Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 96, 6 February 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ Hop picking commenced in Hawkes Bay on Tuesday last. The Dunedin Star says Parliament will meet on June 20th. The usual monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening. Along the Awahuri road a nice patch of native flax has been burnt by some small boys. Mr Bryce has purchased from Mr Sntton, of Fairview, in Southland, three Lincoln rams for i'lso. The Anckland Stud Company is to be wound up, as the Bank of New Zealand declines any longer to supply capital. The wharfage on a threshing machine recently landed at Wanganui was £10 10s. The Harbor Board has refunded £b ss. We hear that Mr Macmillan has leased his store at Awahuri to Mr Martin, of Wellington, who is going to start a general retail business. We hear that the Wanganni bakers contemplate raising the price of broad, and that After this week it will be 4d and 4£d the quartern! Our boys will have to be put on abort allowance, we fear. — icleAn Australian syndicate, it is understood, is in treaty "for the purchase of tbe Sylvia Park, Auckland, stud and estates. It is believed that if they are successful the stud will be located as at present at Sylvia Park. Tfye death is announced to-day of Mr Arthur Edge, who was some years ago a settler in this district. The late Mr Edge was a prominent football' player, and many old friends will learn the news, oi his death with regret. *■ - '" ' '

Mr Daw's coaches to Birmingham today were well patronised/ . At Hawera tne people hare their dog fights in the Cemetery. The is no acuonntincr for taste. The usual treat for the children attending St. John's Sunday School was giyen ■ to-day in the Sports Ground. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Warnings for northerly gales after from to 20 hours have been sent to all places southward of Napier and Wanganui. A list of valuable country properties is advertised for sale in to-dtfy's issue, by Messrs Harcourt and Co., the well known land agents and auctioneers, of Wellington. • Thomas Spring, aged 18, was drowned .while'bathing in the Manawatu river at Foxton on Tuesday night. He was in the employ of Messrs McMillan, Rhodes and Co. Mr Brueg, member for Rangitikei, addressed>his constituents last night, at Marton. He spoke ihsiy>portofthe Ministry, and received an unanimous vote of thanks aad confidence. A Wellington paper somewaht lugubriously says " Wellington crowds are singularly undemonstrative." So they are, with reason, because if they did warm up and take off their hats to yell the wind would blow the hats away. At the last meeting of the Wanganui Harbor Board a letter was received from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, stating that if the Board wished to reduce the price of the Endowment Block sections, they must withdraw them from sale and offer them again... " Opposition is the life of trade." The coachbuilders shop now being vacated by Messrs Say well Bros,, has been taken by a Christchurch cqachbuilder, who intends to introduce some of the latest and best improvements in the trade. Further particulars on Saturday. In the Gazette list of officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, Bishop Suter, of Nelson, is given the titles " Most Reverend" and " Primate," all the other, bishops as " Right Reverends." In the list of Catholics, Archbishop Redwood and Bishop Moi-ati are termed "Most Rev." and the other bishops " Very Rev." This paragraph reads like a joke, but it isn't. At a meeting of members of the Napier Athenaeum, held on Monday last, we learn from the Telegraph, a speaker is reported to have said "As they all know, the whole of Hawkes Bay was in a complete state of insolvency." The other* people said "No, no," but the man was left alive. Thia was a gross oversight, and shows that the heroism which won tbe battle of Oinaranui is dying out in Napier. *, " They sit upon, a rail watching their beasts grow fat, smoking their pipes, and swearing at the beasts for not growing fatster." This was the figure of speech used by Mr Travers at the Exchange Hall last night in describing the ways of colonial settlers and contrasting them with the practical industry of the Yankee farmers. — Post. [Mr Travers has not been up our way lately. — Ed. F.S.] The New South Wales cricketers' fixtures haye been arranged as follows :— February 7th and Bth, Canterbury : February 14th and 15th, Dunedin ; February 21st and 22nd, Wellington; February 28th and March Ist and 3rd, return match at Auckland. Matches to be arranged for Tiuiaru, Oamam, and Wanganui. If Governors and Governesses keep scrap books after the fashion of Actors Actresses, containing all the newspaper notices given them, Lord and Lady Onslow ought to have already material enough to make a most formidable volume. Wellington extracts alone would furnish a tome in themselves. Tome is good, but it hardly applies. to Lord Onslow whom the Wellington people call the " not at 'ome Governor." At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodgfe, held at the lodge room. Manchester street, last Tuesday evening, there was a good attendance of uiombers. After the transaction of some routine business a new member was initiated, after which the installation of the following officers for the ensuing term was proceeded with, P.N.G. Bro, Nix acting as installing master : — Bro. A. R. ■urtis, N.G. ; Bro. S. Svendsen, V.G. ; Bro. D. H. Humphries, G.tJ. ; Bro. J. A. Bailey, E.S.; Bro, C. E. Wildbore, R.H.S. ; Bro. J. ; Smith, I.G. Yesterday afternoon, in St. John's Church, Feilding, Mr Alfred Edward Awdry, of Feilding, second son of Rev. Canon Awdry, of Hartham Parsonage, Corßham, Wilts, England, was married to Miss Ada Bray, third daughter of Mr Charles Bray, C.E., of Feilding. The Rev.. Mr limes-Jones was the officiating clergyman. There was a full choral service. The .church . was . crowded with ladies and gentlemen. ' After the ceremony when the happy couple left the church they were smothered' in rice and pelted with old shoes in the orthodox fashion. They were then driven to the house of the parents of the bride in Grey street. The happy couple left by the mail train for Wellington in the aft moon. A large number of friends and relatives were assembled on the platform at the railway station to wish them bon voyage, and volleys of rice accompanied them as ithey took their seats in the carriage. We wish them all the happiness this world can afford.