Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 154, 28 July 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

* We will be obliged if subscribers to the paper will pay their accounts to the runners without further solicitation. Advertisers are also requested to send in their cheques. The Native Minister is going to Whangarei to effect a settlement of the Native dispute. We are glad to see that Mr Hopkins hae been discharged cured from the Wanganui Hospital. We havo tried one of the apples pitted by Colonel Gortou in the same way ac potatoes are treated, and find it ac fresh as though newly plucked from the tree. An old couple in Lichieres, after celebrating their golden wedding, took to quarrelling, and the man finally threw his wife into the fire, killed her with a heart stab; and then cut his own throat. The Minister of Public Works, on Mr Macarthur's representation, has authorised payment of wages due to Hans Ohlsen, roadman in the Gorge, in spite Lof the Petitions Committee's adverse repert.

The Public Works Statement wiU be delivered on Tuesday night.

A letter will appear in our next issue from "No- ah" who expostulates on her name being " taken in vain."

At the District Court on Thursday last C. Henry was eentenced to three months hard labor in the Wellington gaol.

At the Salvation Army tea meeting on Wednesday next two officers from Palmerston will give addresses, A band fiom Palmerston will also be present.

The Rev. Mr Hunter, of Wellington, is announced to preach in the Methodist Chapel to-morrow morning, and the Rev. W. Harris, at night wben a love-feast will be held.

The WoodviUe Football Olub has accepted the Feilding Club's challenge to play a match on Saturday next at Woodville. The Feilding team will be picked this evening.

It is now stated that a Mr Millear has patented a machine for holding a sheep whilst being shorn, so the sheep shearer of the future will have almost nothing to do but sit on the fence and smoke his pipe.

The necessary repairs to tbe Makino bridge having been satisfactorily completed by the contractor, Mr W. Watts, Derby street is now open for traffic. Thia ought to relieve Manchester street of a part of the heavy dray traffic which has done so much to cut it up.

The new crockery and fancy ware just opened up by Mr Haybittle consists of samples of all the new patterns sent by the makers to the Melbourne Exhibition. They are well worthy of inspection if only to ccc the perfection to which ceramic art has been brought.

A beer pipe line is the latest notion from Alleghanny, U.S.A. The idea is to furnish beer to private houses direct from the brewery by pipes running through the streets, as gas aud water are furnished. It is proposed to have a meter in each house, and to collect the payment once a month.

A neat piece of workmanship has j ust been completed by Mr Alfred Eade, cabinet maker, It consists of an ornamental box, or cabinet, made of New Zealand woods the colors of which are very tastefully grouped, while the exquisite tints of the rewa rewa and rimu which predominate, harmonise in a marked degree.

Inadvertently some of M. Keen's want advertisements were left out of our last issue. Fortunately a friend noticed the omission but in "going in to point it out" to Mickey, he was so taken with some new lines just opened that before he knew where he was he was striding up Manchester street with a new pair of boots on, the admired of all beholders.

The new fire-bell is a " boomer," weighing only 20 pounds short of four hundredweight. When "softly fall its silvery numbers" it should "wake our souls from peaceful slumbers" without the slightest failure. The "instrument" is apparently of excellent manufacture, and reflects great credit on the Wanganui iron and brass foundery, of which Mr David Murray i 6 proprietor.

Advertising Cheats.— lt has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article, and then run it into some advertisement, that we avoid all such cheats, and simply call attenation to the merits of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters in as plain honest terras as possible, to induce people to give them one trial ,as no one who knows their value will ever use anything else. — Providence Advertiser.

We are informed by the Manawatu Times that Sir George Grey was so favorably impressed with the acting of Mr W. J. Haybittle as Strephon in lolanthe, than he has expressed a desire to have Mr Haybittle proceed Home to receive instruction for two years in a dramatic school, to enable his talent to be properly developed. Sir George has expressed a willingness to bear all the cost of this if necessary.

At a banquet which was held at Bairns dale, Australia, recently, the local clergyman wa9 invited to pronounce a grac« prior to the attack on the eatables, and the blessing of Providence was asked with due reverence. The Minister had scarcely uttered the words : " These crea tures bless, and grant that we may feast in Paradise with Thee," when the company were suddenly startled by a hearty and enthusiastic " Hear hear," from a prominent politician.

Cobbe and Darragh, of the Cash Exchange, Feilding, have taken a step which ought to commend itself to all cash buyers of drapery, they have resolved that tney will in future allow a discount of 5 per cent, for prompt cash off all drapery parcels amounting to more than £1. These exceedingly liberal terms, coupled with the well-known low prices prevailing at the Cash Exchange, should have the effect of keeping in the district a good deal of money which now goes to Wellington aud elsewhere.

We learn from the Telegraph that smoking is now prohibited in the Napier Resident Magistrate's Court, as the R.M. disapproved of the practice. We should think he did. We can fancy the " tribulation" Mr Ward would raise if counsel, clients, witnesses, or audience, were to indulge m the weed during the sittings of the Court in Feilding. Resident Magistrates may stand no end of queer evidence or — as the poet says " not to put too fine a point upon it" — perjury, but they must draw the line at tobacco smoking.

Trades unions in China are very conservative, and those who break their un* written laws are treated with greater severity than even with us- Instead of being boycotted, or blown up with gun» powder, the offenders, it seems, are bitten to death. At Soochow, this punishment was inflicted the other day on a member of the gold leaf craft for taking more than one apprentice at a time. "One hundred and twenty three members had a bite at him." These institutions boast, not without reason, that none of the •' brethren" ever commit a second offence; from which circumstance it is supposed the proverb has arisen, " Once bit, twice shy."

Charles Henry appeared on remand this morning before Afessrs G. M. Snelson and S. Abrahams, J. P's, charged that he did. within four months of tho presentaion by him of a bankruptcy petition, make preparation for leaving the Colony of New Zealand. Mr Hankins, who appeared for the informant, stated he would not produce any evidenre on the charge as the Bankruptcy Court was now sitting, and as the debtor hud to appear for public examination no doubt his conduct could he fully reviewed then. The debtor was then discharged The debtor was subsequently surrendered by his bondsmen, Messrs Wray anrl Stratford, before the District Judge, and ■ipon Mr Hankins's application wandered to be retained in custody. — Al anawatu Times.

We have received from Messrs Gordon and Goteh, of Melbourne, specimen copies of the American Humorist and Everybody's Pocket Cyclopaedia of things worth know ng, things difficult to remember, and tables of reference. Both publications are well got up and remarkably cheap.

Au advertisement appears to-day from Mr Fear, the well-known Sewing Machinist and importer, of Wellington. It will be seen from the notice that by purchasing sewing machines from Mr Fear, from _ 5 to 50 per cent per cent, may be saved on prices usually quoted by travelling agents.