The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1889. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 7, 2 July 1889, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1889. Local and General News

We learn that Mr J. Stansell, of Petone, has bought out Mr Coffey's interest in the Endymion Hotel at Awahuri. The football match Marton v. Bulls, played at Marton on Saturday last, resulted in Bulls being defeated by 9 points to nil. Mokoare, who was brought before the Napier Eesident Magistrate on a writ of habeas corpus, has been committed for trial for the murder of Eobert Gollan at Mahia. Among the special features of " Zealandia " is a chess problem by Mr Thomas Sexton, of Ashurst, who is referred to by the editor as " the foremost composer in New Zealand." A Wellington paper says : — The price of New Zealand flax is falling at Home. We have been shown by a firm in the city a cable message, dated London, 27th, in which the price is quoted at £26, nominal. We understand a football match will shortly take place between teams picked from the local Fire Brigade and Football Club. The date of the match will be arranged at to-morrow night's meeting of the Fire Brigade. The Workmen's Wages Bill, which Mr Guinness intends to introduce, will provide that in case any person is discharged from a situation and is not paid his wages within seven days after his services is determined, such wages shall continue to run until they are paid. An outrage occurred at Auckland on Saturday at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, where a man named Michael Ryan, who had been one of the inmates, revisited the institution with a knife in his hand. The Sisters had to fly for their lives, and Ryan smashed about 50 panes of glass in the building. He was eventually arrested. Mr R. Y. Shearer, of Greytown, a brother of Mr W. G. Shearer of Feilding, has lately been presented with a handsome ebony baton, with suitable inscription, at a public meeting, by the Rev. Mr Dellow, on behalf of the district Wesleyan choirs, for his services as conductor ot the oratorio " Paradise," which was recently performed in Greytown in a most successful manner. We learn the Catholics of Palmerston are using every effort to have the Palmerston cemetery put in decent order. The late Mrs Peters was buried there last Wednesday in three or four feet of water. The coffin was pressed down and kept from floating in the grave by the use of pieces of wood. Father Patterson, who officiated, drew t'ie attention oftho;e pie sent to the disgraceful condition of the grave. The Post's Haveloek correspondent has been the severest yet experienced, and it is still rising. Great damage has been done to the claims, flurning, dams, &c, being washed away, and some claim where there was a space of 40ft and up wards are now filled up with tailings, boulders, &c. The loss in Cawtes' and other claims is very great, twelve months' work being quite undone. Yesterday the new fire engine was used for the first time, being employed all day in pumping water from the well which is being sunk on Manchester Square by the Fire Brigade. A trial was made of the branch, in order to test the altitude to which water could be thrown, and this reached much higher than any building in Feilding. Considerable interest was taken in the day's proceedings, which were watched by numerous onlookers. The Manawatu Railway Company send us their approximate returns of receipts for the four weeks ending 22nd instant, showing receipts of £'4994, an increase of £1801 over the corresponding weeks of last year. By another return it appears that the nett revenue for the period from Ist March to 25th May was £10,071, against £8350 for the corresponding period of last year. This gives a nett increase of profits for the period of £1721. — Press. There was a good attendance at the Rink on Saturday evening, the principal attraction being the skatorial performances of Professor Durney, whom we must admit is certainly very clever. He did several remarkable feats in a style that won him great applause. Amongst others, the act of leaping over chairs, skating on stilts, and whilst doing the latter, passing his body through a small hoop were particularly admired, and his impersonation of the lady masher in fancy skating was done to perfection. A good joke is told of a townsman's adventure lately in the Parliamentary Buildings. He was interviewing two members in the visitors' room when the division bell rang, and they decamped in a hurry, one of them promising to return in a few minutes. A well known too-con-vivial member, whose portrait has been before the public, popt his head in and, seeing a stranger, and forgetting that it was the strangers' room, called upon the sentry, mustered up the servants, and was instructing them, with loud gesticulations, to seize the man in the room, when the promised return of the visitor's parliamentary friend stoped the tumult, and enabled our townsman to retire without the involuntary assistance of & posse co nitatus at the instigation of a sensational but mistaken senator. The Catholic hierarchy in the United States has existed juat 100 years. The chancellors of the various dioceses furnish figures in consequence of this centenary, which show that there are in round numbers 12,000,000 Catholics in the country. The New Ec gland and Middle States hove I 5.822,831, the Western States 5,117,565, States 1,215,576. There 1,480 125 col-

AYe have to acknowledge receipt of the 1 * Primitive Methodist publication for July. On Saturday last a man named Mark Kane, while bushfelling near Eketahuna, was struck down by a tree and killed instantly. * Captain Edwin' telegraphed to-day: Warniuga for heavy' gales and rain have been sent to- all ' places northward of Napier and New Plymouth. In the estate of J G. Kinross and Co. . of Napier, the splendid sheep runs known as Eaukawa aud Glen Eoss were auctioned recently by Mr C. B. Hoadley and bought in by Dalgety and Co-, the mortgagees, •who also bought the Napier and Wairoa propertie&in tho same estate. The Glsborna town and suburban sections realised £3200, beiug sold in one 10l to Mr. J. V. Brown. The Customs revenue last month amounted to £98,415, as agaist £79,402 in the same month of last year. The collections at the four principal ports were as follow :— Dunedin, £22,508 ; Welling ton, £19,576; Auckland, £19,349; Lyttelton and Ohristchurch, £19,016. In the three months. April, May, and June, the receipts were £324,490. As the Estimate for the yeans £1.550,000, a fourth of which would be £387,500, this shows a shortcoming of £63,004, for the first quarter of the current year. This is the true story the Sydney Bulletin avers of the escape of Gasperini, the New Ca'e lonian convict, from the custody of the New Zealand policen a > last year. At the time when the Italian was under arrest in Wellington (New Zealand) and handed over to the French Con sul to be sent to Sydney en route for New Caledonia, there was another Italian in the city exhibiting a performing bear. This showman, having been present at a meeting cf his compatriots who sympathised with the ex-convict, he agreed, for a sum of money, to rescue Gasparini from the grasp of the extradition law and give him his liberty. Accordingly, when the steamer left Wellington with tho de tective and ms charge on board, the showman and his bear were also passengers. Qn the way the Italian killed the animal, and on reaching Sydney Gasparini went ashore cavorting and gambolling in the skin of the deceased Ursa Major, and was shown in the streeta of Sydney for days afterward in his new role to the mutual profit of himself and benefactor. [As a bearstory this is very good ! but we have read fishing yarns which eouuded more probable,"! There is no better or more durable material for winter dresses than serge, as it resists the damp and wet, and is less apt to crease than many other fabrics. We have a selection of pure Navy Estamine Serges, that are specially favored for ladies' dresses, at prices varying from 1/to 2/6 per yard at Te Aro House, Wellington. There cannot he a greater variety, a more ample choice, or more sterling cheapness in Union and Wool Crimean Shirtings, than those we are now showing. Our prices range from 7£ to 2/- per yard, and every quality is excellent for the price at Te Aro House, Wellington. There is certainly no other establishment where you can buy Flannelettes, Plain, Striped, or Checked, of equal qualities, for the prices we quote We hay« a grand lot of Stripes and Checks at 4id per yard, and an amazingly cheap lot oi pla?n Scarlet and "Welsh Color at 6d and 7^(l per yard at Te Aro House, Wellington.