Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 76, 17 December 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

* We have arranged, with Mr Paw to deliver the Star to subscribers on the line between Feilding and Birmingham, on Monday and Saturday mornings. There was a smart earthquake felt here on Sunday afternoon at 2.33. A very interesting letter from our Ashurst correspondent appears to-day. We. have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. Mr G. Shannon, of the Feilding Small Block, finished shearing last week. His rams averaged 14^-lbs and crossbred ewes B£lbs, the wool being a good sample. The Marton^ Amateur Operatic Society have engaged the Feilding Assembly Booms for the production of " H.M.S. Pinafore" on Monday, the 30th instant. The Seymonr-Walshe Opera Company will produce, in the Assembly Kooms, tomorrow night the opera " Bohemian Girl" and on Friday night " Madame Angot." Mr H. L. Shenwill, the Feilding agent of. the Phoenix fire office, has forwarded us almanacs and diaries for 1890. They are very handsome as well as being useful. 1 A " Model" windmill pump has just been erected at "The Camp' 1 for Dr Monckton. The woodwork was done by Mr W. Watts, builder, and the iron and 'plumbing work by Mr Peter Thomson, in both cases great satisfaction being given. Yesterday Mr Samuel Daw put a new coach on the line between Feilding and Birmingham. This vehicle was built by ,Mr Parr, and is strong, handsome and commodious, with seats for eight persons ' including the driver. We: have received Mr S. J. Thomson's pictorial almanack for 1890. It is specally interesting as one of the pictures illustrates the occasion on which Commandant D'Arcy— an old Wellington boy — won the Victoria Cross during the Zulu campaign. The Property Tax Department did not think it worth while to give local notice when the tax was payable, but were mean enough to try and work in a cheap advertisement through the Press Association giving the date. This attempt we promptly frustrated, but some of our less wide awake contemporaries were "had." The adjourned hearing of the case of the police v. Ernest Schwass for alleged sheepstealing was continued yesterday before Messrs SiierwiU and Bailey, 3 P.s, and occupied the whole of the day. Au adjournment was made at 5 in the afternoon until 7 o'clock. The case was conj eluded at about 9 o'clock when the accused j was committed for trial. I We are requested to draw special atten- | tion to the Christmas advertisement'* of I Messrs WoUerman and Co., of Palmerston North, who, while wishing their customers' all the compliments of the season, notify ' that they are prepared to supply assorted hampers on the shortest notice, forwarded ■to any part, of the distriot,' at the lowest prifcee. •

The, Seymour-Walsh opera Company madej'a ? bjg hit in Wangahui with the Bohemian I\; . '.-' The Westport News says Mr W. M. Pnrkiss will r be a candidate for the Hokitika seat at the next general election. • Gobbe; and Darragh have opened up a fresh lot of paperhangings in ajfreat variety of patterns, and at very moderate prices. Our local Mrs Malaprop says she does not approve of indiscriminate drinking, but excuses a glass of trop desele at lunch occasionally, if tliere is not too much malt in it; , Mr Frank Bray, hairdresser and tobacconist, has just imported a splendid lot of cigars aud cigarettes, of which particulars will be given in a future advertisement. Mr F. Berry, of the Makino Variety Stores, announces that ho will hold a Dutch auctiou sale at his premises ou Thursday aud Saturday next, of groceries, jewellry, drapery, &c. This morning a branch of a treo fell on James Menzies, of the .Ashurst road, and wounded him in the head. It appears Mr Menzies was falling the tree when a decayed limb was detached, and fell as described. Dr Oharlton is attending the sufferer. The Auckland Herald learns that a difficulty bar arisen in regard to the purchase of the Rotorua township by the Government, and that three Native chiefs of Rotorua have decided . to bring an 'action against the Government for £15,---000 damages for the breach of an agreement. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following cable message from their London office, dated ■ 13th December :— Tallow;— f Good mutton is worth £26 15s and beef £25 per ton. Frozen meat. — • Mutton— Market quiet. Canterbury is worth 4|d and Wellington 4£d per lb. Beef —Market unchanged. At the Amateur Athletic Champion Meeting at Dunedin on Saturday, the principal events resulted as follows : — 100 Yards— Hempton, 1; Reeves, 2;■ Sehwatzkoff, 3. Time 9 3-sth sec. Half Mile — Grierson, 1; Cook, 2. - Time, 2min 5 2-sth sec. 250 Yards— Hempton, 1 ; Greenwood, 2. Time, 27 2-sth sec. One Mile Walk— McKelvey, 1 ; Cocks, 2. Time, 7min 13sec. 120. Yards Hurdles — Batger, 1; Shaw, 2. ;Time, 16 l-sth sec. One Mile Flat — Morrison, 1 ; Cook, 2. Time, 4mm 41 2-.sth sec. Quarter Mile Flat— Reeves/. -H; -King, 2. Time, .. 54 2-sth sec!'