Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 23 February 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ The San Francisco mail will close tomorrow at 8 p.m. Mr Oarthew has received his usual monthly case of books and periodicals. The anniversary banquet; of the order will be held in the Foresters' Hall tomorrow night. The wife of a Episcopalian incumbent near Dunedin has joined the Catholic Church. In our wanted column to-day Mr Keen gives a few useful hints on the subjeot of cheap boots, which people who desire to | walk uprightly, and to have a firm footing whenever they stand, will do well by attending to. The Christchurch Press, describing an exhibition show between Slavin and Pettengell, sayß : — 81avin is a very powerful atßlete, and wonderfully quic^ for a heavy weight, but although, he beat his i opponent at all points, he indulged in a ' i somewhat loose style of boxing, and ' might have received plenty of pumsh- 1 merit from a really smart man, ;

Silence won the Marlborough Cup, run yesterday. It is stated that Lord Wolverton has left Mr Gladstone a legacy of £300,000. Messrs Bruce and Newman, M.H.E.s, left Marton on Tuesday last to examine the central railway route. A new advertisement from Mr Alfred Eade, cabinetmaker, will appear in our next issue. ' j Stevens and Gorton's stock sale to-day ■was well attended. A full report will appear in our next issue. : j We learn that it is probable that the conversion of one of the Palmerston even- . ing papers into a morning journal will take place at the end of the present month. ; Mr S. Fagan, who is holding a clear- ! mg sale of boots and shoes in Mr J, C. Thompson's old store, Manchester street, publishes a new advertisement to-day, announcing some extraordinary oargains | in boots and shoes. For prices see advertisement. A notice of considerable interest to owners of racehorses appears to«day. No person will be allowed to train horses on the course without having previously obtained the written permission of the Secretary of the Feilding J ockey Club. A visitor to Shannon, on the Manawatu Company's line, assures us (Herald) that the mosquitoes are so numerous there that in the morning settlers sweep up those that have been killed by the candles and lamps, and light the fire with them. The Oamaru telegram, re the rifle range, when it reached Napier, ended as follows: — 'The catering will be in the hands of a competent man, who, though a Scotchman, understands his business ! ' What have the Scotch done to deserve this F The funeral of the late daughter of Mr J. Taylor, took place yesterday afternoon. A large number of friends of Mr and Mrs Taylor were in attendance, among whom were several Palmerston residents. Mr Hmman officiated j.t the cemetery where he delivered a most impressive address. The Returning Officer, Mr G. C. Hill, announces the result of a poll taken yesterday for the election of a licinsing committee. Messrs Sherwill, Haybittle, Nicholas, Rutherford, and Bartholomew were the successful candidates. A meeting for the election of a chairman will be held on the 7th prox. After paying away £'142 in prizes, the Feilding Sports Committee have a balance to credit of £17. This result (says the Manawatu Times) was mainly due to the expenditure of £24 in advertising. The amount looks large, but it was only ten per cent, on the total receipts, and money spent in advertising always bears fruit. A small "leader" of quartz containing visible gold was discovered on Tuesday in the face of the hill at the back of the scene of tbe iate fire in Lambton quay which destroyed (he City Buffet and other buildings. Quite a number of amateur prospectors were soon at work, and several fairly good specimens were obtained. — Press. The lottery of racing does not often receive a more striking exemplification than was forthcoming recently at Warwick. One of the twenty competitors in a race was Sea King, for whom Mr Allerton jjaye 2350 guineas last year. Since that time he has never won a race, and failing again on this occasion, his disgusted owner sold him for 18 guineas. A Cboss Baby. — Nothing is so conduc 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 buby. All cross and crying babies need only Dr, Soule's American Hop Bitters to make them well and smilling. Young man, remember this. — Traveller. It is well known that Sir Charles Dilke does not intend to be frightened out of public life by the attaoks which are made upon him. whenever he re-appears. It is a fact that nearly all those who knew him intimately in the old days are rallying round him now, believing in his innocence, and that he is the victim of the most unhappy concatenation of circumstances. A private telegram received by the Hon. Mr Fergus (says the Wellington Press) from Auckland, informs him that his Excellency the Governor, now in that city, is very much indisposed, and that his return to Wellington will consequently in all probability bo delayed. Defective drainage is attributed as the cause of His Excellency's illness. [This is a queer way of putting it.l Joe Martin, a young Maorilad, ab out 16 years old, died at Awahuri on Tuesday night from consumption. The inhabitants were soon aware that thc r o was a death in the vicinity from the "mournful wail and firing of guns" which, according to their usual custom, is gone through every morning soon after daylight from the time of death until the corpse is interred. Tbe burial will take place on Sunday next, There is nothing which makes a business so attractive as novelty, and Mr Donkin, of the Ready Money Drapery, has a perfect knowledge of that important fact. To-day he advertises an entirely fresh stock of goods, drawing special attention to the boot and shoe department which has been replenished with all the best boot makes in England and the Colonies. The new lines in drapery are of good value m all the latest designs aad fashions. Says the Palmerston Times : — A suggestion was made at the last meeting of the Palmerstom school committee to resort to the old penny a week system to provide the funds for stationery. It has, however, been proved that the levying of this fee is illegal under the present system of free education, and it presents certain features also which render its adoption objectionable. We therefore trust the Committees will not attempt to reintroduce that system. An English paper, the Pictorial World, says : — " What would do more than anything else to prevent crimes of cruelty would be to pass a sentence which included the lash in every case of conviction of wilful violence. Nothing else would so effectually restrain the violent passions and oheck the systematic cruelties which inflict so much misery in the world about us. The Society for the Protection of Women would do much to further the mam end which it has m view if it would take up the question of inadequate sentences in caaeß where it has obtained convictions," Fbeß op Doctors. —The fee of doctors is an item that very many persons are interested in just at present. We believe the schedule for visits is $300, which would tax a man confined to his bed for a year, and in need of a daily visit, over i ftl.t'OO a year for medical attendance 1 alone ! < And one single bottle of Dr. i Soule's American Hop. Bitters takes in t time would save the g], ooo and all the 1 y©ar'a«ickuess.— Post, t