Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 60, 27 October 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

* Next week we propose to put a Dumber of outstanding accounts in the hands of our solicitor for collection. We may state that we only intend to "go for" tnose who are able to pay.

The employes of the Feilding Stab will in future take their half holiday on Wednesdays instead of Saturdays.

Government have decided to give a bonus of 20s a head on stoats and 10s per head on all weasels landed in the colony.

We are glad to learn that Mr J. H. Stevens is gittmg well again and will soon be able to resume his duties.

St John's Sunday School will be reopened on Sunday next and the usual monthly sermon to children will be preached in the church at the 3 o'olock service.

The Dunedin Star satirises the community who are flocking in crowds — not to an intellectual entertainment of any kind— but to see a dog travel about on roller skates.

If the rumour is well founded that the Duke of Manchester is to succeed Sir William Jervoisas Governor of New Zealand, the Duke will probably reside for a great part of the year on his estate near Feildiog^

Mr G. Dougherty, of Victoria, is proceediLg in the Supreme Court of that colony against the Bank of Australasia for £30,000 damages for alleged dishonoured cheques, breaches of agreements, and wrongful sale of station property.

A correspondent asks the following questions to which we invite auswers : — Why do men button their clothes towards the left side and ladies towards the right ? In Dr Gebhardt, who traeheotomised the unfortunate Emperor, a relatiye of the ouce notorious Freddy ?

The new advertisement from Mr W. Spriggins, which appears an our third page to-day, is certainly a " startler" and should attract attention from buyers. Mr Sprifcgins says he is determined to supply good articles at the lowest prices, and to do his level best to please hia customers.

Considerable indignation has been aroused in Lyttleton owing to Gaoler O'Brien haying been disrated and ordered to Hokitika in consequence of the escape or Jonathan Roberts, and Chief Warder Bell, having been reduced to the rank of warder. Petitions and indignation meetings are spoken of.

The Tarauaki Herald says Wellington is fast earning for itself the name of the 'City of jobbery and corruption." The roason for this wrathfulness is that Wellingtomaus want the Government to assist in finding a poßt office clock. Of course Taranaki would scorn the idea of asking the Government for any kind of monetary assistance.

Mr J. Phillips, of Kimbolton road, has forwarded us a couple of pats of butter as samples of the material he sends to England by the agency of Mr W. Corpe. There is about 4 per cent, of salt added. Without professing to be experts we may give the opinion that it ia good butter, well colored, and should meet with a good reception in the market.

The following lines are apropos of one of the most popular books in our Public Library : — The cool conservatory, a face for song and story, and hair a golden glory, We Two. Eyes blue as amethyst is, where now a tender mist is, how white the hand kissed is ! Wee, too. Ah ! Life is filled completely, when my proposal, neatly expressed, she answers sweetly "Oui" to.

Thus a New York paper on the London murders : — lt is evident that the London police and detective force is badly demoralised, and a ctiange of some sort is in order. A few of our lynx eyed American detectives wou.d probably ferret out these mysteries so qu okly as to make the slower- jjoing Londoners wag their solemn heads in amazement.

A movement has been going on for some time past in Westland and on the Molyneux River in Otago, to obtain dredging machinery for working beach and river bed gold deposits. Koots and trunks of trees, and boulders are causing trouble, but an exchange thinks that in spite of these difficulties tnere is reason to hope fur a censiderable increase in New Zealand' s output ot gold shortly.

The Sarle-Kemp race for £500 a-sid c and the sculling championship of th B world, to be rowed on the championship course on the Paramatta Eiver to-day, is exciting very general interest in Sydney, Betting is brisk, and 7 to 4 is laid on Searle, Kemp has laid £1000 to £300 that he can beat Neil Matterson, and it has been arranged that a race between these two will be rowed on the Parramatta River on Monday,

A telegram from Blenheim states that Constable Franklin, stationed at Mahakipawa, effected a very clever arrest. On Thursday morning three men stuck up a butcher in a dray while he was on bis way from Cullensville (Mahakipawa diggings) to the Mahakipawa creek, and robbed him of £4 odd. The matter was reported to the police, and Constable Franklin succeeded m arresting one of the trio at Waikakahoe the same morning, and at night lodged him safely in Blenheim gaol. The other two men are still at large.

