Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 98, 11 February 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

— — *- Valentines on Friday next. Cornwall is the soberest county in England. The Resident Magistrate's Court will be held here to-morrow. The Foxton Borough Council are about to bore for artesian water. Mr Charles Bull was the purchaser of Mr Hughey's farm at £8 per acre. The Payne Family have now introduced hand bellringing into their entertainments. Mr W. W. Corpe, of Makino, has shipped this season to the English market nearly fifty tons of butter. We have to thank Mr Vaile, of Auckland, for article No. 2 on The Railway Problem in New Zealand. Mr Edward Wakefield has severed his connection with the Wellington Press, and will for the future reside in England. In Wanganui, at the Police Court, on Saturday, a man got seven days " bread and water" for attempting to tfscape from prison. All the scions of noble families who desert the United Kingdom gravitate towards either Wanganui or Napier. Especially Napier. The coachbuilders, blacksmiths, and wheelwrights of Palmerston North, have arranged to give their employes a half holiday on Saturdays. Mr Gilbert King, Inspector of the Bank of New South Wales, is at present on a visit to Wanganui in connection with the business of his department. The Prince of Wales' coachman, Henry Charles Westover, died recently and loft his sorrowing relatives the tidy little sum of £10,000, which he had accumulated during his services. In Rangitikei some very excellent peaches have been successfully grown this season, and there are many indications that the disease, which has proved to be fatal to this luscious fruit for the last few years, is now being eradicated. A number of Irise pork butchers have been called to St. Petersburg, to the new model Government slaughter-house, to instruct the native butchers bow to cut the pork for tho English market. Othor Irish and English butchers have been engaged at the Hamburg slaughterhouse. Some bush fires were ignited at or near Aorangi on Saturday afternoon and, as the wind was blowing direct from that quarter across the town, the result was Feilding was literally smothered in smoke that evening and the whole of Sunday. If the man who started the fire heard the objurgatory remarks made about him he woidd not have felt complimented. A meeting of gentlemen was held at Light's Denbigh Hotel on Saturday night, with the object of forming a Lawn Tennis Club for Feilding. Thore was a moderate attendance and, after the usual formal business, a committee was formed to obtain the names of persons desirous of becoming members. Mr' Richmond was appointed seoretary, and Mr Dyer treasurer, pro tern,

• The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on Saturday. Bishop Hadfield is at present a visitor to Rangitikei. Tbe contractor of the Pohangina bridge expects to finish in about six weeks. A truck managed to get derailed at the railway station this morning when ingCaptain Edwin telegraphed to-day: — Telegrams to expect strong southerly winds have been sent to all places. The famous Hicks-Sawyer Company of Colored* Minstrels have engaged the Feilding Assembly Rooms for Saturday, tbe Ist of March. The sneak thief is again at work in the Public Library, and several ' illustrated papers have been abstracted froni the table of the Reading Room. The infant son of George Osborne, of Christchurch, was drowned on Sunday morning by falling head first into a tub of water near an artesian well. The Auckland Trades and Labour Council intend to take action in the direction of shortening the hours of labour of those engaged in the bakery business. Mr Jolly is in Feilding at present in connection with the Government Life Insurance, and has been fairly successful in doing new business for the department. The Hawera Star says the yield of grain on the Waimate Plains has fallen from 50 to 60 bushels last year to 35 bushels to 45 bushels this season, due to birds and caterpillars, Mr Marshall, who has recently resigned the position of ranger for the Borough of Feilding, went to Wanganui to-day for medical advice with tbe view of getting admission to the hospital should his case necessitate special treatment. It is rumoured that Mr Downie Stewart is to be translated to the Legislative Council. This rumour is extensively believed because it has" been officially stated that no calls will be made to tbe Upper House this session. Yesterday afternoon the weather changed and rain began to fall in a steady downpour, which continued up till this afternoon. Although' tlie farmers, whose harvesting is not completed, look on the visitation with disfavor, yet those people whose water tanks were either very low or quite empty, are delighted. The latest cure for pleuro-pneumonia is the Turkish bath. This is seriously put forward by a gentleman in Scotland, who believes that the disease could be not only prevented, but cured by this means. As to prevention, as uo one can tell which annuals are likely to be attacked, it would be necessary to have a hydropathic estab lishment on or near every farm, and to adopt the Turkish bath as regular means of treatment for all cattle. It would be difficult to improve ou this method by way of practicability, unless it should be proposed to sent beasts to the German watering-places to drink the mineral waters. — Londou Live Stock Journal, On Thursday evening next Oscar Smith's Indian Tourist Party will appear in the Feilding Assembly Rooms. Each member of the party is a monologne entertainer of more than ordinary ability. Oscar Smith is described as the prince of ventriloquists, and Professor Greenwood as a musical prodigy, while Harry Devere as a comedian and vocalist, and Maggie Oakes, as a charming serio-comic and soubrette, have already gained popular favor with the Feilding public. We