Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 66, 1 December 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ The Wellington Land Board will meet on the 20th instant. Mr Cohen will assist at the Fire Brigade entertainment on the sth instant, and will play a violin solo. We have received from the RegistrarGeneral parts IV., V., and VI. of the Statistics of New Zealand for 1887. The Irish Land League paid a reward of £50 to anyone shooting a bailiff and only £300 for killing persons guilty of paying rent. We always thought it was a pleasure to an irishman to shoot a bailiff. At the District Court, Wanganui, on Thursday, Mr Prior, solicitor, moved for letters of administration in the estate of the late J. M. Higgin. Letters were issued subject to the bond being stamped and filed. The infant son of James Hamilton, a farmer near Winton, Invercargill, was suffocated by overbalancing into a small tub, on Thursday last, in which was about 3in of water, in which his mouth was immersed. We learn with pleasure that the matter of charging duty on the pictorial supplements to English Illustrated newspapers has been reconsidered, and that it has now been decided not to attempt to levy duty on such supplements. — Post. A circuit tea meeting will be held in the Methodist Chapel, Manchester street, on Monday evening. At the after meeting representatives are expected from all parts of tho circuit. There will be addressee and gingihg.

It is almost certain that Mr Conolly will be appointed to the vacant judgeship. 1 The bakers throughout the colony have raised the price of bread. , There were heavy showers of rain here ! on the early part of the day. The Herald hints that Sir Dillon Bell, the Agent-General, is played out and fos- ' silised. ' We leam from this mornings Chronicle that Mr Bruco, M.H.R., i.-> progressing vory satisfactorily after his I*<e operation. We have to acknowledge receipt of a ; complimentary ticket to the Primitive Methodist station tea meeting on Monday night. Tho man Finlay, who stole £150 in silver coin from the Greatford railway station, has been sentenced to 12 months hard labor. We learn from the Manawatu Times that Messrs Cohen and Isherwood are in Wellington assisting at tbe grand musical festival which is being held with such success in the Empire city. The Foxton Herald says that wool ia coming into that town verv fast. The s.s. Wakatu took away 200 bales last week, aud on Wednesday the sheds were nearly full again. It is rumoured in Wellington, on what may be considered good authority, that the Wellington Evening Press is likely to become the proprietor of the New Zealand Times and Mail. "A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind." The ruru or koukou — or more familiarly called the morepork {Athene Nova Zealandia) — has been included by the Ministry in the list of birds protected under the Animals Protection Acts. Says the Wellington Press : — The other day an elderly lady here who is given to the dispensing of tracts and a general concern for the moral welfare of the race, 1 stopped one of our numerous guttersnipes, and said to him reproachfully, " You don't chew tobacco, do you, little boy ?" to which the juvenile promptly replied, "No'm; but I km give yer a cigarette." I The Land Board have decided to place no fewer tban 95,000 acres on the market next winter. The area of the blocks to be offered is as follows: — Otainakapua- ■ Rangitikei (Curl's clearing). 15,000 ; Pohangina, 15,000 ; Puketoi-Makuri. 15,---000; OtHinakapua-Kanpritikei, 10,000; Puketoi (south-west), 10,000; MangataiHoko, 9000; Oinahim- Wairoa, 7000; Waitotara, 7000; Horowhenua, 4000; Mangahao, 3000. The question of transfers in special settlement blocks was broupht before the Wellington Land Board by Mr M'Cardle, • who moved — " That in cases where selectors are compelled to part with their interests, they be allowed to do so without I making the necessary declaration, upon giving a satisfactory explanation, and that Government be recommended to approve of the motion." The resolution was seconded by Mr Bunny and agreed to. At the inquest touching the death of William Sinclair, a shepherd, who was supposed to have drunk himself to death at Lee Stream Hotel, Dunedin, the medical evidence showed that he was suffering from heart disease. Although given to drinking occasionally he was generally steady and sober, as shown by the fact of his having accumulated £1500. A verdict was that death resulted from heart disease accelerated by heavy drinking. To-day's N.Z. Times says : — It is understood that Mr G. V. Shannon (late of the firm of Thompson, Shannon, and Co., of this city), has been appointed as an expert to advise the Customs Department as valuer or inspector of soft goods. It is further rumoured that Mr Shannon's salary is to be .