Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 137, 13 May 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Harry Laing, the pugilist, filed his schedule in bankruptcy at Wanganui on Saturday. Persons found trespassing on Mr Samuel Knight's property, Spur road, will be prosecuted. . We hear that Mr W. T. Watte has sold out of the Ashurst Hotel to Mr Grammar, of Ashurst at a satisfactory figure. We have received Typo for April. It is : j the best number we haveyet seen, and contains an admirably executed portrait of the Key W. Colenso. By a typographical error in an article on Saturday, on the " Eight Hour* Labor," the word "twenty" was substituted for -fifty." . ' Mr W. G. Pearce thanks the ratepayers , of No, 5 Ward, Manchester Road District, for placing him at the head' of the poll at the recent election. An addition is made to-day to Messrs Reid's and Gray's advertisement, anent " Digging Ploughs " made convertible to an ordinary double-furrow plough. The polling for a loan, of £8000 for the Awahau-Pohangina Block, took place at the old school house, Pohangina, on Saturday last, and resulted in a failure; 81 votes were required to-carry the loan, and only 15 votes were recorded. Mr Edmund Goodbehere was the Returning Office. The cricket match, Australians v. Lord Sheffield's team, resulted in a decisive vibtory for the Australians, by an innings and 84 runs. Murdoch was in for over four hours, and his score of 93 included thirteen boundary hits. The Englishmen's first innings closed for 27 runs, of which number W. G. Grace made 20. On Saturday and Sunday mornings Mr W. Stevens' gate, opening into Campbell street, was opened by some silly or malicious person, and 80 head of cattle allowed to get out and wander in the road. Fortunately Mr Stevens was up early, enough land had them driven, in, on both occasions, before the Banger got sighiot them. The districts up the coast (says the Chronicle) are looking remarkably well! A better feeling seems to pervade the ! communities generally, and cattle are ; steadily advancing, ..in i price. About Manaia they have gone, up £1 per head. In Opunake the stoppage of the flax mills j seems to have caused some trouble, the. business people being reported to be interested to the tune of £5800. Some idle person, too lazy to walk to his work, one day last week took a horse from Mr Munro's paddock, on the Awahuriroad, saddled it, and rode it hard to wherever his journey; ended. He then turned the horse loose to find its way home, but the vigilant Banger arrested it on »♦« way, and it wag safely impounded. When the owner discovered hiß loss on Sunday he made inquiries, and wag in. formed where to go for the horse. He was disgusted to find the saddle marks so distinct. • Yesterday afternoon, when Mr Batohelor, builder, Of Wanganui, was driving with his wife on Kimbolton road, the horse bolted. Mra Batchelor, becoming alarmed,jumped out, and by the fall sustained a comminuted fracture of her left leg. Notice was «ent into town, and Dr Charlton met the snfferer, who was carried to the Empire Hotel, where all was done that it was possible for surgical skill to effect. The patient is now doing as well as can be expected, and is receiving every possible attention at the kindly hands of Mrs Oliver, ' ' '

Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day :— 1 TeWraimsvto «xp«ot frost have been sent to all placet. • At the Police Court yesterday, before J. G. Thompson, Esq., J.P., John Blute was fined 5s and costs for being drunk. The fortnightly meeting of the local lodge of Odd Fellows, takes plaoe this evening at 7 o'clock. At the B.M. Court to be held to-morrow there will be about twenty-five oases to lecide. The first of Mr Trimble's auction sales at Halconibe v 'was held yesterday, in the Temperance Hall. There was a large attendance, and the bidding was pretty brisk, most of the goods being disposed of. We are informed by Mr Beading, the •manager of the Feilding Assembly Booms, that the Vivian Company will probably visit _ Feilding early next month. A new advertisement from Mrs Evans will appear next issue. She has on hand fresh oysters, in kit or bottle, biscuits, lollies, chocolate, bananas, and other fresh fruit, Sec., &c. • : Members of the Evan's relief committee are reminded of the meeting to be held at the Feilding Hotel to-morrow evening at eight o'clock. , Gentlemen desirous , of joining are cordially 'invited to attend. Yesterday Mr Benjamin Saxelby; of . Waitapu, died suddenly at Otaki, from heart disease. Mr Saxelby was , well known in Feilding,, where he has left many friends to mourn his loss. When the wickedness of gaming is denounced, too little, heed is, paid to its , unprofitableness, and 'human beings are, more reluctant to do that which will not pay than, that 'whioh is called sinful. . There is a wild