speak^ Ik 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-gtocking. This is no mere "puff" so commonly: exhibited- of late, but. a genuine business notice. —Abvt. On Thursday .last a daughter of J, Allerby, oPYafiey^Road, ..was playing on some fallen timber and^feli off a log. On being picked up ana examined, it was found/ her ,«%, arm was broken. Mr Allerby 'brought the little sufferer, down to Dr^Johnstqn, who sftt> the fracture. We axe glad to learn she 'is doing well. The EL.aud C.A. Corporation offer a reward of £#0 for the conviction of the individuals who.have been stealing totara trees off unoccupied sections. Notice is also given that anyone removing timber from any of the Corporation's land without authority from the Agent will be prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the lav. V"' . .-'■ ■"■ : ' r - ' ■'-.'' '••,.. - The date for the banquet at Waverly to Mr Hutchison has been fired for the 27th\of this month. Mr Hutchison is at present in Dunedin enjoying a well earned holiday after the unusual strain he has had to undergo. We bear that it is probable that Sir George Gtajr and Mr U. Seddon, M.H.H.'s, will be present at the banquet.— Heraid. Mr Ogg, Presbyterian minister, Wellington, recently lectured on " The Pernicious Influence of State, Interference in Matters of Religion." A yVairarapa paper says the JHev gentleman iqight»ery well lecture on ,* The Pernicious Influ-, enceof Church Interference in matters of State," ■ r .. ..... .: • ..... .-f „,v .. Those who take an interest in astron« omy will be pleased, to learn that the moon will be in eonj unction with Venus m \ the 10th, with Mercury on the 13th, and with Saturn on the 29th, making si very near approach to the planet at U> 2omin a.m. The moon' will be totally eclipsed on the 291 b, but the phenomenon will be invikibLe iv New ZeuUnd.— Post. ... Our readers will learn with regret that the third son of Mr James Hastie. died yesterday morning. This is the second bereavement Mr and Mrs Hastie have suffered within a very few mouths. The utmost sympathy has beea expressed on all sides with them in this additional affliction. A notice of the funeral appears elsewhere, wiiou fnends are invited to attend. - / r .-. ; ; We remind .." lovers'of kb.9 manly art" of the boxing contest,. : |t6, take at the Town Hall' to-Bij^htjat'B o'clock sharp be 7 tween Sidet (of Mwiteaj, ' and Shaw (of Martonj. Both men are well trained, and have beieh pupils of /ack JEfall jand" Mat) thews respfichyely./^vye understand that Matthews, Hall, and Jones will also display their powers with the mittins. A good contest may be safelyjexpected. „ A cottage in Queen stteet^ owned by Mr Hilton, of Wan,'anm, and occupied by Mr John Turuer, Pounikejper, and his son, was burned down la^ night. >A lamp was, left burning duiing the tempora:y* absence, el jM^r Turner, which; is supposed Xo have exploded. Nothing, was saved, and there were no insurances. The cottage was old, r and of "sniali value,; but Mr Turner has lost "all his personal effects. ■-.•■ ■,■-■ ■'■■■■■ ■• - :.■•■•: ' -■■■ -' •" v Sir j Robert . Stout has a most remarkable dread of the Press. Sneaking 1 at the Commercial Travellers' bauquet, held in Dunedin late lajrt year,,he said, referring to work m Parliament :— 4 ' It; meant that one had to work' for long,' weary hours, and in bad air, and to be worried and tormented day after day, -One could not utter., a few words, but two or tnree hundred miles away wise, critics, would be down on him in dai\Y\ or, nightly infallible oracles." No dbu.b^ as Sir Robert gets older he will 'be wiser, 1 and' arrive at the knowledge 1 that the Press only W» a rod on the backs of the' foolish and those who deserve admonishment. • ' We hear on very good autViority that none of the Edubation Boards of the colony,, except the Wanganui Boards contemplate reducing salaries now that the school age has been definitely -fixed; at five years. That "being so, jt might be as well i| the local Board, in considering how best to meet the reduction in income will see' 1 whether it cannot escape from taking a step that would render the district noticeable in a rather disagreeable respect. We are aware that, ■ next to Otago, salaries arehieher here than, in any other district, . but if other Boards , can provide without reducing underpaid .teachers it 1 mi«hjt surely be possible jfer ours to do so V-6 ' In 1 arij ease the lower grades ought either to erca'pe altogether or to be reduced by a merely nominal' Mii».