Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 88, 25 February 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of parliamentary papers. A new advertisement from Mr Haliday, saddler, will be published next week. We publish to-day tho railway time table for the Palmerston races oa March Ist. Sunday school anniveasary services will be held in the Methodist Church tomorrow. The R.M.S. Rimntaka is expected to reach Wellington, from Hobart, to-mor-row afternoon. We have to acknowledge receipt of the annual report of the Inspector of schools for the Wanganui district. The new railway station building work is beme* pushed on rapidly and will be oomploted early next month. We regret to learn that Mr T. R. Walton has been compelled to seek the protection of the bftukruptty court, **••

His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington will hold a Confirmation Service in St. John's church to-morrow at 11 a.m, Harry Laing ia willing to fight SlaViu after all ; but not until after he has polished off Matthews again, which will be very shortly now. Mr Alfred Eade has a new advertisement in to-day, by which he informs the public he is disposing Of his' wares on the most liberal terms. Notice is given to-day by the Official Assignee, Mr 3*. J. Scott, that a first and final dividend of 2s 11 Jd is now payable in the estate of W. J. Dust. A new advertisement appears to-day from Messrs Greenwood and Sons in which dates are given of their next visits to Feilding and Palmerston. The Nelson .V] ail says that the Hessian fly is nothing new, for it has been noticed on some of the Waimea farms for the last six years. The amount of saving effected in the i Defence I 'epartment by the retrenchment by the retrenchment recently made will amount to close on £10,000. The Manchester Road Board invite tenders up to noon on Saturday; 3rd March, for forming a portion of No. 6 j line, from Kimbolton road to Mr Phillip's j residence. Mr Oldham, of the Patea Meat Freezing Works, is making arrangements with the Railway Department to convey dead meat to Wellington two days a week. The meat (says the Herald) will be carried in specially constructed vans. The recent rain had a beneficial effect on the stock market. At Messrs Stevens and Gorton's last Awahuri sale there was a decided rise in sheep, some lines fetching 8s 3d. A mob for which only 4s was offered ut last Palmerston sale brought 7s 6d. By the steamer Richmond, which lately arrived in Auckland, tlie first ship ment of Tongan banana*- to this Colony arrived. The bunches are larger, and also the fruit, than those grown in Fiji, and should realise remunerative rates. The Tonga n Government have gone in for cultivating the China banana extensively, and have sent, for the mango and other tropical fruits, so that the Auckland market wili not be so much del pendent on Fiji in the future. A very large and choice assortment of Kaiapoi Clothing just opened at the Bed House ; they consist of the well**known Saddle Tweed Suits, also Boys' and Youths' Suits, Trousers, and Trousers and Vests. Go and inspect before buys ing elsewhere. — Advt. During the hearing of the Karamu sub- division case the othe> day one of the counsel engaged suggested tbat a portion of the land should be set aside to defray the costs. Chief Judge Macdonald, casting his eye over the array of lawyers present, caustically remarked, " Ob, then, you do expect that some will be left for the natives !" — Napier paper, 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 baby. All cross and crying babies need only Dr. Soule's American Hopßittersto make ihem well and smillmg. Young m.-in, remember this. — Traveller. Professor : "To contract is to make smaller; Jo expand is to enlarge. Cold contracts, heat expands. The operations cannot go on at the same time in ihe same ihing. If- -" Pupil : " Beg pardon, Professor, there nre some things* the more you contract the more they enlarge." " Ah, indeed ! Name some of them." " Debts, sir," Fkes of Doctors. — The fee of doctors i* an item that very many persons are interested in jnst 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 81,000 a year for medical attendance alone ! And one single bottle of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters taken in time would save the $1,000 and all the year's sickness. — Post. It is with extreme regret that we have to record the death of Mrs Leithbridge, of Turakina. Tbe deceased lady, the wife of au old and esteemed settler — and herself much respected and of influence among a wide circle of friends — was, we understand, m moderately good health only last Wednesday, when, on returning from a drive, she suddenly fell ill, aud died on the following day between 11 and 12 o'clock. Mrs Lethbridge death will bring sorrow into many homes in this and the adjoining districts, and will be heard of with sincere regret by many old residents outside of the circle of bereaved relatives and descendants of the Lethbridge family. — Advocate. Writing of ihe wool market the Lyttelton Times says :— It is a fact that population has grown faster than the flocks, and it is a fact that Continental wool** buyers, as well as American, are operatine with more freedom, at a time when freedom must seem to many commercially dangerous. It is probable, then, that the rise is due both to the signs ot crumbling in the barrier that closes the American market, and to the fact that the world outside of America requires more wool than it can easily buy. With the chance of a permanent revival in the European wool market, and of the opening of the American market of sixty million votaries of tbe faith in woollens, the future of the wool grower certainly begin** to look wonderfully bright. If these are the true. causes of the rise, the advance will not be "maintained" only because it will be still further increased. As every shilling per head of wool money means four millions a year to tbe wool* growers of Australnsia, they have no reason to be dissatisfied with their pros-, pect 8. 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. We have removed this Bankrupt Stock to our own premises because we h»*ve more light, more room, and more comfort, for customers at Te Aro House, WeU lington. We are altogether too busy to make out a price list, but Customers always expect some thumping bargains from i 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. 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 .oming to this Sale of Price's Bankrupt Stock at Te Aro Hou«*e, Wellington. This Bankrupt bale eon.r_en.et* on S-iturday, F« bruary lltb, at T* Aro Uomty Wfi-lKogtott,*