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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 126, 30 April 1889, Page 2

Mesting of Oddfellows this evening. A notice re Kiwitea Road Board elections appears elsewhere. An impounding advertisement appears to-day. Our wanted column is unusually interesting to-day. Lord Onslow will arrive in Napier today. The Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. The Examiner says that diphtheria has broken out in Woodville. Among the shipments of American produce by the Zealandia for Australia are 12,125 sacks of whaafc for Sydney. On Saturday a poll for a loan of £4000 for the Feilding Block was taken and carried by the required majority. Entries for Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s Feilding sale on May 9th are published to-day. A special general meeting of members of the Football Club will be held to morrow evening (Wednesday) at the Empire Hotel. Yesterday morning just before sunrise a splendid hare went careering down the Kimbolton road. It is safer in town than in the open. A mile race will take place on Thursday evening at the skating rink between Messrß Gosling (junr.) and Roake. As both men have won victories in other fields it is expected the contest will be a keen one. From New Plymouth we have received the news of the death of Mrs Stapp the wife of Lieut Col. Stapp, who had been suffering from severe illness for some 1 time past. We beg to tender Col. Stapp our sincere sympathy in his bereavement. The second shipment of their winter goods has just been received by Messrs J- 0. Morey and Co., and consists of the most fashionable dress goods of all sorts and descriptions, we therefore advise an early visit in order to secure a first choice of these really beautiful articles. The billiard champion, John Roberts, jun., lately offered John North, who is couaidered the next best spot-stroke-barrod player in England, a start of 10,000 in a game of 20,000 up. The challenge had not been accepted when the last mail ! left. Such an offer shows how far ahead of other players Roberta must be. : The Dunedm correspondent of the Tuapeka Times says he has it ou the best authority that Sir Robert Stout has been pressed, and he believes successfully, to contest a constituency not quite a thousand miles iroin Tuapeka. We persume the correspondent means that Sir Robert Stout has determined to contest the Tuapeka seat. Cobbe & Darragh are sole agents throughout the Districts of Feilding and Sandon for Messrs Henderson Bros. 1 celebrated " Silver Gem " Roller Flour. A Timaru laborer named Rayner, who hal been drinking on Saturday night fall over a railway cutting 30ft, and lay there till next moruing with his ribs broken and internal inj uries. A passing traveller refused to stay and help the man who crawled a quarter of a mile to town. He is not expected to recover. We are requested by Mr J. H. Stevens to publish the following : — Tradesmen and others are cautioned against cashing the following cheqnes which have been stolen — Kirton and Curtis, £10 18s sd ; J. H. Stevens (pay 62), £3; Prior and Cooke, £1 17s 6d ; L. Holden, £10 0a sd ; L. Holden, £2 ; A. S. Kelly (pay W. Burrell), £20 (which is now known to have been in a registered letter ) It will be seen by advertisement in another column that Mr J. J. Curtis, <.f (xiey street, Wellington, draws the alien lion of the tradespeople and others to the advnntago they will receive by having consigned to his care, consignees at present suffer from delay in transit at Wellington, and the consequent expense of storage, which would be eutirely avoided. Those wishing to send parcels or presents to Europe are reminded that he has a clieap prompt delivery by each of the direct steamers for London. Parcels so sent are delirered at the door of consignee, if instructed. It is also noti« fied that he has special conveyance for the removal of furniture and luggage. Custom House work is, of course, a necessary branch of liis business. — Advt.