Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 17, 25 July 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

*We would remind subscribers and advertisers who have not yet paid their accounts rendered to the end of June, that cheques or cash will be acceptable. We desire to especially thank those who have already settled. Mr Ormond, M.H.R., is in bad health. We are glad to learn that Mr S. Goodbehere continues to improve in health. The Post thinks it probable Sir John Hall will be offered the vacant seat in the Cabinet. A letter from " Colonist" and an article from Old Grumble are unavoidably held over. Mrs Margetts, wife of a farmer at Newlands, Ashburton, was found drowned in a water-race on Tuesday. Mr Harry _ Halcombe, who has been visiting his relatives and friends in Feild ing, took his departure for Sydney, N.S.W . , on Tuesday afternoon. Mr G. M. Snelson requests us to state that Mr Baker's farm will be absolutely sold on the day fixed in the advertisement, all arrangements for this end having been completed. Nothing has yet been done "re a daily mail to Awahuri except that a petition for such a service has been sent to the Post-master-General, but as to its fate we have not heard. The Corner Furnishing Warehouse is doing a good business just now, and Mr -Shearer, the energetic manager, has his hands full completing orders for town and country residents. One of the Directors of the Maharahara Copper mine informs us (Woodville Examiner) that if Mr Bryant's report is satisfactory work will be found almost immediately for 400 men. Mr A. Higgie has been appointed handicapper for the Wanganui Jockey Club, at a salary of £50 a year. This appointment will give great satisfaction to all horse owners in the colony. Last year— says the Napier Telegraph — Hawkes Bay exported goods to the value of £1,150,000, by far the largest total on record. The .returns will probably average ten per cent, above the declared export values. We are in receipt of a copy of a few short views of the Native Land laws as they principally affect the native race, being the Bubject of a letter to James Carroll, M.H.R. for the East Coast Native electoral district, by E. E. Harris. It has keen for some time quite a common practice with clergymen of all denominations to advertise their sermons with •* startling headlines," and we notice the Bishop of Nelson has now followed 'suit. It is never too late to mend. In the debate on the Libel Bill Mr Downie Stewart " especially opposed the sections which made the - speakers of libellous words responsible for the libel when their utterances were published in newspapers." Being a lawyer his "opposition" is easily understood. 'With regard to the publication of nameß in confessed judgments, we endorse what our Wanganui contemporaries say. All cases called in court are now published,. as since our present R.M. has occupied the Bench all names are called whether they be confessed judgments or otherwise. The auction sale to-day at Messrs Stevens and Gorton's yards was well attended and Btook brought fair average prices. After the stock sale an adjournment, was made to the auotion rooms when the privileges of the Steeplechase Meeting were sold. They realised, as follows :-?-. Gates, £25 10s, J. Norman ; saddling pad- - dock, £16 10s, J. Smith ; publican's booth, 4:5, Mr Bellve ; refreshment booth, £2, J. Smith ; games, 10s, J. Smith ; cards, £1, Kirton and Curtis; total, £49 10s. It is a good thing we Country residents have .such'timely. notice in this instauce, and it wili give us a chance as good as the City folks at being at the opening of this Winter sale- on Thursday ; the first of August, at Te Aro House, "i Wellington.

Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Warnings for gales have been sent to all places south of Napier and New Plymouth. The Bishop of Rochester has issued a protest against the prevalent fashion of overdressiug girls who offer themselves for confirmation. He says " Mouk pearls in the humbler class and white satin shoes in the higher" should gently, but firmly, be eschewed. He goes ou to say : " N oth iug would distress me more than to have to send a candidate back for showy or tawdry apparel ; but -for example's sakeit may be necessary for me to do it." Mr Clifford: in article iv the Nineteenth Century on his visit to Molokai, the. Leper Island, says : — ' I had gone to Molokai expecting to find it scarcely less dreadful than- hell it self; and the cheerful people, the lovely landscape and the comparatively painless life of the lepers were all surprises.' Women are less liable to the fatal disease than men. One woman accompanied her husband to the island when he became a leper, and at his death became at intervals the bride of three;. other lepers, and remained healthy herself throughout. From a report just issued by the Homes for Inebriates Association, giving particulars of the predisposing causes of intemperance, it appears that in the Dalrymple Home, at Rickmansworth, the exciting cause was attributed to " sociability," Which led to the downfall of 55, domestic trouble, no occupation, and illhealth being the other principal reasons assigned for acquiring tbe drink habit. Of the 152 patients, 47 had been addicted to whisky drinking. In 79 cases there was no previous history of family insanity or inebriety, but in 28 instances the father oi mother of the patient had been a drunkard. . ' . •- The Feilding Football Club bave arranged to hold an entertainment in the Assembly Rooms on the 15th of August, j to augment their funds to enable them to. | send a team to the Wairarapa about the end of that month. We understand that a liberal amount of suppport from local amateurs has already been secured, and as this is the first time the club has made any appeal for outside assistance, we feel confident their show will be liberally patronised. The club has been singularly fortunate in its victories, and we hope the Feilding people will lend a strong hand to assist them to go further afield to do battle for their honor. With reference to the hereditary pensions, the London correspondent of the. Liverpool Post hears a story about one which is very instructive, and will probably be communicated to the House of Commons whenever opportunity arises. Among- the list of pensions is a small ohe standing to the credit of a Scottish peer for the fulfilment of a sinecure office. A member of the House of Commons, bantering the noble lord on this scource of revenue, learned the startling fact that for two generations not a penny had gone into the family coffer. His grandfather, being in need of reply money, sold the pension to a Portsmouth Jew, whose heirs and assigns draw it to this day. T.be Times is not quite on its last legs' yet. Saturday's issue, for example, contained more than eighty column (equal to 150 ft) of advertisements. The price paid, even by contractors, seldom falls below 10s per half -inch, so that one may fairly reckon the takings for one average day iv the Printing-house square advertising department at £1760. This dosen't look like bankruptcy, does it. I< happen to know, too, that the "Thunderer's" influence in literary, .If r hot in political matters, remains great as eyer. A column review which it gave/on Thursday last to a novel called " The awakeuingof Mary Fen wick" has in less than a week caused that story to be the most nskrdafter book of the season, and necessitated the printing off a large second edition. The new American toy game " pigs in the clover" promises to eclipse the famed fifteen puzzle. It is the latest device to distract mankind. At first sight the puzzle is not one at all. All that you you haye to do is to corner four little balls, that represent so many porcine quadrupeds. They are at liberty in a circular box, and must be coaxed into the pen in . centre. Nothing seems easier. Appearances were never more delusive, however,' tbii.' the mightiest intellects of the East have been tortured by the puzzle, and many of the Solomons of the West are already in a state bordering on lunacy through trying to solyethe puzzle. Wanganui has got the craze, aud it is " whispered in the lobbies and muttered in Bellamy's" that when members paired on the recent Catholic schools vote they were really attempting to' solve this wonderful puzzle. Mr Carthew has an advertise-., ment in to-day dealing with the matter;*. Certainly the best medicine known is Sander and Sons'; Eucalypti Extract! Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is hv* stantaneous. In serious cases, and ac* cidents of all kinds, be .they wounds, barns, scaldings, bruisos, sprains, it is the safest remedy.— no swelling— no in. flamation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis,; mflimmation of the lungs, swelling, &c. • diarrhoea, dvsentry, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use .at hospitals and medical clinics nil over the globe; patronised by His -Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, . Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others. — Advt. It will be- seen by advertisement in another coluthn that Mr J. J. Curtis, of Grey street, Wellington, draws the atten tion of the tradespeople and others to the advantage they will receive by having goods consigned to his care. Consignees at present suffer from deUy m.transit at Wellington, and the consequent expense of storage, ' which would be entirely avoided. Those, wishing to send parcels or presents to Europe are reminded that •he has a cheap prompt delivery by each of the direct steamers for London. Par eels so sent are delivered at the door of consignee, if insti ucted. It is also notified that he has special conveyance for the removal of furniture and luggage. Custom House work is, of course, a necessary branch of his busjness^— Apv.T, .