Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 74, 20 December 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

There will be a meeting of the Mancheater Boad Board on Saturday next. The Feilding Brass Band will play on Sunday afternoon and on Christmas eve. The Feilding string band is now being formed under the leadership of Mr Daw. We are informed that carol singers will perambulate the Borough on Christmas eve. The Manawatu Times hears that Mr A. Southey Baker is about to establish a stud sheep farm at Awapuni. We have received some very handsome pictorial almanacks from Mr S. J. Thompson, of the Red House. We understand that Mr Gould is in favor of the dog tax being on a graduated scale in the Borough. The case— Police v. T. R. Taylor, charged with overloading sheep in a railway truek — will be heard in Marton tomorrow. Mass will be celebrated in St. Bridget's Church, Feilding, on Sunday next, December 23rd, at 11 o'clock, and on Christmas morning at 8 o'clock. As an evidence of the business being done by Messrs Retemeyer and Wrightson we may state that firm has already sent away 120 bales of wool, purchased this season. The Feilding Brewery is to the front with Cliristmas hampers, and the proprietors are now prepared to supply firstclass bottled ale second to none in the colony. Tenders are invited by the Public Works Department, Wanganui, for painting the Awapurua bridge over the Manawatu river, Wellington-WoodviUe railway, and will be received up to noon on Friday, the 11th of January, 1889. We direct attention to the great sale of Messrs Stevens and Gorton, to take place to-morrow, consisting of a long list of stock ; the Makino Dairy Factory, land and plant ; and the privileges of the Feilding Hack Race Meeting. The Napier News of Monday last reports : — A man named James Michael Neary, who, it is alleged, stole two horses at Wanganui recently, is now in the hands of the police. He was brought up before the R.M. and remanded to Wanganui. The creditors of J. Buo.hanau, merchant, held a private meeting at Auckland on Tuesday. The estate showed a deficiency of about £27,000 the result chiefly of bad debts during the last four years. A committee was appoiuted to investigate the affairs. When the Manawatu Goi'ge railway connects with the West Coast line at Palmerston, the traffic to Wellington will be so enormous that the Government will be almost compelled, in self defence, to purchase the Wellington- Miinawatu Company's line. This morning an accident happened to a son of Mr S. J. Thompson whereby he ', received a severe wound on the head. It appears that the lad was playing at the back of the shop, when the pole of a brake fell on hia head and inflicted a wound six inches in length. Dr Johnston stitched the wound. j New Zealand wool products amount to i nearly one-twentieth part of the wool crop ] of the world. In 1887 the quantity ex- < ported was 88,824,3821b5, reserved for local j use 2,001,1551b5, total annual product 90,- ; 825,5371b5. New Zealand takes second ! place among the Australian colonies for ] gold production. ( The entertainments in the New Assembly Rooms, to be given by the Plantation ' Minstrels, during the Christmas holidays, ' in aid of the funds of the Feilding Volunteer Fire Brigade, promise to be really excellent. A first class company has been got together, comprising tsome real talent which would do credit to any stage in the world. According to promise Messrs Eade and , ~Venn, by their energetic manager, Mr ' Bhcarer, announce that they have now ' ready for this festive season, a host of ' fancy tables, &c, suitable for Christmas ( presents. We have seen some of them, < and can state emphatically they are in every way worthy and fit for the purpose , intended. A great attraction in Fergusson street | during the last few days has been the ( „ shilling window" of Messrs J. C. Morey and Co., whose enterprise has met all the [ good fortune it deserves by the window * being cleared out several times in rapid succesnion. The motto of this firm is " Good goods well advertised" and they ' live up to it. A special meeting of the committee of the Feilding State School was held last ] evening for the purpose of receiving ap- ( plications for the position of assistant raistrena. There were three applications a as follows : — Mrs F Roberts, Waihao, r South Canterbury ; Miss Elizabeth Stewart, Duaedin ; and Miss Joanna I'rende- 1 fjast, Foxton. The committee decided to r. select. Miss Stewart for the appointment, a Correspondence was read from the Education Board, enclosing the above applica- i tions, stating that the Rev. Geo. Wilks j had been appointed to the head teacher- s ship in compliance with the committee's selection, and that Mr James had been t appointed as first assistant teacher. The s latter appointment was agreed to by the c committee. g

