Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 153, 26 July 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ We will be obliged if subsribors to the paper will pay their accounts to the runners without further solicitation. Advertisers are also requested to send in their cheques. Parliament will be spun out for another month.

Mr Withy's amendment was negatived by 59 to 10. The Public Works Statement will not be delivered to-morrow. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of parliamentary papers. We hear that a new business place is to be erected in Fergusson street. The colonial Bishops now in England are disrespectfully called " returned empties."

Our local correspondent hints that Ashhurst will become a municipality in the near future. Members of the Church of England are reminded of the meeting in St. John's schoolroom this evening at 7.30. The timber trade in Marlborough is exceptionally brisk just now. Several new sawmills are to be erected at once. As soon as the rotunda is erected on Manchester Square, the Feilding Brass Band propose to give a series of open air performances. The "Leviathan," Joe Thompson, the famous Melbourne bookmaker, is going Home to try his fortune on the English turf. He will be skinned like a rabbit. We learn from the Herald that Mr T. Bush is at present busily engaged in working up a Wauganui and West Coast Directory. This will truly supply " a long felt want." It is enough to make a dead dog turn sick to hear a rabid Protectionist enlarge on the benefits to be derived by New Zealand when American ports become free for the import of wool. A Napier lawyer said, in a recent case of sly grog selling, "It had not been proved by witnesses that whiskey was a fermented or intoxicating liquor." The legal gentleman who said this must be a " new chum" m Hawke's Bay. At 3-reatford on Monday the marriage of Mr E. H. Levett and Miss Nina St, George Gorton attracted great attention, the whole country-side turning out. The young couple leave by the Aoraugi for their honeymoon trip to England. As we went to pross the stock sale of Messrs Stevens and Gorton had just concluded. The attendance was good and last quotations of prices fairly maintained. The firm will hold a sale of fruit trees aud ornamental shrubs, at their auction rooms, Fergusson street, to-morrow. The public will be pleased to learn that S. J. Thompson, of the Bed 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. Tea drinkers are reminded that Cobbe and Darrugh haye still on hand a few 51b and 101b 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 advance of at least two pence per lb. A friend of New Zealand in London writes to us (N. Z. Times) thusly :— "The New Zealand loan was a greater success than was anticipated. The Standard and Financial News did all they could to spoil it. I have written several letters to b«th these papers in answer to the remarks they publish, but they won't put anything in that is in favor of New Zealand.

Two ladies were discussing the utility or advantages of Freemasonry. One said : "Do you not object to your husband being a Mason ? He gets nothing by it does he ?" The other replied : " No, my dear, he does not, but think what a lovely funeral he will get." Now the " other" lady is prospecting about to marry a Mason so that she may see him decently buried. And yet we say womenfolk have no proper feeling ! The following from the Marlborough Express of the 17th, speaks well for the prospects of the Mahakipawa diggings : —"A nugget weighing 7oz 4dwt was sold yesterday to the Bank of New Zealand, Blenheim, by a Mr. Ward. Our Havelock correspondent telegraphs this morning :— ' Gregg's party obtained 6 and 7 ounces of gold out of the tailrace yesterday, at Mnliakipuwn dippings. The heaviest piece weighed \<z 13dwt." " Advkrtising Cheats.— lt has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article, and then run it into some ndrerfisemenf, that we avoid all such cheats, and simply call atlenation to the merits of Dr Soule's Ainericnn Hop Bitters in as plain honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them one friul ,as no one who knows their value will ever use anything else.— Providence Advertiser. ' ' '

We hear that a Wellington tradesman | is about to commence business in Feildmg. j

The Wanganui Yeoman is going to publish a novel by H. Rider Haggard. Probate in the wills of Michael Coyle, Percival Bear, and James Hastie, has been granted.

A meeting of the members of the Feilding Fire Brigade will be held tomorrow evening. !

Mr Jaines Bruce Wallace, a very old settler m Wellington, was drowned in the harbor on Tuesday.

A grand festival will be held in the Salvation Army Barracks on Wednesday, tKe Ist August. Particulars in future advertisement.

Mr P. Thomson, tiusmith, advertises that for the future all repairs will have to be paid for in cash on delivery. He has a large assortment of tanks on hand to be sold for cash.

