Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 131, 5 June 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Teildiug Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. Archbishop Redwood will shortly he created a Cardinal. The new hairdresser's shop is next door to Mr Henry, fruiterer. A Makotuku sawmill is cutting 200,000 feet to fill a Sydney order. We have to acknowledge receipt of Bussell's timetable for June. A meeting of the Feilding Licensing committee will be held here to-morrow. The installation of W. M. of the Ruahine Masonic lodge, Woodville, will take place on Tuesday the 19th inst. The funeral of Mr J. O. Thompson's youngest child took place on Saturday last. The Eev. Mr Harris officiated. - Election for a representative for No. 2 ward of the Manchester Road District, will be held at Halcombe on Thursday next. That celebrated lecturer, Captain William Jackson Barry, is now lecturing in the vicinity of Melbourne. Hence the recent earthquakes, The hrst match which the English football team have played in Australia took place on Saturday against fifteen of New South Wales. The Englishmen won by 18 points to 2. The game was played under the old rules. 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 winterimportations of drapery . The extent and variety has never 4>een 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 Wellington papers announce with regret the death of Mr William FitzGerald, the eldest son of Mr J. E. FitzGerald, Auditor-General, which took place at 6.15 p.m. on Saturday. The N.Z. Times I says :— " With William FitzGerald a valuable life has passed away — one that could ill be spared. A barrister of marked ability, a solicitor of high honor, in whom could be reposed unbounded trust, public spirited, ardent in whateyer he undertook, a journalist of no mean ability, and an enthusiastic supporter and promoter of aquatics, "Willie" FitzGeraldv as he was termed by those who lover! him — and they were many — will be sorely missed. Whatever he put forth his hand to do was well done, and bis wise counsels would have befitted a man of twice his years."

We have received the Auckland Observer of Saturday last. It is particularly lively. A correspondent writes complaining of the damage done to a number of graves iv the Feildin? Cemetery by sheep and horses being; allowed to graze therein. We direct the attention of the Cemetery Committee to the matter. On Sun lay the Government received a telegram from London announcing the death of Mr Justice Johnston. The deceased gentleman left New Zealand a few weeks ago for a trip to benefit his health. Yesterday, at Wellington, the Court of Appeal adjourned as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased judge. The Auckland Star says:— The fruitgrowers throughout the colony are in arms against the Codlin Moth Act, meetings are being held in all fruit-growing districts and petitions adopted against the Bill, which it is declared will' ruin the fruit-growing industry. The Post says that the 2d a Ib. extra on tea is hkely to meet with great oppo« sition, and will probably be rejected. It says the Government will not stand out against this, hut will make it ulain to country members that if this increase is not carried their subsidies must go. A notice appears to-day to the effect that Messrs R. Linton and H. PryceJones haye been nominated for No. 2 sub-division in the Manchester Road District. The election will take place on Thursday next, the 7th instant, and we understand the contest will be a keen one. The hairdressing saloon just opened by Mr Howell in Fergusson street is now bping fairly patronised, and to make it still more attractive a large and well selected stock of tobacco, cigars, and other goods incidental to the trade, a~e now on view. Mr Howell advertises he wants to buy a good dairy of butter. In » jubilant leader on the frozen meat trade, the Lyttelton Times says: -"Freez ing not only gives us dou'ile the return that boihng«down does, but it gives that return in half the time. The prospect here opened up is absolutely dazzling. . . . At last the freezing industry is beginning to do what it was expected to do at the outset." The N.Z. Times says :— Mr C. Storey, for many years in the Post . office, at Whangarei, has been promoted to the Post office at Marton. As Mr Storey is one of the most obliging officers in the service, and an enthusiastic Volunteer to boot, Marton is to be congratulated upon this latest acquisition to the town. Babbits up the Waitaki are getting dreadfully short of tucker (says the Ellesmere Guardian). One settler, says they are climbing or else standing on one anoiher's shoulders, for they gnaw the bark off trees three or four feet above the ground. Another says they have robbed him of a bed of onions— leaving nothing behind but a strong aroma and a shower of tears. We learn from the London correspondent of the Dunedin Star that many attempts have been made to persuade Sir F. D. Bell to visit that haunt of goodfellowship and Bohemianism the Savage Club, but so far without effect. It is an open secret that Sir Dillon is afraid the Savages wonld " turn him over" after the fashion followed by New Zealand footballers in railway trains. In France a sh -rt time ago a jockey, who purposely lost a race which he ought to have won, was prosecuted by the police and sentenced to six week*' imprisonment. This (says " Ausur," of the Australasian) would hardly suit some oF our shunting knights of the pigskin, who would try much oftener if they knew that a compulsory study of practical geology awaited a long pull and n strong; pull* A warning to young ladies. In Vienna recently a youne woman was arrested for offending against puplic decency. She had been standing at a window in a very de o'ettee toil Me, sjeaking to a young man who was in the street. When before the Cou rt she said she was d ressed for a ball and was asking her fiance to see her home later in the evening. The policemen who had arrested her said that, however suitable the dress might be for a ball, it was an offence against public propriety to appear in it at a street window. The judge found her guilty, and sentenced her to 18 hours imprisonment. An inquest was held last Saturday by Mr G. M. Snelson on the body of Mrs Margaret Enwnght, of Ashhuivt, who died suddenly the previous day while engaged in her ordinary household duties. Dr Macintyre in his evidence stated that the cause of death was rupture of the vessels of the heart. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned. Mrs Enwnght was the wife of a bushfeller, who at the time of the sad occurrence was absent from home. Deceased leaves a family of seven children to mourn her loss. Deceased was buried on Sunday last in the Palmer3ton cemetery. The Bey. Father Keegan officiated. A meeting of surveyors was held at the Athenaeum building last evening for the purpose of discussing matters with reference to the establishment of a New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. There were about 30 persons present, and J\ McKerrow (Surveyor* General) occupied the chair. After considering the matter it was decided to form an Institute. Druffc rules which had been drawn up were placed befor9 the meeting, and these will be submitted for the consideration of Associations in the various centres throughout the Colony — Times. Cobbe and Darraghare opening to-day at the Cash Exchange 13 cases, containing upwards of 100 lbs of Nelson, Moate, and Co.'s Pure Blended Teas, which were bought before the contemplated increase of duty effected the price. Being sole agents in this District for the sale of these celebrated Teas, their customers may rely upon getting the gerriiao article ; prices as formerly — 2/-, 2/4, and 2/8 per 16, and all tins given in. Cobbe and Darragh also hold large stocks of Indian and China Teas at prices ranging from 1/6 to 4/- per lb. Two hundred and sixty convicts re» cently arrived at Odess-i from the centrtl prison for transportation to Sagha* lien. Among them was prince Nikolai Vtcbvnnoff, sentenced to hard labor for life for the murder of his sister ; Prince Dimitiri Aasaliain, to six years' hard labor for murder ; Prince Nisuheradse also to six years' hard labor for highway robbery ; two nobles, brothers, named Wardek and Aiexei Gagorisehvik, to twenty and fifteen years' hard labor respectively, also for highway robbery ; the D>n Cas- I sock Captain Andrei Kvnnkoff to eight years' for arson and robbery. The chief fiaure of this notorious group, however, is the Persian Prince Gumuj nn Mirza, sentenced to twenty yenrs' hard labor for the murder of his elder brother. The motive for tins fratricide was an inheritance of 5.000.000 roubles, which the murderer wished to obtain. Among the narly nr*. besides. t«en»y- three other murderer^, whose sentences vary from ihree and a halt' to twenty years' hard labor.

