Fielding Star. TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1891. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 98, 10 February 1891, Page 2

Fielding Star. TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1891. Local and General News

W« ragret that owing to a typographi- i cal. error in our report of the proceedings at the last meeting :of the Borough Council, the names of Councillors J. C. Thompson and Gould were published instead »f Councillors Edmund Goodbehere aud Sandilands as the mover and seconder of the resolution re erection of the bridge at Aorangl. Besideat Magistrate's Court to-morrow At the inquest on the body of a man named Fraser who died in Wellington from the bite of a Katipo spider, it was proved 3»y the medical evidence that the fatal result of the hite could only be attributed to; the continued use of alcholic liquors having had an injurious effect on the blood ( of the deceased. At;ithß:'lnyercargill Police Court a man .was charged with travelling- first-class on the railway with a .second-class ticket while accommodation.', was available, but the information was dismissed as it did not state the defendant " did it knowingly and wilfully." Defendant was, however, fined £1 and costs for threatening the guard .with violence. The writer of a contributed article in . the Times states that the Admiral in command of the Australian Fleet; has been given precedence over colonial governors, wheu^away ,trom their own colomes, wholly, in the interests of colonists iv the event of war, and that it was not intended thereby to lower the rank of colonial governors. According! to / G-oldsbrough's last' monthly -circular, the total shipments of; wool from Australia and New Zealand to latest dates receivable, amounted to 862*013 ?bale 3 ; toy the corresponding period last year the total was 94 1 ,625, showing a decrease of 79,612 bales. The itotal shipcaent frora JSew ; Z aland, from ist July to 31st December, amounted to 84,017 bales, and for the corresponding period last jear 74,638 bales, showing an increase of 8,3 19 bales. The Board of Governors have appointed Miss Hill, B.A;, N.Z. University, of Auckland, «8 second assistant mistreps of Jhe ; Girls' College. The teachiug staff now consists of Miss Harrison, M. A. /(Lady;£*za«cipal), Miss: J. B. Hudson, who takes music and languages, and Miss; M. )L. Hill, B.A. Mr D. Blair has been ajipomted art master, and Mr Wyihqdit instructor of physical education.—Okronicle. . In the fatter part of last month Mr Marchanfc, .the Commissioner of Crown Lands, viated the Wa»mariua Block and made a thorough inspection of that portion which will shortly lie offered for sale. We^feear-Mr Marchant was highly delighted / with the .country, its soil, climate, and -the block generally; Mr C. A. Mountfort, Goverumeut Surveyor is now en jmute ... to the Waimanna to complete the necessary surveys. The Evening. Post is becoming anexcessively expensive luxury for the city of WetJihgton, as its incessant and wholly unjustifiable - attacks on the Governor are evidently increasing his Excellency's want of loye for the Empire City, and a ■consequently increased deter minatioa to dwell.elsewhere, except during the sittings'" of Parliament. It cannot be wondered at, for the Post has shown itself incapable of right action in dealing with His Excellency, and has shown unmistakably that the Editor has dipped his pen into the gall of a private difference and 'knows no bounds to its bitterness. It is no doubt amnsing to the Post, but it is rough-on Wellington to baye the gubernatorial expenditure driven out of its legitimate channel, and ■further, a very distinct feeling has been displayed on inauy occasions to have the seat of Government removed to Christchurch, and \i Wellington goes .much further in its persecution ; it may find, in the pTesent radical governing element, a very «brong inclination to move the seat of Government, and with His Excellency's friends to back them up,, the vote may be " put through " before Wellington is well aware of its being brought forward. — Patea Press. Apropos of a remark made by our contemporary the Manawatu Herald, as to what a man may come to from drink, it does not follow that when a well-educated man comes to be a "rouse-about" in a i hotel that drink was the primary cause. Once in the good old days in Hokitika, a middle-aged man left a good appointment worth about iJ3SO a- year for no other reason than pique at some imagined insult, or slight on his dignity. The writer of this paragraph, a few months afterwards, was solicited by a relative to hunt up the man who had disappeared altogether from his old haunts, the police knew nothing of his whereabouts, in fact to all intents and purposes he .was obliterated. The closest enquiries were imde, and many out of the way places visited in the prosecution of the search, but at the end of six months the task was given up as hopeless and the relative was communicated with to that effect. However, one afternoon the writer went into the back yard of an hotel not two hundred yards from the place of the "lost one's " former employment, and there found him comfortably seated on a candle box with a bucket before him, pealing potatoes ; -and in that hotel kitchen he had been emI ployed fronV the i first hour of his disappearance. He said he had been perfectly happy all thejtiuie — and had saved uion«r.

Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. today: Barometer rise every where. A good programme is promised at the Band of Hope Meeting this evening. All are i invited. : , , „•;:', ; '"v . Th<- cricket; ihiifeHPeildin/f v. AshursV pliiyed at the: latter^piape onv Satur ay, resiiued in the defeat of the Visitors. The Manchester Horticultural Society will hold a Chrysanthemum , Show in Feilding on-Thursday, the 7th May, in : the Assembly Koqins.^ fe ' . ■'■};■ :;i The. Triennial Tjicensihg Gommitfee election for the Borough of Feilding will ■ 7 be';he)d'in"4pnl;;j;Th'e"Lo.(»i;Gptipp ; ;-poU4 will be. taken at the same time. L ;i • We are requested' to draw -the attentioii of about to furnish to the new adyertiaement of Mr Isaac Brent^ cabinet maker and upholsterer. In onr report of the proceedings of the Borough Council it was : omitted to be mentioned that the jGommercial Union Insurance Company. Sad-, made a, liheral donation to the Feilding Fire Brigade. Messrs Freeman S, Jackson and. Co. hold their great annual Bam Fair at the St. Hill street sale yards, Wanganui, on ■Wednesday and Thursday;next,/February 11th and 12th. The sale commences "at 11.30 a.m. each day, x:; t; ' The business card of Mr Walter E; Hall, dental surgeon j of Wellington; jrill be found in another v column. 'Those interested in the possession .-: of , useful " mastic ttbrs "are directed to peruse the advertisement.) " .. .^^ On last Sunday forenoon the eldest son of Mr John Saxon, of Pputatau Farm', while riding on the Palmerston road, was i thrown from his horse and severely hurt. He was taken into the house of a settler near where the accident happened, where he lay insensible" for sometime. " This year the dividends and bonus distributed by the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine have reached a .total* of £4,408,000. Last^year nearly one mil-' 1 lion was paid in d^yidend^, or equal to 250 per cent upon the ipaid" value ; of the shares. ■ • ■;■■,■ ■"■'C,,^, .,.,... The Most Rev. the Primate has hoti- 1 fied to the Rev. A. Herrnoh his intention of holding a confirmation servica in St. John's, Feilding, on the 24th instant/ arid of consecrating the new Church at Kiwi - tea on the 25th. Particulars of these services will be duly advertised. ; : At the Police Court this morning, before Mr Kirjfcon/ J.p./ Joseph : Watts | was charged with being drunk in a public place yesterday. He pleaded, guilty, and as this was the second offence within six months he was fined 20s and costs 2s, or in default 48 hours' imprisonment. The Wertheim sewing machines are rapidly advancing in; public favor, and being .one of the best made machines in the market, no home is complete without one. Meserß Orrace, "Glarke and!Co;,%of Palmerstou and Wellington^ 'are sole agents for the machines, and their advertisement appears in another column. The last few days of "Summer" weather have renewed hope in the breasts of many of our farmers, who; were very downcast owing to the bad weather pre- ■ venting them gathering in their crops; They are "now ; making hay; w^le. the; sun shines," arid there^ is every reason to; believe that a good harvest will be gar- - nered after all. In ; several cases the! crops are so ripe that the method; of "■ stooking" the sheaves is hot required, and as the machine mows down the corn it is at once gathered and stacked. 1 v We direct the attention i of .oiiv readers' to an advertisement on the first page of to-day's issue from S, Luk6. and; Soni of Wellington, referring to the celebrated ranges-manufactured bj their firm. These ranges are claimed to be l superior to any. imported, and hundreds ~.of them die now in use in Wellington and surrounding districts. They are .acknowledged ti> be the strongest /and most economic:. 