Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 71, 3 December 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

The Manchester Road Board will meet on Saturday next.

Mr Turnbull, M.H.B. for Timaru, continues to be in a very precarious state of health.

There was a sharp earthquake felt here on' Sunday morning at five minutes past fbn.r o'clooli.

The prices for wool offered by local buyers are so good that lots are changing hands very briskly. Mr Macmillan, of Awahuri, claims to be giving the most liberal rates.

We have to thank the secretary, Mr Win. Reading, for complimentary tickets for the Feilding State School concert to be held in the Assembly Rooms on Friday the 13th instant.

To suit the convenience of the buyers generally, the N.Z.L. and M.A. Co. have altered the date of their Wellington wool sale to Saturday next instead of Monday the 9th instant.

We regret to learn that the fires from the roads in' the Feilding Small Farm Block are spreading, and unless there is a rainfall soon, some damage will be done by the newly felled bush getting a-light.

We beg to inform our readers in town and country, that on Saturday next Mrs George Evans will open the Feilding Fruit Store, adjoining Mrs Hastie's Feilding Hotel, with a full supply of fruit and groceries.

Two heads of the Postal Department have to-day gone to Birmingham to make an inspection of the District with a view to the erection of atelephene if it is found the business is likely to warrant it.

The Borough Council will meet on Thursdry next, when the Mayor, Dr Monckton, will move " That Messrs Prior and Cooke, barristers and solicitors, be appointed Borough solicitors," in accordance with a notice of motion to that effect.

While endeavoring to 'secure a. yacht which had broke her moorings at Auckland yesterday, Mr F. Dufaur lost his life, the dingy in which he was in being capsized by a great wave. Deceased was a widower, 44 years of age.

A Sydney gentleman informs the Woodville Examiner the Maharahara Copper Company have arranged with a first-class mine manager of New South Wales to come over to take . charge of the mine. The gentleman in question was highly recommended to the Directors.

There was a good attendance at the Primitive Methodist quarterly meeting held yesterday. Delegates were present from Foxton, Halcombe, Campbelltown, Waitnna, Beaconsfield, Ashurst road, &c. Reports from all parts of the circuit, financial and otherwise, were considered satisfactory. Requests were received from two fresh localities, viz., Taikoria and Shannon, asking that regiilar services be held in those places, which requests were agreed to. The tea meeting m the evening was well attended, and the after meeting crowded. Mr Robert Linton was chairman.

Though the practical belief in this ludicrous blunder maybe met with every day, we could not but smile and wonder at seeing yesterday an intelligent and well read citizen and. his two boys eagerly following a swarm of bees, each beating vigorously the while a " brazen tongued" kerosene tin, racing after them in this fashion a mile up Kimbolton road where, doubtless, they lost them) and no wonder. This practice shows what merely imitative animals we are, and how little we know of the rest of God's intelligent creatures. It arose from the old method of beating a tin to warn the neighbors of the ownership of a swarm. It's origin ' became lost and the noise was then supposed to have a seductive influence on the beep, It merely scares them away as it would a timid horse — a few cups of water thrown up will " land" them in five minutes.

On Sunday last two young men, settlers on the Wanganui Harbor Board Block, had an unpleasant experience. They had finished a sumptuous breakfast, of "pork, damper, and tea, and after enjoying the sub tegminefagi business, under a shady rata tree for an hour or so, they " banked up the fire" so as to have plenty of good cabers to assist in cooking their dinner, and then wandered in light and airy costume down to the Oroua river where they di ported themselves for an hour or twodelectably. On their way back they noticed a smoke which did not proceed from bush, and. arriving at their camp discovered, to their horror, that their two tents and cook house, with their clothing, and blankets, bad been utterly destroyed by fire. All that Was saved consisted of a silk pocket handkerchief and a box of cigarettes. As one young man had nothing on but a light pair of drawers and the other had a, ditto wrjh tho addition of a coat and hat, they were in a considerable fix although, there was nothing— or nobody — to gaze upon them in the depths of the primeval forest. However, they '{ made tracks" for" tlie whare of k , neighbor and— he being absent—'they provided' 'themselves^ with " suitable raiment." ' Their loss totals up to a goodly sum of money but, fortunately for them, their circumstances in life enable them to bear snch loss with a certain degree of- philosophy. - • - ;

Tenders are invited by Mr Sherwill for cutting five acres of hay.

Mr Carthew acknowledges receipt of £2 10s in aid of the Dr Barnardo fund from J.J.J., Stanway.

Our readers are reminded of the Horticultural Society's Show which will take place to-morrow- in the Assembly Rooms.

Nominations /for the Feilding Sports will close on Monday the 9th instant. We have been requested to state that the first race will start on Boxing Day "at 10 a.m. 'sharp.

