Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 90, 17 January 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Kiwitea Road Board will meet next Saturday. The property tax is payable at the end ! of this month. Half a gale of wind from the N.W* blew here yesterday. Clouds of dust. Foley and Jack Burke will fight in Sydney next Saturday afternoon. Three informations for sly grog selling have been laid against a Masterton lady residing at or near Tawarta. The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection on Friday next at the usual hour, opposite the Public Hall. The Post says Major Atkinson will probably succeed Sir F. D. Bell as AgentGeneral for the colony in London. The second wool sale of the season will be held to-morrow, in WeUington, at the auction rooms of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company. An English physician recommends football for girls. He says it is an exhilarating and healthful game. Lawn tennis will be left for the boys. Auckland carpenters are clearing out for Victoria. Master builders are also making themselves scarce. This will give the others a chance to live. An advertisement appears to-day from Messrs Fowler Brothers, storekeepers, at . the township named after a member of the firm, in the Birmingham Small Farm Settlement. The firm has grass seeds for sale, in large or small quantities. There is a good deal of fuss made just now because a Paris syndicate wants to - restrict the output of copper from the mines. Newspaper men need'nt care while the bronze penny flourishes in all its pristine beauty. It ts reported in London that the Em« peror of Brazil (travelling incognito) will shortly visit the colonies. His relations in Napier and Wanganui will be glad to see the old boy. " Now then," said a physician, cheerily, : to a patient, " you have got along far enough to indulge in a little animal food, and " "No you don't, doctor," interrupted the patient, " I've suffered enough on yonr gniVl and slops, and I'd starve sooner than begin on hay and straw-" The Wanganui Sash and Door Com* pany have appointed Messrs P, and J. Bartholomew their Feilding agents. It is intimated to-day they are prepared to supply every article made in tho factory . at the lowest current rates. The good people of Dnnedin are excited over the advent ot a lady doctor— one 1 Madame Josephine Duflot, who drive* through the town in a golden chariot, and, according to a reporter in the Dun* edin Herald, is making some most extra--1 ordinary cures. We learn from the Auckland Bell that Charles Barrett, a respectably- dressed young man, was charged, with obtaining a benefit by false representation, viz: by fitting up a shop and making it known that Sir William Fox was concerned in the carrying on ef the business. On the application of Sergeant Pratt, the case was adjourned. We have to acknowledge receipt of programme of the Centennial International Exhibition, to be held in Melbourne this year. Mr Charles Callis, secretary for the New Zealand Commission, to whom we now acknowledge our indebtedness, informs us the New Zealand Commissioners Programme is in the hands of the Government Printer and copies will be forwarded immediately after completion. A German excursionist has just completed his tour of the world. He went from Berlin and back, via Bnndisi, Alexandria, Aden, Singapore, Hongkong, Yokohama, San Fransisco, New York, and Bremerhaven. The voyage took him 185 days, and his expenses amounted to £180, or a little under £1 a day. He s&ys the tour can be done for less, but nf>t comfortably. ' " Puff" in the Press writes :— The New Zenland residents in Sydney have formed a Protection Union ! Protection of what P Most of the New Zealands residents of Sydney that I know of sloped away from here under somewhat depressing circumstances ! They're wanted badly, some of 'em ! Perhaps that's why they've formed a Pr< tection Union ! They've banded themselves together against the common enemy ! A lady in Australia, of exemplary life and strong religious convictions, left her church and joined the Salvation Army. Her minister was perplexed at her desertion, and called on her for an explanation. She frankly said that she got no new gain in doctrine or in practice from her new religious surroundings ; she had no spiritual consolations she had not previously enjoyed. How, then, was she happier by the change P The old lady burst into an ecstacy of happy recollec* tion as she exclaimed, "Oh, sir, the big drum is such a comfort to me !" Tbe Secretary of the Foxton Racing Club has received an intimation from the Railway Department that an excursion train will be run from Wanganui to Foxton and back on the occasion of the summer meeting on the 23rd inst. A larg» attendance is expected per train, as a number of Feildin-j* sports have already intimated their intention of being pres« ent. With fine weather, the meeting should be one of the best held nn tbe course. The services of the Makino Bund have been engaged for tiie occa« sion. — Manawatu Herald. Before the jury in the case of Regina v. Brun, for arson, were handed o»er to the tender care of the Sheriff last night the foreman requested his Honor to allow him to send a message to the news* paper office in which he was employed of his inability to take up his usual duties in the evening. His Honor assented, and tbe foreman added that it did not so much matter conveying the information to hi 9 wife, as she would not expect him home. " No," said his Honor with a humonrons smile, " the wives bf newspnper men, I behere, do nor ns-aa'Ty expect to see their hiishands at home in ihe evenipz until tiicv come."--Christ-church Presa.

