Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 49, 2 October 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Star appears in an enlarged form to-day. The Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. The Manchester Ttoad Board will meet on Saturday next. The Hon. Mr Mitchelson is now paying a visit to Hawkes Bay. Mr Valentine la getting on rapidly with the new theatre and will finish his contract m good time. Several coroners in different parts of the colony have resigned in consequence of the reduction of fees by the Act of last session. A bushfeller named James Hill was killed by being struck by the branch of a falling tree near Eltham, Hawera, on Tuesday. It is rumoured in Wellington that Mr E. G« Jellicoe, the eminent lawyer, is to be petitioned to contest the Wellington mayoralty. We have to acknowledge receipt of the anuual report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society for the year ending 31st August 1888. Fifty-three matches have been arranged at Home for the Maori football team. The first match will take place on Wednesday against Surrey. The ship Nelson arrived at Port Chalmers on Saturday. She brought 2000 tons of cargo and 12 passengers. During the voyage, on June 29th, a seaman named P. Dolan died of heart disease, A warden's Court will be held at the Mahakipawa gold field to-morrow when applications for leases of thirty acres will be heard. If the warden knows his business not many of these will be granted. Cobbe and Darragh have a good selection of garden tools, consisting of spades, rakes, hoes, and trowels. They also hold a large stock of Yates' renowned garden seeds. Many of the Taranaki butter dealers in town have received cables from Sydney intimating a heavy drop in the butter market, on account of the plenteous rains recently experienced over there. — Herald. Mr Benzon, the silly but famous jubilee plunger, has gone to grief. The ring would only bet with him for ready money at Sandown. It has cost nim a quarter of a million of money to become a beggar and a defaulter. Mother (to troublesome child) — Edwin, if you don't stop putting your fingers in that oxalic acid, the first thing you know you will be on your way to Herven. Elder sister (solemnly)— Yes, and if you do go, just think, you would never see your dear mother again. In order to keep pace with the increasing requirements of his business as a saddler, Mr H. J, Haliday is having extensive improvements made in his shop. The show window is being enclosed with glass in order that the various articles may be well displayed and at the same time preserved from dust. Mr Haliday will have a grand show on Friday night. Says " Puff" in the Press :— The sensation about the Emperor Frederick's diary is getting quite exciting ! How they do harp at Home on mere trifles! What's the latest ? The Review, which is publishing the extracts, has been directed to cease its circulation ! The Censor of the Press, I suppose, has stopped his paper ! It's often done here, but the man forgets to send at the same time what's due on his subscription. Mr S. J. Thompson, of the Red House, Feilding, has been appointed sole agent in Feilding for the " scrub exterminator." It is not a machine to be worked by steam or by horse power, neither is it a tool of any sort to be worked by the hands of man, as might be supposed, but a chemical preparation, which, when applied to scrub, briar, gorse, docks, sorrel, etc., destroys the same. The manufacturers, who are a Melbourne firm, have receiyed numerous testimonials from farmers, gardeners, and nurserymen, testifying to its destructive qualities, and highly recommending it to agriculturists and horticulturists. Mr Thompson is now opening up a consignment, and will be willing to give information to persons wishing to test the " scrub exterminator." — AdvTv

New Zealand hemp, medium quality, is worth £28 per ton. The Hokitika Borough Council have decided to do -without a puhhc works committee. Letters of naturalisation have been issued m fuvor of August Miers, of FeildinfiDuring; last year there were 2,146 cases of typhoid reported to the <?entrai Board of Health at Melbourne, of which 447 were fatal. At the Thames on Saturday, a woman named Mary Davis was committed for trial on the charge of attempting to murder her husband at Mount Pleasant on 18th August List. The Feilding Borough Council have been served with a caviat, or some such fearful and wonderful legal instrument, to stay the making of a ford across the Makino in North street. We understand that the Peilding Boxing Day Sports will be even better this year than on any previpus occasion. A meetiug to elect officers, and for other formal business, will be held early this month. Mr Joseph Bray left yesterday for Mahakipawa, where he will prospect on behalf of a Wellington syndicate. As Mr Bray knows the country well, and is an experienced as well as a lucky miner, we are confident of his success. It is rumoured that Sir Harry Atkinson is about to sell his property near New Plymouth and to take up his permanent residence m this city. In that event he would probably seed to occupy one of the Wellington City seats in Parliament. — Post. To visit Somnus, the following mares are now in Fejlding, viz. : — Foam, Fame, Effect, Policy, Lady Artist, Wairuareka, Peeress, Fugitive, May Fly, Sunbeam, and Irene. Messrs Baker and Co. have purchased Lady Artist for breeding purposes. We have to acknowledge receipt of the programme of the International Temperance Convention, to be held in Melbourne next month. The last similar gathering was iieid in 1880, during the currency of the Melbourne Exhibition of that year, and was attended with great success, followed by the most beneficial results. A meeting is to be held shortly of tobacconists and others, to consider the question of the price of tobacco. Many firms, it is alleged, are selling some of the leading lines at cost price, and it is on account of this that a movement is being made to try and establish a uniform rate. — Christchurch Press. A special meeting of the Feilding Fire Brigade was held last night for the purpose of definitely arranging about an engine. It was decided to order at once an engine of a certain pattern, with all the necessary plant and goar, from the makers, Messrs Merryweather and Sons, of London, through their Wellington agents, Messrs Aitken, Wilson, and Co. Mr Tennant, the local manager of the Bank of New South Wales, who has been appointed assistant inspector for New Zealand during the temporary absence of the chief inspector, expects to be absent from Wanganui about two months. It says something for the Wanganui branch of the Bank of New South Wales that it should have been called upon twice in succession to supply a sub-inspector for the colony. — Chronicle. The followiae item will be of inteie<t to ladies : — A new inflated bustle, duly patented has just come into use, made with a blow off and saftey valve. When the wearer sits down the wind escapes up her spine, loosens her corset strings and blows bangs into the most fashionable position. When she stands up the action tightens the strings and expands the bustle, whistles to her dog, and sticks a pin into her drowsy escort. Commandant H. A. Booth, a eon of General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army movement, is now on a visit to the colony. On Sunday last, at Wellington, special services were held to welcome his advent to the Empire City, the attendance at each service being enormous. Commandant Booth, in one of his addresses, gave an account of the rise aad progress of the Army movement. He also mentioned the likelihood of his father, General Booth, visiting the colony at an early date. The best means of making the railway management condescend to study public convenience (says the Wanganui Herald) is to start the dr-iys, coaches, and buggies again, and appeal for public patronage. The first serious effort to run the railway off will be a host of concessions. Competition operate like magic ! In this connection we may state that as soon as the summer season has fairly set in, a line of coaches will probably start running between Feilding and Palmerston; Greatford, Bulls, Sandon, and Campbelltown will also be connected. Yet another to the numerous list of weddings in our district. Yesterday Mr Duncan Cameron, of Whakaware, Fordell, son of Mr Charles Cameron, of Invermaly, Turakina, was married to Miss Eliza McDonell, daughter of Cumberland McDonell. Paraekaretu. The bride has for a time been living with friends in Feilding and considerable interest was shown m the proceedings by a coterie of young aspirants to similar honours. White blossoms in place of rice were showered upon tho pair who left for the south by tram. We join their friends in kindly wishes.