At Christchurch, on Thursday, James Buckley was sentenced to three years' probation, and to pay £10 expenses on April 9th, for larceny of a cheque. He was brought before Mr Justice Ward m Banco, charged with not having reported himself to the police or paid any of the money. He pleaded he had been looking for work. Mr Martin, the Crown solicitor, offered to give him work for a few days. The Judge ordered Buckley to begin his probation from date. This is the first case of kind which has happened in the colony.

In discharging the youth Lowe, who was brought up on a charge of indecent exposure at the District Court on Thursday last, His Honor Judge Rawson remarked that the Crown had decided to enter a nolle prosequi for the reason that if the case were allowed to fester in the miuds of the young people for the next three months it would in all probability work more harm than allowing the prisoner to escape punishment. His Honor severely cautioned the prisoner, remarking that he had had a very narrow escape, and though he had escaped punishment, he ought to be thoroughly ashamed of himself.

There are beautiful analogies and mysterious connections between objects apparently altogether dissimilar, in the all embracing economy of nature. Thus — our very sparrows are benefitted immensely of late and rendered even more fitted than they are said to be for savoury pie, by the extraordinary activity of the god of Hymen in our midst. The fact is our roads and the railway station are so thickly bestrewn with rice, showered often in blissful ignorance of what it betokens, by modest young men and maidens, that the Feildmg sparrow is a very paragon of sleek condition and dispises even the homely grub and the festive caterpiller.

Says the Marlborough Express : — " An amusing episode occurred at the meeting of the Marlborough A. and P. Association recently. AMr was first spoken of as a good judge of merino sheep. Some sceptical member, however, remarked : ' Wouldn't it be better to ask him to judge the piga?' On which, another member asked : ' Isn't that rather a come down— from merinos to pigs ?' " The reply is " No." Mark Sprot, one of the best authorities in the South Island, over twenty years ago settled this question when he said " Any man may be a judge of a pen of sheep, but it takes a man of intellect and genius to judge a a pen of pigs." That settles the question.

Mr S. J, Thompson, of the Red House, Feildmg, 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 received numerous testimonials from farmers, gardeners, and nurserymen, testifying to its destructive qualities, and highly recommending it to agriculturists and horticulturists. Mr Thompson is now oponing up a consignment, and will be willing to givo information to persons wishing to test the " scrub oxtormiuittor,'* —Aim.

Bishop Hadfield will yisit this part of ;he diocese pome time next week.

The Sports committee will meet to-night at 8 o'clock, at Mr Bray's office,

Mr Fairfield Thompson was the succesful tenderer for the erection of Dr Monckton's house at The Camp.

Mr Carthew opened up his monthly case of books and periodicals yesterday, and they are now ready for issue.

The Feilding State School will re-open on Monday next, October 29, at the usual h«ur.

We have received for publication a numerously signed requisition to Dr Monckton inviting him to stand formayor, with his reply, but they are crowded out to-day.

From the last issue of the Gazette we learn that Messrs J. H. Stevens, C. W. and 0. A. Mountfort, of Feilding, have applied for a patent for an improvement in a brake for vehicles, to be called " The Break Leather Clip."

We (Times) learn that the Palmerston North Borough Council has been served with a writ at the instance of Mr Hubbard in connection with the waterworks scheme. Damages are laid at about £1200. Mr G. P. Hawkins is solicitor for the plaintiff.

With respect to a paragraph published by us (says the Wairarapa Daily) in a recent issue as to the weight of wool from Mr John Eayner's clip, we learn further that of 10 ram hoggets shorn one yielded 151 b, one 161 b, three 18jlb, one 251 b, one 221 b, and two 21 Jib.

The value of gold exported from New Zealand for the quarter ending rOth September last was £214,452, while the quantity exported for the corresponding quarter of last year waa £211,332, The increase is very slight, but it is better than the usual record.

The other night after a gentleman had enjoyed his last whiff before retiring to bed, he placed his pipe in his coat pocket, but without having noticed that it contained a quantity of tobacco in a state of ignition. When he saw his coat in the morning he said "He wouldn't give tuppence for it.

