Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 62, 22 November 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Napier News advocates a local " beauty show." Why ? It is an unwritten law in Auckland that no man shall read a Wellington newspaper. The Christchurch wool Bales open on Friday, and 2,500 bales hare been catalogued. At the Taien Agricultural show on Tuesday laat there were no less than 73 draught horses exhibited. Mr Lambert, stationmaster, is in Wellington on leave of absence. Mr Slater is at present in charge. We are glad to see Mr Broderick baok again. He looks all the better for his trip to the Old country. Members of the Manchester Rifles aie reminded of the judging distance practice at 6 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Mr J. E. Henry has been appointed handicapper for the Feildinj* Hack Race meeting to be held the day following the Boxing day sports. Mr S. J. Thompson, of the Red House, has been appointed sole agent of the Union Fire and Marine Insurance Coinpauy of New Zealand. Mrs Rhodes is the donor of £200 for the purpose of adding a bell to the strik ing apparatus of the new post office clock in Welhngtou, The Feilding Brass Band will play a varied selection of music in the Rotunda to-morrow (Friday) evening, commencing at eight o'clock. We are informed that Messrs Retemeyer and Wrightson negotiated a parcel of nO kegs of butter from a local store for a Christchurch firm at a satisfactory price. The amount involved in the Maori will case, now being argied in the Appeal Court, Wellington, is about £100,000. It would have paid the litigants better to diyide the money. We learn from the Wellington Evening Press that another Freemason's Lodge, runder the English Constitution, has been formed in Wellington. It name will be the Aorangi. A shooting accident occurred at Auckland on Tuesday laat. by which a youth named Allen had his face and eyes seyerely injured, through one of his comrades accidentally discharging a blank cartridge in his face. On the 29th instant Messrs Stevens and Gorton will, immediately after their stock sale at Feilding, auction a valuable property situated close to the Makino railway station. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns, The Rev. Father Patterson will cele brate mass in St. Bridget's Church on Sunday next, at 8 o'clock a.m. As the rev gentleman has been for some months absent in Europe, we expect there will bo a large congregation to welcome him back again. The Thames Advertiser puts it in a new form :--" There are two thingß which nearly all mentally small men think and say they can do better than those who have the job — Edit a newspaper and auctioneer." A young son of Mr James Linton retired a severe scalp wound on the head through a kick from a horse on Monday night. Medical attendance was procured, and the wound sewn up, and the little fellow was soon very little the worse for his accident. — Manawatu Times. By a clerical error the name of " Thos' Milham" appeared m place of " Thos* Meehan" in the requisition presented to Mr S, Goodbehere, asking him to contest the mayoralty, and recently published in our advertising columns. We have seen the original requisition, and the cause of the error in the transcription is plainly discernable. We regret to learn that on Tuesday, when log rolling on his farm at Makino, Mr Elkiugton had his leg broken. This is doubly unfortunate because not only will Mr Elkington be laid up for an indefinate period, but he will be unable to appear at the concerts to be held at Christmas time, and as he is one of our must popular amateurs he will be sadly missed. The Sandon team did not come over yesterday to try conclusions with the Feilding cricketers. The latter, however, got up a scratch match, and had some useful practice, which ought to stand thorn in good stead on Saturday, when they meet the Palmerston men. The following are the names of the Feilding team :— Messrs Benson, Fetch, Millan, Nix, Lovejoy, Wrightson, Valentine, Halcombe, Lance, Sherwill, Pringle, and Gardener as emergency man. That the domestic pigeon, and the wicked sparrow are not such enemies Co the gardener or fruit grower as has been alleged, the following will show. Mr To v/ler, who has a well kept garden and orchard, noticed some pigeons feeding in hia strawberry beds. He observed them closely and discovered that they were playing sad havoc with the slugs, but left the strawberries severely alone. This led him to take particular note of the sparrows which were in clouds on the raspberry canes, with the result that he found they were feeding on an insect which is very destructive to all fruit. These facts are worth noting. The Band of Hope meeting, held on Tuesday night, was well attended. The J president, the Rev. W. Harris, was in his place. Mrs Richardson kindly dispensed the music, assisted by the choir. " Buy your own Cherries" was well given by Miss Pope, who, along with Miss Bertha Fidler, the reciter of another good temperance piece, were adjudged the recipients of prizes for the evening. Mr Paske sang " The Little Hero". Mr 0. Wickhain gave a sensible address to the young people. The secretary g-ave " The Brewer," and the following gave a short piece each ; —Kate Harris, Millie Car the w, Reda Fidler, Rosa Towl«r, and Mise Whisker. It was decided to defer the next meeting till after New Year, when another freßh and vigorous start will be made. It is to be hoped tnat those who have attended the long series of meetings now concluded will profit by what they have heard, and adhere to the principles thoy have espoused through all the temptations a&d excitement of the holidays.

