The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1888. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 139, 23 June 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1888. Local and General News

The Hon. John Ballance went through to Wanganui to-day, by the noon tram. •■. * The Feilding Masonic Lodge will meet on Monday evening next, at eight o'clock. A chimney waa seen blazing merrily, yesterday morning, somewhere near Manchester street. On Thursday afternoon a horse attached to a trap belonging to Mr John Bartholomew, bolted up Kimbolton road. It <same to a standstill without doing any damage. In our correspondence column Cockatoo makes a very excellent suggestion re utilising the footbridge alongside the railway bridge, for crossing sheep when the river is in flood. The Wellington Post says : — " It would be difficult to imagine a worse destination for any lad really worth his salt than tha New Zealand Civil Service at this preßent time." Mr R. S. Abrahams, Palmerston representative of the firm of Stevens & Gorton, left for a trip to the Old Country on Thursday. W« hopo he will have a pleasant holiday. The racing mare "Spray" was not sold as advertised on Thursday under the warrant of distress. The amount claimed was paid, but under protest. We hear an interpleader case will be heard next Court day at Feilding. There resides in the South Island — so 'tis said — a man whose father was a French-Canadian, his mother a Red Indian. This man, it is furthermore asserted, is married to a full-blooded Maori. What will his children be ? Mr Vaile, the railway reformer, claims as a result of working the WhangeieiKamo line, on his system, a saving of 40 per cent, on the working expenses, and further maintains that a still larger saving would be made on a greater length of line. A petition against the totalisator was forwarded to-day to Mr Macarthur, M.H.B. Mr J. 0. Thompson informs us that had he the time he could have obtained the signatures of 90 per cent, of the population here. An attempt was made yesterday morning in New Plymouth to burn down a large blook of buildings. Luckily it failed owing to its early discovery. Of course there is no clue to the guilty person. Mr Joseph Hatch, of Inyercargill, called a meeting on Thursday, at which he attempted to clear himself of the charges made against him of seal poaching at the Auckland Islands. He did not succeed in convincing his audience of his innocence. Now that the whole world has been saturated with "expressions of sympathy" for the late German Emperor, we crave a tear for the unfortunate newspaper proprietors who have been half ruined by paying for press telegrams on the subject of his illness. •Ah opportunity will be afforded those settlers wheare making orchards, to obtain a selection of fruit and ornamental trees grown by Mr Mitchmson, of New Plymouth, at a gale to be held in Feilding by Messrs Stevens and Gorton on Friday, the. 29th met, The sale of Japanese curiosities to be held by Messrs Stevens and Gorton, in their auction rooms, Feilding, on Wednesday next, is likely to be one of the most interesting ever held in Folding. The articles will be on view from Monday next until the morning of the sale, and everyone who, has a desire to see and examine the manufactures of the remarkable people who made them, should not fail to make an inspection thereof. Tk« following intimations are from Lloyd's Weekly of April 29 : — James Gardiner left England 13 years ago for New Zealand, and last wrote from Post Office, Auckland. His daughter Polly seeks him. Sarah Palmer (nee Harvey) sailed in the Star of India, for New Zealand, About 12 years ago, and was last heard of six years since at Manchester Block, Feilding. Her mother desires news. [Mrs Palmer is yet in Feilding.J Givbn UP bt thbDoctobs.— "ls it possible that Mr Godfrey is up pnd at work, eared by so simple a retuedjP" " I assure you that he is entirely cured «nd with nothing but Dr Soule's American Hop i Bitters; and pnlj ten days ago his doc* ! tors gave him up and Raid he must die ! " j "■ Well-a*dav ! " This is remarkable !" ' I. will go this, day and gel some for my j>oor Qeorge. I know hops are good.

The Maoris brought in several dray loads of fungus to-day. The case against the Feilding Jockey Club has been decided in fuvv>r of the plaintiff. We are informed a gentleman is to examine the plant and property of the Makino Cheese Company to-day with a view to purchase. A very successful tea was held at the Makino Methodist Sunday School last night. A full report will appear in our next issue. The members of the bar and legal profession in Ohristchurch have passed a resolution to the effect that the appointment of Judge Ward as a Supreme Court Judge would be acceptable to the profession. Commenting on Mr Maxwell, the Kailway Manager, the Post says — " We have never heard him even accused of showing j a willingness to oblige anybody, or to prefer anybody's opinion to his own." This is severe— all the more so for being true. How happy Maxwell would be if — like the Emperor of Germany — he could give newspaper writers "notice to quit his dominions." i Referring to the wreck of the Hawea at New Plymouth, a correspondent of an exchange writes :— " The breakwater again ! £13,000 worth gone to the bottom ! I begin to think that the proposal of a certain Mr Biglie will have to be carried out. I forget the details of his measure, but if I remember rightly -a quantity of dynamite was to be used to blow up the harbor, the Harbor Board, Mount Egmont, and New Plymouth, a proposal which clearly indicates the levelling tendencies of the age." Mr Beading, the agent for the Equitable Insurance Company, has shown us a copy of the new tariff adopted by the i Association of Underwriters, and which comes into force on the first of July next. It appears that the report that the rates were increased was an error, except so for as dwellings are concerned, the new regulation as to attachment will slightly raise the premiums. On other properties they are really lower, where iron roofs are provided. In our next issue we will publish the principal items in which the new tariff differs from the old one. The Manawatn County Council have been the meims of bringing to light the following interesting return as to the ex« ppnditure on charitable ad .• — Last year tha Palmerston Borough contributed to charitable aid £34, and expended over £150 ; Halcombe contributed £3 10s and expended £31 10s. ; Feilding contributed £18 10a. 6d- and spent over £50. In connection with charitable aid administration it may be mentioned the Wanganui Board is liable for in c maintenance of over 20 children sent from various parts of the united district to the Indus* trial school, and the aost on this head totals up about £400. — Advocate. 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 Ware house, Te Aro House, Wellington. We have an immense stock of Flannels for the present season that are un usually cheup in price and geod in quai ily, comprising — Ist, a lot of useful imi tation Welsh at 4^d, 6sd, 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 stron<_' make at Is, l.s 3d, Is 6d up to 2s 6d per yard, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Lastly, we haye Colonial made Flannels in White, Shetland, and Grey from Is to 2s 3d per yard. Those who wish to support local "industries" Will, no doubt, purchase these at Is, Is 3d, Is 6d, Is 9d, }£$, according to quality, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.