The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1889. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 141, 4 June 1889, Page 2

The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1889. Local and General News

The Feilding Drag Hounds will meet at Awahuri to-morrow. A meeting of the School Committee will be held this evening at the usual hour and place. A large invitation ball will be held at the Assembly Rooms on Friday, the 21st instant. A new scale of charges will come into force on the Railways on and after Monday next. A Wellington correspondent informed the Napier Telegraph that the New Zealand Times is about to change hands. Mr George Fisher, M.H.R., addressed his constituents at the Opera House, Wellington, last evening, and received a vote of confidence. A most attractive programme has been arranged for the concert to be given in aid of Mrs Morphy and family on June 14th. The programme will appear in our next issue. The memorial service on the late Mrs J. C. Thompson was conducted in the Methodist Church on Sunday evening last by the Rev. W. Harris, and was largely attended, considering the inclement state of the weather. The Colonial Secretary has issued a circular stating carbolic acid is no longer recognised by the authorities at Home as a disinfectant, but for purposes of valid disinfection, heat, perchloride of mercury, and sulphurous acid are alone enumerated. A rehearsal of the Contribution Concert Party will be held on Friday night in the Assembly Rooms. A meeting of the committee will be held at Mr Carihew's office on Monday, the 10th, at 11.30 a.m. All members are particularly requested to attend. It is very poor encouragement to the local Football Club to see a number of mean men come on the ground every match and enjoy the game, but eooner than try and assist the Club in entertaining the visitors by paying the small amount of one shilling charged at the gate they jump over the back fences. Mr H. L. James, who has besn for some months attached to the staff of the Feilding State School, left for Wellington yesterday to take up his appointment as Assistant Librarian at the Parliamentary Library. We congratulate Mr James on hia advancement in life, and hope he has many prosperous years before him.

A certain M.H.R. thought a Latin delectus was a kind of sweet banana. Cobbe & Darragh have a good selection of Men's Crimean Shirts, -under Flannels, Drawers, and Woollen Socks. Captam Eilwin telegraphs to-day - Warnings for easterly $. alee and r- in hold good at all east coast stations northward of Lyttelton. Michael Leddy, one of the workmen employed at the Gi>rge tunnel, was severely injured by an explosion on Saturday. It appears that while drilling he struck a charge of dynamite which had previously missed fire. He was considerably bruised and badly cut about the faoe. He was taken to the Wangauui Hospital on Satui day evening. A football match was played on Saturday June Ist between the boys of the Feilding and Taonui State Schools, in a paddock kindly lent for the occasion by Mr Walter Bailey. After a well contested game the match resulted in a draw. The Feilding boys were somewhat handicapped five of their players not turning up. The time was rather short owing to the umpire having to leave on other business. A meeting of householders was held at Pohanyina on Wednesday last, when the following gentlemen were elected a School Committee : — Messrs C. A. Hunt, T. Sinclair, R. Holly, J. L. Durling, H. Smith, Print, and Stretton. They held a meeting afterwards, and Mr Hunt was elected chairman. As the attendance was eoiiiewhat irregular, it was resolved to bring the compulsory clauses of the Education Act into force. A Wellington paper says : — An< tier old settler has passed from our midst in the person of Mr James Chappell, who died at bis residence on Wellington-terraca on Saturday afternoon. The deceased arrived in port Nicholson in the ship Kurman in the year 1841, and from that dato has resided on Welhngton-terraca. About 30 years ago he received an injury to his back which rendered him an invalid from that time. He was one of ( the oldest members of the Oddfellows' Society, Manchester Unity, and would have completed hi 3 79th birthday had he lived until October next. The Manawatu Times says : — " Somebody has been hoaxing our Feilding contemporary. It now asserts that the roads in the Manchester Block, to which we referred on Friday's issue, are made. If so they have been done since last week. The Star should not endeavor to prevent " closer union " of the various portions of the district. But before making allegations the Star should visit the spots referred to — or send a representative, as we did." [Our contemporary should send " a representative " to the " spots " again, and if he makes a similar report, the best thing the proprietor can do is to sack him for wilful misstatements.j Cats, whether amorous or belligerent, when on their customary night prowl are always objectionable, but on Sunday night, in one instance, they passed the usual limit. Two of them had got into a tree, the branches of which projected over the iron roof of a dwelling-house, and immediately above the bedroom where slept the owner and his wife. After the usual introductory remarks the fight began, and the infuriated animals, in then* anxiety to rend each other to pieces, let go their hold on the branch and fell together with a resonant bang on the roof, giving vent to the most hideous screams at the same time. The sleepers thus rudely awakened, thought the end of all things had come, but a fow minutes reilection proved it had'nt ; and it was only cats. A meeting of gentlemen representing the Rangitikei County Council and tho Manchester Road Board was held yesterday at the Onepuhi Bridge. It was decided to put in a groin on the Oroua side at once. With regard to the new piers, for which the tenders had been rejected as excessive, it was decided that the Engineers for the two bodies concerned should make borings in the bed of the river to discover the distance to the papa rock. Report to be made to a special meeting of the two bodies to be held on Saturday, the 15th instant. It 18 hoped that iron bark piles can be used instead of the costly cylinders, by boring into the papa rock and driving into the bore, as was done with one of the piers of the Gorge Road Bridge. There is no doubt in the world about it, that if anyone among the thousands of our city or suburban population want what is known amongst them as " Stockings" but which drapers more euphoniously term Hosiery, they cannot do better, if so well, than by visiting Te Aro House, Wellington. To begin with, we have an abundance of Hosiery, oyer 24,000 (twenty-four thousand) pairs, enough to give a pair each to every man. woman and child in the city. With this abundance, thero must of necessity be a largo variety of choice at Te Aro House, Wellington. Not only i& there abundance and variety, but the yalue, or as it is more commonly termed, the cheapness, is unquestioned. We go direct to the man ufaoturors, and only to the very best of these, with the result that we are enabled to give the very best valne m Hosiery for Men, Women, and Children at Te Aro House, Wellington. We have all make 3 and colors, and all sizes in Ootton. Worllen, and Silk. Ladies may pWs« themselves by buying Hose from 3d up to 10a 6d per pair, and all the various prices between these two named are sterling yalue, and not to be bought anywhere at the price outside of Te Aro House, Wellington, We have a grand assortment of Winter Hosiery, and hereby respectfully invite comparison, feeling assured that for real yalue we shall come through the test triumphantly at Te Aro House, Wellington.