Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 115, 22 March 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Baron Dowse is dead. His glim has been dowsed. Wirth's Circus will open in New PlymoutH next week. Sir William Maule, Judge of Common Pleas, declared there was nothing so well calculated to air the mind as a good novel. At the fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Manchester Lodge of Oddfellows, held at the lodge-room on Tuesday night.laat, Dr Charlton was elected Lodge Surgeon. A very successful rehearsal of the can tata "Nativity," under the conductorship ofMrR. F. Haybittle, was held in the Assembly Booms on Thursday night. We understand that Messrs Freeman E. Jackson and Co. will hold their next stock sale at Birmingham on the 25th April. Already a large number of entries have been received. Constable Tuohy is now in charge of •the Feilding police district, made vacant by the retirement of Constable Meehan, who has become "mine host" of the Cheltenham Hotel. No more German, but only Russian, is to be spoken in the law courts, schools, and town councils of the Baltic provinces, where the population is essentially Get--, man. Letters' from G. R. Lucas; dealing with the Kiwitea-Birminghain separation question, and from "G. 0.8.," on Borough matters ; also our usual Wellington letter, will appear in our next issue. A special meeting of tlie Wanganui United Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be held on Wednesday, the 26th instant, in the forenoon, re striking a rate for the year ending 31st March, 1891. We are pleased to hear that Mr Henry received numerous congratulations from the stewards and others interested for his successful handicapping at the recent Sandon and Marton Hack Race Meetings. Mr Sherwill, Secretary of the Manchester and Kiwitea Acclimatisation Society, has received official notification from Mr G. S. Cooper, Under- Secretary, that the season for taking or killing native game shall commence on Ist May next throughout the whole colony. The Woodville Examiner says the work of lining the tunnels in the Gorge is pro. ceeding rapidly, as is evidenced by the number of timber shores that are being brought out of them and thrown down the bank. The report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the position of the Kaihu Valley Railway, Auckland, was sent in to the Government on Wednesday. The contents will not be made public till the report has been perused by the Gdvernor. — Post. Yesterday forenoon a stranger was seen drinking from a whiskey flash. Observing an expression of surprise on the faces of -two gentlemen standing near him, he apologetically said : " I trinks for de parasites, what you call microbes." They were satisfied. Mr Thomas Lowes, of the Birmingham Hotel, invites separate tenders, for 70 chains of stab fencing and 85 chains of log fencing. The specifications may be seen at the Hotel, and intending contractors will be shown the work to-day and next Saturday. Tenders will close on the 2nd of April. Sir Robert Stout addressed a orowded meeting at Oamaru, on Wednesday evening last, on the land question. He condemned the land system of the present Government as one- favoring the formation of large estates, and extolled the system of the Stout- VogehGovernment. . A correspondent writing in an Auckland paper on the extravagant cost of our educational system says: — "The cost of governing America before the War of Independence was £70,000 per annum, with a population of three million souls. Here we number a trifle over hali'-a- million, and the cost of Government is £2,094,---586." To such an extent is " striking" in the air that the London woolbrokers have thought it necessary lately to put a new clause into the conditions of their wool sales, making provision as to how contracts on sale are to stand affected sbo-ild a strike of storemen, or others engaged in the handling of the wool, occur at any time.— Dunedin Star. The approaches to the Awahuri Bridge are in very bad order. There will be trouble at that bridge some day, and the local bodies under whose control it is, would only meet a well deserved fate if they were some day cast for heavy damages as a reward for their indifference to the safety and convenience of the travelling public. The valuations connected with the transfer of the Cheltenham Hotel from Mr Stewart to Mr Meehan have been completed, and the latter has now entered into possession, although certain formalities have y'st to be gone though. As our readers are aware, Mr Meehan has been stationed as Constable for some years in Fellding, and during that time he has earned the esteem and respect of all with whom he has come in contact. We wish him success in his new sphere of lite. Referred to the famous entertainer, whe will appear in Feildmpf on Weduesday next, a home paper says:— "Mr Maccabe, with his ' Begone Dull Care? was the first great figure among entertainers of the kind. He may be said to be the -greatest still. Imitators witnout number have followed him, but if they have approached him on one side of his performance, they have failed on another. In Ventriloquism he has not yet been surpassed. It is doubtful if he has been equalled. Unhke all other ventriloquists, Mr Maccabe does not use dolls and figures to' aid his vocal illustrations,' 1 and these are for that reason and once more difficult and worthy of admiration,"