i^—— w^— n— —^i— i— His Excellency the Governor was a ' passenger by H.M.S. Nelson which ieft Wellington yesterday for Sydney. I A. man named Charles Wegal, died at Ashburton, jesterday from sunstroke sustained on Thursday last. The usual monthly Band qf Hope Meeting will be held in tbe Methodist Church to-night. * ' Mr J. E. Henry has jast received from j Auckland a large consignment of fruit, in i first-class order. j Messrs Chaafe and Kean, welUknown \ horse trainers, have offered to stake £100 j if Lai ng will meet Matthews to contest the boxing championship. The woman Dalzell, who drowned her sen in the Rakaia River, Ashburton, on December 29th, has recovered conscious-, ness after being in a cataleptic state for 17 days. An American traveller in Gal way saw a pig in. a peasant's house, and he said "Why do you have the pig in there?" " Shure," said he of Gal way, " the house has all the convayances that a raysonablO pig requires," . • We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Summer Meeting of the Foxton, Racing Club to be held on Monday next. We will publish other particulars with train services on Saturday. Ii has been officially decided that the Remington -Loe Rifle will not be used at the Oamaru meeting of the N. Z. Rifle Association, If Martini-Henry Rifles can be obtained they will be uaed, if not, the men will have to fire with Sniders. On Saturday afternoon a settler named Mathew Carrick, living at Mongarei, whilst carting stone met with a seriova accident. He was fixing a tip stick of a dray, when he slipped under tha wheels and the dray went over his leg near tne ankle. A very large and choice assortment o* Kaiapoi Clothing just opened at the Red House, they 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. 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" so commonly exhibited of late, but a genuine business notice. — Advt. We understand that Mr T. Kennedy Macdonald, on the occasion yesterday of the tenth anniversary of his. first land sale, was made th* recipient from his employes of an auctioneers' hammer in solid silver. The hammer was made at the establishment of Mr Frank Grady, Willis street, and the presentation was made by Mr Miller, managing clerk to the firm- — Press. A rifle match took place ia Wellington on Saturday afternoon, betwean 20 members of the Squadron, and 20 of the Garrison Volunteers, the march was won by the volunteers, the scores being 1758, and the Squadron! 3oo. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, haye received the following cable message from their London office, dated 13th instant :— Tallow has an upward tendency. Good mutton is worth 26s 6d, and beef 24s 6d per cwt. In describing the Murphy- Ford conteat, the Post says: — At the end of the eleventh' round, Ford, who is a smaller man than Murphy, announced that he was winded and could not continue, and the stakes (£lO a-side) was therefore awarded to Murphy. Previous to this Ford had been knocked down seve al times. Ford displayed considerable science, and the general opinion was that Murphy would have had a very lively time if tho bluejacket had been in better oondition. To conduct a business with trne liber ality, to study the taste and requirements of your customers, and acting on the belief that by first promoting their Jnterests, we best serve our own, are the surest means' qf obtaining public confidence. Having applied, these principles to the retail trade at the *' Cash Exchange" the increasing support we have received is a substantial proof of the wisdom of such a policy. An accident, which might have been attended with very serious consequences, occurred on the Makino road last Friday. Mr Job Harvey was driving in his trap, with his family, when the horse shied, throwing his wife and children out of the trap. Mr Harvey tried to secure the horse, which had bolted before he could do so, and seeing that he would be jambed between the trap and an adjoining fence, he wisely threw himself down, allowing one of the wheels to pass over his body, and received several severe injuries. The other members of his family escaped with only slight injuries. James Smith, of the Wholesale Fam* ily Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington, will send all patterns tree by post. Write for patterns of our Washing Dress Fabrics, a large rariety. and extraordinary cheap at Te^Aro House, Wellington. Write for patterns of Flannels, Cali» ooes, Sheeting, Linens, Ac, and you will get them all for wholesale prices at Te Aro House, Wellington. Write for any sort of patterns required, nnd they shall be forwarded at once free of cost from Te Aro Honse, Wellington. Write for patterns of Tweeds, and we will show yon the quality of which we make Men's Suits for 42/-. 60/», 60/.; 70/-. 80/». at Te Aro House, Wellington. Write — if you want a Suit made— for Self Measurement Charts, and they shall be forwarded without delay from Te Aro House, "Wellington. 1 Wbitb yonr correct Measurements on the Chart, and we will guarantee perfect fitting and stylish Suits at Te Aro House, Wellington. Write for Self Measurement Chartß, and your dresses will be as well made and perfectly fitting as though you called personally at Te Aro Hoose,. r y\^>llington. Write for patterns of Summer* Dress Stuffs, choice new, and the largest stock in the City at Te Aro House, Wellington.