The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1890 Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 50, 14 October 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1890 Local and General News

A meeting of Mr Macarthur'g supporters will be held. in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on next Saturday, the 18th mat., at noon. Travellers from Feilding to the Harbor Board Block on Sunday last commented most favorably on the splendid appearance of the whole of the country. A book fiend in Melbourne has received a sentence of two years for having committed perjury in swearing that an order for a book was signed by the person he had sued. Letters of Naturalisation have been granted to Jacob Shaplef ski, of Birmingham; Anders Berthelsen, of Bunnythorpe; Andreas Eug, of Feilding ; 0. J. Jensen, of Bunaythorpe. " The Sun, and what we owe to it " was the subject of a lecture delivered in Wellington last Sunday. "The Stab, and what we owe to it " will be the sub- ' ject of a lecture in Feilding by one of the leading citizens next week. A spleudid opportunity is offered today to any one desirous of purchasing or leasing a farm well grassed and fenced, with forty acres of oats, very forward. There is also a commodious dwelling house. For other particulars see advertisement. Yesterday, on the Taonui road, Mr Moxam was thrown from his horse and somewhat severely cut on the head. He was temporarily bandaged up, and then driven to Feilding, by Robert Corkery, to Dr Charlton who did all that was necessary. The bridge over the Mangaone near Messrs Pringle Bros.' farm, on the Taonui road, requires re-planking, as several large holes have been made in the structure, owing to the heavy traffic on the road. If it is not attended to at once a serious accident will most probably be recorded. At the Napier A. and P. Show, Mr Cobb, of Moutou, took Che following prizes with his Bomney Marsh exhibits : — Bam hogget 18 months, 3rd prize ; ram 18 months, Ist prize ; ram 30 months, Ist prize ; ewe hogget, 3rd prize ; ewe with lamb, Ist prize and championship. We congratulate Mr Cobb. We understand that Mr Witt is at present engaged iv collecting subscriptions for Mrs and Miss Robinson, two invalids, whose cases are of a serious and painful nature. A goodly sum has already been subscribed, and we hope the public will liberally respond for such a deserving object. On Sunday last when a horse was being driven in a sulky on the roud going through the Manawatu Gorge, it shied at some timber and ran over the side, falling down the precipitous banks. The two occupants escaped with a shaking, but the horse was killed and the sulky smashed to atoms. A meeting of the Evans Belief Committee waa held last night. Present — Messrs Lethbridge, Kirton, Prior, Curtis, Sandilands (Hon. Sec.) An amount of formal business was gone through, and accounts passed for payment. A balance sheet and list of subscribers will be duly published in this journal.

To-day Mr Haybittle in accordance with an intimation published in our last issue, notifies that he has now on hand \ his season's stock of wool packs which he is prepared to quit at low prices. Mr Haybittle is ad vised that prices are likely to advance before the season ia over, ! therefore farmers should make their purchases at once. The Sydney Bulletin has the following : —In New Zealaud one single bank, built by British speculators, owns 410 square miles of country, and ha? a lien over some 4000 more, most of which will fall in by-and-by. A few- other British speculators and syndicates own the rest of the Colony. The advantages of foreign capital here shine out conspicuously. We direct attention to a new advertisement in to-day's issue from Messrs J. C. Morey and Co., of the Bon Marched The firm announce the arrival of 13 cases of spring goods, comprising prints, sateens, dress goods, millinery, &c, the whole of which are now on view, and are pronounced to be one of the finest stocks jet offered to the public in this district. From the evidence given at the inquest on the body of the late Andrew Maccole, published elsewhere, it will be seen that : the poor fellow was. more anxious for the safety of his mate than his own when he saw the danger. His warning cry of " Look out for yourself " was the last sentence of one who died descrying of as much honor as many a hero who has giyen up his life on the battle field. The most gigantic railway scheme ever projected in the Canadian Pacific, is about to be started. The promoters are chiefly French and English capitalists. The scheme is to build a railway eastward from Quebec, some 80 miles to St. Charles Bay, on the Labrador coast, from which point large steamers are expected to make the voyage to Milford Haven, in South Wales, in three days and a half. By this route it is expected that passengers and perishable freight can be carried from Chicago to London inside of eeyen days. A decision of considerable importance to settlers was arrived at by the Land Board yesterday. Some little time ago t he Board refused to grant revaluations to certain Crown settlers who made application for them under the Selectors' Lands Revaluation Act 1889. Mr G. Hutchison, solicitor for some of the applicants, has since then written to the Board sub-

mitting that as it took no evidence on the applications, ita decisions are invalid. Tins letter was read, and the matter considered at yesterday's meeting of the Board. Mr Macarthur expressed an opinion that the position taken up on behalf of the settlors was a correct one, and that the provision in the Act with respect to taking evidence was mandatory. After some discussion the Board ■lecided to take legal advice on the question. Meantime the Board resolved that all applications under the Solectors' Lands Revaluation Act should be held over till the first meeting. id 18U1.

