Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 135, 21 May 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Mass in St. Bridget's Church at 8 a.m on Sunday next.

The new teacher for Mangaone, Mr H, D. Densham, has arrived.

Mr J. Valentine, builder, was the successsful tenderer for Mr Carey's sixroomed house at Taonui.

The School Committee will meet for ordinary and special business this evening •at 7.30.

The Minister of Defence has followed the lead given by the Manchester Rifles, and is going to award medals to the best shots in Volunteer corps.

Sportsmen will be glad to hear that hares are becoming numerous in the Harbor Board Block. The rich pasture in that fertile district is, no doubt, the cause.

The Taonui road, between the Mangaone School and Mr Pearce's new residence, is badly in want of some attention — and a little gravel. There are a number of ugly ruts, which render vehicular travelling anything but pleasant.

We learn that Mr Dennis Glacken's farm, on the Kimbolton road, has been purchased by a gentleman from the south — Mr Geo. Galbraith. The sale was negotiated by Mr A. W. Brown, of Panama street, Wellington.

The Dunedin Jockey Club's Exhibition programme 1 provides £5055 in stakes. There will be three day's racing, and the three highest prizes will be the Exhibition Cup, of 1500 soys, 1 mile and 7 furlongs ; President's Handicap, of 600 soys, _._• miles ; St. Andrew's Handicap, of 500 soys, 1£ miles.

Good-workmanship and moderate charges invariably secure good business. The firm of Eade & Venn, under tbe management of Mr Wm. Shearer, is now sending out Borne first-class specimens of cabinetware and furniture of all kinds, the excellence of which give great satis faction to the purchasers.

Lovers of music and novelty may expect a treat in the advert of the young Bason - icas, who have been aptly styled " the coming Bellringers of New Zealand," because of their most successful imitation of the famous Lynch family. This (says the Chronicle) is the mam feature of the performance, and consists of tlie extraction of really beautiful music, including solos, duetts, and quartettes, from a series of ordinary pudding basins, wash basins, and jam jars, in sach a finished style that tbe listener is almost inclined to doubt that the crude display of crockery before him is the source from, which the melody springs.

" A Tramp, Esq.," was in Feilding today en route for Foxton.

The Red House has just opened a num her of cases of new goods to-day.

Our clients and customers are reminded the Banks will observe Friday next as a close holiday.

Ministers were in Cabinet nearly all day yesterday considering measures for the coming session of Parliament.

There is considerable demand for labor here, but we only recomme id good men to come as the work— bush felling and fencing — can't be done by duffers.

The hounds will meet to-morrow afternoon at Mr Macarthur's at 1 o'clock. Members whose subscriptions are overdue are requested to peruse No. 12 of the Club's rules.

A meeting will be held this evening at 6 o'clock, at Mr Carthew's shop, with the view of taking steps to get up an entertainment for the benefit of the family of the late R. W. Morphy.

Mr Wilson, licensee of the Melville Hotel, Timaru, was fined £5 recently, iuid the conviction endorsed on his license. for allowing an unlawful game to be played in his bar. It was proved that men were playing Yankee grab for drinks.

Abercorn'B winnings up to the present amount to £10,014: 18s— tbe largest it is said that any horse has won on the Australian turf. Trident's winnings came to £8990 3s, and Malua's to £8797. Carbines winnings up to the present are £7666.

We have to acknowledge receipt of a complimentary invitation to the half-mile race to-night at the Rink. Aa the competitors are all novices, the contest should be amusing. We are informed the judges and other officials will be appointed in the room.

Private letters received in Wellington state that Mr Charles White, an accountant, formerly well-known in this city, and who executed the Pacific slope some years ago, recently, after wandering through America and England, found his way to Queensland, where he died some weeks ago. — Post.

Yesterday forenoon, when two gentlemen were driving down the Kimbolton road, the horse bolted, and when it was pulled up kicked the trap almost to pieces. One gentleman lost the top of a finger, and was generally bruised in sundry and various parts of his body while the other escaped comparatively unhurt.

