Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 43, 24 September 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir Robert Stout will lecture in Wangauui in next. English mails ex lonic should reach Feilding at midday to-niorrow. We are pleased to announce that the famous " Baby Ogden " company contemplate paying a visit to Feilding. The probable dates of their appearance will be the 12th and 14th October. "We understand that Mr A. Hannett leaves Feilding to-da3% taking with him the well-known thoroughbred entire Diomedes, for Hawera. It is Mr Hannett's intention to place Diomedes at the service of stock breeders in that district, from whom, we believe, he has received large promises of support. A clerk in George's drapery establishment, Melbourne, where the disastrous fire broke out. on the evening of the 1 3th September, has confessed that he accidentally set fire to the place bj 7 dropping a match, and that he was unable to extinguish the fire. We learn (says the N.Z. Herald) that cable messages have again beeu received in Auckland, both from London and New York, for considerable quauties of flax to be shipped at the oarhost possible dttte. Instead of the demand easing off in the least degree, it appears to be increasing steadily, as the fibre becomes better kuown. The Rev. A. Hermon preached his farowell sermon in St. John's Church on Sunday night. There was the largest congregation present vet seen in Fielding. The Revs. O. Williams, Kay am! i.'larke assisted at the service. At the Holy Communion, which took place afterwards, there were about seventy Communicants. Owing to illness caused by overwork, Dr Charlton has been compelled to seek rest in a well deserved holiday, and he left for the South to-day. We hope he will haye a pleasant trip, and that he will return with recuperated health and strength. Dr Charlton will be away about a fortnight, and Dr Monckton will attend to his practice during that time. The Rink was very well attended last night, the attraction being the celebrated champion skater Miss Sylvester. This lady more than justified all the encomiums which have been so freely lavished upon her by an admiring press and discriminating public. Every trick —so called — was executed with the most perfect neatness. The applause with which the performer was greeted was spontaneous, and showed how thoroughly her skill and graceful movements were admired and appreciated. A prominent physician once remarked that were his patents to eat an orange or two every morning they would require but little medical attention ; for throughout the entire range of fruits that have attracted the attention of the medical profession as a means of alleviatiug many of the ills of mankind, there has been found none that has so many diversified uses as the luscious orange, particularly in cases of low fever or maeanal complaint, and it should more largely take the place of unpleasant drugs so extensively used to the great disgust of the patient. A rather unique epistle, addressed to the Clerk of the Kiwitea Road Board, and read at the Board's meeting on Saturday last, produced an eflect which may be better imagined than described. The following is a verbatim copy : — " Dear Sir — This note represent the claim of the wages for the 27 Chains fallen Road Bush in front of my section No 10 Blook 12 Apiti. the Road 27 Chains that is as much as 2 Acres and 7 Chains, per Acre [ £2 that is as we haye agreed for, that made the amount £5, 8S five pounds and eight shillings. Mr C. Bray jun is passen the work to day, as You have me send a notice, dattfc the 12th instand that I have to pay 12S. 8 d to the Roadboard I am unto them impression that the Road Board can deduct theyr claim of my claim because the Road Board hat monov of mine in hands, it seems to me to be foolish if I should pay still more to them, You may .give this to the Road Board, if- the Road Boardship is in possession of reson then they will accept it but by my experience in se\eral caces is absurdnes unto the Greatbritain nation is scerce but I have not yet experienced what the Road Board may be. The Road Board is a placewhere I have money to claim, I mus be foolish if I should pay still more into them. I am waiten for the result, hs evend You send a Letter to me please note on the evelope to Fowler to send the letter with first chans, because the letters wait generally 4 till 5 weeks before they come from Birmingham to Athti."

Sir Harry Atkinson is on" the sick list. • Mr W. T. L. Trav.ers, solicitor, is mentioned as a candidate for the Wellington mayoralty. Ca'ptsin- -Edwin telegraphed to-day: — W awsiiigs" for easterly gales and heavy rani 'have been sent to all places north of ..Lytteltbh and Hokitika. -• We notice that tilie price of Star antimony in London is . now £65 per ton. This should be "goodyhews "for T the..shareholders ; o|' .'the New Zealand Antimony Gompanji, Mr E. J. Dayies, watchmaker, has taken a shop next Messrs Stevens and Gorton, in Fergusson street, and commenced business' to-day. His advertisement will be published in our next issue. It was a very pious family. Prim governess and two sweet children at table. Father and mother out on a visit. Boy, " Oh, Jenny, Pa has gone away, Mama has gone away, so now we may say ' dam, dam, dam 1' " Tableau. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 20th instant : — Tallow—Market quiet. Good mutton is worth £27 5s aud good beef £26 10s per ton. On Saturday morning, we learn from the Wanganui Herald, Mr Charles Oooke, solicitor, was arrested on a writ of attach merit issued by the Supreme Court on Mr Jellicoe's application. He was taken to Wellington to-day and will appear before the Court on Wednesday. Mr W. G. Haybittle has just received a number of splendid lamps, the cheapest ever imported into Feilding ; also a number of items consisting of preserved meats, coffee and milk, coffee and chicory, cocoa, and a thousand other items a few ot which will be enumerated in an advertisement which will appear in our next issue. The amouut paid for Press messages to the Government last 3 r ear was £10.284 l'3a sd, or an increase of £2254 lla 7d on the previous year. This ought to disabuse the minds of those persons who think the telegrams reach the newspapers at the same cheap rate as the rain or the sunshine come to the earth. The Palmerston Times says :— Farmers will be glad to note the decided rise which has taken place in the price oi cattle during the past month in this part of the coast. For some time past cattle have been practically unsaleable m the market, with the exception of a temporarily brisk demand in the spring, but the present rise gives every prospect of being a permanent one. The accouut of sales of recent auctions show a rise of fully fiftj T per cent in prices. At the horse parade held under the auspices of the i'almereton A. and P. Association, liold at Palmerston on September 14, the Palmerston Times says: -On Soinnus it is almost needless to descant. He is as grand a horse as stands in the Australasian colonies, and as a producer of racing stock, though comparatively young at the stud, he has made such a name that he stands in the foremost rank of Now Zealand sires. That he is destined to become even a brighter star in the racing world there is every season to presume. He was looking in excellent fettle and was the admired of all beholders.