Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 141, 22 May 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

■ . :. _.-, — —^—^ ?-■••%•-. -■:•■ The Hon. T. Ferguß addresses his constituents to-nighti. The smell of finely-scraped horseradish is said to be an effectual' bare for headache. ■:■ -: . ■.■- ; -■ ■■•:.-■.,■ ■' i -■■ ■■.-<• v Mass will be celebrated in St. Bridget's Church, Feilding, on iSunday next; at Ba.m. . ■_„,;' _. .;,.::. ■; :■• ■ . The Alameda took 1495 bales of flax from Auckland and 145 bales from the South. Mr W. F. Marsh, of Apiti, has sold his property at Haloombe at a satisfactory Dgnr'Ot" ' The children attending the Feilding State School will observe Monday next as a holiday. . ; • It is probable > that judgment in the McNeil (Palmerston) will case will be delivered at Wellington eirly next. week. The Palmerstoin folk wa;nt another hour per day : jput ' on "thew drinking tixne^ tiy extendingthe hotel licenses till midnight. The number pi sheep, im New South' Wales for the year was^O, 106,768.. This shows an increase-for the whole Colony of 3,603,298. > s :\ ., \ ; : .•;: ■u> '

They have a new firebell tower in Palmerston. On our back page to-day we publish the seventy-ninth annual balance-sheet of that thriving institution, the Bank of Hew. South Wales. Messrs Nelson Bros, furnish the following cablegram from their /London house : •—"-Mutton market dull, best quality 4§d; beef-^bindquarters, 4jd ; forequarters, 4d. The distress from famine in some of the districts- in China has reached such a point that girl babies are taken in baskets and carried around the cities for sale. Dr Redwood, Roman Catholic Archbishop, has just been visiting Reefton, where, he stated in his address, a convent is about to be* established. We would remind intending contributors of produce, &c, to the Evan's Relief Committee thai their contributions will be sold by Mr Trimble, at his auction mart, on Saturday, the 31st init. In a drunken brawl at Patea on Saturday afternoon, a watchmaker named Oberg had a finger pulled completely off by two men with- whom he had been quarrelling. A private letter from New Plymouth states that at present good - butter is only fetching 4d to 5d per lb there, andVthai last season one dealer lost over .£2OOO on his shipments Home. — Herald, Mr A. Eade has just completed a drawing room suite for Mr Perry of the Kiwitea. It is very elegant in design and the workmanship is first class. A new phase of unionism has been invented in Dunedin to stop undue competition among the grocers. They are to cease marking the price of goods, and the merchants are bound by a penalty of i?SO against supplying grocers who break the rule. The Mayor of Dunedin, in the course of some remarks, said he was. afraid there was going to be a good deal of distress during the winter, and already he had received pressing applications in his official capacity. ■ TheVe were six rival book agents in thin district on Thursday, all doing as well as could be expected. • It is said they carefully avoided each other in the country roads after dark. The reason is only to be guessed at. They would find the advantage of it if the Palmerston and Feilding employees were to form a regularly organised Holiday Association. All the information needed may be obtained on application to the Association in Hawke Bay. - An Adelaide parson has failed with liabilities reached £10,000 and assets just about half that amount. He at-tributes-bis woes to gambling in shares and buying a brewery. Open confession is good for the ? soul. A son of Mr William Frizzet, of Christchurch, aged 18 years, fell 84 feet down a welToh, Sunday morning. Both his legs were broken, his wrist dislocated ; his nose was also broken, and six of his teeth knocked out, and he was much gashed and bruised. He still lives 1 Two Dunedin journalists came to fisticuffs in a Dunedin newspaper office the other day. One of the parties produced a revolver, but he didn't shoot, which was a pity, because one would have been killed and the other hung, while the world would have counted two fools less. We are glad to notice from the Manawatu Times, that the Palmerston yearly estimates of the Borough Council disclose a highly satisfactory state of affairs.' Our contemporary compliments Councillors Cohen and Wollerznan, the members of the finance committee who framed the estimates. There is an apple tree (Irish peach) growing in a garden, in Bowen street which gave a full drop in December, has another crop now ready, with a few small apples just formed from the blossoms. This really means three crops for the season.-:. ■■ .■■ ,---.,.-.. .-.■...-••■■.■ ■ ■ ■-.-.:■ . Several M.H.R.B have been weak enough to join the Railway Employees Union. This is not right because members of the Houß9 should' not forget that they represent 600,000 people — not a mere section, It is also < a question whether the union will not' be fouled by these " flies in the spikenard." <■ The Gisborne Harbor Board have aY clared their intention to make default in November of their interest payments unless the Government assists them. All members were of opinion that the contingency of default has arisen through the interference of the Legislature. The next thing will be to persuade the Legislature to take the same view. In a controversy on the temperance question iir the Times just now* a cnrres „ pondent calls atteution to what Sir James Fa^t Says :— "Lwhtilcl maintain that, so far. its I can judge of the brain work of different persons, , they ;Jiave done the^bost and • wjho have habitually~and temperately takgn altfb« sholic drinks- ■■■*«-><■■. ■>- We are desired to state that Mrs Bruce, ofjiPdmerßlfon^N.brlh,7 will postpone the concert^ she intended to give in Feilding this month, because the Feilding Dramatic Company propose giving a performance shortly for a charitable . purpose. Wfi trust this kindly act of consideration will <be, remembered, to the advantage pf Mrs Bruce whea she comes here. The following applications for lioenses. will be' considered at the annual meeting of the Palmerston Licensing Committee on June 6th : — SHM. Wilson, Occidental Hotel; M. Cromn, Central Hotel;. W.. Rvan, Phoenix Hotel ; 8.. Blower, Club Hotel; M.» Clifford, Princess Hotel ; J. W^lkley,, Commercial, Hotel : J. Fen ton, Royal Hotel ; G^HoWei Clarendon Hotel ; M. Creven, Star Hotel, (new ; license) ; S. BishoprNew* Zealand wine license (new). —Manawatu Times. ; s A contractor" who has by his skill as well as his, amiable personal qualities, done a good business' and cultivated an extended circle of admiring clients, friends, anVjfacqua'intfenances. in the Feilding" and Kiwitea districts, has unostentatiously taken hie departure for | 4 fresh fiejds and pasture's nfew|' Before;il|a>ing he omitted — feom e shortness o£ naetoferV no doubt — to settle his tradesmen's accounts; but that is an omission which is always pardonable in " such a nice man." Says ; the 1 Grey. Star :—" One good action is to be predited to the present Government. The Cabinet .has decided to withdraw the railways from 1 the control of the Railway .Commissioners, and take sole control ' i The determination will meet with. the. general approval of the people of New .Zealand. The past experience; has 'shb^n the' control of Messrs McKerrow, Maxwell an<d Hanny to be a failure." This is a very mild way of putting it—but it will do. Still we would like to hint that if the. Commissioners had not tried to rain their Railway Servants; lnsurance. Bill down the throats of the men, the present difficulties between them, would probably not exist. Richards and Joo., having established a name for cheapness, are now selling Drapery; Clothirij;, Linoliums, Tapestry, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Crockery, Ironmongery; etc., from 10 to 80 percent less than can be bought elsewhere.— Richards and Go. the cheapest h6use in FeildJnjf— Advt.