We are glad to hear that a decided change for the better has taken place in the health of Mr James Hastie. Argument in the case of M'D»nald v. Te Ara te Tiiktinn and others, which was commenced last Saturday (May 26' h), was c ncluded in the Court of Appeal on Fridny last. Their Hon <ups reserved j tidgment. — Post. We understand that owing to the very irregular attendance of a number of the eohoia^-s attending the local school the Committee feel bound to take the matter in hand, and have handed to the Truant Inspector (Constable Meehan) a list of about twenty-five names, so that some of the parents may expect a visit during the week.

Now that we may expect some cold weather and the Winter is duly setting in, the matter of purchasing Flannels is a veiy important one, and "one who knows" advises all and sundry to either buy personally or send their orders to the Wholesale Family Drapery Ware house, Te Aro House, Wellington. We hare an immense stock of Flannels for the present season that are un usually cheap in price and geod in quality, comprising— Ist, a lot of useful imitation Welsh at 4£d, 6§d, B|d, 10|d, and Is per yard ; 2nd, a very nice soft make called super medium Welsh at Is, Is 3d. Is 6d, and up to 2s 6d per yard ; 3rd, heavy Welsh Flannels a very strong make at Is, Is 3d, Is 6:1 up to 2s 6d per jrard, at Te Aro House, Wellington. 4th, A very fine make of Flannel with pink list called Saxony Electoral at Is, Is 3d, Is 6d, Is 9d, 2s, and 2s 6d per yard. sth, '* The Lancet" Flannel — this is a special outcome of the celebrated Healtheries Exhibition in London, which can be depended on for comfort and wear, and is guaranteed by one of the best makers of the day, and the holder of a prize medal "not to shrink" — prices are I Is, Is 3d, Is 6d, Is 9d, 2s. 2s 3d, and these can only be obtained at the Whole* sale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.