Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 64, 16 November 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Pope was the successful tenderer for the erection of a new shop for Mr Carthew.

Wanganui still continues its chief export. On Thursday Patrick McGrath and W. Woon-were sent to Wellington Lunatic Asylum.

The Eed House will haye a new advertisement in on Tuesday, in which full details will he given of summer .goods now on the way.

Mr W. L. Eees is going to stand for the East Coast seat, and it is alleged he will run Mr Arthur to a close finish, if he doesn't beat him at the post.

The season is very favorable for flowers and fruit, and it is confidently predicted that the Feilding Horticultural show, to be held on Wednesday December 4th, will be a very good one.

A serious accident- happened to a miner named Griffiths, at Rimu, Hokitika. He fell down a shaft a distance of 40ft. His spine was severely injured. He was taken to the local hospital.

On Thursday last Mrs M. J. Tyerman died at her residence, Ruahina farm, Kiwitea. A notice appears elsewhere inviting friends to attend the funeral, which will take place to-morrow at the Birmingham cemetery.

The last profound remark made by Te Whiti was, " la rawakore whiro wai Kahorekaha whakaea te kaita." We will be obliged if any of the many Maori linguists among our readers will favor us with a translation.

A fatal accident occurred on Thursday to a miner named Joseph Lacy, residing at Kumara, Hokitika. He was working in. his claim when a small slip of earth forced him against a. sharp-edged stone, which broke his skull. He died whilst being taken to the hospital.

A private letter from a well-known sporting man in Melbourne says that Carbine is, in his opinion, the very best horse ever foaled in the Southern Hemisphere, and as his owner is going Home with Boyles' Australian eleven, it is believed he will take him with him.

To-morrow evening at 7 o'clock Mr E* Meadows, one of the best and most eloquent lay preachers who has ever visited this colony, will preach the Gospel in the Forester s'B Hall. On Monday evening, at 7.30, he will give an address in the same place. All are earnestly invited to attend.

Mr M. Donnelly, editor, of the Christchurch Telegraph, was presented with a black marble timepiece, on Thursday last, in recognition of his valuable services rendered in exposing Clampett, alias Sullivan. The present was subscribed for in sixpences only. Very complimentary remarks were passed on the determined way in which Mr Donnelly ferretted out the information.

Thirty thousand copies of a work purporting to tell the true story of the relations between the Baroness Yetsera and the late Archduke Rudolph were seized in Vienna last week, and the newspapers warned not to mention the occurrence. Nevertheless a few copies reached England, and I hear that one has fallen into the hands of the enterprising Vizetelly. The book was written by a number of the Vetsera family, who Has painted the late Crown Prince in painfully dark colours.

At the Hospital Board meeting on Thursday morniug there were present : Messrs Arkwnght, Remington, and Nathan. Instructions were given as to calling for the annual tenders for supplies, and several accounts were passed for payment. It was also decided to recommend to the Government that the. elections for the Manawntu County and Foxton Borough should be held at Sandon in place of Palmerston North, and those for Ma-rton aud Feilding (combined) at Maiton, as the trains will not suit for Feilding on the dute specified. — Wangatiiii Herald.

On "Wednesday next there will be held in Wellington, at the auction rooms of Messrs Baker Bros., one of the most important land sales -which has been instituted since the commencement of the marked revival in the values of landed property, within the last few years. Although the sections to be oftered in the Wellesley Block are all -well situated, and therefore likely to provoke keen competition, yet they are sufficient in number to allow each buyer to secure one of the prizes. Land of this kind. the. value once placed upon it, or determined, • at such a bonajide sale as this, can never be depreciated, so that at any time a purchaser can again realise his capital with". a marked profit should he so desire. We have a few plans of the block ye.t on hand, which we will gladly issue to those who may de.sire; them. piirchasers may avail themselves of the ehe'ip excursion trains to ~ Wellington: '^ivliibh "^vrwilT " fee running hext'-week; ■'"■"■:' . ' ; . /

Mr McFerran will open his groqery store at The Other House on Monday next. : The rain, which commenced to fall early yesterday morning, was a great blessing to the country. A notice of transfer of the license of the Euityrnion Hotel, from M. K. - .•*aui-.-uels to Michael MuGrath, is published to-day. * The mail train from Wellington yesterday was an hour and a half late, owing to an accident which befell the engine on. the morning train from Palmerston at Manakau. A very large number of people were in town to-day to attend the stocksale of Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co, also the sale of sundries' by Mr Trimble in Mrs Hastie's sample rooms. The first rehearsalof the drama "Ten Nights in a Bar Boom," took place last night, and was very successful* The piece will be produced on Boxing night under the auspices of the Feilding Brass Band.

At the Wesleyan district meeting, held at Christchurch on Thursday last, a discussion took place on a recommendation in favour of a separate conference for New Zealand. The voting was — in favour, 18 ; against, 9; neutral, 2. The Bey. J. J. Lewis, of St. Albans, was elected representative.

The ' Harmy ' man was out on the country warpath, and in his travels from one station to another he chanced to drop across a stockman. To him quoth he, ' Have you found salvation, mv friend?' ' I don't think so,' replied the stockman, with his mind full of cattle. ' How was it branded ?'

Daughter (her father a dentist) : " For Heavens's sake, Charlie, here comes my father. If he finds us together we are lost." Charlie: What shall 1 do?" " Either ask for my hand in marri&ge Or else sit down in this chair and let him pull a couple of your teeth to disarm suspuion."

By the mail train to-day,, a team from the Palmerston State School arrived to try conclusions with a team of cricketers from the FeilSing school. The match will be played in Stevens and Gorton's paddock, near the Denbigh Hotel. This will be the first game in connection with the prize offered by Mr J. G. Wilson^ M.H.R. ■ ■ .

Mrs May brick's American friende appear to have remembered her longer ttian the fickle " Greater Jury," for it: is said "Important f resh . evidence " has been turned up and sent over for Mr Matthew's consideratson. The lady herself has quite recovered her health, and commenced work at Knaphill as a convict sempstress. Curiously enough, the warders at Working, like the warders at Walton Prison, have never had the faintest doubt of Mrs Mayb rick's guilt. ;" A woman " they say, " must have [a good face to carry off prison grab. Mrs Maybrick's is not a good face." I met Madeline Smith again at the Central Democratic Club last Saturday. ' She appears to be a kindly and well-meaning, if somewhat affected, creature. A person more unlike the conventional empoissoneuse of fiction it would be difficult to imagine; Few, of course, know her real story. To people in general she is juat Mrs M— — , the clergyman's wife— a good, kmdlv soul, with Socialistic theories. — London special correspondent of the Dunedm Star.

Summer Dress Fabrics.— As wo take dresses only in the order they are purchased to make up. our lady frieuds should at once see the desirability of preventing disappointment by attending to this matter without delay at. Te Aro House, Wellington.

Summer Dress Fabrics. --The colours most iv favour are Resedas, Mosses Serpent, with various eka.de* of Terra Cotta, Vieux Roses, etc. Oar homo- 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. — The Materials are principally fine, soft, draping woollens, light in textnre, 3'et wonderfully durable, with a nice selection of pome choice makes in cashmere, and an assort ment of beautiful mohairs, which bid fair to be extensively used during the present season, at Te Aro House, .Wel-

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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.

Summer Dress Fabrics. — We have 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.