refer to the advertisement and posters for fuller particulars of the show which, being a good one, and the prices being lower than usual, is pretty sure to be well patronised. Mr Hare lectured in the Assembly Rooms last Sunday afternoon on " The Man Christ." There was a very good attendance, and the discourse was listened to with great interest. At the close- MiHare intimated that would be his last lecture there for the present. In a short time he would have the assistance of Pastor Israel from Australia in his work at Palmerston North, and would then be bettor able to devote some of bis time to other places, when he would probably give another series of lectures in Feilding. He heartily thanked those present for their attendance, attention, and assistance, and said he had met with great courtesy and kindness in Feilding, of which he would retain very pleasant recollections. A young man named Jeremiah Lynch, employed on Mr J. Manson's estate, had rather an unpleasant experience on Saturday. He left his house on the Rangitikei Line about 8 o'clock in the morning for work, and on returning at 1 o'clock he found that the house had been broken into and the sum of £9 10s, which was locked up in a box, stolen. He communicated with Sergeant Manning, who at once set to work to find the robber, with the result • that an old man named George Summerfell was arrested at Ashurst an about 3.30 the same afternoon on the charge. When accused saw Sergeant Manning approaching he made an attempt to hide something, which proved to be a sum of £8 in notes. He is wanted on another charge of breaking, entering, and stealing from a house at Carnarvon, and it is rather singular that the man to whom he sold the stolen goods is the victim of his second robbery. He was brought up at the Police Court this morning and remanded till Friday next. — Manawatu Times. A case of unusual interest was recently heard at Blenhiera. Two men were summoned by the police for ill-treating a pig in connection with an event at the recent public sports—' catching tho greasy pig.' The proceedings were consequent upon a paragraph which appeared iv the Express. The police had subpoenaed Mr Kirby, editor of the Express, who refused to be sworn as a witness for the police, alleging that his usefulness as a pressman would be at an end if placed in the witness box in snpport of a police prosecution. He persistently refused, and the bench, after retirement, said there was no alternative but committal, sentence was being pronounced when the police offered to withdraw the case, which the bench agreed to, Mr Kirbv then intimated he was perfectly willing to make a sworn statement at the request of the bench if it were distinctly understood he was not to be examined as a police witness. The bench consented, and the pressman then "•ave evidence to the effect that his strictures on which the police had taken actiou were not levelled at individuals, for he saw no single overt act of cruelty, but against a barbarous sport. Tho caae was dismissed. Certainly the best medicine known is Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. 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The Taranaki Herald reports that the caterpillar pest has been very destructive at Waitara. . There is now. on display at the Red House a splendid assortment of Electro Plated Goods, suitable for presentation and Birthday Gifts ; they consist of fancy Cruet, Biscuit Jars, Marmalade Jars, Butter, Sugar, &c. Inspection invited. These goods have been bought at a large discount for cash and will be sold cheap for cash. One more. To cure a cold, pour about half a pint of' boiling water over about a drachm of pulverised camphor, and in- • hale the vapors arising therefrom ten or twenty minutes. Great relief is at once experienced, and after two or three repetitions the discomfort is said to disappear entirely. ' Perhaps the largest crop of potatoes on record, (says the Farming World) is that ' just raised on a field in the Garscube policies. The measurement iB 5a lr lOp, and the tonnage 109 tons IScwt 2qrs., equal to 20 tons 14cwt per acre. The potatoes were of the Magnum Bonum variety. The grower was Mr Robert Wallace, Chapelton, Bearsden, near Glasgow. Mr Fitzherbert, barrister and solicitor, of Palmerston North, notifies to-day that he will for the future extend the practice of his profession to Feilding. For the convenience of clients he will come to Feilding the day before the ordinary sittings of the R.M. Court, which are held on the second Wednesday of each month, and can be consulted at the Feilding Hotel, or elsewhere by appointment. Mr Fitzherbert is in town to-day. This " Fair " will last for 13 clear days ouly, beginning on Saturday, February Ist, and ending on Saturday, February loth, at Te xVro House, Wellington. The object of this " Fair " is to clear out the residue of our Summer Stock of Drapery, Millinery, Mantles, Costumes, Dress Materials and a large variety of other seasonable goods in every department of the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. That we shall offer some realy astonish ing bargains at this ••* Fair " goes without saying; we always do that at our sales and this is what makes them 60 popular and well attended. We intend, however, to surplas all previous occasions at this Te Aro House " Fair ", Wellington. For the information of the residents of Feilding and surrounding districts' we may state that it is our intention to hold a grand '• Fair " for the disposal of our Surplus Summer Stock at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our advice then to the readers of this paper, aud in their own interest is " visit this Fair "as early as possible. It will pay you to take a trip to the Empire City, and you will return to your homes rejoicing in the bargains you secured at tho " Fair" Te Aro House, Wellington