Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Daw's new line of coaches to Waitnna, via the Makino Valley, made the first trip to-day. There is no Farmer's Club in this district. Our farmers have no time for that sort of thing. A girl named Driver fell over the cliff at Purakanui, Dunedin, on Wednesday last, and was killed. The Manchester Road Board sat this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. Mr Hammond, the well-known Maori Missionary, will preaoh in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow at 11 a.m. Mr Corry will conduct the evening service. Mr S. M. Wilson took possession of the Occidental Hotel,- Palmerston North, last Tuesday. His business advertisement will appear in tht course of a few days. The agricultural live stock of the United States is now valued at £510,000,---000. It is reared on five million farms, which support nearly 10 million farmers and laborers. The Woodyille Examiner says :— lt is , now stated that Mr Tanner will fight Mr Ormond for the Napier seat." This will be like a game cock ruffling his feathers at an eagle. • Great complaints are made of the difficulty of obtaining servant girlß at Wellington. The Dunedin Exhibition was re- j sponsible for drawing away a large number-, but the registry office keepers state that many more have gone to Melbourne, where, there is great demand for domestic servants, and higher wages are offered than can be obtained at the Empire City.

Mr Butherford had a fine show of meat in his shop last night. The brokerage of flax passed through the Auckland market is said to amount to £3000 or £4000 per annum. As a sijrn of returning business activity to the place, we may mention that there were more drunk men in *Feilding yesterday than we have seen for many a long day. The Australian Blondin, who performed in the open air near the Denbigh Hotel on Thursday night, attracted a' multitude of people, and his performances on the tight rope were much admired. It is rumoured that the staff of the Bank of New. Zealand in this colony has been submitted to the pruning knife by the London Directorate, and several very high officials will be dispensed with. We have to acknowledge receipt of Messrs Beid and Gray's illustrated catalogue of 54 pages, and have been requested to intimate that the firm solicits application for them, which will be sent free to any address. ' A gentleman who has sent 60,000 carcases of sheep to England during the last two years says that he has sound reasons for believing that, in 1892 the export of sheep from this coast, extending from New Plymouth to Paikakariki, near Wellington, will exceed one million. A man, whose name did not transpire, was so severely kicked by a horse at Campbelltowri to-day as not to be expected to live. Dr Charlton was called in this afternoon to attend to the unfortunate sufferer, but up to the time of going to press we have heard no further tidings of the case. ' The Palmereton will case at present being heard in the Wanganui Supreme Court is not likely to be conoluded before the middle of next week. Mr McEenzie was in the box when the Court ros6 at 5.15 last evening, and the eyidence of Mrs McNexll, Mrs Holt, and Miss Mason, is to be taken. The manager of the Oroua Downs estate has received the returns of a shipment of 993 frozen sheep which was sent Home by the Tongariro. The receipts came to £1,253 Is lOd, the charges being £658 19s sd, leaving a margin of i' 594 2s sd, or a nett price of 12s per head on 993 sheep in the paddock immediately after shearing. We learn that Messrs Gledhill and Co/, of Kereru, have received advices from London under date February 24th, relative to their shipment of good quality flax, ex Tongariro. The pride realised was £31 5s per ton, and the writers state : "If you can send a quantity of similar quality we can guarantee from £4 to £5 per ton over average prices."— Manawatu Times. ' We publish as an inset to-day a leaflet anent a book entitled " Heroes of the- dark Continent and how Stanley found Emm Pasha." The agent.is now in Feilding and will make an active canvas of the district during next week. This publication is really worth having and is of special interest just now when Mr H. M. Stanley is the "hero of the hour" in England. The advertisement appears in another column. A curious irregularity in the School Committee election has been reported to the Uhristchurch Education Board. Six householders .complained that seven members of the retiring Committee shut themselves in the school at the hour appointed for the public meeting of householders, and elected themselves, keeping the other persons out of the room till after 7 o'clock, when they admitted them, The Board declared the election invalid. Messrs Murray,' Boberts and Co. report : — Our London firm (Messrs Sanderson, Murray and Co.) cable us as follows : —".London,; 6th May.— •♦ The next series of wool sales (3rd) has been fixed to commence on Tuesday, 24th June, and will be limited to 360,000 bales of new arrivals. The following series will commence on Tuesday, 16th .September, and Thursday, 25th Noy ember. There is a better spirit in the wool market." y , < The following is the list of bishops consecrated in New Zealand up to the present time : — Bishop of Waiapu (Williams), at Wellington, 1859 ; Bishop of Melanesia (Patteson), at Auckland, 1861 ; •Bishop of Wellington (Hadfield), at Wellington, 1870; Bishop of Dunedin (Nevill), at Duuedin, 1871 ; Bishop of Melanesia (Selwyn), at Nelson, 1877; Bishop of Waiapu (Stuart), at Napier, 1677 ; Bishop of Christchuich, (Juliuh), at Chnstchuroh, 1890. The Palmerfcon people are beginning to find out that they can have too much of a good thing— even in hotels, and as there ° " more coming," the Standard aaya :— We | hope the members of the Licensing Committee will be true to the trust reposed in them, and, notwithstanding any outside pressure brought to bear, will fearlessly and distinctly affirm the principle that there are sufficient licensed houses in the town for the present, and that neither the requirements nor the welfare of the community make it desirable that such number should be increased. . An unlucky fellow . named Clarke, working at a sawmill at the Thames (says, the Napier News) was caught by a broken belt that was twisting itself round an axle connecting with the breaking-down saw. The fingers of the left hand were caught, and in less than an instant the arm was twisted round and broken, first above the wrist, then at the elbow, and torn off in a ghastly manner, and the map was thrown down into the sawpit. A curious thiug about the accident is that Clarke was not for a little time aware that he had lost his arm. He endeavoured to vault out of the pit as usual, and on being lifted out he remarked, 'I believe I have broken my arm, as I can't use it.' When he was, made aware of the loss, he said, in Ms usual voice, ' Give us your hand, Bill, I'm crippled for life.'

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* keta — for Te Aro House, Wellington. 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 paeees 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. ' Wfe have also an abundance of millinery requisites of the. newest description, special attention having been giyeu 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. Our Mantle Boom ib brimful of the latest novelties in mantles, jackets, fur-' lined and imperial water- proof cloaks in a vast variety of materials, • shapes and sizes ; and such as are adapted to please every taste. We specially invite a minute inspection of. all the autumn novelties in our Show Boom, and will be pleased to give ample facilities for ho doing—without pressiug any visitor to buy —at Te AroHbuae, 1 Wellington.— A»vl\