Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 151, 21 July 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Powers hare taken no heed of the Pope's threat he will leare Italy. Telegraphic communication with Ban* joewongi has now been restored. Masonic installation and ball at the Foresters' Hall on Monday night. Sis hundred pauper children hare been sent a» emigrants to Canada. Railway timetable for the Bangitikei Hunt Steeplechase will be published m our next issue. The metal which has been put on the last few days, has made a vast improvement in Manchester street. Henry Anderson, the well-known journalist, died in Wellington yesterday, aged 50. Mr H. T. Akers is to be manager of the Palmerston Working Men's Club. The members could not have a better man. The Kiwitea Boad Board mot this afternoon. A full report of the proceedings will be published in our next issue. The ratepayers in Wanganui are already beginning to " cast about', for a new Mayor for the ensuing term. Mr J. Herbert Hankins, of Palmerston North, has now £40,000 to lend in sums of £2000 and upwards, at current rates. Creditors m the estate of Charles Henry, a bankrupt, are reminded that a meeting will be held at the Supreme Court m Wellington, on Monday next. Sir Julius Yogel, on behalf of the New Zealand Government, is making inquiries as to processes in rogue in England and Germany of dealing with refractory ores. A "right whale" came ashore at the south spit, Wanganui, on Thursday last. The Herald informs ua it measures 45 feet in length and 14 feet across the tail. Mr Macarthur informs us that the Government have agreed to state on Thursday next what they intend to do in the direction of allowing Hospital and Charitable Aid districts to be separated. Whatever may be thought or said regarding the general policy ef the Stoat" Yogel Government, there can be no doubt that time and experience are vindicating the wisdom of their land policj as administered bj Mr. Ballance. — Post. Tea drinkers are reminded that Cobbe and Darragh haye still on hand a few 51b and 101 b tins, also some £lb and lib packets of their noted teas. This is the last opportunity the public will have of buying teas at the old prices, as neither C. & D. or anyone else can replace present stocks under an abvance of at least two pence per lb. One intended feature of the Melbourne Exhibition has had to be abandoned. It was proposed to display the motto " Vie* toria welcomes all nations " ovor the principal entrance, but it was pointed out that the words " except the Chinese" would in the interests at truth require to be added, and so the welcome to the nations is to be abandoned. A notoriously " long- winded" customer not a thousand miles away from this gay city, was heard this morning to give utteraii cc to the following suggestive and alliterative sentence : "By Bacchus, the bloomin 1 storekeepers here, blart so much about bookin' that I'm blowed if I buy a blessed thing now." Cela va sans dire that man has not paid his subscription to the paper for many quarters. The " Hans the Boatman" Company tried to get a hall here to play on the 9th or 10th of August, but as the Foresters' Hall was engaged for those nights, and the new theatre not yet started, they did not succeed, therefore we cannot expect to see that performance for some time. We are informed by Mrs Haetie that tenders will be invited at once, and she expects the building will be ready in a month. To what amazing lengths duelling is carried on in Hungary is illustrated by a fatal meeting reported from Nyiregy* phaza. A district official named Paul Orchvary, aged; twenty-four, lived on bad terms with hia uncle, Edward Hege--Juß, a local Judge, aged fifty, and, as the result of some recent dispute, challenged the latter to a duel. Pistols were ehosea , and the duel (at twenty pares) took place. Orchvary fired firsi, and killed his uncle on the spot. Advertising Chbats.— lt has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article, and then run it into some ndvertisenient, that we avoid all such cheats, and simply call attenation to the merits of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters in as plain honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them one triiil ,as no one who knows their value will over use anythiajj else. —Providence AdveTti'ser.

The names of painters in this district comprise Wing, Gosling, Fowles, and Duck, We refer our readers to the special services announced to be held in the Methodist Church during the week, commeucing to-morrow, when Mr Harris will preach in the morning and Mrs Harris at night. The dairy fa-mers here ridicule the idea of the Government sending round " an expert" to teach them how to make butter and cbease. They are wondering if the state will send " an expert" to teach tho hens to lay double yoked eggs. We are informed that the lecture and coffee supper in the Ashhurst Eoad school | last night was a decided success. The | people turned out in good numbers. The lecture was warmly appreciated, and the supper provided and served by some of the ladies of tho locality, left nothing to be desired. The system of bookmaking by the Dunedin Borough Council was found to be bad by the Auditor-General, and therefore the Mayor has gone to Wellington to protest against the system of audit. This is like a " spieler" protesting against a " peeler." j Mr William Smith, tailor, of Brown street, Adelaide road, has furnished the editor of the Post with the following interesting communication : — " Sir — It is with pleasure that I inform you that my wife,' Minnie Smith, gave birth to two girls and one boy on 18th inst. Glad to tell you that they are all well."