A Polish engineer has invented a gun capable of firing 60 shots per minute, and now he is " hunting round" for a civilised Government idiotic enough to buy his patent.

Tne remains of the late Madam Fletcher were forwarded to Wanganui by mid- day train to-day. The funeral will take place this afternoon. Several friends came through from Wellington to assist at the obsequies.

The enterprising natives in the Soudan dig up the skeletons of the British soldiers buried there, and sell them to the bone merchants, who, in their turn, grind them up, and sell the dust for manure. Such is Ulory.

In Gisborne yesterday " Major" Lovelock and three other Salvationists were each fined 10s for obstructing the street by holding a meeting thereon. Failing payment of fines they were sent to gaol for 24 hours.

Mr Horace Baker and Mr Washbourn the mining expert, visited the copper lode on Sunday. The cross-drive is now in 18 feet, but the lode has not yet been struck. The drive has been earned upward, and the ground has become softer. Mr Washbourn remains at the copper lode to direct driving operations, with a view to cutting the lower level. — Woodville Examiner.

Complaints are made that single girls from Palmerston and Wairarapa North have come to Napier aud been confined . and leave the infants behind to baby farmers. The instalments are not regularly paid, and then those who have taken the children throw the onus of their support on the charitable public. Five such cases are known, but in future the police ia to he asked to take steps to prosecute the mothers. — Napier Telegraph.

We have received from Mr Allen, of the Bank of New Zealand, the prospectus of the Kaari Timber Company now being floated. The company was pro* moted in Melbourne, a portion of the shares are offered to the people of New Zealand. The capital is L1,200,000, and the directorate includes the names of some of the leading commercial men in Melbourne. Shares may be applied for at the Bank where all particulars may be obtained.

There was a social gathering of medical students last week, and I managed to gam possession of one of the cards of invitation, which I transcribe for my reader's benefit, not on account of it being an item ef newa l>ut from the fact of its being rather clever. This is it : — " Sciens socialite sobriete. Doctores ! ducum nex n^undi nitu parer.^ triticum atte aif. Expecto meta fumen tute et eta beta pi, super a ten to uno dux hamor clamra pati, euin parates, homme; jam, loh. Festo rasonan floas sole." It must be premised as a hint that Parers' is the name of a well-known restaurant.

The Premier on Tuesday said the Goternment would consider the question of charitable aid during the recess to remove existing grievances. Sir John Hall expressed the feeling of the town member* when he declared that a most important question was the incidence of the taxation in connection with this matter. The out come, therefore, of the fitjht over the Bill last Thursday is that the action of the country members and those who fought against them will be received with general satisfaction, as no arrangement can well be worse than the present one, and any change must probably be for the better. -N.Z. Times.

Messrs Baiter Bros., the well-known property auctioneers, financial, and business agents, hare sent us their property list for July The list is a very complete one, carefully compiled, and contains an immense selection of city and suburban properties, country lands, and businesses in various parts of New Zea land, to be sold or let. For either the family man looking for a home, the in* vestor in search of a good channel in which to place his capital, or the business man on the look out for au opening in his particular direction, the list is justly regarded as one of the best mediums of bringing together buyer and seller.

The New Plymouth Bock, which we mentioned as having been stolen some days ago from its place in the Taranaki harbor, has been put back, but apparently not in the spot from whence it was taken because the Officials and Ancient (master) Manners are quarreling over its actual position again, Grave suspicions are directed towards the editor of the Wellington Evening Post as having been the instigator of the theft and resetting. A herring (lent by a local M.H.R.) has been used to draw across the scent, and a canard circulated to the effect that the 11 H&ons found the rock." Do the Taranaki people know where the Highlander found the tongs ?

It is said that when the Education vote was being considered in the debate on the Estimates, a well-kown School Inspector was present in the gallery. After Dick Seddon, Sydenham Taylor, and Motueka Kerr had spoken " copiously" on each item, according to their cHstom, the poor Inspector went into a lobby, where he " lifted up his voice and wept bitterly." After a little while he treated himself to the following " little sum" : — If it takes one birch rod to teach one boy one rule in grammar, how many birch rods would it take to teach three members of Parliament to know the wholo grammar ? Answer — Enough to make faecinea for the Wanganui river.