Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 92, 9 February 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Our collector will visit some of the country districts next week. Volunteer items are held over. Our " Temperance" letter is held over until next issue. Feilding sent away ninety-one tons of wool in the last four weeks. Some Feilding men were at the " Rum Buffers " pic-nic up the Wanganui River. The new Ranker will commence his duties on Monday morning. " A word to the wise," &c. Mr Chamberlain has withdrawn his resignation as acting Lieutenant of the Manchester Rifles. Mr and Miss Man son of " The Pines," returned to Feilding to-day after a lengthy tour in the Australian colonies. Mr Thynne has resigned the position of Mayor of Foxton. He rinds he can't run a town and a paper at the same time. Mr Peter Thomson lias just opened up a. splendid lot of crockery, glassware, &c. ; also, ironmongery, carpenter's tools, saw sharpeners, &c. It is extremely probable (says the N.Z. Times) that in a comparitively short time from now tramcars will be driven in Wellington by electricity. Yesterday afternoon the Railway Commissioners went up to Wanganui accompanied by Messrs Rotheram and Hankay. They " did" Palmerston on Wednesday. Mr J. H. Blackmoro has been appointod poundkeeper, and J. T. Foster ranger for the Borough of Feilding. The official announcement appears in another column.

ll is vutnored (says the Herald) that the informer in the smuggling case was a woman. It is generally reported that the price of oats will remain pretty high during winter, owing to large quantities being sent to Australia. The Maori footballers defeated the Black-heath Eovers by two goals and three tries to one goal. Toe team return to Australia by the Orient liner Oroya. Mr Edward Gould has arrived in Feilding, and will reside in the house formerly occupied by Mr Fitzherbert, until his new premises are erected on his lately acquired estate. The attention of the Library Committee is directed to the stato of the Heading Room consequent upon the number of dogs allowed there in the course of the day and evening. The body of John Bell was found in the Hokowhitu lagoon, near Palmerston North on Thursday evening. The deceased was missed on Wednesday, and must have been upset out of his canoe while crossing the lagoon, Mr Menzies, at the bridge on the Feild-ing-Ashurst road, has grown some excellent fruit this year. His apple and plum trees have borne remarkably well, and some samples he showed us yesterday were excellent. The Mayor, Dr Monckton, interviewed the Railway Manager yesterday anent the road from the Feilding Railway Station to Kimbolton-road, with the result that satisfactory arrangements will probably be made to have the said road iormed and metalled before the winter. The annual tea and pic-nic to the scholars of the Feilding and Halcombe Church of England Sundaj' Schools was held at the Feilding Parsonage grounds on Thursday last. There was a large attendance, and the gathering was a most successful one. The reputation of Sornnus as a sire of racehorses has been considerably augmented by the win of Dudu in the Wellington Cup. The race was won from Sultan and Lenore easily. Somnus will now occupy a position in the front rank of sires in the colonies. An election for a committee of five members for the Liwitea licensing district will be held at Kiwitea on Monday the 25th instant. Nominations must be left with the Returning officer, Mr E. Goodbehere, at Mr Brazier's shop, Cheltenham, before noon on Tuesday the 19th instant. The local Evening Mail of the 2nd instant was jubilant because all Nelson was sober " last night." That is to say, because none of the lively inhabitants of that "somnolent excavation " were locked up for being drunk, an intelligent newspaper chuckles and rubs its metaphorical hands. Go up ! Thou baldhead ! At Cloverdean, Mr Dermer was unable to get artesian water at a depth of 33 feet, where the pipe was choked with black sand, consequently the attempt was abandoned. He was more succesful with an Abyssinian well and got a plentiful supply ot good water at 17 feet close to where the other pipe had been driven. To-day's Chronicle says : — We hear that the p.«. Tuhua is to be taken to Foxton shortly, where she will piy on the Mannwatu Hirer, carrying flax from the mills to the wharf for transhipment to Wellington. We hear there are no less than eighteen flax ujills in the Manawatu district in close proximity to the river. Two persons were m conversation together last night in a house not a hundred miles from Manchester Square. " Hark !" said one, •• There'B the firebell ringing." They listened fora moment, and the buzzing of a mosquito set the quedti mat rest. Fact. This U either rough on the bell, or complimentary to our local insects. The London agent of the Press Association continues to startle the world with occasional brilliant flashes of amazing idiotism. His last successful effort was to telegraph to the millions on this side of the globe the news that the Queen had issued instructions permitting ladies to wear high necked dresses at court. There may be something in this we can't see. In fact that is very likely, but this we do see, that the man who thinks that kind of news — however interesting it may be among an effete and bloated English, Irish, Scotch, Manx, and Welsh aristocracy — is worth paying for in our sweetly democratic colonies, is nothing better than an ass. Certainly the best medicine known is Sandee and Sons' Eucalypti Exteaot. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is in* stantanpous. In serious cases, and act cidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swelling — no inflamation. Like surprising effects pro* duced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lnnsjs, swelling, &c. ; diarrhoea, dvsentry, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In uso at hospitals and medical clinics till over the globe; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medul and diploma at international Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others. — 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 aa 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 public such marvels of cheapness as may not occur again for years at Te Aro House, Wellington. It will pay all Country Residents to visit this great overplus sale at Te Aro House, Wellington.