Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 73, 10 December 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

(/aptam Edwin telegraphs to-day.— Barometer further rise everywhere. ■ - English mails will close here to-morrow at 8.45 p.m. The Resident Magistrate's Court will »it to-morrow. The San Francisco mail arrived here . by the noon train yesterday. The local Star says another Pahiatua man has " done the Pacific slope."

Entries for the Boxing Day sports closed last night. *The list is published elsewhere.

We are informed that a e;ood entertainment may be expected at the Band of Hope meeting this eyeuing.

Members of the Sports Committee are reminded of the meeting to-night, at Mr Sher will's office at 8 o'clock.

We have to ' acknowledge receipt from the secretary, Mr F. Pirani, of press ticket for the Palmerston Caledonian Sports to be held on New Year's Day. The advertisement in connection with these sports will be pubtisbed in our next issue.

i The Foresters have kindly granted the J use of seats from their- Hall for the accommodation of the children at the school concert in the Assembly Booms on Friday next.

We understand that Mr W. W. Corpe is about to enlarge his butter factory, at Makino, to enable him to keep up with tbe rapidly increasing requirements of his business.

Notice is given by the Commissioner that copies of the Crown Lands Guide, corrected to November, 1889, can be obtained, free of charge, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington.

No official information as to the accepted tender for .the Palmerston-Ashurst railway is available, but we (Times) learn that the tender of Mr Thomas Denbigh, of Wanganui, has been accepted, at a little under £12,000.

Mr Bobert Campbell, M.L.C., died at Cbristchurch on Monday night, having never recovered from the illness with which he was taken in Wellington during the session. He was 46 years of age.

A grand Tell Monument is to bo erected by public subscription at Altdorf, near Fluelen, on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, where the patriot hero shot the apple off his son's head. The Swiss Federal Coun cil have promised a handsome contribution.

' We are pleased to learn that the stationmasters in Victoria are to b"e supplied with uniforms ; a sum of having been voted for that purpose. The poor fellows -will now experience the hitherto unknown luxury of having a complete new suit of clothes all at one time.

Some very fair sized trout were caught on Saturday last by Major Campbell and Mr Lloyd, of Awahuri, in the Oroua nver, where it runs through Messrs Benson and Fefcche's farm. x The fish bit yery freely, and one large one broke the line like a' thread and made its escape.

A meeting of the directors of the Birmingham Town Hall Company, limited, was held, on December 4th. Mr C. Gerkes' tender for blocks was accepted. It was resolved to call for fresh tenders for building the ball, labor only. Particulars of which. may be gathered from .the advertisement which appears elsewhere, '

A meeting of ratepayers of No. 5 ward in the Manchester Koad District will be' held on -Wednesday (to-morrow) in the school house at Ma'ngaone, and, for the convenience of ratepayers, in tbe school, house at Bunnythorpe on Thursday, to discuss ' the proposal to raise- a loan of £4750 for certain- works. Further particulars in the advertisement.

About half- past 10 on Sunday morning Samuel Buckett, a bricklayer, of Opawa, Christchurch, was drowned near Taylor's Mistake. He was stooping down gather ing mu&sels off the rocks when a wave rolled in and washed him in deep water. A man named Hurnell was with him, and attempted to save him, but failed. The sea was too rough to allow of the body boiEg recovered. ■ Buckett leaves a wife and three children.

The following tenders have been received at the Public Works Office for the Aebuist Completion Contract, NapiorPalraerston Kail way Line: — Accepted — Thomas Teuby, Wauganui. £11, 86$ Declined — J. Saunders & Co., Wellington, £12,418 ; Jones and Peters, Ashurst. £1-2,486 ; UcOrath. and Bourke, Woodville, £12,881 ; J. Whittaker & Co , Dunedin, £13,387 ; D. Glen lining, Napier, £14,010 ; W. G. Bassett, Palmerston North. £14,500; A. McFarlanc, Wanganui, £14,684.

