Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 140, 20 May 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Onr Wellington letter and Volunteer Items appear on our fourth page to-day. The banks will be closed here on Saturday and Monday, the 24th and 26th instil A new lot of splendid electroplated ware is now on view at the Red House. Acceptances for the Wanganui Steeplechase Meeting close this evening at nine o'clock. The production of hemp from flax has now settled down into ah industry; it is no longer a "boom." . On account of next Saturday being a holiday, Mr Trimble will hold his weekly auction sale on Thursday next. The Manawatu Bifle Club beat the Otaki Club on Saturday, at the Hokowhitu range, by 28 points. A ballot is being taken of the Railway hands on the Wanganui section to ascertain of they are for or against extreme measures. The splendid rainfall we hare had last night and to«day will be of immense benefit to the farmers by bringing on the growth of feed. Advertisers are requested to note that this journal will be published on Friday the 23rd instant, instead of Saturday the Quean's birthday. General Boulanger says he is about to retire into, private life. That is as it should be, but he has been a long time taking- the hint. Tenders for additions to the Onepuhi bridge were opened on Saturday afternoon, when that of Mr George Caiman at £267 was accepted. We are pleased to notice that the New Zealand Times agrees with us in thinking that a new post office building is sadly needed in Feildmg. We notice that owing to the large increase of business Mr B. B. Collins, saddler, has been compelled to make exextensiye additions to his premises. The Post announces on authority that the Financial Statement will be ready by the time Parliament meets, and will be delivered immediately the Address-m-Beply is finished. '* Trade morality." It ' appears that ground oliye stones are used to adulterate pepper, and the Governor has accordingly ordered that the ground stones shall in future be subject to a duty of 4d per lb. A house at Bunny thorpe, the property of Mr C. Jensen, occupied by Mr Fredsburg was burned down on Saturday . morning. The furniture was insured for £75 in the New Zealand Insurance Office. We understand that the entries for Mr Trimble's horse fair to be held in the Feilding Hotel yard on Saturday the 31st instant, are already numerous, and the sale promises to be a great 'succors. Mr B. Tremewan gives notice that at the nexi meeting of the Manchester Boad Board he will apply for a license- to slaughter large and small cattle on sec tion 68, sub-division 0, in the Manchester Block. The difference between Colonial and British statesmen is thus stated by the returned member for JSormanby, Victoria :" We are quicker to devise and create ; they are more thoughtful to execute and repair." • The Nelson Evening Mail congratulates Mr Harkuess, M.H.B. " that he has to a large extent shaken himself free of the pulpit style of oratory by which he was, formerly, as a speaker on a political platform, heavily handicapped." Poor little man. The Chief Surveyor, Mr Marchant, I inyites tenders for the Tapuae Ridge Road contract. Plans and specifications may be seen at the post offices, Haloombe and Feilding. Tenders will be received at the District Survey office, Wellington, up to 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, 12th June, 1890. We notice that Mr Pearson has removed to his new premises in Fergusson street, and has opened up a large variety of new boots and shoes of the latest and most fashionable brands and makes. We wish Mr Pearson every success in the new building which his enterprize deserves. Fond Mama (who knows him at homo)' Frankie, I hop* you have been a nice quiet bor at school this afternoon. Frankie. — Yes, indeed, Yfamn ! I went to sleep in my seat right after recess, and the teacher said she would keep in the first boy or girl that waked me up. Mr A. L. Parr has just completed a very handsome Whitechapel cart to the order of a country resident. The vehicle is well finished in every respect. The workmanship is so good, and the price charged is so moderate, that Mr Parr hag already booked orders for two more. The polling will take place to-morrow for a loan of £5000 for the continuation of the Kimbolton road from the northern boundary of the Palmerstdn Small Farm Settlement to the northern boundary of the Pemberton Small Farm Settlement. We hope this will have a better fate than the proposals for loans in the Onga, Hautapu, and Pohangina wards. We (Manawatu Herald) would not like to cast any aspersion upon a noble breed of birds, but we have in- our possession a young cockerel of the Plymouth Bock ; breed which has developed an alarming taste for mice. Direbtly he sees a cat with a half dead mouse he walks up, pecks it, and then swallows it whole. Afterwards he pecks the cat to stir her up to further exertions for his benefit. Is this a failing of this particular breed ? We perceive by an application, No 4328, for a patent, that John Law Kirkbride, journalist, of Marton, who has so long wooed public support by means of the Advocate, has turned his attention to a new sphere of usefulness, and one in which his mechanical talents are likely to be highly appreciated—?' An invention for improvements in the means of raising, lowering, and securing window sashea." We feel certain that all Mr Kirkbride's old journalistic friends will wish him the genuine, success he deserves. The following is the text of VTr David Mean's message to the London Board of the Bank of New Zeal»ad : — " I make the net deficiency £165,000, namely, additional loss on the globo assets >n December last, £'349,000 ; loss in. the current business, mainly on the old accounts as ,at the 24th of February last, £54,000 ; Sydney defalcations, £28,000; against wnich the surplus oi the Bank premises, £150,000 at" credit sundry s*uspence accon s £16 000, and tota' .undivided profit,* including the March half yearly balance, £100,000.' We certainly manage these things badly in New Zealand. This year the Queen's Birthday falls on Saturday, therefore the General 3overnment offices will celebrate the occasion by .closing. on Monday As the most of the business of the week is done br the shops and stores on Saturday, therefore the Government have ordered the Volunteers to parade on that day where employes who are members of Volunteer corps must find it impossible to attend— unless they belong to a Umou and are independent of their employers. Why the Volunteer parada could not have been held on the Monday^ is a puzzla.