Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 51, 17 October 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

We are glad to learn that the condition of Mr Beattie continues to improve.

During the temporary absence of Mr J. Beattie, from illness, Mr T. W. K. Foster will act as deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages.

The Pope has decide! to seu/l a representative of the Holy See to Washington in November, to attend the dedication of the Catholic University.

Owners of stud sheep are now looking to this district — that is the Manchester, Kiwitea, Harbor Board, and other blocks adjacent — as a good market for well bred rams.

The committee of the Jockey Club met last night and authorised the working committee to spend in improving the running track.

Our remarks anent the latrines at the railway station have attracted attention in the proper quarter, and the necessary alterations will be made.

The cricket season will be opened here on Saturday with a match between teams chosen from Knights of the Leather and the Willow, in Messrs Stevens and Gorton's paddock adjoining the Denbigh Hotel.

If anything were wanted to show how few men there are in the House who ar.a willing and capable of administering public affairs, we (Napier Telegraph) have the fact that Sir Harry Atkinson can find no one better to assist him than Mr Hislop.

The Nelson Evening Mail complains bitterly of the wretched butter made in Nelson, which is so bad that " it would be an insult to a respectably reared pig to set before it." Since the Governor has been so often a visitor to Sleepy Hollow,, the denizens seem to be getting fastidious.

Mr R. T. Waters, the advance agent for Hugo's Buffalo Minstrels and Spanish Students, is in Feilding, completing arrangements for the appearance of the company here on Thursday next, October 24th. Farticulasr will be seen in the advertisement, posters, &c.

The other day a young man named Palmer had his horse bolt with him. Starting at Makino the horse galloped down Manchester street and ultimately thew his rider into the mud near the private residence of the postmaster, fortunately without inflicting any injury.

The Government have concluded negotiations with the Natives at Eo'orna for the purchase of that township, the the price agreed upon being £9000. Mr Lewis, Under- Secretary for native Affairs and a Sank of New Zealand official, accompanied by a constable, have left Auckland for Botorua, taking the purchase money with them.

Freights for London by steamer are : — For wool (dumped), washed, £d. per lb. ; uudumped, perlb. extra ; tallow, 50s; pelts, 55s ; case meats, 45s ; leather, 60s ; flax, 100 a; with 10 per cent, primage. By sailing vessel ; Wool (dumped), washed, |<1 ; greasy, £d per lb ; undamped, £d extra ; tallow in cask, 35b ; flax, 70s : with 5 per cent, primage in addition. — N.Z. Trade Review.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 11th instant: — Frozen meat, — Mutton— Market is quiet. Canterbury mutton is worth 4grl per lb ; Wellington mutton, 4fd per lb. Beef-^-Market has a downward tendency. Tallow. is quiet, and quotations are unchanged since last report.

We are sorry to have to put on record the death of Mr Wilson's imported mare Cissy, which arrived in Feilding a few days ago to be left at the stud farm of Messrs Baker and Co. The circumstances attending the death are somewhat peculiar. When the mare arrived here it was first noticed that she was slightly lame, and then that she was unable to eat her food. Au examination showed she was suftering from tetanus or lockjaw, caused by a prick in the hoof from a nail. Remedies were applied but proved of no use and the mare died. As her value was her loss will be a serious one. She had a foal : :s,s foot which is now beinx reared by anWjafetr mare. • "

Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Barometer further ri§e everywhere.

Some facine work is being done to the crossing of the Kiwitea stream on the Kimbolton road. We hope it will have the desired effect.

To-day we publish an advertisement from Mr C. E. Gaustad, of the Palmerston North Steam Cooperage and Patent Barrel Churn manufactory. Mr Gaustad has added to his plant a yerticle boiler and an eight h.p. engine, and is therefore now able' to supply all kinds of work at the lowest possible rates. The churns he now makes are equal to all, and superior to many, of the imported churns, and his patrons will find that he will suppty them with a really reliable article.

Mr Harry Marshall, who for the first time will appear before a Feilding audience this evening, is a rising comedian of considerable ability and immense popularity. In Wellington and other large centres, where he has sustained leading characters, such as " Old Macclesfield," in " The Guvnor" ; " Captain Ginjah," in " Our Girls" ; and " Toby Twinkle," in " Martha," he has won for himself golden opinions from both press and public for for his splendid style of acting.

A requisition to the Hon. John Ballaric'e, M.H.R., asking him te deliver an address in Napier on the principal political questions of the day, is being circulated in town (says the Napier News) and is receiving a large number of signatures. Mr Ballance, as a leader of the Opposition, was authorised by members of his party to deliver a series of speeches in the leading centres of the colony, and an important section of our community are anxious that Napier shall not be left out of his list.

To-night the Baby Ogden Company will make their positively last appearance in the Feilding Assembly Rooms, when " Uncle Tom's Cabin " will be played, with Baby Ogden as Eva the Angel Child. Mr Harrj' Marshall will appear for the first time, presenting a most laughable farce entitled " The Latchkey," supported by the whole company. As already announced, the Peilding Brass Band, after discoursing some music outside the hall, will play " Bonny Scotland" on the stage as an overture before the Ogden's performance. Altogether it should be a grand evening's entertainment, well worthy of patronage.

A meeting of the Napier Education Board was held onTuesday. When aletter announcing the amount of the building grant was read, nothing was said, except the remark by the Chairman, Mr Ormond. that it would only pay off half the overdraft, and the Board could do absolutely nothing toward meeting the crying needs of the district, or even keep the existing schools in repair. A statement prepared by the Secretary showed the population of the school district had nearly double since 1882, and in the same period of seven years the attendance at the schools had more than doubled, having risen from 2907 to 5990.

The tradespeople in Hokitika are now pining for a half holiday every Wednesday. What a change this is to the good old days of over twenty years ago. Then people were too busy to think about holidays; nobody even went to bed, and nobody seemed to want to. If from exhausted nature, and whiskey, anybody found a few moments of repose absolutely necessary, they were lulled to precarious slumber by the shrill, yet sweet, steam whistles of the coftee and pie shops, but to be kicked awake again by wandering pack horses searching for the esculent sugar bag, or refreshing packing case staple articles of diet with the poor beasts. Ah ! there were giants indeed those days. Now, it must be a poor degenerate race that kicks up the sand in Revell street. Sic transit the glories of the good when there wore neither nights nor days, and none cared for to-morrow.

Certainly the best medicine known is Sandkr and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, cold*, influenza; the relief is in" stantaneous. In serious cases, and ac« cidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swelling — no inflamtition. Like surprising effects pro» duced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, mflimmation of the lungs, swelling, &c. ; liarrhoea, d.vsentry, diseases of the kidleys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the {lobe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, .luisterdam. Trust in this approved trticle, aud reject all others. — Advt.

Summer Dress Fabrics.— The colours most in favour are Resedas, Mosses Serp int, with various shades of Terra Cotta, Vieux Hoses, etc. Our home buyers have sent us a plentiful supply of those fashionable colours in all materials, so we shall be well able to meet the expected demand for them at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Summer Dress Fabrics. — We would remind ladies that our dressmaking department still holds the premier position in the city, and we have all the conveniences, room, talent, ability, with efficient staffs, to maintain our prestige at Te Aro House, Wellington.