Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 128, 29 May 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

[ We have received No lof Hansard for i the present session. Tenders for supplying the Feilding ! school committee with firewood close on Thursday next. The Rev. H. M. Murray will hold service in the Mangaone school room tomorrow evening at 7.30. We learn from the Normanby Star that a number of settlers throughout the Hawera district are urging for the protection of hares. Glasgow House will be re-opened tomorrow by Mr Fagan, when a uew and fashionable assortment of boots and sh.es will be exhibited. An advertisement appears to-day from Mr H. J. Lee, who has commenced business as a tailor and hairdresser, in premises opposite to Mr Brown's, Manchester House. A football match was played on tho Oval on Saturday afternoon between the Taonui and Feilding second fifteens. The game resulted in a win for Feilding by 5 points to nil. Footballers are reminded of the meeting at the Empire Hotel to-morrow evening. All those wishing to loin the club are requested to send in their names if not able to attend personally. A young women nt Kilburn actually killed herself on Good Friday by eating hot cross buns. It is some comfort to find that it takes twelve to make a fatal dose, and few of us are able to take so large a quantity at one sitting. In the House recently the Premier said, in reply to Mr Macarthur, that it was under consideration whether it could be arranged that half-yearly payments to special settlers should be paid to the local postmasters. He (the Premier) thought it could be arranged. The London Times of April 21st has a sensational story from Rio de Janeiro* dated March 31st, stating that a rich Brazilian poisoned 300 Indians in on province and 800 in another because the lived on land needed by the whites. Th_ ' poisoning was done by charging the well with sirychnine and chlorate of mercury 8 Tho proprietor of the Aramoho nursery , Mr Benefield, inserts a notice to-day to the residents of Feilding and the surrounding districts, in which he informs them he has a large stock of fruit, forest, and ornamental trees, shrubs, and roses now ready for selection. We ref r our readers to the advertisement for further particulars. We learn from the Christchurch Press that on Wednesday the 16th inst., the Rev. P. W. Jones met with an accident at Waddington. He had been visiting some of his parishioners, and was returning home, when his horse fell and rolled on to his rider's leg, which was rather seriously bruised, and Mr Jones had some difficulty in freeing himself from the prostrate animal. On dit that tho Government will place a sum of money on the estimates to meet the expenses of a militia. The proposal is to ask for 1000 Volunteers for a firstclass militia, that is of single men up to thirty years of age^ Failing in obtaining the volunteers, the Government will select men enough to make up the complement. Volunteers who have not been . regular in attending capitation parades will be discharged into the second-class militia with a " mark" against them.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the May number of Typo. The great race of the year, the English Derby, will be run to-morrow. A notice from M r Charles Wickham, Borough Nightman, appeals in another column. A labourer named A. J. Baker was thrown from a horse and killed at Waipukurau on Sunday. The Herald waxes wroth at the proposed removal to Palmerston of the Wanganui branch of the Public Works Department. Mr .1. C. Thompson advertises for sale to-day a complete plant and factory for butter and cheese*making, ia good working order. Mr George Baker, who had been for about fifteen years post and telograph ii as er at Mar tor., died on Sunday morning after a lingering illness. — Advco ite. Jonathan Roberts, the escaped Timaru convict, is r«ported to have been seen lately, but he has not yet been captured. His prison clothes have been found. For six clerks at 50-s a-week, required for the Melbourne Exhibition, the commissioners have received 675 applications, and for several iumor .clerks at 30s a week, there were upwards of 1000 applications. Tenders are invited by Mr James Linton, of Palmerston I** orth, for felling 100 acres of bush in the Birmingham Block. Specifications may be seen, at the ' Stab office, Feilding, and at the Standard office, Palmerston. A large number of our readers will regret to learn that Mrs Henry Burrell, senr., diod m England on the 11th of April. The deceased lady was well known to a numerous circle of friends in this district, where she resided for many years, The Napier Telegraph says : — An assay of some stone from the Ruahme ranges brought to Napier the other day by a well known prospector has yielded nearly an ounce of gold to the ton. The samples were taken from the outcrop of a reef. " Spectator" writes complaining of the bad language used by a number of the Feilding boys engaged in the football match on the