-H«r«ld.; ; : :i /. * >'.-i-i^ A Wellinglon paper says :^Pr6fessor Kirk, of the Foret^^ D^r|m^n^ h^ir received informahbn*rhat the "pear~ treeiT in a Waikalo orchard are affected with, a blight whiob %ill in all probability destroy every L 6ne of them. The disease make* its appearance , long - before the! fruit reaches u<aiuriij. . A. black fungus appears on each pear, and shrivels it up in a few days. 'The blight is very Ipre* valent in the Ensi ern States of Amerioa, and the loss wbieh j it causes the orchardistß there is very cbnKiderable, the majority of .the trees ultimately dying. Professor Kirk thinks that the blight: may havA been brought from America,! Trees may be inuortil ited with the dis» , ease by scraping off the fungus, di.-«solv-ing it in water, nnd io»rinif the infusion'; L to a small incision in the bark. The 1 ' blight has never made its appoaranoe in JNfW Zealand befon » in! Profesior JCtrk is anxious to do' what he can to prevent it spreading. . - . . i To conduct a business with true liberality, to study ihetartt* and reqairemeat of your cunOhaerß, ai^ acting on the bejief that by first promoting their intereKts, we best serve our bvrn, ate ike surest means, of obtdining public oortfi'^ deiwe. Having applied these principles to the retail trade at the ''Cash Ex}chant»e" the increasing support w* hate rerrirtvV iff a unhntuntial proof ftl the * w'^adon) «f such ji j^oHe^. ■•'■'■■ '■•- 1 -.-- >; v

A verj large and choice assortment'of KaUpoi Clothing just opened at the Red House, they consist of the well-known Saddle Tweed Suits, also Buys' and Youths' Suits, Trousers, and Trousers and Vests. Go and inapect before buj* ing elsewhere.— Advt. ' '■ ■ , Two OBGAys.— Regulate firsk v tHe, stomach, second the liver ; especially "th'e^ first, so as to perform their function* perfectly, and you will remove aV&ast nneteen-twentieths of nil the ills that uxaj&y^is^h^ climate. Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters is. toe only thing v that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these two organs.— Maine Farme.*v ..,-*, s w i .- i *.aw Jahes Smith, of the Wholesale Fam* ilj Drapery Warehouse* Te Aro House, | Wellington, will send all patterns tree by post. v *■- ' Wbitb, for pattern* of our Washing Dress Fabrics, a large rariety. and «x---traordiaary cheap at T« Aro House, Wellington. , Wbitr for patterns of Summer Dress | Stuffs, choice, new, and the la rarest stock | in the City at Te Aro House, Wellington. .Wbitb for Self Measurement Charts, and jour dresses will be as well made and perfectly fitting as though you called j personally at Te Aro House, Wellington. .Wip forpajiterns of Flannels, Calicoes, SheeUnu, LifienSf. AcVj and you will get* them if fti for wholesale prices* at Te Aro House, Wellington., >■ \ VWurTK for^any sort of patterns-re-quired, and they shall be\ forwarded at once free of cost from Te Aro House, Wellington. ' \ \ Wbitb for patterns ef Tweeds, and we r will show you th& quality of which we mate Men ! s Suits for 42/-, 60/«, 60/-,? TO/-. 80/-. at,Te Aro House, Wellington. Wbitb -if you want a Suit made— for Self Measurement Charts, and. they shall; be forwarded without delay from Te Aro House, Wellington. '' Wbitb your Correct Measurement!! on the Chart, and we will guarantee perfect fitting and stjrisii Suits at Te Aro House, Wellington. / \