Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 115, 4 April 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

We have to acknowledge receipt of Bus sell's. Monthly Time-table for April.

The usual monthly meeting of the Bor ough Council will be held to-night.

The new goods, ironmongery and tinware, now on view at Mr Peter Thorn son's, are worthy of inspection.

The farmers in this district are grumbling because they have nothing to grumble about.

It was rumored in Wellington yesterday that the Minister of Education had resigned.

It is probable that the local Football team wul^give a dance on the Queen's Birthday.*"

A supply of the famous tree destroyer has arrived and may be obtained at Mr Haj'bittle'a.

A meeting of the Feilding Sports Committee will be held at Mr Bra3 r 's office on Monday evening at 8 o'clock.

Captain Kane, of the Calliope, says Westport coal is the best in the world, it having 25 per cent, more steaming power than Newcastle coal.

As an evidence of the progress Feilding is making, as regards population, it is to be noted that there is not a single house empty which is fit for occupation by a family.

The removal of the duty . on dairy produce by the New South Wales Parliament, should be a guarantee of full freights for vessels sailing out ot Wangunui for Sydney.

. Mr Haybittle advertises for. sale some splendid sheep dip made from caustic potash, which has been tested with entire success by most of the principal Bheep farmers in the district.

The sale at the Pound yesterday attracted a good deal of attention, and the bidding for the horses was more spirited than has been the case for some time past at the more legitimate stock sales.

The Argus says Californian wheat can not be landed in Melbourne, duty paid, for less than 6s 3d per bushel. Victoria has nothing for export. South Australia can spare, it is said, 2,000,000, while New South Wales wants 6£ million bushels.

The Eiffel Tower, whose completion was announced in Tuesday's Paris telegrams, is by far the loftiest building on the face of the globe. It is no less than 800 metres, or about 980 feet in height, and is constructed throughout of steel.

A farmer at Ashburton, when giymgin his ret mi for the agricultural statistics, estimated his crop of oats to turn ont from 30 to 35 bushels per acre, while the actual result, as shown by the thresher, proved to be 70 bushels, or more than double the estimated yield.

It ia understood (says a Southern paper) that the members of a country Jockey Club intend to move shortly in the matter of petitioning the Government to remove the interdiction at present existing against consultations. It is not to be expected the press of the colony will support this somewhat impudent proposal.

A hundred yards race, for £5 a-side between James Troy and John Casey, was run on the cricket ground yesterday afternoon. Troy gave his opponent five yards start, but won the race easily by a couple of j r ards. A foot race of 75 yards, for £1 a-side, between W. Arnott and A. Parr, also took place recently, Arnott winning.

We hear on good authority that the Wellington-Manawatu Eailway Companj' do not intend to let the Commissioners have it all their own way in regard to the diversion of traffic over the Eketahuna line. It is not considered advisable to reduce fares to a point at which Government competition must cease, but if necessary a speoia'l passenger train will be run, doing the distance between Wellington and Paknerston, and vice versa, in three hours. — Manawatu Times.

A deputation from the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association interviewed Messrs W. P. Eeeves and E. M. Taylor, M.H.R.s, on Tuesday last, requesting them to assist in procuring further legislation for protecting the fruit growing industry against the codlin moth. They snggested levying a small tax on fruit trees, and the prohibition of importation of fruits from districts within the colony where the moth exists ; the division of the colony into fruit districts ; the administration of the Act to be left to the local bodies; The members promised to do what they could to repress the pest by legislation.

For the information of those persons who may contemplate pi'ocuring skates beforehand, in anticipation of the rink shortly to be opened in the Assembly Rooms, we may mention that on no account will any be allowed to be used except tho6e with wooden rollers. Skates will be procurable by purchase or hire at the rink. An -experienced rinkist will be in' attendance for the -purpose of instructing beginners in -tha' graceful art. There will be afternoon sessions, when special privileges will be granted to ladies, and the evening sessions will be enlivened by inusi •• It; is probable that on the opening night the admission will be free to all. Tae rink will be open three da; s in each ,-eek as far as practicable, the (kites being .-so accommodated as not to interfere with other meetings or entertainments.

Lord Onslow will arrive in Auckland on Easter Monday.

The Wanganui Herald informs us Mr Brabant will be appointed li.M. for this district.

We (Manawatu Times) learn that Mr •Tellicoe, ou behalf ot Mr Grant, is about to apply to the Supreme Court for the appointment of another Eeceiver for the Manawatu Road Board in place of Mr Clarke.

