Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 97, 21 February 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ The new road along the railway line from Bunnythorpe station to Palmerston North is now ready for traffic. After he retires from the gubernatorial business Sir Hercules Robinson proposes to settle in New Zealand. The only complete list of officers and men who have received the decoration of the Victorian Cross ever published appears in Whittaker's Almanac for 1889. The names of ihe gentlemen forming the Kiwitea Licensing Committee elected on Tuesday, are Messrs S. Bellve, Jas. Brazier, John Bruce, G. G. Death, and G. Kidd. We publish to-day the marriage notice of Mr Allen, the manager of the Feilding agency of the Bank of New Zealand, to the only daughter of Mr David Lusk, of Witiora, Opunaki. The event took place at the residence of the bride's father on the 30th of January. We tender them our sincerest congratulations and hope they will have many years of mutual happiness.

The Manawatu Times calls Marton " a hamlet." Poor Marton ! The meeting of C. Whitehead's creditors was adjourned for a week. Mr Allen, of the Bank of New Zealand, will return to-morrow or Saturday. Mr Parnell is still ailing, but it is not expected he will take to his bier for some time to come. Cobbe & Darragh, of the Cash Exchange, have the finest stock of Drapery, Groceries, and General Goods on the coast. Mr John' Manson, of The Pines, commenced to burn three thousand acres of felled bush on Tuesday last. We understand that Mr Larkworthy has disposed of his Carnarvon and Moutoa estates to a syndicate. The Feilding Licensing Committee will meet at the Court House on Monday next at noon, to elect a chairman for the current year. It is not improbable that new legal developments will arise in connection with the property at Awahuri lately owned by Mr Macdonald. The members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the parade to-morrow evening. It is specially requested that they be at the barracks at 7.30 sharp. Last night about half past eight o'clock a most brilliant meteor passed across the sky. Its course was from north to south, and when it burst the effect was very beautiful. In our last issue we said the Mayor was arranging with the Railway authorities to have the road made from the Kimbolton road to the station ; this should have read : " from Kimbolton road to Eyre street." [" Observer " will ifind in the above a reply to his interesting letter.] There is a man in this place who cures fruit trees of aphis, scales, insects, blight, or other living pests, with one hand tied behind his back. He merely stands two paces off the infected tree and talks. In two hours there is not a living thing left on bud or leaf. The Feilding Brass Band played in the rotunda on Tuesday evening. The selection of pieces was excellent, and the manner in which they were rendered was very pleasing, while it reflected great credit on., the skill of the performers. By the way, musicians are supposed to keep time, therefore they should observe punctuality. Our notice said the performance would commence at 7.30, but it was 8 p.m. before it began. A smart Paluatua tradesman recently sold a lot of cloth to a tailor at 5s per yard,.to be paid for in a fortnight. Haying heard of the credit system, the tradesman invoiced it at "7s 6d, to be reduced to 5s if paid within a fortuight " It was not, paid for within the specified time, and he sued for the 7s 6d per yard aud got it netting 50 per cent extra for his trouble. The following cheerful announcement appeared some time ago in a Glasgow paper : — "James Hodge continues to sell burying crapes ready made ; and his wife's niece dresses dead corpses at as cheap a rate as was formerly done by her her aunt, having not only been educated by her. but perfected in Edinbnrgh, from whence she has lately arrived, with all the newest and best fashions for the dead," For the convenience of Feilding residents and others who desire to visit Palmerston North on Saturday next, to witness the illumination of that rising township on the occasion of the opening of the gas works recently erected there, a return train will leave Pahnerston at 10.30 arriving at Feilding at 11.10 p.m., returning again to Pahnerston at 11.15 p.m. Passengers will be able to go down by either the 4.28 or the 8.25 trains and have plenty of time to witness the spectacle. Saturday return tickets will make the trip cheap enough. Some months ago the sheep farmers resident round about Taonui applied to tbe Government for sheep yards to be be erected at the station there, to assist in loading the railwaj' trucks with stock for market. Beyond acknowledging receipt of the petition, and sending for a report from the sheep inspector as to the number of sheep in the neighborhood, nothing has yet been done. We would recommend the petitioners to commence worrying the newly fledged Railway Commissioners. At the sale at Awahuri on Tuesday Col. Gorton referred to the fact that although only 2500 sheep had been advertised there were over 9000 yarded. He said by their own neglect people helped to spoil the sale, and had only themselves to blame if the sheep brought small prices. If it was known so many sheep would have been offered the attendance would have been larger in proportion. It was unfair to the auctioneer as well as to those who enter their sheep to bring large mobs without having informed the auctioneer. He considered the practice very objectionable. The Woodvillians and the Palmerstonjust now are in a state of hope and