Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 94, 10 March 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

We have to acknowledge receipt of the New Zealand edition of the lHustiated Australian News. The Manchester team returned from Oamaru on Friday. They speak in high terms of the pleasures of the trip. We learn from the Waipawa Mail that Messrs Hastie and Tindall have invented and patented a lungworm exterminator. There was a very large influx of visitors to-day to attend F. R. Jackson and Co.'s sale which took place this afternoon. The Westport Coal Company employs nearly 600 hands, pays nearly £70,000 in wages and over £40,000 in freight a year. This is better than a gold mine. "Yes," he said with a moist smile, " when 1 gets up in the morning I'm a beer barrel, and when I goes to bed of a night, I'm a barrel of beer." Such is life. A correspondent in another column speaks very highly of the site of the new township of Apiti in the Feilding Small Farm Block. A correspondent enquires " Do hares and rabbits chew the cud ?" They do not. The only ruminating animals are those which have horns and cloven feet. "Auld Cioutie" — to wit. Extei? sive frauds have been committed in the Devonport Dock3'ards, at Home, by the workmen using Government material for private work during the hours paid for by the Government. „ We have to asknowledge receipt of a manifesto from the New Zealand Radical Reform League of Auckland, entitled "A Land Tax — what its effects are." The first reason advanced m favor of a land tax is — because it is the primary cause of all wealth. This is simply " tommy rot.'' A runaway happened on Thursday afternoon in Mr Whisker's place on the Awahuri road. Mr Newell, of Makino, left his trap and horse standing just inside the gate. Something startled tne animal which bolted in the direction of a creek. Fortunately the bolt was seeu by Mr McKeague, who, with great presence of mind, rushed up and, catching the terrified horse by the reins, brought it to a stand still before any great damage was done. A new rule has been issued by th c Police Department respecting the attendance of the force at sports, races, etc., where a charge is made at the gates. The management of such gathering will be required to requisition the Officer-in-Charge of the Police District for the number of men he shall consider necessary to preserve order on the occasion, and will at the same time g-uarantee the actual expense of men and horses so employed, as also the cost of transit, if any. A petition to the Borough Council is being signed in Wanganui by the wives and daughters of residents, praying that a stop be put to glove fights and all public boxing exhibitions in the Borough. The contention is, these are the causes of assembling together all the blackguards in the colony in the fair town of Wanganui, to the manifest injury of the youth of both sexes, who are contaminated by breathing even the same atmosphere with |so many evil minded scoundrels. We wish the petitioners success. Shrewdness & Ability.— Dr. Soules' American Hop Bitters so freely advertised in all the papers, secular and religi. ous, are having a large sale, and are supplanting all other medicines. There is no denying the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters have shown great shrewdness and ability in compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to every one's observation. — ' Examiner and Chronicle.' In tbe 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 i more light, more room, and more comfort, for customers at Te Aro House, WeU lington. Wb are altogether too busy to make out a price list, but Customers always expect some thumping bargains from Bankrupt Stocks, and tliey will most as* xu redly 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 coming to this Sale of Price's Bankrupt Stock at Te Aro House, Wellington. This Bankrupt Sale commence* on Ssturda.v. F<lnuary 11th, at Te Aro House-, Wellington,