Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 110, 11 March 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

B.M. Court to-morrow. Tea meeting in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening. A Cambrian Society is about to be formed in Christchurch. Mr Edward Waken eld is at present in America engaged in literary pursuits. Mr Alexander McDonald, of Awahuri, has been gazetted as a licensed native interpreter. Killarney (late Ngatoto) is entered for Maroqui (Dargaville, Auckland) racing club's hurdles. A meeting of the committee of the Feilding Hunt Club will be held at Mrs Hastie's Hotel this evening. Out of 10.500 children attending school in the Wellington district there are 130 with defectiye sight, 47 partially deaf, 47 cripples, 235 inarticulate or stammering, and 143 of weak intellect. The Feilding Acclimatisation Society will mako a determined effort this year to have a close season for hares proclaimed, owing to the fact that under the present system both hares and pheasants are rapidly being exterminated. J. Pettengill has issued a challenge to Harry Laing for a glove contest for .£SO a side, and the championship of New Zealand, the match to take place in the last week of this month.' Pettengill is said to be in good form. The expedition to the South Pole has been postponed until after Stanley has got his latest book published. He will then be at liberty to organise a " relief" party. Of course Stanley will allow the expedition to get well away before he makes a start. We publish in another column an advertisement from Mr W. Lowes, of the Waitapu Hotel, Birmingham. This well appointed and capitally conducted Hotel is now a favorite with tourists and travellers to the Birmingham and adjoining districts. A new line of coaches will commence running between Birmingham and Feilding this week, starting from Birmingham in the morning and returning in the afternoon. Mr Martin, the principal of the firm, is one of the oldest and most experienced of Messrs Cobbe and Co.'s drivers, and is well known on this coast. " The Birmingham poople are agitating for a Branch Bank to open there once a week. They also want telephone commuoioation to be established with Fielding ; and if they display as much persistence and energy in these as in other matters, it goes without saying that they will aoooinphsh their ends. Mr W. Beading, local theatrical and advertising agent, has erected a special advertising board on the Feilding railway station. The board, which has been very neatly got up- and framed, has been fixed in a central position, and has a capacity for carrying posters up to double demy size. Mr Beading notifies in our wanted column that he is prepared to receive orders for casual notices of any description, and no doubt he will be accorded the patronage, which this sttpply ofapublio oooveniescd deserves.

Our fourth page to-day * contains a quantity of interesting commercial news. An Auckland man has taken out a patent for " chewing wax." Mr Fitzherbert, solicitor, may be consulted at the Feilding Hotel this evening. We have to thank the Minister of Lands for the New Zealand Crown Lands Guide No.X. Mr Parnell pays the costs in the cotch action against The Times. The amount is £500. The Prince of Wales has been re. elected Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity. Letters of' Naturalisation have been issued to Wilhelm Puklowski r farmer, of Bunriythorpe.- l ' We have to acknowledge receipt of article No V on-the Railway Problem 6t New Zealand, by ;Mr S-Vaile. Mr Carthew left yesterday afternoon for a trip to the Dunedin Exhibition. We hope he will have a good time. Mr Cobbe, of the Cash Exchange,, left to-day for Auckland to purchase the firm's stocks of autumn and winter goods. , Captain Fdwm telegraphs to-day. — Telegrams to expect frost have been sent to all stations on high lard south of Taupo. ' Our Acclimatisation Society has spent over £100 in putting fish in the Oroua river. Upwards of 15,000 trout have been liberated. Upwards of 8000 sheep, and a lot of mixed cattle have; been, added to Messrs F. R. Jackson and- Co. -8 sale at Feilding on Thursday next." In the breach of promise case, Mills v. Hyams, commercial traveller, at Nelson on Saturday, the jury brought in a verdict for £150 damages for the plaintiff. ■ During the year 1889, 17,084 tons of flax for the value of £351,1&2 were exported from the colony: " During the same period the frozen meat export was valued at £783,374. The first rehearsal of " Steeplechase " for the forthcoming Football Club's entertainment was given in the Assembly Rooms last night and the play promises to be a great success. Some of the feed in the Feilding streets i 3 not very wholesome for milch cows, consequently we hear of an action pending against the Borough Council fordamages done to the butter. Notice is given to-day that any person trespassing on Mr James Norman's hind with dog or gun will be prosecuted. The reason of this notice 1 is that the right to kill .game during the next shooting- season has been let. • Mr E. Goodbeher^ informs us he has disposed of : Mr JBalfour's farm on the Ashurst road, containing 257 acres, the purchaser .being Mr G,. E. Little. Mr Goodbehere has also, during past month-, sold a small farm in the Apiti district and several Feilding town sections at fairly good prices. " Notice is given to-day of the death of Mrs McKenzie, relict of the late Alexander McKenzie, who died in August last year. The funeral will take place on Thursday next at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and friends are respectively invited to attend. Mr Frederick Pope is the undertaker. Notice ts given to-day that it is the intention of the Kiwitea Road Board, under the powers given in the " Local Bodies Loans Act," 1886, to raise a loan of £5000 under the " Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for the construction of public "works on the Apiti and. Pembertou settlements of the Kiwitea Road Board District, as per schedule advertised to-day. Recently the room, at the Star Hotel, Auckland, of Major- General Mnlyneux, who arrived fronr England on the 23rd ultimo, en route to Sydney, was entered, and a pocket-book containing a letter of credit for £500, three £5 Bank of England notes, and four £5 Bank of Australasia notes, were stolen from hia portmanteau. The matter- was kept quiet, but the thief is not yet discovered. At Southbridge recently the licensee of the Selwyn Hotel was fined £5 for supplying shandy gaff to a man during prohibited hours. The point was raised, eaya the telegram, whether shandy gaff came within the meaning of the term | liquor as defined by the Act. The Bench io.ided that it did. The same defendant was fined the maximum penalty of £20 for supplying liquor to a drunken man Says the Napier Telegraph :-— " Gipsy King," in the Wanganui Herald, achieved a wonderful tipping feat on the first day of the Wanganui meeting. He gave tho winner of each of the seven events on the first day. Without any way seeking to detract from so meritorious a performance, we cannot help adding it does not say much for the handicapping, a view which is supported by the smallnesa of the dividends. The Feilding Brass Band will play the following selections on the Rotunda tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, under the leadership of Mr S. Daw, bandmaster, commencing at 7.45 p.m. : — 1. Fantasia, "Village Festival." 2. Quick March, "The Anchor's Weighed." 3. Fantasia, " O'er Land and Sea." 4. Valse, " Sunflower." 5. Song, "The Exile." 6, Shottische, " Snowflake." 7. Quadrille, " Pet of the Ball." 8. Valse, " Fatherland." " There are some funny things in law, and lawyers meet with some funny cases ones in a while," said a well-known solicitor. - "A man who is somewhat dis j tinguished in criminal annals as an expert pickpocket once asked a friend of mine to take his case for him. ' Where's your money ?' inquired my friend. ' I haven't any,' was the reply ; • but if you'll" promise to do the business for me I'll go out and get a watch for you in about five minutes.' " ...... ... We would hazard the assertion, without fear of- successful contradition, that never in the history of this city have such amazing bargains ever been seen or heard of as we are now showing in ladies' print skirts, lawn, print, zephyr and stuff costumes, at Te Ayn House. Wk would invite special attention to -some further extraordinary reductions that have been made in mantles and costumes, at Te Aro House. We would confidently ask a careful inspection of the marvels of cheapness in our dress department. We have a small lot left over from "The Fair" all in full dress longhths, really nominal prices, at Te Aro House.