Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 88, 18 January 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Our prompt action in the nutter of excursion tickets to Wanganui, on the 22nd instant, has had the desired effect, as will be seen by the railway advertisement which has been amended accordingly. A lodge of Freemasons is about to be , opened at Danevirke. The famous Monkey Soap is now on sale at the Bed ' House. There is only one " Mr Smith" in "Wellington, and he reigns in Te Aro House. The Manawatii Times says a movement l is on foot to form a baseball club in Pal- j merston. [ Rabbits are spreading in the Auckland > province, and it is expected rabbitters will soon far out-number gum diggers. " Bob" McNiven won the Mile Walking event at the Napier Caledonian Sports in 7min llsec. Well done " Bob" ! We are informed that Mr C. E. Major will be a candidate for the vacancy on i the Education Board. — Ilawera Star. Sir Julius Yogel has an article in the Nineteenth Century for December. ' The title of it is " Cati the Colonies Secede." Mr Samuel Daw has been re-appointed master of the Feilding Brass Band and invites applications for existing vacancies. I The sittinp of the District Court at Palmerßton, appointed to bo held on the ' 22nd instant, will be adjourned until Thursday the 13th February. I After everybody has read Zola's works the Government have commenced ' the prosecution of booksellers for selling ' them. This is considerate anyway. If Sir Julius Yogel contest.? the New Plymouth seat, he will slide in on the oil springs made of Taranaki steel. At least so says our Mrs Malaprop, and she is " in the know." [ The Town Clerk gives final warning to I ratepayers that summonses will be issued for outstanding rates in accordance with a resolution passed at the last meeting of . the Gonncil.

The Kiwitea Road Board was sitting as we went to press. Mr Ward is in charge of the Feilding post office during the absence of Mr Stevens. The next wool sale at Wellington, of the New Zealand' Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. will take place on Monday the 27th instant. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Telegrams to expect strong northerly winds have been sent to all places south of Napier and Wanganui. . ; At the Primitive Metnodist Conference at Duiwdin yesterday the Ttev. Mr Harris was re-appoiuted for ManawatU, and the Rev. J. Olphert for Foxtou. Several youngsters who have been ailing with slight complaints common to their years, promptly recovered when they heard a circus was coming after the season closes iv Dunedin. The Fahiatua Star k informed that Mr John Rayner, of Masterton, Lincoln sheep breeder, has just taken 14641bs of wool from 118 sheep, or an average of a fraction under 12£lbs each. This at 9d would realise nearly 9s 6d per head. Mr Rutherford had on view yesterday some splendid fleeces of wool from a number of lambs bred by himself, on his farm at Beaconsfield. The lambs were barely 5 months old, and the fleeces averaged slbs, the wool being of excellent quality. We hear that as Mr Brabant thinks there is no necessity-at present for creating a special Magisterial district for Manawatu, that nothing will be done in that direction just now. It is said that Major Tuke will 'get the New Plymouth Magistracy. — Wanganui Herald. According to statistics, lunacy has been on the increase in France since the opening of the Exhibition. This sounds awkward for New Zealand, but there is no real cause for alarm so long as the Dunedin whiskey is good. It is the bad absinthe that curls up the Frenchman. We have been shown by Mr Aldrich a bunch of Italian rye grass seed, cut on the land of Mr Alexander Gray near the Midland road. It is a splendid sample, and Mr Aldrich thinks so highly of its quahtj' that he intends to purchase fifty or sixty bushels to sow on his land in the Birmingham Block. At the quarterly communication the Masonic District Grand Lodge, Christchurch, decided at once to proceed with the erection of a memorial stone over the grave of the late Dr Deainer, Deputy District Grand Master. It is probable that the design will take the form of a granite obelisk, with suitable ironwork, and the stone enclosed. An important quartz discovery has takenplace at Donnelly's Creek, Hokitika, A mi'ier who has been quietly working in a tunnel near the Donnelly Creek Company's reef, broke out, single handed, Gcwtofstone, and carried it to the Company's battery and had it crushed, yielding 40oz of retorted gold. This represented the two days' work of one man. Considerable excitement is c msed in the district, and several new leases are taken up. This morning, when Mrs John Munro was riding up from Tiionni, her horse shied and struck its foot against a piece of metal projecting from a portion of the ironwork of the old tram which runs across the road on the Aorangi side of the Oroua railway bridge. The horse rolled over throwing Mrs Munro, who was considerably bruiied ; and cutting its own knees and face. Mrs Munro informs us that several other similar mishaps have occurred in the same place. A most painful ac 'ideat occurred at Makino on Thursday afternoon last to Mr Win. Eeid. Mr Reid was engaged in carting in his crops to the barn, and while goin# through an entrance about 12 feet in width, with a lence on each side, the horse in the dray shied at a calf, and wheeled the dray around. Mr Reid, who was at the side of the dray, was jammed on to a post, turning his hip joint clean around, Mr Reid was taken into his house, suffering intense agony till Dr Charlton arrived, who reduced the dislocation. At a meeting of the members of the Feilding Brass Band the other evening, I- he resignation of Mr R. F. Haybittle as B;\ndinaster was accepted with regret, '.v.\<\ Mr S. Daw was appointed in his stead. Among other, business transacted, it was decided to send to Boosey and Co., of London, for worth of first-class instruments, and as the Band raises the funds, more instruments will be ordered. The Band will perform on the Rotunda on Thursday evening next, when some music from the latest journal which has been received will be discoursed. The Wanganui Herald says : — " Both the Feilding Stab and the Manawatu Times have had remarks on the Monck-ton-Parsons affair, each endeavoring to make out that no .insult was intended, &c. No amount of explanation would make them see the matter in any other light, but we can easily imagine terms that might be applied to either of the late mayors of the boroughs named that would be jnst as much resented by these journals as the public insult offered by Dr Monckton to the people of Wanganui." [Yea, " easily imagine," but dreams are not facts.— Ed. F.S.] Professor R. and Haidee Kudarz, the Royal Illusionists and Spirit Exposers, are advertised to appear in the Assembly Rooms on Friday and Saturday evenings next. They have given then: performances all over the world, and before many notable personages. Everywhere their wonderful mysteries have mystified, delighted and interested their audiences, and they introduce an entire novelty in the shape of " The Veiled Lady," said to be a most wonderful illusion, and \\ all their feats of sleight of hand they puzzle their onlookers quite as much as ever did Houdin or Heller. Such, at any rate, ie the reputation "Professor and Mrs Kudarz have had conferred upon them by the press of many lands. 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 gifta 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 Warohouse, 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 bo seen with the others at any time during the next ten days, at Te Aro House, Wellington. . • Spkoial attention is also invited to an extra shipment by the Aorangi of some first class ' hand-made ' and ' Hiberma ' underclothing. Portions of this shipment are now on view in one of the large winclows, at the Wholesale Family Drapery | Wart-houso, Te Aro. House, Wellington, j — Ai>vr,