delight, in sinning, which, is not feltin losing money . On Sunday morning, at Northfield, Mr Edmund Goodbehere's residence, on 1 the] Kimbplton road, a, weasel, whioh was prowling about in the garden, was caught by a domeatio cat and slaughtered after a brief but exciting contest. This is the second of these depredators killed in the district. On Wednesday last Kiwitea .was enfete for the, . occasion of M r Barrett's : marriage to Miss Margaret Perry, whicl^ took plaice at the newly erected resi-' denee of Mr A, J. Perry, the bride's father. The ceremony was preformed by the Bey Cannell, of Sundon, and 4n the evening a large number (about -80)^ of friends of the bidal couple assembled to do honour to the occasipni by enjoying a dance given by the bride's-parrnts. Mr ; B. J., Hogg, who -has for- the pasttwo years held the position of accountant in the," Bank of New, South W;alea . in Napier, has received no tioejbf promotion.Mr Hogg proceedjaUd Bufis^Rangitlkel) and will take the management of the Bank's branch there,, .Begr^et w^ba-fellj, by the Bank'fjoußtqiners here, with\w.honi t and the £efteral*public Mr Hogg has made himself a favorite by his genial manner and business capabilities.- r Telegraph'. - At a meeting of the Committee of the Feilding Jockey Club last evening, it waß decided to call for tenders for ploughing and levelling the new course, and the erection of necessary fencing, <fee. It was also resolved that Messrs D. H. MacartWi M.H.R., W. A. L. Bailey, and W: A. Sandilands be the lessees of the ground on behalf of the Club. * The, Committee expressed themselves' ajj highly pleased with the new course^ a plan of whioh, prepared by Mr F. Owen, surveyor, was laid before them. Before proceeding 'with the erection of a grand stand it was decided that a committee should inspect the various grand stands of the different Clubs on the Coast. . ' A year or so ago, -one Dudley Eyre, commission agent, of iWanganni, great loual teetotaller and churchgoer, bolted to California with about £2000 of other people's money. The Wanganui Chronicle g V6B the, following details of the deardeparted ;Dudley^B~'dbmgs' oh 'the Pacific Slope :-*" At St. Saviour's Church, Sacramento, California, on Sunday, nheiptn March, Mr Dudley Eyre, of the^ Colorado refreshment rooms, preached a most eloquent sermon to a crowded assembly, taking his text; from St. John, ohapter vri — yerse 87. Mr Eyre was to preach again on the 28rd March. He is considerAd the most powerful, ardent, and popular preacher ever heard in Sacra, 'memo." Surely Borne decent Wanganui man ought to write to, a Sacramento paper and expose „ this santimonious i scoundrel. Thus says the Napier Eveniag News, but the kindly editor of that journal seems to forget thai if the editor of the paper in Sacramento ware to publish a letter of the kind, he would be tarred and feathered, ridden on a rail, arid then hanged for libelling a '• most respected citizen." He wouldn't take such a risk, even to oblige "a decent WanganujLqoan/? 1 Messrs Bichards and Co. having added groceries, crockery, ironmongery, etc., to their drapery and clothing business/are, prepared to execute orders at prices thai will be a saving to consumers, and establish. Bichards and. Co. as tij.e cheapest house in FenftihjH-AD.vr. . ? i •- •, ' "* " . Cobbe and Darragh have received their, -new samples of Kaiapoi Tweeds, a nd are now prepared to take orders for Suits to Measure at very moderate prices. The fit and wear of their, clothing ha tre^ given the greatest satisfaction to -their customers, and as before they are prepared to guarantee the fit and finish of all garoqents whioh they undertake. We are quite sure that a' vWt to our Show Boom would be positively delightful: 1 and whether the visitor roams through' the Millinery Department or passes on to the Man tie ; Room, .the eye would be oharmed and correct tastes 'gratified by an inspection of the latest outcomes of 'fashion— at^Te. Aro House, Wellington. ; t ; r ■-.; • : ' t ■; ■■, '■ Our millinery is reallj- votj choice and attractive and, without controversy, the best iri &c city. We have also an abun- , danoe of millinery requi sites of the newest description, special att^ntioii haying been giVeh by our Home >>uyer to the exact matching of all, Ladies ..can. in this respect, therefore, ;*dep©ud on |&tting their wishes and tasles gratifiedat 'Te'Afo House, Wellington. ; ■ '.. , Our Mantle Boom is bnmfnl of the. latest novelties m mantles, jackets, furhned and imperial waiter- prppf cloaks in a vast variety of materials, shapes «n^d eufes ; and such as are adapted to please every taste. We speoially invite a minute inspection of all the autumn novelties ia our Shaw Boom, and will be pleased to give ampjle facilities for bo doing—without preeeing any visitor to* buy —at Te Aro Hoiiß«, Welfingtonj— AbVT.