Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 108, 12 April 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Deer are being introduced to the Chatham Islands. It has been estimated by competent judges (says the Taranaki Herald) that , the value of the Taranaki grass seed harvest this year is £25,000. The Bell is very sore because Lamg beal Matthews and makes it a personal naattei between Auckland and Wanganui. Lain| happens to be a F eliding mau, Tenders are invited for forming, culverting, and laying about thirty chainf ■ of tramway at Aehhurst. For furthei » particulars see advertisement. r Mr Thomas Evans notifies by advertisment in another column, that all persons trespassing on his section, next to Mi Lankshear's, on the Awakuri road, wil' be prosecuted. We forgot to remind our readers m oui last issue, of Mr J. C. Thompson's thauki to those who assisted at the fire whicl occurred on his premises on Tuesday morning. t A startling inset will appear on Satur- , day next from the Red House. The re . duced prices for the great cash sale wil [ appear therein. Meanwhile the sale i s already proceeding. 1 A correspondent to a southern news r paper suggests that all Government wor] i should be done by prison labor. It woul s be cheaper and there would be no necessity - sity for pensions or retiring allowances. ' A public meeting 16 called by his Wor 8 ship the Mayor, to be held in the Fores 1 ters' Hall on Wednesday next at 8 o'cloc! B ir_ the evening to consider what step • should be taken by the burgesses an householders for the prevention of fires. i, By reference to our advertising column ; lt will be seen that Messrs Clarke an ; Co., drapers and clothiers, will hold i, great salvage sale, in Glasgow House, c n the whole of their stock saved irom th late fire. The sale commences on Saturday ] day next. A new advertisement will appear fro. ■ Mr Oolville on Saturday next. In th meantime, we are informed by Mr Col ville, that Mr Moran, lately of Welling • ton, will, on and after Saturday, tak - charge of the Feilding branch of th business. - Mr W. B. Retemeyer has opened produce mart in the premises formed occupied by Messrs Loudon and Hay bittle, next to Mr 0. Brown's shop. W wish Mr Retemeyer every success in hi venture, for which there is a good openin in Feilding. About 18 pearling luggers returned t a Thursday Island early this month froi the Louisades. All report that the wat< 6 is too deep and shells are scarce, and th y weather has become too boisterous f< r pearling operations. Nine divers wei ' paralysed for four months, and six < •- them died in South Australia. In describing a boat to be used in due h hunting, now being built for Mr Lloyc >> of Awahuri, a typographical error make the p-ragraph absurd. We intended 1 '« say tho boat '• was being made light f< r convenience of portage," but the lai l- word was priuted " postage," which is c very different thing. Mr Ornaond has written to a friend i t Woodyille (says the Examiner), statin :- that the Minister of Public works has v r formed him that the plane and specified r tions of the Pohangina bridge, Woodvillt Palmerston railway, are almost complete) ' and that tenders will be called for th p work as soon as they are ready. 8 The filthy condition of some of th bank notes now in circulation in th: 0 colony (says the Post) was commentc g upon by Mr Justice Richmond on Moe c day afternoon. His Honor said it wa a disgraceful to the population of New Zea 8 land that they should submit to havin c such dirty paper circulated amongst thei p £ with the danger of carrying disease. A strong evidence of the progress bera - made by the Birmingham Small Fan % Settlement is to be found in the advei tisement of Messrs Fowler Bros., stow 1 keepers in the township named after then The enterprise and businesslike energy c a that firm is only a type of the settlei l who are surrounding them. With sue men placed on land possessing so man advantages, the prosperous future of th - settlement is placed beyond d-übt. j WottKiNG-Mny. — Before you begi q your heavy spring work after a winter o _ relaxation, your system needs cleansin ,t and strengthening to prevent an attac c of Ague. Bilious or Spring Fever, o ,f some other Spring sicknes that will unfi ,_ you for a season's work. You will say 8 time much sickness and expense if yo _ will use one bottle of Dr Soul's Ameri 3 can Hop Bitters in your family thi . month. Don't wait "Burlington Hawk 0 fi ye." f Goodfellow, the well-known athlete a & Adelaide, who fired a revolver at hi •1 sweetheart, tut fortunately missed her 8 was charged with the offence at th Supreme Court on Friday last. Tn ;, prisoner alleged as the reason fer the ac c that the girl had jilted him. He wa sentenced to seven years' hard laboui During the trial the revolver, which wa ' produced in Court, accidentally exploded '» the shot narrowly misemg the Judge. c A peculiar accident happened to ; q woman named Evans in Melbourne las week. A large whirlwind overtook hei and lifted her up bodily for a few feet • and in falling she dulocated her shoulde 8 and sustained other injuries necpssitatini here removal lo the Hospital, where sh< h now lies bewailing her hard fate that _h< n can't bring an action for damages agains •s anybody. r The London buyer of a large Wellinga on drapery 6rm lately went in heavily or 8 the Stock Exchange as a plunger, anc before long managed to lose £23,000 be' 1 longing to his employer. He then made vi - his mind to commit snicide, but bef op . accomplishing the feat he wrote his obi B tuary notice tor the Times, in which h« t stated that his death was "sudden." H< j read the notice, und shot himself. 8 The purchasing public (especially those i who pay cash) will be pleased to learr 3 that S. J. Thompson, of the Red Hours ii 8 now marking off his first autumn and wiutenmportationsofdrapery. Tbeextentand variety has never been greater than a I 5 present at the Tied Houee. It over ha< 1 and always will he th© aim of the pro- • prietor to mako the Red Elouee the cheap- • eet Warehouse In Feilding;— Auvt.

