Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 83, 11 February 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

*- — We have to thank Mr Mason for a oopy of his address to the Friendly Societies, of Wellington. Cole's Family Adviser and Business Guide to Melbourne for January, has come to hand. The well-known Wellington firm of importers, Harcourt & Co., have dissolved partnership. A meeting of Stewards of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held this evening at Light's Denbigh Hotel at 8.30 sharp. A new one pound note is about tobe issued by tbe Bank of New Zealand. The more we see of them -the better we will hke them. More surveyors went to New Plymouth yesterday by train. There are now seven parties engaged in surveying the alternate routes— Waitara ana Stratford — to connect with the main trunk line. A Maori seer predicated the would be an eruption of Tarawera yesterday. The natives at Maketu were holding hourly prayer services, but the day having passed, and Tarawera remained silent, the prayer meetings have now lapsed. The firing for Captain Maoarthur s prizes was held at the butts this afternoon. Scores will be published in our next issue. The winners will be presented with the prizes at the -parade ofthe corps to be held on Friday the 24th instant. A horrible accident occurred at Dublin on Saturday last. The female liontamer Senide placed her head in the mouth of a lion for the purpose of having her photograph taken in that position. The flash of the camera startled the animal, and caused it to olobo its -jaws and J worry the woman like a mouse. The ua- ( fortunate w^oman was 4rcsdfallv mangled, I and eig»recl almost itnmediateiy.

. An alteration in the dates of Mr Ureenwood's visit to Feilding, is made to day. A rare occurrence 1 A solicitor, named W. Brassey, of -Gisborne, has filed his schedule. The Bishop of the Diocese Has notified his intention of .holding a confirmation service at St. John's, Feilding, on Sunday, February 26th. Mr J. E. Henry wishes to remind lovers of the -green- cloth- that nominations for his number two billiard handicap tournament close to-night. -«-■ • We" are pleased to learn that Mr Bruce, M.H.R. in the course of a month or two, will deliver a lecture in Feilding for the benefit of the Presbyterian Manse Fund. The new premises being being erected by Mr Nicholas for the Bank of New Zealand, in Fergusson street, are now 1 rapidly approaching completion and will prsve a handsome addition to the town. Farmers and others interested will find < a notice of considerable importance from Messrs Stevens and Gorton, who give a detailed list of their new clovers and grass seeds for- the autumn season. The firm also announce they have, on sale cornsacks, fencing wire, sheep dip, &c. ' My dear, Easter is not far. off.' Husband—' ot far, that's a fact.' And nil | good people shou'd rejoice at Easter P' •Of course.' *Do you suppose any human being can rejoice in an old bonnet hke this?* i A very large and choice assortment of Kaiapoi Clothing just opened at the Ked House ; they consist of the well-known Siddle Tweed Suits, also Boys* ahd Youths' Suits, Trousers, and Trousers and Vests. Go and inspect before buy* in.!*: elsewhere.— Advt. A butcher's trap, - the property of Mr Gichard, had a narrow escape of " coming to grief" this morning. The horse and trap ' were standing outside Hastie's Hotel, when something startled the horse, and a bolt ensued. The runaway was brought to a stand near Olhver's Hotel, both horse and trap sustaining little or no damage. A Press Association telegram from New Plymouth states: At In^ltwood this morning two policeman, a bailiff, nnd six other men were trying to execute a warr-int on a mun named jicques, when he chased the police with an axe. Constable Kollo closed and threw him. The two policemen when putting on the hand cuffs were attacked by the wife who used a large stick pretty freely over Rollo's I head, but the constable stuck to his man. A Cboss Baby. — Nothing is so condue ive to a man's remaining a bachelor as stopping for one night at the house of a married friend, and being kept awake for five or six hours by the crying of a cross baby. All cross and crying babies need only Dr, Soule's American Hop Bitters to make them well and smilhng. Young man. remember this. — Traveller. A. little girl was given a subscriptionbook to collect dimes for buying bricks to build a church with. She called on the family butcher and asked him for ten cents, iust for one brick. He refused, saying he'd got all he could.do to help his own church. The child fired up and replied, indignantly, ' You don't suppose I your church is going to bring all the sheep into your fold, do you ? I guess j there's more than one bitcher round here anyway.' The arrivals of immigrants to this Colony during the month of January were — From the United Kingdom, 651 ; :tnd from (he various Australian colonies and other places, 939 ; making a total of 1593. The departures from this Colony for the same period were — To the United Kingdom, 81 ; to the the Australian colonies and other places, 1314 ; making a total of 1395, thus showing an increase ef 198 arrivals over the departures. The arrivals in the port of .Vellington were 469, and the departures 121.— Times. At the wool sale, in Wellington, on Wednesday last held by the N.Z.L.M.ACompany, the prices realised were satisfactory. Some lambs wool fetched 7^d and 7_l, greasy cross-bred 7|d, 7jd, and Bd. On the whole the average was yery favorable to wool growers and an advance on prices at the previous sale. J. 8., Ashhurst, got 6|d for lambs. One line, 126 bales, W. MoL., consisting of crossbred greasy wethers, ewes, hoggets, lambs, matted, first oross and mixed brought&d all round. This was evidently a well got up parcel. The way to irritate a Taranaki man is to hint his harbor is silting up ; to rile a Wellington man tell him At* harbor is windy or unsafe; to make an Auckland man mad, shut your eyes to the beauty of his harbor; remark to a Dunedin man his harbor is shoaling he will abandon whiskey for a week and mpuru in bitterness of spirit ; tell a Wanganui man At* little creek of a harbor wont float the navies of the world, and leave room for the Tunua besides, he will curse your progenitors for many generations. "A strange world my masters." Those old settlers to whom many events of the wars with the Maoris are familiar, and later arrivals to whom the stirring history of the colony between the years 1859 and 1868 is but a blank, have now a splendid opportunity, in the first instance, of fighting their battles o'er again ; and in the second of learning the difficulties their predecessors had to meet in the old times, and the gallantry with which they overcame them. Mr Why tock, the ageut for Gudgeon's new book, ''The Defenders of New Zealand," is now canvassing the distriot, his headquarters being Mr Hastie's Feilding Hotel. We have seeu a copy of the work, and can assure our readers it is perfectly genuine, being a true record of the times it embraces. The illustrations are good, and the likenesses faithful, many of them being of gentlemen well known on this coast. We understand a large number of copies have already been disposed of. In the name of the Prophet Figs. We have just bought' a Bankrupt Stock of Drapery and Clothing, late in the possession of A. J. Price, Hall of Commerce, Wellington, have bought it cheaply, and will give any quantity of tremendous bargains to all Customers at Te Aro House, Wellington. Wb have removed this Bankrupt Stock to our own premises because we have more light, more room, and more comfort, for customers at Te Aro House, WeU lington. We are altogether too busy to make ont a price list, bnt Customers always expect some thumping bargains from Bankrupt Stocks, and tliey will most as* raredly get at this Sale more astonishing ones than they have ever seen or heard of in their lives at Te Aro House, Wellington. Countbt Residents should rush to train early and eagerly. Railway fares are now cheap enough and all Customers will save their fares many times over by eeming to this Sale of Price's Bankrupt Stock at Te Aro House, Wellington. This Bankrupt Sale commences on S<tttfd*y» Fehruary JUh', at fe Aro House, WeHuag^ft.. .; ':'..! " 'f. r '.. .'.,''