Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 February 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Football practice commenced to-d^R r . The Hon. John Bryce speaks at Ham ilton to-night. A replace advertisement from Messrs H. Collier and Co. appears to-day, in which it is stated that Mr Horace Thompson, the representative of the firm, will visit this district shortly. A meeting of the committee of the Manchester Horticultural Society will be held at the office of Mr Edmund Goodbcr« on Thursday the 20th instant, to make ar- j rangements for the Autumn show. Mr Frederick Pope, builder, and contractor, has been appointed Feilding agent for the famous Mauriceville lime, from the Wairarapa. Orders left with Mr Pope, or forwarded to Mr Brooks at Sandon and Mauriceville, will be promptly attended to. There was a very fair attendance at Mr Haliday's sale of furniture, held at his house on Thursday, and excellent prices were realised for the goods. Col. Gorton wielded the hammer in his usual felicitious and successful manner. The enterprising firm of Messrs Stevens and Gorton are still extending their business. They have now opened a branch of their business in Marton under the superintendence of Mr Hay. We have no doubt but what their enterprise will be rewarded. The Rev. Mr Cannell, Wesleyan Minister, who has charge of the SandonFeilding circuit, returned from the Conference this week, and has entered upon his duties again. He conducted the usual week evening service at the Wesleyan Church on Thursday evening. Mr Axnp has negotiated the sale of the landed estate of Mr George Death, at Kiwitea, to Mr William Rowe, of Sydney, N.S.W. We understand the price paid was about £6 10s per acre. The same gentleman bought the property adjoining Mr Death from Mr Feild, the price being M ss. A well-known farmer, living not many miles as the crow flies from the trig station on Mount Stewart, was asked to take part in a Harvest Thanksgiving Service. His reply was characteristic : " A do'ant mind about the thanksgiving a bit, an' would do it cheerful, but for they darned sparrows ; a canna be thankful for them." The Oscar- Smith Company performed to a fair house on Thursday night. Mr Devere and Miss Oakes were admirable, and the skill of Mr Devere on the numerous instruments he plays elicited frequent encores. Mr Oscar- Smith is tlie best ventriloquist we have heard in the colony. We are glad to hear there is a probability this talented company will soon pay us another visit. i Complaints have been made to us by business people that hawkers are permitted to sell goods all over the town without let or hinderance, having no license, whilst in other towns they have to pay a license fee. This should riot be so, as our business people have to pay rates and taxes. We believe it is the duty of the Clerks of the various local bodies to look after such matters. Those interested in the Sabbath School in connection with the Wesleyan Church, Feilding, met in the Church on Thursday evening last, and appointed a Committee to canvass for eatables and prizes, also to report at a meetieg to be held again next Thursday evening. There was some talk about holding the usual annual treat on St. Patrick's Day, but no definite conclusion was come to. The day and a place of.hoJding the treat will be decided next Thursday evsaing.

The County Cricket Club will play the Carnarvon Club this afternoon on the local ground. We remind our readers that the Ogdena are advertised to play in the Assembly Rooms on Monday evening. Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew have sold their Kiwitea property to Mr Riddiford, of Halcornbe. We are informed that the price paid was MA 10s per acre. The Kiwitea Road Board held an ordinary, and the Manchester Road Board a special meeting to-day. Our reports will appear in our next issue. Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. held a very large stock sale here to-day which was well attended. Particulars as to prices will appear in our next issue. Notice is given to-day that the gentlemen who composed the Licensing Committee for the Borough of Feilding last year haye been re-elected. A friend in need. Sir F. D. Bell has purchased one thousand copies of Mr E. Wakefield's book to distribute in England. The bill will be sent to New Zealand. , A Feilding lady sold the right of first publication of her serial story to the proprietor of an English paper, at the Dunedin Exhibition, for seventy-five guineas. The scene is cast in Nelson, and the story is said to possess much social and political interest. A man named Jamos Smith has under gone a successful operation at the hands of Drs IJosking and Milne, of Master ton, and Dr Bey, of Greytown, in the Masterton Hospital. The patient's kidneys were found tv be diseased, and in order to save himself, he consented to have one taken out, and-4S now progressing most satisfactorily. Some Marton gentlemen, who were at the mouth of the Rangitikei river on Sunday, saw a cow deliberately- attempting to commit suicide. She came across from the Manawatu side, had a look at the poor feed on the north side of the river, and then went right through the breakers and swam out to sea, never turning till she had been lost to vision, when she turned round three times and fell down dead. [We don't quite believe this yarn whichseems rather mixed.] A special meeting of the Feilding Borough Council will be held, at 8 p.m., on Monday next, to deal with matters relating to the pound and ranger. Cr Sandilands will move, " That tenders be called for the lease, for 12 months, of grazing right-on the streets of the Borough, excluding the following, viz., Camden, Denbigh, Eyre, and Warwick streets, and also the streets comprised in the area bounded by the above named streets, and that the successful tenderer be appointed Borough ranger, and he be required to exercise the duties pertaining to such office free of charge." We are informed that the whole of the " catch burns " mentioned in our last issue were not so bad as they were depicted to us. There are a few patches of bush belonging to some of the settlers in the West Waitapu which have not burnt well, but the principal portion of the bush has burnt very well. There were some narrow escapes from death by the fire spreading so quickly. One settler took shelter in the standing bush, and was quite overpowered and stupified with the smoke, and was not able to get to his house before late at night. A number of men had to rush helter skelter to get out of danger, and barely escaped with their lives. A curious exhibition was held in London recently — a show of dolls carefully dressed to show the uniforms worn by t jmrsos in the various Loudou and provincial hospitals. Nearly 100 hospitals were represented, and remarkable variety was seen in the costumes of the different institutions. Some were quite sombre, others simply neat, whilst others again were evideully intended to make the wards more cheerful by supplying a bit of bright color. The head dresses (says tho Dunerlm Star) were the most diverse, from seyerely plain to positively ' perky ' caps. Mr H. C. Russell, the Government Astronomer in Sydney, writes as follows in the Sydney Morning Herald: — "It will be remembered that in the beginning j of October last a plague of moths visited ! Sydney, and so completely eat up the bee food that at one bee farm 7001 bof honey had been given to the bees to keep them alive. A similar account comes from Port Stephens. One bee-keeper there lost 200 hives from this cause. At the close of the visitation there the sea washed up the dead moths inches deep on some parts of the beach. If it be reaiem bered that at least 259 miles of our coast was infested by these moths at the same time, some idea of the magnitude of the swarm may be obtained." This 19 the last week of "The Fair," as we shall positively close it on Satur- | day next, the loth inst., at Te Aro House, Wellington. During this week we have determined to offer several lots of our season's pa^a* sols and sunshades at yery much loss than half the English cost, at •' The Fair" Te Aro House, Wellington. During this week we shall give our customers the opportunity of selecting from the balance of our sateen and satin parasols, nicely figured, and many of them trimmed with lace, that were usually sold tit prices varying from 4s 6d io 7s 6d for eir/hteenpence, at •' The Fail 1 ," Te Aro House, Wellington. During this week, and this week only, will the abouo really astounding bargains be obtainable, as " The Fair" positively closes on Saturday next, at Te Aro House, Wellington. — Ax>vt. ,