Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 88, 12 January 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Messrs Stevens & Gorton publish today hst of entries ior their sale at Awahuri on Tuesday next. Wellington vVooileu Company has this season purchased upwards of 500 bales of Wellington wool and about 200 bales in Marlborough. . Inquiries are being made as to the fate of the petition to the Minister of Justice, graying for a remission of the sentence of .LiWildbore. Lord Dalrymple, the eldest son of the Earl of Stair, is now oh a visit to this colony. Napier and Wanganui are hunting up «• resident relatives" of his lordship, with tneir usual vigor. 100 yards in 9_- seconds is said to have been done at Helena, Motana, by Fred Stone, of Philadelphia, in a race with Baker, an Australian sprinter, for £100 Stone beat his opponent by ten yards. "It is love that makes the world go round," we are informed by the poets. It is somewhat a notable fact that a very limited quantity of poor whiskey will produce tbe same effect. Mr Wickham, the travelling representative of the Auckland Herald and who is the author of those amusing sketches entitled "The Rambling, of a Tramp," was in Feilding on Tuesday last. The nett profit of the Palmerston Exhibition was £250. This is a most telling compliment to the Management Committee and the energetio Secretary, Mr Barnett. There is a heap of rubbish, which in its -time haa done duty as " decorations," outside the Public Hall that ought to be removed at once. It is very inflammable, and if ignited would set fire to the building. A Sydney paper chaffs Sir Henry Parkes for appointing to the Legislative Council aMr John Davies, 0.M.G., because he cannot spell January ! He was asked in the witness box to spell tie word, and had to give np the task after several attempts. A very laree and choice assortment of Kaiapoi Clothing just opened at the Red Hou so, tbey consist of the well- known Saddle Tweed Suits, also Boys' and | Youths' Suits, Trousers, and Trousers and Vests. Go and inspect before buy* ing elsewhere.— -Advt. Comment was made by visitors to Feilding to-day, whose unpleasant duty it was to attend the Resident Magistrate's Court, on the disgraceful condition of the approaches to the building. It would be a good idea for the legal gentlemen who j profit most by tbe place, to get up a "bee," and do the necessary work. The Borough can't afford to do it. It is xaid that John L. Sullivan was lerribly sea. sic* while crossing the ocean, < and. bellowed lifce a enlf. tbiiVinj? ha was jßoing to die. That would have been iv eood ti_u* for juijae newsboys to hive . pitched on ip John a.n'4 whipped him. Imagine tbe great big duffer. «nrled -hp in a Materoonl. weir as * dog. and the life half frightened out of him.

Mr Greenwood will be in Feilding on the 25th instant. Harvesting has commenced in the Sandon district round Mount Stewart. Mr Soloman Abrahams, the Mayor of Palmerston, was in Feilding yesterday. The Manchester Rifles will parade tomorrow evening at the usual hour and place. j A meeting of Stewards of the Feilding ' Jockey Club will be held in -Hastie's Hotel on Saturday next at 8.30 p.m. A full attendance is necessary as there is a loi of work te be done. ' I Property tax notices arrived in Feild* ing this morning by mail from Wellington, and their number is., a speaking, evidence of the average .wealth of per-? sons residing on tbe Manchester Block. The impost is perhaps, obnoxious, but it falls only on those who are best able to afford it. Two oboans. — Regulate first the stomach, second the liver ; especially the first, so as to perform their functions perfectly, and you will remove at least nineteen-twentieths of all the ills that j 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. The Manawatu Standard says— "The Feilding people have earned a poll for a special Borough loan ; of £2000. The next time they will go in for something higher." We suspect our esteemed contemporary means to be sarcastic. The loan was not carried by a long way, and the Borough will " never again," or at least m this -generation, "go in for something higher." Burnt ohildreu avoid the fire. yy.. With the first week in January a noteworthy departure will take place in the history of illustrated journalism as was the Case with the first issue of the Hluatrated London News— the earliest publication of its kind— when, on May 14, 1842, its pages first excited the admiration and astonishment of English literary and art circles.^ This will be the publication in Australia. Fifty-five years ago, when London was quite a small city, with a population of only a million and a half, 31,000 persons were apprehended fqr being drunk and disorderly in the course of twelve months, Last year with a pop-ilation of over five millions, the number of: such apprehensions had fallen by more than a quarter, and the ratio was about, four per thousand instead of twenty. Mbs Pabtinoton says. —Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are" regimental to the humpn 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. Thej are tbe ne plus unum of medicines.— Boston Globe. Mr Robert Jblinson. tailor, Manchester Square, advertises to-day that he has just received a new stock of tweeds and cloths suitable for all seasons of the year. As Mr Johnson is now employing experienced hands he will be able to devote his entire personal supervision to the cutting department. He offers to his patrons exceptional value, combined with excellence of style, fit, and workmanship. As he is also a cash buyer, his prices will be proportionally low. The boxing contest to a finish, for £10 a-side, betweem Sam Sidet, of Eiwitea, and Shaw, of Marton, which took place in the Feilding Town Hall on Tuesday night, was largely attended. The fight lasted for sixteen rounds, during which Shaw got decidedly the worst of it. In the last round a foul was given -against Sidet by the referee (Mxjpy&pilges) for tripping, and the fight was accordingly awarded to Shaw. ' y The funeral of the late son of Mr James Hastie took place yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance of friends who were conveyed to the cemetery in carriages and brakes, of which there was a goodly number. The Rev. Mr Murray officiated at the grave. General sympathy has been expressed by all sections of the commumtv with Mr and Mrs Hastie in their affliction, and in this we sincerely join. When Mr Bradlaugh was crossexamined in a London Police Court on December 2, in the Graham-Trafalgar-square case, he was asked by the counsel for the Government whether he remembered tbe meeting in Trafalgar-square in 1885, which resulted in some of the crowd looting the shops. He replied " Yes ; the meeting was got up *nd paid for by Lord Salisbury. Tne latter pronounced the statement absolutely unfounded. An application was made on December 7th for a warrant against Bradlangh for perjury in the Salisbury affair. It was refused as the matter was not vital in the case in which Hradlaagh gave evidence. On the re- assembling of Parliament Bradlaugh will move for a committee to enquire whether or uot Lord Salubury sent a cheque to assist the fa ir trade meetings in Trafalgar-square in 1886. . . The Red House is again to fore in tbe matter of business enterprise. Mr Thompson announces by advertisement (which will appear in our next issue; that his half-yearly stock taking sale has commenced, and will last for two weeks, during which penod enormous bargains/ will be offered to the public in drapery, clothing, crockery, glassware, &o;-:.Mr T'-ompßon's effort to meet the times is.deserving of success at the hands- of the public. In addition to the low prices ruling at the " Jubilee Store" (the most liberal yet introduced) special reductions wiU be made during January in order to red nee stock before re-stocking. This is no mere "puff" so commonly exhibited of late, but a genuine business notice.— Advt. . To conduct a business with tme liberality, to study the taste and requirements of your customers, and. acting on tbe belief that by first promoting their interests. We best serve onr own, are the surest means of obtaining puhlic oonfidewe. Having applied these principles to the retail trade at the •' Cash Exchance" the increasing support ire bave reoeived is a substantial proof of the i wisdom of such a policy. _______________________■