Nmety-six years ago, that is on November 30th, 1793, there died at Beau- ' maris, William Lewis, Esquire, of Lland— isman, iv the -act of drinking a cup of Welsh ale containing about a wine quart, ' called a tumbler tnaer. Ue made it a rule, | every morning of his life, to read eight ' chapters in the Bible, and every evening' j to drink eight gallons of ale. It is cal- i culated that in his life time he mu6t have | drunk a sufficient quantity to flood a i seventy-four gnn Bbip. His eize was i astonishing, and he weighed forty stone, j

A thrilJing scene occurred dunug the manoßtiyres of Home German cavalry recently at Brieg. Thare wits a large crowd of spectators, and a woman and her little child accidentally got in front of a regiment of cmraßsiers which was charging at full gallop. There was no time to get out of the way, but an officer who was id advance shouted to the woman to lie ''down with hor ohild. -Naturally the habit of obedience was strong in the iW-Oraaiv, and she immediately obeyed the order, putting her own body, over that of the little one.. : The entire regiment passed over her like a "whirlwind, the horses in whose track -she lay all' being made to jump over the prostrate couple, who escaped, bewildered but. absolutely uunjui^i r j. "V-

At the RIM. Court to-day, before H. L Sherwill and W. L Bailey, J.P.s'^ % the information of E. J Biddiford, Ernest Schwass wasT charged with stealing, 20 ewes and lSlainbs, value jEII. — Serjeant Mannirl^'opeued the. case and called Mr B. K Simpson, sheep iuspector, who deposed as'to Ihe-brands, &c — Mr W. B" Sander3on, manager for Mrs Willis, gave evidence that he had sold 300 ewes at 7s 6d each to Mr Biddiford, bearing certain brands. The case was proceeding as we we went to presa.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercan tile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following cable message from their London office, dated 6th December ; — Wool —The 'sales progressed ste.adily, and quotations are unchanged Tallow—There .isa : fair demand, and" last quotations are unchanged Frozen Meat — Mutton market ia quiet - Canterbury is worth 4Jd per lb Wellington is worth 4£d per lb Beef market is dull. Hind quarters are worth 4d per lb ; fore quarters are worth 3Jd per lb,

■The Waipawa Mail, has the following : — The soot in a chimney at Waipawa caught fire on - Wednesday uigbt. The Fire Brigade inauifeated'great enthusiasm A good flow of water was obtained and Brauchtnan Abrahams, mounted the roof Of th.o house Utt;tched to the chimney and sent a small deluge from the hose down the flue. The skipper of the brigade yelled, whistled, danced, prayed, and did all sorts of things to induce the valorous brauchmah to desist pouring water down the chimney, the house contained, some thousands of square tons of water, but still the branchman; branched on. Then the skipper, in sheer desperation, being unable to stop either those pumping at theengine or the efforts of the branchman who was branching, rushed to a coupling and separated the hose. The branchman continued to branch for a time, and to yell that the river was giving out, but finding that no water came he got down. Such' zeal augurs well for future work.

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It "will be .seen by advertisement in another column that Mr J. J. Curtis, of Grey street, Wellington, draws the attention of the tradespeople and others to the advantage they will receive by liaving Koods consignevl to his care. Consignees at present suffer from delay .in transit at Wellington, and the consequent expense ' of storage, which would be entirely j avoided. Those wishing to send parcels , or presents to Europe are reminded that i he has a ci'eap prompt delivery by each t of the direct, steamers for London. _ Par eels so sent are delivered at the door of con.Mgnee', \l instructed. It is also notis, fied that he has special conveyance for the removiil of furniture and luggage. Custom House • work is, of course, a necessary branch of his business. — Advt.

Our millinery showroom has been the •scene of much activity siuce 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 Avo House, Wellington. . \

We haye 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 pricos we are' without compeers, at Te Aro House^ Wellington. We have also an abundance of flower trails from la to 7s 6d: of flower sprays from 3d to 4a 6d ; of uumounted 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 untriinmed 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 lid and 7s lid each, at Te Aro House, Wellington.