Memoranda.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 87, 13 January 1891, Page 2

Memoranda.

..-.■ An overcoat was found on Kimbolton road on Sunday forenoon. It now awaits the '■.owner.: at this office. . ■The sale of privileges of the Foxton Eacing Club will be held on Thursday, the 15th instant, at 2 p.m. Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. anncrurice^the entries so far received for their annual ram fair, to be held on the A. and P. Show Grounds, Palmer ston, on Friday, January 30th.

There is in existence a body calling itself "The National and Proyincial Alliance for Promoting she Taxation of Teetotaller^" and a meeting has been held in Walwo th within the last few days. A petition was prepared to be sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, praying him to provide for teetotallers. bring taxed on the following grounds .—That the* taxes imposed exclusively upon th^ consumers of wine, beer, and spirits amounts each year to a sum of money that would provide 50,000 families with £"60 per annum, or -as much money as would comfortably feed, clothe, and maintain more than half of ! the p >pu'a ion of Ireland; towards this pauperising burden of taxation (lie teetotallers do not provide a single sixpence; that your petitioners can no longer patiently bear the intolerable injustice of having to payboth /heir own share of the national taxes and th it of the teetotallers ay well Your petitioners therefore pray your honorable House so to reform your Qscal system that the burdens of taxation shall .be moro equally distributed among the people; ,■■■■' ' S. J. Thompson desires, to announce that as he has how the com pletest Stock, in every department, to be found on the Coast, he would draw special attention to the large and varied selection of Glass and Orockeryware, Silver-plated Goods, Electro-plated Goods (some very novol designs in the latter). The show of Vases, raneinj* from Is 6d per pair, is not equalled in this district,. comparison challenged. In the Ladies 1 Hat Depart meut S. J. T. is now selling four hats for .1 s, — these areiiew goods. Trimmed Hats, ranging from 2s 9d, 3s, lid, and upwards-; any special order completed in T the shortest time possible. — Advt.