Local, and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 126, 17 April 1890, Page 2

Local, and General News

Dr Charlton will vaccinate to-morroW. ' Sir Walter Buller is now a Knight of the Legion of Honor. , Outward San Francisco mail will close at Feilding to-morrow at 3.45 p.m. D. Christy Murray will lecture in Palmerston on Friday next. He is not likely to appear -in Feilding, which is to be re* gretted. • Mr Carthew desires to acknowledge receipt of 21s collected. by Miss Perry in the Kiwitea Sunday school; in aid of the Dr Barnardo fund. Mr^J. G. Thompson, who is the leader of the Temperance party in this district, has inyited Mr Coad, the famous temperance lecturer, to visit Feilding. In our last issue we mentioned that Mr Peter Thomson had received a lot of new groceries and ironmonery, but we omitted to state that, his stock of sweetmeats, biscuits,, ratafias, Ac. had been entirely replenished.

The estimates of revenue and expenditure of the Feilding Borough Council are published to-day on our fourth page, and should prove of great interest to the ratepayers. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R., returned last night from his trip up the Central Line of Railway.; Mr Baliance will address his corstitu- : cuts in about a fortnight. Mr Michael Prendergast, J.P., of Palmerston North, has been committed to the Wellington lunatic asylum. lt is. said that Mr Sydney Johnston will oppose Mr W. C. Smith for the Waipawa seat at the next general election, and that the sitting member will beat Mr Johnston easily. Mr Arkwright has .been a visitor to this, part of the Electoral District for the last fewdays. *' Our local Mrs Malaprop says, "For all their teefcotalisatpring there seems to be a lot of drinking at the raceß." The innermost; unexpressed thought of every man is about this: — If every other man had been created as nearly right as I am, the mUlehium might come almost any day. At an afternoon, concert at the Dunedin Exhibition, Miss Atkins, who was in goad' voice, sang "Cherry Ripe " and " They Kerry Dance/ Her- Bulging of the latter' securing her an encore. It has been thought advisable to close' the Taonui school, Rangitikei Line, on account of an infectious skin disease, from which many of the children in the district are suffering.— Manawat- Times. „. Messrs Simmonds and Stratford, flaxmillers, Oroua Bridge, have' filed their Schedule. Thb liabilities are put down at £692 14s 3£d, and the assets at £1114, tha* showing a surplus of £421 10s l£d. At the inaugural banquet of the Pahnerston Fire Brigade Band on Tuesday last, the members of the band presented their bandmaster, Mr F. Clemens, with a handsome. silver mounted baton. The Manchester Board Board advertisements relative to the elections have been altered as follows :t— The day of election for' No. 4 ward to Thursday, Ist May; No. 5 war& to Saturday 3rd May ; No. 6 ward, to Friday 2nd May. Mr FitzHerbert, M.H.R., informed the. Herald that he has not made up his mind whether or not he will stand again. He speaks at the Hutt in about a fortnight, and will make some definite announcement there. Sir Harry Atkinson promised a deputation of flaxmillers today, in Wellington, that next session he will place £10,---000 on the estimates as a bonus for an improved process for the manufacture of fibre. Mr. W. G. Haybittle has just opened up a stock of new lines in punters requisites, lamps, corrugated iron, cooking ranges, groceries, and other items too numerous to mention. An advertisement giving full particulars will appear in our next issue. Too much protection. Business does not appear to be brisk in Melbourne just now. A private letter received in Dunedin last week says :— " I fear that an epidemic of insolvency has set in,' and will increase in intensity. This morning (March 31) there were nineteen meetings of creditors." The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star says: — I understand that Sir Julius Yogel has decided on a much earlier return to the colony than he contemplated a few weeks back, but he is very uncertain j about re-entering public life, as he feels I he has been badly requited by the colony for his past services. The Napier Telegraph has caught the man with the legacy and says :■—" It is reported that an esteemed medical gentleman in this town, and who at one time, occupied the highest civic office in the borough, is the recipient of a handsome . legacy of several thousand pounds." This does'nt beat the Wanganui man, though half a loaf is better than no bread. At a meeting of the Wanganui Harbor Board, held last Monday, a letter was received from the Crown Lands Department stating that the Board had not power to reduce the price pf the Endowment Block until it had been thrown open for three yeara and that theiefore the reduction of 30 per cent, made by the Board oould not be gazetted, This only applied to the land already opened up. It was resolved to leave this matter in the hands of the . chairman.— Herald. The Masterton correspondent of the N.Z. Times says:— The followers of foot* ball in this district seem to be more energetic than eyer this season, which has already been opened by the Masterton Club receiving a defeat at the hands of the Feilding team on Easter Monday, the latter players being in good training compared with the home team who were in very bad form. The defeat, however, was not yery severe, the visitors getting a goal from a mark and the local' men securing' a try. The Masterton Club expect to send a team to play Woodville, Palmerston, Feilding, and Wellington towards the end of May. ' 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 Room, the eye would be charmed and correct tastes gratified by an inspection of the latest outcomes of fashion — at Te Aro House, WeUington. <;• ; - Messrs Cobbe and Darragh, of the Cash Exchange, have now opened' some splendid lines of Autumn and" Winter Drapery, Clothing, &c.