Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 26, 15 August 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

A consignment of 1124 bales of flax ] has been shipped by the Zealandia for i America. ; In the Bundaleer forest reserve (S.A.) 750.000 trees are to be planted. The work is now proceeding at the rate of 10,000 trees planted per day. The annual examination of the scholars of the Feilding State School by Inspector Bindon will take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. Mr Cowan wishes the Government to reyert to the working ayerage in computing the capitation allowance to weak country schools, and will ask a question to that end. Mr Fisher has given notice as follow :- To move for the production of all papers relating to the validation of the election of Mr D. H. Macarthur as chairman of the Manchester Road Board. Mr W. Heald, builder and contractor also proprietor of the Feilding Sash and Door Factory, announces to-day that he is now prepared to receive orders and execute them at very much reduced prices. Mr Heald has now ready a variety of designs for houses and cottages, with the necessary specifications and estimates of cost. We have seen one set of plans and they are really of a first class order. New Zealand Times says:— A tot a- a pile, which has been in position for some thirty years, was taken up recently during the progress of works at the Queen's Wharf, end, with the exception of the portion that was exposed above low-u-i'er mark, tbe timber was in good, it not b t ter, condition as when put to v c it has served so well. This ie another instance of the value of totara as a lasting agent in submarine structures. We have received from Messrs Rouse and Hurrell, of the Empire Steam Coach Factory, Wellington, an illustrated catalogue of the carriages and vehicles of every description manufactmed by that firm. Messrs Rouse and HurrelJ employ only the best skilled workmen, and their charges are the lowest cousistant with good workmanship, style, aud finish. An | advertisement is published elsewhere to which we confidently refer our readers. The Herald says : — After the Rangitiki Hunt Club. Meeting the following sales were effected :— Owhiti to Mr J. Stevens for £7-5, Queenie to the same gentleman for £40, Mr Prendorgast secured Whiteman for £35, and a black horse by Early Bird, a first-class hunter, changed hands at £25, a Marton sport being the purohassr. These figures show there is a market for good huuters and weight carrying hacks, and that the hack aud hunt club meetings are doing good by encouraging the breeding of this class of animals. The Catholic Times says : — The local bank managers in New Plymouth are, at request of tbe Chamber of Commerce, considering whether they will or will not keep baDks open until 3 p.m. on Saturdays. We solemnly protest against anything of the sort. We will not have the health of our gilded youth trifled with in this heartless manner. Next, these barbarians will be asked bank clorks to come at 9.30 in the morning and stay until 4 p.m. Where is the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to— bank clerks ? And who is to play lawn tennis with the mauager's daughters, and the curate, and the squattah's aunt ? 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, Welhngton. 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 f of August, at Te Aro House, Wellington. 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. 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 ami clean at this sale of Winter Drapery at Te Aro House.