Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 16, 24 July 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Mass will be celebrated in St. Bridget's Church, Peilding, next Sunday at 11 a.m. We are glad to state that Mr J Pringle, who has been an invalid for some time, is now rapidly recovering. The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it. — De Beaufort. It is rumoured that the Opposition will requisition Sir Robert Stout to stand for the Timaru seat. We notice that Mr A. L. Parr has just I finished a very handsome and substantial carriage to the order of a local resident. There will be a novelty at the Eink on Saturday, when the " Potatoe Race " will be run. Everybody should go and see the fun. The meet of the Feilding Hounds at Mr Saxon's farm yesterday was largely attended, and a good run was enjoyed by those present. Our usual report will appear next issue. The Captain of the Orou* Football Club has written to Mr Strachan, the Secretary of the Feilding Club, stating that the Oroua men cannot play on the date arranged— next Saturday. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day : — Warnings for easterly gales and rain were sent to all places north of East Cape and New Plymouth yesterday, and have, now been sent to all other places. In a new advertisement which appears in another column Mr C. Wickham, general carrier, states that he is prepared to undertake all kinds of carrying and carting at moderate prices. Supporters of Dr Barnardo's homes mustered in force at the Eoyal Albert Hall recently, when they celebrated their 24th anniversaiy, under the presidency of the Marquis of Lome. To-day we publish a notification from Mr N. Valentine, the proprietor of the Club Hotel, Palmerston North. Mr Valentine was one of the most popular hosts in Wellington for many years, and we feel assured he will proye an acquisition to Palmerston. A young man named Joseph Hawkins, a distant at a bookseller's Napier and shop, who was suffering- from congestiou of the lungs, a few days ago got out of bed and eluded his nurse. His body was found in the surf in the afternoon, It is supposed he was delirious. Bad Boy (getting in a body- blow) • There, take that !' Good Boy (folding his arms with a saintly expression) : ' No, Tommy, I will not hit you back, because I promised your mother that 1 would neyer strike a playmate but (kicking him in the stomach) how do you like that ?' We again call attention to the fact that Mr Trimble will hold an auction sale of general merchandise in the Birmingham Town Hall on Saturday next at 11 a.m., and of trees and plants at Mr Lowes' hotel at 3 p.m.; also that there will be a dance in the Town Hall on the same day, commencing at 7.30 p.m. Beranger said : Many have lived on a pedestal, who will never have a statue when dead." He had some of the members of the New Zealand Parliament " in his mind's eye " when he wrote those lines. But, if some of them would only die, how gladly would we pile the rocks on them. We notice by the Gazette of the 14th, which contains the list of certificated teachers for the colony that the following teachers in this district have had their certificates raised: — H. D. Densham, Mangaone ; G. H. Espiner, Bunnythorpe ; D. W. Low, Warrengate ; H. Blaramburg, Terrace End; H. Eastbury, Kairanga; Miss A. Chalmers, Ashurst; H. A. Easther, Grreatford. An extraordinary duel took place at Vienna, according to the Wiener Tag blatt a few days ago between a girl, aged 19, and a young Vienna doctor, who had offended one erf tier friends and refused to apologise. He was challenged in the ordinary way by two seconds, a student and an officer of the reserve, and, when he ridiculed the idea, the girl threatened to horsewhip him publicly. The challenge was then accepted, and a meeting with seconds and doctors took place in a hired room in a Vienna suburb. All the rales for a duel with swords were strictly observed. The doctor first acted on the defensive, but was soon obliged t3 fight in earnest, and left off after the second round with a wound in the left side, which was declared not to be dangerous. The girl, a Croatian, education in South America, is said by the seconds to be the best fencer they ever saw. After wound ing her adversary, she left the place without casting another look at him.