Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 73, 7 December 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

y Mr W7 F.. Marsh Thas^ been gazetted Postmaster^ at Apiti. '77, "' ■'"

;. ; Messrs Prior and Cooke have been ap-. pointed Borough solicitors.

7 Wehave to thank' Mr Sherwill, the. Secretaryof the Boxing Day. Sports Com? mitteCj for press .tickets. '.;

7 There will be a sitting,pf Justices of the Peace on Monday, when .the charge will be heard of alleged sheep-stealing from a farm hear Halcombe.

7'; A number of the late Major Jackson's comrades in 'the" Forest Bangers at the time 'of the: Waikato War j propose to erect a monument to the, deceased gentlemen.

,As ah instance^ of the, abundance of wprkin this 'district i we. may mention that no tenders were received by -the Borough Council on Thmsday night, for erecting a footbridge over the Makino stream in North street. "7-7 v : - ' ''

7 A letter:received; by. the Minister of Lands from;, the Premier of Victoria sets fprthas the, reason for prohibiting the importation of New Zealand sheep,' that;scab' still; exists in this colony,' and the introduction of sheep from here would be attended with considerable risk to the other" colonies, a) ..m. ■ j. .

• Mr. J. McMahon, steward at the Napier 'Hospital, died on Thursday, under circumstances., which will necessitate ah. inquest. HeTyvas found senseless in ted on Thursday morning, ahddied without recovering consciousness. 'He had been much worried of late, and suriered from insomnia, and it is supposed ; he took < ah overdose of mbrphia by accident. .

. C At the Hospital Board meeting on Wednesday the question was raised as 7 to whether they could touch a pension granted hy the Imperial Government to 'ah. bldlsoldier living in the Bangitikei district. 7 'Dr Mohckton and .Mr Liffiton thought pensions were protected, but the Board 7 resolved to chance that, and get the money if they can.— Herald. .

, A peculiar and painful accident has befallen a young man named Wm.. Pfjr gus.m, well-kri swh as a forward player 1 the Bendigo (Victoria) footba.ll teau . Fergusson was lying 'on a couch reading a newspaper when I 'a magpie jumped on him and pickedhinuon ihe eye, a punctured wound was caused.; to the eye, and it is feared that hiß : sight may be lost.

A reassuring telegram regarding the condition of Searle, the champion sculler, has been received. It states that Searle is now in the third week of typhoid, and is suffering pretty severely..' .,; His con edition is rendered more serious by his having fought against itv in the, j early stages, aAt present, however, there is nothing to cause special alarm, and the champion is decidedly improving.

v > Any one- who is desirous of seeing to what perfection toy making has now been brought, should pay an early visit to the [emporium of Mr Carthew, who has made the most liberal provision to meet the requirements of Santa Klaus at Christmastide. His splendid assortm ent -' of prize books for schools -must be seen to be thoroughly appreciated. The new editions of standard works are excellent.

„ To-day we publish fhe programme for the StaterSchopl' concert and entertainment^ tobe given iri the. Assembly Rooms on Friday' next. It is decidedly a' varied arid attractive one, arid the 'first part, which will.be rendered entirely by teachers and pupils of the School, will be o ; quite a novel description, so far as Feilding is..con'cerhed, being the .first thing ol xthe. -kind ever placed upon the local stage. ■A- full house and a- very enjoyable evening's entertainment may. be looked forward to as almost a certainty.

: The adjourned Commission of enquiry re the, matter of the Cheltenham Cross road as a boundary between the Manchester and Kiwitea Boad districts, was opened at the Feilding Court House yesterday at 10 a.m., before Mr Brabant, R.M., as Commissioner. Mr Hankins appeared for the Manchester, and Mr Sandilands for tlie Kiwitea Boad Board.; On behalf of each Board a good number of witnesse:wore examined and cross-examined, but the individual evidence was not ver> lengthy. Both counsel addressed the Commissioner, and the proceedings closer' at 5 p.m.

During the hearing of the charge against Walter Tricker, at the Supreme Coun last Thursday, Mr Jellicoe made some exceedingly severe remarks upon the commercial morale of this city. Tricke; was charged with obtaining cattle by false pretences, the allegation being that he aad bought the cattle on the strength o .in incorrect statement that he was acting is agent for Mr W. Booth, of Carterton, whereas he had simply engaged, to seii Mr Booth a number of cattle, which he leclarod he .already had. Mr Jellicoe <javo!it as his, opinion .that if this were a •jrime it was one that was committeii every day in Wellington, and to a much' greater extent than in this case. Peoph talked 'a great deal about comihercia morality, he said, who did not know it 1 meaning, for the simple reason that thert, ',va&n'i any such thing.— -5$.Z. Times.

Nominations for the Feilding Sports close will close on Monday, Mr "Carthew. has received 2s 6d from M., Awahuri road, for the Dr Barnardo fund. The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to pfess.- , Captain .Edwin telegraphs to-day. ~ Barometer further rise everywhere. Warnings hold good at all places. * A meeting of the Feildiug Jockey Club's stewards was held at Hastie^s Hotel last evening, at which matters ' in connection with the forthaoming race'' meeting were, dealt with. '< - '*'"'; . ' In order" to allow the officers "and men to attend the concert m aid'of the Feilding State School 1 on Friday h'ext.N.he parade of the Manchester Rifles for that evening has been postponed. ' . " * ' The Waipawa correspondent of the Telegraph" remarks:- — It will interest many to learn that the latest tally at Milbourne station' with the Wolseley shearing machines was 1649 sheep for seventeen men. Hardy, with 135, still heads the list. We are authorised to state that Mr W. D. Sandilands will be a candidate for the vacancy in the Borough Council made by the election of Cr Lethbridge to the Mayoralty. Dr Monckton is already in the field.

In IS2-4 Eobinson, ihe jockey.! took long odds that ho would ride thewinners of the English Derby aud Oaks and get married tlie same week. He won the Derby on Cedrick, the Oaks. on Cobweb, and-got married on the Saturday.,

A young man named Bismarck, son of a settler near Beaconsfield, sustained a fracture of a collar bone when bushfelling on his father's land. He is now lying at Mr Pollock's under the charge of Dr Charlton, and is progressing favorably.

To-day Mrs Geo.- Evans opened the store formerly in the occupation of E. ,Young, Kimbolton road, with a nice assortment of groceries, fruit, cordials, &c. The shop has been renovated throughout, and additions made to the premises for the storage and display of goeds. A special line' has just been "'received of smoked fish and fresh rock oysters.

As to the reasons for the recent rise in wool, there were several.- The rise 'was not by any means the result of speculation. It was owing to a large and increased consumption. It was a pure reyival in trade. Not so very long v ago the manufacture of woolen goods" was comparatively small. Now nearly everyone, even among the poorer claees of Europe, was wearing woolen clothing. They took to the clothing when the" wool was cheap, and having found out the benefits arising from this kind 6f goods, they do not care to lose them. Hence the increased prices for woolen goods all over Europe. This was the chief reason why wool had risen, and was likely to stand at a good figure. — Chridtohurch Telegraph. - ' J

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 mades.