Railway Returns

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 122, 7 April 1891, Page 2

Railway Returns

Jh¥l«U If Vt J AVVVUA UU -i «. ' . The following are the traffic returns for the Wanganui section for the four weeks ending the 28th February, 1891, and for the corresponding per-

3 The chief falling off is in grain, firewoodland' merchandise.

r Local aiid General News 'i Sft Giaprß^^rey^liaabeeiv declared duly . elected for the.Newtown seat;- ■• •■••••- ~' i \ ■j tailor, ; will benn Feildirig: to-morrow " measuring his clii I; The s Duke' of vf Manchester: Will visit ■• /Feilding in fthe;- course- ofria tour he is about to make of the- Australian Colonies , and New Zealand. 3r .., ..... ..; ■ .;-;-"' ' p To- L day, notice is, given that any^person ' tre^pa'ssing : ■ with;; dog. or .^gun on , Bute "FarmV ' the of Captain Campbell, will; be prosebutedl; ',' ,' ; ' " :; The'Wj^dviUe^'Exa'nuner eaye the-Go-'verhmeniiiri tend to!^ complete^^^ the; Wood- ; ville-Eketahuna; hriej aud ; £40;000 : will' ibe^put on the Estimates' for that purpose. "hbußehpider ; ; wKo. vmay not Kave ■received a y census; schedule from- a- sub- ■ eriuirieratory is requested to ;J notify; Othe . fact tb:!Mr ; F. M. I)eighton,.thei census enumerator.;- ;.;, ■•:; \ ; -i .' :>-, s " ;.:• / .; ; -^-i. The 'other day. a shark /^as .caught near . OamarUj^arid.bn ; :bemg opened was found; to have inside-Trnine .young sharks, a kerosene tin and a barrel stave for the little ones to play, ,with»; : : We ' ife^ret'to learn of the sudden death' at Chrißtcburch, ~on Sunday, of the Hon. W.Jleeves.iM.L.r'ii father of the Bon. W: P.- : Beeves, .the present Minister' for Education. ; ; ; Notice is given to-day by the Secretary of the Wanganui Education Board, ot the dates for .the nomination; and election of School Committees under ; the School Committee^. Election Act, ,1890." The Sydney: Banks have now raised their rate of interest on mpriey at fixed desposit. -for 'twelve months ; to five per cent. In this colony* the rate still remains at four and- a-half per cent. -■'it is calculated" that some 2500 tons o* flour are required in : lSfew : : Zealand every week, and there is sufficient milling plant tin the colony to produce. 3soo tonsa. week. That means that between 40,000 aud 00.--000 tons of flour must, be exported annually, tb,keep all^ the mills going steadily. -\\ 0 '.;■ l^'y '^ f : '/- ' X : * I Notice w publisjbed toi-day; of ithe mar* fiage of Mr J. Stephen Stewart, sbri^of J. T.. Stewart, Esq,. ; formerly District 'Erigiiieer'toii- this Coast, i to Mies Maud Kear, niece of. MivvWiliiam Jones, Esq.; of Makino. . We; wish the newly- married couple every ;happiheßß' and hope they will enjoy many years of marital life. v A v oorreßtjoodent (sent the Wairarapa Paily. the following puzzle. ,Can an^o' bur r-a-lers iiuess t? In a certairi-town there are three ; ; a, man^gpeß int:>' tUe ' fira't and Bays ta ihe lan(llord ; "'if 'you giye me as iriuch .money ;again"af ; I've got I'll spends sixpence " lSo; Man 1 did ; the r 6a"m^ hoteli-^wheii .he left .he had rio^movief at ; till. Eow ' niuohuhjd ha\;have originally ?

