The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1890. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 131, 29 April 1890, Page 2

The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1890. Local and General News

The annual meeting of the Feildinft Licensing Committee will be held at the Court House on June 2nd. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day: — Warnings for easterly gales and ram has been sent to all places uorth. of Napier and New Plymouth. Danevirke whiskey is about as strong as they make it anywhere. According to the verdicts of coroner's juries it killed two men in one week. . j A meeting of ratepayers of No. 5 ward will be held in the school house, Mangaone, on Thursday next, at 7.80 p.m. The object of the meeting is to consider matters re the coming election, and it is necessary for all ratepayers to make it their duty to be present. The Pall Mall Gazette notices the large export from , New Zealand as set forth in the last address of the President of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, and speaks encouragingly of the prospects of the colony. A sad accident happened to a wedding I party at Pohtivy, Paris, on. February 18. The vehicle conveying the bride and bridegroom and a number of their friends was. upset and the whole party precipitated into a river. The bride and bridegroom and ten others of the party were drowned. We understand that owing to the low prices which they have been advised their flax brought in the London market, Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew have decided to stop their flaxmill during this week. The mill will probably start again if the hemp market recovers from the severe blow it has received. . Two Christchurch sporting gentlemen passing through the district" had a good look over the new race course, and are of opinion that it can be 'made pneof the best courses in New and if properly laid out the ? club should be — .judging from their balance sheet— one of the, most successful along\ the coast. ■The -Brisbane {Boomerang says that Archdeacon Julius, late of Ballarat, and now of Christchurch, is a good speaker, ft smart pugilist, a clever athlete, and an enthusiastic amateur photographer. He 18 also a lover of the stage, and used to work the -limelight effects for the Ballarat Dramatic €lub. These are funny qualifications for a clergyman 1 We understand it is probable that a grand Military Tournament, under th« 'auspices of the Bangitikei- Cavalry will be held on the Feilding racecourse on Queen's Birthday. It is contemplated to have a march through the town to the ground, and to invite the Manchester Rifles and the Feilding Brass Band to assist in the demonstration. -On Saturday last at Nukumaru, Wanganui, Bpbert Walker while working on the top of a threshing, macliine,. stepped backwards on to the drum, with the result that his leg was dragged in and nearly torn off. The leg was amputated, but the poor fellow died in the evening from loss of blood and shock to the system. The Palmerston football team met the Foxton footballers on Saturday at Foxton, and gained a decisive victory by 17 points to ml. Thirteen tries were scored by the winners as follows : — Mcllvnde 3, Hyland 2, Oliphant 2, Burton 2, and Jackson, Stallard, Weston, and Peters, one each. Jewell converted two of the tries into goals. The game was all in favour of Palmerston, but the play was not so one-sided as the large scores would make it appear. ■ Great interest was taken in the election of the committee for the Feilding school last evening. The school room was packed with householders, there being nearly 200 persons present. The result of the election, as will be seen -by our report published in another column, was the return of the old committee, with the exception of Mr Beading whose place is now filled by Mr F. Y. Lethbridge. At half past so ven on Saturday night last the firebell rang out a wild alarm. The cause proved to be the burning of a straw stack on Mr Roe's property, and the fire could be distinctly seen from the neighborhood of the Square. The Fire Brigade quickly turned out with their engine, and got as far as the Denbigh Hotel, when they learned that their services could be of no practical utility. There was a slight disturbance over the early closing in High street, Christ-church,-on Saturday night. The police arrested two young men who began to hoot Strata, 'the jeweller, and no further disturbance occurred. The accused wera brought up at the Police Court yesterday, and fined Is and costs, the Bench re marking that a repetition of such conduct would be treated m the severest possible manner. The safe belonging to Mr Spriggins, o Wanganui, which was reported stolen on Easter Monday, has been found in a baker's oven at the rear of Spnggins' building, with saws, braces, drills, etc., noar it. A piece of one of the sides had been drilled , put. All that Mr Spriggins can say he misses is a watch and eleven sovereigns, the other articles, papers, etc., being found m the safe. The police are now trying to find out who did it. The funeral of the late Mr George Evans took place on Sunday afternoon last.. There was a large attendance, which was proof of the great respect and esteem in which the deceased was held in the town and district generally. There were npwards of twenty vehicles, and about as many horsemen. After the body had been deposited in the grave the coffin was literally covered with boquets, wreaths, crosses, and other tokens of affection towards the deceased. The Bey. Mr Harris conducted the service at the grave. William Appleyard, a resident of New Plymouth has received a communication from some inquiry agents at Christchurch, asking for his antecedents. The letter states that one John Appleyard died 30 years ago m Lincolnshire worth £20,000, and his heirs are wanted. The man here is j the only son of John Appleyard, of Horton, Lincolnshire, who died 30 years ago, and is 64 years of age. He left home at the age of 16 as a soldier for India, and says he had heard as a boy of a rich uncle in America, but knows nothing further, i The details of a horrible occurrence at the Imperial kennels, at Gatschina, are published at St. Petersburg. The wife of \ Dietz, the chief huntsman, sent her son, aged eight years, to fetch the newspapers from the station. The child was attacked by some half-bred wolves, used for j coursing their wild brothers, and was devoured alive. These beasts are often bred in Russia, being it is said, very savage, and better able to cope with the wild wolves than any whole-bred dogs. Thfi Emperor has had the whole pack'destroyed. Messrs J. C. Morey and Co. call attention to the fact that since the alteration to their premises, they have thoroughly Btocked themselves with drapery and clothing of a very superior class, and to bjrinsr jt within reach of everyone they have marked it all round at a very small advance on cost.

Mr Wm. Pearson, of Manchester street, has just opened up a consignment of gents' shooters, an inspection of which he invites. Messrs P. and .J. Bartholomew, proprietors of the Kiwitea sawmills, direct attention to their advertisement, which appears in another column, relating to the rise in their prices forjimber^of all descriptions. At the municipal elections in .Paris the supporters of General Boulanger signally failed. So far 2241 shares in the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company haye been taken up. The Company will be registered when 3000 shares have been placed and the directors hope to have the works complete in December. . William Kruse, a settler at Brightwater, Nelson, was riding on the top of a load of straw, when in passing under a telegraph line the wire caught him and threw him to the ground with such force that he sustained severe lnternal.injuries, of which he died. j . The Wellington Press, of Thursday last says: — "A man named Leyien has just come into a property in Sydney repre-: senting £75,000. This lucky individual is at present working in a sawmill at Havelock." This is the man to whom we referred in a ldngthy paragraph some few weeks back. ' ; Cobbe and Darragh have received their new samples of Kaiapoi Tweeds, and are now prepared to take orders for Suits to Measure at very moderate prices. The fit and wear of their clothing have given the greatest satisfaction to their customers, and as, before fjjey are prepared to guarantee the/fit and fifligh, of all garments which tHey undertake^ ' ? 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 continental mar « •kets — for Te Aro House, Wellington. >We are quite sure that a visit to pur Show Room would be positively delightful; and .whether the visitor roams thr6ugh 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-^t Te Aro House, Wellington. : ■