Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 90, 1 March 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Nominations for the Feildmg Jockey Club races will be received on Saturday ■ night. | Another paper is about to appear at Hamilton, Waikafco. It ia to be called the Telegraph. We hare to acknowledge) receipt of Typo for February. As usual it is interand ineiruehye.

Diphtheria is prevalent in New Plymouth. There -will be a dance in the Foresters' Hall to-night, The Feilding Brass Band will play at the show to-night. Their services have also been engaged for the races at Sandon on the 17th instant. The new issue of Bank of hew Zealand one pound notes " came into force" today. We hope to see quite a number of them this week. Northern papers complain that rats are devastating the apple crops. We will back some 6f our Feilding boys against the rodents any day in the week. All the bad tobacco in the colony iB to be bought up and used tolexterminate the Hessian fly. This will be death to the ! cigarette business, but life to " our boys." An addition is made to-day to the ad- | vertisement of Mr James Fenton, the proprietor of the Eoyal Hotel, Palmerston North, showing the running of the coaches to Napier and Masterton. | In our last issue we published as a cure I for blight in fruit treesa, the plan of boring a hole in the trunk, filling it with i ' sulphur and putting in a plug. We are | informed that about two years ago this mode was adopted in several instances in Feilding orchards, and has not proved a success. | A new advertisement appears to-day from Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co. the ereat watoh manufacturers, of Auckland. The firm has long been favorably known on this coast for the. excellence of the articles supplied, combined with extreme moderation in their charges. The members of the Young New Zealand party do not appear to have been far wrong when they opposed in parliament all new Harbor Loan Bills. If we may judge from our contemporaries, every Harbor Board in the colony is bankrupt, with the one glorious exception of Wellington. Mr 0, Sotulte, of Palmerston North, has just opened a splendid assortment of guns, and as the shooting season is about to commence, there is bound to be a large demand for these really good firearms. The lamps now opened up compromise a wonderful variety, and are well worth inspection. Mr S. J. Thompson, of the Bed House, is again to the fore in business enterprise, and announces the receipt of a consignment of men's and boys^ tweed suits from the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory. Mr Thompson has also laid in a full stock of the celebrated " Zealandia boots," including the " indestructible toe and dependable boot brands." Mr Thompson's new ad* vertisement will appear next issue. A few days after Laing defeated Matthews a paragraph appeared in this journal to the effect his victory had made Laing so popular with the Maoris, that if the West Coast Maori electorate seat were vacant Laing would, if he liked, soon put M.H.B. after bis name. The joke has expanded as it travelled, and the Melbourne Leader of February 9th gravely informed its readers that Slavin had defeated Laing for the representation in Parliament of Manganui (Wanganm). Melbourne must think New Zealanders are like the Sydney people who have prize fights in the House of Parliament. The name of Te Aro House is fast becoming a household word throughout this district, and the enterprising pro prietor, Mr James Smith, is determined the reputation of his establishment shall be permanent. He to«day publishes another " inset," as a supplement to the SrAH, on one side of which will be found a well-displayed catalogue of the goods, and the prices at which he is selling Price's bankrupt stock at Te Aro House, and on the side a quantity of interesting reading matter. X nis great sale is be* coming famous on account of the enor» uious bargains offering. Ik 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 have 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 Bankrupt Stocks, and they will most assuredly get at this Sale more astonishing ones than they have ever seen or heard of in their lives at Te Aro House, Wellington. Counts y Residents should rush to train early and eagerly. Bailway fares are now cheap enough and all Customers will save their fares many times over by coming to this Sale of Price's Bankrupt Stock at Te Aro House, Wellington. This Bankrupt Sale commences on Saturday, February 11th, at Te Aro House, Wellington.