Educate only a uian'B head and you make him an infidel. Educate only a man's heart and you make him a fanatic. Kdu(;ate them both together and you have the noblest work of God. — Dr. Talmage.

The Opotiki Herald says :— " We are credibly informed that Te Kooti has announced to his men that it is still his inteution to visit Poverty Bay, but he only intends to tuke from 15 to 20 followers with him."

The Timaru Herald reports that on a paddock near that town MrJohnStruthors harvested a crop of oats which threshed out 100 bushels to the acre. The land was originally part of the Otipoua estate. Like other laud in the district, it is of grand quality.

Headers are reminded that Mr Duncan Wright, evangelist, conducts a service at Halcombe this evening at 7.30, and that he gives hia final address of the mission in Feilding to-morrow evening. Mr Wright's next mission will be held at Bulls, and commences on Sunday.

There was a grand exhibition of rat catching by a fox terrier slut in Wanganui the other evening. Within 12 minutes no fewer than 26 large rats were placed hois de combat by the aforesaid terrier, which, however, was quite exhausted when its task was over.

During the recent "Albatross"expedition in the South Pacific a modern Robinson Crusoe was discovered on a lonely island, where he hud resided for years. Ho had a long white beard, lived in a hut made of skins, and was alarmed at the sight of human beings. He gladly left his island home with the visitors.

His Honor Mr Justice Denniston at Christchurch, in the course of a case, pointed out to a constable that it was no part of the duty of a policeman to interrogate prisoners they might arrest. They were to receive any statement that a prisoner might volunteer, but they had no right or business to interrogate the persons they might have in charge.

Mr Cowen, the musican, in the course of an interview with a newspaper man in Melbourne recently, said : — " I have spent many an evening with the Engliah aristocracy, and I have found them —the blood aristocracy, at least — the most brainless, uninteresting people on the face of the earth. They have only three ideas between the whole lot of them : meat and drink, woman, and sport."

The Dunedin police made an important seizure of an illicit still last Tuesday. It was found at Whare Flat, about 11 miles from Dunedin, in a sequestered spot. The still was complete, with worm and everything, and in the place some 270 gallons of wort was discovered, Murdoch McLeod and Alexander Campbell, two men who were about the place, were arrested. : • ■ To-day's Times says :— lt was freely rum tured in town last night that the Minister of Education had been requested to resign an. 1 had declined to do so, ami that consequently the Government w<>ul I resign iv a b«> ly with a view to a re-c a struetion of the Cabinet. So the slorv rau.and ltobfcained very general cradeuce, but so far no official information ou thtsubject is obtaiLable. The report thus remiuna neither confirmed nor contradicted.

A telegram received by the Wanganui Herald's athlecic writer yesterday morning,'in answer to one sent by him advising that the Laing-Smith match take place on Wednesday, the 24th of April, in preference to Saturday, the 27th, says that the alteration will meet the wishes of Smith. As Laing is agreeable to this change the contest will therefore take place on that date. Laing was to sign the articles last night (Smith has already done so), and final arrangements will be made on the night preceding the contest.

Some of the Hawkes Bay breeders are procuring Oxford Down rams. Beferring to this breed the Auckland Weekly News says : — " we would recommend anyone who is interested in ascertaining the grazing capabilities of the North to inspect the carcase of one of Mr C. Coate's Oxford Down wethers, which was to be seen at Messrs Hellaby's to-day. We do not believe these Kaipara sheep can be beaten anywhere in New Zealand by grass-fed animals. The weight of Mr Coate's sheep ranged from 159 to ISOlbs dressed, and yet the meat is not overloaded with fat. We heartily congratulate Mr Coates on the result of his breeding skill aided by the limestone pastures of the Kaipara district."

In soliciting the attention of the ladies of this province to our fashionabla importations for the present season, we would respectfully ask them when they visit Wellington to inspect our choice assortment of mantle?, paletots, jackets, furhned cloaks, fur caps, &c. &c, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

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

In laches' short tweed jackets we are showing a magnificent assortment, ranging in price from 5/6 to 21/6. In jeraeys wo have an abuudant supply with braided and smocked fronts from 3/11 to 10/6. We have also a very nice selection of 3-anbaldi jackets with belts in black, brown, grenat, navy, light grey and fawn, from 5/11 to 15/6 at Te Aro House, Wellington.