Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 114, 20 March 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

The Seyinouis Walsh Operatic Company have separated. The Assessment Courts, Feilding and Halcombe, will sit to-morrow. . A. skating rink is to be opened at once jin the JBirmingham Town Hall. There are about two hundred cases re> ported of typhoid fever in Wellington. There is some quiet talk of starting a meat freezing company in Feilding. " The. Feilding Jockey Club are negotiate ing the purchase or lease of a new race course on the flat. . • Mr Jonathan Roberts is now travelling under the name of Thomas Farnell. This j8 rough on the Irish patriot. Mr Samuels, M.H.B. for New Plymouth, in his address on Monday last, said he did not intend to' stand for re-election. The annual general meeting of the Wellington Manawatu Railway Company, will be held on the 2nd of April in Wei* lington. The programme of the Football Entertainment on Monday next, in the Assembly Booms, is published to-day. Read it. The Palmerston Football Club will probably commence the season on Saturday — says the Manawatu Times — with a fancy costume match. Mr Trimble will hold an auction sale at nis mart (Feilding Chambers) on Saturday next. The goods offered will comprise a quantity of household furniture; the property of a gentleman who is leaving Feilding, including a handsome suite, cheffonier, wardrobe, chests of drawers, Chan's, tables, &c., together; with the balance of Capel's bankrupt stock of drapery and clothing, and other articles too numerour to detail. : ... There can be no doubt whatever as to the splendidly powerful growing nature of the land in the Wanganui Harbor Board Block, and if there was any, the following fact ought to remove it like a bursting dam wipes away an American city* A well-known, and truthful, settler put up a stab fence, of the best and strong* est material, which he left in the evening of its completion sound and secure. In the -morning when he came to look for a parcel of staples he had forgotten to take away with him the night before, herdi*--covered that a branch had be«*r Blown from a gigantic thistle, which in its .fall had- broken down about a chain of fence. How long it took for this thistle to grow, and what; was its height we have not heard, but the incredulous; can go and look for themselves, and satwfjj their in - creduKty.! • _ ; '•• The ordinary monthly meeting of the Feilding State School Committee 'was held on Tuesday evening last. Pre'sfciit— Messrs Worsfold [ (chairman), Reading (secretary), Morey, Curtis, Watts, am Gould. A memo was received from the* Education Board with voting paper for the election of three members of the Board. The following were the candidates: — G. S. Bridge; Waveriey ; J. Notman, Wanganui ; R. E. Beokett, Marton ; Wi -/Williams, Stratford; T. Hritcheson, Hawe'ra > and A. G. Brett, Normanby. Each of theee-gentlemen wrote soliciting the vote of the committee, and the choice fell upon 'Messrs Bridge, Notman and Beckett. ■ It was resolved, That the committee regret they are not in 1 a position at present to do anything in the matter of the proposed purchase of the adjoining acre seotiori,- aud recommend ■' that the matter be dealt with by the incoming committee. Resolutions were also passed as follows t^—That the committee hold a final meeting re the picnic* on Tuesday next; That the communications received from -Mrs Lissaman be forwarded to the Board ; That the sum of .£lO be advanced !on account to the contractor for the shelter sheds.

Mr Carthew returned io Feilding to-day after having had a good time at the Dunedin Exhibition, y A proclamation in an Extraordinary Gazette . further .prorogues Parliament until May Asti Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day.— Warnings tor easterly gales have been |fent to all places northward of Taupo and Raglan. The Kiwitea. Road Board Engineer, Mr C. Bray, mvi£es tenders for public works, i particulars of which are detailed in the advertisement. There is some talk in Wanganui of getting a School of Design and a Girls College. Much better to work up a good expott trade. A Home paper states that one cuiious result of the influenza is to .increase the (temand for legs and shins of beef to such an extent- that in the wholesale meat market they have risen from threepence per pound to sevenpence. We have to thank the Commissioner of Crown Lands for lithograph plan of the land to be offered for sale in the Pohangina Block early next month. Anyone desirous of inspecting plan and conditions of sale, may do so at this office. A grand Salvation Army wedding will be held in the barracks on Tuesday next, when Captain "Wood will be united to Lieutenant Emma Short. Colonel Taylor will officiate on the happy occasion. There will also be a tea meeting, for which , Is will be charged for admission. A correspondent of the. Southland Times says that several capitalists in Melbourne are turning their attehtibnto' the manu- I facture of cornsacks and woolpacks in that joplony from the tow of New Zealand hemp ; also the cdarser kinds of twine so largely used from the prepared fibre. Mr Harry Billey has, according to a Dunediu Daily Times telegram, at length succeeded . in gaining* the summit of Mount .Earnslaw, at the head of Lake Wakahpu, and fixed a flag there. He was accompanied by Mr Muir, photographer. The Ttev. W. Green, of Mount Cook fame, failed in his attempt on Mount Earnslaw. To open in a few days, a beautiful assortment of Indian handiembroidered Handkerchiefs in ladies' and gent's sizes (cream and white shades) at The Bed. House. Don't forget that there is the largest stock of Waterbury Watches"(short wind), Ladies' and Gents' sizes, at The Bed House. Some beautiful Goods in Glass and fancy Crockery at The Bed House. A football match-took place on the Oval on Saturday between teams chosen by Messrs "Whisker' and-: Gregory. ( A * very even game resulted in a ' will for the lati ter's team. We noticed that besides the veterans five or six new men put in an appearance., The Secretary, Mr S.traohan, informs us that i he probable team to play in Wellington and the Wairarapa Will be picked after next Saturday. „. That popular and energetic host, Mr Lowes, of the Birmingham Hotel, is determined that as far as he is concerned the place shall go ahead He has put himself in communication with the agent of Cook's Tourist Company, so that Birmingham, Peinberton^ Apiti, &c, may be placed on the list of " places worth seeing" supplied to tourists travelling over the colony. . By the St. Kilda from Wanganui, the following exports are being sent away :— Messrs Hogan and Co., 600 sacks wheat ; Mr H. Death, 100 sacks wheat; Messrs Hatrick and Co., 525 sacks oats and 100 sacks wheat; Bailey Bros. (Feilding), 100,000 feet timber. Mr Hatrick wishes the 'vessel? was larger," as the trade keeps growing, and he is well satisfied with the prospects.— Herald. In France, if a patient who is under chloroform shows any signs of heart fail* ure, those in attendance hold him head downwards till he is restored. This method is said never to fail ; and so convmoed are some surgeons of its efficacy that they have operating tableß made in such a fashion that one end can be eleyatcd at a moment's notice, and the patient practically be made to stand on his head for an -instant or twoi — Court Journal. • The Waikato Times says :— Many of our readers will feel an interest in the welfare of Mr G. W;. Russell, who oonk^ted Waikato County atth^ last-general election. * The latest news is that his wife has presented him with a fine pair of boys; this makes. the third consecutive time that Air Bussell has been blessed with twins, in the former cases the children being girls. Mr Bussell now emgs ' • The sweet Iwy and boy " with all his heart and soul. Cobbe and Darragh are the Folding agents for Henderson Bros. "Silver Gem" roller flour. ,