Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 14, 19 July 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

A Burlesque word — said Boileau — is often a mighty sermon. Mr EUery Gilbert, pianoforte tuner, will visit Feilding to-day. j Mr and Mrs W. G. Haybittle will j return from their trip to New South Wales, on Monday next. The Feilding School Committee will meet next Wednesday evening for the transaction of ordinary business. How many people would be mute if they were forbidden to speak well of themselves, and evil of others. De Finod says : " The last census of France embraced nearly twenty millions of women. Happy rascal 1 " Mr Clampett has abandoned the " religious racket." He assarts he finds his own profession more paying. All truths are not to be uttered ; still it is always good to hear them. But a truth that one does not understand becomes an error. The Makino School Committee has been doing good work by tree planting and draining. The Committeemen did the work with their own hands. Mr Beading notifies by advertisement that a dance will be held in the Town Hall at Birmingham on Saturday n6xt, the 26th instant, the day of Mr Trimble's auction sales. Dancing will commence at 7.30 p.m. We direct the attention of our readers to the new advertisement of the Bed House which appears to-day. Special inducements are offered to cash buyers. The variety of the lines is one of the characterestics of this well known and deservedly popular establishment. Mr Trimble announces that he will hold two auction sales at Birmingham on Saturday next, the 26th instant. General merchandise will be sold in the Town Hall at 11 in the morning, and trees and plants from Mr Hall's nursery, Feilding, in the yard at Mr Lowe's Hotel at 8 in the afternoon. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Messrs Kirton and J. C. Thompson J.P.s., James Thomas and Michael Gough sued John Scrimgeour for £11 being balance unpaid of a bush felling contract. Mr Sandilands appeared for plaintiffs. Judg ment was given for plaintiffs for amount claimed £11, costs 28s, and solicitors fee 20s. To-day when Mr Taylor and Mr Haythorne were driving- past Cheltenham to to attend the meeting of the Kiwitea Road Board, of which both gentlemen are members, the axle of the trap collapsed. Fortunately neither of them were hurt. Mr Haythorne came on at once, and Mr Taylor followed some time after. The contractor for completing the platelaying contract on the section oi railway between Woodville and Ashurst has three month's time allowed to finish his work. In order to encourage him to special exertion Government have offered him a bonus for eyery week he can save, and the contractor has promised to endeayour to shorten his stipulated period by a mouth. — Manawatu Times. Political feeling is found in queer places. A few nights ago the following dialogue was ovurhea "d near one of our most popular hostelnes. One of the parties was sitting comfortably in the mud ; while his interlocutor preserved his perpendicular with the aid of a convenient and friendly lamp-post. The man in the mud asked : " Sayoleman, whoye gonavotfor? I'm Arkwrightman." The man at the post replied : "Then you're a bloomm idiot— hie — 010 atickinthemud." Fact. Messrs Carson and Baker, of the Wanganui Education Board, had a lengthy conference with the Feilding School Committee at the Sohoolhouso on Thursday afternoon last, all the Committee being present with the exception of Mr Watts, who was out of town. Certain correspondence was laid before the Committee oy the Board's delegates, and the matter re the teacher difficulty having been considered, the Committee decided to deal with the same at a future meeting. The Foxton team have followed the example shown them by the Oroua Bridge footballers in connection with the match to have been played to-day against the Feilding first fifteen. The secretary of the Foxton Club informed Mr S. Strachan yesterday that they were unable to get a team together to play " Our Boys," and they would thus forfeit the match, which counts for the Cup. No doubt it has saved the trouble of the Feilding team going to Foxton to win the match. It is stated that had the late Mr Chirnside, of Werribee Park, Victoria, retained all his properties till his death his estate would have been worth fully i-3,000,000. This is an evidence what an energetic Northumbrian can do. Before Chirnside left Home he called upon the Presbyterian clergyman in his native village, Glanton, which is a few miles from Alnwich, and said : " Now, Minister, which shall it be, Canada or Australia ? " The reply was "Australia, by all means." Chirnside threw in the air a small bag of sovereigns he had in his hand — all his wordly wealth in those days — and cried : " Australia be it — I can't go wrong if the Minister makes the choice."