Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 131, 28 April 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Sherwill has been appointed auditor for the Mauawatu Building Society. There will be mass in St Bridget's at 11 a.m. next Sunday. Mr H. Coles, piano tuner, of Pulmevaton, will he tit Mrs Hastie's Feildiog Hotel ou Friday next. The ram which fell on Saturday night and Sunday has done a considerable amount ot good. The price of bread will be raised in Feilding this week. This is consequent upon the rise in Hour. The election of Mr F. Y. LGthhridge for No. 1 sub-division in the Manchester Road District, is announced by Mr Sherwill, the Returning Officer. It, is rumoured tliatthe Commission of Inquiry into the Public Trust Office has made discoveries of a somewhat sensational character. A supply of Koch lymph, consigned to a wholesale "firm of druggists, was am ngst the Manposa's cirgo for Auckland. Bread has risen Id per loaf in Adelaide, and a strike in the trade is also threatened over VL6 question of freedom of conr ct. We fPost) undersbin;! that there is every probability that a reduction to Id per pound will be made in the freight of frozen meat from New Zealand to Lonaon. Out oF a shipment of 228 w"easles and 117 stoats put on board the R. M S Kuapehu, consigned to the North W;»i rarapa Kabbit Board, 165 wensles and 85 stoats were delivered in VlasterLou. f The Assembly Rooms have been booked for the Dobaon Kennedy Dramatic Company on Monday and Tuesday May 18th and 19th. Little Lord Fauntleroy will be the fir9t piece produced. Mr Bassett got a nasty cut in the face yesterday from a queer tempered horse, ridden by young \iacalister, which he attempted to lead. Mr Basssett was knocked down by its fore foot, but was not seriously hurt. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day: — Wind between north and east. Warnings for easterly gales and rain have been sent to all places eastward of Lyttelton, Nelson, Wanganui, and Kaikoura. A son of VI rJ. Slipper, of Bunny thorps, while out shooting ->n Friday, fell down md the guv he was carrying was iiis> charged. The lad's hand wa> seriousl . injured, one finger being carried away and a number -<f flesh wounds i.-iflicted. Some time ago two blacks were shot at Finke river (says an Adelaide telegram), it was alleged by black trackers. It has now been found that the trackers shot the men under instructioni from Constable Wiltshire, who afterwards burned the bodies. He is to be arrested. A syndicate has cornered Bear Hill gold shares Cwe learn from a Melbourne telegram to-day) fully seventeen thousand of which have been over-sold at prices ranging from Ll5O to L3OO. Many leading brokers have been entrapped into he ivy losses. It isnot generally known that cliry.s.'in them it m blooms, if cut and put in water, will lust ten days or a fortnight, and up* pparali tlis time as fresh as if newly cut Yet such is the fact, and very handsome and inexpensive table bouquets can be tuude from such blooms.— Herald. The members of the legal profession who form the lower ranks in Wellington, are not verj particular as to the ways in which they uinbe busiaess, and the New Zealaud Times says they have lately had some examples of so called " touting " made public. The reason as given by the N.Z. Times for the real uselessness of ''Liberal Associations " in New Zealand, is because of their fidelity to the principles of repudiation. They neyer think of paying their debts. There is not a newspaper in the colony but what can indorse it. At the big football match played m Wellington ou Saturday, reports the N Z Times, although the play good, there was some very bad temper. That caused a dreadful amount of bad language, and roughness in the game. It is recom mended that the Rugby Union should take determined notice. We learn from a private letter received in town that, should Colonel Stapp's health continue to improve, he will probably be in Wanganui in about a fortnight's time, and during his visit he would like, if possible, to take a formal farewell of the local garrison corps, m whose welfare he has always eyinced the liveliest interest. — Herald. The. Salvation Army will celebrate their seventh anniversary in Feilding in May next by a demonstration, and a sale of gifts will be held in the Barracks which will be specially prepared for the occasion. Donations will be invited by advertisement in the course of a few days, when we hope the invitation to contribute will be heartily responded to by all sections of the community. A correspondent writes : — Some tal en ted young artist in the Feilding State School, whose gruesome imagination bids fair to develop into a literary career worthy of Edgar Allen Poe, or Rider Haggard, has been plying the other youngsters with ingenious tales of grinning skeletons parading the town at night and flying flags betokening plagues and death, until the children are in quite a state of excitement about the approach of night and its attendant horrors. A telegraphic record, which is held to be a best on record in telegraphy, was made la.it week between Mr T Halo ( Ul.nheim) and Mr C. '."atinvah (Wellington). In one hour they put through 108 complete messages, not counting yides, the previous record being 96 messages. On last Monday, however, Mr Tovey at Wanganui and Mr Exson at Wellington }iut through in one hour 115 messages without vides, and within the next hour 87 messages, making a total of 202 message* independent of vides within two hours. This, ifc is 'understood, is the best record yet performed. — Exchange.