Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 116, 25 March 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

The play going public are reminded that the great Maeeabe, asssisted by ■ MUle. Mirinia will appear to-morrow night in the Assembly Booms. Attention is drawn to the fact that J. Martin & Co. 'B coaches between Birmingham and; FeUding, run on Mondays, j Wednesdays, and Saturdays. In St, Bridgets, on Sunday last Father Patterson, announced that mass would be celebrated there until further notice, on the fourth Sunday in each month, at 11 a.m. . : ■ . Among other improvements in Birmingham we notice that Mr Mofiatt is making additions to his store and Mr Lowes is haying a private dwelling house erected. j The M anchester Houbb, Feildine:, wil ' re>open on Wednesdav, 26th March, with aGhreat Clearing Sale of 0. Brown's assigned stock. Drapery, Clothing, Boots, and Shoes &c, &c, at Bankrupt prices.. — -F BiOHAiiDs: : v / A Highlander, who will be 101 yeans of age in May, is at present an inmate of the Ashtburtou ''Old Men's Home. The Mail states that though Neil has seen some rough times and has swallowed as much whisky in his time as would float the Eoyal George, he is still hale aiid hearty. . ■ '.''-. The Committee of the Feildiag Jocket Club have by consent of the owner selected a site for a racecourse on the property of Mr Turner, and proposals in , the direction of securing it will be made to a meeting of the Club to be held shortly. The site should serve to make the Feildicg J&ace Cours6 one of the best on the coast, . .';•.' Sir Charles Busssell has received the largest sum ever earned at the English bar m one week, c He had a retainer of .1000 guineas in the Euston case ; he was the leading; counsel in Mr Herbert lijadstone's aotaon against Colonel Mailesou ; and he was engaged all the week in the " blaokmaihng " case. His total earn-, ings are estimated as between £3000 aod £4000. ; The discovery of a skeleton in the channel close to the "Waikouaiti (Dunedin) Bail way Station points to either a suicide ot murder. The drain has, always had, about three feet of water in it, but, during the recent drought it became dry. Twd pieces of iron 'rail of about sixr pounds weight each, were with the skeleton, and -appeared to have -been . round the neck of the victim. 'No one in the district is missing, so far as can be ascertained. , . ' . . ; . .. Qn TRiirsday.iaext Mr Moult will open in The Other House, opposite Mr Pollock's in Manchester Street, a splendid, stock of -the best crockery . and gloss- : ware ever presented to the residents m the county of Oroua. The designs | are all quite new, and some of them are 'remarkably beautiful, white the | whole are guaranteed to be the- very ' best 'quality «.nd material. The prices charged will be wonderfully low, but fui'theo particulars will be duly advertised. In the meantime those who are impatient to see- some of the articles aX ready impacted should have a look at the; windows now being dressed. •— Advt. . On Fndav last when Mr J. Clark, of the Pemberton Small Farm Blook, waß; carrying a heavy log on his shoulder, his foot shpped and he fell. To save him- ' self he jrat out one of his hands an front of him on to a fallen . tree. The log he was r.arryiQg Jell on the back of tbe hand which was 'crushed badly. I)r Mussen exaioined it and fltaitad at onoe amputation of some of tjje fiugers would be necessary. Mr Mrtffatt, of BirraingUura, ', broaght Mr 'Clark to Feilding, where a coDsultntion was held by Bra. iVlonckton and Charlton who decided it was a caso to be .dealt with <at the Hospital. The injurod man was jaceovdinglv sent through to Wauganui yesterday morning by train. "

;: Mr A. L. Parr was the successful tenderer for Messrs Hocken Bros.' shoeing. According to the local Star' it is estimated over 1000 persons are suffering from influenza in Dunedin. Captuiu Edwiu telwyraphed to-day. — Telegrams to expect' trost have been sent to nearly all inland stations. Yesterday afternoon, some lads threw atones at the mail train from the north, and besides smashing the windows in a carriage struck and injured the engine driver. The police have the matter, in hand. ■ ■ On Saturday next Messrs Stevens and Gorton, under instructions from Messrs Simmons and Pegden, will hold a furniture sale at their ftuction rooms, Feilding. As this is one of their , annual clearing sales everything will be sold without the slightest reserve. A very rich item of news is that Mrs Dudley Eyre, whose husband it may be remembered, renounced the world, the flesh, and the Devil, apd went to Frisco with a pocketfull of other people's money, writes to a lady in Wanganui that "Dudley has got a good deal of Church work to do" in his new location. We have already referred to the vast improvements 'recently effected if iiu the Empire Hotel by iltrs Oliver, and have confidence, in , drawing the : attention, of the public and residents in the town and district to the very excellent accom-, modafcion provided at' this really well regulated establishment. Our [ Mantle Boom is, brimful of the; latest novelties in mantleß, jackets,: furlined and imperial water- proof cloaks in a ytist variety of materials, shapes and, sizes'; and such as are adapted to please every taste. We specially invite a' minute inspection of all the autumn novelties in our Show Room, and will be pleased to give ample facilities for so dping— without njpessing any visitor to buy — at Te Ai^o-Ho^e| WelliDgton.— Advt.