The Feilding Star TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1889. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 111, 26 March 1889, Page 2

The Feilding Star TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1889. Local and General News

Freight to London on hemp has been reduced to 90s per ton.

The Aorangi, from Plymouth, arrived in Wellington on Sunday.

Mr W. H. Levin, of Wellington, was a visitor to Feilding yesterday.

Crilchrist was committed for trial for shooting at John McDonald with intent at Oamaru on Saturday last.

The match between the Maori football team and the Hull Club resulted in a draw, both sides scoring a try.

Mr Hickford, of Campbellton, is putting up a flaxmill on the bank of the Rangitikei river on Mr McKelvie's property.

The lawn tennis tournament between Palmerston and Feilding on Saturday afternoon resulted in a victory for Palmerston in both the singles and doubles.

A block of bush land in this district, containing upwards of a thousand acres, was sold yesterday tp a gentleman from Hawke's Bay. The price was satisfactory to both buyer and seller.

An unoccupied four-roomed cottage on the Makino road, near Mr Diamond's residence, was burned down on Sunday afternoon. Spontaneous combustion as usual. There was no insurance.

We are pleased to hear that arrangements are being made by our local Football Club to have a grand ball (dancing) some time during the Easter holidays. A meeting will be held this evening to discuss the question.

At a local school a little girl said to the schoolmaster , "If you please I do not know how to spell Grumble " " Then you do not read the newspaper," replied the master, " or you would have learned to spell Old Grumble. He is worth reading." Fact!

In our last issue we published as an item of local news that the hempinill of Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew was turning cut £'250 worth of hemp per week. We have since been informed, by a member of the firm, that sum was rather an overestimate.

The N.Z.E.A. meeting ended on Saturday last in a downpour of rain, when the Teams Match (200, 300, 400, and 500yds) was fired for and resulted : North Dunedin Bines, 519 (£25 and cup) : Wellington City Rifles, 505 (£15); Wanganui City Rifles, 504 (£10). The next meeting of the Association will be held at Dunedin.

In a letter, which appears in our correspondence column to-day, Mr Lambert Clapham claims that the new flax dresser patented as the " Premier " by Messrs Davidson and Gougb, of Dunedln, was invented by the late James Bertram, of Halcombe, who took out letters patent for the same about six years ago. One of Mr Bertram's machines oan be seen working at Mr David Murray's foundry in Wanganui.

The price of the the tickets in the grand art union, under the management of Mr Reading, has been reduced to 2s 6d. This will put it within the reach of everyone to secure a chance, or rather four chances, of winning a really valuable and handsome picture. The original number of subscribers, viz. : eighty, will be adhered to, and the drawing will take place on Saturday, April 27th.

At the Clifton Races, Dunedin, on Saturday, St. James won the Anniversary Handicap, Captain Cook 2nd. Annean d'Or and Silver Bell won the two trotting races, paying the sensational dividends of £33 11s and £169 4s respectively. At the second day's races Crossbow won the Eleotric Stakes, paying Jl3 7b dividend, and Daisy the Two Mile Trot, paying £26 2s dividend.

The long standing disputes as to the properties of Mr Allan M'Donald, exM.H.R. for the East Coast, are to be settled at the sittings of the Supreme Court at Gisborne next week, the first case on the oivil list being that of Allan M'Donald v. Bank of New South Wales, claim for £60,000 damages. Mr W. Brassey appears for the plaintiff, and Mr Cowlishaw for the defendants. The case will be tried before a special jury. We understand that some very interesting disclosures are expected to be made. — Napier News.

William Cazaly, late teller at the Ballarat branch of the Colonial Bank, was brought tip at the Assizes on February 6th beiore Mr Justice Williams, on the specific charge of embezzling .£IOO, the property of the bank. His Honor, in passing sentence, Baid "I feel that the clerks of every bank in this Colony art most inadequately and wretchedly paid. They are expected to dress as gentlemen, conduct themselves as gentlemen, ana have every appearance of gentlemen, anc they are paid in a way that is a disgrace to the institutions to which they belong. And I eay that the same miserable econ, omy — the same miserable cruel economy which prompts them to pay starvation wages to the gentlemen they take into their employment as bank clerks — is the same miserable, impolitic, cruel economy that causes the careless supervision the^. have over their clerks' work in order thai they may be able to return better profits to the directors and shareholders. Id( not hesitate to say, from my experienc< of the banks of this colony, that I woul<" sooner put a son of mine to break stone on the road than make him a bank clerk.' The large dividends paid by some of th. banks was previously supposed to hav< ; been extracted from their customers, bu j from the above it would seem that a por cion at least ia taken out of the olerkß. — '•■ ■ q.b.i>. '■ ■■ ■ ■•■■ fc

The Auckland shootists went up by the mail train this afternoon.

The annual meeting of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association will be held on Saturday April 6th, at Palnierstou.