We nave to tiianlv one xto^islrair-Generai or the Report, General Index, &c, of the itatistica of New Zealand. The W.M. Railway Company intend •mtting 85.000 acres in the market in February and following months. The Maori football team defeated the Wigan Club (Lancashire), on Monday, by 1 goal and two tries to a try. Messrs Summers and Co. have a splenAid lot of summer beverages now on hand, particulars in future advertisement. The books of the Feilding Boxing Bay Sports will be issued on Saturday next, and may be obtained from Mr Reading. A public reception was accorded the Bishop of Nelson at Nelson ou Tuesday night on his return from England and his attendance at the Lambeth Conference. The recent importations by Mr Svendsen, of all kinds of boots and shoes, are from the best makers in the world, and number among them all the newest styles. We advise our readers to call and inspect his Christmas stock. The Primitive Methodists will hold their annual camp meeting on Sunday next, in the Square, led by the Rev. "W. Harris. The Salvationists and Methodists will unite at the open air services. Sankes's hymns will be used. Colonists' Land and Loan Corporation, Limited, advertise money to lend on rural lands within the Rangitikei, Oroua, and Manawatu counties at low rates of interest. Special attention is directed to the fact no charges are made whatever except for the necessary deeds. At the conclusion of the business of the Borough Council, yesterday, the Mayor invited the Councillors present to pay a visit of inspection to the Borough pound where a number of cattle were confined. On arriving on the spot the pound was found to be in a satisfactory condition and the cattle well supplied with food and water. ' The Angling Society, of Christchurch, held a competition at that place on Tuesday last. Mr F. W. Hunt won the prize for fly-fishing with 30 fish, weighing 22£lb, at Irwell. Mr J. Coe won the prize for the heaviest basket taken by any legal means with nine fiah, weighing 67 jib, from the Selwyn. Mr Coo got the heaviest fish, 10lb loz. On Tuesday last a son of Mr Marshall, dairyman, was chopping fire wood when the axe fell on his foot and inflicted considerable injury. One toe was completely severed from the foot and- another partly cut off. The little fellow, who bore his sufferings manfully, was taken to Dr Johnston, who promptly did what was necessary. Great preparations have been made by Mr Carthew in connection with the visits Santa Klaus has to pay next week. His collection of Christmas presents for adults, and toys for the youngsters, is the best ever opened upon this coast. The shilling and sixpenny tables are good, but for amusing variety the threepenny surpasses description, therefore we strongly recommend everyone to go and see for themselves. A good story ia told (says the Dunedin Star) at the expense of the member for Dunedin Central, who was one of the Ministerial party on their visit through Central Otago, After the news of the accident on Wednesday to one of the traps had reached Kyeburn, a settler there remarked to a friend that it was fortunate that there was a doctor among the party (alluding to Dr Fitchett). To which No. 2 replied. " Dr Fitchett is not a doctor of medicine, you fool, but a doctor of divinity." A splendid programme is published today by the popular Plantation Minstrels, who will give two grand entertainments, on Boxing and race nights, in the New Assembly Rooms. As the proceeds are to be equally divided between the Volunteer Fire Brigade and the Sports Committee we expect to see crowded houses on both occasions. The suggestion we made some time ago has been adopted, and only popular prices will be charged so as to give every one, old and young, a chance of seeing these really excellent performances. We hear that Mr Jolly, who has been connected with the Rangitikei Advocate for the last nine years- as collector, can-v.-issor, and bookkeeper, is about to sever his connection with that journal and join the taff of the Wanganui Herald and Yeoman in a similar capacity. What is the loss of the one journal is the gain of the other. Mr Jolly is one of those exceptional men whose own interests are absorbed entirely in those of his employers. We congratulate Mr Jolly on his advancement in life, and the Herald in securing the services of so good and trustworthy an addition to its staff. At the Police Court this morning before Dr Monckton and Mr J. C. Thompson, J.P s, Samuel Rowley was charged with being drunk on the 14th instant. Constable Meehan and Mr S. Baker proved the offence. Mr Staite appeared for the defence, also as a witness, when he deposed that Rowley had been in Hastie'e Hotel on the day in question where a number of gentlemen were making fun of accused by giving him drinks one after the other. Taking pity on him the witness went to Mrs Rowley and informed her of the condition of her husband. In cross-examination Mr Staite said that to the best of his belief the barman supplied Rowley, the latter being drunk at the time. Prisoner was fined 20s and costs 7s or forty-eight hours imprisonment. Application for time to pay the fine was refused. The fine was paid. Several dog cases from Halcombe were heard, but they were of no public interest.