Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 100, 14 February 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

»- It is reported coal has been discovered in the Puhipuhi forest. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government printer. Captain Edwin telegraphed at ,9 a.m< to-day : — Warnings for easterly gales and heavy rain have been sent to all places. . A mob of sheep, numbering between four and six thousand, passed through Feilding yesterday from Napier en route to Wanganui. . We are informed that Mr Arkwright, of Overton, Marton, proposes to leave for I England at an early date. He expects to be absent for about two" years. The wife of the late Fenton Matthews, first Surveyor- General" of New Zealand, died at Tonbridge, Essex, last week, at the advanged age of eighty -five. The average price per bale of colonial wool sold in London this year shows a serious decline when compared with the figures for 1889, being £14 15s as against £15 10s. The small increase in the population of France is caused— it is alleged— by the compulsory clauses of the Education Act being: enforced. Let this be a warning to New. Zealand School Committees. One of our local" settlers has secured a contract to fell the bush on a block of about three thousand acres in Waitotara. The, contract is to be completed within a year, s ahd-will require about sixty men. JN T otice is given to«duy, of a meeting of ratepayers in the Manchester Road District to be held in Feildjng on the 7ih of March in connection with the proposed stopping of' certain roads enumerated in the advertisement. Mr Mount field informs the WoodviTe 'Examiner that one of the native New Zealand, birds is proving the natural enemy of the pear slag and he bas seec this bird picking it from the leayes in* fesled with the blight. The rainfall on Thursday night anc Friday morning was quite tropical in its character, and had the effect of flooding the gardens and low lying ground besides doing a lot of harm to the crops which had not been harvested. Messrs Nelson Brothers have opened their shore freezing works at Gisborne The capacity, which is to be enlarged, i; at present 750 carcases per day, and there is a storage accoinodation foi 20,000 sheep ashore and 7000 on a hulls m the harbor. This was rough on the' brewer. Mi Kortegast,> of Hokitikei, had eight infor> mations laid against him under clause 1 1 of the Beer Duty Act of 1880 to whicl he pleaded guilty. The Beuch fined bin £20 on eauh charge, which, with the costs of Court, made a total of £204 163 Half to be paid at once and the reinamde: in seven days. The term of the lease of Mr A. W McFerran having nearly expired, h< gives notice by an inset in to-day's is3m of a great clearing .sale of groceries value £500. No reasonable offer will" be refused. This is a cash sale which heads of families should not, neglect, The following receipt for making tomato pickle has proved very successful :— Green tomatoes, sliced, 201 b: greer apples sliced, sllis ; salt, sufficient: sugar 21bs ; cayenne, £oz ; mustard, £oz ground cloves, ; vinegar, 2 quarts Slice the tomatoes and put them in i large bowl with a little salt between eacl layer, let them stand 12 hours ther strain off the liquor and throw it away mix all together, and boil one hour. The Palmerstou Borough Councillor! take their dogs with them to the meeting! of the Council, and we learn from 'the Standard that Cr Colville innocently created a diversion at the Council meeting the other evening. He was handing the Mayor a resolution, and while he was saying " What do you think of that," t dog, whose tale Cf Colville had trod on set forth such a yell that the Mayor was not sure for a moment whether the Ci referred to the dulcet tones of the dog oi to the resolution. The publicans and brewers down tht West Coast way are virtuously indignant because the officer appointed by the Government, under the Beer Duty Act, has had some of them convicted and fined foi defrauding the revenue, a practice whicl they must have carried on to a greater 6j less extent ever since the Act came intc force. Hit high or hit low. there is nc pleasing some people. If .these worthy people paid their tax more honestly there would be less need for that land tax thej want so much. A sale of land on the perpetual leas^ system was held by Mr J. W. A. Marchant, Commissioner of Crown Lands, on Wednesday, the land selected being 14 sections of the North Puketoi Block. The sale was a failure. Ox 13,000 acres of good land, capable of carrying from two to four sheep to the acre, only some 5000 were sold. Want of publicity, and the fact that the land was sold without being surveyed, are the reasons of the failure. The demand for good land is by no means satisfied. The Opposition leaders, says the Canterbury Times, formed a Government latterly without a head, and they liked the experiment so much (there is no accounting for the extremes of human eccentricity) that they have become the Opposition under the same deplorable circumstances. Mr Bryce, Mr Rolleston, Captain Enssell, Mr Scobie Mackenzie, Mr Macarthur — it is what musicians call a quintette. Mr Macarthur knows the most, Mr Scobie Mackenzie speaks the most, Mr Brvce is the most ingenious, Mr Kolleston the most terribly in earnest, and Captain Russell is the one most likely to lead the party and hold it together. As a debater he proved himself during a little passage at arms he had with the West Coast member about the police, and is really the best man on his side by far. If he does not lead the party next session, they will go to pieces. day there will be an unparalleled choice of Men's and Boy's Shirts, Pants, Unrlorshirts, Ties, Scarfs, .Socks, HandkeivhiefSj Braces, Belts, Straw, Felt and Twee 1 liata, and a host of other bargains too numerous to particularise at " The Fair," To Aro House, Wellington. This. day we shall show some special bargains in the Clothing Department at " The Fair," Te Aro House, Wellington. Messrs Ross and Sandford, of the Bon Marche'j Palmerston North, respectfully intimate the approaching close of their pre.?3iit Great Clearing Sale of Jobberns and Oo.'s Bankruptcy Stock together with Iheiv own Surplus Stock of Summer Goods, all of which aro now being disposed of at prices that cannot fail to moot with the lie h party approval of Cash Purchasers. — Advi 1 .