Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 79, 24 December 1889, Page 2

Local and General News

- The Feilding Stae will not be published on Boxing day. r -The mail train was about an hour late to-day in arriving at Feilding. This is a bad beginning for the holidays. . . ; The "Kiwitea people are getting up a petition, to the Postmaster-General for a daily mail service to Feilding. "■ Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day. - Warnings for gales and ram have been sent to all places south of Napier and New Plymouth. "_' Mr Frank Bray's new advertisement is crowded out to-day ; but we may inform smokers that Mr Bray has now in stock some of the fin jst tobaccoes and cigars in the colony. We have been requested to state that at the Red House may be seen a. choice display of all the latest novelties in hats and clothing. Special attention has been paid to the glass and crockeryware departments, go early to-night to avoid the crush. — Advt. The following is the programme to be played by the Feilding Bras 6 Band at the Feuding Athletic Sports, on Thursday next: — 1. March, " Forester." 2. Valse, " Sommer Regen," 3. Quadrille. " St. Patrick's Day." 4. Quadrille, " Happy hearts." 5. Selection, " Lucia di Larnmennor." 6. Valse, " Hands and heart." 7. Polka, "Fun and frolic." 8. March, " Black Prince." 9. Valse, " Sweet violets." 10. Quadrille, -'Feu de joie." 11. Schottische, " Volunteer."- 12. March, " Scotch Lassie Jean." 13. Valse, ••Moonlight." 14. March, "Battle and breeze." 15. Schottische, " Pride of the valley." 16. Selection, " Bonnie Scotland." 17. Quadrille, " Pet of the ball." 18. Valse, " Mikado." 19. " Little Sweetheart." 20. March, " Tempest." 21. Valse, , " Fair and faithful." 22. Schottische, " Promenade." 23.. Quadrille, " Carnival." 24. Selection, " Robert Burns." I isn't always best to brag about your horse when you don't know him well. Not long ago a gentleman bought a horse which was — and is for all we know — the finest animal that ever chewed grass, in the equine line. It had all the points — visible and invisible — of a good horse — and some more besides. It is with the latter we have now to deal. The other day its owner had gathered a large circle of admiring friends to show off his wonderful steed. After the usual compliments had been passed on itß form and appearance the said owner took a bridle in his hand to catch the horse to show its paces. The horse seemed disinclined to avoid an interview, and displayed its alacrity by rearing on its hind legSj opening its mouth and then advancing towards its would be interlocutor, who, in his. turn, retreated with despatch. Unluckily, in " advancing backwards" he tripped and fell. This was the horse'B opportunity and, as its " lucky" owner turned on his face to assume an erect posture, it seized" him,^— well aft— with its teeth,^aria lifted him off the ground. was promptly foiveh^a^y^from the toothsome morsel" and the^huris of the injured man attended to. _-. Now people ..say that some yards, of' i skin; grafting will have to-be done before things' are mended in the Kiwitea.

" Typo '" is to hand and is quite up to the standard. We hare to. acknowledge receipt of the Christmas Nnmber o^the War Cry. - The banks will be' closed on Wednesday and Thursday. • - Veryvheayy rain fell on Suaday in tho afternoon, and evening. Acceptances and general entries for the local-hack races close to-night. We have received a very handsome pictorial almanack from-Mr Alfred Eade, of the Corner Furniture Warehouse. Church services 'for the Church of Englaud at Feilding and Halcombe are published .'to-day in our advertising columns. The Rev. Times Jones officiated in the Church of England on Sunday last, morning and evening, to a large congregation on each occasion. We remind our reader? of the grand temperance drama " Ten Nights in a Bar Room," to be held in the Assembly Rooms on Boxing, night. - The Rate Collector of the Manchester Road Board gives notice that all rates unpaid by the Ist January, 1890, will be sued for without further notice. We have to thank Mr C. W. McLean, the secretary of the Rangitikei s Racing Club, for a press ticket for the meetings on January Ist and 2nd, 1890. Wehave to thank the secretary of the Feilding Brass Band for complimentary tickets, to the grand dramatic entertainment to beheld in the Assembly on Thursday and Friday nights. A lady teacher in Hawke's Bay recently got married to another teacher, and now both husband and wife receive house allowance, and the regulations do not provide for putting an end to the anomaly. John Burns, the leader of the dock strikers is related to Robert Burns, the famous Scotch poet, and bears such a resemblance to the portraits of that worthy as to cause general comment. The next w°ol sale of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will be held in Wellington on Monday the 30th. In our issue of Saturday last we seated this sale would be on the 23rd instant. This, was an error. The meeting., oi -the Manchester Road Board, called for Saturday last, was not held as a quorum of members was not in attendance. It is probable that the poll for the loan of £4750 for No. 5 "Ward which was successfully taken on the same day, was the indirect cause of this. We understand that Mr Pleasants has sold his farm, on the Taonui road to Mr Millan who will enter into possession at once. Mr Pleasants will not leave this district, but will probably settle inland on some new country. By \the advent of ;Mr Millan, whose brother, Mr Gibson • Millan, is already a resident here, the -Maugaone Cricket Club will secure the assistance of a first class player. A cricket match was .played on Saturday between teams representing the Seymour- Walshe; Opera Company and the local club. The match could not be concluded, as the Opera Company had to leave for Palmerston, but when the stumps were drawn the scores stood — Feilding, first innings, 64 ; Opera Company, result for 6 wickets, 60. On Sunday morning a painful accident happened to Mr H. Ernshaw, who is employed on a farm- on the Ashurst road. It appears he was going to catch his horse when, as he was 'walking along the side of a ridge, he stepped on a fallen log, which turned over, threw Ernshaw down the slope and then rolled over him, with the result that his left arm was fractured in two places. He was mounted by his friends on a quiet horse, and brought down to Dr. Charlton, who reduced the fractures, and the patient is now on a fair way to recovery. We have been requested by Mr Sherwill, secretary to' the Sports Committee to publish the folio wing resolution, which was passed at the last meeting of the committee : — " That an error having occurred in the official programmes issued by the Sports Committee in No 4 event, viz., the Walking Handicap of one mile of 15 sovereigns— lst prize £10, and which hi ike the 2nd", 3rd, and 4th prizes to appear as £5, £'4, and £1 respectively, whereas they should appear as 2nd prize £3, and 3rd prize £2; and that acceptances will only be received with the distinct understanding that the last mentioned sums will be the prizes paid;" A correspondent in the Auckland Weekly News has made the wonderful discovery that because the children in New Zealand do not go barefooted to. school their parents do not pay their debts. He, says: — "If the feet cannot be seen why are the hands not covored with ,; Paris kids? Filings, compromises, and priyate arrangements, seem to be the ride here, and highly respectable; owe no man anything, the exception. I know the children' would like to discard boots and stockiugs during the hot weather. Parents, banish pride, eschew prudery, and give the children their bare feet." The writer has not " thought his . subject out" or he would have remembered how many children go almost entirely naked, yet whose parents do not pay their debts.