The Feilding Star TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1888. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 113, 24 April 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1888. Local and General News

A dance will be held in the Foresters' Hall to-night. The Kiwitea local option poll will be taken to-morrow. Mr England, headmaster of the Sandou school, has rescued the position. A meeting of tho Band of Hope will be held to-morrow eveuing in the Methodist Chapel. Wo regret to learn from the Herald that diphtheria haa broken out in Wangauui. Mr Keen, we are glad to learn, is getting on well and will soon be able to attend to business. At a meeting yesterday of the backers and principals in the Laing-Slavin match. Mr J. Ohaafe, of Auckland, was appointed rofereo, and Mr S. Powell timekeeper. Tawhiao, tho Maori King, has sent word by borne f needs that he will probably arrive in \Vanganui to-day ior the Putiki meeting which commences to-morrow. The Wniieanui School committee have a credit l>nlnnce of about £'40. The j rotintry school committees find their ' bnlanceß the other side. Refreshing showers of warm rain commenced to fall in this neighborhood yesterday afternoon doms mi'c.h RorxJ to griiM^ ami making loud fur »lock abundant.

Onopard, »n escaped French convict from New * ule loni , luis been arrested on 1 two chnrges of houxobreaking in Aurklnnd. Stolen articles were found in his ; possession. Mr Francis Sidoy has l>eon elected the i first Mayor of the now borough of Mcl- '• rose, near Wellington city. Mr Sidey is a very old settler in Wellington where he is highly respected. We are pleased to notice that tha authorities have carried out a suggestion we made a few weeks ago, and by removing a portion of the writing table given more standing room in tho lobby of the Po9t Office. i The Rer Augustus Litttlejohn the I once famous revivalist and fellow laborer of John B. Gough, died in the Almshouse at Paw, Mich, a few months ago, and hia remains were consigned to a pauper's grave. We- have a new advertisement from Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co. which will appear in an early issue. We havo also received from that enterprising firm a few of their WatcK Pamphlets ■which may be had on application at oar office. A'fred Lewis, a seaman 30 years of age, has died of consumption in the I Melbourne Sailor's Home beque<> thing Lo(> each to the Melbourne and Alfred hospitals, nni the remainder of his money, about L7<X>, to the Salvation Army. Bishop Goe, when on a visit to Kilmore in July of last year, gave an unqualified denial to the old story of hjs pugilistic encounter with a labourer in England and said the jam must have originate d in the mind of some reporter whose veracity was of a most elastic description. Two wretched-looking tramps were brought up before a Texas justice of the peace. Addressing the worst looking one, the justice asked: " Where do you live?" "No where." "And where do you live?" sail the justice, addressing the other, " I've got the room above him." At the annual meeting of householders, held at Awahuri last evening, very few were present. Tho following wore elected as a school committee : — Messrs Bennett, Reid, Stewart, J. Nairn (junr.), O. R. Lucas, A. Campbell, and Wools. At the meeting which followed Mr Lucas was elected chairman. The fight between Laing and Slavin will come off to-morrow. Laing is pretty confident, but Slavin will be "a hard row to hoe" for Harry as he has really never met a man yet who has given him any trouble. The only dread of the sporting public is that the police will interfere and stop the fight bef- re tho finish. This would be a disappointment indeed, Yesterday, Mr Seymour paid a visit to Wirokino to arrange as to the site of the proposed naxmill. Tho new mill is to be located on the site of the one formerly worked by .Mr Sewell, and the orders for the buildings have been given. Two ei?ht horse power engines, to be used nt the mill, are now, we learn, in course of shipment to Foiton. The purchasing public (especially those who paj r cash) will be pleased to learn that S. J. Thompson, of the Red Uou^e is now marking off his first autumn and winter importations of drapery. Theextentand variety has never been greater than at present at the Red House. It over has and always will be the aim of the proprietor to make the Red Llouso the cheapest Warehouse in Feilding. — Advt. 'he following was recently tnrnp'l in a- a brvna fide c to « sition by an Ind a m schoolboy: '' I h- human body is ma-h---up o r the head, the thorax, an I tiie alido iiifii. Ihe head contains the brains when there is uny. The tho x c >nt.iins the heart, lungs and diafrem. The ihdptneu contains the bowels, of which there are five A, E, J, O, U, and sometimes W anil W In a recent issue we mentioned (quoting a contemporary) that Mr Oorkery, of Taonui, had taken three second prizes at the Woodville horticultural autumn show for cabbage, parsnips, and marrows. We now find that Mr Corkery, at the same show, took first prizes for cucumbers, onions, beet, pumpkins, savoys, collection of vegetables, celery, and tomatoes. All grown at Taonui. At the Presbyterian Church, on Sunday evening last, the Rev. H. M. Murray, during the delivery of his discourse, made pointed reference to the question of education|of the young, but said a higher and more serious responsibility rested on parents — the imparting of a moral and religious training to their children. If this duty on the part of parents wore omitted— and it should be porformod both by precept and example — the spiritual outlook of the rising generation would prove gloomy indeed. A gentleman who visited Riinkleburn recently informs the Courier that he saw five ferrets d" troy ii >h ep. The sheep got on its biik, and while in that posi tion was attacked by the vermin, and in a very short time destroyed. The ferrets took very little notice of ih<> sportsman's approach, and would not desert their prey. \o dotibt in the laming Reason the ferrets will work havoc with the young lambs, as they are st id to be literally swarming along the riyer banks. Wokking-Mkn. — 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 much sickness and expense if you will use one bottle of Dr Soul's Ameri* can Hop Bitters in vonr family this month. Don't wait " Buriington Hawk eje. " Tho gifts of stock, in aid of tho funds of the Church of England, will be hold on Thursday next by Messrs Stevens and Gorton at their sale yards, and lator in the day at their auction rooms, Fergusaon street, other gift articles will bo disposed of. Those who have gifts to send in will please accept this mtimation. We are requested to say a small lot of fancy goods and light refreshments will be held in addition to the gift auction in tho auction room, commencing at 2 p.m. An 3' articles not sold when the auction of the produce, &c. Jliegins will then be disposed of by auction. j The Wanganui people evidently know j how to work up an entertainment successfully when a charitablo object is the occasion. At a concert given in the Drill Hall, on Friday even- . last, upwards of 700 person* were pres- ' out. and tho takings at tho doors represented between i.'s() and i'GO, Faying nothing of a large number of tickets sold, but not used. The entertainment was in aid of " Daddy Tricev," who i 8 well known to some of our readers. We notice that amongst the songs which were imperatively eucm-fid -was one "riven by Mr Heading, vi Vin)()ii)i*, -entitled " The Lost Child."'

