Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 152, 24 July 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

There was a total eclipse of the moon last night. A man was killed last night at Palmerston by the train. Withy's amendment will be dealt with this afternoon. The bell for the Feilding Fire Brigade arrived this morning. A good many New Zealanders hayc gone to the Melbourne Exhibition. It is probable that a night school will shortly be opened in Feilding. The Pahiatua Star thinks with us that the " dairy expert" business is a farce. The train services to Hunterville are being worked at a loss of £15 per week. The lonic left for London on Sunday, with a full cargo of frozen meat and produce. The Parnell Commission Bill provides for the appointment of three judges to hear the charges against him. The annual general meeting of the "Wanganui .lockey Club will be held at the Eutland Hotel on Tuesday next. Madam Fletcher, of Wellington, died last night at the residence of Mr H. Fletcher, Ashhurst road. Early this morning a very violent storm passed over this district. It was accompanied by thunder and lightning, hail, and ram. The anti-English feeling in Germany is mainly caused by a selfish dread Jthat all subsidies and pensions paid by England to pauper German princes will be withdrawn, and that consequently the poor devils will be thrown on the Charitable Aid funds of their own country. A correspondent in Wellington writes : ' ' The town seems busy to me, but complaints re dullness are general on all sides. The Government apparently come in for a large measure of blame. The tariff is not so popular in the town as you in the country think." ' '•-* 1 -"'.' We have seen a sketch plan of a rotunda proposed to be erected in Manchester Square for the use of the Feilding Brass Baud. The proposed structure is very elegant and will be a decided ornament to the Square. A notice appears to-day from (jh. M, Snelson to the effect he will hold a sale of fruit trees and ornamental shrubs at the Denbigh Hotel on Thursday next after the stock sale is over. As the trees are from the nursery of Mr Alex. Laird that is a sufficient guarantee of their 1 excellence. The St Jam es Gazette eulogises the diplomacy of New Zealand in declaring Chinese ports infected. It was certainly a master stroke of finesse, and one from which other Colonial Governments might take a hint, instead of doing their best to embroil their Old Country with the Celostials. — Dunedin Star, According to "Dear" Polle , there are only two occupations open to buys in this colony, viz., to be bank clerks or boot blacks. He is reported to have said "The boys were all undergoing an education to it them for bank clerks, and none were left to clean the boots." If "Dear" Pollen " were a boy again" which job would he choose ? ,

The Public Works Statement will be delivered either on Thursday or Friday: Mr Greenwood deitist, will visit Feildmg on Wednesday the Ist August. The San Francisco mail reached Feildiag yesterday by the midday train from Wellington. The list of entries for Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale at Feilding on Thursday next, is published to-day with additions since our last issue. The annual general meeting of memof the Church of Euglaud will be held m St. John's schoolroom on next Thursday evening at 7.30. We are glad that the wife of Colonel Stapp, who was reported as being in a precarious state of health on Tuesday, is recovering from her ailment. Pread has gone up in Wanganui says the Chronicle. The bakers notifiy that the price of the two pound loaf will in future be 3d cash 3£d booked. The Feilding and Palmerston offices of Messrs Stevens and Gorton were closed yesterday in honor of Mias Gorton's marriage which took place on that day. A sale of fruit trees from the well known nursery of Mr Mitchinson of New Plymouth, will b 8 held by Stevens and Gorton in Feilding, on Friday next. Particulars in advertisement. One by one the barriers between men and woman are falling. The National Association of Journalists h: a just admitted its first lady member in Aliss Lillie Harris, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. A new advertisement from the Red House relating to the show room, and reduced prices therein will appear in our next issue. In the me.intime ladies are requested to lose no time in making their visits. According to a liquor law passed in France every person who may be condemned twice by the police for open drunkenness will be held incapable of voting, of elective eligibility, and of being named for a jury or any public office. The public will be pleased to learn that S. J. Thompson, of the Eed House, has 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. Every journal in the colony has spoken contemptuously of the way in which certain members of the House stonewalled Mr Macarthur's Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill. The names of the offenders ought to be written in letters of mud on a ditch and bank fence in a rabbit infested country. 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 hay© of buying teas at the old prices, as neither C. & D. or anyone else can replace preseni stocks under an advance of at least two pence per lb. The now historical " Agnews" continue to haunt the Parliamentary buildmg9 in Wellington, and two coustables are told off to keep them quiet. The Post says this special service costs the taxpayers about 148 per diem. We think if the Agnews were offered 16s a day they would " cease their troubling" and a saving of 4s a day would thus be effected. A large assemblage of people attended the Primitive Methodist Church this morning, to witness the weddings of Mr 11. Worsfold to Miss L. Trevena, and Mr W. Foster to Miss S. Trevena. The marriages were solemnised by the Rev. W. Harris. The brides were very tastefully dressed, as also were the bridesmaids, who were as follows : — Misses E. Worsfold, E. and C. Trevena, H. Castle, E. Pope, and A. Foster. The groomsmen consisted of Messrs F. Worsfold, A. Gower, H. Trevena, J Belfit, and G. Foster. The bridal party left by vehicles for Halcoinbe, where the wedding breakfast was to be held. Mr Izard is going to ask the Premier, (1) Whether any and (if any) what steps have been taken under the Representation Act Amendment Act, 1887, toward ascertaining the boundaries of the new electoral districts into which the Colony is to be divided ? (2) Whether, if no such steps have been taken, the Government will cause the matter to be put in hand during the approaching recess? (3) Whether the Government will, at the commencement of the next session of j Parliament, lay before the House the j proposed boundaries of the new electoral divisions, and give this House an opportunity of discussing the same? — N.Z. Times. When Sir George Grey paid a visit to Masterton lately, he fell in with an old Wellington printer, Mr Everest, from whom he obtiiined a series of Wellington debentures which he had printed in 1845, for Mr Roots ginger-beer manufacturer. They are of varying denominations of value — a shilling, sixpence, and three* pence. One of them runs as follows : — " Wellington, New Zealand. No. 1895 (Sixpence). On presentation of ten of these notes I promise to pay the bearer the sum ot five shillings in Government debentures, or the worth in my celebrated Antipodean Ginger Beer, well up, but like Governor Fitzroy s head, rather weak. N. B. — Before I issue any of these notes, I have a large supply of ginger-beer well up. W. Roots, Ginger Beer Manufacturer." Sir George (writes our Wellington correspondent) is purchasing, as oppor* tunity serves, every curious souvenir of the olden time obtainable and I have reason to believe that they will ultimately be presented to the Auckland Free Library, which has been already so much indebted to him for princely gifts. — Napier News. ADVKETIBING Chbats. — It has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article, and then run it into some ndvertiscraent, that we avoid all such cheats, and simply call attenation to the merits of Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters in us plain honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them one trial ,a.s no one who knows their value will ever use anything else. — Providence Advertiser.