It will be seen by an announcement published in another column of to-day's issue, that Mr Samuel Goodbehere has taken into partnership Mr Alfred Richmond, son of Mr Justice Richmond, the name of the firm being Goodbehere and Richmond. We wish the new &rra every success.

An elderly farm labourer named John Lovegroye, living at Welfork, near Newbury, has died through being severely stuug with bees. He was in his gardeu raising a hive, preparatory to taking the honey, when the bees attacked him. He received hundreds, of stings ou his head, face, and hands.

Mr John McKenzie has now taken the livery stables attached to the Empire Hotel, Fergusson street, where, he has on hire saddle horses and buggies. He is also prepared to break in horses to to ride for ladies and gentlemen. Mr McKenzie desires us to state his prices will be in strict accordance with the times.

After the conclusion of their stock sale on Thursday the 12th instant, Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. will sell by public auction the privileges of the Feilding Boxing Day Sports to be held on December 28th, also the privileges of tho Fe 1 ling Jockey Club's Hack, race meeting for tiie day following, viz., December 27.

In 1870 the net indebtedness of tho colony was £7,384,54:7. Tho annual charge was £397,983. The amount owing per head was £29 14s 7d. In 1888 the net indebtedness was £36,971,771. The annual charge £1.868,111 ; and the debt per head £60 17s 6d. The outstaudirisr loans of local bodies amounted in

1881 to £3,039,807 ; and in 1888, £5, 812,803.

" A good judge " is Mr Justice Cave, who, addressing a jury in Wales lately, said that "it wad undoubtedly for tho public benefit that what took place m Courts of Justice should :be known. Newspapers did great service - in this respec:t, aud it was ~ astonishing'" how generally 'accurate the reports were. Iv all cases where there appeared to be a trifling inaccuracy, a jury should always be inclined to doubt the presence of malice on the part of the reporter or proprietor."

The Catholic Times gives the following as the approximate amounts of money already collected by the Lish delegates in Now Zealand : - Auckland. £(K)0; Thames, £100; Waifcato, io() ; Napier, £300; New Plymouth. £50; Wanganui and Palmerston, £300 ; Masterton. £60; Wellington, L 500; total for North Island, L 1960. Blenheim, LIOO ; Westport, L3OO ; Reefton, L 250 ; Greymouth, L 45 0; Ahaura, L 10 0; Kumara and Hokitika, L 42 0; total f< r South Island, L 1620. Grand total.' L 3580.

Messrs Jackman and Roberts returned to Feilding from Calcutta yesterday. They bring with them the following report on fresh butter shipped by Stevens and Mountfort preserved by their cold vacuum process, which went as ordinary cargo in a specially trying trip through the tropics, "The butter was opened at the. Great Eastern Hotel, Calcutta, (the weathe--being exceedingly hot everything soluble was placed in ice). It was unanimously agreed by the gentlemen assembled at dinner that it was really prime and better, than any butter they had ever tasted in India."

The remarriage ; of Count Hatzfoldt to his diyorsed wife, which was celebrated at his bouse near Wiesbaded, was one of the most important social events of last week. Allhrough the divorce was duly pronounced, the Count has been for many 3'ears ou friendly terms with the lady in question, and she bronght up his children at one of his country seats. The Queen has taken a prominent part in the negotiations which led to this amoris redin'tegratio, and her efforts have been actively seconded by several other Royal personages. It is, however, understood that Countess Hatzfeldt will not come to Carlton House Terrace, but she will in duo course dispense the hospitalities of the Paris Embassy, to which her husband will shortly be transferred.

Our milhnerj' showroom has been the scene of much activity since, the season commenced, and has been thronged from day to day by ladies who knew that the most elegant, becoming and graceful fashions were to be had at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse. Te Aro House, Wellington.

We have an excellent choice of trimmed hats, in white, cream, black, and all colours ; we have every fashionable variety of shape, and every lady who but gives a glance at our millinery window will see that for genuine taste and moderate prices we are without compeers, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

We have also an abundance of flower trails from Is to 73 6d : of flower sprays from 3d to 4s 6d ; of unmounted flowers of all kinds ; indeed, as regards flowers generally, we have the largest, and most fashionable stock in the city, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

We have a lot of un trimmed picnic hats, specially imported for this purpose and for garden wear, from 2M to 2s each, and a nice lot of the same description, trimmed, at 2s llcl and 7s lid each, at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Altogether, our millinery department, just now, is very attractive, and would amply ropay a visit of inspection. We can execute all orders promptly and most artistically, and guarantee what is obtainable nowhere in the city, complete satisfaction, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. —Abvt.