Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 30, 24 August 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

* We have to request that those of our clients who have not yet paid their accounts rendered to June 30, will do so before the 31st instant. After that date all accounts overdue will be placed in the hands of our solicitors, Messrs Prior and Cooke, for recovery. No further notice will be giyen. A heavy storm of wind hail and rain passed over this district last night. Our "Wellington Press exchanges come to hand very irregularly. Very welcome spring showers of warm rain haye been falling during the past few days. There were 1681 registered lunatics in New Zealand at the end of last year. The number not registered is not known. Mr Meadows, the butter expert, will return to this colony in October. He v/ill probably laud in Auckland and may be expected in Feilding shortly afterwards. A meeting of the Manawatu Rugby Union will be held at Paltnerston to-day, when the matter in dispute between the Palmerston and Feilding teams will be brought np for consideration. The horse Lochnager (the son of The Painter) is now in Hawkes Bay in charge of Fred Simson, where it is expected he will receive \isics from a large number of mares. His head quarters are at Hastings. When we feel a contempt for others then we are most contemptible ourselves, and at no time in his life did Carlyle feel himself to be such a fool as when he said the world was made up of people " mostly fools " Drovers travelling through the ranges to the West Coast, South Island, state that duriug a long experience they have not before seen rivers so low. At Bealey the Waimakariri is little more than a succession of pools, and the Otira is completely dry, a fact never before noticed. The scarcity of water is attributed to the long spell of rainless weather and the severe frosts. Fossikers for gold up the Taipo and other range rivers are reported to be inakiag yery encouraging wages.

The Feilding State School will be closed oii Monday, and will opeu on Tuesday at the usual hour. Mr S. S. Eatliff has been appointed Postmaster at Makino, and Mr J. A. 13ailey to a similar office at Taonui. The, results of the examination of the Feilding State School, by Inspector Bindon, will be published next issue. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — (■ Warnings for southerly gules and much colder weather have been sent to all places. The English salmon now in the ponds at the Canterbury Acclimatisation (Jardens are to be turned out iv the Selwyn river, besides a quantity of Rhine sal nun. Since Frank Lincoln, the American humorist, began lecturing in Wellington, the number of eases of typhoid fever have diminished rapidly. People can't laugh and die. The lobbying tactics of the Hon. George McLean and the Hon. Robert Campbell and other Councillors have so annoyed the Opposition that there is some talk of bringing their conduct up in the House. It ts stated that his Excellency the Governor is anxious to see the native race in their primitive slate, and with that view will make a trip through the Ui'iwera country in February next. The case Bell v. Jellicoe was mentioned in Chambers yesterday, wheu Mr Jellicoe applied that the trial take place before any Judge except Mr Justice Richmond The application was adjourned until today. A meeting of members of the Feilding Hunt Club will be held this evening, at eight o'clock, at Mrs Hastie's Feilding Hotel, to receive a report of the transactions of the season just closed, and to adopt the balance sheet. Mr Valentine wishes the Government to state whether the Defence Department has issued a circular casting- serious reflections on Volunteer officers, and, if so, to explain the ciicumstances under which it was issued. The Hawera Star says : — Several sales of mobs of fat bullocks within the country have been effected during the past week. Prices, so far as they have transpired, have ranged at from £5 to £6. Holders are asking as much as £6 10s per head for prime lots. The Secretary of the Auckland Choral Society, Mr H. J. Edmistou, has received a letter from the Australasian Entertainment Bureau, stating that Santley and the artists associated with him will visit New Zealand when the Australian tour is finished, or before January next. The San Francisco correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes: — Billy Murphy, featherweight champion of New Zealand and Australia, defeated Johnny Griffin before the California Athletic Club, on July 12- The fight lasted only three rounds, and Griffin could not get anywhere near Murphy. The winner will fight Johnny Murphy, featherweight champion of England, m a fortnight. Baron De Hirsch, who lately offered the Duchess of Montrose £250,000 for her racing stud, and a year or two back gave a priucely sum to the Russian Jews for educational purposes, is the same De Hirsch who will be remembered by old Thamesites as running a small calico store in Shortland at the openiug of the held. A Christchurch paper says that in consequence of the competition with the U.S.S. Company, instead of the traveller to Wellington having to pay ..two pounds for a saloon ticket, and twenty-five shillings for a steerage one, he can be accommodated with the former for fifteen shillings, and the latter for the small sum of five shillings. The fares to Australia are proportionately low. As a result of the highly successful sale which has just terminated, we find, as usual, a large accumulation of remnants of every description, which wo are determined to sell at very low prices for 14 days longer, at Te Aro House, Wellington. In addition to these, there are some small balances of bargains in the various departments, which we also wish to dispose of during the same period, at Te Aro House. We need only say that many of these bargains will be found in our showroom, and comprise millinery, underclothing, costumes, jackets and mantles. Those who are desirous of buying indubitably cheap lots should see them without further delay, at Te Aro House, Wr-liington. And so in the dress, fancy, and clothing departments there are a few lots that we will sell without regard to the original cost, 10 several cases absolutely at half the original English prices, for 14 days only, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Every lady should see what is left in the way of silks, velvets, dresses, gloves, &c, and the prices at which we will offer them for this short period only; and every man should embrace the opportunity of buying a few special bargains in overcoats, &c, they are to be had in the clothing department at Te Aro House. Wellington.— Ad vt. |