Owing to the inclemency of the weather : last night UD nißutm^ vi' householders wn3 held tor the election of a sohool com- j imtteo. j Mr Corkery ha 9 forwarded to this office , a couple of splendid autumn joint eauli- i flowers, grown by him at Tuouui. They j are beautiful specimens raised from ! Suttou and Son's seods, imported direct from Homo. Although Mr Hastie, whn hns boon confined to his room for some time now, is not getting well so rapidly as his friends would like to see, yet he i>s making steady, if slow, progrod9 towards regaining his health. A Goon Houskwifk. — The good house* wife, when she is giving her house its spring renovating, should bear in mind that the denr 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 cure the diseases arising from spring malaria and miasma, and she must know that there is nothing that will do it so perfectly and surely as Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters, the purest and best of medicine*. "'Coi cord N. H. Patriot." For the Autumn and Winter Seasons we have received the latest fashions in every department, which hare just couie to hand by the steamers Cop ie and Kirn ntake, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warel.ou.se, Te Aro House, Wellington. We have for the last ten days been busily engaged in opening out and marking off many thousands of pounds worlh of the choicest, freshest and cheapest lots of goods for Autumn and Winter wear, that it was possible to net far love or money, at An.. House, Wellington. Tub contents of each case were nar» rowly scanned, and closely criticised as toweighi, color, finish, appearance, &c, and we can safely say that no such admirable selection aud no such first class tfalue have ever i»s yet been offered to the public of this city by either Wholesale or Ketrtil drapers, or even at Te Aro House, Wellington. Pattkkns of the new goods will be forwarded free by pn>t on application to Jamks^MlTh, Te Aro House. Wellington.