1 ranges made, and, being constructed to bum eitber wood or; coal, jthjey should meet with a ready and: general sale in. this district. .-.<■.. In one of the driest and most barret) parts of the Chrisrehurch Garden* there are growing several clusters i of an exceed" ingly interesting .. plant—^the Lalhyrus SylTe9tris-^-a variety of everlasting pe* This plant is one that should command the attention of settlers who hare patches of sandy soil on their farms or large areas of riverbed. This pen ; is a good fodder plant, cattle, horses, sheep, pigs eat it readily. Cow 3 feeding on it' give large quantities of milk, and the milk; yields rich cream. It makes a lieayy crop, giving as much as 17 tons of green fodder or four tons of hay the second year. When once planted it will last forages, and takes such root in the soil that it is valuable for holding drift sand ,As it has thrived in the driest and most barren part of theClmstchurch Gardens through the^vicissitudes pi; an unusually severeseS^on, it has been proved iidapted to the New Zealand climate, and there is nr> doubt that it is capable of flourishing even on the -sandhills. — Christchurch Telegraph. ' • In connection with^the Wesleyan Jubilee in New Zealand, services were held . in the Feilding Wesleyan ""-Church last Sunday. The Rev. W. Morle*y was the morning preacher, and his nanie, well known throughout New Zealand, attracted a large congregation, the church being, filled to its utmost capacity. Appropriate by inns were sung and the text chosen by the preacher was the first .five verses of 103 rd Psalm. He endeavored to impress the minds of his hearers with the many: causes which we, '• the people of New. Zealand/ have for thankfulness, as contrasted with the condition of the masses in the old country. He himself having come in contact with them so recently as two years ago, he gave many applicable and telling incidents of their everyday life. The attention of the congregation was sustained right through the sermon, which, doubtless, will have left an influence for good ou many of the hearers. Another opportunity of hearing Mr Mdrley, with other speakers, will be provided next Friday night, when the Jubilee meeting will be held, and several selections of music are to be rendered by the choir, accompanied by the orchestra. — Communicated.

This day we intend at " The Fair " to offer some special lnducetntn^ in Boys' Clothing, such as Boys' Kuicker Suits reduced from 7s 6d to 3s lid, reduced from 8s 6d to 4a lid, reduced from 9a 6d to os lid, reduced from 10s 6d to 6s lid, at Te Aro House, Wellington. This day at " The Fair "there will be a fine choice of Men's Tweed. and Serge Sac Coats, at 8s 6d for os lid, at 10s 9d for 7s lid, at 12s 6d for Sslld, with a good lot of Tweed Sac Suits at 22s 6d for 12s lid, at 25s for 15s lid, and at 3oa for 22s Ud, at To Aro House, Wellington. Tins day we shall give the men of •Wellhngton the opportunity of -picking up some dicided bargains in Tweed Trousers at 6s 9d for 3s lid, at 7s 9d-for 5s lid, and 8s 9d for 6s lid. Also Tweed Trousers and Vest at 15s 6d for 10a lid. and ■ at... 17s 6d for 12s 11, at " The P\ur," Te Aro -Hjtfuse, Wellington. This day there will be an unparalleled . ; choice of Meu's and Bpy's Shirts, Pants, Undershirts, Ti&s, Scarfs* Socks^ Handkerchiefs, Braces, Belts, Straw, Felt and; Tweed flats, and a host of other bargains too numerous to particularise at "The Fair," To Aro House, Wellington^ -