Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 44, 27 September 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

There will be mass in St. Bridgets tomorrow *t 11 a.m. The Baby Ogden Company will appear on Tuesday night in the Assembly Booms, when " Called Back " will be produced. The Knights of Labor and those pereone wishing to join are reminded of the meeting in the Foresters' Hall at 7.30 this evening. The monthly Band of Hope meeting is announced to be held m the Methodist Church ou Monday eyeuing. We understand a good programme is prepared. We haye .to acknowledge receipt of Press tickets for th« seryice of song "Frozen to Death" -which will be repeated at Halooinbe on Tuesday next. A man named Ebbs Abraham, 72 years of age, and a carpenter by trade, hung himself in the closet of the Her Hotel, Wanganui, on Thursday morning, A public meeting of the supporters of Mr Macarthttr will be held on Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Dramatic Hall, Aehurst, to form a comnittse in his wtereft. The Secretary of the Kiwitea Boad Board, Mr E. Goodbeher9, gives notice that a general rate of three farthings in the pound, will be struck payable en tha Ist of November. The liabilities in tba estate tf D. Jobbernß, draper, of Palmerston N., amount to £5154 4s Sd, while the aesetg art estimated to realise £5,610 5s Bd, than showing a surplus of £456 16 sd. Cobee & Darbagh have a good range of Samples of Colonial Tweeds from which they are taking orders for Suits to measure, at from 67/6. They guarantee the fit and finish of all Garments which they undertake. No deposit required wheY order.

The Feilding Borough Council will meet on Thursday next. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m to-day— Warning for R»le3 and rain have been »ent to all places. Another horrible death from intemperance : — lvan lyaaoritch, »K«d ll)5 years, has ]ust departed this life in Rua«ia, after haviug gone to bed drunk, every blessed night for eighty-aeven years. Out of respect to the memory of the late Mr James Beattie, the Feilding Band has postponed their determination to play in the Eotunda to-morrow afternoon, till a future date. The Muuawatu Times thus gently puts it :— The Official Assignee to-day takes under his care a musician and a draper, Mr J. H. Parker, and Mr D. Jobberns having, we regret to notice, been forced to Bock the protection of the Court. On Thursday afternoon a horse attached to a firewood dray, bolted down Kimbolton Road, As the day was warm and the load heavy, the animal thought better of it and pulled up voluntarily after a spin of about half a mile. I We learn from the Manawatu Times that Mr A. B. Lyons, of the firm of Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., is severing his connection with the Falmerston branch of that firm, and has accepted the management of a large estate in the Hawkes Bay diatriot. A largely attended meeting of employs'* was held in the Barracks last night to consider the question of the Wednesday half holiday. After diacusemn it was decided to send a deputation headed by His Worship the Mayor, to wait upon the one business man who at present is opposed to the movement. In our last issue we stated that two very deserving cases for charitable aid existed in Feilding. Since then Mrs F. Towler has collected on behalf of the widow with four children, about £8 which she has duly hauded over, and Dr Oharlton has been good enough to tender his services gratis in both cases. ' When inviting the attention of our readers to the performance to be given in the Assembly Rooms on Monday night, we haye pleasure in reminding them that Mr Williams was one of the best of the Jubilee Singers who made such a favourable impression on the people here not many months ago. The advertisement gives all other necessary particulars. An many persons appear to have mis- ■ understood the purport of our paragraph in last Tuesday's issue re the proposed visit of Sir George Grey, we are requested to state that the result of the interview between him and the Secretary of the Kuightß of Labor on Monday last was a definite promise on the part of Sir George j to visit Feildiag, and if possible before I the elections take place. | We understand that a determined effort 1 is to be made to procure a properly organised school in the Kiwifcea district. At \ present the school is carried on in a biiild- | ing erected by the sutlers .in the early j ; days, but which is quite inadequate to modern requirements. The Board of Education having promised to consider | i the erection of a school when a new site waß provided, a meeting of those interested was held on Monday last, at which ! it was decided to purchase a site offered [ by Mr G. P. Church. Mr Jones, one of the partners of the firm of Jones and Peters, who have nearly completed the Manawatu Gorge Railway contract, has purchased Mr G. ! Death's farm at Cheltenham. He has taken the residence on the Makino road known as " Port's," where he intends to reside for gome time to come. The grass, of this district certainly seems very attractive to the South Island settlors, no less than a dozen families having oome from that Island to take up their abode . | in our midst. | Everyone who has been a resident in this settlement for any length of time will regret to learn of the death of Mr | James Beattie, yesterday forenoon after a prolonged painful illness. The deceased gentleman wag highly respected by all who had the pleasure of knowing him, and his kindly, genial, and generous temperament won for him an extended I circle of friends. The funeral will take i ! place on Monday next when the cortege | will leave the residence of the family at j two o'clock m the afternoon. We sym- j I pathiee with Mrs Beattie and family in , I their bereayement. By the mail tram yesterday that grand upstanding horse Diomedes went up to Hawera where he will remain until the end of the season. He is in splendid lettlt and his owner, Mr Heauett, has every reason to be satisfied with his prosI pects. And the success of the progeny i i of Diomedes was shown by the win of I Evelyn of the Maiden Steeplechase and ■ Welter Handicap at the Feilding Hunt ' Club meeting, when that mare displayed | such staying power, and speed ; also by the consistent running of Euclid in two oyents. Form and good temper are distinguishing traits of Diomedes and his stock. Silver Gem Flour now on sale at the ; Red House ; also a splendid assortment of Electro-plated Goods — the finest in the district. Jußt received, a grand assortment of Ladies' and Children's Parasols and Umbrellas. Red House, Feilding. j