Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 69, 8 December 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

«. The mystery of "The Golden Drop" will be elucidated on Tuesday next. The late frosts have made great havoc with the small fruit trees in the Nelson district The New Zealand footballers won the match against the North of Ireland by two tries to nothing. Sir Julius Yogel expects to leave London on his return to New Zealand in February next. The Sports Committee will meet this evening, when the new rules will be adopted. New Zealanders always enjoy a trip to Victoria because it teaches them how preferable New Zealand is as a home The Feilding Brass Band will play a selection of sacred music in the Rotunda on Sunday afternoon, at 2.30. A sale of cattle took place at the pound yesterday. A cow was sold for £i, and +wo heifers for 25s and 15s each. The dance held in the Foresters' Hall on Thursday night was well attended, between 30 and 40 couples being present. The revival of the tulip mania is threatened in Holland, says an exchange. Queen Anne has been dead for some years now. Athletes are reminded that nominations for the Feilding Boxing Day Sports, will close with the Secretary, Mr H. L. Sherwill, next Saturday. The marked improvement in the playing of the Feilding Brass Band was the subject of complimentary remark at the Flower Show on Thursday night. The Manchester Rifles paraded last night for inspection. There was a full attendance of officers and men. Lieut. Chamberlain drilled the company. The amount of the loss of the united Insurance Companies on the Belfast Factory buildings, at Chistchurch, recently destroyed by fire, is assessed at .£10,500, which was paid on Thursday. A Feilding team went up this morning to try conclusions with the Halcombe cricketers. As this is the first Cup match between these teams, a great deal of interest will be taken in the match. "We have to thank Herr Norberg, the composer, for a copy of The Overtoil Waltz, dedicated to Mrs Arkwright, of Overton, Marton. Musical critics speak very highly of this composition. Copies may be had at Mr Carthew's. We learn that Mr John Duthie has purchased the business of Mr Dawson, the well-known ironmonger of Wellington, paying down the round sum of £10,000. We hear a rumour that Mr Duthie is about to form his business into a limited company. At the Auckland Police Court on Thursday, Mr Clendon, R.M., made orders against three parents that they should send their children to school under the compulsory clauses of the Education Act. The School Committees prosecuted in the cases, and costs were granted. The'above should be a warning to parents. A large meeting of shareholders of the Equitable Insurance Company was held at Greymouth on Thursday night, and, after the explanations of Messrs Callan and Sinclair as to the state of affairs, it was unanimously resolved that the business should be carried on under new management. The Returning Officer of the Borough, Mr G. C. Hill, gives notice that he has appointed Monday, the 17th inst., as the day for nomination of candidates to fill the extraordinary vacancy in the Council caused by the election of Councillor Monckton to the Mayoralty. The poll will take place on the 21st instant The other night a member of a school committee, not far away from Bunnythorpe, found himself so indisposed that he was unable to attend the ordinary meeting, therefore, he wrote a letter of apology to the Chairman and — as he had no one handy to send it with — he took the letter himself. It was not until he interviewed the chairman that, he discovered he was not so bad after all. We understand that one of the most interesting trials for breach of promise, in which a fair plaintiff claims from a wellknown and rather portly gentleman heavy damages, is on the tapis, and will be tried in New Plymouth at a special session appointed for that purpose. The counsel engaged are all new to this Court but the jury will be empannelled from the district. — He aid In another column Mrs Hastie publishes [ her usual Christmas notice in which she points out that the Feilding Hotel haa been enlarged and refurnished, and the cellars replenished for the Christmas soason which is now so close upon us. Mrs Hastie is determined by anticipating the I wants and requirements of visitors, as well as local residents, to maintain the popularity of the Feilding Hotel at any cost, and to deserve a liberal share of public support. The leap year privilege j fl paid to be 660 years old, having been established m 1228 by an act of the Scottish Parliament in these words : 'During the reign of her blessed Majesty Margaret, every maiden Jady of both high and low degree shall have liberty to speak to the man she likes. If be refuses to take her to be his wife, he shall be mulcted in the 6tim of £100 or lees, as his estate may be, except and always if he can make it appear that he is betrothed to another woman, then he shall b 9 true.'

The Palmerston Borough Council have fixed the registration fee for dogs, in that Borough, at 5s per head, for the coming year. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day: — Warnings for westerty gales have been sent to all places south of Napier and New Plymouth. Owners of hacks are reminded that nominations for the Feilding Hack Race Meeting, to be held the day after Boxing Day, will close of Saturday next, at 8 o'clock. The final heat of the Aquatic Carnival, now being held at Brisbane, will be rowed on Tuesday between Searle, Beach, and Komp. Mr Josiah White, traveller to Messrs Cock and Company, and well-known throughout the Colony, died at Nelson on Wednesday, aged 69. The Lyttelton Times from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company that the quantity of oats held at this date in Otago and Southland is less by 90,000 sacks than was the case at this time last year. It was then computed at j 117,000 sacks, where there does not ap- ! pear now to be more than 22,000 sacks. It has been reported to the committee of the Feilding Public Library and Reading Room that several illustrated papers and| weekly journals have lately been abstracted from the Reading room. Feilding is not peculiar in this respect, as we gather gather from our exchanges that this mean crime is common enough in other parts of the colony, but that does not detract from the meanness of the theft. We understand the committee at their next meeting will take some steps to protect the property of the institution, and means be adopted to detect the offenders. The following paragraph, which originally appeared in our columns some two weeks ago, has been going the rounds of the colonial press, and was published by our Marton contemporary in its last night's issue as an item of news. Although late in the day, our contemporary might have acknowledged the source of its information : — " The Honourable John Martin, who gave a drinking fountain, and Mrs Rhodes, who presented JJ2OO to buy a bell for the post office clock, are the only citizens who ever made public donations to Wellington. The contrast Wellington offers to Auckland in this respect is very unfavorable to the Empire City." Visitors to Palmerston are respectfully invited to inspect the display of new goods just received and now opened out at The Bon Marche*. Embracing what is admittedly the largest stock between Wellington and Wanganui, of mantles, milhnory, 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 purchasos being made. C. M* Ross & Co., the Bon Marche". Palmerston North. - Adyt.