Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 91, 19 January 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The banks will be dosed on Monday next. The Auckland Bell calls Wanganui " a goody goody sort of place." The French armourers are working night and day making rifles. A sitting of the J.P.s will be held in the Police Court here on Wednesday next. There will be mass in the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday next at 11 a.m. The Manchester Rifies will parade tomorrow evening, opposite the Public Hall, at the usual hour. Several Feilding lads who went to Sydney, New South Wales, to try their fortunes, have got into satisfactory employment. The Wairarapa papers report another elopement from the Lower Valley. This time the woman took two children with her. The annual general meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held at the Denbigh Hotel on Saturday evening at eight o'clock. We have received "Typo" for December. As usual, it is full of interesting matter to printers and the trade generally. Should the assassination of President Cleveland be attempted or accomplished, it will be in the interests of the United States wool protectionists. There w (says the Taranaki Herald) a report that a disease has broken out amongst the cattle m the Manaia district, and that as many as forty head have died through it. When Napier volunteers go to church parade they take packs of cards with them. They play all " fours" on the grass outside the church. So says a correspondent in the Telegraph. /Time table for Wellington anniversary holidays is published to-day. . There are cheap excursion fares tb Welhngtot, to the Foxton races, and to the Wanganui Caledonian sports. ■ - A meeting of ratepayers in No. 5 Ward of the Manchester Road District j will be held at the school house, Taonui, \ to-morrow evening at eight o'clock, to j discuss. the proposed loan of £4000. ' Seme more lords have arrived in the colony by the Arawa, which arrived at Port Chalmers last Tuesday. We hope they wont write any books about us. " Three stories high, long, dull, and old, as great lords* stories of ten are." Mr F. Venn has forwarded a cheque for £10 to be divided between the Palmerston andTern&ce Endfire brigades, in token of his gratituue to them for the valuable assistance'they rendered at the late fire. The officials of the Babbit Department in N. S. Wales are opposed to M. Pasteurs' scheme for exterminating poor bunny. The said official* know, only too well, tnat should it be a success, their doom would be sealed at the same time. A man, named J. D. Lightbourne, was arrested on Tuesday last on a warrant issued in Wellington, charged with larceny as a bailee. He was brought before 8. Goodbehere, Esq.. J.P., yesterday, and remanded to Wellington. Two young ladies sold kisses at a church bazaar the other day at sixpence each, with a liberal discount for taking a quantity. A speculator of the male •species wanted to buy up the lot to "make a corner," but as ne had a wart on his nose, the negotiation fell through The gales of wind, -which occasionally hold high links on the Rimutaka mountains, and play tricks.- with the railway trucks and carriages passing that way on the Government line, are said to be subsidised by the excellent Manager of the Wellington-Manawatu Railway in order to frighten traffic on to his line. We give the report for what it is wonh, expressing at the same time our doubts as to its' strict reliability. Wellington will be forty-eight years old on .&• -23rd instant, when rnanjdid identities will sbed a few reflective tears for the good old days that have gone, when they used to play shinty on Thorndon flat, or' hold raoemeetnipe on Te Aro, wtyen the water was good an 4 tbe whiskey plenty ; when there were no borough oouacU* parliaments «r otW 8MB&p. annoyance* ; when every man *«s».#>* ft*ena, and every friend a ma*.

