Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 119, 8 May 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

» People who sing profane Bongs on Sunday may be called ri-tooral-ighteous. Oranges and bananas are being successfulljr grown in the open air at Taranaki. We have to acknowledge receipt of The Illustrated Australian News of April 28. Typo for April is to hand. As usual itis brim, full of useful information for the trade. Mr E. Young is building a new shop, in Kimbolton road, next door to his present premises. Notice is given to-day that Mr John Turner is no longer dog tax collector for \ the Feildmg Borough Council. Enquiries are being made as to when the new election of a school committee is to be held. Beuters agent's have started a paper in Adelaide in opposition to the new Telegraphic Press Association. Mr Fairfield Thompson was the success ful tenderer for new stables, &c, to be erected for Mr J. C. Thompson. Parliament will meet for business on Thursday next. To-morrow afternoon the northern members will be passengers by the mail train for Wellington. Attention is directed to Mr Snelson's auction sale on Thursday next, to be held at Mrs Cottrell's house in Hobson street, after Messrs Jackson and Co.'s stock sale has been concluded. The members of the Feilding Fire Brigade are requested to meet this evening at seven o'clock, at the Manchester Road Board office. There is business of importance to be considered. When the tendera for metal were read out at the last meeting of the Borough Council McLenaghan's was read as 1/4 but was really 1/11. Belfit's tender at 1/9 was subsequently accepted. A new advertisement from Mr A. Eade, cabinetmaker, will appear in our next issue. Mr Eade has been appointed sole agent for Buchanan's headstone and monumental works, of Auckland. The following members of the Manchester Boad Board retire this month : — Messrs Pryce-Jones, Tremewan, and Lechbndge. Notice is given elsewhere anent the election of their successors. The Palmerston Borough Council have announced that instead of a farthing rate a penny rate will be required to provide revenue. Tne Manawatu Times does'nt like it; and protests strongly against the infliction. We understand the Feilding Volunteer Fire Brigade will celebrate their inauguration by a. fete to be held on the Oval, on the Queen's birthday. The Volunteers, with the Feildiug Brass Band, will parade there on the morning of the same day. Of the meteor which fell on Friday evening the N. Z. Times says: — "The meteor illuminated Lambton Quay much to the surprise of those who were about." We may mention that after the meteor was done with Lambton Quay it illuminated a few other spots of the earth. To-day's Times says: — The proclamation declaring all Chinese ports as well as Singapore and other Asiatic points of Chinese embarkation, infected with smallpox or other contagious disease, will be issued to-day, and will take immediate effect. The installation of Bro. the Hon. Sir Harry Albert Atkinson, KCMG, a District Grand Master of the Wellington District, North Island of New Zealand under the English Constitution, is fixed to take place, in the Provincial Builds ings, on the 28th instant. The ceremony will be a mo»t imposing one.

Mr 0. B. Winter, the Inspector of the j Pauk of Australasia, is at present on an official visit to Feilding. The liev. H. M. Murray will hold services in the Mangaone school to-morrow evening at half -past seven. The stationtnaster, Mr Lambert, met with a slight accident yesterday. While in the performance of his duties he stepped off the platform on to the metals and sprained his foot. Mr Rutherford's, flaxmill at Foxton (says the Manawatu Herald) is now m full working order, and the vicinity of the mill presents quite a busy appearance, about sixteen or eighteen hands being constantly employed. The first shipment was got away on Tuesday last, and another shipment will be ready by next week. The football match between the English team and the Canterbury team was played at Christchurch, on Saturday last, and resulted in a win for the Englishmen by 14 points to 6. In the first spell Canterbury scored 6 to their opponents nil, the score comprising two goals. In the second spell the Englishmen made the play too fast for Canterbury, and scored five tries and two goals. We are now able to state that the new hotel in Palmerston referred to by us recently will be conducted by Mr Denis O'Neil, who has for a long fame been intimately connected with the management of the Clarendon, and has secured a large number of friends, who will wish him success. The premises will be those next the Theatre Royal, at present in the occupation of Mr Drew and Mr Siag. Peopit $1.200.