The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, SEPT. 6, 1890. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 35, 6 September 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, SEPT. 6, 1890. Local and General News

The Mayor invites the inhabitants of the Borough to observe Monday after noon as a half holiday at the occasion of ihe Hunt Club Steeplechase. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers. There will be a dance in the Foresters' Hall on Monday nighf, commencing at mne o'clock. The ammunition for use at the next meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association will be supplied by the Government. The fact that Ministers now see their way to the continuance of tho San Francisco mail service, ih a source of satisfaction.

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day .— Telegrams to expect frost and low tides hare been sent to all seaports, and frosts to till other places. The House will sit on Saturday afternoon and evemnsr, nnd Minis 4 ors think it, probable LUa.t th-j session inav end next week. Mr Samuel Gooclbfihere, in his weekly weather repoi", *<ays : — Rainfall for August, 1890, 2-29, hs against 2*75 for August, 1889. In Christehuroh people are not allowed to oat butter which ha* lenn wrapped in the paper of any of Whitcombe and Tombs' publications. The gray horse previously advertised by the poundkc-eper to be sold on the Bth will not be sold u^til Monday the loth mst. at 12 o'clock noon. This morning wbon two native women i were riding up Manchester Street one of the horses shied and threw its rider who was somewhat seriously injured. Mr FT. Rutherford, butcher, had some magnificent beef on show this morning at his establishment, Manchester street, bred by Mr D. MacKeuzie, of Beaconsfield. A public meeting of farmers will be held in the Theaire Royal, Palmorston North, on Saturday, the 13th instaut, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, to form a Farmers' Co-operative Association. The annual Social in connection with St. John's Church, Feilding, will beheld in the Assembly Rooms on Thursday, 25th instant. Further particulars "will be duly advertised. The Government's proposal to expend £'6000 in continuing the Railway line at Wellington from Thorndon to Te Aro was rejected in the House on Thursday by 25 to 18. A well- known and popular lecturer has kindly offered to visit Feilding and deliver an address on "Socialism as it relates to Capital and Labor,'' and arragements will probably be made for him to do so. On Monday night in the Assembly Rooms there will be a performance by the Fun and Frolic Company, at the conclusion of which there will be a dance. Fi r other pirticulaia see posters and adver tisemuut. The following is good adyice is given by the N.Z. Times : — " We adyise those who have to complain of newspaper reports to keep their tempers, to abstain from imputing motives, and to take the first opportunity of getting their superior information — if it is superior — before the public. To-day Mr A. Southey Baker, solicitor, of Palmerstou North, gives notice that Mr Frank H. Cooke, formerly of Feilding, barrister and solicitor, has joined him in partnership. The name of tho new firm will be Baker and Cooke. We wish the new firm every possible success and prosperity. We have pleasure m publishing the following from the Palmerstou Standard : — " Our many friends all over the dis- . trict will ba pleased to learn that there is a reasonable probability of matters being: arranged, within the next few days, by which Mr McMiun will continue proprietor of the standard, As the result of several conferences between representatives of the two Houses, it has been agreed that coroners' jurors shall be paid os per day for inquests that last longer than four hours, and 3s where they occupy less than that time. Jurors who have to travel over two miles to an inquest, however, will be paid os in any case. The members of the N.Z. Civil Seryice Association are likely to adopt a rule forbidding the use by the members of tobacco in any form whatever. The ruason assigned is that the>' cannot afford to assist to keep up the Customs revenue ' on the " scraped " salaries they now recoiva from an ungrateful country. There is reason in this. The Napier News says- The latest dodge of ilie Railway Commissioners l<? oorrce the men is, so it is rumoured, the ho'din^ buck of last month's pay. Tliis of emise would be done to prevent the;ii helping the seamen and wharf labourers. The milway servant who votes for any supporter of the present system of railway tyr.mnv will lie a traitor to his own interests Mr Knott delivered another of J. B. Gough's temperance orations in the Primitive Methodist Church on Thursday evening. Notwithstanding the unfavourable weather a good number of people were present. The chair was taken by tho Rey. W. Harris. At the close of the lecture two persons signed the pledge, and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the lecturer. The Auckland Herald reports that eighty tons of iron were produced at thp Onehunga works last nsek, 100 tons of merchants hie iron and ra Is. 50 tons of sheets, all for special ord r. The c mpany are now working up their pig ;ron into bars and sheets. New puddling fur mines are being erected for working up more pig iron, and will be completed in s x weeks, when the output of finished iron will be doubled. Mr Frank Bray, the popular hairdresser and tobacconist, has now removed into those mote commodious premises in Fergusson street, next to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's warehouse. Mr Bray has now opened up a fresh stock of every requirement; of tho trade. The hairdress ing saloon has been handsomely fitted up in the American principle, and everything has been done to meet the convenience of his customers. Since it was notified in this and other papers that 200 men could find employment at a shilling per hour in the Forty Mile Bush at bushfelhug, numbers have arrived at and passed through Mastertou from all parts, some haying eyen come from Chnstchurch, says the Wairarapa Daily. The announcement made was quite legitimate, and we have not heard of any man, so far, having been disappointed. There are thousands of acres of bush near Pahiatua which are to be felled this season.