Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 132, 7 June 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ The Borough Cornell will meet this «yening. The Wellington Opera House is to be re- built shortly. The Wairarapa sawmillers have cut down the men's waxen. The next sittings of the R.M. Court will be held here on Thursday the 14th instant. The Government proposes to add to its popularity by altering the system of delayed telegrams. The Wirokino Eoad Board is going in for a loan of £6000 to be spent iv opening up the country with roads. We regret to learn, from the Napier Telegraph, that Mr J. O. Evett, the well known nandicapper, is seriously ill at his residence. We learn that the Marquis of Queensbury is now on his way to this colony where he intends to " copyright" his famous " rules." Mr T. W. Glover, agent of the New Zealand Alliance, will visit and lecture in Feilding in a few days. Particulars will appear iv a future issue. As Mr Oolville will close his establishment at the Other House on Saturday next, attention is directed to the notice to that effect which appears elsewhere. A ueeting of ratepayers m No. 5 ward, Manchester Eoad District, will be held at the schoolhouse on Monday next at 8 p.m., to consider the proposals to borrow £4000. We have to thank the Government printer for a number of Parliamentary papers, including Hansard to date, thi> Financial Statement, and parts of Statistics of the Colony for 1887. The Feilding Public Library committee have decided to make a quarterly collection of Is from persons using the Public Reading room. A large number of subscribers have already signed their names for the required amount. A notice is posted up at the Feilding railway station to the effect that on Saturday's the goods shed will not be open for the receipt or delivery of goods, after one o'clock in the afternoon. This is in accordance with the regulations. The Anditoi"-General has disallowed a sura in the yearly balance sheet of the Wanganui Education Board for good attendance medals awarded to school children. The Board has awarded over £100 in medals «nd certificates, and the system has answered admirably in pro* moting the attendance. Mr McGregor gave notice in the House of Representative of his intention to ask the Minister of Ju tice '• If h • iaware that persons in (he City of Wellington, holding Her Majesty's Commission of the Peace knowingly let their properties in that city for immoral purs poses ?" A Nelson father writes a local paper asking " What are we to do with our girls?" That has always been a very important question in Sleepy Hollow, where the girls are more numerous than the boys. Unfortunately the editor does not give any advice — probably the solution of the difficulty is beyond him. It has been ascertained by practical experiments in France that the Lnthyrun sitvestris.or everlasting pea, which thrives on the most arid and sterile soils forms excellent fodder for cattle when treated as ensilage, and is more nutritious and richer m fat-producing substances than trefoil. It is paid to yield upwards, of forty tons of hay to the acre. 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 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. Cobbe and Darragh are opening to-day at the Cash Exchange 13 cases, containing upwards of 1000 lbs of fcelson, 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 lfe, and all tins given in. Cobbo and Darragh also hold lartte stocks of Indian and China Teas at prices ranging from 1/6 to 4/- per. lb.

Mr Jackman, of Awahun,' has a 50 acre paddock of wheat already sown, Mr John Stevens, with a mob of horses for India, passed through Awahun yesterday en route for Wellington. I The total number of secessions from ; the Ministerial party, on the tariff ques- ■ tion, is now variously stated at 17, 18, : and 20. j A cottage at Halcombe belonging to Mr Keen was destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon, nothing being saved. Insured in the Standard Company for £50. In. a- paragraph, in our last issue, of Messrs Uobbe and Darragh's, dealing with the sale of Messrs Moat and Co.'s teas at the Cash Exchange, an error occurred. The quantity was stated lOOlbs. It should have read lOOOlbs. There are some dangerous roots fully six inches aboye the metal on the Feild-lng-Ashhurst road, near the junction of Taonui road. Several riders have come to grief, their horses stumbling on them at night. The Maori chieftess Poe, after her experiences of lj.9t year's heavy flood, has let her old residence and is now building herself a new four-bowered domicile at Awahun, and has this time taken the precaution to roost high. j The Premier stated in the House on l Tuesday that the extensive use of delayed telegrams was causing a great deal of expense, and it was probable that the Government would have to propose some alteration in the system. According to