Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 86, 14 January 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

The R.M. Court will sit to-morrow. Diphtheria is prevalent in Greymouth. Bad drainage. Mr Tiffins' homestead, near Kaikora North, Waipawa, was burnt down on Saturday morning. We have received some very pretty calendars from Mr Day, pharmacist, and manager for Mrs J. M. Higgin. The Feilding Jockey Club have drawn up a liberal programme for the Easter races, and 4=300 will be given away in prizes. The advance in the price of iron is partially accotmted for by the fact that over a hundred first-class iron-clad war steamers are now in process of construction in various parts of the world.

Captain Edwin ' telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day :— Telegrams to 0 expect strong northerly winds have been sent to all places south of Napier and Wangauui. The enqniry into Hospital management was held in Wanganui yesterday " with closed doors," the reporters being carefully excluded. A hard gale of wind. prevailed here on Sunday and yesterday and did a good deal of damage to the fruit trees. Apples were the principle sufferers. The woman Mrs Williams, who attempted suicide, at Lyttelton, by taking ehlorodyne, has recovered, and will be brought before the Court this week. Owing to the very prevalent warm weather, and the ineffective drainage of Greymouth, a great deal of sickness is rife. Five children are down with diphtheria in one house in the vicinity of a notoriously offensive drain. The annual meeting of members of the Canterbury Corn Exchange was held on Saturday. The Chairman, Mr Gammack, in his address, said that generally the producers had reason to be. satisfied with the results of the past year. Mr Fagan has a new advertisement in to-day, by which it will be seen that he expects to close his Feilding business very soon, and, in the meantime, his stock of boots and shoes will be sold at prices never before heard of in Feilding. The Manawatu Times says that obstacles are being placed in the way of the appointment of a new Resident Magistrate for this district. This is a good sign, as the opposition of fools is the strongest proof of the desirableness of a thing. Vanderbilt, the American millionaire, has, according to a press telegram, purchased a canal in Venice for .£20,000. It is understood that he will not shift it to New York for some years. [We should not be surprised to learn that Turner's picture, " Canal of the Guidecca," a scene in Venice, now in the National Gallery, London, was referred to.] In order to meet the times Messrs Saywell Bros, announce that they have reduced the price of shoeing horses to five shillings per set. See our Wanted column. A new advertisement from the firm will appear in our next issue. Mr Denby, the contractor for the Ashurst railway, is endeavoring to make up for lost time on the big filling from Ashurst flat to the bridge. There are two gangs of men at work ; one party starts at 4 o'clock iji the morning and works till 12 noon, another takes their place from 12 till 8 p.m. Through the post last week we received, and so did many others, a programme for the Sydney Jockey Club's Consultation j on the- Champion Race. We have frequently warned our readers, and do so again, that this is a pure swindle, in which no one ever hears of his in vestment. t This afternoon a young horse was put into Mr Daw's brake for educational purposes. The front of the brake was kicked in, and ultimately the brute lay down. Mr Sommerville, who was in charge, released the animal from the harness, and it got np none the worse for its novel experience. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) haye received the following cable message from their London office, dated lOfch instant : - Tallow — The market is dull, and has declined M per cwt since last report. New Zealand Hemp — Market quiet, Prices have fallen £1 per ton since last report. The 100 yards race between Messrs Gregory and. Roake, the latter having five yards start, came off in Stevens and Gorton's paddock on Saturday last in the presence of quite a Jarge number of spectators. Roake got away at the start and won rather easily. ' Another match was however made, both men starting on the same mark, which Gregory won by two or three yards. An order has been received declining to j grant permission to the Auckland Volunteers to take part in the Jubilee demons- I tration. A strong protest against this, resolution is to be made. The friendly societies, fire brigades, and salvage corps are to assist in the procession on the 29th instant, and members of many country branches of the friendly societies will join -vith the Auckland lodges in the celebraioi:. Three young men were cruising about the Wellington harbor in a half-decked willing boat on Sun-lay afternoon, and when off Evans' Bay a fierce squall struck her and she capsized. Herbert Mitchell, aged 21, employed in the Government Printing Office was drowned, and'his two m ates were rescued by a boat from shore in a very exhausted condition. Deceased was a splendid swimmer, but elected to stick to the boat, which sank in a few minutes. The other two lads clung to an oar till succour arrived. At the Police Court to-day, before Messrs Sherwill and Kirton, J.P.s, Charles Sherlock pleaded guilty to the charge of being drunk last night. He was also charged with having thrown a stone and ! broken a window in the Denbigh Hotel, 1 on the sarno night, and done damage to the extent of 30s. Mr Light proved the offence, and the accused having been heard on his own behalf was fined 5s and 2s costs, in default 48 hours imprisonment for being drunk, 10s and 2s costs, and ordered to pay 20s damages for breaking the window, in default one month's impriaonment» 1 There are two things to which we wish to invite the special attention of the ladies of Wellington and suburbs ; the first relates to the disposal of the balance of our unappropriated Christmas gifts, and the second to a select assortment of superior underclothing, just received by the steamer Aorangi. at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. The balance of our Christmas gifts we have determined to clear out at a less than half-price, thus affording a grand opportunity of securing useful and attractive articles at extraordinry low rates, and should lead to much business being done at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Most, but not all, of the balance of these Christmas gifts is comprised in this enumeration, Some few lots want of space compelled us to omit, but these can be seen with the others at, any time during the next ten days, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Special attention is also invited to an extra shipment by the Aorangi of some first class ' hand-made ' and ' Hibernia ' uudorolothin g. Portions of this shipment are now on view in one of the large windows, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House. Wellington. — ADvr.