Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 118, 29 March 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Arkwright was in Feilding on Thursday. .The local Star informs us subscriptions are being raised in Pahiatua for a public; library. A fine warm rain commenced to fall shortly after sunrise yesterday morning and continued during the rest of the day. Our wanted column to-day is fiill of unusually: interesting matter with reference to the great attractions and novelties now on view and for sale at Mr E. Moults stationery," fancy goods, and china warebouse in The Other House, Manchester street.- Having personally inspected this really splendid stock of gobds we can vouch for the excellence of their quality and the cheapness of their prices; We would recommend everybody to visit the establishment, so as to see for themselves, one of the most complete and alteriiative displays of "both useful and ornamental articles ever seen in Feilding and " still there's more to follow."

Sir Harry Atkinson was a passenger to Wellington by the mail train yesterday afternoon. . The second consignment of autumn and winter goods has arrived and is now on view at the Red House. An early inspection is invited. The total area of Crown Lands disposed of from the Ist April last up till Tuesday last was 107,875 acres 2 roods 36 perches, at an upset price of £101,800 lis 3d. A Christchurch telegram received last night says:— Mrs North wife of J. O. North, bootmaker, late of Greymouth, dropped down dead this evening, while talking with- two visitors, in her house; Her husband was also present, The Land Board will hold a special meeting on Thursday week for ths purpose of considering the applications for revaluation of sections, which have been made by a number of- selectors. The time for receiving tenders for the purchase of the. Sylvia Park Stud has closed, no tender having been received, and it is probable that a new company will shortly be formed in Auckland.. : Another .successful rehearsal of the catitata " Nativity '! was held at the Assembly Rooms last . Thursday evening, under the conductorship of MrR. F. Haybittle. A number of the choruses were given with capital effect. To-day. Mr C. Brown advertises that he has instructed Mr W. Trimble to Sell by auction, on April 10th, at his residence, Kimbolton road,, all his furniture and. ©fleets. He will also sell two sections of land, and, what will be interesting to several,, the. book debts of his late; business,. a list of which will be on' view the day before the sate. ■'" ' .'■'■■ All traffic over the bridge on the Mangaone creek opposite the Old . Flaxmill (Munro's) on the Feilding-Awahuri road, will be stopped on Monday and Tuesday the 31st March and Ist /April, while (the said bridge is undergoing repairs. Official notice, to that effect is given in our advertising columns by the Clerk to the Manawatu County Council. MrD.,Dealy,. the popular proprietor of the Railway Hotel*, Wellington, has en-, tirely renovated his premises,' and pro » mises a hearty welcome to his numerous friends and the public generally. Mr Dealy knows thoroughly well, how to cater for the public, and must therefore continue to secure a large amount. of patronage. Thejprivileges of the Feilding Jockey Club Easter Races were sold by Messrs Stevens and Gorton on Thursday^ and. realised : — Gates, Younger and Laing, £52 10s ; publican's booths/ Gibbons^ £25 ; refreshment booth, j. Smith* 'JslO ; . Cards, Wiltshire, £5 Ids; legal games, Larsen, £1 ; horse paddock, J. Smith, £20 ; total, tf 114 ss. ' This is. an advarice on the previous' year of teri-ppurids,.: The Onamalutu gold mining company (Marlborough) haye jusiT^titfick rich quartz, and alluding to this the Express ' remarks :— " It is impossible now that the wealth of the mine is just being proved, not to regret the tragical fate of the man who discovered it, believed m it, and could get nobody to join him in develops ing it, and who in mortification and dispair finally shot himself. We must apologise to the Wellington Watchman for misquoting him in a paragraph aiient Sir' Robert Stout. What we intended to say was, "The Wellington Watchman," in the Catholic Times, says Sir Robert Stout distrusts editors &c, but the words in italics "dropped out " and altered the " aspect " ofthe paragraph considerably. We trust our esteemed friend will accept this explanation. Aristocratic circles in Christchurch are just now very much exercised over two cases which are to come bofore the Divorce Court in that city on. the. 21st proximo. In one case the wife of a wellknown man in the. Cathedral city sues for. a judical separation, and in the other the husband of the same lady petitions for a dissolution of the marriage, the co-res-pondent being a wealthy runholder. ;At the , Christchurch Police Court on Thursday^ George Hall was sent to gaol' for six irionths for committing, an assault on his father and Ellen Thompson. The two complainants and the accused lived in a house together, and the/ accused, when in- drink, hit the woman oVef the head, causing a bad wound, ahd making her insensible. He subsequently knocked his father down, and kicked the old man, breaking several ribs. We have received from Brisbane a copy of the first issue of a well got- up paper, named The Worker, which describes itself as the monthly* journal of the associated workers of Queensland. The Worker, is strictly and entirely co-operative, the property of the Unions, who have the plant, election of trustees, plebiscite on the editor, and pay a per capitai subscription,' which gives the journal to'eabh" member without further charge. It is non-proht making. This new development of the labour movement should meet with success. '•. ■!•:. ••- ** Puff," in the Press, says the Victorian Parliament meets on the 3rd of May! There'll be a lively bit of work, I guess, there. Things are getting into an almighty tight place! What, finances and soon? Yes! According to the Argus sh^s imported in the - two years 1888-89 £21,821,390 more than she has exported, and her exports have fallen by £1,367, - 361 ! Then they've got near £22,000,---000 more debt, and over a million and a I quarter less income to ,• pay interest on | tbeir debt with. What have they done with the money ! Spent in the booming in Melbourne in splendid extravagances, and now their farmers and producers and manufactures are crying out for the State to help them or they'll all be ruined ! . It is not all beer and skittles making a new home in the bush country now being settled. A few days ago Mr Palmer, of this town, went up to the Otamakapua to commence operations on a section, taking with him a couple of horses to carry tents,, provisions, &c. All went merry as a marriage bell, and when he and his party came to a convenient clearing, one horse was turned loose -to graze, while the other was taken further into the forest, carrying the provisions. Coming on dark, a camp was made, the horse let loose, and the tent duly pitched on a convenient spot, and after a comfortable supper the adventurers went to slumber, lulled by the sweet voices; of the night, the occasional cry of the woodhen, and the gentle sound of falling water. In 'the morn, when day was breaking and the native birds were making things lively by singing as they started off to hunt for their breakfasts, Mr Palmer was roused from his sleep by a loud crash, accompanied by a wild yell of some beast in its agony. Starting up in alarm he rushed out of the. tent, and to his horror discovered he was standing on the edge of o . precipice. Another look informed him chat his horse had fallen over, arid war lodged on a projecting shelf in the clifl two hupdred feet below. Taking his son with hirii, he descended -to the anima' which was still alive, and finding it sc much injured that its recovery was im possible he destroyed the poor brute tc put an end to its agony. Mr Palmer ha; -differed a loss which is te be. deplored but, as he philosophically observed : "I. .night have been worse, beoause I/migh:.". nave gone over myself/"