Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 52, 19 October 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

The present Mayor of Palmerston, Mr Abrahams, will not offer himself for reelection.

The names of the winner and pi. iced horses in the Caulfield Cup, run to-du^s , will be posted outside the Star office im mediately on receipt of the telegram.

The rapid progress of settlement on the Wellington - Manawatu railway line is evinced by the fact that school houses and teachers' residences are now bein# erected at Manakau, Levin and Shannon.

Mosquitos have now become quite domesticated in England, and a decided improvement in the moral tone of the iipper circles of society is already hotioeable. We don't quite se,e the connection, but it is so.

Very little money has been sent from Feilding this year to Sydney for investment in swee t sor consultations. Six or seven hundred pounds would cover the lot, and most of that is on the Caultield and Melbourne Cups.

Mr R. D'Orsay Ogden purposes re-visit-ing Feilding sometime during January next with an augmented company, on which occasion some novel attractions will be introduced, and we cau assure him a cordial welcome.

The promoters of the proposed building for the Church of England in the Kiwitea are meeting with liberal support on all sides, and it is confidently hoped that when the consecration takes place the building will start free of debt.

According to an English paper (Murray's Magazine) medical men have made the important discovery that when people are tired it is a good thing for them to go to bed. This is verily an age of great research, and strange things are being brought to light every day.

Mr G. H. Saywell informs us that he has, in connection with his brother, F. J. Saywell, now taken over the smithy and farriery of Mr Jensen. All work done will be under their personal supervision. We congratulate Mr Saywell on his enterprise which cannot fail to be successful. Further particulars will be given on Tuesday.

We are informed by Father Patterson that the money raised in aid of the widow and children of Edward Slattery, who was killed on Mr Curtis' land, will be devoted to the purchase of an acre of land with a three roomed cottage with all necessary appliances, which will enable the family to live comfortably and rent free.

_ Mr Joseph L. Mandel, tobacconist, in giving evidence in the R.M. Court, Wellington, is reported, by the Post, to have said — That He had sold all his horses, and practic.-illj' given up racing because it had become so low in Wellington that no houorable man could follow it. This is severe on the " sports " in the Empire City.

Mr A. Bade, cabinet-maker, has removed to the well-known furniture warehouse of Messrs Eade and Venn, which business he has taken over. Mr Eade has now on view a large and splendidly assorted stock of furniture, inspection of which he invites. . Several announcements from Mr Eacte appear to-day in our wanted column: ' ••

* We direct the attention of advertisers 1 and subscribers, who have not yet settled their accounts for last quarter, to the notice which appears to-day over leader.

Thie i Somnus-Venus Transit filly realised 130 guineas- at Messrs Stock and Conroy's s,ale, Napier/ .. ; ...•""

' r iPr Charlton returned to Feilding yesterday afternoon,, looking all the better for iiis- holiday.'

Dr Monckton left by train this morning to bo present at a consultation on a serious case in Wanganui.

During the Exhibition atDunedin there will be a daily steam service between Lyttelton and Wellington.

The Cheese and , Butter Factory, at Makino, has resumed operations under the management of Mr -Ashworth.

The steamer Bothwell Castle arrived in Calcutta on the -11th instant. Only 21 horses out of 320 died on the voyage, so Mr Stevens will have a very profitable trip. • • ■ . The little affair at Makino, which we mentioned a few days ago, has been amicably settled, and an apology accepted by the mother of. the lad who was tied up. It appears the lad was quite innocent of any offence.

Now that there is no " burning question" at Home, the strikes having ceased and the school boys having quieted down, we suppose the Press Association, in London, will soon begin again to deluge us with messages about Stanley, who is still in Africa. We understand that another meeting of Mr E. Young's creditors will be held at Feilding on Monday. We (Rangitikei Advocate) trust that a thorough investigation will be made. Whenever the husbaud has all the debts, and the wife all the assets, matters should be probed to the bottom.

Mr A. (Harke informs the Manawatu Times that the Manawatu Rnad Board will be dissolyed on November 7 th, the election of new Board taking place on Friday, November Bth, and the first meeting of the new Board will be held on November 11th, at 11 a.m.

