The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1890. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 7, 1 July 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1890. Local and General News

♦ ■ ' The Manchester Bines will parade (undress) on Friday next. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers. The new system of return tickets on the railway commenced to-day. Complaints are still rife as to the scarcity of laboring men in this and the surrounding districts. Should there be a sufficiently strong muster on Friday next the Manchester Bifles will march out with the Band. Sullivan and Jackson fight for £4000 presented by the California Athletic Club in October, and fclavm and McAuliffe meet next October. Hunt Club meeting at Hastie's tft'-mor* j row* evening to arrange a "point to ppoint " steeplechase. Members are re--1 tfuested to be punctual. horse "Bossiter, belonging ±0 T. Bell,^ate of this district, which won the steeplechase" worth 44H0 at tho A..J.0. (Sidney Js^tiuter Meeting, is dead.

It is rumoured that Clampett, alias Sullivan, is about to return to the colony. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day :-r» Warnings for southerly gales hold good at east coast stations between Kaikoura and East Cape. The Feildiug Band of Hope will meet this evening in the Methodist Chapel at the usual hour. We understand a good pj||p-ainine is promised. Members roll up. * An article entitled "A. field day at Birmingham," which willinclude a full report of Mr Trimble's auction sales, and the concert held at Birmingham on Saturday last, will appear next issue. The Official Assignee gives notice today that at the sittings of the Bankruptcy Court to be held oa the 23rd instant, he will apply for an order releasing him from his office in respeot to certain es'fttdS. ' z We are unable to publish Messrs Richard's and Co.'s new advertisement to-day, but in the meantime we can assure our readers that the stock the firm is now offerring is being sold at the most surprisingly low prices. Go anA see. — Advt. The attention of farmers and settlers is directed to the replace advertisement of Messrs Eeid and ttray which appears today, andlwhioh relates chiefly to the double furrow and chilled digging ploughs with reversible points, manufactured by that ingenious and enterprising firm. Murray/Roberts and Co. have received the following message from their London house, regarding the hemp market : — " New Zealand hemp has auftered a further decline of £1 per ton." This brings the present London selling price for fair average Wellington quality down to about £16 per ton. John Gillespie, police constable at Manaia, was charged at New Plymouth yesterday with having committed perjury at the last sittings of the Supreme Court there in giving evidence for defendant in the civil action Okey v. Fitzpatrick. The case was adjourned for a week, and will be heard at Stratford. Stockbreeders in this and the surrounding districts will doubtless be pleased to learn that Mr W. Reid, of Makino, who has recently returned from a visit to the Wairarapa, concluded arrangements with the owner of the well-known Clydesdale stallion " Hero," for a visit to this district. The horse is due here in September next, On Sunday wernoon when Mr G. H. Say well was driving down Ximbplton Road, a mob of Horses went past him at a gallop. - The animal he was in charge oi took alarm and started off at a half gallop kicking as it went. After a spin of a few hundred jards Mr Say well managed to pull up and take the horse out. The trap was smashed considerably and the horse's hind legs out badly, but the occupants of the vehicle fortunately escaped unhurt. The Daily Telegraph, is not hopeful that the. standard of excellence in mem h~§rs~ biTtJfe House wiu "'iJe^raiuW "s> Tfic next general election, and says despondmgly: — The constituencies will always provide bigger fools and denser ignoramuses than are to be found amongst the candidates, and any man who has " cheek," and can rattle off a lot of shallow nonsense, may be su*e of a certain amount of support. We shall be much surprised if the next elections do not,introduce us tOg»a number of men who would not be Trusted with a five-pound note, but who will be thought worthy by some to represent the country in Parliament and make laws for the people. Feilding is not the only place in the world where people become liars as soon as they enter the witness box, as the following extract will show :— Such rank perjury was committed in a recent proceeding before him that the coroner of Melbourne (Dr Toul) felt compelled to Bay>: "He was, however, becoming accustomed to liars, and considered it was really pitiful to see the way in which people deliberately laid themselves out to tell lies when there was no cause for it. He had never met a proper liar, or one who laid himself out to be one, until he met them coming to the coroner's court and telling the most awful lies immediately after taking a most solomn oath to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and then made statements that were simply abhorrent. He bftieved that what he had stated applied to (Very court in the colony." Some noticeable items on the estimates are as follows : — Consulting engineer. £800 and clerk, £150; increase to the Government Printer, £50 ; Paris Exhibition, £900 ; New Zealand Exhibition (additional), £800 ; New Zealand and Aus* tralasian Science Association, - £500 ; relei f to Taranaki, settlers injured by bush fires, £550 ; increase in the amount for payment of jurors £300, increase to the officer in charge, Wellington, £20 ; and to the chief clerk of the post office, £15 ; increases of £25 each to the chief postmasters ; increase in grants to Education Boards, £14.250; expenses of the Native Land Commission, £1500 ; importation of stoats and weasels, £2700; sanitary lm provements at Government House (Wellington), £1000 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 of all, Ladies can in this re spect, therefore, depend on getting their wishes and tastes gratified at Te Aro House, Wellington. 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 markets — for Te Aro House, Wellington. We are quite sure that a visit to our Show Room would be positively delightful; and whether the visitor roams through the Millinery Departmeat or passes on to the Mantle Room, the eye would be charmed and correct tastes gratified by an inspection of the latest outcomes of fashion — at Te Aro House, Wellington.