Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 129, 7 May 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Paul Curtis has been appointed postmoster, Begistrar of births, deaths, and marriages, and Vaccination Inspector at Foxton.

A child named McGregor, a month old, was found deadin bed yesterday morning at Bulls. It is supposed she was over-lam by her mother.

A great sensation has been caused in English society by the (separation of the young Duke of Newcastle from hia newlymarried wife, nee Miss Candy.

A man named Beddingfield, of Takapau, while pigeon-shooting yesterday, was shot in the arm, through his gun accidentally going off. He is progressing favourably.

The annual meeting of ratepayers, of the Manchester Eoad District called for this morning, lapsed for want of a quorum. Mr Macarthur, Mr Pryce-Jones and Mr Whce er were the only persons present.

It is a singular coincidence that several Feilding people expected a burglary to be committed on Sunday night, and the event came oft in Palmerston instead. Queer, very !

The Examiner says: — The WoodvilleGorge line will be let in two contracts. One contract will include two tunnels, and the other contract will include one and perhaps two tunnels.

The services of our local Nightwatchraan are much appreciated just now, and it is rumoured that he will bo armourplated, and armed with rifle and revolvers to meet the times.

The office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is to be abolished, but — no matter — L. L. whiskey will still be allowed to flourish like a green bay tree, which will be some consolation to that suffering country.

A Singer sewing machine s advertised for sale, by Messrs Eade and Venn, at a very low figure. Mr Shearer, the manager of the firm, informs us that the machine is suitable for heavy work, and is in excellent order.

The Rev. Mr Murray delivered an able and instructive lecture, at the Presbyterian Church, on Sunday evening last, on the" Four World Monarchies." The lee ture was attentively listened to by an appreciative audience.

R.M. Court on Thursday next.

Russell's time table for May is to hand.

The Bishop of Nelson will hold service in St. John's Church on Friday next at 7.30 p.m.

The funeral of the late Thomas Price, who died at 11.20 last night, will take place to-morrow at 1.30 p.m. Mr Alfred Eade is the undertaker.

The fact of the tenders all being too high for putting in cylinders at the Onepuhi bridge, will be a temporary respite for the Manchester Road District ratepayers.

Two men were arrested in Wellington on suspicion of being the Feilding burglars, but as there was no " convicting evidence" found on their persons they were discharged.

On dit the Manager of the Feilding Assembly Rooms intends inviting the alleged burglars to give a specimen of their skill, on the local stage, as soon as they have finished their present tour.

Since the establishment of the burglar skare in the townships on this coast, most of the male residents have had hip pockets added to their pants. There has also been a proportionate demand for revolvers and bowie knives.

Tenders were invited in our columns for certain bushfelling contracts, and applications were received from Sandon, Ashurst, Halcombe, Pahnerston, and Wanganui, as well as from persons residing in our immediate neighborhood.

Notwithstanding the " Burglar Skare " we will be obliged if our subscribers and advertisers, who have omitted to pay accounts rendered to March 31st, will send in their cheques, or call and pay the several amounts due. We are quite prepared to take all risks.

Mr William Geruschkat, of the Feild-ing-Ashurst road, advertises for his son, aged 9 years, who left his home about four weeks ago. Any persons knowing the whereabouts of the lad are requested to communicate with the police at Feilding or Palmerston, or with his father.

The proprietors of the Skating Rink notify that on Thursday evening next there will be immense fun at the Rink. The attraction being a potato race,, open to all comers. The winner of the above will receive a first class pair of skates. The Rink will be open again as usual this evening.

Yesterday the Very Reverend Father Patterson purchased from the Emigrants Land and Loan Corporation, a section of land at Ashurst, on which to erect a Catholic Chapel. There is a cottage on the section already, which will be used as a chapel temporarily until a more suitable building can he erected.

The new goods which arrived for The Red House yesterday have been opened up and are now ready for the inspection of clients. A new advertisement, giving some of the most salient features of the several lines, arrived too late to-day for publication and we have therefore to suggest that visitors go at once in order to secure the earliest possible selection.

The eccentricites of justice (says the local Herald) are quite as peculiar m Auckland as in any other part of the colony. Yesterday a woman got a month for stealing a ham, value 10s. Some time back, it is stated, she got six months for stealing 61bs of corned meat, yalue Is— s month for each pound. For the repeated offence, and of greater magnitude, her sentence was less by five-sixths.

On Tuesday, the 13th instant, the popular Opera Les Cloches de Corneville will be produced in the Feildi'ig Assembly Rooms by Spark's Opera Company, who have been playing to crowded houses in Wanganui and other principal towns on the coast. Reserved seats may be obtained at Mr Carthew's and we would recommend early application, so as to avoid the crush which will be ineritable.

An Invercargill telegram states that a Wyndham settler named Ferguson was attacked by a bull and knocked down. His wife courageously rushed to her husband's assistance. The bull turned on her and tossed her in the air. The brute was eventually driven off with an axe and was subsequently shot. Ferguson was severely bruised about the head and neck, aud Ms wife had three ribs broken, and was badly briised.

The following telegram from Taupo appears in Tuesday's Auckland papers : " A grand and magnificent sight was witnessed here at eleven o'clock to-day, and again about noon, when Mount Ruapehu suddenly sent up a column of steam to an erormous height. Some thermal action was apparently going on in the hot lake on its summit, the out burst being in the nature of an enormous geyser, ascending rapidly, and then subsiding in a few minutes.

On Saturday night last, as previously announced, the new fire-bell rang out a false alarm as a trial of its metal. The tone of the bell was clear, and appeared to give every satisfaction. The Brigade turned out for practice in good numbers, and the ladders being erected against Eade & Venn's furniture warehouse, the first wet practice was here held. It was witnessed by a good number of spectators, who applauded the firemen for the style in which they went through their work.

The settlers in the Makino Valley are rapidly increasing in numbers, and with that their requirements also increase. To meet the latter Mr F. Berry has opened an ironmonger's shop in connection with his forge and farriery, and publishes today a notification of this addition to his business. We congratulate Mr Berry on his enterprise, and feel assured success will attend it. It will be seen by his advertisement that he has reduced the prices for shoeing horses.

A Blenmem jury has awarded £150 damages to a man who was threatened by the Bank of New Zealaud's manager that he would make a bankrupt of him. The Judge, in summing up, pointed out that the words imputed to Fildes, if the jury came to a decision that they were uttered, were defamatory, as although they might have been used in a bank parlor, they should not have been Bpoken in a public street in the hearing of passere-by. Mr Conolly, for the defendant, asked for leave to more to set aside the verdict on the ground that the words used were priyileged, but His Honor refused. Costs were awarded on the lowest scale. Execution was stayed on the application of Mr Conolly ponding a motion to bo made for a new trial at the earliest sittmga in banco in Wellington.

At the Red House special attention is given to the clothing department, where suits to measure in all the latest fashions of the very best material are supplied at the shortest notice. Upwards of two hundred and fifty patterns are on hand from which selections may be made. We may note that uniforms for volunteer corps of all branches of the service are now supplied from the Red House.