Henry Ward Beecher's beautiful country place at Peekskill, on the Hudson, which, with its buildings and beautiful lawn, its orchards and farm, cost the minister up* ward of 300,000d01., is running to waste. It is for sale, but no offer has been made at the price at which it is held by the family.

Cash buyers will be pleased to learn that Cobbe and Durragh, of the Cash Exchange, allow 5 per cent, discount for prompt cash off all purchases of drapery amounting to more than £1, These very liberal terms, together with the variety, excellence, and cheapness of Cobbe and Darratjh's drapery stock, should induce intending purchasers to inspect the new goods now being shown at the Cash Ex* change.

The complimentary benefit tendered to Miss Kandall (who is leaving for Melbourne) at the Theatre Koyai, Wellington, last evening, was a brilliant success. The best amateur talent of the city assisted, and amongst the list of performers occur the names of Messrs F, W. Haybittle and W. J. Haybittle. Miss Kan dnll is one of the most popular amateur vocalists in Wellington, and is well known to numbers in this district.

Speaking at a banquet in Melbourne, nnd describing his trip through the coloniet, Mr Westgarth said : -"Next I crossed to New Zealand What am I to say of the colony, magnificent alike in country and climate P I was fast coming to the conclusion that it was the very garden and paradise of the earth. There have been hard times in New Zealand, but my decided impression as I travelled through the country was that New Zea« land had seen the worst."

As a Governor, says the Napier News, " We do not waut another oily wind-bac like Bowen, a semi decrepit old nobie like Norraanby, or a bumptious bear like Gordon, nor do we wish to be saddled with a wornout Tory Parliamentary hack, whose chief claim to an appointment is his past services to his party and a temporary difficulty as to his overdraft. We want a good man, not a mediocrity, and we must confess that the silence of the Colonial office is somewhat ominous.

A young man was detected in pocket picking (writes the Parii ( orreipondent of a contemporary). He decamped, but was followed. Encountering a group of bicyclists and tricyolists he knocked some of them over ; confusion ensued ; be jumped on a bicyle minus its rider, rolled like the new Edinburgh express into Paris, sold the machine for 300 f, and invited a police officer whom he knew to pass the evening with him at dinner, and who finally saw the scoundrel unconsciously off in the train for Belgium,

Visitors to Palmerston are respectfully inyited to inspect the display of new goods just received and now opened out at The Bon March e\ Embracing- what is admittedly the largest stock between Wellington and Wauganui, of mantles, millinery, straw goods, dust cloaks, sun shades, cotton and stuff dress materials, and fancy and general drapery of every description. The firm being direct importers are in a position to give their patrons equal value to anything obtainable in the colony, they invite inspection and comparison of their season's imports quite independently of any purchases being made. C. M. Boss & Co., the Bon Marche", Palmerston North.— Advt.

The sun is becoming stronger and more radiating as summer advances, and therefore ladies should guard their com* plex'ons well by a free purchase of our sunshades and parasols, now exhibiting atTe Aro House, Wellington.

Notk the following — Cream Sateen Parasols, trimmed lace, Is 6d each ; Colored Sateen Parasols, with fancy border, 2s lid; Checked Sateen Parasols, 2s 9d ; Beige Sateen Parasols, trimmed lace, 3s lid ; Beige Canvass and Lace Parasols, 5a lid ; fancy figured Canvass Parasols, trimmed lace, 6s 6d ; Creme and Beige all lace Parasols, 10s 6d, at Te Aro House, Wellington,

Black satin Sunshades, lined, 3s 6d, 5s 6d, 6s 6d; black satin Sunshades, trimmed luce, 6s 6d, 78 6d, 8s 6d ; fancy striped Sunshades for pinnies, from 2s lid ; faucy Japanese Sunshades, with 16 ribs, 8s lid ; and the same in shot silk from 10s 6d ; Sunshades, humorously called

'• Husband beaters," from the extraordinary length of their handles, in shot silk and fancy satin, from 10s 6d, at Te Aro House, Wellington.