The 8.8. lonic arrived at Auckland yesterday, Messrs Stevens and Gorton publish today catalogue of entries for their Foildmg stock sale to be held on Thursday next. . Captain Edwin telegrnphed at 12.40 p.m. to-day:— W. to S and S.E gnie with much colder weather. Glass rise with n nert 12 hours. We are informed a medical gontleraan has taken the house, in Eyre street, lately occupied by Mr T. Price, and will shortly commence his practice in Feiiding. The Palmerston Times says : — The horse market in India is at present glutted, and some difficulty is being experienced by dealers in quitting shipments. We hear that Mr J. Stevens, of fiangitikei, who is on his way home from Calcutta, did not find his venture a profitable one, on account of the horses being landed at an inopportune time. According to a contemporary, Government do not intend to appoint Mr Ward to the vacant judgeship, but haye fixed on Mr E. T. Connolly to fill the position. Mr Conolly was formerly member for Pic ton, and was Minister for Justice in the Hall-Atkinson Government. In this he was scarcoly a success, and he has given no proof of his fitness for appointment as a Judge of the Supremo Court. Cobbe and Darragh, of the C«*h Exchange, are now doing a large trade in Mtn's Colonial Tweed suits* made to measure, They have a grand range of SHtnples of the Infest productions of the Kampoi and Wellington woollen mills, and have concluded arrangements with the Kaiapoi Co., and a Wellington manufacturing firm which enables them to hare all suits thoroughly well made and finished at a most reasonable advance on the prices usually charged for slop made elotlnngVisitors to Palmerston are respectfully invited to inspect the display of new gooda just received and now opened out at The Bon Marche*. 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, und 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. Ross & Co., the Bon Marche", Palmerston North. Advt. It seems clear that Europe i» in for another Royal scnndal, which, from the nifienitude and interest* involved, will command wide attention. There is irreparable estrangement between Stephanie and her bu»band, Rudolph, the Crown Prince of Austria. The Archduchess is now ya hting b/ herself, nnd for some months has «teadily refused to take part in all the Royal visits and receptions which eempel her to stay under the same roof with her spouse. When Stephanie was a young Princess in Brussels she was a popular favourite, ptetty, clever, sunny tempered, and the disposition is to assume that she is the aggrieved party — Exchange. Notk the following — Cream Sateen Parasols, trimmed laoe, Is 6d each; Colored Sateen Parasols, with fancy border, 2s lid; Checked Sateen Parasols, 2s 9J ; Beige Sateen Parasols, trimmed lace, 3s lid; Beige Canvass and Lace I'arasols, 5-« lid ; fancy figured Canvass Parasols, trimmed lace, 6s 6d; Creme nnd Beige all lace Parasols, 10s 6d, at Te Aro House, Wellington, i Black satin Sunshades, lined, 3s 6d, 5k 6d,6s 6d; black satin Sunshades, trimmed lace. 6* 6d, 7s 6d, 8* 6d ; fancy siriped Sunshades for pi«nics, from 2* lid ; fancy Japanese Sunaliades, with 18 rib*, 88 lid ; and the same in shot silk from 10s 6d ; Sunshades, humorously called '• Husband bcuters," from the oxtraerdinary length of their handles, in shot silk und fancy f-atin, from 10» bd, at Te Aro House, Wellington.