Messrs Baker and Co.'s sire Somnus took first prize at the Hawkes Bay Show on Tuesday last. After his brilliant victory in the Caulfield Stakes, The Admiral advanced to 52 to 1 for the V.R.C. Derby. A cashbox containing .£'ss was stolen from the Cambridge Hotel at Wellington yesterday morning. There is only a slight clue to the perpetrators. We learn that Mr Robert Curran has disposed of his section in the Harbour Board Block to Mr Porter, the price paid being £6 per acre.

We direct attention to Mr Trimble's auction advertisements which appear today. We are glad to note that Mr Trimble's Saturday auction sales are rapidly increasing in popularity, and the lots offered and disposed of are increasing every sale. At the meeting of the Feilding United Assembly of the Knights of Labor held on Saturday evening last, the political coimnittee brought up their proposed platform, which was adopted. The deputation appointed «o wait on Mr Arkwright with reference to political matters, reported having done so, and it was decided that Mr Macarthur be also interviewed. In taking part in the debate last night in the Synod in reference to the resolution of forming an election committee, with the object of urging upon Church members the advisableness of giving their yotes in the coming general election preferentially to such candidates as shall promise to support in the new Parliainout a measure framed ou the same lives as the Private Schools Bill, 1890, the Bey Mr Coffey was rather severe. The rev gentleman said that the typical Parliamentary man was a man who feared no God ; he feared his constituents and not much else. — Times.

At the Salvation Army Barracks on Sunday last farewell meetings were held in honor of Captain Ellis and Cadet Saunders, who are leaving for fresh fields of labor. The night meeting, which took the form of a memorial service to the late Mrs Booth, wife of General Booth, as well as being a farewell meeting, was largely attended, over 260 persons being present. Monday night was another special time, and a final farewell to the officers leaving, the attendance numbering about 150, most of whom stayed to the "Good Bye" Coffee Supper, which was a great success. Captain Ellis leaves shortly for Jerusalem, on the Wanganui River. Many people who live in the bush are I altogether debarred from the luxury of ice iv hot water (remarks an exchange). We all know how its use is almost essential in treating cases of concussion of the brain or spine, and how in fevers ice gives such relief to suffering humanity. Now here is the simplest method of mak-~ ing ice which is perhaps known, aud anybody ought to have sense to follow :t; the cost is a mere trifle : " Fill a gallon stone bottle with hot spring water (leaving room for about a pint), and put in 2oz of refined nitre. The bottle must be stopped very closely, and let down into a tank or well. After three or four hours it will be completely frozen ; the bottle must be broken to procure the ice. If the bottle is moved up or down, so as to be sometimes in and sometimes out of water, the consequent evaporation will hasten the process." The cost of nitre would not exceed Is 6d per lb. Cobbe & Dabragh have a good rangs of Samples of Colonial Tweeds from which they are taking orders for Suits to meaeure, at from 67/6. They guarantee the fit and finish of all Garments which they undertake. No deposit required when order.

The dressmaking departments hare always been the most successful in the City, and our arrangements for the present season are such aa will keep up the prestige already attained in these rooms, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Miss Dumoxt, recently arrived from the studio of Madame Beattie, Georgeutreet, Sydney, may be interviewed in the suite of rooms fronting Cuba-street, la both rooms we are prepared to do the fullest justice to all requirements, so as to ensure the utmost satisfaction with our dressmakiug skill at Te Aro House, Wellington. Miss Valentine, with a large staff of dressmakers, still occupies the commodious suite of rooms facing Dixon-street, and will be happy to see all her lady patron 8 as early during the season as possible. It would saye disappointment if ladies would make their selection as soon as convenient, and place them in her hands at Te Aro House, Wellington.