The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1889. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 117, 9 April 1889, Page 2

The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1889. Local and General News

A project is on foot to stnrt another paper in Palmerston. A house, at Halcombe, was burned down last Friday night. Mr Jens Jensen, the well known blacksmith and farrier, is going into the flaxmill business. We are glad to hear that Messrs Bartholomew and Dunn are about to erect a flaxrnill near Levin. The Wellington-Wairarapa railway extension to Eketahuna was officially opened yesterday. A Maori meeting will be held at Onepuhi on the 15th instant to discuss land business. King Tawhiao will be present. A meeting of the Fire Brigade will be held on Thursday next at Captain Bray's office at 7.30 p.m., to ele-'t officer* and receive balance sheet. A letter appears to-day from Messrs Davidson & Gough, of Dunedin, in reply to a communication from Mr Lambert Clapham, re the Premier flax cleaning machine. Mr A. Dermer, of Cloverdear , Awahuri, has just had advices fro.n the N.Z.L. & M.A. Company, London, which inform him that a parcel of butter he sent Home has realised top price of 112s per cwt. A local sportsman who eats all he shoots — and he always shoots to kill — puts so much lead in his game that when he goes to bathe he sinks. We do not vouch for the strict accuracy of this story. There is a considerable demand for the Tree Destroyer here, and should the first trials of the stuff prove successful, it will command a large sala. We understand that Mr Haybittle has very little left of the first consignment. The furniture sale, held by Messrs Stevens & Gorton on Saturday, was a great success, the auction rooms being crowded. The lots sold very well, a great many realising more than the retail prices for which they could be bought in the local furniture shops. Competition is the soul of an auction sale. A coiTespondent from the Feilding Small Farm Block writes : — " We were all sorry to hear of the sad death of Mrs Cavauagh who was accidentally killed at Palmerston last week. The deceased was the first woman who came on the Block where she was highly respected by the settlers who will long regret her untimely end, and who sympathise with those lett behind to mourn her loss." A London telegram informs us that gold has been found at Torquay, England. Miners are warned against rushing the new field until a colonial gold field'B warden has reported on the payable — or otherwise — nature of the ground. We have strong suspicions that it will turn out to be a mere " storekeepers" rush assisted by the shipping companies. A meeting of the Boxing Day Sports Committee wa3 held on Saturday night, at Mr Bray's office, when the balance sheet was read. It showed a credit balance of i"2£s after all charges had been met. A vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Mr Hartgill, the manager of the Plantation Minstrel Troupe, who had contributed .£2O to the funds of the Committee by their performance in aid thereof. The regular monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held on Monday, the 15th instant, and after the ordinary business has been completed, a special meeting will be held to discuss the question of a United Grand Lodge for New Zealand. Invitations have been sent to the members of lodge 3in Palmerston, Marton, Bulls, and Foxton, and all brethren visiting Feilding at the same time are requested to attend. Some young fellows have queer ideas about settlement and marriage. An energetic bachelor in the Endowment Block, who is hewing out for himself, with his American axe, a comfortable home, was asked whether he would sooner have a wife to help him or a bag of sugar. After some minutes spent in deep reflection, he said : " Gimme the sugar bag ; I want that now ; and I shan 't want a missus till after next year's burn." He evidently means business. 41 Gipsy King" in the Herald says : — Feilding — Space will not permit me to go fully into the weights for this Club's Easter meeting, but a casual glance baffles me as regards a probable -winner. Mr Henry, the handicapper, is fond of perpetrating these little puzzles on us, and, judging 03' publiu opinion, "one horse seems to be aa &ood as another and much better," as the saying is. I will make an attempt to trace out something next week that is likely to be near the winner iv some of the races. At the confirmation service last night some three or four young men made themselves very conspicuous by their bad behaviour. We may state their names have been taken down and their parents and employers will be advised on the matter. For the information of these foolish lads we quote the following from the Police Offences Act, 1884:— "Any person guilty of the following offence shail be liable to a p jnalty not exceeding five pounds. Disturbs any congregation assembled for public worship ... or interferes with the orderly conduct of any religious service in any church." There was a large congregation last night at St. John's Church, on the occasion of His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington's annual visitation for the purpose of administering the rite of to lfirmation. The service was very hearty and the music good, Mrs C. Brown kindly acting for the regular organist, Miss E. M. Goodbehere. The Bishop pn ach jd an eloquent and impressive sermon, basing his remarks on Acts 8c 17v. The following candidates, presented by the Eev. A. Hermon, were received into full membership with the church : — C. A. W. Monckton, F. J. H. Saxon. Misses A. A. Beattie, J. Mclnnis, A. Newman, A. It. Poad, A. Roe. The offertory was devoted to the local church fi n l . As the old seit ers pass one by one away to their long home, their perils, adventures, and hardships, as told by themselves, become toned with a certain melancholy interest from the sublime faith they have in the credulity of their hearers and the unrestrained exaggeration they give to very simple facts. One white headed old perverter of the truth was a few days ago spinning a yarn about honey getting in the good old days in the Hntt valley — "forty years ago. He said he felled a pnkatea tree, and took out of it thirteen porter hogsheads of honey, and enough wax to fill the old Government brig. The bees were so numerous that, when they settled down again after having been ejected, on the banks of the Hutt river so many of them fell in that the stream was chocked with their bodies, and the stench on Lambto lQuay, where they were washed ashore, was so great that old Rowlands, Tommy McKenssie, and the rest of the inhabitants were made so seriously iIJ that it required an earthquake 1 :i.nd some Scotch whisky to put them in 1 erJ.or again. " All ! The good old timea."

