Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 115, 28 April 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Our collector will make his rounds next 'Major Kemp aTWanganui oh Monday. The public school at Aram oho is closed, owing to diphtheria Agfflgg^^^j^ among the scholars. ffl®SHK^^^^^ All overdue occounts due to^Mj£^FJ£ Tram must be paid not later than"Sues- ' day next or there will be trouble:"*"" I appears to-day "on M. Pasteur and his mode, of treating hydrophobia and killing rabbits. _ „. A number of Feilding people went to. see r the Cayalry. -Tournament to-day at Bulis. x I n IK> : ■' ■:'■''' ' " ;.'■ ; ' ' ' 'The "Feilding'' Brass Band played a selection of airs in Manchester Square on Thursday evening, rery tastefully. The results of the Feilding local option poll are published to-day, showing the majority of vote's were against any iricrea%e,B;in,licenses. ; r. •■.■•■- A meeting of the vestry of St. John's Church of England will be held -iu:Mr Bray's office on Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock. ' .. fc . ; , More Hotels are likely to be erecfad-in. Palmerston in consequence of, the lpfiaX option polling there having been in favor of an increase. , . ... : r A divorce case, in which' the plaintiff is a publican in Marton, aqd the co-res-ponaetitresident -in Wellington, ib ; 'to come into Court shortly. ■-„'" A senous outbreak of pleuro-pheumor ma in Ireland, and also in Kent, is're- (- ported. In order to prevent the spread of the disease over a thousand head" of cattle have been destroyed. %I ' '■ ' ' ■■$ *. A special meeting of the Borough' Council will be held on Thursday next at 9 o'clock p.m. for the purpose of hear-' ing and determining all chums and objections to the burgess list. „ We learn from the Westport Times that Mr Seddon has been elected a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, in recognition of services rendered to mining. Wall done- Bfcks T? f The Southland News says: • -As sfjow. ing that capital as well as population is leaving the colony, it may be men* tioned that three passengers by a recent steamer to Melbourne earned away between them a sum of £5000., -. The paragraph advertisements we publish to-day from Te Aro House, Wellington are of special interest to residents m the country districts. The. sale of the bankrupt stock of P. A. Eive, which has ! feeen purcha"3ed by the proprietor of Te "Aro House; -will commence on Tuesday next when £4000 worth of stuff will be offered at sacrificial prices. An advertisement from Mrßenefiel'd, nurseryman, of Aramoho, will appear' in* an> early issue. : We are informed' that" Mr Benefield has been giving particular attention to the culture of young trees ; suitable for planting in the Pemberion,.. Birmingham and-other. small farm settle-' mentlj where 0 the 1 climater is peculiarly adapted for the cultivation of English iffuW^ctally^apples^arid black cur/rant|. j£ r. f -;."| • The Wang^ui H^er^ld states^* < Ifaing,, who? was atte^ed. to (by, Pi Earl on 'the morning of the' latefight^* was seriously^a^Wsea^byHihiß^doctor not tb enter the ring ihatidayas he was not in ( a fit condition,! LaingUt baokersmSuther- - land and : pthersr-jalso,, advised him to .Withdraw' { iho/ morniiq^ r ,of .tiie.battle', as ne'was physically unfit, but Lamg iapparently was not . content to cry a forfeit without * struggle. '' ; : ' : ' J i; i ' 7 i The householders 'of Mangfibne he ld their annual meeting at the school house on- Monday evening last, Mr Pearce in the chair. The report and balance sheet Jfjrqm i<the > retiringi! 'committee Here.?reioeived and adppted. The; iollowmg gentlemen were elected a committee for the ensuing year^—Messrs F. Andrew, .G-. >ABl(worth,' J. HV -Ashworthy Ehg,' J. Nilsson, W. G: ; Pearce, G. B. Simpson. The committee afterwards met and elected ;Mc,^;G.;Pearceaß,chairman. ;■-,}? s i '• j The farce of taking a poll as. to whether.' there ehould.be any increase in the num- ', ber of licensed public housef m Feilding was gone through^ on Thursday last. If we may judge by the results of the voting, as shown in another part of the paper, not 1 more than nine ' persons' took the trouble to record their opinions and we have strong reasons for believing even that to be in excess' of, the actual number of individuals who availed themselves of the privilege.; J £ ;■• j ; . ■//' I .<- •2 A Good Hous^^if k.— The good house* wife, v when she is jtivinff; h>r Bouse its spring retiovhtinp, 'should bear in mind that the dear inmates of her house are ■ more precious. Ithan- inaby houses, and that their systems need cleansing by purify ine the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels to prevent and cure i the .disease juHsinK from spring malaria and miasma, ami- she must know that : there is nothing that will do it so per» '. feotly and.itirelv as Dr Soule's American i Hop Bitters,. the purest and best of mcdi- j efties.^r"A>'u«iw«nl:J?-.-.HvP*(iiot." , 1

