Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 88, 15 January 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

A heavy rainfall commenced last night, and continued to-day. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day :— "Warnings for gales and rain have been sent bo all places. Entries for Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale at Awahuri on Tuesday next are published to-day. % r .To-day ftlira Toy, notifies in our wanted column thai iihe has accommodation for two respectable boarders in her" establishment in Catnden street. ■ The Crown Lands Guide annual edition will be published in the course of a few days, and we are informed will contain an immense amount of valuable information to settlers and proposing colonists, . Matnuia:."! wonder wiiat we shall call the baby P " Johnny: "I don't think we'd better call him any of these names, papa called him last night when he was crying. He mightn't like it when he growed up." Government have under consideration a proposal to provide for the immigration of 200 Nova Sootiuu farmers, who are willing to oonie to this Colony if assist, ance is granted them The matter will, in ail probability, be laid before the House aext session. The newest Yankee notion is a machine by which it man oaa tell when he has become sufficiently drunk It is called a fuddleometi r ; and.it operates by giving a, fellow a sharp punch, in the ribs the moment he has got drink enough in his skin. ■•-.-■■: On Saturday next, at 2 p.m., MrWm, Trimble will sell at the Feilding Auction Mart a lartfe quantity of household furniture, the property of a resident who k leaving the district ; also various other good* ac set forth iv advertisement. Hairy Laing has returned to Wanganui, with his trainer. It is understood that the heat ia Sydney was. too much for htm. He i* perfectly satisfied; says the Herald, with the fair treatment be received at the hands of the Australian "sports." /.■..■■'■.'■ '."V---' : --- We publish in our advertising columns, the progi-amue of the Kiwit'ea Sports to be held in Mr Mitcbwti'e paddock, on Thursday the £2*id inrtaut. Nomina-' tioiw for the open racee are to be sent in to Mr Templar, the Secretary, at OheltenhiAUi, by Saturday the 17th inst. Mtwsrs D. and W. Manson, on behalf of the estate of the late John Maueon, recently forwarded to the Lough urn Pressing Factory a flock of splendid Skrwpahire aud Lwoolu leiuba, 1070 in number, bred at the. Jtairatiga property. Many of the Shropshire lambs tiu-ued the scale at over 401 bs. The Chatham Island natiyea continue strenuously to resist the dog tax. On January Bcu two natives who refused to pay were summoned to Court, when the whole tribe came, saying that if the official* took oae they must take all. The officials were unable to do anyfchjug, and the natives, after dancing a haka, went home. : > • Mr C. P, Mai, a well-known Feilding settler, has opened a grocery arid confectionery store in Manchester street, with a first-class stock of groceries, herbal medicines, confectionery, goods, <&c. The goods are new and fresh, and will be sold cheap for cash. On further improvements to the building being effected* 'Mr Mai will make other additions to his well selected atoek ef goods. We . wish Mr Mai ■ every s«c*e*s in his new venture. An etpeft«fte*d keeper of poultry has stated tiutt he has found homoaopnthic t;net*ire oE spoagia an effectual remedy for that Tory troublesome (iiiwaso roup in f'.'Wlt. Tkis »eeut» to indicate that roup iv poultry is akin 16 croup iv children/as the early state of the latter d'sease is v«ry successfully treated with spbngia. To prev«ut roup fire drops of the tinef^re (probably " motiier " tincture) „ar« mixed with a quart of water, the fowls bein;; allowed no other drink. Double '.he quantity of sp>ngid shou'i be given when the birds have actually been attacked. Old and young, rich and poor, are inyited to inspect the special attraction now obtaining; at the Hod House— the Shilling Table— loaded with articles of every description. — Advt. Respectfully you are requested to look at our boys' washing suits in white and drab duck, g«Utea stripes, and blue twill, nicely trimmed, at Te Aro House, Wellington. RsspkotfuliLY you are requested to inspect our new lot of boya'; sailor suits, man- of' war suits, maritune, Prince Alfred, and jolly tar suits, with lanyards and accoutrements to match, from 5a 9d each, at T« Aro House, Wellington. SEBPKCTFULI.Yyou are requested to inspect our receut importations, of boys'' jeraey suits, newest styles and colours, from 4s lid each, afc Te Aro House, Wellington. ..-.-. Rksfkctftjlly you are reqiiosted to look at our boys' velveteen Patience and Bunthorne; suits in blue, brown and black, also boys' velvet cord suits, in all shades, at Te Aro House Wellington.