Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 110, 17 April 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ • We have to apologise to those of our subscribers who did uot get their papers of Saturday until yesterday morning. Owing to a break down of our machinery we had to send the paper to Palmerston to be printed by Mr W. H. Smith, the proprietor of the Manawatu Daily Times, to whom we now tender our best thanks for the prompt way in which he rendered us a rery important service. Mr Jensen completed the repairs to our printing press this morning, and he has made an excellent job of the work. Those who go to Broken Hill may come back broke and iIL The Rev. Reginald Hermon, of Nelson, will preach at Mangaone this evening. The question of lighting Cook's Strait will shortly be considered by the Government. Stevens and Gorton held a stock sale at Awahun to-day. A full report will i appear in our next issue. ! The tender of Mr Ralph Heald has been accepted for the erection of a cottage, on Makino road, for Mrs Holme*. Tho caae Milverton v. the Borough of Palmerston has been adjourned to the June session of the Supreme Court in Wellington. Meskrg Travers, Bell, aad Jellieoe went to Wanganui by train toaday to attend the Supreme Court sittings. Th» latter baa been retained by Mr Charles Henry for his defence. A new advertisement appeara to-day from Mr John Gould in which he announces a reduction in the price of bread, also a notice of thanks to those friends who so kindly assisted to save the Temperance Hotel from destruction by fire, on Sunday night. It is said that several English gentlemen who intended to settle in New South Wales have been bo disgusted with the fights and rows in the Legislature that they hare refnsed to cast in their lot with a community whose repetentative men were such blackguards. Mr Clemens, conductor of the Makino Brass Band, desires to convey to Mr S. Daw and the members of the Feilding Brass Band, the thanks of the Makino Band for the valuable and willing assistance rendered at the funeral of their late member, W. B. Bishop, on Sunday 2aat. The purchasing public (especially those who pay cash) will be pleased to learn that S. J. Thompson, of the Red House is now marking off his first autumn and winterimportationsofdrapery. Theextentand variety has never been greater than at present at the Red House. It ever has and always will be the aim of the proprietor to make the Red House the cheapest Warehouse iv Feilding. — Advt. The Under- Secretary for Crown lands has written to the Commi««ioncr of Crown Lands instructing him thnt all special settlement *<f lertors may increase their holding* to 320 a ores at any time, provided that the areas are contiguous. This win reported to the Land Board yesterday, and it was decided thai transfers should hr made on the same tr mm as with the ordinary deferred payment sccUoua.

Additions are being made to the stock yards at the railway station. The Kiwitea Road Board will meet next Saturday. If we may judge from the Daily Telegraph, when a wicked Napier man dies, he goes to Wanganui. A paper is to be started at Danevirke shortly, the name of which will be the Bush Advocate. It will need a bush lawyer to run it. j Benata Kawepo, the well - known j Hawke's Bay chiaf, died on Saturday last. He was a gallant fighter, and a firm friend of the pakeha. The whooping cough is very prevalent in Makino among children, and we are sorry to learn there have been two fatal cases. Sandon people are about to erect a town hall. It is high time for the Feilding people to awake and move in the same direction. i The Woodville Examiner mentions that Mr J. Corkery, of Feilding, managed to secure three second prizes at the Woodville Horticultural show. The Wellington papers are somewhat annoyed because Mr Jelhcoe, the celebrated counsel, compared that city to Sodom and Gomorrah for its vices. Eecruits are joining the Manchester Rifles rapidly, and those recently sworn m are all smart young men of good physique and appearance. The sparring match between Laing and Slavin will take place on Wednesday, the 25th instant. All places of worship will be closed in Watganui on that day. We notice that the New Zealand University Senate has recommended that Mr C. J. Cooke, late of Awahuri, be reported to the Minister of Education, as having passed the C. examination. A dog cart has just beon finished by Mr Saywell, coachbuilder, to the order of Mr Edward Smith, of Taonui road, which is in every way creditable to the builder, being well finished, elegantly painted, and constructed of the best material. Some thirty persons, concerned m the case of fiegiua v. Charles Henry, of Feilding. for alleged arson, to be heard in the Supreme Court, Wanganui, the sittings of which commenced to-day, proceeded to Wanganui by tram last evening. A|>oung lad named David Grainey, about 11 years of age, accidentally fell over a quarry face at Grey mouth on Sunday morning from a height of 70 or 80 feet. Although not dead there is little hope of his recoverj. On Saturday night the vacant space between the Railway Station and the Post Office was a regular mantrap. It goes without saying there was no lamp placed to warn folks of the dangerous pitfall which existed so that several persons — fortunately only strangers who are not ratepayers in the Borough — leaving the train and making tor the town lights, fell down the face of the ramp and were much bruised, besides being dreadfully alarmed. A lamp should be put up at once or we fear we will have a fatal accident to chronicle. WoKKiNo«MKy. — Before you begin your heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation, your system needs cleansing and strengthening to prevent an attack of A sue. Bilious or Spring Fever, or some other Spring sicknes that will udui jou for a season's work. You will save time xnacb sickness and expense if you will use one bottle of Dr Soul's Atneri* can Hop Bitters in your family this month. Don't wait " Burlington Hawk eye." The funeral of the late William B. Bishop which was held on Sunday afternoon, was very largely atttended. The cortege was headed by the Makino and Feilding brass bands, deceased having been a member of the former, next came the hearse with the coffin, which was followed by carnages containing Messrs John and Peter Bartholomew, uncles of deceased, and other relatives or connections and friends of the family. There were twentyvfive carriages in all, and upwards of a hundred horsemen, while about the same number of persons were on foot. On arriving at the cemetery the Bey. H. M. Murray performed the last offices, at the conclusion of which the bands played "The Vital Spark" the strains of which found a responsive echo in the hearts of eyeryone present. The warmest sympathy has been expressed on all sides with the relatives of the deceased young man, and it must haye been a gratifying evidence to them of the good esteem in which they are held by all classes of the community, when they looked over the assemblage gathered together to do honor to the remains of their young relative whose days had been so suddenly shortened. Fob the Autumn and Winter Seasons we have received the latest fashions id every department, which have just come to hand by ths steamers Coptic and Him utake, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. We have for the last ten days beea busily engaged in opening eat and marking off many thousands of pounds worth of the choicest, freshest B.nA cheapest loto of goodn for Autumn and Winter wear, that it was possible to get for love or money, at Aro House, Wellington. Thb contents of eaoh case were nar» rowly scanned, and closely criticised as to weight, color, finish, appesrance, &c, and we oan safely say that no such admirable selection aud no each first class value have ever as yet been offered to the public of this city by either Wholesale or Retail drapers, or «yen at Te Aro House, Wellington. Wk quite expect this display of Autuma and Winter Fabrics will cause a seasation, as well it might. Indeed, we are certain that no one oould look long at the lovely things that w« are shewing without feeling an irresistable desire to purchase at Te Aro House, Wellington.