Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 19, 30 July 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. We are in receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers and Hansard. Lucy Glitters was scratched for the Hunt Club Cup on Friday afternoon. The lite of the late Mr Arthur Fulton was insured in the Government Office for £LSOO. The local paper says white bait are now making their appearance in the Foxton river. The Manchester Road Board will meet for the transaction of business on Saturday next. Mr Hutchison, M.H.E., is invalided home for a few days. Stonewalling is hard work. A correspondent in Wellington telegraphed yesterday, " Business good ; weather beastly." The Feilding drag hounds will meet at Mr Saxon's, Potatau Farm, to-morrow afternoon at one o'clock. McDonald, one of the Selwyn football team, broke his collar bone in a match at Auckland on Saturday. The Feilding footballers were very successful on Saturday. At Marton they won by 11 points to nil, and at Woodville by 7 points to nil. Patrick McEldowney, blacksmith, was found drowned in the Dunedin harbor on Sunday. Last Saturday night he was slightly under the influence of liquor. The Westport Labour Unionists have reconsidered their decision to strike at Cape Foulwind works, and went to work as usual yesterday morning. At the Wanganui B.M. Court yesterday Thomas Reid, one of the wealthiest men there, was fined j-50 and treble the tax for making a false Property Tax return, having omitted j810j250 altogether.

Mr M. X, Samuels is now landlord of the Endymion Hotel at Awahuri, and has already made vast changes for the better in that hostelry. A man who was a passenger by the special train on Sunday from Palmerston to Wellington, feeling unwell got out at Otaki, where he died at 11 p.m. His Holiness the Pope has created the Hon. Dr M.S. Grace, Vt.L.O., of Welling tou. a Count of the Holy Rotnau Empire. We are glad to hear that Mr J. E« Henry has been appointed Handicapper for the Rangiiikei Racing Club. "To-day we advertise a block of Crown Lands containing 30,000 acres, plans and full particulars of which may be seen at this office. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Warnings to expect strong northerly winds have been sent to all places south of Napier and Wanganui. We notice the Wanganui Herald and the Pahiatua Star are complaining of the want of publicity given by the Crown Lands Department to the land sales to be held in August. The Press Association agent at Tiniaru telegraphed : — The Yen. Archdeacon Harper leaves for a trip to the Old Country. The Wellington Press received the item — The Rev. Archibald Sharper, &c. We have plans finow open for public inspection of 1253 acres of Crown Lands situated in the best and most progressive parts of this part of the North Island. As this land will be sold on the 7th August, no time should be lost by intending buyers. The Rink was well patronised on Saturday, and we are informed the attendance of ladies and gentlemen, in character, at the fancy dress fete to-night and to-mor-row night will be very great. Sitting accommodation will be provided for spectators on the stage platform. Messrs H. Collier and Co., of Wanganui, have a new advertisement in to-day to which we refer our readers. It will be seen that their representative, Mr Horace Thompson, a gentleman possessing the highest testimonials, will visit this part of the district about the 10th of August. To-morrow Mr G. M. Snelson will sell by auction on the farm of Mi* Baker, Rangitikei Line, sheep, pigs, cattle, horses, carts and harness and all the necessaries for a farm, as well as the land, which consists of 206 acres of the best soil in the distsict. Visitors will find a substantial luncheon provided for them. The Government having granted Mr .Telhcoe's request for a private interview with the prisoner Louis Chemis, that gentleman attended at the Terrace Gaol on Saturday afternoon, and had a lengthy interview with the condemned man. Mr Jellicoe also had two interviews with the Premier yesterday with regard to the case. Mr Fernandos has not received any reply from the Governor as to the presentation of the petition. The case of Hankey y. The Queen which is to determine the position of all officers in the public works and Railway Departments and apparently those in the Government Insurance, Public Trust, and Education Departments m respect of compensation under the Civil Service Act, 1866, was closed on Friday. The Chief Justice and Mr Justice Richmond were sitting on the case, and haye reseryed their decision. We regret to notice that Mr James Lin ton has been compelled to seek the protection of the Bankruptcy Court especially as we understand this has beeu through no fault of his own. This is not the result that should have followed years of hard work and application to business and hiß friends will heartily wi9h him better success in his future, and though we have differed with Mr Linton on political matters we sincerely join in this wish — Manawatu Times. The Awahuri Maoris, who were recently litigants in the case in which they claimed the possession of some land in the occupation of Mr A. McDonald, are to have the proceeds of the sale of the land, which was the subject of dispute, divided among them in the coiirse of a few days. The sum which remains, after the payment of legal and other expenses, to be distributed among the participants is about £2,000. A difficulty has, however, arisen (says the Marton paper) between the Maoris as to the amount of their individual interests in the sum to be divided, and in order to settle this question without resort to law, which they have the good sense to see would only further reduce the balance, they have called in the services of two Wellington gentlemen as arbitrators, who will no doubt find the task of adjusting the vague conflicting claims anything but an easy one. So they are going to have another Sale of Drapery at Te Aro House, Wellington ! Yes ! that is easily seen from an announcement on the 3rd page, and there is no mistake about it. There will be some Wonderful Bargains to be picked up, and all the Goods are new, fresh, and seasonable at this sale of Winter Goods at Te Aro House, Wellington. Even so ! they are described as Wonderful Bargains, first-class Goods, which may be depended on as absolutely true. What is still better, there is no rubbish, no soiled Goods, no damaged articles. All are fresh and clean at this sale of Winter Drapery at Te Aro House. Well ! there is to be a price list issued on Saturday, and when we shall know further particulars, but one thing has always been certain, that if the Te Aro House folks advertise a thing it is bound to be strictly carried out — no bounce, no puff, but actual veritable truth, with the " mint mark" of Te Aro House's veracity on it. It is a good thing we Country residents have such timely notice in this instance, and it will give us a chance as good as the City folks at beiug at the opening of this Winter sale on Thursday, the first of August, at Te Aro House, Wellington.