Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 23, 9 August 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Donnelly has a lot of startling notices in our wanted column. The Anglo-French agreement has been signed. Salvation Army meetings to-night and to-morrow at the barracks, when Major Rolf will be in coin maud. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day : — Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been sent to all places. A meeting of ratepayers in the Onga Ward, Kiwitea Road District, at Mr o. abb's Wa)tuua store will be held on Monday at 11 a.m. A meeting of bushfellers will be held in the Foresters' Hull on Saturday the ltith instant at 8 p.m. for the purpose of forming a Union. The annual general meeting of the Feildiug Horticultural Society will be held at the office of the Secretary, Mr E. Goodbehere, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. A. full attendance is requested. To-morrow morning at 11 o'clock Mr Buxton, M.H.R. for Eangitata, Canterbury, will conduct the services in the Wesleyan Church. Mr Buxton is an eloquent preacher and well worth hearing. Mr Dowues, manager of the Wanganui branch of the Bank of New South Wales, and Mr Cattell, manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, in the same place, were visitors to Feilding yesterday. The funeral of the late Mr John Manson will take place on Monday afternoon, at one o'clock. The procession will form at the Pines shortly before that hour. Friends who are unable to come in their own conveyances are requested to note that carriages will be provided. Mr Alfred Eade is the undertaker. The Feilding Hunt Club "Point to Point " Steeplechase will take place on Wednesday afternoon. We have been requested to ask spectators present, in carriages or on horseback, to keep clear of the riders when they are on the highways, or jumping across a road. Attention to this may prevent accidents. The course will be published in this paper on Tuesday. There was a good muster of the Man Chester Rifles on parade last night, Captain Pleasants, Lieufcs. Kirtori and Gos ling, and a full complement of non-com-misrfioned officers and men were piesent. Sergt. Mayor Maomillan instructed the men in the drill for the new rifles shortly to be issued. The position drill with the rifles is a new feature, and every man should attend the practice parades in order to become expert. A dav or two ago a class of boys in the Feilding State School was being examined as to the chief articles of diet. The edibles had been dealt with very satisfactorily, but when the question was asked, " What are some of the principal articles of drink ?" a young New Zealand born commenced by singing our " whiskey," which answer produced a marked effect on the risible faculties of both teacher aud scholars. Mr Iveson, who has been for the last three years m the Feilding branch of the Bank of Australasia, left for Marton, where he will be stationed for some time, by this morning's train. During his residence here Mr Iveson has won the respect and esteem of every one, and we hope that he will find as many friends in his new bonie as he has left behind him. The footballers made him a presentation last night, of which details are given in another column. In the House on Thursday the Coroners Inquest Bill was considered in Committee. New clauses were inserted providing for payment of coroner's jurors at the rate of 7s 6d a day, and to the effect that no publican may be required to receive a dead body into his house for for the purpose of an inquest when there is a morgue within two miles. The Bill was then reported, read a third time, and passed. The proceedings were of no public interest. A "familiar" whispers to us (Marlborough Express) tha' a cleve ■ trick wa* done by a cuupie ot Bieuheimera at the recent Poultry Show in Wellington. They wanted to show a pair of married Aylesburys (or of some duck tribe), aud they possessed only a pair of ducks, and to deceive the judges they pulled the tail feathers out of one of them, and left him to unconsciously pass for a drake. As a drake he did pass till one of the judges, ia quitting the pair, happened to caress the disguised on * l the place where the feathers ought to be " — and then the murder was out. The judges are more impressed with Blenheim ingenuity than with Blenheim ducks. Why do we make these reductions and why have an Extraordinary Sale ? Because after a Successful Season's Trading we find we have a Surplus of Stock in eyery department adapted for present wear. Because we like to clear out the goods of one Season to make room for the goods of the next. Therefore it answers our purpose to let the Surplus go for merely nominal prices during the Sale at Te Aro House, Wellington. For every department we have mar vellous bargains to offer, in Millenery, Mantles, Ulsters, Jackets, Dresses, Flan nels, Shirtings, Blankets, Calicoes, Sheet ings, Men's, Boy's, aud Youth's Clothing, and a thousand other things suitable for the present season. Our price list will be forwarded free by post to anyone addressing a request for the same to the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Wellington. Travelling now is comparatively cheap and easy - The railways have effected a great change in the habits of the public and where decided benefits are in question, distances are no longer considered as obstacles. Such a decided benefit is now offered to the residents of Manawatu at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Wellington. It goes without saying that our Sales have always been attractive because of their genuine character, because of the Extensive Stock over which the bargains range, and because of the unmistakeuble aud heavy reductions that have been made at this Sale of Surplus Stock at Te Aro House, Wellington.