Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 145, 7 July 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding State School will re-open on Monday next. We haye to thank Mr Stevens, our local postmaster for a copy of Ocean Mail services for 1888. The Manchester Eoad Board sat this afternoon. A full report of the proceedings will be published in our next issue. The Maoris are committing great havoc among the pigeons in the Kiwitea and and Harbor Board Blocks. They collected upwards of a thousand this week. Mr W. Watts was the only tenderer for repairs to the Derby street bridge. His tender being considerably below the Engineer's estimate, was accepted. The New Zealand Herald of a recent date contained notices of the death of four Auckland residents whose united ages amounted to 326 years. The Audit Inspector was on an official visit to Feilding yesterday, and passed the Borough accounts for the period ending March 31st. The Feildiug Brass Band has m rehearsal a new war- inspiring march entitled "Let me like a soldier fall " It ought^to be dedicated to the Manchester j Eifles. Miss Mabel, aged four, standing on a hall chair, talked into the telephone : "Hello! Hello! Hello, Central! Give me Heaven ; I want to say my prayers !" — Pittsburg Dispatch. A Paris despatch says : The Free Masons throughout France areopposingßoul anger hotly. They are nearly all Eepub* licans and mostly fairly well-to-do people of the bourgeois. Their opposition has been fatal to a good many politicians. Mr Tripe, dentist, who has now settled permanently in Palmerston, in the house lately occupied by Dr Maclntyre, will visit Feilding on Tuesday the 24th inst. and may be consulted m Light's Denbigh Hotel. To the Deap. — A person who was cured of deafness and noises in the head of 23 years standing by a simple remedy will send a description of it free to any person who applies to Nicholson, Lincoln's Inn Chambers, William street, Melbourne. The public will be pleased to learn that S. J. Thompson, of the Eed House, haa just opened up 20 cases of winter drapery (latest fashions), comprising dress materials, trimmings, hosiery, laces, gloves, men's clothing, Crimean and woollen shirtings, etc. For cash the prices are lowest in town. — Advt. The late Mr Bear, we are informed by the agent of the Australian Mutual Provident Assurance Compauy, had made a proposal for £250 to that company which was accepted, and Mr Bear was to have paid the first premrim during his holidays, at Wellington where he was going. Unfortunately his fatal llluess at Wauganui prevented this being done, and the golden opportunity was lost. Sir Harry Atkinson is reportad to have said the Hansard reports were not accurate this session. He wished it to be understood that the did not hold himself responsible for anything in Hansard. This is rough on the unfortunate reporters. Sir Ilarry still relies in the value of " tho tongue of good report." although sometimes he seems to steer a little wild on the ocean of public opinion. We have to acknowledge receipt of Typo of June 30, which is accompanied by a Typefounders' Supplement. This is a most superb piece of work containing over thirty subjects, each of which is a model of typographic design. We are pleased to learn that Typo is represented at the great newspaper exhibition at Aix-la-Chapelle, and at the exhibition of the world's trade journals at Leipzig. We are glad to know there is now a cettainty of Feilding being provided with a suitable hall for public purposes. Last week Mr Atkins, architect, was here for the purpose of making a survey of the sale rooms m the occupation of F. E. Jackson and Co,, attached to the Feilding Hotel, with a view of designing the necessary additions and alterations thereto, and Mrs Hastie has given instructions for the plans and specifications to be prepared forthwith. A Losing Joke. — A prominent physic* ian of Pittsbure said jokingly to a lady patient who was complaining of her continued ill-health, and of his inability to cure her, "Try Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters!" The lady took it in ear* nest, and used the Bitters, from which she obtained permanent health. She now laughs at the doctor for his joke, but he is not so well pleased with it, as it cost him a good patient. — Harnsburg Patriot. A business man has suggested it would be a convenience if mail? were made up and forwarded by the 11.3 a.m. train on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. We have no doubt our local Postmaster will see into the feasibleness or otherwise of the proposal. Our corres pondent should, however, be aware that letters may be posted by ihe.se trains in the Guard's van on payment of an extra penny stamp. A singular suit is pending at Askon, O. A rich widow fell in love with and —after romantically overcoming many obstacles — married a tramp named Penton. Her relatives at once arrested her on a charge of insanity. Less than twelve months after Fenton died, and now his widow, who had been detained in an asylum, seeks to recover £1000 from her brother for having been denied her husband, whom she says she could hare saved had she been permitted to live with him. Four French soldiers who were taken | prisoners in the war, and who were subsequently sentenced to a long term of confinement m a fortress for assaulting the Prussian soldiers in charge of them, were included in the amnesty recently signed by the Emperor Frederick, and havo returned to their own country. They were allowed no communication with the outer -world during their long detention, and thtir families, uuawa.ro of the circumstances in which they were j placed, naturally concluded that they wore dead. A pleasant surprise was in store fur one of the party. He found the child with whom his wife was about to present him when he was suuinvu c 1 fr >ni home, and whose face he nover saw, a strapping lad of 18, and just on tlie eve of being married himself. But one of his comrades has to fucu the pei-ulinriy unpleasant domestic complication which tho l'uet Laureate has treated in his poem of " Enoch Arden." Ihs wife remarried some voara ago, and is the mother of a large family by her secuod husband.

The opposition to separation of Mnnawatu fnm ilie Wanganui Hospital Dis» triet shown by some of the northern public bodies, shows what a " plum" Manawatu must be when considered as a source of revenue. We must apologise to our Taonni, Ashurst road, nnd subscribers generally on that "ru»" for the non-delivery of their papers on Thursday evening. The runner was unable to catch his herse, and therefore did not put iv his appear- | ance uutil next morning. Messrs J. C. Morey & Co., of the Bon Marche. are now preparing a special price list in connection with their annual stock-taking sale. We understand a number of extraordinary cheap bargains will be offered. The price list will be issued next week. The Salvation Army held a farewell meeting last night to celebrate the depar ture of Lieut. Dawson. There was a large attendanco. Captain Jackson, from Palmerston, was present and g-\ve a good address. The coffee supper after the meeting was a grand success. Lieut. Dawson will be Btationed in Wellington for some months. The local papers report there is war in the grocery trade in Palmerston, and the chief articles of consumption are as low, if not lower, than in the Empire City. The question as to who will lose the money will be solved by the wholesale houses, with the assistance of those others whom it may concern. A cutthroat trade never benefits anybody. A deputation consisting of the follow* ing members, viz., Messrs iNewman. Bruce, Macarthur, Menteath, Pitzherbert, Ormond, Saith, Carroll, Russell, Tanner, and Izard, waited on the Premier with reference to the construction of the Manawatu Gorge railway from Woodville to Palmerston North. The advantages to be derived from the opening of this line and the necessity for immediately pro* ceeding with the work were pointed out. Sir Harry Atkinson promised the matter should be considered by the Government and his answer would be given in a day or two. A meeting of the Feilding School Committee was held last evening. Present — Messrs Watts (chairman), Worsfold, F. Thompson, Ranger, Curtis, Reading, and J. C. Tnompson. Correspondence was read from Education Board stating that Mr H. L. James had been appointed as assistance teacher, and from Mr Jenkins thanking the committee for the testimonial ; also, from Mr James thanking the committee for their confidence in recommending him as assistant master. Some business of a private nature was dealt with, and after the passing of accounts, the meeting adjourned.