Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 120, 10 May 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Wellington Athenaeum property has been sold for £9200. There were mortgages on it of £8650.

In response to a requisition from the ratepayers, Mr E. S. Thynne has consented to offer himself as a candidate for the Mayoralty of Foxton. The nomination took place to-day.

A match between the Feilding an^ Taonui football clubs will be played on Saturday. Players are requested to be on the ground at half-paat two. The Feilding team will be chosen on the ground.

A correspondent in the North Otago Times has been informed that Mr John Orr, of Kurow, has clipped the record by killing three hares with one shot one evening last week. [Mother and family most likely. 1

A realistic description of Tom's first day school. — " What do you learn ?" asked his puntie. " Didn't learn anything," said Tommy. "Well, what did you do ?" " Didn't do anything; a woman warned to know how to spel 'cat/ and I lold her."

We learn from the Hawera Star that Mr B. Coyle has entered an action against the Feilding Jockey Club for the recovery of £2, which the club compelled him to pay before starting Lady Artist at the late meeting for arrears due to the Hawera Club for nominations on the mare.

We direct attention to the Government Life Insurance Department advertisement which appears on our first page to-day-The terms on which the Department does business are peculiarly liberal and deserve the careful consideration of all who desire to borrow money at reasonable rates.

The Rock, the great English church organ, tells a good atory of a printing blunder. The compositor of the account of Mr Maekonochie's funeral had to describe Mr Stanton as at a certain part of the service, • censing the bier.' The compositor, not being up to incense, and never having heard of the ceremony, thought Mr Stanton a rabid teetotaller, and described him as ' cursing the beer.'

Pbofit $1,200.—" To sum it up, six long years of bed <• ridden sickness, costing $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.

1 "Mereutio," in the N.Z. Herald, is responsible for the statement that the woman '"Fanny," who> gained so much notoriety in the Dilke scandal can be seen daily in Queen street, Auckland. She is said to be a handsome woman. " Mercutio" wisely Rives no other clue to her identity. [She is also m Wanganm ; Wellington, and Geneva. In fact there is as many of her as there are survivors of the Light Brigade.]

Now that the Aucklanders have no more money to lose, four clergymen there preached against gambling last Sunday.

A second meeting of householders to elect a school committee for Feildr.ig, will b ; held on Saturday, May 19th, in the schoolroom, at 8 p.m.

The return football match between the English and Canterbury teams, resulted in another victory for the Englishmen by 4 points to nil.

The Right Hon. "W. E. Gladstone, writing on Robert Ellesmere, has produced an article which constitutes a most eloquent defence of Christianity as contrasted with the cultered unbelief of the present age.

Mr Froude's " Bow of Ulysses" has given even greater offence in the West Indies than his " Oceana" did in the Australasian colonies. Native and European papers alike complain not merely of glaring inaccuracy but of deliberate perversion.

We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of the Defenders of New Zealand and Maori History of the War. We are in every way satisfied with it and find it equal of not superior to our expectations. The up country subscribers will receive their copies about the end of this month.

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 winter importations of drapery . The extent and variety has never been greater than at present at the Tied House. It ever has and always will be the aim of the proprietor to make the Bed House the cheapest Warehouse in Feilding. — Advt.

Some amount of curiosity was aroused by the sight of a large tent which was pitched this morning not 100 miles from Manchester Square. All sorts of questions were asked about it, such as— " Is it a oircus ?" "Is it the encampment of the wonderful gipsies who are now doing the coast ?" "Is it for a dinner to inaugurate the formation of the Feildmg Fire Brigade ?" or what ? Gradually, however, the mystery as to the object of the erection of the canvass structure disappeared, as it leaked out that a wellknown citizen was about to give one of his ohye branches a birthday fete, concluding with a magic lantern show for the amusement of the juvenile guests.

Mr G. O. Preshaw, a bank official, formerly of Hokitika and other places in this Colony, but now m the Bank of New South Wales at Camden, has published a work entitled " Banking Under Difficulties," giving his personal experiences during a career of thirty years in a round of adventures by *' flood and field" under trying and exciting conditions which would scarcely be oredited at the present time. [This book should be valuable as well as interesting, because, Mr Preshaw kept a diary in which events were chronicled, and clippings from the local papers were filed, day by day.]

Our reporter paid a " surprise" visit the other day to the sauce and pickle factory of Mr F. Whitlock, on Eiver Bank, Wanganui. He found work in full swing, and everything in clean and apple-pie order. About thirty large casks of pickles were ripening ready to be bottled and sent to market, while several hands were at work preparing materials for pickling, sauce manufacture, &c. An immense new boiler was just about to be fixed in lieu of the old one, which, though large, was found inadequate to meet the requirements of the increasing business. Amongst the other commodities turned out from the factory, is the herb beer, which is gaining notoriety, and said to be a refreshing invigorating, non-intoxicat-and appetising tonic.

It is very satisfactory to find that the Manaia Dairy Company obtained such a good price for their shipment of butter to the London Market. Our butter and cheese export is making slowly but surely a name for itself in many parts of the world, and is already raising jealous feelings. An American trade journal of Marca 29 says:— "New Zealand finds that it can ship butter and cheese to England at such prices and of such quality as to command the patronage o f British buyers, and oar dairy interests, apprehensive of injury in one of their must profitable markets, are excited to a corresponding extent. They have only themselves to thank for their prospects If they had sent better goods and taken greater care to ensure their purity, they would not now be bewail* ing competition from far-distant Australasia."

Gbateftjl 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 vaeied 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, Sfc , will be shown. The ori ginal 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 6d for 6s lid; 15s 6 j for 7s lid; 17s 6d for 8s lid ; 23s for Us 9d ; 23s for Us 9d; 28s 6d for 12s 6d ; 25s 6d for 15s 6d. These are wonderful burgains, and are sure to be snapped up quickly, at Rive's bankrupt stock sale, Te Aro House Wellington.

Thfre is also a large quantity of remnants of the abore materials, varying in length from 2 to 11 yards, which will be sold at prices ranging from 8d to 12$ 6d, according to quality and lenuth, at the Te Aro House sale of Biye's bankrupt stock, Wellington.

Blade velveteens from Is to 4a lid per yard; coloured velveteens from 1« 11 J »o 2s lid, ml her less than half price ; col* oured silks reduced from 5s to Is ; from 5s lid ana 6s 6d to Is 8d and Is lid p-r yard ; nnd a lot of excellent millinery trimmings from 3s 6il to Is ; from 5* 9d to Is 3d and from 6* lid to Is 6d per ya r d, at Te Aro House sale of Hive's Bankrupt Stock, Wellington. M uxtitode* of other bargain's in every department, w'll be shown on tables in the centre of the drapery, clothing, millinery, and carpet departments, at Uive's bankrupt slock sale at Te Aro House, Wellington* -:-.r