Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 105, 5 April 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet this evening. There will be no mass in St. Bridget's Church to-morrow. A portion of a carriage lamp lies at this office awaiting an owner. Sir George Grey will take a trip to England after next session. A letter ib published in our correspondence column on the subject of early closing of business places in Feilding. A notice of dissolution of the partnership existing between Alfred Atkins and F. de J. Clere, architects, appears to-day. The gift auction in aid of the funds of the Church of England will be held on the 27th instant. Intending donors are requested to note the advertisement. The N. Z. Times says Fitone, and the Post says Petone. Surely two large, influential, well conducted metropolitan papers might agree on a little .matter like that. The Customs revenue for the financial year has exceeded Sir Harry Atkinson's estimate by £6225, the amount collected being £1,256,225, as against estimated receipts £1,250,000. The beer duty, on the other hand, has fallen short of the estimate by £2007, the sum received being £61,993, whereas the estimate was £54,000. The Eailway revenue is also less than the estimate, but most of the other items come fairly up to the mark, on a general average. The Premier's estimate as to the deficiency against expenditure on 31 Bt March has proved to be a very close approximation to the actual figures, so far as these are at present roughly ascertained. — N. Z. Times. With reference to a remark made in our report of the last Feilding raceß, to the effect that the course was in very bad 'order owing to the rain which had fallen on the previous days, the secretary, Mr Sandilands, informs us the owners of horses were perfectly satisfied with its condition, and had it been known the course was in such good running order several horses, conspicuous by their absence, would have been entered. In this connection " Hermit," in the Manawatu Times says :— " The course, too, was slippery and heavy, and has some sharp turns, which in most races, had the effect of sending the horses off. If this could be remedied for the next year, it would be an improvement, and probably draw larger fields than were the case on Monday."

Mr Tripe, dentist, arrived in Feilding to-day, and may be consulted at Hastie's FeUding Hotel. Mr Tripe will be ia Feilding until Monday next. A young man named Scoular/ of Welling, has been lost m the bush at Shannon since Good Friday. Search parties ; went out and found him yesterday. . \ Mr Wishart lost one of his horses by drowning at Hartley's Bend in the Manawatu river, when on his way with a two horse team to work at the wreck of the Pleione. j The Post condemns the railway Department for altering the hours of running trains on Wellington race days as j the delay throws all the. ordinary traffic out of gear. * Are you a Home Ruler P' was asked of. one of the. candidates at a late election. A voice from the back seat answred : No, but his wife is.* 'How easy a man may make a mistake that he will regret a lifetime,' feelingly observes a writer. It is inferred that he was recently married. People who always mind their own business in the world always get rich faster than people of the other kind do, but they lose lots of fun. Young wife petulantly): 'Well, if even I don't come to meet you every night as I used, what does it signify ?' Young husband: 'That we have been married six months.' Captain Bendall, marine surveyor, is opinion the Pleione, with proper appliances used in the right way, can be floated without any serious difficulty. The ship is still perfectly sound. The whole of the volunteer encampments and reviews held in the colony this Easter have been attended with success. It is worthy of note in this connection, that local commanders were, in each instance, at the head. " Women are unreasonable creatures,' observed Brown. " Now there's my wife* Before we were married, when I went to see her, she always thought it was too early for to go home, and now I can't go home early enough to suit her." Sir Wilfrid Lawson, speaking at Edinurgh the other night, said that in Ireland at the present time the way to get into the House of Com mo us was to «et into prison; and the way to get into the House of Lords was to get into a brewe y. Rosma Nichols, wife of a hotel keeper at Waitara, attempted to commit suicide on Tuesday. Her huebaud locked her up to keep her from drink, but she got out aud jumped into the river. She wad brought up and remanded for eight days. 'Excuse me, madam, but I should like to ask why you look at mo so savagely ?' 'Oh, I beg pardon, sir; I tookj'ou for my husband.' On Tuesday last a service of humiliation and prayer was held in the Presbyterian Church, Invercargill, when sevyeral persons engaged m prayer for warmth and sunshine in place of wind and storm, in order that the. fruits of the soil might be saved from destruction. V Mr T. F. Rotheram has been appointed head of the Locomotive Department for the colony. His head quarters will be in Wellington. .Mr Beattie, the present manager of workshops in Wanganui, will be removed to Wellington. These promotions carry no additions to salaries. The Wanganui Herald says : — Mr Keith returned to Wanganui yesterday, but so far no. news has been received as to whether Dudu's nomination for the N.Z. Cup will be accepted. — Mr Parsons of the Rntland Hotel had his eyes opened as to<tha meaning of stamp duty, having had to pay no less than £60 m Btamps on conoludmg the purchase of the Rutland Hotel. On March 3, Mr Gladstone returned thanks lo 250 clergymen of the. Church of England for the memorial drawn up by them in favor of Home Rule. He said he believed it would have the effect of greatly widening the growing conviction that neither honor nor advantage can be gained by continued refusal to accord the moderate and constitutionally expressed demand of the Irish people. Wo have been favored by Mr J. R. Anderson with a view of some samples of copper ore found in the Pohangina. In our opinion it is very hungry looking indead, but still good enough to encourage prospecting for better specimens. Mr Anderson informs us the Woodville people are highly pleased with the results of the assays made of some ore found in chat neighborhood. We hope their most brilliant anticipations will be fully realised. WoKKiNfI*MKK. — Before you begin your heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation, your system needs cleansing and strengthening to prevent an attack of Ague, Bilious or Spring Fever, or some other Spring sicknes that will unfit you for a season's work. You will save time tnooh sickness and expense if you will hso one bottle of Dr Soul's Ameri* can Hop Bitters in your family this month. Don't wait " Burlington Hawk eye." The parish minister of C, in Scotland, was examining a class of small boys on their reading exercises. The lesson was on the life of a pious man. The minister, in order to test the intellects of the boys, told them he would give a penny to the boy who should first tell him what a pious man was. Silence reigned for a moment, and then a tousle-headed urchin at the bottom of the class, whose joyful face proclaimed that he was in possession of the grand secre', snapped his fingers in great glee and shouted out; "I ken't — I kent, Mr Minister!" "Well, my little boy, will you kindly inform us what it means?" "It's a man that bakes pic p/ sir." A Good Housewife. — The good house* wife, when .she is' giving her house its ! spring renovating, should bear in mind that the dear minatps of her house are more precious than many housesjr and that their sjßtems need cleansing by purifying the hlood. regulating the stomach and bowels to prevent and cure the dispases arising from spring malaria and miasma, and she moat know that there is nothing that will do it so per* fectly and surely as Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters, the purest and best of medicines. " Concord N . H. Patriot" A worthy .priest, at Goulbura. New South Wales, had been giving his flock some good practical advice. In a recent sermon he forcibly urged upon them the fulfilment of a much neglected duty —to pay the printer. This portion of his discourse deserves to be printed in prominent type in every paper m the world :— ' How often,' said the good paotoi*, ' hnd the proprietors to lose heavy amounts in paper and poßtnge stamps! and how often did they lose all P To take their papers and not pay for them was positive dishonesty.* Scoffers may talk dibly of the decline of tho pulpit, but while sound do trine like this is preached t.Jie plilpit w'lll remain a power in the Innd.

