Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 68, 6 December 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet this evening. Business of all kinds is said to be very dull in Wellington. A very high Customs tariff makes a very low commercial morality. The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection to-morrow evening. Mr A. W. F. Halcombe has been elected chairman of the Clifton County Council. The football match New Zealanders v. Trinity College, Dublin, resulted in a draw, each team scoring a goal and a try. The appointment of Mr G. V. Shannon to the position of an " expert" to assist the Customs officials has raised such a howl among the " soft goods men" that outsiders are beginning to think Sir Harry Atkinson hasn't made euch a blunder after an:

The Wanganui siiootists ;et aned. to Wanganui yesterday from the Centennial Rifle Meeting. A Hawke's Bay publican has been fined JJIO for allowing "Yankee grab" to be played in his house. Notice of appeal has been given. We are glad to hear that Mr Curran, who was injured some days ago by a dray upsetting with him and dislocating his hip joint, is now getting on well. There was a sharp frost here yesterday morning. It did no damage because the previous frosts had done all that was possible in the way of destruction. We have received Russell's timetable for December, which has been specially prepared for the use and benefit of persons travelling during the Christmas holidays. At the united Charitable Aid Board meeting held at Wanganui yesterday, Mr Arkwright was elected chairman for the coming year, on the casting vote of the chairman, Mr Macarthur. There have been a considerable number of enquiries in this diatrict lately for improved land. As a rule owners know the value of their property and have not shown any great eagerness to sell. This is a very healthy sign. The Woodville Examiner says : — About the only crop of potatoes we have seen untouched by the frost is that of Mr O'Hagan at Kumara. The variety is the king potato, and he says the king is too hardy to be affected by frosts. Mr J. Belfit, junr., returned from the Mahakipawa diggings to-day, but is returning again after the holidays, having left a man to look after his share in the party. We understand he has several nice specimens of Mahakipawa gold with him that he has brought over. At a meeting of the soft goods and boots importers, of Wellington, the foL lowing resolution was carried unanimously — That this meeting strongly protests against the appointment of Mr Shannor as soft goods expert, he not having th< confidence of the trade. The National Insurance Company through their local agents Messrs F. R Jackson an Co., have presented the Feikl ing Volunteer Fire Brigade with a chequ< for £2 2s. This good example might wel be followed by the other insurance com panics doing business in Feilding. On Monday the wife of Mr King, o Horrellville, Christchurch, was foum dead. At dinner she was in good health and her husband went to work. He re turned in an hour and a half, and founc his wife dead. Heart disease is supposec to be cause. M. Ttonan has undertaken to prove tha not only was King David a very worthies; person, but he was not the author of th< Psalms. This an age of disenchantments Shakespeare did not write his plays, Home: was an imposter, and Cromwell was ai angel. The next man to attack will b< Robinson Crusoe. Three Westport men were lost in th< bush in that district for 15 days, and ha< a distressing experience. For eight day they were without food, and were com pelled to eat a young dog they had wit! them. They also narrowly escape( drowning. On reaching town they wer< reduced to skeletons. The advertisements which we publisl to-day calling for tenders for 30,000 sleep ers for the Woodville-Gorge, and th< Palmerston-Gorge, on the Napier-Palm-erston railway.should prove of great inter est to our local sawmillers. The timbe: trade has been somewhat dull lately, anc this demand should excite it into something like its old activity. Advices by the Zealandia state that the Melbourne land boom has ignominouslj collapsed. A private letter says that th< supposed colossal fortunes now only ap pear on paper, and the banks are seizing victims in all directions. One leader oi the boom has forfeited .£62,000 in deposit! sooner than go on with the payments. Newspapers may grumble and people complain, but there is no getting over the fact that the Government is getting rid of a tremendous amount of Crown Land under the present secret system. Whether the land gets into good hands " strictly on the square" is quite another matter. The following programme will be played this evening by the Feilding Brass Band at the Horticultural Show : — March : " Safe Home in Port." Waltz : " Fatherland." Selection : " Memories of Scotland." Schottische : " Pride of the Valley." Grand March: "Hector." Waltz: " Mikado." Selection : " Iphigenia in Tauris." Waltz : " lolanthe." The Mayor has received from the Colonial Secretary forms of application for space at the Universal Exhibition, of 1889, at Paris, which will be distributed to intending exhibitors on application at the Town Clerks office. Applications for space should be forwarded to the care of the Colonial Secretary between Ist December, 1888, and the 15th January, 1889. The Auckland correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says : — Country settlers are