Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 29, 18 August 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

A quantity of reading matter will be found on the back pa<;f\ We have to acknowledge receipt of No. 24 of Hansard. Dr Menzies, M.L.C., is seriously ill, and his recovery is doubtful. The resignation of General von Moltke is a triumph to the war party ii* Germany. We have received a batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer . Quite a number of contiactors were in town to-day to be present when tenders for Kiwitea Road Board works were opened. In anticipation of the miners' strike at Newcastle, large stocks of coal are being accumulated m Wellington. Napier, the capital of the most flourishing province in the colony, is afflicted with " the unemployed" difficulty. The Commercial Travellers' race'at the New Plymouth rink was won by " Tommy" Skeltou, of Zealaudia boot fame. The Palmerston Borough Council has had another claim made against it foi alleged drain damages. The case is to b( settled amicably. The Hon. Mr Larnach has refused t( accept an apology from the proprietors o: the New Zealand Herald, and will press the action for libel. Mr Snelson will officiate at the Awahur: stock sale of Messrs Stevens and Gortoi on Tuesday next, in the absence of Colone Gorton, who is at present on a visit ti Canterbury. The proposal to pile extra taxation oi absentees is not palatable to the Premier The desire to tax people and things ir this colony is becoming a delirium amonj a certain class of people. Frederick Collins, who was nearly suffocated by fumes of coke at Richmond oi Wednesday, is slowly recovering consciousness, after being insensible for 4( hours. He is better, but still in a precarious state. A very comfortable and well situatec private resuleuce is advertised by Mi Sherwill, to be let. The house has eighi rooms and all necessary outhouses. There are fit teen acres of good laud attached Immediate possession. We have received from Mr Carthew i copy of the private lecture to young men upon an unavoided but important subject delivered in vVellington by tiie Rev, J Berry, Wesleyan Minister. It is published in a handy book form and the pric< is moderate. C. Conning, travelling agent for th( Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, was seized with a fit on board the Devonport ferry steamer on Thursday, at Auckland, and died a few minutes afterward when removed to his house. The caus< of death was heart disease. The many well wishers of the Salvation Army will learn with regret that Parhahament is to be asked to extend a protecting wing over that body. As soon as the Army is fostered by the Government, and nattered by members of other religious bodies, the end will not be far off. The London Times has now quite a crop of libel actions on hand. For manj years the " awful presence of the thunderer" detered litigants from venturing to make an attack, but now that the mana has been broken The Times will have tc take its chance like any other paper. We are glad to learn that the Feilding library is receiving good encouragement and patronage from the reading public. New subscribers, attracted by the list oJ new books, are joining every day, while the knowledge that a fresh supply of all the latest publications will be obtained monthly, will retain the older patrons. Edward Albert Mawer and Harry Freen, two old offenders, were convicted at luvercargill on Thursday, on charges of housebreaking, aed sentenced to three years hard labour. The convicts had made a systematic raid in the country districts, breaking into and robbing bachelors' and settlers' houses while the owners were at work. Mr Gordon Forlong, who is to preach the anniversary sermons of the Methodist Church next Sunday, is a powerful and graphic speaker, and withal so simple, that the most illiterate can readily understand him. The only effect he aims at is to induce his hearers to reflect on, and to embrace, the all important truths he brings before them, truths that have to do with the temporal and eternal well being of all ages and classes. Certain members are urging upon the Colonial Treasurer that, after the strong expression of opinion made during the present session by a large number of members of the House against the Property tax, he, should, during the recess, take into consideration the advisableness of repealing the said tax, and of substituting in lieu thereof some other form of taxation. The Colonial Treasurer "doesn't see it."— N.Z. Times. A correspondent to a Sydney paper points out that the mother colony has lost a glorious opportunity m not having the Exhibition there. He calculated that at least 12,000 persons would visit Melbourne during the first fortnight, and if each of the only spent £10 that means £1,200,000 left behind in a fortnight. But the Exhibition lasts six months, and this takes the Cup week, and he thinks it •io stretch of the imagination to suppose that 1,000,000 strangers will visit Melbourne, and this nuinl er, at £10 a head, a very low estimate, means £10.000,000 spent in Melbourne before the season is over !