£BOO a year. If such an appointment has really been made, it will hardly escape some very sharp criticism in existing circumstances. It appears to us wholly unjustifiable. The following extract is from a private letter, received by the Wairarapa, from a well-known Victorian merchant : — " The land boom in Melbourne is pretty well played out, and those who have recently become enriched will look out for other fields for investment, and New Zealand is tiie coming country. I wish I were out of business now with my capital in ready casli, I would have little hesitation in embarking in New Zealand property." " Gipsy King" in the Wanganui Herald says : — The Feilding Jockey Club " had a good time" last season, so much so that they have now a nice little fixed deposit of .£135. The Club has consented to manage the Hack Meeting to be held on the 27th of December. Mr Henry has been appointed handicapper for the Hack Meeting, which will be gratifying to owners. I think he will give us a better handicap than Mr Mcßae did for Momohaki. I should advise the club to touch up the course a bit. Visitors to Palmerston are respectfully invited to inspect the display of now pood, just received and now opened out at The Bon Marchd. Embraciny what is admittedly the largest stock between Wellington and Wanganui, of mantles, millinery, straw goods, duet cloaks, sun shades, cotton and stuff dreas 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 anv purchases being made. C. M. Ross & Co., the Bon Marchl. Palmerston North.— Advt. Residents m the country contemplating a visit to Wellington during the present month may combine both pleasure and profit by calling at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. The fine premises we occupy are in tnemselves unequalled south of the Equator, and not only is the architecture imposing, but the arrangements for the comfort aud convenience of customers are such as cannot be equalled in the Colony, and so say the thousands who have visited the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. And then the stock is always large, the choice very extensive and the prices at lowest wholesale rates at Te Aro House, Wellington. Just now and during the present month some exceptional advantages are and will be offered to all cash customers. Having imported a large lot of Japanese and fancy goods, we shall distribute them to all purchasers on the following scale at Te Aro House, Wellington. The scale Purchase ios, Gift is; Purchase 15s, Gift 13 Gd Purchase aos, Gift 2s; Purchase 255, Gift 2s 6d Purchase 3ob, Gift 3s; Purchase 355, Gift 3s 6d Purchase 40s, Gift 4s ; Purchase 50s, Gift 5s Purchase 6os, Gift fis; Purchase 70s, Gift 7s Purchase Sos, Gift Ss ; Purchase 90s, Gift 9s Purchase 100s, Gift ios ; and eo on in the same proportion up to £50, £100 or more, during the month of December at Te Aro House, Wellington. The only exceptions we muke to the above are Kid Gloves, Dressmaking, Milliner}', and Tailoring to order. An early visit would therefore be very advantageous to all country residents, being certain to result in ploasure and profit to all cus- * tomers at Te Aro House, Wellington. ' i

Typo is to hand for November and is full, as usual, of interesting reading matter. It was a great consolation to our " reader" to discover a few typographical errors in that most unmerciful critic. But, there are spots on the sun. An old 65th man, 70 years of age, named Alexander Graoey, died at Marton on Wednesday. At the inquest the medical evidence showed doath was due to a complication of diseases, and that deceased was at times a hard drinker. The Feilding Horticultural Society's spring show will bo hold on Thursday noxt in the new Assembly Rooms. Notwithstanding the very unfavorable woather experienced lately, the committee hope to have a large number of exhibits. Two men, Fritz Gagern and Geo. Home, were injured on Tuesday while bushfalling at Eiwitea. A limb was blown off a tree they were felling and struck them, rendering both unconscious. Home was bruised and severely shaken, and Gagern received a cut on the head and was also injured internally. A heavy frost was experienced all over the Foxton district on Saturday night, says the Herald, with the result that the potato crops suffered severely, whilst tomatoes, pumpkins, &c, were hopelessly cut down. In some cases the potatoes were irretrievably ruined, and growers are now busily engaged in replanting. A heavy frost was also experienced in the Carnarvon district on Friday night. This is one of the latest frosts known. For sections of Crown Land opened for sale in the Auckland provincial district of late there have been a very large number of and a ballot was held on Thursday. Seven sections were offered. For these there were 55 applicants. With the increased facilities given for selection and settlement, there has been a great increase in land purchases in the Auckland district.