Our Wellington Press exchanges have come to hand very irregularly of late. The Town Clerk gives notice that Mr John Turner has been appointed dog-tax collector for the Borough of Feilding. The fee is 10s per dog. When the additions to Hastie's FeildHotel are complete the block of buildings, of which the Hotel is the principle part, will be the largest and handsomest in Feilding. We have received, the Illustrated Australian of the 14th instant. There is an i excellent likeness pf ;. Wi Tako, and an account of his funeral, which will be of interest to New Zealand readers. Mr W. Carthew is the Feilding agent. j The Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, gives notice to-day that the valuation list for the Borough of Feilding for the year 1888-89 is now open for inspection at his office. Objections made in the proper ' form, must be sent in on or before the 15th of February. An Auckland writer safs of kissing :— It is a cheap sort of entertainment and therefore well suited for dull times. I might add that it is an exhilarating exercise and fitted to remore the depression ; and like mercy "it is twice blest — it blesses him that gives and her that takes 1" Captain SommerviHe left Wanganui for Wellington yesterday (says the. Herald) on N.Z.R.A. business. He has received telegrams of a similar import to thatfseut by the Press Association as to the MartiinfeHenrys, but, on some, of the minor, points. he is unable to come to terms, and-bfinecessity has to go to Wellington to infernew the Government, JirJohV Bright lately told a correspondent that the Home Rule Bills were defeated by nearly two to ene> He was immediately answered by the following figures in the Pall Mall Gazette:— Leaving out Ireland, the eleotors of Great Britain voted; against Mr Gladstone, 1,318,276 -.for, 1, 244,916. It will not require a viblent change or opinion to reverse these figures. After a great deal of trouble and expense Mr Summers has succeeded in manufacturing ginger wine which is in every respect equal to the best imported article, and' superior to the ordinary brands. It is a full flavored and rich cordial of undoubted excellence. The firm of Mummers and Mayhew may now claim to be the best cordial manufacturers on this coast, A contributor to the Sydney mail has the following paragraph : —"I had intended to write something eloquent about the new year, but looking at one of the country papers I came across this sentence, whioh introduced a leading article on tbe question*. — "A few hours aHer this newspaper leaves the printing office the year 1877 will have gone, rolled into the measureless embrace of eternity." This stopped me ; I am contented to take a back seat." Mbs Pabtinoton BATB.-— Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to the Itumrn cistern : but put your trust in Dr. Soule'sj American Hop | Bitters, which will cure ueneral dilapid- j ation, costive habits, and all comic dis- j eases. They sared Isaac from a severe i extract of tripod fever. They are the ne plus unum of medicines. --Boston Globe. To conduct a business with true liber ality, to study the taste and requirements of your customers; an>i acting on the belief that by first promoting their interests, we best serte our own, are thus surest means of obtaining public oonji* dence. Having applied these principles to the retail trade at the ''Cash Exchange" the increasing support we hare received is a substantial proof of the wisdom of such a policy. No more steam for resnels-at sea! A Mr Hitt has discovered a^plan . by .. whtoli a («hip can be propelled, by means of a sail paddle working in the middle of the ship, at the rate of 56 knots an hour. The American Line and Oriental steamer and bur' torpedo' boats had better be" fitted with tins machinery at once. The inventor had no doubt whatever of its success.— Echo. The practice on the part of counsel ef commenting en passant upon witnesses' statements was a subject *>l complaint in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr Justice Richmond said the habit was a bad one, and he tried to stop it, but it was too late for him to interfere after the words had been uttered. He must, however, advice the jury, as he invariably directed Maori juries, not to pay any attention to anything the lawyers said. The city valuation for Wellington amounts tb £290,834, being an increase of 14,983 on the previous year. 368 new rateable buildings have been erected in the city during the year, and within the last 10 years 1805 new building have been erected and the valuation has. in* creased by £83,229. The water valuation lost year increased by £16,602 If the rates are the same as last year. the municipal revenue will be £1950 more. - It is noticed with surprise that Mr John L. Sullivan is not receiving much attention from the literary people of Londoa. He has not yet met such men as Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, Spencer. Ty ndall, Huxley, M allock. Swinburne, Black, Hartly and others eminent in letters, and learning, who, one might suppose would be attracted by the most distinguished citizen of the literary centre of America. Two rounds of three minutes each with Browning, m hexameters, woald send even the powferful Bostoman to sleep in his corner, if a match oould be got on, Nothing has yet beeii definitely settled about the honorarium improperly drawn by four Wellington Legislative Councillors. The Speaker of the Council has been requested to explain on what grounds be appended his certificate to such a claim; bu 1 no reply has yet been received, although one is. said to have been denpatehrd, or at any rate written. i'ae £100 is at present standing at the debit of of the unfortunate cashier wiio paid the money on the Speaker* certificate. I^e Audit authorities still refuse to sanction the payment, holding it to be clearly illegal, and so the matter remains for the present. — N. Z. Times. Nothing more conclusively proves what little progress medical science has made in the last thousand years, than that no r#m<>dy has been discovered for cancerAnd y«t, probably, some antidote exists which, taken into the system, would ex* pel the cancerous habit. I see iv one of the newspapers that a gentleman writes to suggest that a large reward should be offered to any one who will discover a remedy, and offers to himself subscribe. Considering that this oi*caae is on the increase, the suggestion i« T think, a good one. Doctors of to"iay know vi>rr little more about diseases than old women cen•Tirjes ago. . . . I only begin to be* 'i«»ye in a medical man when his col* leagues call him a quack, whii'h simply mean* that His mind tcopen to new kie*» TratV