jubilant at the advance in Country produce, and are hurrying it to port as soon as possible. One Waikato settler in a large way has received an inqxiiry for a quotation for butter, taking five tons. He replied : "Is 3d per lb," co as to leave a decent margin for a deal. To his surprise promptly came a telegram, " Accepted." At Christchurch, on November 25th, a married woman named Colgate died suddenly, and a post mortem examination revealed that her lungs were congested. A verdict was given accordingly. Since then it has been rumoured there were other causes for her death, and on Saturday last the body was exmimed and portions removed to be submitted to the public analyst. In what pursuit shall I be most successful? Consxilt Professor C. W. Borreson, Practical. Phrenologist, at his office, Manchester street, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The most important and valuable Christmas gift, you could bestow either upon yourself or your children, would be a Phrenological Chart, marked out with the various dispositions and natural abilities of your mental organisation. A chart at four shillings may save you from much trouble and after sorrow. From the formation of your head, I can tell with unerring certainty what your mind is likely to lead you to do. My stay in Feilding will terminate on Saturday, the Bth of December. Hence the importance to call at once. — Advt. Certainly the best medicine known is Sandeb and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds infiuerizH ; the relief is in* stunt anpous. In serious cu*e.t, and nc* eidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy —no swelling — no in flumution. Like surprisina effects pro* dnced in croup, diphtheria, >>r»nclntis, inflammation of the lunas. swelling, &a. ; diarrhißn, dvsentry, diseases of the kid neys and urinary organs. In use a I hospitals and medical olinios all over the giouc ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma fit" International Exhibition, Amsiertiam. Trust in this approved article, ard rfijerrt a)! otber*. — Abtt.

i»ii- j. ii. l>iatlian, of Wellington was in Feilding to-day. The Rev. Father Patterson paid a pastoral visit to Feilding to-day. We have to acknowledge receipt x>{ o, press ticket fo the Horticultural Show. The programme of the Feilding Hack Race Meeting has been approved by the Wanganui Joakey Club. " . . : ■ A girl named Maud Bobie has been committed for trial, in Wellington, for passing spurious coin. She silvered a >enny to represent a florin, and successfully passed it on a tradesman. . Mr Borreson, the celebrated phrenologist, has again made a professional visit to Feilding, and may be consulted at his office in Manchester street, opposite Mr Pollock's bakery. His stay in Feilding is of a very short duration, as he leaves again on Saturday next for Wanganui. Sir George Grey, in a sreech re contly delivered referred wißh great emphasis to the land question, and pointed out that the working-man of this colony was taxed for improving the land of the wealthy class. He said the property tax was an injustice, and that they should return members to Parliament pledged to vote for a land tax. He said : " With the property tax they had to pay Bs, 4d. on £100. In England, where there was au income tax, they would have to pay not on the £100, but on what it made— say, at 3 per cent., 3s, That was bad enough ; but there was, this differen' c. If in England he made nothing out of his £100, he paid no tax; but here he still has to pay Bs. id. Then suppose he lost some of his £100 in England, he still would have nothing to pay ; but here he would still have to pay Bs. 4d. for having lost hia capital." Majestic indeed are the proportions of the mighty flames which leap from the surface of the sun. Many observers have recorded '• prominences" as they are sometimes called, of much greater altitude than 80,000 miles. The rapid changes of these objects are well illustrated in two sketches of one taken on April 27, 1872. This mighty flame was so vast that its length waß ten times as great as the diameter of the earth, yet m twenty minutes it had completely changed its aspect ; the upper part of the flame had indeed broken away. The spike-like prominences usually attain altitudes not greater than 20,000 miles, but sometimes they stretch up to stupendous distances. One has been chronicled by Professor Young on October 7. 1880. It was then an object of no unusual appearance, being about 40,000 miles high. In half an hour it doubled its length. For another hour the mighty flame still soared upwards until it attained the unprecedented elevation of 350,000 miles. In two hours from the time that it was first noticed the huge prominence had completely faded away. Residents m the country contemplating a viait 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 is 6d Purchase 20s, Gift 2s; Purchase 255, Gift 2S 6d Purchase 30s, Gift 3s; Purchase 355, Gift 3s 6d Purchase 40s, Gift 4s ; Purchase 50s, Gift 5s Purchase 60s, Gift 6s; Purchase 70s, Gift 7s Purchase 80s, Gift 8s; Purchase 90s, Gift 9s Purchase 100s, Gift ios ; and so 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 make to the above are Kid Gloves, Dressmaking, Mil- • linery, and Tailoring to order. An early, visit would therefore be very advantageous to all country residents, being certain to result in pleasure and profit to all customers at Te Aro House, Wellington.