Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 84, 14 February 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Otago Daily Times denies having gone over to Protection. The Wanganui Herald understands that a Land Court will be held there on the 21st instant, Judge Ward presiding. The Foxton Racing Club has decided to hold an autumn race meeting on 14th April. Property tax will be received up to : 5 p.m. to-day, or ten per cent, 'addition to-morrow. We Lave to thank the Government Printer for the volume of New Zealand Statutes for 1887 ; also a batch of Parliamentary papers. Nominations for the Borough Licensing Committee must be handed m to the Returning Officer, Mr O. C. Hill, before noon to-morrow, Mrs M 'Donald, the wife of a San Fransisco banker, is suing b r father»in« law for 500,000d0l for aliena ling the af* fections of her husband. Sir Julius Yogel intends to address his constituents in Christchurch shortly. He will afterwards go on toDunedin, where he will deliver an address on the political situation. Tenders are invited by Mr D. P. Buchanan for the erection of a sevenroomed house at Beaconsfield. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Mr E. Goodbehere, Manchester street. A clever boy was offered five shillings to dig up his aunt's garden, nnd he bid a sixpence ir. it, and then told all the boys in the neighbourhood. 'I he next morning the ground was pulverised two feet deep. The private residence of Mr T. Bryce, at Kiwitea, was burned down yesterday. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a defective chimney. Some of the inmates narrowly escaped with their lives. Dr Monckton has obtained an extension of nine years' protection for the patent of his balanced whip accident bedstead. It is a most useful invention, and, we hear, is used in over a dozen of the hospitals in this Colony. A metropolitan paper publishes the following : " Lost, yesterday, a small blue morrocco pocket-book, containing a variety of papers — among the rest a tailor's bill for £20. Any person finding the same will please pay the bill, and nothing more will be said." Before leader we publish to-day an advertisement from Mr Williams, chemist, of Palmerston North, in which he informs our readers that he is the sole proprietor of the famous fluid extract of koromiko. For further particulars we refer to the advertisement. Tenders are invited by the Engineer of the Kiwitea Road Board, Mr C. Bray, for forming and culverting the gullies, and making a side cutting on the continuation of Perry's line, and for trimming and metalling the formed portions of Bryce's road. Tenders will close on Saturday. The Clerk to the Court, at Palmerston, Mr A. R. T. Haultara, has been appointed to. a higher position in Auckland. While we regret his leaving the district, we congratulate Mr Haultain on his promotion. We understand from the Manawatu Standard, he will be succeeded by Mr A. I). Thompson. Things appear to be in a very bad state in Invercargill. A correspondent to a Southland paper writes thus despondently : " I think we onght to hare a public meeting and discuss the situation. The very pick of our citizens *re leaving vs — our farmers moneyless - our tradesmen almost in despair." A meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club Stewards was held at Light's Denbigh Hotel last Saturday evening, when some routine business was transacted. The ] offer of Mepsrs Adams & Andrew, of i Auckland, was accepted for working the j totalisator. These gentlemen worked the i machine at the last races, and gave such , satisfaction that their services have been again secured for the forthcoming meet- * ing. The London Times tbinks that a re» ward might bring forth a remedy for cancer in th> same way na a reward has { stimulated the discovery of a remedy for the rabbit nuisance. It is maintained by many that every herb has some distinct , medicinal virtue, nnd it wonld not be money misapplied tn establish an experimental college t<;> -test the limits ami .the r rtUue of *hf eonj.««fiu?e. 1

GuPcollector will be on his rounds on i Wednesday and Friday. Several gentlemen left Feilding this lorning to attend Stevens and Gorton's ■« am fair at Bulls. Auckland Law Society is taking steps 0 strike three defaulting solicitors off he roll. •""'■>' The estimated loss on the Foxton tram- < ray is gjaly £412 per annum,! An effort 1 Ito be made to effect a sale to a syndi* 1 ate.' .... \ :■-.-.- A billiard tournament is announced to >c held at the Denbigh, billiard rooms on } ionday evening next. The acceptances lose on Saturday. . ' Humour has it that Matthews has | lacked out of the match with Laihg, and ( hat the latter will consequently jueet , Jlavin in a fortnight or so. 1 The bankruptcy of 0. M. Richards, armer, Wanganui, is announced. Lia- ■ nhties are set down at £976 Is 8d; assets, 81365 ;' surplus, £388 18s 4d. A shark 12ft lona was recently caught n Sydney harbor, which, when cut open, yielded up a man's waistcoat, in one of be pockets of which was a gold watch. The Returning Officer for the Kiwitea Licensiug District, Mr E. Goodbehere, intimates that nominations for the return }f five members must he handed in at the school-house, Cheltenham, before noon on the 20th inst. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited); have received the following cable message :— London, 11th February; 1888. Tallow— There is a good demand for medium and lower sorts, but good tallow is neglected. The fourth annual report of the Wellington Meat Preserving Comparij' shows a loss on the year's operating of L 3968. It is intended to tiring -three resolutions before t lie shareholders, (1) to centralise business, (2) to confine business to ordinary butchering, and (3) to liquidate the company. In telegrams alone it has already cost the various newspaper proprietors in this colony two thousand four hundred and fifty three pounds and some odd shillings not worth mentioning, for reports of the cancer in the throat of the Crown Prince of Prussia. Now that the cancer is cut out and penchondrißiß (a much more expensive disease to wire than cancer) is likely to supervene, we hope the newspaper men will strike. The gross receipts on the Ne w Zealand railways for the ten months which ended on the 31st ult. exceeded those fcr the corresponding period of last year by £15,0 M), while the expenditure was less by £'5000, consequently the net profit has been greater by £20,000. Most of the lines show fair improvement, notably the Hurunui "Bluff (the mileage of which has now increased to 1042), but on the Picton»Blenheim line the working expenses for the ten months swallowed up all the receipts and nearly £400 beside. This is a delightful specimen of the profitableness of a " pohtciil railway." The Wanganui I odge of Oddfellows will sustain a great loss by the resignation of their permanent secretary, Mr John Wright, who is about to start m the brewing business at Feilding, in partnership with Mr B. Wrightson, of Wan aauui. Mr Wright also resigns the position of corresponding fellows. Both these offices he has filled for many years with honour to himself and satisfaction to the order, and it will be difficult for the society to find a mem« Der who will prove a mor-- pains^t^kintr, obligin -, and energetic officer than the one who is now retiring after so long a term of fnitbtal service.— Herald. A Press telegram from Blenheim, dated Wednesday, conveys news of-inv terest to fruit-grewers. Mr Dodson, M.H.R , who has a large orchard and hop gardens, has been very successful in devising a means of killing Codling moths. In the spring he (syringed with Paris', green and saw nothing of the pest till about Christmas, when he suspected that moths from a neighbouring on hard invaded his. He then tied bags around the trunks and limbs, These are taken off once a week, the caterpillars are killed and the bags again tied on. Mr Dobson thinks this simple plan would prove effectual if the orchardists in the same neighbourhood were to adopt it. It has the merit of cheapness, at all events. In the name of the Prophet Figs. We have just bought a Bankrupt Stock of Drapery and Cloihiuir, 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. We are altogether too busy to make out a price list, but Customers always expect some thumping bargains- from Bankrupt Stocks, and they will most as« «uredly get at this Sale more astonishing ones than they have ever seen or heard of in their lives at Te Aro House, Wellington. Country 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 centring to this Sale of Price's Bankrupt Stock at Te Aro House, Wellington.