Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 96, 15 March 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Tne banks will be closed on Saturday in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Another wool sale will be advertised shortly by the N.Z.L. and M. Co. The owner of Dudu, winner of the Wanganui Cup, Mr W. H. Keith, has refused £1000 for the mare. The New Zealand Times says there is an alluvial goldfield not a hundred miles from the Wellington post office. The Wellington Press hears on the best authority that the shooting season will commence on the 29th instant. Attention is requested to G. M. Snelson and Co.'s sale of farm stock, etc., at Bunnythorpe to-morrow. The catalogue is au extensive one, and, as everything must be sold, we anticipate a large attendance of buyers. The ladies of Chnstchurch beat the gentlemen in a cricket match, the gentlemen having to use broomsticks for bats and play left handed. Two of the ladies were unfortunate enough to have recorded against them " dress before wicket." Mr Krull, German Consul for Wanganui. was a passenger by tram last night for Wellington, to attend the Lutheran service to be celebrated there on Sunday, in memory of the late Emperor of Germany. Anything more distressing than the untimely death of a little boy of seven, which i» just reported from Paris, it would be hard to imagine. The only son of a French tradesman was playing in his father's room, when he perceived tha J the safe was open. In a spirit of boyish fun he got into it. Presently the father came into the room, and before leaving for his day's work locked the Nafe, the child keeping silence the while. Soon the little Fellow was missed ; the police were called in, and a hue and cry raised. Next morning the father opened the safe- to find his son a corpse. The moral, of course, is obvious j but the story is horrible.

The comet was plainly visible here yesterday morning. A alight shook of earthquake was felt on the East Coast about 9 p.m. on Saturday last; We have to acknowledge receipt of copies of Mr J. F. Maxwell's remarks oh European railway systems. Eunice Cottrell, a lineal descendant of King Phillip, died in Connecticut at the age of one hundred and fifieen years. [Napier and Wanganui papers please copy.l I Colonel Trimble, ex-M.H.R. for Taranaki, has been requested by the Govern- ' ment to hold a preliminary inquiry into the administration of Ohurton College, and the estate intended for it? support. Having done so well, Mr S. Fagan has decided to stay another month in Feilding during whioh time he has determined to offer some decided bargains of a nature to be seen in his new advertisement, which appears to-day. : " . '-.. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will offer at their rooms, Fergusson street, on Saturday, March 24, the privileges in connection with the Feilding Jockey Club's annual meeting. Easter Monday being a general holiday, and no counter attractions on, the privileges should, realise good prices.

A Yankee having told an Englishman that he shot on one particular occasion 999 snipe, his interlocutor asked him why he did'nt make it 1000 at once. " No," said he : " it's not likely I'm going to tell a lie for one snipe." Whereupon the Englishman determined not to be out dope, began to tell a story of a man baying swam from Liverpool to Boston. " Did you see him yourself P*' asked the Yankee, suddenly. " Why, yes, of course I did ; I was coming the across Harbour." "Well. I'm glad yer saw him, stranger, 'cos yer a witness that E did it. That was me." The St. James' Gazette, in an article on furs, remarks that whilst rewards are being offered for the destruction of rabbits as vermin in New Zealand, the dealers in fur trimmings and felt hats on this side are extracting from the skins of these destructive animals a remunerative business. Many millions cf skins are sold annually' in London alone, and the trade is a highly profitable one. Goods which you colonists are glad to dispose of for mere nothing realise substantial sums retailed. For example, I am told that a fine skin, worth a few pence (often not that) in the rough, can be cut up into the little fur|collarettes and cuffs vow so fashionable and sold for from ten to fifteen shillings. Surely this subject is worth while ventilating in the colonial press. Why should London* em reap 'he entire profits of New Zea» land rabbit skins P