The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1890 Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 121, 5 April 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1890 Local and General News

The R.M. Court will be held on Wednesday next. There will be Mass in St. Bridget's Church on Wednesday next at 8 o'clock. Mr Frank Bray received to-day a fresh consignment of tobacco, cigars, and pipes. Sergeant Anderson, of Wanganui, has' been promoted to the rank of Sergt.-Major. The post office at Bunnytborpe has been transferred from the premises of Mr Scheidt to those of Mrs Fowler, which are nearer the railway station. The Easter holidays for 1891 will be in March. Good Friday will fall on the 27th and Easter Monday on the 30th of that month. . Messrs Cobbe and Darragh, of the Cash Exchange, have now opened some splendid lines of Autumn and Winter Drapery, Clothing, &c. Notice is given of the transfer by Edward Stubbs, the. selector of section 38, Block XL, Survey district of Apiti, to Ellen Jane Stewart. We are glad to see that Mr George Evans, who has been ill for some, time, is now making good progress towards recovery under the treatment of Dr Monckton. The "Octoroon" will be produced by the Feilding Dramatic Club on Monday and Tuesday eyenings in the Assembly Booms. Good show, and everybody is going. We regret to notice that Mr Roake, the popular huntsman of the Feilding Hunt Club, has been laid up some days owing to injuries sustained when driving a bad tempered horse. < There will be full choral service in the Church of England to-morrow at the morning and evening services. The offertories will be presented to the curate according to the usual custom. A cricket match between a county team and a team from Hawkes Bay, will be played on Tuesday next on the, county ground. The Feilding Brass Band will play during the qourse of the afternoon. - The ' Feilding J.C. Easter Races will be held on Monday next. Lists of entries and acceptance have already been published, and there is every reason to expect that; there will; be a good day's sport for every body. In the case of Hay v. the Queen* a claim of £100 for a valuable dog starved to death at the Quarantine Station, Ripa Island, Mr Beetham, R.M., of Christchurch, on Thursday gave judgment for £47 58 and costs. •....-, -..•;; Says to-day's Chronicle :— Amongst current political rumours is one that Mr James Baker and Mr Henry Sergeant intend to contest Waitotara. Messrs Bruce and Hutchison have already declared their determination to run for the same seat, and Mr Bruce' s chances are regarded as being excellent. Mr Shearer has. just finished, to the order of a gentleman resident at Beacone- . field, a very handsome Davenport, made entirely of rimu. The beautiful hues and tints of the wood have been well brought out in the polishing, and the whole is a very creditable piece of work. . Mr Saml. Daw is about to start running a daily coach to Birmingham and a triweekly coach to the Waituna. We commend Mr Daw for his enterprise, and feel assured that the rapid progress of settlement in these new districts will more than compensate him for his pluck. Medical men, chemists, herbalists, and, patent medicine vendors practising in Weilington have observed that those attacked by la grippe who have omitted to liquidate their newspaper , subscriptions, are the most dreadful sufferers, while those, good people who are prompt in their payments of these accounts have an equally prompt recovery, and experience no after evil effects, while, many eseajpe the disease altogether. Strange^ but easily understood. When the Feilding footballers left oh Thursday afternoon the railway platform was crowded with friends and well wishers to see them off. A parting cheer was given as the train left the station, to which the stalwart young athletes gave a hearty response. We will publish what news we receive this afternoon up to our going to press, but all later-: intelligence will be posted up at Mr Donnelly's shop in Ferfjnsson street, Mr Donnelly having kindly undertaken- to display the telegrams.

There will be a Junior's Tea in the Salvation Army on Monday. See advertisement. A leading article, our Wellington Letter, and apm<* new advertisements are unavoidably held over. Th« Feilding Hounds will meet at Mr John Saxon's Potatau Farm, on Wetines day next,- at 1 p.m. ' Some mischievous boys have been damaging the drain pipes ~in various places m the Borough.. The police have been requested to take steps to discover the offenders. Tenders are invited by Mr GyE. Little, Makino, for falling about 150 acres of bush nert Mr 1 irchman'- , on Kimbolton road. Intending contractors will be met on the road opposite the bush at 10 a.m. on Friday next. : There were a good many aspirants for the position of ranger and BoroUgh poundkeeper, on Thursday night. The choice of the Councillors fell on Messrs Lang and Blackmore for the respective posts, and we fell assured both of these will do their duty without fear or fayor as well as efficiently. A Canadian-Frenchman named Budolph Dubois, living at St. Albans, Vermont, after quarreling with his mother-in-law about his dinner, proceeded to hack her to pieces with an axe. as well as his wife and two children. He destroyed the entire household, and then escaped into the woods, but was subsequently captured and handed over to the authorities. A group of spiritualistic swindlers who j had been driving a roaring trade m Chicago were cleverly brought to bay by a newspaper reporter at a seance on the a 'sjh't of February the 18th, thoroughly exposed, and all lodged in prison. If this had happened in New Zealand the reporter would have been arrested for slander, and the newspaper proprietors indicted for criminal libel. ' Our millinery is really very choice and attractive and, without controversy, the best in the city. We have also an abundance of millinery requisites of the newest description, special attention, having been giyen by our Home buyer to the exact matching of all, Ladies can in this respect, therefore, depend on getting their wishes and tastes gratified at Te .Aro House, Wellington. We are quite sure that a visit to our Show Bloom 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-rat Te Aro House, Wellington.