Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 75, 14 December 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

English mails via Saw Francisco will close on Friday the 27th instant. Tenders are invited for the erection of the Church of England at Kiwifcea. One inch of rain fell yesterday. It is ! impossible to estimate the vast amount | of good this has done to the settlers. I The nominationß for handicap events in the Feilding Hack Races last year i wece 49 ; this year 70. This looks well. i The Auditor-General has " sat on" the I appointment of Mr Trimble as a judge in the Native Land Court, and refused to 1 pay the " screw.*' Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold their next stock sale at Feilding on Friday the 20t>h instant, instead of Thursday the 19th instant. List of entries is published elsewhere. Additions have been made since our last issue to the firm's Awahuri sale on Tuesday next. The Rev. C. E. Ward (brother of outlate R M ) will preach in the Primitive Methodist Chapel to-morrow morning. As this gentleman is a son of the first Minister of the connection that landed in" New Zealand, and a good preacher, donbt- | leas there will be a good attendance Mr James Hugh", jeweller, will visit Feilding on * Wednesday and Thursday, I the 18th' and 19th' instants, when he will have a splendid display of assorted ! watches, jewellery, &c, also, art bronzes 1 suitable for Christmas and New Year ' gifts. Mr Hugh's tariris are Bemarkably liberal. -

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day. — Barometer further fall, everywhere. Warnings for gales and rain have been sen to all places. The Assembly Booms have been engaeed by the FeiWine: Volunteer Fire Bneade tor a concert on January 22m1, and by the Feilding Brass Band for the drama " The Octoroon"' on Easter Monday. A drunken man was arrested mLittle Bourke- street, Melbourne, lying ; m tho road, recently. ;Oa. -being searched he was found to have il^OO in a pocketbook. Refusing to contribute £1 to the poor box he was fined that amount. Mr W.: Matravers is-ffazetted clerk of f.he Resident Magistrate's Court at Feildipg and Foxton, -and clerk of the licensing committees' for the districts of Awahoa, Halcombe, and Feilding, y ice j>. M. Baker resigned. Mr Wm. Summers has just imported from England a splendid sqdawater making machine with all the latest improvements,^ He can now turn out the best asrated waters made in the colony. The Christmas advertisoment of Messrs J.C. Morey & Co. is published to-day, from which may be gathered that they have opened up a splendid assortment of requirements for the season. There are some special lines in men's and boys' suits, &c, to which the attention of everyone is specially invited. A rata tree which had kept ignited during the whole of last winter, on a section of land near here, has been the cause , of considerable damage to several neigh- ', boring settlers. It appears that a quant- ■ ity of bush had been cut down and the fire from the burning rata got into it, and started " a burn" before the logs were anything like dry enough ; thus entailing on the owners heavy losses because it is less expensive to fell the bush than to log up after a bad burn. Cobbe & Darraglrhaye 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. Some of the Sydney Police Court solicitors are squabbling on the everlasting question of touting. Business is pushed very hard outside the minor temples of justice. For instance, a man in trouble is approached by his would-be adviser. " Got any money ?" asks the adviser. " No," says the client. "Well, have you got a watch ?" inquires the enterprising attorney. "No; pawned it," replies the client. " Well, that will do"; and then, the ticket haying been handed over, the professional gentleman proceeds to jot down bis instructions on the back thereof. One morning, pome years ago, an old woman ascended the witness stand, and while she was being sworn mysterious quaclnngs were heard to proceed from beneath- her well worn shawl. . " Whats that noise, 1 ' sternly enquired the P.M., who having been up at the Club till 4 a.m., had a head on himand folt : very nervous. " It's only this," said the old woman, throwing back her shawl and holding up to the view of the Court a pair of fine fat ducks. "I had no money, j r or wortchip, and Mr --r (pointing to her councel) said he wouldn't take up me case until I guv him a pair of birds." _ _ ' . During the present month some exoep tional advantages will be offered to all cash customers, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aio House, Wellington , We allude to the free .distribution of Christmas presents &c.'*s^Wiese consist of some very useful, attractive, and elegant Japanese, Ohineso, and other desirable fancy articles, newly imported, at Te Aro House, Wellington.