Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 79, 8 January 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Two cases of sunstroke occurred in Napier last week. The Resident Magistrate's Court will jit here on Thursday. The 'Frisco mail arrived here by the mail train from Wellington yesterday. Mr John Duthie, the Mayor of Wellington, was in Feilding on Saturday. A Boft warm rain fell on Sunday last, which did an immense amount of good. James Clark has accepted the challenge of Young Mickelson for a six hours walking match. The tender of the Makino Brass Band, to play at the Foxton races, has been accepted. The next wool sales of the N.Z.L. and M. Co. will be held at Wellington on Wednesday the 16th instant. New Zealand's champion boxer, Harry Laing, goes through D inedin this week to box Cunningham, of that place, to a finish. Murphy the light weight champion, will train Laing. We (Taranaki News) understand that Mr J. J. Russell has been disqualified for life by the Waitara Racing Club for laying his whip about Gibson (another rider) during the progress of the Welter Race at the New Year's Day meeting. The Library Committee will meet on Thursday evening at 7.30 sharp, to arrange the dates of lectures, and transact other important business. Subscribers are requested to pay all amounts now now due to enable the committee to purchase some more new books. Yesterday we inspected a set of buggy harness made by Mr R. R. Collins (next the Rod House) to the order of Mrs Hastie, of the Feilding Hotel, and found it in every way excellent. The material appeared strong, and of the best kind, while the workmanship was very creditable. The chief feature of the latter was the finish. All the work was done on the premises by the proprietor and his employes,

Several very good shots have recently joined the ranks of the Manchester Rifles. English employers of labor are in fear of a struggle for an eight hour day. I The Maori footballers defeated the Kirkstall Club by two goals and a try to one goal. Mr Tripe, surgeon dentist, was in Feilding to-day on a professional visit. Mr Meadows, the well-known dairy expert, will be in Feilding at the end of the week. The Premier, Sir Harry Atkinson, was a passenger by the mail train to Wellington this afternoon. The Finance committee of the Feilding Borough Council inspected the books of the poundkeeper to-day. The Intercolonial Exhibition, to be held in Dunedin next year, promises to be the finest yet held on the south side of the line. We hear that a team of old volunteers will probably challenge a team of the Manchester Rifles to a friendly match at the butts, in a few days. The Napier News thinks Education Boards should be abolished, and that school committees should deal with the Department direct. The name of the railway expert recommended by the Agent-General for the Chief Commissionership is, we (Post) believe, Bees, and his position is that of Assistant Deputy General Manager on the North Western line, Liverpool district. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following telegram from their London office, dated the Ist instant : — " New Zealand Hemp — Market quiet. The speculative demand has fallen off." A well-known grazier in the Hawera district intends giving ensilage a good trial this year. He expects to make no less than 100 tons off ten acres, and, if his expectations are realised with success, his lead will no doubt be followed extensively. After the Emperor William had «9ited the Pope, His Holiness is credited with saying that the Kaiser "is a bad son, and will make a bad Monarch," He further remarked that he regarded the Emperor as " a very odious fellow." With this opinion all Englishmen will agree. Medical men have a habit, when rendering their accounts, of simply stating " To professional attendance," but in the Wanganui Court yesterday morning His Worship indicated that this was not by any means sufficient, the Act requiring that every attendance, with date, shall be given. Upwards of two millions of money were spent by pleasure seekers in the colony at race meetings and sports, during the last Christmas and New Year, and it will take another million to pay for the fun at the coming Easter holidays. Yet there are people foolish enough to talk about "depression." Mrs Cleveland, it in stated, will take with her from the White House an unpleasant souvenir of her husband's term office. Incessant hand-shaking has permanently enlarged her right h^nd to Buch an extant that she can no longer wear a pair of glovos, but has to haye one glove two sizes larger than the other. Geialdme runs the meanest woman in the colony. A kind-hearted individual who has an excellent milking cow has been keeping a "grass widow" of small means and large family in milk, but lately the supply has fallen off, and he was puzzled about it till he found the lady (?) driving the cow into a quiet corner, and milking her for her own use ! "We (Times) cordially congratulate th 6 shareholders of the Wellington Woollen Company and the Gear Meat Company on the satisfactory results of their operations. Dividends of 8 and 10 per cent are exceedingly good, especially at the present time, and we trust that both these Wellington Companies have entered on a career of unbroken prosperity. Wellington is very jealous of Auckland, and as an instance of how far the feeling cm go we quote the following par from tiie Post : — It would be interesting to know at whose suggestion Lord Onslow proposes to land at Auckland instead of coming direct from Sydney to Wellington. It is decidedly inconvenient that the new Governor should first land anywhere than at the seat of Government, and if His Excellency is such a bad sailor as is reported, h« would save a few miles of sea voyage by coming direct to Wellington, not to mention the journey overland or by sea from Auckland here. If he is well advised he will change his programme as to route. Visitors to Palmerston are respectfully invited to inspect the displa}' of new goods 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, and fancy and general drapery of every description. The firm being direct importers are in a position to give their patrons equal value to any thug 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. Residents in 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 tnemsolves unequalled south of the Equator, and not only is the architecture imposing, but the arrangements for the comfort and 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 extehsivo and the prices at lowest wholesale rates at Te Aro House, Wellington. Juat 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 nn the following scale at To Aro House, Wellington. The scale— Purchase 10s, Gift Is ; Purchase 20s, Gift 28 ; Purchase 30s, 3ift 3s ; Purchase 40e, Gift 4s; Purchase 60s, Gift 6s ; Purchase 80s, Gift 8s ; Purchase 1 5s. Gift Is 6d ; Purchase 265, Gift 2s 6d ; Purchase, 3os, Gift 3s 6<l ; Purchase 50s, Gift ss; Purchase 70s, Gift 7h; Purchase 90s, Gift 9b; Purchase 100s, Gift 10s; and 6O on m the Bame proportion up to £50, £100 or more, during the month of December at Te Aro House, Wellington. The only exceptions we make to tho above are Kid Gloves, Dressmaking, Millinery, and Tailoring to order. An early visit would therefore be very advantageous to all country residents, being certain to result in pieaßure aud profit to all cuaraiaera at Te Aro House, Wellington.