Footballers are reminded of the practice on the Oral at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, ! There are splendid crops Of grass seed all over the Manchester and Kiwitea blocks. Inspector James is now on leave of absence on full pay. He retires from the service at the end of his leave. , A meeting of Justices of the Peace wil! be held in Palmerston to-morrow to revise the jury list. We have in our possession an envelope addressed to J.H.S., Feilding, New Zealand, Java. Such is fame. The Bank of New Zealand, for the future, will open at Halcombeon Wednesday in each week. .j A meeting of the Stewards of the Feildmg Jockey Club will be held at the .Em?' , pire Hotel (Mr Oliver's) on Saturday 1 evening at half past eight. ! j The funeral of the late Mrs Weston will leave the residence of Mr Charles Bull, Aorangi, to-morrow at two o'olock ; in the afternoon. '■•' When Harry Laiag goes over to Sydney, it is expected he will be selected by j a constituency as their representative in Parliament, to "put the set" on Mr McElhone when he gets mad. There is perhaps more room for the exercise of tact amd good sense in the mode of judiciously advertising, than in any other branch of a business man's education, and we congratulate the firm of j. C. Morey and Co. on the notices which appear to-day in their general advertisement, and in our wanted column. They meet every requirement, and yet possess the charm of startling novelty. Yesterday a man was hawking hares in Feilding. As hares are not in season, as he ha.d neither a license to -shoot, nor a license to sell game, it is just within the limits of possibility he may hear more of the matter. From what we can learn, it appears " a friend" told him a notice would appear in the Government Gazette authorising the destruction of hares as vermin, on April I—"Very1 — "Very like a whale." A splendid opportunity will be offered to persons desirous of obtaining some valuable building sites m Feilding at the land sale of Messrs F. R. Jackson & Co., to be held on Thursday, the 12th instant, at their auction rooms, Kimbolton road. The sections are situated on the Railway Line, Hobson, Bowen, Eyre, and Duke streets, and all are admirably adapted for private residences. They will be sold entirely without reserve. The sections in the town of Haloombe will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. After reading the report of the business done by the Wellington Manawatn Railway Company last year, we are con* firmed in the opinion it would pay the colony well to give the 'management of the Government line as far as New Ply mouth, to the directors of that company and their able manager Mr James Wallace. The parsimony of Queen Victoria has become proverbial, but the last story illustratire of this unworthy trait of the English sovereign caps the climax. It ia to the effect that the Queen presented herservants at Balmoral, Windsor, and Osborne, with gorgeous liveries on the occasion of her Jubilee, but that, she deducted the cost of the fine clothes from the servants' wages. In a letter to a brother practitioner. Dr. Gibbes, of New Plymouth, says:— " Our Hchool.B are closed here owing to diphtheria being in town and being spread by them. The number of cases I have seen to date is forty-eight in twenty-nine families. The blue gum constant steam has been a great success, I not having lost a case so far. I was doubtful at first as to its being true diphtheria until I saw. a child suffering from paralrsis after it, which, of coarse, decided the point. Fob the Autumn and Winter Seasons we have receired the latest fashions in every department, which have just come to hand by the steamers Cop' ic and Rimutake, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. Wb have for the last ten days been busily engaged in opening oat and marking off many thousands of pounds worth of the choicest, freshest and cheapest lots of goods for Autumn and Winter wear, that it was possible to get for love or money, at Aro House, Wellington. The contents of each case were nar» rowly scanned, and closely criticised as to weight, color, finish, appearance, Ac, and we can safely nay that no such admirable selection aud no such first class value have ever hs yet been offered to the public of this city by either Wholesale or Retail drapers, or «yen at Te Aro House, Wellington. We quite expect this display of Autuma and Winter Fabrics will cause a sensation, as well it might. Indeed, we are certain that no one could look long at the lovely things that we are shewing without feeling an irresistable desire to purchase at Te Aro House, Wellington. Oub time has been so fully taken up lately with preparing these new goods for sale that we are not just now able to enumerate the various items. Shortly we shall do so, but in the meantime we would invite all and sundry to come and see our display as a preparatory step towards making jour purchases for the Autumn and Winter Season at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. Patterns of the new goods will be forwarded free by post on application to James £mith, Te Aro House, Wellington.