A physician in New York City is said to have the following inscription on his bill heads: — "A patient's gratitude to his doctor is a part of his disease, and is most declared when the fever is highest, cools off during conval scence, and entirely disappears with the complete return of health. N.B— Office prescriptions and attendance strictly cash."

A Mrs Polhill committed suicide at Christchurch on Saturday morning by shooting herself with a breechloading gun. About two years ago this lady lost her grown-up daughter, and she had never recovered from the shock, being subject to fits of melancholy. She lived for four hourß, suffering dreadful agony.

The boxing contest between Laing and Smith came off at Wellington on Saturday last, the police only allowing the men to fight for eight rounds. Both men were about done when time was called. Smith could not hit at all, while Laing coidd only feebly hit at Smith's face. Laing got'the greater part of the punishment. The referee declared the match a draw.

We have to acknowledde receipt of Typo for April, and we extract the following " Trade Wrinkle " therefrom : — To Make Labels adhere to Tin. — Take of flour six ounces, of molasses one half pint, and of water one pint and a half, and boil as usual for flour paste. Or, dissolve two ounces of resin in one pint of alcohol. After the tin has been coated with the solution, allow nearly all the alcohol to evaporate before applying the label.

Now that the "last man out" of the Charge of the Light Brigade is dead, lovers of the wonderful are rousing out veterans who were present at the battle of Waterloo. This is hard on the old boys who ought to be allowed to rest in peace. Besides, Lord Wolesley and our only General, Sir George Whitmore, have conclusively proved that Waterloo was'nt much of a fight after all ; hardly worth the gate money in fact.

The recent rains have greatly improved the pasture in the Harbor Board Block. On some sections where Bheep are running three to the acre, the feed is very good, and the stock thereon are in excellent condition. On Mr Pollock's section the feed is most abundant and would, we are sure, Igladden the heart of the most exacting grazier. The pasture comprises cocksfoot, crested dogstail, clovers, &c, the whole growing luxuriantly, and forming one of the best bush sections of grassed land we have seen in the district.

Improvements in the building line are rapidly being effected on various properties on the Taonui road and in the Wanganui Harbor Board Block. Mr J. D, Valentine is at present erecting a 4 roomed house for Messrs Brown Bros., and will shortly proceed with the erection of a substantial dwelling for Mr Philpot. The timber for a homestead for Mr Fergusson is also on the ground. Mr Jeffries contemplates building shortly, the materials for which are no w being placed in position . Mr Pearce'B house on the Taonui road is rapidly approaching completion . With the erection of new residences, fencing, grass sowing, &c, settlement of a bona fide character is rapidly advancing in that portion of the Oroua district.

In old whares on new settlements, which are occupied alternately by old Cookers and Europeans, there are generally found strong batallions of the lively pulex. One settler, not a hundred miles from the Harbor Block, who is painfully aware of this, has a good mode for circumventing them for a little while. When he intends visiting Feilding he disrobes in th© whare, and in perfect Adamite oostume before the fall, walks deliberately to an old rata tree, in a hole of which has already been planted a complete suit of wearing apparel, donning which he goes on his way rejoicing. On his return the procesß is reversed, and, leaving the good suit in the tree, he proceeds to the whare and dons his working suit, careless of what may happen then.

The following items are from the Manawatu Times of yesterday: — Be the Lloyd v. Manawatu Eoad Board case, commenting on the grant for a new trial our contemporary says: — Not content with assuming a deal in the way of evidence, His Honor also to some extent usurped the functionß of a jury, and by expressing an opinion that the verdict was not just, has virtually told the next jury to find for plaintiff. In the present position of the case we cannot say all we would wi~h to express ; but the Board will be acting in the best interests of the ratepayers if it insists on the case being heard before an impartial Court; — lt is reported that thtt young man Edwards, who was recently taken from Palmerston to Wanganui with a crushed leg, died at the hospital on Sunday. — A large number of natives from Te Rev Rev, Rangitikei, passed through Palmerston, yesterday, on their way to Awapuni, whore a big meeting is to be held with regard to the land question.