Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 90, 5 February 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. Parliament has been prorogued until the 11th of April. A letter from " Aquarius" is unavoidably held over. The Fisk Jubilee singers are doing good businesss Hokitika way. A direct English mail will close here to-morrow afternoon at four o'clock. The fire bell was hung yesterday. Its tones are husky to say the best of it. A match has been arranged between the Feilding and Waipawa cricket clubs. The Premier will address the electors in Auckland to-morrow on the Property Tax. We have to acknowledge receipt of Russell's Guide, Diary, auJ Time table o. February. The Maori football team played Gloucester County on Saturday, uud won by one goal and a try to one try, The Public Works Couiunttee, of the Borough Council, made au inspection of the bridges yesterday afternoon. A meeting is to be held to-night at Hawera to organise a fund to assist in the Parnell defence. " Culprit" is derived from the term q>i*il parait — " may it appear so" — whic i 1.8 d to be said by the clerk when an accused person pleaded " not guilty." The Feilding Brass Band played in the Kotunda on Sunday afternoon. The performance was much admired by a large number of people who had assembled on the Square. Mr Jacob Watt, of Pennsylvania (U.S. A.), has, in a letter addressed to ''Your Majesty the Chief Officer of the AuHtralian Govarement," offered to sell a rabbit, rat, and mouse trap for 75,000d01. With reference to the rumour that Sir Robert Stout was about to enter parliament, the Dunedin Star states — '• We have the best reason for saying that Sir Robert Itias no intention whatever' of entering politics at the present juncture." The licensing elections in Wellington are exciting much interest. The four licensing districts have been amalgamated. Thirteen candidates have been nominated and the publican and temperance parties are working- hard in tneir several interests. It is notified to-day by the Eev. G. Wilks that he is prepared to receive pupils for higher education, scholarships, civil service, law, medical and university examinations, also, should sufficient inducement offer, a clans of young lad es o Saturdays for English, drawing, &c. On Saturday as the Huia c ime up to the Wanganui wharf, the cook of the 6teamer, C. W. Nunn, was arrested on a charge of smuggling tobacco. The Herald says the police found 371bs of the smuggled article at Nunn's house, and also a small quantity in one of the grocery stores in town. There is considerable demand, in Feilding, just now for dwelling houses suitable for small families, and we are certain it would prove remunerative to any one with a little spare money to erect a few such buildings. Cottages with from four to six rooms are worth from 8s to 10s a week, iind good tenants are available. Even Gladstone gets inflated when he has a new suit of clothes, for the special London correspondent of Ihe Dunedin Star eavs . — *' Whenever Mr Gladstone comes into the House with a new-looking frock coat of resplendent black you may always look out for a great speech." Thi-s does not, however prevent Lord Randolph asking the Speaker " Where the fire was last night." The Times' London Correspondent writes. — Trade generally throughout this country is improyoag, and it is expected that the new year will start with far brighter prospects thau the present one. The iron and cotton trades are reported extremely busy in all departments, both for home trade and export. In many branches men are demanding, and are obtaining, an increase of wages of from 5 to 10 por cent. Ther jis a duty on tobacco. Duty is of two kuids : one you owe to your neighbor — this you never pay when you can help it ; the* other you pay to the Governmen . Your neighbor must give you credit ; tho Government which is not anyone's neighbor, insists on cash down. Your neighbor for whom you do not vote, is obliged to trust you *, the Government, for whom you and your neicrhbor vote, would not trust either of you. "School board essays." ■ ■ '

Robert Flume, aged 8, while bathing in a lagoon on tho Taien Plain, Dunedia near Gieytown South, in company- with tour younger lads, wa9 drowned. The Havelock correspondent of the N.Z. Times says that little work was done at Mahakipawa last week, owing to the heavy rains. A Feilding resident has spent .£BO,OOO in bushfelling, fencing, and grass seed, in the last twelve months, on his various properties in this neighborhood. It ia rumoured that the future construction of Government railways will not be placed in the hands of the Railway Commissioners, as originally contemplated by the Government Railways Act, but that this will be retained, in the hands of the Government. A paragrayh is going the rounds that J. Cummings, a blacksmith, over sixty years o ' age, residing at Lambton (N.S.W,), has just been informed that, as the result of eleven years' litigation, he i3 heir to an estate in Scotland and funds of the total value of over a million sterling. Now his friends sing: <; There's a good time coming." Wife : "I mended the hole in your trousers pocket last night after you had gone to bed, John, dear. Now, am I not a thoughtful little wife?" Husband (dubiously) : " Well-er-ye-es, you are thoughtful enough, my dear; out how the mischief did you discover there was a hole in my trousers pocket ?" The escape of the little hoy, David Small, who felt asleep between the rails, near Lumsden, Invercargill, on Saturday, and was nu ovar by a train of 24 vehicles, waa a marvellous one. The cowcatcher dragged and rolled him about; twentytwo yards before he slipped under. He is not severely hurt, hut has lost one of his great toe nails, and a slight shaving of bone from the crown of his head, apparently cut by the flanges of the wheels. A meeting of the committee of the Wellington and Intercolonial Dog show was held on Friday night at the Exchange Buildings. There was a large attendance of members. Mr R. Moate occupied the chair. Correspondence was received from several gentlemen giving their support and patronage. The schedule was finally revised, and ordered to be printed. Some discussion took place upon the question of the appointment of judges, and a list of names was given, and the Secretary instructed to write asking if the gentlemen proposed could act. — N.Z. Times. The sale at the Red House is now in full swing. The special feature of this sale is that the stock is unusually heavy, consequently there is the greatest possible variety to chose from. Several very special job lines to hand, viz., the whole of a warehouseman's samples of hats (several hundred varieties), also about 4 dozen ladies jackets which are all being sold at less than wholesale prices for cash. The sale is to last for a short time only. All who need cheap goods (clean and fresh) should visit this annual stock sale the Red House.— Advt. 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 Wauganui, of mantles, millinery, straw goods, dust cloaks, sun shaoV<s. cotton and stuff dress materials, and fane • and general drapery of every desenptio i. The firm being direct importers are in a position to give their patrous equal value to anything 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. We have decided to have a sale of overplus Surplus Summer stock, commencing on Friday next, February Bth, at Te Aro House, Wellington. That there will be bargains as there always have been at our sales, goes without saying, and though the exigencies of State, according to our present rulers, demand an almost crushing taxation on drapery goods, yet we shall not be debarred from offering to the pablic such marvels of cheapness as may not occur again for years at Te Aro House, Wellington. The balance of our Summer Stock in all departments is marked at prices to sell quickly. In washing and other dress fabrics, in mantles and costumes, in millinery and underclothing, in carpets and calicoes, in boys' and youths' clothing there ib an abundant variety of some of the cheapest lots over seen in the city, sufficient to convince every unprejudiced mind that the proper place, the best place and the only place to secure undeniable bargains is To Aro House, Wellington. The said will only last 14 days, and will come to an end on Saturday, February 16th, and in conducting it we mean to be " short, sharp, and decißiye" at Te Aro House, Wellington. It will pay all Country Residents to visit this great overplus sale at Te Aro House, Wellington.