Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 25, 14 August 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

Sir Harry Atkinson is laid up with a severe cold. The Feilding Brass Band will play a selection of pieces in the Eotunda on Sunday afternoon next. The annual meeting of the Feilding Hunt Club will be held this evening, at Mrs Olivers 1 Empire Hotel at 8 o'clock. A meeting of bushfellers will be held in the Forester's Hall on Saturday night at 8 o'clock for the purpose of forming a Union. At the iast meeting nf rhe Horticultural Society Mr Samuel Knight, of Awaliuri. made some useful practical sugyi'Stions in the direction of improving the scbed dules, which, we understand, are likely to be adopted. After listening to the bickering, carping, and blatherskiting of Fish and Seddon in the House the other night, Sydenham Taylor was heard to ejaculate " I wish both of them would borrow a gun and neither of them knew it was loaded." This may be mysterious, but it carries a moral. The Point to Point Steeplechase yesterday was a most successful affair. The course was from a point on the Mount Stewart road to the Feilding racecourse oyer a somewhat difficult line of country, lioake, the huntsman, came in first on Sultan, followed at about half a chain interval by Mr Harley on Flintstone. In our advertising columns it is announced that Mr Edward Martin ha^ commenced business in Feilding as a tailor and habit maker. He has taken temporary promises next to Messrs Stevens aud Gorton in Fergusson street, where orders cau now be left. Mr Martin is an experienced tradesman having served his time with some of the beat tailors in the colony. Further particulars in future advertisement. If we may accept the dictum of the Wbodyille Examiner the wonderful copper discoyery in the Manawatu Gorge is "all a flam." Our contemporary says : — The Palmerston people are evidently on the verge of a copper boom by a discovery at the Gorge as reported in another column. If the Palmerston people knew as much as Woodville people of the circumstances attending this discovery they would give it a wide berth. The following are the names of the second fifteen chosen to play against the Oroua bridge on Saturday, on the Oval : — Roache, Giesen, Bellve, Fowler, Shearer, Parr, Fanthorpe, Collins, Stewart, Aitken, B. Whisker, Bilderbeck. Coombe, Hodges, Foster. The game commences at 1.30 sharp as the visiting team leave by the 4 p.m. train. The Auckland correspondent of tho Otago Daily Times reports a singular accident in Geyser Valley, near the great Wairakei geyser. A laden packhorse slipped on the zigzag path, and plunged down the slope head first into a boiling mud geyser, nnd never reappeared. Pre sently the geyser was in eruption, throw ing mud 30ft high, but no trace was seen of the unfortunate animal or the stores on its back. The business that has been done by Parliament this session was briefly summed up on Tuesday by Dr Pollen, who said thoy had been eight weeks' in session, and had turned out twelve numbers of Hansard, each of which has cost the Colony £1000. The selling price is twopence a number, but he belieyed the market price in the butter shops would be a very small fraction of that. This was the result of the eisjht weeks' labour of 130 gentlemen. — N.Z. Times. Yesterday, when Mr Charles Wickham, carrier, was taking a load of furniture to Palmerston for Mr Harvey, of Makino, a little son of the latter was riding with Mr Wickham on the front part of the dray. Suddenly one of the wheels sunk into a deep rut on the road, and jerked the driver on to the back of the horse from whence he rolled on to the road unhurt. The little boy was not so fortunate because he was thrown in front of the wheel, which passed over his thigh but, luckily, without breaking the bone. Mr Wickham did the best he could to aseist the sufierer and took him to Palmerston as quickly as possible, where he is now being attended to. Travelling now is comparativftly cheap and easy -The railwarg 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. The Red House still keeps to the front. The new lines in Ladies and Childrenß Ulsters, " The Moa Boots," new Table Mats, Glassware and Vases, new Lamps ; in fact a host of all the latest novelties — must be fieen to be appreciated. Not only is each article new, but good as well.—

The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on Saturday. The Feilding shareholders in the Puhipuhi mines are to be congratulated on the good fortune which has befallen them. For the first time on record the mail truii) from Wellington was late yester- J day for one hour aud twenty -eight minutes. Captain Edwin telegraphed today: — Telegrams to expect a hard easterly sale with rain between Napier and East Cape but cold weather everywhere else. At the Feilding Auction Mart on dav next at two o"cli>ck, Mr Trimble will sell a large quantity and yariety of goods, some of the leading lines of which are enumerated m the advertisement. The Petitions Committee would appear to think that James Meehan, of W-.-'Hins;---ton, who petitioned fur compensation for injuries received while he was a member of the Police Force, has f* reasonable claim on the Olony, f -r they have re fcrred the petition to the Government '* for favourable consideration.' At the R.M. Court this morning before Dr Monckton and C. Bull, Esq., J.P.s, Mr Charles Carr, and Mr Reeves were, on the information of Mr Simpson, the Shenp Inspector, fined in the minimum penalty of one pound m each case and costs for having sheep in the sale yards afflicted with lice. They were underfended.