Mr Carthew received his usualmonthly English case of books and periodicals yesterday. Gobbe arid Darragh's advertisement, giving details of their new goods, will appear in a few days. A splendid rainfall commenced yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, and continued uninterruptedly during the day. To-morrow morning Mr Grant, of Sandpn, whose abilities as a preacher a/c widely known, will officiate in the Wesleyan Chapel. The second deposit haa been lodged by the principals in the Laing-Pettengell contest in the hands of Mr John Watson, of Wanganui. • : Oaptain Edwin telegraphed- to-day.— "Warnings for gales and rain have been repeated to all stations north of Kaikoura and Hokitika and hold good elsewhere. We have to acknowledge receipt of complimentary tickets for the Football Entertainment on Monday next, from the courteous Secretary, Mr B. Southey Fowler. . The body of the young man (Mr"E. Johnston), who has been missing at Wanganui since Monday last, was found in the river yesterday. There is a scar on his face, which points to the supposition that he fell off the wharf, and struck his head against one of the piles while falling. The inquiry into the cause of the late fire in the Avenue occupied the Wanganui Coroner's Court for two days. The jury found that the evidence did not show how the fire originated, and that the jury considered the statements of the two witnesses, Spriggens and Low, unsatisfactory. Notice is given elsewhere that the dog tax in the Kiwitea Boad District has been fixed at 7s 6d per dog, subject to a rebate of 2s 6d on all dogs registered before 30th June. Mr Church's store at Kiwitea has been appointed the office, and Mr Church the deputy^Begistrar. Owners of dogs are requested to register at once at Mr Church's, or at the Board's office, Feilding. The "Wellington Watchman" in the Catholic Times distrusts and detests newspapers and newspaper editors, and sees an editor — and an enemy— in every bush. We have pleasure •in putting on record the fact that there was one editor on this coast who reverenced Sir Bobert Stout so much that he named a splendid Langshan rooster after the Knight, because- he was such a fine bird, and made. such a blasted row about nothing.. We are pleased to be able to announce that the tickets for the Football Entertainment, to be held on Monday night, have met a ready and most encouraging sale. As there will be a great crush for seats it will be ab.visable. for every one to be in their" places as soon before 8 o'clock as possible. The performance will commence punctually at the advertised time, because Mrs Jafley says she " won't wait : for anybody." Holders of front seat tickets will be admitted by, the. side, passage. The Feilding Brass Band will play in the Rotunda before the performance, commencing at 7.30 p.m. A party, including Mr Hill, Inspector of Schools, a representative of the Hawkee Bay Herald, and several local residents, recently ascended Kuapehu and Ngar uhoe. They had a magnificent view from the tfcrater of the former, and were able to make a closer inspection than .any previous explorers. They found the lake in the crater to be boiling furiously,', a point which has hitherto been in dispute. It is believed that it has boiled only since the Tarawera eruption. * Since then Ngaruhoe i has also been much more active, and in what used to be known as the Black Crater there was an inverted cone of boiling sulphur, with evidences of; recent activity.

New fashions for the Autumn Season are now ready for inspection, such as are certain to meet with universal approbation, because' selected with care, judgement and taste by our special representative in the Home and contfueutal markets—for Te Aro House, Wellington. Our millinery is really very choice and •attractive anil, without controversy, the best in the -city. We have also an abun r dance of millinery requisites of the newest description, special attention having been ?iyen by our Home buyer to the exact uatchiug of all, Ladies can .in this respeut, therefore, depend on getting their wishes and tastes gratified at Te Aro House, Wellington. We are quite sure that a visit to our Show Room would be positively delightful ; and whether the visitor roams through the Millinery Department or passes on to the Mantle Boom, the eye would be charmed and correct tastes gratified by an inspection of the latest outcomes of fashion — at Te Aro House, Wellington.