Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 124, 19 May 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Charles Wickham has been appointed nightman for the Borough.

Colonel Roberts has been appointed Police Magistrate in Auckland. Mr Baddeley has resigned, and retires on his pension.

Cobbe and Darragh are selling real good Homespuns at lOd and Is per yard, also Heavy Striped Dress Goods at 7d per yard.

Polling for a loan of £3356, for works to be constructed in No. 6 subdivision of the Manchester Road Board, will take place on Tuesday next.

Cobbe and Darragh are now showing, at the Cash Exchange, a large selection of Ladies' Ulsters of the very latest styles, prices range from 18s to 295.

Attention is directed to the advertisement re sale of furniture at Mr Tram's private residence, by Stevens and Gorton, auctioneers, on Wednesday next.

The next demonstration of the New Zealand Fire Brigade Association will be held at Invercargill, It is confidently expected a Feildxng team will take a prominent part.

For the convenience of contractors in the Wanganui Harbor Board Block, Mr John McKenzie has taken out a slaughtering license, to supply the contractors with beef and mutton.

The Feilding Star will be published on Wednesday, the 23rd, instead of Thursday, the 24th instant, the Queen's Birthday. Advertisers will please accept this intimation.

We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of Mr James Laird's catalogue of garden, flower, and agricultural seeds, from Mr W. B. Retemeyer, who has been appointed the Feildißg agent.

A rumour is prevalent that the Government in their new tariff will propose to increase. the ad valorem duties from Id to 25 per cent, on all articles which can be manufactured in New Zealand.

Oobbe and Darragh are now showing, at the Cash Exchange, Feilding, Fmlay's Sheetings 90 inches wide, at Is 9d per yard, these goods sell in Wellington at 2s per yard. Other makes in stock at 7£d, lOd, Is, Is 2d, Is 4d, arid Is 6d.

The estimated population of this colony on the 31st of March, 1888, is as follows : 324,824 males, 280,120 females, or a total of 604,944. The Maori population of the census of March, 1886, was 41,969, making a total population of the whole of the colony of 646,913.

Monday being Whit Monday will be a bank holiday. We advertise this information free, gratis, and for nothing as we like to help struggling institutions, and at the same time do a good turn to our readers who might be inconvenieuC9d if the knowledge wore kept from them.

Feilding will not be long without a theatre or assembly room as we understand Mr Hastie proposes to make certain additions and alterations to the premises now occupied by Messrs P. R. Jackson and Co., with that object in view. We commend Mr Hastie for his enterprise.

That there w>is nn intrigue to prevent the succession of the Emperor Frederick to the Throne (says Truth), there can be no doubt. On the death of his fat'iier. Prince Bismarck telegraphed to San Kemo to say that if the Emperor Ired crick did not at once come to Berlin, the Prince could not answer for the coDsequ

The Advocate's Parliamentary corres pondent writes ;— " There is such a strong feeling against the prosecution of the North Island Trunk .Railway that there is every probability of its being abandoned for years. Several speakers last night spoke of it as a work which should be stopped."

At Feilding on the 24th sports are to be held in aid of the Fire Brigade. An invitation has been sent to Captain Cum inins, asking the Wanganui Volunteer Fire Brigade to play the Feilding Brigade a football match that day, and though the letter has nrrired ratber late in the day, yet every effort will be made to get a team together to represent the Wan* ganui Brigade. — Herald.

We publish an amended advertisement to-day from the Manchester Boad Board re the £3350 loan for No. 6 sub-division by which it will be seen the only polling place will be at T. Nelson's Hall, Ashnurst. We have to request tne particular attention of the ratepayers to this alteration. We understand the reason is more polling places than one would be illegal %

A great clearing sale commenced to-day m Mr Christopher Brown's well known Manchester House. In consequence of the lateness of the season Mr Brown has decided to dispose of his superfluous stock which is all quite fresh and new having just been unpacked from the English cases. As the period of the sale is necessarily limited those who desire to take advantage of it should lose no time.

The purchasing public (especially those who pay cash) will be pleased to learn that S. J. Thompson, of the Bed House is now marking off his first autumn and winterimportationsofdrapery. Theextentand 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.

We have received a marvellous potatoe from Mr Robert Whisker, grown on his land on the Awahuri road. It weighs a little over two and a half pounds and is solid right through. Where such splendid samples can be grown it seems absurd so many potatoes should fee imported as there are. We have already mentioned that upwards of one hundred tons haye been consumed in this district, tiis year, of foreign growth.

As an example of how compositions with creditors cause unfair competition, the following instance is given by the Hawke's Bay Heruld: — "A trader who boasted of selling cheaply wrote to his principal creditors and said he would file unless they accepted 5s in the pound. Another trader was in debt to the same persons, and hearing of the offer he objected to its being accepted, pointing out that be could not be expected to pay 20s in the pound if he were under* sold by a rival who obtained his goods 75 per cent cheaper. The offer was accepted, and the second man had to file. The first one remains in business still, and believes iw tendering."

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In the case, G. T. H. Lyne v. Kiwitea Road Board, heard yesterday at the District Court, Palmerston, a verdict was entered for the defendant Board with

We have received from Mr Uarthew the Feildiug agent of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, a copy of the Royalties Grand March, as played by the Engineers' Band at the Royalties Bazaar in Dunedm, composed by Henry Benjamin, the conductor of the band.

In another celumn appears a notice of the grand concert to take place on the night of the Queen's Birthday, under the auspices of the Feilding Volunteer Fire Brigade. The entertainment will be held at the auction rooms of Messrs Stevens and Gorton, who, with their usual good natm\ , have placed their large upper ytarey, formerly known as May; m -r's Hall, at the disposal of the Committee. We understand some of the best vocal and instrumental amateurs of the district have promised to take part in the performance, a programme of which will appear next issue.

Wb now show some special bargaims and extraordinary cheap lots in dress goods, brought forward from the bankrupt estate of P, Rive Te Aro House, Wellington.

A. varied lot of useful and attractive dress materials, in dreRS lengths, comprising — Striped flannellas, homespuns, French Joule, veilings, dress tweeds, wool ottomans, serges, lustres' beiges, Carmelites, meltons, Sfc , 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 length?, 8s lid for 2s lid ; 13s for 4s lid ; 15s for 5s lid ; 16s 6d for 6s lld ; 15s 6s for 7s lid; 17s 6d for 8s lid ; 23s for lla 9d ; 23s for 11s 9d ; 23s 6d 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.

Thfbe is also a large quantity of remnants of the above materials, varying in length from 2 to 11 yards, which will be sold at prices ranging from 8d to 12s 6d, according to quality and length, at the Te Aro House sale of Biye's bankrupt stock, Wellington. Blank velveteens from Is to 4s lid per yard ; coloured velveteens from Is lid to 2s lid, rather less than half price ; col' oured silks reduced from 5s to Is; from 6s lid ana 6s 6d to Is 9d and Is lid p«*r yard ; nnd a lot of excellent millinery trimmings from 3s 6d to Is ; from 5s 9d to Is 3d and from 6s lid to Is 6d per yaid, at Te Aro House sale of Rive's Bankrupt Stock, Wellington. Multitudes of other bargains in every department, wUI be shown on tables in the. centre of the drapery, clothing, millinery, and carpet departments, at Hive's bankrupt stock sale at Te Aro House, Wellington.