Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 77, 19 December 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

The- St. Kilda will leave Wanganui for Melbourne to-morrow. The next wool sale of the N.Z.L. and M.A. Company will be held in Wellington on the 30th instant. Messrs Stevens and Gorton have made additions to the list of entries for their auction sale here to-morrow.

In Napier last week a rumour was circulated that Queen Aune was deur!,- and the newspaper offices were rushed for information. Our cheerful Mrs Malaprop says that when the poet died the other day the Queen was reminded of her Brown who was Browning in " another place," and so she sent a letter of gondolance to Venice. Influenza wa9 very prevalent in the United Kingdom just before the outbreak of cholera in 1847. It does not follow, however, that there was . any connection between the two eyents. We learn that Mr J. E. Henry, handicapper to the Feilding and other racing . clubs on this coast, has just been appointed handicapper for the Sandon Jockey Club. We congratulate Mr Henry on his latest preferment. In the Assembly Booms to-morrow night the Opera Company will produce the intensely funny comic opera La fille de Madame Angot. Everybody should go. The play is good, the music is good, and the players are good. We are informed by Mr T, Hall, gardener, that the leech blight has already made its appearance on the peach, plum and cherry trees. Orchardists will therefore do well to commence the destruction of this pest at once. The best known remedy is hellibore. Tenders are invited by Mr F. de J. Clere, F.8.1.8.A., architect, Wellington, for the erection of a dwelling house for Captain Hewitt, E.N., at Fitzherbert. Plans to be seen at the offices of Messrs Stevens and Gorton, Palnierston North, and Mr E. Goodbehere, Feilding. An impounding notice appears to-day which deserves attention. The chestnut gelding advertised to be sold on Monday is a fine upstanding beast, and ought to be .worth good money. The poimdkeeper informs us that he has some reason to beJieve it was bred in the Kiwitea district. Mr H. J. Haliday, saddler, has just completed three full sets of harness to the order of local residents. They consist of buggy, trap, and gig harness, and are all mounted with solid nickel. It goes without saying that the finish and workmanship are both first class, and the material used is of the strongest and best. Mr C. A. Mountfort is at present engaged in the survey of a piece of land in the Otamakapua-Tapuae Block, containing 20,000 acres, situated north of the West Waitapn Block, between the Kiwitea and Sandon Special Settlement Block. As soon as the sxirvey is completed this land will be declared open for sale by the Government. In order to do their share in providing for the requirements of the children during the Christmas holidays, Messrs J. C. Morey and Co. have imported an immense number of mechanical toys. Many of these are not only novel, but remarkably clever as well as amusing, so that even the most cynical of " grown ups" may be i interested in them. They are also re- : markably inexpensive. To enable buyers to have abundant opportunity of making their selections, the establishment will be kept open until ten o-'clook on Monday :-. - and Tuesday nig-hts.

