Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 109, 8 March 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

The Feilding Football Club will give a grand entertainment in the Assembly Booms on Monday, the 24th instant. Particulars in future advertisement. The opening of the Birmingham Town Hall, which took place last night, was a brilliant success. A full report of the proceedings will be published next issue. We learn thafr there is some probability the Rev. A. Hermon will again resume charge of- St. John's Church, and he expects to leave England for this colony in a few months. A Wanganui brewer has, it is said, come into a fortune of about a hundred thousand pounds. Napier will go one better in a day or two, and the editors of both evening papers are already dodging after a suspicious-looking customer who looks promising. On Thursday morning Mr Philpott's house on the Harbor Board Block was burned down, everything being lost. The furniture was insured for .£l5O. We sympathise with Mr Philpott, because a number of valuables have been destroyed that can never be replaced. The adjourned meeting of the Acclimatisation Society will be held at Mr Beattie's office this evening, at a quarter to eight o'clock so as not to clash with the Jockey Club meeting which will be held at half past eight. " The trail of the serpent is over us all." This quotation is apropos of a remark made by a distinguished temperance man when he reached the Btimmit of Mount Egmont the other day. As he inflated his chest, and drank in the fresh invigorating air, he gasped : " This is better than champagne, a long, long, way." " Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh." Champagne is good then ! Mrs Whittle gave her annual Sunday School treat on Sunday last in the Awahuri School-room. After the children had eaten as much as was good for them, the Eev. Innes- Jones presented suitable prizes to the deserving ones. A word of praise must be awarded to Miss Crabb, who is Mrs Whittle's right-hand snpporter, both in the school and at the annual gatherings, which we are sure all the parents will endorse. All persons having old sovereigns or hall' sovereigns in their possession are reminded that on and after the 20th of this month the Banks will only receive these coins at their gold weight value. This information is specially for the benefit of those people who hoard their wealth in old stockings or other mysterious articles of apparel. We may mention incidentally that the Banks will give new t,'old for the old in exchange. This is only as it should be The criketers of Napier are anxious to retnrn the visits of the cricketers of this district and propose to leave Napier on tha. 17th instant. The following is a programme of the proposed matches :— Wan- j ganui, Tnesday, 18th instant ; Marton, , Wednesday, 19th instant; Halcombe, Thursday, 20th inßtant ; Feilding, Friday, :■ 21st inst ; Palmerstoa, Saturday, 22nd I instant. Of course this has yet to be ac-i cepted by the several clubs, and the whole j affair is really contingent upon wjietheri the Wellington team will go to Napier bjif the 17th. In that case the Napier men will not come here until Easter.

The I'ope has interdicted cremation. Stanley's 1 book is to be called Darkest Africa," arid will be published in May. The revenue collected by the Pound last month ■was only five shillings. No Ranger 1 - Captain Fdwin.., telegraphs to-day. — Warn ings for northerly gales harebeon sent to all places 'south of Napier and New Plymouth. _ : Messrs Stevens and G)irton have just dispbsted of Mr Watson's property in the Pohan'g.ina district, containing 842 acres, to Mr Hopkins, of Victoria, at a satisfactory figure. The New Zealand Railway revenue for the ten months up to the Ist ult. amounted to £89>,816, as compared with i.830,357 for the corresponding period of the previous year. The absence. of rain for so many weeks has caused the water supply to run short, and several people are complaining that both their tanks and \vell9 are empty. They should get bigger tanks and deepen their wells. The annual tea of" the Presbyterian Church will be held on Wednesday the^ 12th instant. After tea a meeting will be* held, with selections of sacred music, addresses, &c. The public are invited to assist. Mrs O'Shea's fneads. explain Mr Parnell's frequent visits at one time to hothouse ou the ground that he was a great admirer of Captain O'Shea's sister, a very loVbly girl, whose sudden death not long ago was a severe shock to the family alid their friends. To Whiti was liberated from the New Plymouth Gaol to-day. He had been imprisoned for failing to comply with an order of the Court to pay a debt under a judgment summons. He will now be able to join in the tangi now going on at.Parihaka over the death of Mrs Te Whiti. . By careless shunting, when the 10.53 train from Wanganui was at the Feilding Station this morning some trucks were driven violently against the passenger carriages standing alongside the platform. Several persons in the carriages were knocked over, and others who were standing on the platform had narrow escapes from injury. Ifauyi a ididate for Parliament* yhomxs desires a good aud stirring war-cry, one which shall not savor of extreme localism, but which shall appeal to the financial sympathies of . most electors resident between Palmerston and New Plymouth, we can recommend to him the subject of the tieavy toll put upon traffic by the existence of the Manawatu Railway, as separate from the Goyernment line. — Hawera Stari ' From enquiries made at a meeting held at Foxton on -Saturday (the Manawatu Herald says) it was shown that there have been in that district 85 strippers at work, turning out .on an average three tons of hemp, totalling to 13,200 for the year, which, calculated at £20 a ton, amounted to £264,000 per annujn. Now 41 strippers lay silent, which means a decrease of 6396 tons dressed, and a money loss to the colony of £128,000 per annum. The annual picnic in connection with the Feilding Wesleyan Sunday School took place on the Oval on Thursday afternoon last. There was a large attendance, including not only scholars, teachers and parents but 'many other friends who had been invited. A substantial tea had been provided, and various races and other sports and amusements were indulged in, and both old and young most thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Numerous prizes in the shape of books, toys, &c, were awarded to the youthful winners in the various coin petitions, and lollies and other niceties were liberally distributed. Altogether the affair passed off in a very pleasant and satisfactory manner. .