J Pettengell, the pugilist, left Wellington for England by the R.M.S. Doric ou March 7 . Pettengell got ajob as trimmer on the steamer.

It is reported that Prince Alexander of Battenberg was inveigled into a bogus marriage by Fraulein Loismger (forme ily cabled Doesenginer.)

The annual report of the WellingtonManawatu Railway Company has been published. The figures look very satisfactory but there will be no dividend for the shareholders, who will have to be satisfied witth the honor and glory.

The Feilding Cricket Club match, which was supposed.to take place to-morrow as a wind up of the season, we are informed that the match committee have been unable to get the teams to gether, therefore they have decided to postpone it until Wednesday week (April 3rd.)

A meeting of farmers was held at Sandon on Thursday, when it was resolved that the price for good milling wheat should be not less than 4s per bushel, and that the farmers decline to take any miller's hills unless the usual bank discount be added. It was also resolved not to sell oats at less than 2s 6d per bushel.

The Hokitiki District Grand Ledge of Freemasons, E.C., has unanimously passed a resolution — "That the formation of a Grand Lodge for New Zealand at the present time is inopportune and unnecessary and calculated to destroy rather than advance the best interests of Freemasonry throughout the colony."

Some years ago Mr Isaac Selby, a Freethought lecturer, visited New Zealand, and afterwards married Miss Tessie Chapman, a lecturess on the same lines. Both have become converted to Christianity, and Mr Selby, writing to a Sydney religious paper, says religion alone can supply the true incentive to proper living.

The sale of Mr J. C. Thompson's furni-. ture and effects, held here yesterday afternoon by Messrs Stevens and Gorton, was remarkably well attended. There were visitors from all parts of the district, consequently the rooms were so crowded many would be buyers were kept outside, and thus disappointed. It goes without saying that the various articles sold at good prices.

On Thursday next a farewell tea will be given in the Wesleyan Church, Grey street, to the Rev. T. N. Griffin, who is about to leave this district and will be for the future stationed at Hawera. Mr Griffin will be succeeded in this circuit by the Rev. Mr Cannell, who will take charge early next month. The meeting will be presided over by the Rev. Mr Watkins, president of the Wesleyan Conference.

An application was made at Wellington on Friday last to the Eesident Magistrate to imprison a married woman who had declined to come up for examination regarding a promissory note due by her. His Worship said that, following the precedent of the English law in such cases, a woman oould not be personally taken in execution, and he must deoline to make the order applied for. The defendant in the case is the wife of W. J. Hunt, of Samoan fame. — Telegraph.

The following items are from the Manawatu Times : — At the Police Court this morning, before 0. M. Suelson, Esq., J. P., Albert Dixon was charged with altering a certain bill of exchange for £1 at Oroua Bridge. On the application of Sergeaut Manning, accused was remanded till Tuesday next. It appears that a cheque for £l was given by a flax mill owner to the accused, that the cheque wa6 altered to £31, that it was cashed by Mr Howe, of the Clarendon Hotel, and accepted bv the Bank. The case promises to be rather a complicated ono. — We learn arrangements for forming alocal oommittee to watch over and assist the progress of this part of the district are being well advanced. It has been considered desirable by the promoters that the new institution should not clash with any existing one, and as there is nominally a local Chambor of Commerce, a meeting of that body will be convened for some time during next week. The question will then be considered whether an entirely new body shall be constituted, or whether the operations of the present one shall be extended. If this movement is entered into with energy it cannot fail to haye an influence fer the good of the place.

In soliciting the attention of the ladies of this province ho our fashionable importations for the present season, we would respectfully ask them when they visit Wellington to inspect our choice aßsortment of man tier, paletots, jackets, furlined sloaks, far capsi &c. &c, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

The choice was never larger, the variety neyer greater, and the styles never more charming than are to be Been jnst now in profusion at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Of the fayorite plush jackets and paletots we have a Buperb selection, none better in the city. We have a full supply of ladies' mantles in Astracan, Matalas6e, striped cloth, diagonal cloth, seal cloth, &c, in all the newest styles at Te Aro House, Wellington.

In ladies' short tweed jecketa we are showing a magnificent assortment, ranging in price from 5/6 to 21/6. In jerseys we have an abundant supply with braided and smocked fronts from 3/11 to 10/6. We have also a very nice selection of Sarnbaldi jackets with belts in black, browu, grenat, nary, light grey and fawn, from 5/11 to 15/6 at Te Aro House, Wellington.

No lady requiring either an ulster or a waterproof should pass Te Aro House, as we have them in large quantities of the most fashionable description and at the most moderate pneas For Ulsters, brand new styles and fabrics, our prices range from 6/1 1 to 37/6 ; for waterproof mantles from 8/6 to 18/6, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Our showroom is in erery way well worth a visit, and we are certain it would be as advantageous to the visitors as to the proprietor of Te Aro House, Wellington.