The Wellington Press last night^ stated that the Hon. Mr Mitchelson was about to resign .his seat in the Cabinet but Mr Mitchelson denies it. . A new. firm of stock auctioneers is about to be established in Palmerston North. By a Gazette ex traordinaryi issued yesterday, Parliament is further prorogued until the 19th February. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day. — Warnings for gales and rain haye been sent to all places.. Mr John Duthie has been presented with a library of 500 volumes on his re. tirernent from the Wellington Mayoralty - We have to thank'Mr W. G. Haybittle the Feilding agent, for office calendars- of the South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company. The Martou Hack Races took place to day. Up to the time of going to press the Mavton ageut of the Press Association had neglected to forward us .any particulars. Professor Kudarz, the great conjurer, will probably visit Feilding shortly. He would have • appeared in the Assembly Rooms on Boxing ancl race nights had they not been already engaged. The Returning Officer . of the Borough gives notice that nominations for the vacancy in the Council, created by the election of Cr Lethbridge as Mayor, must be made on Saturday the 28th instant. . We direct attention to an advertisement in another column from Mr W. Pearson, boot and shoe maker, in which he announces that he has just opened out another consignment of ladies' and children's boots and shoes for the summer season. The best thing in the way of a newspaper blunder we have seen for some time is the following unearthed from the Bush Advocate published at Danevirke : —"London, Dec. 7 — Jefferson 'Dawis' died from malaria, which attacked him through getting a child !" We learn that Mr D. A. Poole. Chair- ' man of the Manawatu .Road Board, intends to leave this, district for Spain this month. He proceeds home to take the management of the mines belonging to his family. - Mr Poole will endeavor to leave bythe'Arawa on the 25th. — Manawatu Times. ... ...... .-..-■•..< . Foreign parcels which are dutiable can now be obtained at the nearest money order office. Postmasters will., now, among then* other multifarious duties, be also Customs officers. Parcels may now be sent from New Zealand to any part of the world — bar Australia. It has been customary to allow free papers to railway officials- who have assisted to distribute Herald along the railway line jgthe Railway Commissioners having put on an exorbitant tax for car*, ryin? the papers— a tax equal to 50 per cent on the price— we_(Eerald) regret to have to announce that the free circulation to which we refer will have to be withdrawn from the first of January. Some months ago the ducks of a well known and thoroughly reliable settler on the Awahuri rqad, produced in one night a phenomenal number of eggs. That is, there were more eggs than ducks found in the morning. When this occurred the owner, who communicated the fact to us,' did so simply to chronicle a very curious incident in natural history. He again informs us that the same nine ducks haye since laid on one night ten and on another fourteen eggs. Captain Cook's chart, presented to the Exhibition by His Excellency through the Colonial office, bears the following inscription : — " A chart of New Zealand, or the Islands of Achelnamonare, Torry, Polnomium, lying in the south, by Lieutenant J. Cook, commander . of His Majesty's bark the Endea your, circumnavigated by tho said bark the latter end of 1769 and the besrmnins of 1770. The pricked lines show the track of the ship." At the banquet to Mr John Duthie, the retiring Mayor of Wellington, Councillor Harcourt proposed "Prosperity to the City," remarking that progress in Wellington had been regular and steady, undisturbed by anything in the shape of a " boom." The city had advanced so that its exports now exceeded those of Dunedin by ±'300,000, whereas nine years ago Dunedin exceeded us by about 100 per cent. He pointed to the improvement .of the flax trade and the general prosperous condition of "Wellington, brought about by the energy and persistence of its citizens. Considerable damage is being done to yege table gardens in Pahiatua (says the Star) by a dark caterpillar. All kinds of crops are being attacked, especially onions and potatoes, and this pest bids fair to completely" ruin the prospects of many. MrJ. D. Wilson planted a quarter of an acre in onions, which were looking well until the caterpillar commenced operations ; now there is hardly an onion left. People with small patches would do well to look over their gardens daily, and when they see a drooping leaf, remove the earth from around the roots of the plant and there they will find the cause. During the present month some exceptional advantages will -be offered to all cash customers, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington^ We allude to the free distribution of Christmas presents &c. These ..consist of some very useful, attractive, and elegant Japanese, Ohinesa, and other desirable fancy articles, newly imported, at Te Aro House, Wellington. We have triple attractions to induce large, long and repeated visits to our warehouse during the present month. Ist. We have the largest and best selected stock in the city, 2nd. The quality of our goods is Al, and the prices the lowest possible. 3rd. Every purchaser from 10s and upwards gets in addition, a yery useful, pleasing, and attractive present, at Te Aro House, Wellington. No other house in the city either does or is able to offer these threefold advantages, whioh will certainly be widely appreciated and eagerly embraced by the many who will throng our premises during the present month, at Te Aro House, Wellington. The time for the distribution of these presents is limited, viz., from the present date to the end of the month of December, 1889, at Te Aro House, Wellington. In the men's, boys', and youths' clothing department, purchasers may select their presents from a choice assortment of ties scarfs, shirts, hate, &c, atTe Aro House, Wellington.— Advt. .