Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 37, 11 September 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

There will be a meeting of bushfellers held in the Foresters' Hall on next Saturday evening. A meeting of the supporters of Mr Macarthur, M.H.K. will be held in Mr Owen's office this evening at 8 o'clock. We publish an " inset " with to-day's issue, from the Red House, containing a sample list of the electo-plated ware on show in that establishment. There are 600,000 children in Great Britain insured at this moment, and the Bishop of Peterborough believes 600 are murdered every year for the insurance money. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been sent to all places South of Ens' cape, Taiipo, and New Plymouth and for | northerly vales to all other places. A public meeting of farmers and others in favour of forming a Farmer's Cooperative Association will be held at the Theatre Royal, Palmerston North, on Saturday next at 2 p.m. The great clearing sale at Mr H. Donkins still continues as a total clearance of the stock must be made to allow of the improvements to be commenced in the shop and building. A meeting of the Knights of Labor is announced to take place in the Assembly Rooms next Saturday evening at 7.30, for important business, when all persons intending to join are requested to attend. Mr Trimble will pell at the Feiiding Auction Mart on Saturday next at .2 o'clock, goods as enumerated in advertisement, special attention being called to prime seed potatoes, viz., 5 tons each of Circular Heads and Derwents. There was a chapter of accidents at Nelson on Saturday in the football cup match, Town v. Albion Clnb. One player was injured internally, another broke his wrist, a third sprained his knee, and a fourth bit his tongue completely through. We have to thank the Manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ohristchuroh, for a Table compiled by the company of cargoes of ships from New Zealand to Europe during the wool and grain season 1889-90, from Ist July, 1889, to 30th June, 1890. Another cricket coincidence has been brought to lijjhc. In 1882 the Australian Eleven defeated an Eleven of England by 1 innings and 263 runs. This year the Players of England returned the compliment by beatiag the Australian in exactly the same manner. " i The widow of the late John Sheehan, who, it may be rembered, was a member of the ftrey Ministry, is to be married almost immediately to Mr Wurdell, of the Wairurapa, iate Resident Magistrate at Wellington. Mr Wardell is a widower with a grown up family. In thanking the jury in the Giaborne murder case for the care and attention thay had deyoted to the case, the Judge said he quite concurred in their yerdict, for it was a case of great suspicion jiud doubt, and they were right to give the prisoner the benefit of every doubt. That cheerful and blatantly intelligent legislator, Dick Seddon, has given notice to ask " If Government would buy up the Union S.S. Co.'s fleet with a view to prevent strikes." Dick might just as, well ask if the Government will buy New Zealand with a view to prevent earthquakes ! It is said by those who know that Mr Millar, the Secretary of the Maritime Council, has been receiving a remuneration of £700 a year. If all tho other secretaries are paid on the same scale Unions are a good spec, for some folks. Whether the contributors who are liviu» on " strike " allowauce will koep up their payments long is an interesting question. A replace advertisement from the Union Steamship Company appears today in wbich steady employment is guaranteed to good men for sixov twelve months. It is further notified that what evar may be tho outcome of the present trouble all frae men now engaged by the Company will be retained in their «er vice, which is equivalent to a life engagement. The Rev. Mr Inn« - Jonea has now definitely decided to accept the cure of the Bail's Parochial district, ami will assume his clorical duties there at the commencement of uext month. This being bo, with a view to providing a parsonage, the Anglican authorities at Bulls have bought Mr Christie's house for £160, and inteod to at once make some necessary additions to it. — Advocate. On Tuesday last when a young man named M*cAlister, employed by Mr Diw, was loading straw, the handle of the fork broke, and the sharp «dge of the fractured wood nearly severed the thumb from his hand. Macahster was at once taken to Pr Charlton, who did all that was necessary, and the patient is doing well, although somewhat weak from the loss of blood. The Red House still keeps to the front. The new lines in Ladies and Cliildrens Ulsters, " The Moa Boots," new Tabl« Mats, Glassware and Vases, new Lamps ; m fact a host of all the latest novelties — must be seen to be appreciated. Not only is each article .new, hut gogd as well. — Vdvt,

Messrs P. E. Jackson |and to' a sale was well attended to-day and the several lots were sold at fair average rates. A farmer not a hundred miles from Fordell whose better half has just blessed him with " twins" and with a little one of nine and a half months, making three in eighteen months of wedded life, on beiag asked how things were looking in general, replied that h« could not " grumble," as he had 200 per cent of " babying " this season. — Wanganui Herald. We understand Mr R. Whisker has parted with his horse Commotion (Soranus—Vesper) to Mr S. Powell for £50, while Mr Hannett refused an offer of £100 for the Dioinedes mare Evelyn, [t is gratifying to the Hunt Club to be able to record that through their drag hunts, these, as well as many other good horses, were brought from their obscurity, and j thus shown what sort of mettle they were made of. At a meeting of the Manawatu Rugby Union held here on Monday night, Mr E. J. Eelleher was elected hon. secretary and treasurer. The following team was picked as a probable representative one in the forthcoming matches : — Robinson, Parr, Jewell, Dyer, Shannon, Harmer, Isherwood, Hyland, Oliphant, Hanua, Nicholson, Whisber, Keightly, Gregory, Mowlem, who will play all comers here on Saturday. The final selections will be made by Messrs Saywell and Randel after the practice. [ Notice is given to-day by Mr John Saxon that for the future the gates on ' the road through Mr Wray's property, from Lee's line to Mount Stewart, will [be closed and locked. This will be a great inconvenience to many who have become acoustomed to use this short cut, but owing to their own carelessness or wilful neglect in omitting to close the gates after passing through them, this course has been, unwillingly, forced on Mr Saxon. Mr Hartgill, of Strathendne, had a couple of unpleasant experiences in the Rangitikei river on Friday last. In attempting to ford the nyer on horseback m the morning, when there waa a slight fresh on, he somehow got out of the saddle, but obtaining a hold of the stirrup, he was hauled out all right by the horse v In the evening on his way home, when'the riyer had gone down considerably, he essayed the same crossing, but must have missed the ford, as he waa washed off his horse, and was obliged to swim to land. — Advocate.