The town was crowded to-day with | persons attending P. R. Jackson & Co's ! sale. A report will appear in our next issue. Although Mickey Keen may be confined to his bed with a broken leg, yet he has an eye to business and announces in j our wanted column to-day that he has | boots and shoes of the best makes at prices to suit every one. , A Canterbury jockey, who recently had ' occasion to visit a small race meeting ' I down south, is, says the Lyttelton Times, entertaining his Ricarrton friends with gome amusing accounts of the vagaries ' of a Gaelic j'idge. After the raoe for the . principal event, the youngster asserts, the '■ Clerk of Course rode up to the judge and t asked which horse had won. The ©c« ' cupant of the ' cuair' hesitated for a few - i moments, and then, removing his clay j and pointing with its item to a mutual t acquaintance on the opposite side of the r course, exclaimed, ' I'm d dif I r ' know ; ask Bill M'Cormick.' A Good Housewife.— The good house* . I wife, when she is giving her house its 3 1 spring renovating, should bear in mind r that the dear inmates of her house are more precious than many houses, and that their systems need cleansing by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels to prevent and core , the diseases arising from spring malaria and miasma, and she must know that there is nothing that will do it so per* f fectly and surely as Dr Soole's American 8 | Hop Bitters, the purest and best of mcdi- - cines. " Concord N . H. Patriot." An application was made in the Sydney Supreme Court on behalf of E. B. Holt - late mannger of the Bank of New Zea« - land, and now a prisoner in Darlinghurst, 1 for an order restraining the trustees of 8 his insolvent estate from disposing of his interest in the lease of the Rose Hill - Racecourse to the IBank of New Zeak land. Mr Justice Owen dismissed the d application, remarking that as the pris- - oner's interest was purchased with moneys stolen from the Bank, Holt would obtain ,_ no consideration in an equity Court, " whatever a law Court might allow. k The business which has been so suets cessf ully carried on at the < /ash Exchange, d F eliding, is about to change hands this week, as the present proprietor, Mr F. Train, is obliged to leave for England. 18 The purchasers, Messrs Cobbe a_,d Dard ragh, have secured Mr Train's stock at a * very low price, and intend to re-open the " premises on Saturday ; they will hold a 16 monster Cash Clearing Sale, commencing *~ on next Monday, and as theirs will be a genuine sale, the public would act wisely a in deferring their purchases until they ie have inspected some of the bargains to be I- offered l>y Messrs Cobbe and Darragh. ■~ Their advertisement will appear in a :e few days. 16 A correspondent of the Telegraph who does not wish his communication to be a published, states that if the Hawk's Bay [y Timber Company is a combination of r - saw-millers for the purposs of raising r e the price of timber, then it will be is found that an opening has been created ig for the re-introduction of kauri in this district. We are also informed that the ;o Palmerston mill-owners are on the watch to slide into the trade of Hawk's Bay, 91 . and their successful Under for supplying ie timber for a building nt Hastings some 3r time back shows that (hey are capable of re doing so. jTotara from Palmerston is o f sold, we are told, at Wellington at 12s 6d per hundred. This price fit Napier would not pay our Seventy- mile Bush saw'k millers. Whether it is the railway freight i. on this line, or a different system of 38 management nt the mills, we do not know, t° hut this much is certain— they do things 5r differently on the otherside of the Gorge. at a For the Autumn and Winter Seasons we have received the latest fashions in in every department, which have just come ig to hand by the steamers Copuc and Rimi. utake, at the Wholesale Family Drapery i. Warelouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. 3. We have for the last ten days been i, busily engaged in opening oat and \q marking off many thousands of pounds worth of the choicest, freshest and cheapest lots of goods for Autumn l . c and Winter wear, that it was possible to 18 get for love or money, at Aro House, 1(1 Wellington. l " The contents of each case were nar» 18 rowly scanned, and closely criticised as l ~ to weight, color, finish, appearance, <fee, '£ and we can safely say that no such adm mirable selection and no saoh first class value have ever as yet been offered to the { g public of this city by either Wholesale or rQ Retail drapers, or even at Te Aro House, »_ Wellington. t _ WEquite expect this display of Autumn i. and Winter Fabrics will cause a sensa)f tion, as well it might. Indeed, we are rs certain that no one could look long at ,h the lovely thingß that we art shewing y without feeling an irresistable desire to te purchase at Te Aro House, Wellington. Ode time has been so fully taken up lately with preparing these new goods for n sale that we are not just now able to >f enumerate the various items. Shortly K we shall do so, but in the meantime we * would invite all and sundry to come and ! r see our display as a preparatory step lt towards making yoar purchases for the c Antnmn and Winter Season at the v Wholesale Family Draperj Warehouse, * Te Aro House, Wellington.