Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 18, 29 July 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers. The recent heavy rains have done a f wondrous amount of good to the up-coun-try settlers. The grass has been given a r good start, and the whole country has a more promising appearance. * It is intimated to-day that a meeting of the shareholders of the Mangaone Pub- " lie Hall Company will be held at the Schoolhouse to-morrow evening. As the " business to be transacted is of an important character a full attendance is rer quested. The Fancy Dress Ball to be held at Birmingham on Friday next promises to ' be a great success. In order to suit the convenience of visitors from Feilding, Mr Daw has decided to run a coach to Birmingham on Friday afternoon, leaving the stables at 4.15 p.m. We learn by telegram from Wanganui [ that at the Education Board's meeting, held yesterday, it was decided to give the Rev. Mr Wilks, head teacher of the Feildr ing State School, three month's notice of the termination of his engagement as such 1 teacher, and that Mrs Lissaman, first assistant mistress of the same school, be temporarily transferred to another school. We are sorry to hear that the proposed entertainment in aid of Mrs Evans and ' her family is likely to fall through. This is not as it should be. We trust further efforts will be made by those interested to t carry out the programme originally agreed 3 to. The case is an urgent one, and well - worthy of the support of all classes of the i community. | A meeting of the Commit tee is called for Monday next, at 8 p.m.] To-day's Times says : — The attitude of the Government yesterday, whs broadly this : That the Retrenchment Party were assisting to effect reductions which, in the opinion of Ministers, were not advisable. The Government would oppose those reductions, and the reductions, and the Retrenchment Party must accept the responsibility for any inefficiency which might result from them. But apparently the Government do not intend to make a ' Ministerial question of it all. Rumour ' says that the Piemier is almost the only member of the Cubiuet who takes this view, and that the other Ministers wished to put their foot (or feet) down firmly upon. their native heather, and to say that the Retrenchment Party must j. understand that in voting on reductions they are voting for or agaiuat tiie iiwveiuuieiit.

Messrs Stevens and Gorton will soli ruit and ornamental trees on Tlrarsd text.. Additions have been made to th; itock sale on the same date. Great activity i 3 reported on the Puhi>uhi Held. During the last week four lew holdings have been applied for aud seven new claims pegged out. One oi the oldest Auckland identities, John Probert, died on Friday last. His svife arrived with Governor Mobson, and was present at tlie signing of the treaty of Waitangi. At the inque6t, on Saturday, at Hokitika, on the man Oliyer the medical evidence showed that death resulted from 3sposure, and a verdict in accordance was returned. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day : — Warnings for easterly gales and rain hold g< od at ail pkicas, and for very heavy gales have been sent to all East Coast stations north of Castlepoiut. An infant child named Joseph Bond lied suddenly at St. Kilda, Dunedin, on Saturday morning. The mother gave it a drink at midnight, and found it dead a few hours afterward. The following suggestive advertisement appeared recently in the Napier Herald : " To Shoemakers — Wanted, tenders for half-soling a pair of boots. Address, 1 Skinflint,' Post Office, Napier." Competition is the " sole " of business. Mr J. C. Porter has banded us a copy of Mr Brett's New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal, published at the Star office, Auckland. It is a, most excellent pubiic-ition. full of inter s ing readn? matter, beautifully illustrated and well prii.ted. The Solicitor-General has, on behalf of the Government, accepted service of a writ issued by Sir Julius Yogel against the colony, claiming £13,000— £7000 as compensation for dismissal from the position of Loan Agent in London for the colony, and the remainder as commission on the negotiation and conversion of the five million loan of 1879. The £8000 which the late Mr T. Eeid left to local institutions in Wanganui is distributed as follows : — £sooo for building a new Hospital, and the remaining £3000 to be divided between the Public Library, St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, and a Home for the Destitute. The payments, however, will not be available during Mrs Eeid's life-time. A fine young fellow, named John Gillespie, employed as storeinan for Mr Watt ;it Marton, eointuitted suicide yesterday morning. He was found with half the side of his head blown off, and the brains scattered about, having put the muzzle of a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger with a string. The cause of the rash act is reported to have been brought on by some trouble about a girl with whom deceased had been keeping company. Says the Palmerstou Times : — A lady resident of Grt?atford, arrived at Palmers ton by train on Saturday to do the family marketing, accompanied by her son of about four years of age. On her return by train in the evening, she missed the boy at Halcombe, and after an unsuccessful search through the train, returned to Palmerston. Fortunately the child was discovered all right, and nothing worse than a couple of of days' detention here was the result of the unfortunate contretemps. Our Wellington correspondent writes : — An inhumane old scoundrel named Dooley is just now in custody, on remand, charged with having ill-treated his little daughter, aged 13. From the evidence adduced it was shewn that the neighbours had complained to the policu of the treatment the child was subjected to, and on the officers proceeding to the accused's house, they found the villain belabouring the little mite whom he had stripped naked and whose back was one mass of bruises. His reason for such bruitality was that the child had disobey >d him. Dooley, who is half blind is supported by the Benevolent S< ciety and has been charged before for the same offence. Her Majesty's gaol is decidedly the best place for this kind of animal. The country is about to be " stumped '* liy members of the Opposition, whose platform will, we beliere. b< t is: Tlat'he Government shall '>c given snpphes till the end of the year, which would carry them up to the 31st March (as they are entitled to go on for three months out of • nauthorised expenditure), and that the new Parliament shall be called together early in April. The present arrangement is that Sir George Grey shall begin in Wellington by addressing a meeting on Saturday, and then go on to Auckland ; Mr Ballance will go to Wanganui and Xapier, Mr Sedd n to the West Coast of the South Island. Mr W. P. Reeves to ( •hristcliunh, a id Mr Pish and Mr Fitch ett to Jbunedin. All these gentlemen, with the exception of Sir Georpe Grey, are likely to start us early as possible. — Times. 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 taste 3 gratified at 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 Department 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.