the latest number of the Lancet the rate per head of money spent on drink is as under : — America, £1 13s 81; New Zealand, £3 ; "United Kingdom, £3 17s lOd, Victoria, £4 13s lid; and New South Wales, £5 14s. Pigeons are plentiful m the upper part of the Manchester Block and are n> w in good condition as they are feeding on pine berries. Large bags have been made, some parties getting as many as they could comfortably carry, in a few hours. The charge of sheep stealing laid against a farmer , named E. Smith, of Pahautanui, was concluded in Wellington on Monday last, and resulted in the acquittal oj the accused. The E.M., in discharging the accused, said fhe case ought not to have been brought into court. As showing the rapid progress made in bush districts, the road from Kiuibolton road to Ashhurst wound through several miles of bush, during the past year this bush has been felled and burned. The black burn has now given place to green grass, fencing has been proceeded with and several settlers have erected new houses. It is calculated that there is a safo, if small, majority in favour of the tariff. Should the event prove otherwise, and Ministers bo defeated by the votes of their own side the consequence must be either resignation or a dissolution. In the former case a reconstruction under Sir < I arry A kinson would be the mast probable outcome in the absence of any other available leader. The aunual meeting of the Feilding Licensing Committee was held at the Court-house yesterday. Present — Messrs Sherwill (chairman), Rutherford, Haybittle, and Nicholas. A new license was applied for Mr Oliver, of the Empire Hotel, by Mr Sandiland.«, and granted. Renewals were granted to Mr Light, of the Denbigh, and Mr Hastie, of the Feilding Hotels. The committee then adjourned. Th- Greatest Blessing. — A simile, pure and harmless remedy, that cures every time, and preven'.s disease by keeping the blood pure, stomach regular, j kidneys and liver aetife, is the greatest blessing ever conferred upon limn. I)r Soule's American Hop Bitters is that remedy, and its proprietors are bein» blessed by thousands who have been saved and eurad by it. ' Will you try it ? S c another column. — Eagle. The following paragraph shows that a mat. may be very clever aud yet talk nonsei; se sometimes : — Professor Blackie has been giving his opinion in reference to teetotallers and teetotalism. He has the highest respect for temperance and for total abstinence ; but if he went to the house of a gentleman who was a teetotaller, and got only water, he (Professor Blackie) would think him neither a gentleman nor a Christian. The host was bound to respect his guests capacity, as he respected his guest's weakness. Given tjp by the'Doctobs.— ''ls it pos sible that Mr Godfrey is up and at work, cured by so simple a remedy?" " I assure you that he is entirely cured And with nothing but Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters ; and only ten days a+o his doc« tors gave him up and said he, must die ! " " Well-a«dnv ! " This is remarkable ! " I will go this day and get some for ray poor George. I know hops are good. "Post. " Recently Mark Twain contributed to one of the American magazines a charming paper in which he collated specimens of the sort of answers which school child* ren eive in their exercises- A well-town school inspector has a story which shows that the English boy is in this respect tit least equal to his American cousin. One such was instructed to set forth in writing his views of the constitution of the human body. Here in his reply, which ready seems too good to be true: — " The human body is made up of the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. The head contains the brains, when there is any. The thorax contains the heart, lungs, and diufram. The abdomen contains the bowels, of which there are fire, lEIOTJ, and sometime* W and Y." Now that we may expect some cold weather and the Winter is duly setting in, the matter of purchasing Flannels is a very important one, and "one who knows" advises all and sundry to either buy personally or send their orders to the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. Wb have 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, BJd, 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 61 up to 2s 6d per yard, at Te Aro Hoiisr, Wellington. 4th, A very fine make of Flannel with pink list called Saxony Electoral at Is, Is 3d, Is 61, Is 9.1, 2s and 2s 6d per yard. sth, "The Lancet" Flannel — this is a special ou'eoine of the celebrated Health- ! cries Kxliibition in London, which can bt* depended on for com fort «nd wear, , and is guaranteed by one of r the best makers of the day. and t hi* holder of a prize medal " not to shrink" — prices are Is. l< 3d, Is 6.1. Is 9d. 2s 2.s 3d, and Hiesc can only be obtained at the Wholesale Famil.* Drapery Warehou.se, Te Aro House, Wellington, „ .