fear respectively. The Woodvillians hope a Grand Northern Show will be held there instead of Wellington, and the Palmerstonians fear that as the Minister of Lands has hinted at such a catastrophe, they may be deprived of what they now consider as an established right. Wo can assure our friends in the Chicago of the South that Woodville or Wellington can never rub them out for a show. Woodville has started too late, and Wellington is so glaringly on the " catch penny lay" that her show after, one brief struggle will " expire with a fizzle." The following items are from tho Manawatu Times : — The Rev. Father Patterson infornis us that he has already recoived subscriptions amounting to about £200 towards the erection of a new Catholic Church in Palmerston. If a new building is erected and the present one is utilised as a school room it is estimated that £1200 will be required, but the congregation has yet to decide whether it will not be preferable to improve the existing structure.— Mr Hanna, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, was presented^ with a purse of sovereigns, prior to his departnre for Auckland on Tuesday last. You should visit the sale. Why ? Bocause the bargains have beon numerous and astonishing and the remainder of the overplus will be sold at still lower prices during the present week at Te Aro House, Wellington. You shonld visit the sale. Why ? Because it is the last week and it positively closes on Saturday next, February 16th, at 10 o'clock of the evening. Fail not therefore to giye a look in at the overplus sale; Te Aro House, Wellington. It will be seen by advertisement of another column that Mr J. J. Curtis, in Grey street, Wellington, draws the atten tion of the tradespeople and others to the advantage they will receive by having consigned to his care. Consignees at present suffer from delay in transit al Wellington, and the consequent expense of storage, which would be entirely avoided. Those wishing lo send parcels or presents to Europe are reminded that he has a cheap prompt delivery by each of the direct steamers for London. Parcels so sent are delirered at the door of consignie, if inducted. It is also notified that he has special conveyance for the removal oF furniture and luggage. Custom House work is, of course, ;i necessary branch of Lis business. — ADVT.

At the Greymoutk cattle sale yester* day bullocks fetched £6 10s to £7 ', prime beef, 16s per 1001b; fat sheep, 10s 6d to 12s 9J ; prime mutton, 2\\ per lb ; inferior, 2d ; fat lnmbs,6s 3d to 8s 6d per head ; pige, 27s 6d to 47s 6d. The Taranaki Herald understands that Mr Downes, manager of the Bank of N<-W South Wales in New Plymouth, will succeed Mr Tennet. The News r ;marks : — " Mr Downes will be much missed by his numerous New Plymouth fiiends, who one all vote him ' a good follow.' He has always takeu a prominent part in dramatic, musical, and athletic movements, and, with regard to the latter, we know his old friends the bowlers will regret his departure. Mr Dones is Secretary of the Bowling Club, and one of its best players. The sale at the Red House is now m full swing. The special feature of tins 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. Certainly the best medicine known is Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is in* stantaneous. In serious cases, and ac» cidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swelling — no inflamatiou. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis^ inflammation of the lungs, swelling, &c. ; diarrhoea, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others. — Advt. We take the following from the Church News : — " The Dean of Rochester has produced a sensation among tke total abstainers in Kent and elsewhere by boldly avowing his conviction, in a sermou in Rochester Cathedral, that, heinous as is the vice of drunkenness, a moderate drinker is nobler and more manly than a person who, from waut of moral strength to control himself, becomes a total abstainer. He deprecated wholesale abuse of licensed victuallers, and would seek a remedy for drunkenness in improving the dwellings and brightening the surroundmgs of the working classes. He protested against the attempt to transform the Church of England from a temperance into a total abstience society, believing that to countenance such an enterprise was to seem to disparage ( one of- God's good creatures.'" The following by-law. for regulating the licensing of cabmen at New Zealand stations has been issued by the' Railway Commissioners: — 1. No driver or conductor of any cab, or hackney carnage, omnibus express, other public yehicle shall ply for hire at railway station without having first obtained an annual license in writing from the district traffic manager and without having paid the fee prescribed by such license. 2. Any person plying for the hire of any vehicle shall stand such vehicle in such position as the station master may direct. 3. All persons plying for hire at any railway station shall obey the order of the stationmaster or other authorised officer. 4. Any person who shall commit a breach of any of the foregoing by-law, or shall fail to do any act in any such by-law directed to be done by him, or shall do any act which by any such by-law is directed not to be done by him shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10 for each such breach or the failure to do or the doing of each such act as aforesaid respectively, and shall in addition, fori feit the license obtained and held by him under this by-law, and thereupon his right to ply for hire.