The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1889. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 22, 6 August 1889, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1889. Local and General News

Our resume of the Key. H. M. Murray's lecture is unavoidably held over. : .Owing to pressure of advertisements a ', quantity- of reading matter is crowded out.- -. Foxton is shipping 1200 tons of hemp per .-month. -That means £6000 per month in wages. - Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day: — Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been sent to all east coast stations. The Executive Council met on Sunday to consider the Cheifiis case, but adjourned until to-day; : "; „ '.].. ' The Manchester Eifles 'will parade for nspection by Lieut. -Col. Stapp on Friday next.— full dress. Additions are made to-day to Messrs F E. Jackson and Co.'s next Feilding sale. A notice of dissolution of partnership ■ between T. Evans, G. W. Stewart, and H. J. Crawler appears to-day. Mr Sandila&Js is solicitor for the parties. The .funeral of the late Mrs Sarah Strawbridge, will, take place to morrow at the time and place notified in advertisement ■■ by Messrs Eade and Venn, undertakers. . f. .'Mr*C. Smith announces to-day that he will- close his Feilding branch in two wdeks time, therefore those desirous of obtaining bargains had better come and • inspect his etoik.

During the week ending July 30th 1229 bales of dressed flax were despatched by steamer from Foxton. The Pahiatua Star informs us that Mr Carver and several others are leaving Woodville for the Kermadic Islauds. John Miller, the husband, of a lodginghousekeeper, at Napier, shot himself on Saturday afternoon. He was in . low spirits and suffering from asthuro. A man named William McDermott was arrested on Sunday by Constable Stacey, of Huuterville, on a charge of assaulting Margaret Atkinson Budd, a girl under the age of ten years, at Rata. Mrs Lissaman, the newly appointed assistant mistress of the Feilding State School, entered upon her duties yesterday morning. The House reported progress on the Representation Bill last night, and there is every indication that the Bill will be passed to morrow or on Thursday at the latest. A Masterton ex- Magistrate is being talked about in the Wairarapa, and as he is "well known and highly respected" the scandal is a sweet boon to the gossips of both sexes. The N.Z.L. and Mercantile Co. have offered to erect wool dumping machinery in Wanganui for the use of settlers shipping wool via that port, provided certain slight concessions are made by the Harbor Board. There will be a meeting of the Council of (ho Acclimatisation Society held in the offices of the Colooists Land and Loan Corporation on Saturday next to consider an important communication from the Wellington Society. A now advertisement for the Red House which will appear on Thursday next, will announce a grand winter sale, commenc ing in the Ladies Department. In the meantime an early visit is advised in order to secure first choice. The Empire Tobacconist Shop, in Fergusson street, of which Mr J. E, Henry is the proprietor, has just been renovated, and lestocked with a grand supply of all kinds of requirements for smokers. Particulars in future advertisement. Mr and Mrs Fetch left this afternoon by the mail train en route for England by the b.s. Tongariro. We wish the happy couple a safe voyage and hope the expectations of their friends will be realised, that they will be able to return to this colony in about twelve or fifteen months. The football concert of the 15th instant to be held in the Assembly Rooms, promises to be a brilliant success. Not only have the services of some of the best amateur talent on the coast been secured, but the tickets of admission are going of) rapidly. A full house makes a good show. At the R.M. Court yesterday, R. W. Stent charged Fredk. Fenner with using threatening language, at Halcombe, or the 22nd July. Mr Sandilands for informant and Mr Cooke (of Prior and Cooke) for defendant. The case was dismissed without costs. M essrs C. Bull and Kir ton. J.P.B, were on the bench. Several members of this Parliament have declared their determination not to stand for re-election to the House. Among them are Mr Withy, Mr Goldie, and Mi John Kerr. Well, we can do without Mi Withy, and Mr Goldie can easily be spared, but it would be a positive misfortuneto lose Mr John Kerr, the Fallstafl oi the New Zealand Parliament. A man named Charles Hibbend, formerly a wood and coal dealer, in Tmakon Road, was found dead in a paddock at Wadestown near Wellington on Sunday afternoon. A poition of a packet of " Rough on Rats" was laying beside him, and a revolver was handy. It was a clear case of suicide, apparently from a dose of "Rough on Rats." We ( Palmerston Times) cannot compliment the Martou agent of the Press Association on the manner in which he sent through the acceptances for the Hunt Club Races on Saturday morning. We have struck out 118 words from the tele gram as received, and still publish more than is absolutely necessary to give sporting readers all the information they require The agent has displayed laziness and cool indifference to the cost entailed on newspaper proprietors. The offending agent does not apptar to know that after owners, names and weights have been wired when the handicaps were declared, it is not necessary to repeat them when the acceptances are made. He would probably think of these little things if he had to pay for them. The Manager of the Oroua Downs courteously placed at our (Manawatu Herald) disposal in June the returns of the sale of 90 cows ex Rimutaka in London. The excellence of the grazing on this well known estate is without question, yet the cows shipped were hard of sale at the low figure of £4 a head. They were therefore frozen and returned a valuo of £6 18s 3d at the station. This item was certainly encouraging to shippers, but the lost returns to hand are still more so, and justifies Mr McLennans'e anxiety to see further provision made whereby the stock in the district can be sent to a better and an outside market. Mr MuLsnnan informs us that the last lot of cows the particulars of which are to hand, numbered 48 and have netted the handsome sum of £7 4s 3d a head at the homestead. This is nearly double what they would have fetched locally. 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 dtpended 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 bo 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 carri«d 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 being at the opening of this Winter sale on Thursday. Hie first of August, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Cobbe & Darragh, have opened up 20 cases, containing 1304 lbs of Nelson, Moate and Co.'s pure blended Teas (for which they are the Feilding Agents.) These Teas they can supply in £lb and lib packets, and 51b and 101 b tins, also in half-chests and chests at 2s, 2s 4d, and 2s 8d per lb. S. J. Thompson is the holder of large stocks, in lib, slb, and 101 b packages, of Nelson Moat's Teas; also the "Empire Tea Packing Co.'s" Teas, the latter Company's Teas are becoming very popular and are the cheapest and best values, prices 2/-, 2/3, 2/6, and 2/9 per lb, costing 2d p&r lb less than other brands.