The Engineer of the Borough Council, ; Mr (/. Bray, invites separate tenders for the supply and delivery of met&jLrequiral for the maintenance of the s^peeta^and N for the supply of one andliwoSwrae teams. j|j In No less than four wives tt^ty&ftP^U their husbands in the YVnprapa; last^ week, and one or two more are threatening to do the same thing if flfei^oetter halves do not mend their ways. _ The 4ov«i«iof^Oßßip«md^Bcan«ialv»i«4iaving*tt; rare time of it in consequence. • T^Mr,purchaßing pubh^especiallyivthQßei who pay cash) will be pleased to learn tha^ v ,t^h|(n3 l^« w pf^e,aed#BU«e^ now marking off his first autumn and wmterimportationsofdrapery. Tbeextentand variety has never been greater than at I present at the Tied House. It ever has and always will be the aim of the proprietor to make the Bed House tha cheap- < ost Warehouse in Feilainl.-S-afot*. * / \ We publish with to-day's issue another inset from Te Aro House, which will be found well worthy of perusal. The enterprising proprietor, Mr James Smith, has just secured? by tender, the bankrupt stock of Pi Al Eire, draper and clothier, of Wellington, the whole of which he»is ,nQw-,offenngpat*e%traordini- j kntylow'priceFarTe Aro House. The Tfie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the foUpwing.telegran\from their London j office- : dated ; the^ 2m l instant :— Wool— The sales progress firmly. For superior greasy (meiinoJ andy coarse crossbred the market is firmer. Other descriptions are unchanged; rt/Ehg ,tfr^tijatalogue to date is 192,000 bales, and the total quantify withdrawn is 13,000 bales. New Zealand hempj-Medium. is worth £27 10s per lon. %. 1 I ! Wokki»o*Men. — Before you begin your hqwry spang woefaafter «3?rinterof relaxation, youHaystetfr'needs "cleansing and strengthening to prevent an attack "of ~Ai?uer : Binousr"6r iSirmlFT?ever; or some other Spring sicknes that will unfit caryHop Bitters in your family this Don't wait " Burlington Hawk present at the glove we (Herald) noticed Pettenj^^Kd Richardson, two old com* batantii witbjLaing. JMJM£ : )»slj eTe » ithe iiateritionL of : s botlCJtoi.ha?e Jaoother contest Laing.? Pettengell has never yet got over" the illness that he was buffering from when he fought Laing, ''but if fit bj Christmas Jie wilL challenge him ■ag'ainVnd fignt tor the Beltf. v \Riohard son also iritendshaVihg a"gb for the Belt at sometime or other. : . Thebb is one title th»t should cer tainly be applied to the Proprietor of Te Aro House, -Wellinetonr.and no one had a better olaini to it,'an3 that is, /AUniver sal'ißerieiactbri'-'liiid^^eryßtllSkißg-i&iiojF of tbis is to be seen at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro HimSe^.YAiellirtjjton. . ; Bki.no a successful tenderer for the Bankrupt Stock of P. A. Rive, Draper and Clothier, it has been decided to offer tho whole of it amounting to over £4000 worth on Tuesday, May. Ist, at the Who" leSate 1 Family J Drapery Wareiiouse. Te. Aro House, Wellington. , r >• 'lidii inthiß way when times are somewhat depressed, when economy has to 'bepractisod, that true and honest bene^ fits .to, '«qciety [at large accrue, and the ..present opportunity of buying cheaply is offered to the masses by the Proprie* .tor, ofj'J^e/Aro House, Wellington. [ J THfcitE will ,be wonderful bargains in Calicoes, ; S jleetinfis^Flannels, Blankets; Dress Fabrics, Mantles, Ulsters, Cos tumefy iMillihery, and a thousand ether things too numerous to enumerate, at the sale ; of Eive'jj bankrupt .«tock, at Aro Cocnthy residents would find it to their advantage to come early to this sale which commences on Tuesday, May ]«^4aj9d|iLthejg:ailway or steamboat fare tapuldfbroimlre. bagatelle in comparison with the extraordinary advantages to be Oub'^Refreshment Jurom will bVopen during the hours of business, and tea^ ycoffee££coco^r and >ua, of edible* maybe had "at any niotnent during the sale of Hive's Bankrupt Stock, at Te Aro House TWeJlipgton<; ?? < (; 'H T