Mr Sherwill desires iis to draw attention to the fact that he will, on Monday next, move his place of business to those more centrally situated premises adjoining the Colonists' Land and Loan Corporoffice, where in future his business of Land Agent and Licensed Land Broker will be conducted.

A letter appears in tlie Pall Mall Gazette, London, from the Rev. Father Patterson, of Palmerston -North, controverting the statement that Bishop Moran was the only Rpnian Catholic prelate in New Zealand favoring Home Rnletfor Ireland. On the contrary, Father Patterson states, every Bishop of the Church in tlie colony, without any exception, had declared in favor of Home Rulo.

The ratepayers in Nq. 2 ward of the Manchester Road District are invited, by Mr James Burkiss, the i warden, to attend a meeting to be held in the Temperance Hall, Hubombe, on Tuesday next, to consider a proposal to borrow under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886, for the completion of certain roads in the ward.

Yesterday when a lady was leaving the Bank of New Zealand with a roll of notes held loosely in her hand, a sudden gust of wind took charge of them and distributed these valuable pieces of paper all over Fergusson street and even down to Eyre street. Although there were fifty of them the whole were recovered, although the hunt was lively while it lasted.

At a meeting of the Foresters' Court here, Past Chief Ranger T. W. K. Foster, was appointed delegate to represent the local court at the district meeting to be held in Wellington on the 31st instant. At the last meeting of the same court an influential committee was elected to meet the Mayor and Councillor "Watts to discuss the matter of the protection of that portion of the Forester's land abutting on the Makino stream.

A grand national baby show was held last week m the Exhibition Building in Melbourne. No fewer than 2,600 babies were offered for exhibition by their fond parents, but on account of the limited accommodation only 700 were accepted — namely, 350 girls and 350 boys. There were twentyrsix entries of twins, and ■.me entry of triplets. The show was conducted by Mr Alfred Dampier, the tragedian, and proved an immense success. — Dunedin Star.

A Bill has been passed in theTasmaman Legislative Assembly makiug it an indictable offence, punishable with a fine of £50 or six months, against bank agents in country districts who against orders give extended accommodation to customers, and then falsify their periodical accounts to conceal such transactions from the head office until the customer's aooount is again in funds. This is said to be a common practice, although involving no fraudulent intent. — Dunedin Star.

The Ashurst correspondent of the Maoawatu Times writes: -A number of tha binders required for the fascine works on the railway filling on the Pohangimi River-bed are being brought from the Foxton Block by the way of Mr C. Warne's team. The Pohangina road is so bad that the drays •wheels cut through the formation. We, ratepayers of No. 6 Ward, ought to be grateful to Mr Warne for thus relieving our roads during the worst period of the year. Our gratitude should take a substantial form, and we should present him with the portrait of our warden.

The members of the Hawkes Bay Land Board do not hold a very high opinion of the Wellington Board. There was a rather interesting discussion at the meeting on Wednesday morning on dummy ism which, members asserted, prevailed largely in Wellington. During the discussion (says the Napier News) the Wellington Board was characterised as a very erratic body, who did scarcely anything but move resolutions, which, if given eftect to, would be in conflict with the laws they were supposed to administer. [It would be interesting to know the opinion the Wellington Board holds of the Hawkes Bay Board.— Ed. F.S.]

The D'Orsay Ogden Company played here on Thursday night last to a good house. Uncle Tom was a great attraction, and the Baby Ogden as Eva the Angel Child was a beautiful delineation of the "character. The evening's performance was opened with a most anmsing farce entitled The Latchkey, which from, beginning -to end was a source of infinite amusement. The audience were well pleased with the whole show. The Feilding Brass Band, under the leadership of Mr R. F. Haybittlej played several pieces outside the Assembly Kooins, and afterwards on the stage, where a selection of Scottish airs were really well rendered. "We have pleasure in congratulating Mr Haybittle on the vast improvement which has already been accomplished under his leadership. ' • Cobbe & Darragh haye_ received a full range of new Samples of Kaiapoi Tweeds, from, which; they a,re prepared to take orders for Baits, &c? M made to measure. They guarantee the fit and finish of all Garments which they undertake, and can supply them, wt; a slight advance on .the prices often paid for ready inades.