Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 40, 17 September 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

The Persian Government has no public debt. The Kiwitsa Eoad Board will meet on Saturday at 11 a.m. The Diocesan Synod will meet in Wellington on the 24th instant. We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary tickets for the social gathering in the Assembly Rooms this evening. The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star says when Sir Walter Buller returns to the Colony he will probably enter public life. On Saturday night quite a number of vehicles were driven down Kimbolton road without lighted lamps. There will be an accident by collision from this cause some night. Who says that advertising does not pay? A burglar overlooked .£SO in a drawer, and the papers mentioned the fact. He returned the next night and not only secured it, but a suit of clothes besides. William Perm said, " When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is half way to hell." These words should be printed in letters of gold in every court house in the colony. We are requested to notify that at the Assembly Rooms to-morrow and Thursday evenings access to the reserved seats will be by the left hand side door only. An efficient staff of ushers will be in attendance, and everything done with a view to prevent confusion, and to secure the comfort of the patrons. Our readers are reminded of the social to be held in the Assembly Rooms tonight at seven o'clock. As the object is to say farewell to the Rev. A. Hernion, who leaves the district on twelve months leave of absence, we expect to see a good attendance of members of his congregation, as well as of other denominations. The recent split between the alleged "converted athlete" Sullivan and the clergymen down South, tends to show that the admiration of the latter was not for the " brand plucked from the burning," but for his supposed connection with the world famed prize fighter. Verily, the trail of the serpent is over us all, and black coats or blue shirts have eqr.a sympathy for the noble art of self defence. To-day Mr Henry Donkin invites tenders for alterations and additions to his Ready Money Drapery shop, in Manchester street. We have not seen the plans, but we understand the front of the building is to be improved upon, and increased facilities given for the better exhibition of the very pxeellent goods and material alwa.s to be f ni in Mr Donkin's popular c tiblisj m n'. Tenders will close on Monday next. We have received the August number of Typo, from which we make the follow ing extracts: — The bookbinders and rulers of Wellington have formed a society, to be called the New Zealand Bookbinders and Paper Rulers Trade Society. There has been a movement in this direction going on throiighout the colony for soui'e time past. — The Wellington Branch of the N.Z. Typographical Association record a slight improvement in trade. — UnL.l the newspaper - establishments in the larger cities abandon job work the trade will never be in a healthy condition. In connection with the Maybriok poisoning case, the facts concerning the correspondence sent to Home Secretary Matthews in the Maybrick case Are coming out. There are many curious missives. Some of the writers declared that they had pledged themselves not to allow Matthews to live a single day after Mrs Maybrick was handed if he should permit the Judge's sentence to be carried out. Women in apparently respectable positions volunteered to be hanged instead of Mrs Maybrick, if that would satisfy the Home Secretary. A great mimber of letters were addressed direct to the Queen, appealing to her to interfere.

A letter from "Another" on the London strike will be published in our next issue. The daily mail services between Feilding and Awahuri will commence in about a week or ten days. The rainfall has been heavy in this dis-' trict for the last twenty four hours, and the creeks and rivers have risen considerably. ..... An advertisement from Mr Peter Thomson giving particulars of his new lines of groceries and stores will be published in ouv next issue. The local stationmaster and porter were in Wanganui to-day as witnesses in a case against a person charged with gettiug into a railway carriage when in motion. The Engineer of the Kiwitea Road Board, Mr C. Bray, invites tenders for a number of public works particulars of which will be found in the advertisement. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day. War lings for northerly gales after 12 hours have been sent to all places south of Napier and Wanganui. A newspaper prints an advertisement that deserves a response. It reads : "If John Smith, who, twenty years ago, deserted his poor wife and babe, will return, said babe will knock the stuffing out of him." There is nothing new under the sun. The process of butter making, discovered by a Taranaki lady, by burying the cream in the ground, has been common among the Arabs for the last three thousand years. The session reached its end at 25 minutes to 1 this morning. Thore wero only about 25 members in the Chamber at the time, and the third session of the tenth Parliament slipped away quietly into the past. The Committee of the Feilding Jockey Club met last night and drew up a programme for the hack race meeting to be held on the 27th of December. There will be eight events covering in all .£l4O. The programme will be sent to the Wanganui Jockey Club for approval at once. In reference to our remark that we had a fireman in Feilding who did the " one man business" in 54 sees., the time made by Fireman Kitchen in Wanganui, the Herald asks, " Can a match not be made, o^ur man can be backed for a fair sum ?" We see no reason why the Wanganui man should not be accommodated. It costs 3s 6d per bale to send a bale of wool over 500 miles from a run m New South Wales by rail to Sydney. In New Zealand it costs 9s od for 200 miles and Jd per mile for every additional mile. Consequently to send a bale of wool 500 miles by rail in New South Wales costs 3s 6d ; in New Zealand it costs 15s Bd. It was a fine sense of humour which caused a Dublin magistrate to send Mary Smith to prison for eating dynamite. Mary found a brownish-looking compound in a heap of rubbish, and- thinking it was chocolate, consumed half of it with considerable relish. She had not finished the remaining half, when a kind friend informed her that she was eating part of a dynamite cartridge. The police sought her out, and Mary Smith was sent to prison for having dynamite illegally in her possession. A Christchurch telegram to the Post says : — Two private telegrams have been received here from the sub-editor of the Melbourne Argus re G. T. Sullivan. These state that this individual is not a brother of the American prize-fighter They add that Professor Miller, of Melbourne, kuew the so-called brother of J. L. Sullivan in America and Melbourne under the name of Clampett. Telegrams further state that Miller says the American pugilist has only oue brother, named Michael, and he is a blacksmith. Clampett's Melbourne friends are highly amused at his claiming to be a brother of the Ameii an prize-fighter. Clampett, or Sullivan, as he is called, still draws immense audiences in Christchurch, but only one minister supports him. Summer Dress Fabrics. — Wehaye now opened out a very select range of the newest and most fashionable materials that have ever been shown to the public of this city at Te Aro House, Wellington. Summer Dress Fabrics. — The Materials are principally fine, soft, draping woollens, light in textnre, yet wonderfully durable, with a nice selection of some choice makes in cashmere, and an assort ment of beautiful mohairs, which bid fair to be extensively used during 1 the present season, at Te Aro House, Wei lmgton.