Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 127, 26 May 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

♦- . It is stated Sir George Grey will open the Wairarapa Exhibition in June next. A meeting of Good Templars will be held this evemng in the Flower of Feilding Lodge room at eight o'clock. ' Mr Tripe,' dentist, will pay his next visit to Feilding on the 7th of June, when he will remuiu. until the 9th: idem.

We understand that Mr F. R. Linton has leased the farm of Mr Thomas Price, ou the Taonui road. The Zealandia with the 'Frisco mail arrived at Auckland yesterday. Most of the news has been anticipated* by cable. Mr W. Heading has been appointed Feilding agent for the Mutual Creditors Association m place of Mr Sherwill who has resigned. Owing to pressure ob out space we are compelled to hold oyer Ashhurst notes, report of the Feilding school committee, and other interesting matter and advertisements. I A meeting of the members of the Fire Brigade- will be held at Mr Bray'e office ( on Tuesday eyening at 7.30, to wind up sports accounts, and other business. At a meeting of tradesmen in Christchurch last week representing the prin« cipal firms of the town, it was decided not to give goods as donations to bazaars. It was asserted that their business was greatly injured by bazaars selling below current rates the goods obtained from tradesmen. A Nelson gentleman suggests a very simple method by which the influx of Chinese could be stopped — namely, to prohibit the exportation of the bones of their dead. He says that the Chinese will not risk dying in a country from which they cannot get their bones back to their own land, and will not therefere come to it. Profit $1.200.— "T0 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. 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 Red House the cheapest Warehouse in Feilding. — AdvT. A meeting of householders was held at Upper Taonui, on. Saturday evening, for the purpose of electing a school committee. The chairman read the balance sheet which was passed without comment. Messrs Wm. Bailey, Walter Bailey, Palmer, Pilcher, Nix, Parkes, and Humphnes were elected for the ensuing year. At a meeting of the committee held afterwards Mr Wm. Bailey was elected chairman, and Mr Walter Bailey secretary. Sir Morell Mackenzie, it is reported, both risking his life (which has been re« peatedly threatened by fanatics) and losing muney in his attempt to save the German Emperor. The fees he receives from His Majesty may sound large, but they are not a tithe of what the great specialist makes in London. On ordinary days Sir Morell sees between 60 to 70 patients daily, who pay him fees varying between 2 and 10 guineas. His practice is worth fully £20.000 a year. Gh±tkpvJm Women. None receive so much benefit, an<i none are so profoundly ■ grateful and show such an interest in recommending Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters as women. It is the only remndy peculiarly adapted to the many lib the sex is almost universally subject to. Chills and fever, indigestion or deranged liver, constant or periodical sick headaches, weakness >n 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 tbese bitters. "Courant." The question of the abolition of Education Boards has engaged the attention of the Minister far Kducatioa, who is convinced that in the interests of the system it is desirable that the Boards should be done away with, and that the Department should take over the entire functions of administration and inspection It is considered that thus the disadvantages of the permanent residence of inspectors in one particular district will be removed, and the whole system of inpection will be placed on a more satis* factory footing. There is not howeyer, much likelihood that legislative effect will be given to the idea this session. — Post. Mr P. 0. Morton left tor Wellington by this (Monday) afternoon's or will leave by to-morrow's train, en route, it is said, for Rio, where he takes a large shipment of butter, some 5 tons in tins. Thia butter, which has been packed by th^e Taranaki Butter Packing Company in tins containing 401 bs downwards, has been put in cases and forwarded to Wellington where Mr Morton goes to see to the labelling and shipment by the Doric, which boat leaves on Saturday next. The value of the shipment is set down at I £500: Mr Morton knows the Portuguese language fairly well, he having lived four in Lisbon, and afterwards two years in Pernambuco in Brazil. H« will therefore know the running of the ropes. It to he hoped that Mr Morton's venture turns ou.i successfully, and that he may enjoy his trip, as he is displaying a vast deal of enterprise in taking such a ship* so far as Eio, the capital of Brazil. — Taranaki Herald.