The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1888. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 96, 31 January 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1888. Local and General News

■■■- — — I The annual anniversary tea and service will be held in the Presbyterian Church on Friday next. j A ooncert will be held at Awahuri on - Friday next, as a complimentary benefit for Mr Pelkington. Mr F. Train, of the Cash Exchange, advertises that he is a purchaser of firstclass fresh butter. We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the concert to be held at Awahuri on Friday next. Pastor Gaustad will lecture at the Foresters' Hall this evening at 8 o'clock, on the subject of '• Vaccination." In London alone about 400 people are burnt to death every year through accidents with petroleum lamps. A supplement to the New Zealand Gazette was published last night, containing a revised scale of charges on the New Zealand Bailways. The unfortunate man, Dan Phillips, who broke his leg in a scuffle with another man in Fergusson street on Thursday, was sent to the Wanganu Hospital yesterday by the mid-day train. We have received a copy of the Abstract of General Begulations for the Melbourne Contennial International Exhibition to be opened on August Ist, 1888. There is appended to the same the New Zealand Commission Begulations. In a local anent sparrow - bill oats grown i>J Mr Robert Whisker, by a printer's error, we were made to say they ■were Jive feet long ; it should have been "from one to two feet long." Some samples may be seen at the Stab office. James O'Kelly, M\P., writes to the New T»rk Herald that half the wives of the landed gentry ar* goin£ into trade in London. The other half of them are in the Primrose League or the Divorce Court. ; ■■:.-• "Agricola," writing from Awahiari' says : — " I .beg to thank you for your paragraph in the Stab of Saturday last, in reference to the unsafe culverts on the: Awahuri road. Had I not had timely "warning of the same, I fear there might have been a nasty accident." The codlin moth at Cambridge is again playing sad havoc with the apples. Many that are not above half-grown have been attacked, and are beginning to fall from the trees. It is expected to spread into the Pukekura district, where they are several large orchards. A meeting ©f stewards of the Feilding J.Q. was held on Saturday evening m Mr Hastie's Hotel. A quantity of routine business was transacted, and Messrs Jackman,- > Mo'rphy, and Sandilands were appointed to act as the working committee. Sir Charles Dilko is doing all he can quietly to re-establish his eld posiiton among the more forward public men of the, time. ■ He will endeavour at the gen-, eral election to take political orders once more, coming forward as a Home Rule candidate. , , t Settlement is rapidly advancing on botn sides of the Wellington rManawatu fiailway line, 'especially around Manukau, where a number of settlers are now busily engaged in " burning off" their sections. Amongst other additions to the buildings of the town, a " general store" and "family butchery" have recently been added. At the quarterly meeting of the Aack land Chamber of Commerce, a discussion took place in regard to a proposal to raise the million loan ia the colony. A resolu tion was carried, oa the motion of the chairman (Mr A. H. Nathan)— " That the Government be advised to raise the loan, or part of it, in New Zealand." The Aorangi arrived in Wellington on Sunday night after a passage of 42 days. Amongst the passengers are the Bight Bey. Dr Grimes, the E. C. Bishop of Christ church, Lieut enant»Colonel Burton a New Zealand war veteran, and Mr Owen Jones, representative ofjjthe Pac» ific Cable Company. A rather serious accident occurred on Saturday last on the railway line at Awa puni, about two and a half miles beyond Palme? ston, the mail train fr»m Wellington running into a trap and horse at the Awapuni crossing;. The trap was smas» hed, the horse killed, and the driver (a man named Kir by) rather seriously hurt. Medical aid was at once called in, and the sufferer attended to. • The new sawmill, now in course of construction by Messrs P. Bartholomew asd Clark Dunn, about a mile this side of Levin, on the Wellingtbh-Manawatu Bailway line, ib fast approaching completion, . The heavy frame work is already in position and roofed, and the necessary brick work for the boiler set, while the machinery, rollers, shafting, &c, are now in course of erection. In a few weeks the mill should be in full work, and a large amount of labor constantly employed. : John D. Lightbourne (who is well known in this district) was brought up on remand at the Wellington R.M. Court last Saturday, charged with the larceny as a bailee at , Wesport, of, two books, valued at £2, the ' pi-operty of Charles Stewart and ot^ereV Mr" Jellicoe, who appeared^ for the prosecution, stated accused hid 1 committed defalcations to the amount of._£ 43. Inspector Browne said he believed drink was the cause of prisoner's trouble. : Prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next. A notification, ..possessing special interest to the " sick and distressed," will be found in our advertising columns to-day in the form of a voluntary testimonial to Dr Speer, the celebrated specialist. The doctor, who hap his headquarters; at Wellington, appears to be winning golden opinions from large numbers of persons resident throughout the colony. His fame is rapidly spreading, and tnere are many who hold the doctor capable of ounng " all the ills that flesh is heir to." The testimonial speaks for itself. Mbs Pabtington sats. —Don't take any of the qtiHclc rostrums', as they are regimental to the hamm cistern : but put your tr»s»t in Dr. Sonle's American Hop | Bitters, which will l cure eeneral dilapidation, co«tive habits, and all comic diseases. They saved Isaac from a severe < extract of trrp< d fever.- They are the »c j jpjta tfmm^itoefeiiMfo.. BosWo Globe, j