' Nominations for the A^hurst Licensing Committee election are published to-day. We learn from the Manawatu Times that a stoat was slain in Paltneraton a a tew days ago. Ten cases of Snider ball cartridges have been larwarded from the Defence Stores, Wellington, for the use of the Manchester Rifles. Captain Edwin forecasts heavy northerly gales, changing from west to southwest, between noon .of the Bfchj«id noon, of the 12th. There are evidences of the" approach of a period of unsettled and windy weather. To-day iMr Galway- announces in our wanted column that he has commenced business as a watchmaker and jeweller in the shop next to Mr Svendson's in Manchester street. w „ , Notices are published to-day in connecI tion with the local Triennial Licensing Election and Local Option Poll. Nominations for the Licensing Committee must be handed to Mr G. C. Hill, the Returning OfficeV, before noon on Wednesday the 15th inst., and, if necessary, the poll will take place on the 22nd inst., when the Local Option vote will be taken. The public can now begin to discern a glimmer of a policy in the dismissals of public servants. Inspector Pender, whose " retrenchment ", by a " Liberal " 3ov ' eriiment caused much 'wonder, after all does not lose"by the change. He is to be appointed Resident Magistrate in Canterbury. A gentleman well-known in Napier—no other than Sergeant O'Grady — is to be appointed Inspector in 'Mr Pen- < der's. place. ( Tuapeka Times. We (Wairarapa Daily) -have to record the death of another pioneer settler, whu came,. to New Zealand in the year -1842, and has resided in this district for the last thirty- two years.' Mrs-T. Chamberlain; senr., passed away peacefully last evening at the residence of G. E. Chamberlian, j one of the numerous and wexjU known sons whom she has lived to see became heads of families and prosperous and respected members of the community. The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon. A London lady, in whose pronunciation of English the letter "h " is a rather uncertain' quantity, .went to .a stationer and ordered a number of invitation curds that's he proposed to issne for an evening party. She particularly instructed the stationer to print " 'igh tea [' in the left hand corner. When the cards came home they all bore the letter " LT." in the corner. The printer had concluded that his customer had indented some new contraction after the manner of "~.R.S Y.P," ' * One census enumerator in this district has not found his billet a rosy one. Several ladies took him for a book agent, and in one instance a girl " let slip the dogs" at' him, and chased him off the premises because: she mistook him -forgone of these while -' another, a .strong .minded" woman, grimly asked him to wait outside on the fence until her husband came back with the gun, when she would teach the unlucky census man not to trouble honest people. He told a friend that he never felt so near kingdom come in his life before, and he prayed fervently. Some people are very fond of entenpij .stock for sale and withdrawing them t > save the commission, if they can sell them privately. An amusing instance of this occurred some little time ago to a settler who is scarcely noted for his liberality, and therefore the pangs of regret would be much more keen. He had driven- hh. sheep right into town, but happened on n speculator before he reached the yards, and sold the lot right out at the price offered. The latter took the sheep to the sale, and hud the satisfaction of uettine two shillings more per head than he had purchased them for a few minutes before. — Standard. The Premier's gush about- the New Plymouth Harbor and the splendid work done by its promoters makes itveryamus iug to those irho remember how he for yearn wrote and fought, against thai har bor. Has Ylrßallance been cun \erted by Messrs McGuire and E. M. SinitbP Does he intend to propose to nationalize the Hew Plymouth Harbor Loan? If his words at the Taranaki Jubilee mean anything more, than mere fulsome bunkum honorable members had better watch •' promising John " very carefully next session. If a concession be made to New Plymouth, Oauiaru, Timaru. Gris borne, etc,, will demand to be treated in a like manner, and, the colony will' be saddled with debts that it is in no way liable for to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds. — Wellington Press. The London Bellringers and Faust Family , appear in Feilding for the one night only, to-morrow evening, Wednesday, and there is no doubt but what a great amusement treat is in store for playgoers. As pantomimists and comedians the members are excellent, whilst the musical portion of the entertainment is yery good indeed, particularly . the part taken by Herr Von der Mehden,' who is unanimously acknowledged to be one of the greatest cornet soloists that has ever visited these shores. Since the last visit < of the Faust- Family they have added a i great number of novelties to ,their already I extensive list of pleasing items. Since the Company's arrival in New Zealand they have met with extraordinary success and the entertainment has been most highly spoken of. i The Melbourne Argus in reviewing the performance says : — An entertainment full of mirth and frolic, and yet free from all vulgarity and coarse jests. The cornet playing of Herr Von der Mehden has never been -surpassed in the Southern Hemisphere, and is a great musical reyelation. There is absolutely nothing in the entertainment to which the most susceptible could object.

3 , , 1691 1800 - Passengers ... 3171 18 7 3266 16 1 parcels ... 316 15 11- 353.14 9 Goods ... 3385 5 1 3695 3 6 " Miscellaneous 356 610 407 1 0 r £7230 6 5 .£7722 15 4