— "T0 sum it np, six long years of bed*ridden sickness, cost' ing" $200 per year, total $1,200. All of this expense was stopped by three bottles of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters, taken by my wife. She has done her town housework for a year since, without the loss of a day, and I want everybody to know it, for their benefit." — N.E. Farmer. A destructive fire occurred at Hokitika on Saturday last. Hansan's Post Office Hotel, Evans' Red Lion Hotel, large two storey buildings, Hardware Company's shop," Malfroy and Craig's timber yard, and a portiou of a shop with all out-build-ings were destroyed. The fire originated in an upstairs room in the Post Office Hotel. The total loss is between £5000 and £6000. 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 wintenmportationsofdrapery. 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 in Feilding. — Advt. This morning a milk cart belonging to Mr Newell, of Makino, came to grief. It appears that the horse took alarm at something and bolted. Although the wheel was locked with a chain it did not check the speed of the horse which only stopped when the cart upset near Mr Goodbehere's. in Manchester street. The milk was of course spilled, and one of the shafts of the cart broken. The horse was uninjured. "The Man at the Corner" in th •; gossip column of the Taranaki Herald gives publicity to the following: — I heard a yarn about a young lady in New Plymouth who thouuht there was no sin in polygamy, provided the husband was a good hearted, impartial sort of mm •• You see," she said, " I would rather Ivive a bit of a man — if only a third part of him — than no husb;inil at all; and that is what things are coming to in New Plymouth. More than two thirds of the young men here haven't grot the pluck to get married — in fact, they're not worth marrying; but that is no reason why the really heroic men should not make three girls happy, if they can, instead of only one!" "Mercutio" in the Auckland Herald says :— One hears a good deal about "The New Evangel," but the other night I got a glimpse of the New Gospel. A parson had been burying somebody's wife at Waikomiti. On the return jour ney to town he endeavoured to console the bereaved husband by asking him about his prospects of rejoining the partner of his joys and sorrows in the better land. " Well," said the husband, " I am sure of her being there, but I can't say much about myself." " How are you sure about your late wife," queried the divine. " Well, Sir, you see, she took the pledge a couple of years ago, and has worn the 'blue ribbon' ever since!" Gkateful Women. None receive so much benefit, and none are so profoundly grateful and show such an interest in recommending Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters as women. It is the only remedy peculiarly adapted to the many ills the sex is almost universally subject to. Chills and fever, indigestion or deranged liver, constant or periodical sick headaches, weakness in the back or kidneys, pain in the shoulders and different parts of the body, a feeling of lassitude and despondency, are all readily removed by these bitters. "Courant." We now show some special bargains and extraordinary cheap lots in dress goods, brought forward from the bankrupt estate of P. Rive Te Aro House, Wellington. A varird lot of useful and attractive dress materials, in dress lengths, comprising — Striped flannellas, homespuns, French foule, veilings, dress tweeds, wool ottomans, serges, lustres' beiges, carmelites, meltons, 6fc, will be shown. The original prices of these and our sale prices are given in the next paragraph. See them without delay at Te Aro House, Wellington. Dress fabrics, in dress lengths, 8s lid for 2s lid ; 13s for 4s lid ; 15s for 5s lid ; 16s 6'd for 6s lid ; Jos 6s for 7s lid; 17s 6d for 8s lid ; 23s for Us 9d ; 23s for Us 9d ; 23s Gd for 12s 6d ; 25s 6d for 15s 6d, These are wonderful bargains, and are sure to be snapped up quickly, at Rive's bankrupt stock sale, Te Aro House Wellington. j Thkbe is also a large quantity of rem- \ nants of the above materials, varying in length from 2 to 11 yards, which will be sold at prices ranging from 8d to i2s 6d, according to quality and length, at the Te Aro House sale of Riye's bankrupt stock, Wellington. Black velveteens from Is to 4s lid per yard ; coloured velveteens from Is lid to 2s lid, mther less than half price ; col* oured silks reduced from 5s to Is ; from 5s lid anii 6s 6.1 to Is 9d and Is lid p»-r yard ; nnd a lot of excellent millinery trimmings from 3s 6d to Is ; from 5-s 9d to Is 3d and frem 6s lid to Is 6d per ya<d, at Te Aro House sale of Rive's Bankrupt Stock, Wellington. Multitude* of other bargains in every department, w'll be shown on tables in the centre of the drapery, clothing, millittery, and car-pet departments, at Rive's bankrupt stock sale at Te Aro House, Wellington.