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day: — Wa nin;s for gales and rain have been sent to all places. A meeting of ratepayers of No. 2 ward, Manchester Road Distnct, will be held in Halcombe on Monday next at 4 p.m, That able statistian "Mazeppa" is again to the fore with a table of the amount passed through the totalisator j during the past season. The tot il sum | is £515,000, against £509,000 last season, i an increase of £6,000. I The sensation of the day in lnvercarj gilL is a charge of cattle stealing against ' a woman named Sophia Kidd. The evil dence was of a contradictory character, j and the jury, being unable to agree, were ! locked up ajl Wednesday night. On Thursday they were discharged, and the case will be re-heard on Monday. Mr Charles Neary has a new advertisement in to-day, in which he notifies that j he has re-commenced business as a saddle, 1 collar, and harness-maker in his shop, i opposite Hastie's Feilding Hotel, and ! next door to the Eed House. Mr Neary j guarantees to execute all work entrusted i to him in a workmanlike manner, and at prices to suit the times. The assortment of new and seasonable • boots and shoes now on view in M. Keen's : boot emporium embraces all kinds of ladies' and gentlemens' walking, riding, and dress shoes, by the best makers in the colony of New Zealand, and the continent of Europe. As he is a cash buyer he can sell at prices so low that it looks like giving them away. Buyers are requested not to wait for the new advertisement to appear shortly. We direct attention to an advertisement which appears in another column of ' to- day's issue, from Mr E. Worsfold, of the Manchester Nursery. The proprietor i has for sale a large assortment of valuable fruit trees, which he is offering at moderate prices, and as the present season is drawing to a close, he impresses on in- ' tending purchasers the necessity of mak« ing early application. Mr Worsfold's > trees are strong and healthy, free from i blight, and well rooted, and will, we are sure, be found superior to any fruit trees k imported into this district, t The tribunal of Mortain, France, has jast condemned a youth named Jean Let landais, aged 14, to six years' imunson* i ment for having murdered a boy named Gosse, only seven years of age. The little fellow had appropriated a black* ' bird's nest which Lelandais had been " watching. In his fury,' Lelandais .cut Cosse's throat from ear to ear with a s reaping-hook. The juvenile murderer r was as devoid of emotion in Court as any a hardened criminal, tie asked the Judge to prevent his being pestered by the y prison chaplain. f The sporting writer of the Canterbury 9 Times has prepared a revise of the past season's racing also recoris of winning t-ires and horses. Vlusket heads the list 1 of sires, his progeny, having 25 wins, i amounting to £7349. Then come Apremont, 19. £5069; Cadegan, 6, £2668: B Pam-er, 15, £2496 ; St Georgf, 8, £2472; Leolmus, 13, £2184; Mute, 4, £2137; i Albany, 9, £2052; Le Loup. 5, £1916 ; '• Javelin. 11. £1684; R >hinson| Crusoe, 2, a £1630 ; Patriarch, 15, £1576 ; Puriri, 10, ?■ £1555 ; Daniel O'fiouike, 9, £1828; An teros, 11, £1307; Dunt oon, 5, £-1168; _ Somnus, 1. £1040 Of the winning a lior>e-s Maxim L 1637, Sextant L 1570, - Gipsy Kins! L 1387. Carbine L 1230, I'udu [) LIO4O, Lochiel L 990, Bnssl^y L 947, - Marl borough L 865. Nelson L 796. Cinderella L 795, Chemi.xt, S lence and Beres* q fonl L7BO, Torigariro L 765, Springston . L 760, pultun L7lo' Crutuhfield L 694, I Kangaroo, L6BO. Henri Shell and St Clair L 665. Silvennark L 621. ami British Lion Lb'lßjhare been tho most successful. A good deal of the trouble with children a might be saved if the little ones were i kept warmly clad in the cold, damp , weather. This can now be done at a very . small expense as Cob^e and Darragh are - selling (we might almost say giving away) a little girls ulsters from 1/6 each, and little boys warm overcoats from 4/6. 3 The public will be pleased to learn that 8. J. Thompson, of the Eed House, has .' just opened up 20 cases of winter drapery . (latest fashions), comprising dress maten--1 als, trimmings, hosiery, iaees, gloves, 3 men's clothing, Crimean and woollen shirtings, etc. For cash the prices are lowest in town. — Advt. Patterns with price lists and charts f«r self measurement forwarded free hy 3 post on application to James niitli, the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, 3 Te Aro House, Wellington.