The Cook Strait cable has been repaired. Game license may/ now be obtained at the Feilding post office on payment of 10s. The Corry v. Thompson will case comes oh for further hearing at Wellington on Friday week. The Feilding Brass Band have been engaged to play at the Cavalry Tournament on Saturday next. We remind those who "love to trip the light fantastic toe " of the ball to take place in the Assembly Booms to-morrow night.Members of the Manchester Rifles and band will be supplied with lunch while at the Tournament on Saturday. Tenders for works in the Kiwitea Road District, were accepted on Monday, viz., Marsh, Uppermost Cross road, Wilson for Reid's road. A meeting of ratepayers in No. 2 ward of the Manchester Road District will be held at Halcombe on Tuesday next to discuss a proposal to borrow £1000. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day:-— Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been sent to all places north of Kaikoura, Wariganui and New Plymouth. At the standard examinations of tbfc Pohangina, Linton, and Fitzherbert/ East schools last week, by Inspector Bindon. the percentage results respectively were as follow : — Pohangina, 59*1. Linton, 89-5, Fitzherbert East, 91 7. Tenders are invited by Mr L. Holden for the erection of about 210 chains of fencing. Specifications may be seen at Mr Bray's, office, Feilding, and Mr Lowes' Hotel, Birmingham. ■■ Tenders* are to be. left at Mr Bray's office. The Wanganui Meat Company has lost £5000, and at a meeting of the shareholders held-yesterday— we learn from the Chronicle — it, was resolved that pro-: fessional accountants be appointed to examine the books and report in a fortnight. Sheep: feeding; on grasshoppers is, to say the' least of it, an extraordinary cir-* cumstance A drover was driving a flock of sheep from Stawell to Hamilton, says a correspondent of the Leader, when . grasshoppers in millions passed over. The sheep devoured all within their reach greedily, . and appeared to be greatly delighted; with what they evidently considered a dainty repast. The Mangaone district was all excitement yesterday, the occasion being the marriage of Mr John Hook, of the Midland road, to Miss Emma Mexted the eldest daughter of Mr Jesse Mexted, of the Feilding-Ashurst road. The marriage took place at Palmerston North after which the happy couple left by train to spend the honeymoon fit Porirua. In the evening a large party of friends (about 80) assembled, by invitation, to do honor to the occasion at the residence of the bride's father, where an excellent entertainment was provided. The good things were handed round freely, and dancing, singing, &c., were kept up with spirit until this mdrningi everyone thoroughly enjoying themselyes. We. wish the happy couple every prosperity and success. -_ • At the Dunedm. Sohool Committees Conference the following- notice of motion was given : — " Inasmuch as a* due re* cognition and correct use of vowels and consonants iri the pronounci nation of words is specially desireable, this conference recommends each delegate to bring the subject before this committee, and eudeayour to have, the matter brought under the notice of the head master of .the school,:, with:a request that, more attention shall be paid to teaching the children to avoid the bad habit of giving false sounds and qualities to the letters of which our English words are composed." Apprentices entering the Government railway shops must not be under 14 years or exceeding 17 tears of age laat birthday. : The apprenticeship will not run after the apprentice is 21 years of ajje. The apprentice' ■ shall be indentured to such rail way; officer as thcvOommis sioners may think .fit, and the indentures will be transferred to such other officer as the Commissioners direct, if the Commissioners remove the master during the currency of such indentures. Rates of pay:— First year, fis per week; second year, 7s / per week ; third year, 9s per week ; fourth yoaiv 12s per week ; fifth year, 16a per week; sixth year,. 18s per week ; seventh year, 21s per week. A. new departure in pur. London Board schools (says the Daily. Telegraph) is the teaching of laundry work— -only as an experiment as yet, but with such success that it is likely ere long to bi/ introduced into the code ■" as a regular branch of instruction. The classes are held at. various centres— one in the East, another in the West, 'and three south of the Thames. At -each of these a large ;airv room has been converted .temporarily into a laundry. Each lesson includes some simple theoretic teaching .Among those who hare visited and shown ereat interest in the class is the Countess of Airlie, who intends to introduce laundry classes in the schools c on her Scotch' estateV £€.S", £V; , ;