Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 135, 8 May 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Humble bees are spreading rapidlj in the Hawera district. Captain Russell is reported to be laid up in Wellington with La Grippe. Typhoid feyer is reported in Wanganui, traceable to bad milk supplied by a local milkmau. The results of the election for the Waituna ward are published elsewhere, by which it will be seen Mr Williamson won hands down. Youngsters take a lively interest in the circus. Yesterday a little boy heard his sister ask : '•Is it washing day, mother ?" He sternly checked her and announced, " No, it is circus day !"■ At the Westport Resident Magistrate's Court a man named Elks was fined 10s and £3 19s costs, or ten days'imprisonment, for disturbing the Salvation Army meeting at Denmston. Ellin elected to go to gaol. . The Roman Catholics of Melbourne, at a public meeting on the 20th ult., subscribed .£20,000 for the purpose of completing St. Patrick's Cathedral, in that city, ,as a memorial to the late Archbishop Goold and Dean Fitzpatrick. . ; Mrs Hally, of the Shamrock Boarding House, Ferguetson street, thanks the travelling public and the residents of Feilding for the liberal support she has received since she has opened that establishment, and notifies her charges are still very reasonable. Oysters and fresh fruit ' always on hand. - Mr Joseph Freeman advertises to-day that he has just received a large assortment of ladies', gentlemen's and children's boots and shoes, all of the best brands and marked at the lowest prices.' As his Bhop .is conveniently situated in Manchester street, opposite Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale yards, Mr Freeman should do well. .■'■■■■' Yesterday morning about 4 o'clock the firebell rang out "a wild alarum" and anxious, but sleepy, heads of families were dragged out into the chill morning air only to find that they might just as well have remained snugly ensconced in their beds' because the alarm was a false one. It appears an " early bird" had been collecting a heap of rubbish in the garden of Mr 8, J. Thompson, and then set it on fire to destroy it. The glare startled another equally " early .bird!!, who flew to : the fire bell " to awake the echoes and the sleepers." Hence these tears. Mr Bull, whose process for dressing flax has been referred to several times in our columns, has received gratifying intelligence with respect to the recent trial at the Brandon Hall hemp mill. The fibre put through the machine was placed in a paddock, and two days afterward it was found to be bleached as white as the finest sisal. Mr Bull claims that his patent will treat at least two tons of raw material more than any olher machine on the market, and will not destroy any part of the fibre. A further i test of the process i« to be made, at the Baine mill in a few days.— Post. For the information of tenderers for the bushfelling contraot of 1200 acres in the Huiakama block, and especially for tboße who are living at a distance, we give the following particulars:— The land is very lightly timbered, for. the most part being tawa bush; with very little or no underscrub to clear. The land is rolling downs with no steep facpa. The flat land is mostly Koromiko sorub, and will be foiled j under separate' contracts later in the season. Tenderers' are expected to tender for 500 or 600 acres m a blook, so that small parties should combine and agree;! to join their forces in any tender sent in. Tenders witl not close until the 10th instant, at Stratford. Tenderers will find a resident on the block, who will show them over the land. Messrs Richards and Co. having added groceries, crockery, ironmongery, etc., to their drapery and clothing business, are prepared to execute orders at prices that will be a saving to consumers, and establish Richards and Co. as the cheapest i ; honse in Feilding — Advt. '

Our report of the Hunt Meeting at Mr ' Macarthur's yesterday, is held over, owing to pressure of other matter. Messrs F. K Jackson and Co. held a yery successful sale to-day, and a detailed report will appear in our next issue. '■' "' : '.'■'■ The Hon. Mr Batiauce addressed his constituents at Wauganui last eyeying, j and receiyed a vote of thanks and connN , deuce. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day:— Warnings for southerly gales and rain have been sent to all places northward of Kaikoura and Nelson. We understand that Sir H. A. Atkinson will not address his constituents before the commencement of the approaching session of Parliament, as the state of his health necessitates as much rest as possible. Mr Trimble will sell at the Feildmg Auction Mart on Saturday next a large' variety of goods as enumerated in advertisement, Mr Trimble' will also hold an auction sale of assigned stock at Halcombe on Monday next. At the annual tea meeting in connection with the Awahuri Presbyterian: Church on Tuesday last, Miss Macdonald was presented- by the members of the congregation with a handsome gold watch and chain for her services in presiding at the harmonium for the past five years. The Mangaone Cricket Club wound up their season on Wednesday last by a match Married v. Single. As there was some tall scoring on both sides, the game did not finish and was declared a draw. A meeting of the members of the club will beheld in the schoolhouse next Saturday: On Monday evening an elderly wpinau named Mrs Cook, died suddenly at Rangiora. She went into the garden, and her husband found her leaning against the fowlhouse. On removing her into the house she expired. For some. time 'past she had suffered from rheumatism, The Wellmgtoh associated butchers hare revised their scale as. follows: — Sirloin of beef, 6d to Si per lb; prime ribs of beef from 5d to 4d; rump steak, from 8d to 7d ; corned found, from .6d to 4b ; briskets, salt, from 3d to 2fij& The promoters of the 3of operative Butchery have' issued a prospectus, with capital of £10,000- mi; lus shares. To-day Mr Daw" adye'f tiiaes that on Saturday next he will commence running a bi-weekly lino of coaches to Waituna, by way of the Makino Valley. We congratulate Mr Daw on his enterprise, and feel confident that it will bring its own reward by securing the hearty support of the settlers who are beriefi tted by it. MrW. G. Haybittle has just received a lot of new goods from America, among which are numbers of things quite new to this market. They are not only novel, but each is excellent of its kind, besides having the double advantage of being remarkably reasonable in the matter of cost and being very neatly got up. We recommend an early visit. The advertisement giving full particulars arrived too late for insertion to-day but will appear on Saturday. Another old resident of Wellington has passed over to the great majority in the person of Mrs Sheath, wife of Mr Abraham %B. B. Sheath, for . many years accountant of the Telegraph Department. Mrs Sheath was a native of Birmingham, and came out to Australia with her husband 30 .years ago. After a residence thereof about three. or four years they came over to Wellington. Mr Sheath retired from the Government service Qn pension a few years ago. On Saturday last she partook of tea at her. residence at Newton, and was apparently in good health, but shortly afterwards she retired to her room and was seized with an attack of heart disease, which resulted in death m a few minutes. Deceased, who was in her 71st year, was much respected for her kindly disposition, and the news of her dea^h will be receiyed with feelings of regret by a -large, number of our readers. One of her daughters is married to Mr Fred. Bull, of Wellington, and. another v the wife of Mr R. Kirton, chief postmaster at Nelson, while a son is in charge of the Post Office at Tauranga,— Post. We are quite sure that a visit to our Show Boom 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— at Te Aro House, Wellington. 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 '>f all. Ladies can in this re spect, therefore,, depend on getting their wishes and tastes gratified -at To Aro House, Wellington. Our Mantle Room is .brimful of the latest novelties in mantles, jackets, furlined aud imperial water- proof cloaks in a vast variety of materials, shapes and sizes ; and such as are julapted 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 doing — without pressing any visitor to buy — at Te Aro House, Wellington. — ADVT.