The damaging cablegram anent the Bank of Australasia turns out to have been false, for at a meeting of the Bank in London on Friday last, Mr Thomas one of the Directors, explained tli at the advances made by the institution wore prudent, and made without reference to the enhanced yalue to which land went during the recent boom. We (Manawatu Times) learn that a writ has been served npon the Manawatu Hoard Board by Mr A. S. Baker, solicitor, sit the instance of Mr T. Lloyd, of Palrnoraton, churning £134 os as damages for injuries sustained through a defect in one of the Board's bridges. It is probable that the case will be heard at the next sitting of the District Court at Palmerston. Cobbe and Darragh will be showing their new goods at the Cash Exchange early in April. Their purchases of general and fancy drapery for the coming season are, owing to their increasing trade, on a large scale. And a3 they have already established a reputation for the variety, excellence, and cheapness of their goods, we are sure the public will do well to defer making their purchases of Winter Drapery until they have inspected the new stock at the Cash Exchange. — Advt. Iv soliciting the attention of the ladies of this province to our fashionable importations for the present season, we would respectfully ask them whea they visit Wellington to inspect our choice assortuneut of mantlep, paletots, jackets, furlined cloaks, fur caps, &c, &c, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Of the favorite plutsh jackets and paletots we have a superb selection, none better in the city. We have a full supply of ladies' mantles in Astracan, Matalasee, striped cloth, diagonal cloth, seal cloth, &c, in all the newest styles at Te Aro House, Wellington. In Ladies' short tweed jackets we are showing a magnificent assortment, ranging in price from 5/6 to 21/6 In jerseys we have an abundant supply with brainded and smocked frouts from 3/11 to 10/6. We hare also a very nice selection of Garibaldi jackets with belts in black, brown, grenat, navy, light grey and fawn, from o/ll to 15/6 at Te Aro House, Wellington. No lady requiring either an ulster or a waterproof should paBS Te Aro House, as we have them in large quantities of the most fashionable description and at the most moderate prices. For Ulsters, brand new styles and fabrics, our prices range from 6/11 to 37/6; for waterproof mantles from 8/6 to 18/6, at Te Aro Houso, Wellington. Our showroom is in every 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. The choice was never larger, the variety never greater, and the styles never more charming than are to be seen just now in profusion at Te Aro House, Wellington.