Oval last Saturday. The practice ia a very reprehensible one, and the offenders should be punished by being ordered out of the team. A good story is current about the Budget. After his three hours' speech the Chancellor of the Exchequer went to hare a bottle of champagne to wet his whistle. He was charged sixpence more than usual, and on inquiring, qnite innocently, why, he was answered, '* The new duty, sir*" The Minister for Education is apparently not singular in the opinion that in the interests o f "he education system and of economy, the Boards ought to be abol- • ished. On Mr Fisher making an observation to this effect in the House it was receive! with a chorus of cheers. Mr Wilson, M.H.R. for Foxton, is urging the Minister for Public Works to cause an inspection to be made of the mouth of the Manawatu river, and a report to be made as to whether, at a reasonable cost, the river could not be made to resume its old course— the present one being extremely dangerous. According to the Count de Keratry, in a book just published, Marshal Bazaine. ihe " trail or" of Melz, ts vegetating al (he present moment in the most abjYot poverty. "The marshal has mixed him « s^lf up with politics and politics have destroyed him, as they will destroy every officer who touches them." General Boulanger will, perhaps, make a note of the fact. By a curious coincidence, there has just died at Mernu, in Tyrol, at the advanced age of 86, the Baroness Jenny •Schleinilz, who, in concert with her hus*. band, Privy Councillor Schleinitz, assis» ted Prince William of Prussia, afterwards the German Emperor, to escape from Berlin, on the 19th March, 1848, when his life was threatened by the turbulent populace. Pbo.it $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 autunin and winter importations of drapery . The extent and 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. The proposed amendments of the Education Act suggested to the Government by Mr Joyce are as follow : — (1) allowing the Bible to be read in the public schools, with a conscience clause; (2) giving a grant of 30s per head per annum to denominational schools wherein at least 200 scholars shall have attended on every public school day during the year, and shall have been taught in six standards used in the public schools, aud have passed the examinations of the Government inspectors. — Post. G_at_ftt_ 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 oe 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." The Pope is preparing to astonish and correct the theological as well as the scientific world. He is making out a decree condemning forty prcpos tions of the Abnte Rosmini, the distinguished philosopher and founder of the Order of Charity, which has several houses in England, As the earth persisted in revolving in spile of the Papal condemnation of Galileo, it is not improbable tnat Rosmini's forty condemned propositions nviv continue to mtere«t the theological a d scientific world, notwithstanding the Holy Father's decree. It is said that unanimity has at last been arrived at in Cabinet with regard to fe coming Budgot, and the delivery of th statement is expected to take place tnirf evening, but no authentic information on the subject was obtainable last night, Ministers preserving strict reticence. . The prevalent opinion is that the Property-tax will be let alone— also the tea duty— and that an attempt will be made to obtain the needful oxfera revenue thr »uyh other jio.uii i_ An-:.- Yifcionis tariff. " N.Z; Times.

Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. re" ceived the following wool market advice from their London firm, Messrs Sanderson, Murray and Uo :— •" Since the close of ihe last sales 3100 bales have beedisposed of privately. Prices have i advanced a shade." The director of the Can'erbury School of Agriculture, Mr Ivey, has adopted a method of storing apples which has proved uncommonly successful. In** stead of being placed upon shelves of wooden batten*, the fruit is kept upon trays of galvanised iron wire netting. These trays are' arranged in tiers sufficiently far apart to prevent the apples in the various layers from touching one another. Mr. Ivey has apples whii-h have been kept for fifteen months on these trays, and which are still perfectly sound. j Two Spaniards, both Protestants, lately met in the streets of Madrid a Catholic priest carrying the viaticum to a dying parishioner. The priest perceiving that the Protestants did not kneel or lake off their hats, sternly upbraided them and gave thsm into custody. "The municipal judge actually condemned them to six months imprisonment, and to pay a fine. In vain they pleaded that f ey did not belong to the State religion, and invoked Article 11 of the Constitution,, which guarantees liberty of conscience. Tbey have appealed from the decision. The Liberal papers are, of course, up in arms. They say the case shows plainly enough how little religious toleration is understood even now in Spain.