Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 72, 5 December 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

Borough Council to-night. Nominations for the Feilding Sports on the 9th instant. The Commission re Cheltenham Cross Road will sit here to-morrow. The' Kiwitea sheepfarmers are jubilant over the high prices for wool now prevailing. . * » i ■ The next committee meeting of the Feilding Sports -will be held on Tuesday the 10th instant. Slavm is in splendid condition for the approaching fight wifh Jom~ Smith, and. is confident of winning. Negotiations -are proceeding for a visit of a New South Wales cricket team to Auckland, and it is probable that they will be successful. ' < • We have to -thank the Traffic Agent of the Wanganui section of railway for a copy of the timetable of the New Zealand railways in December.

In our correspondence column Mr Banks, the, secretary 'of the- Kiwitea Church, of England committee, thanks those ladies and gentlemen who so kindly assisted at the late concert.

We hear that Mr G-. Hutchison, M.H.K., intends' addressing his constituents at Patea, Waverley,* and Waitofcara during the fonhcomihg week.

- The frost last Thursday night did a good deal of harm in the Kiwitea, cutting down cucumbers, marrows, beans, tomatoes and potatoes indiscriminately.

'We are authorised to state Dr Monckton'will be a candidate for the vacancy made in the Borough Council by the elec-. tion of Cr Lethbridge to the Mayoralty. The committee of the State School concert will meet at the schoolhouse to-ruor-row evening, and will then finally prepare the programme, whicti will . be published on Saturday next. ' '

Doctor : "I see just what's the matter with you. : Tou need something strengthening. Eat a plate of oatmeal, boiled, every, morning for breakiast." Patieut:* "I do, doctor." Doctor (equal to the occasion) : " Then leave it off."

' It is announced that a morning newspaper, under the title of the Manawatu Morning News, will be published in Palmerstbn on 4th January. The, advertiser informs us that he hopes to have all ne-^e.-,-sary arrangements completed by that date. — Manawatu Times.

The Feilding contingent of the Salvation Army are forming a brass band, and have purchased some second-hand instruments for the purpose. Mr Samuel Daw has been asked to act^as instructor, and has , consented, and we understand' the band is making good progress under his tutorship. Word has-been received' in Wanganui that Messrs- Anson and Saunders, .both of whom are well known in Wanganui, as | having been connected with the Collegiate School in past years, have passed their medical examinations. • ' Mr Anson is now a B:M. and house surgeon at St. Thomas' Hospital. — Herald.'

We have received from Messrs Reid and Gray, of Dnnedin, the popnlar and reliable agricultural implement manufacturers'one of their new catalogues. Not only does this publication give afuil & complete list of the implements and tools supplied by the firm, but the book in itself is 'a work of art and reflects infinite credit on the printers and lithographers. We may mention that a number of the illustrations are from blocks cut by a lady artist. The catalogues are issued by Messrs Eeid and Gray free on application. ' '

' 'At the Hospital Board's annual meeting yesterday" there were present — Messrs Adams, Arkwright, Monckton, Liffiton, Peat, Lethbridge, Eemington, Edwards, and Poole. 'On the motion of Dr Monckton, seconded by ,Mr Poole, the retiring chairman, Mr Arkwright," was reflected by' a unanimous vote. The speakers in favour of the motion spoke highly of the services rendered by Mr Arkwright, and the latter on the motion being carried thanked the Board for- its confidence. Mr Remington brought up the question of, a new hospital, and said that for three years this matter had been held over. Mr Macarthur had secured a delay, because attempts were to be made to divide the *district,'but things remained as they were". He gave notice of motion, That the matter of the ereption of a new hospital be discussed at next meeting. — Wanganui paper.

.. We : publish to-day an .interesting arnouncement from that popular establishment, ,the Cash Exchange. Messrs Oobbe and Darragh, who are' noted for the quality, cheapness, and varied assortment of their goods, have just opened "up a fresh. delivery of drapery, 'millinery, and clothing, suitable for, the summer season and coming Christmas trade. Special notice' is directed to" the millinery depart-, ment,. which iB under, the supervision of a competent modiste, on- whom, the many Jsdy patrons of tbe Cash Exchange may aJw»ys rely for •c'rtdiby aiid attention.- The firm are open to take measures in'Kaiapoi suits at moderate prices, and are also agents for. MoEwen, Brown and Kitto's Wellington -'flaade .hat%". -The; grocery; ironmonjf*ery,\ and crockery ' departments are repjete,ywith - large -assortments: of goods, a~nd^>takeh altogether,' the Cash Exchange Bhould form the centre of considerable bnsinofls Activity during tbe Chri^tuias season: * ■—

Enquiries continue to be made for land about here! * s

The dites on which ,Mr Tripe will yisit Eeildine and .Matron are altered to-day.

Our local Mrs Malaprop says that by •burning a pose plastique in her room she drives out the^mosquitoes.

During the thunderstorm in the Kiwitea on Tuesday afternoon a rata tree was struck by lightning, and set on fire.

During a thunderstorm the other day the lightning' 'struck a'ra'ta tree, growing about fiye chains frour'Mr Neilson's dwelling house on : the Feilding Ashurst road, and smashed the tree into chips. This- 19 the case-'we have had to record.

Several 'desirable improvements to the stage of the Assembly Rooms are about to be.effected. is to be .a side door, with proper steps leading from the auditorium. The scenery is also being added to by several new flats, a drop scene, &0., which are now being painted.

The Argus, iv an article (which every. squatter and. farmer should read] on ensilage, concludes with the9B woids: — '"' Really, in the light 'of th/? knowledge we now . possess, the stockholder who allows his grass and herbage to waste in such a year as this, and his stock to die in the drought which will surely, follow, has no claim to reasonable. pity. "-

The Indian 'Government are about to be called upon to pay a sum of £100,000 which they have had in then- possession for several years,. the!proceedb of a legacy left by the' wife of one' of ■ the native princes, who died upwards of 30 years .ago. The deceased lady, says the Freeman's Journal, was an Irish woman, who .went to India some sixty years since as the travelling companiou of two wealthy English.ladies. During her stay injiidia she attracted the -notice of' one of the ■ native princes and he married 'her. The 1 pair lived happily for upwards of thirty years, the wife . having a separate estate settled upon her by the Maharajah. She ?died childless and left no will. Her property was taken over by the Indias Government, and it has remained in, their hands ever since. It was a£ the time of her death worth £30,000, but ite value has risen to close on £-100,000. The relatives of the deceased lady in Ireland were in^entire lgnorgrice^of her fate vp 1 till quite recently, where they learnt it from a returned Indian soldier.

Cobbe & Darragh haye received a full "range of new Samples of Kaiapoi Tweeds, from which they are prepared- to take orders for , Suits, ~&c:, made to measure They guarantee the fit and finish of all Garments which they undertake, and can supply, them at a slight .advance on .the prices often paid for ready inades. .We have a lot of * untninmed picnic hats, specially imported for this purpose and for garden wear, from 2£d to 2s each, and a nice lot of the same description, trimmed, at }2s : 1 Id' and .7s J ld each, at Te Aro Blouse, Wellington.