The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1891. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 138, 14 May 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1891. Local and General News

Monday next being "Whit Monday the Banks will obserye a close holiday. The dates of Mr Tripe's next visit to Feilding and adjacent townships arc published to-day. Mr J- A. Bailey, postmaster atTuou'i. has resigned. Mr J. Powtll will be a,jpomted in hie stead. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- day — Telograms to expect frost havo been sent to all places. Typo for April is to haud. This number is even more full of useful imformation to the trade than usual, besides containing much interesting reading matter. Services in connection with the Wesleyan body are now regularly held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, every Sunday evening, at 7 o'clock, by Mr G. Any on. A woman in Melbourne recently left her husband because he spent all his money in backing a certain football club, and then revenged himself for his losses in beating her. Mr Gilbert, pianoforte tuner, is at present on a visit to Feilding and districts He will remain in the district for some weeks, and orders left at Mr Carthew's will be promptly attended to. We are requested by Mr G Any on to state that the alleged larrikinism ab the Birmingham Town Hall, on Sunday evening last, as stated by a correspondent in our lnnfc issue, is inacoinate. 'Jh> services were not interrupted in any way , nor was their larrikinism of any kind noticeable on the occasion referred to. In Mr Shearer's furniture warehouse was to be seeu yesterday one of the most handsome drawing-room suits ever turned out in Feilding. The frames are of walnut, while the covering is of different patrons of rich tapestry, bordered with plush. The workmanship is, as usual in this establishment, first-class, and would do any towu establishment credit. We direct the attention of those interested to an attractive advertisement in another column, from the Bon Marche. There is now on display at this popular establishment a splendid assortment of dress goods, clothing aud general drapery for the winter season. As the prices in many cases are quoted, a large and speedy clearance of these first-class goods should be the result. Mr Cunninghams Graham, the member for Lanarkshire, in the English House of Commons who was expelled from France the other day, was sentenced in January 1888 to six weeks imprisonment without hard labour, for taking part in an unlawful assembly in connection with the Trafalgar Sqnare disturbaaces. Mr G' - ahain is claimant to the earldoms of Menteith and Airth. We (Advocate) are sorry to heat* that the proposal to keep a half- holiday in Marton is likely to be abandoned. This undesirable issue of the agitation is not due to outside opposition, but to the re« fusal of one of the storekeepers of the town to co-operate. The town was almost unanimous in favor of the half day's re laxation, and only one man refused to sign ihe paper. Whether he will be prevailed upon to withdraw his opposition we cannot say. The orders issued to the various volunteer companies include an intimation to the effect that on .Monday week next. 25th iust,, a commanding offir.-er's parade, in review order, will be held at 8 a.m. sharp, when the customary few de joie will be fired in honour of the Queen's Birthday, which falls on the Sunday preceedine. Instructions have beenreceived by circular from the Defence Department that no lenve will be granted from this parade, and we would ad rise our Volunteers to be.'ir Miis fact in mind or they will fiud themselves out of pocket. In consequence of (he constant "leak age" information concerning Tasmamsm mines, ii which certain Adelaide stock » brokers were interested, they devised as a boijus message the following :— " Buy largely Adelaide Proprietary Sto'-k at 9s or 10s ; don't be particular to a shill n,'-" The bait took, and shares were easterly bought at a considerable advance on previous prices. The Adeliide Stock Txchange are considering the matter, and the local telegraph authorites hnve been asked for an explanation. — Dunedin Star. The council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, with a view to chei'k the practice of shooting game, or fishing out of season, have urged the freezing companies throughout the colony not t • allow their machinery to be put to the improper use of freezing game shot or fcroufc caught out of season. The subject which is one of interest to every person residing within the colony, was brought before the conference between delegates from the various freezing companies >md shipowners lately held in tins city, with the result that the delegates undertook to forward the protect and .application of the S"ciely to all (he companies repre sented «t the conference.— Post. The London correspondent of the Argus writes : — Regarding tinned meats a very startling and horrible story comes from America, A Swede named Lars Petersen, on his deathbed, made a confession that while working in v large tin nine establishment, in the spring of 1889, he murdered a fellow-workman, and cut up his body and disposed of it by mixing it with the flesh of the swine. It passed into the pickled pork department and presumably was sent out as food. Petersen said this occured in Silrerhorn's packing establishment at Sioux City, lowa. It appears that Petersen nn>l his victim were left in charge at night. and their duties were to clear up the slaughter- house An extraordinary surgical operation has been performed at OKiestao. A member of the brotherhood known as the Kn'ghts Templars lad been operated upon for cancer, and a wound nearly a foot square was.lnft. The doctors in attendance on him declared that if tiieir patient naa to recover the wound mnst be covered with new human skin. Thereupon 132 members of the brotherhood volunceered to submit to an operation, which should consist of the removal of a small strip of skin from their arms, so that it might be transferred to the wound of their com rade. The operation was duly performed. The majority of the self-sacrificing Knights Templars bore the surgeon's knife without flinching, but sereml of them fainted. '

There will not be any mass in St Bridget's Church next Sunday. Messrs Freeman R. Jackson's Eeilding gale was held, to-day. The sale vr> a well attended. Mr Trimble will hold Ins usual weekly *ale of miscellaneous articles ou Satin 1 * 1 day next, at 2 p.m. Special attention is directed to the new advertisement which appears to-day from Mp.ssra Kirkcalfhe anil Stains, direct imp rtors of all kiuds of drapery and clothing, Lambtou Quay, Wellington. At a meeting of shareholders of the Equitable Insurances Company at Hokitikß|vecently it was slated that losses to the amount of £80,000, had be made by the Company. In response to a circular from the Stock Department, the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association on Monday decided that in their opinion the appointment of a department to deal with the taxing of stallions is inopportune. A meeting of gentlemen interested in the formation >>f a Farmer's Association was being hold at Hastie's Hotel this afternoon as we went to press. A full report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. The Paimmt-n Borough Council are sending out ciinrnnnicatous to the varioulocal bodies, asking their co-operation in obtaining the consent of Parliament to the provisions of a Bill which they intend io get introduced, to enable that portion of ihe roumry between the south hank of the Ransiifikei river and the southern boundary of the Horowhenua district to be created a new hospital district. The first Junior Cup match of the sea son will be played between teams representing the Palmerston aud Feilding football clubs, at Palmerston, on Satur day next, 16th May The following players will represent Feilding: — Full back— W. Bellve; threequarters — Fanthorpe, Martin, aud R. Parr; halves — Lance, Fowler, and Collins ; Forwards— Giesen (2). Aitken, Mildred, Galway, Stewart, Eyans, Lucre. Emergency — Boechy. One of the principal attractions at present in Feilding is Mr J. B. Hamilton's new drapery emporium. The stock is not only choice and varied, but is one of the most extensive to be found along this coast. Customers visiting this establishment may depend upon seeing the very very latest productions in dress and fashion, as we learn it is Mr Hamilton's intention to make his house second to none between Wellington and Wanganui. Nothing succeeds like success, and Mr Hamilton is determined to achieve it. A nn*etin^ of lite Executive Commitu^' of the Wanaouui Education Board wa> held yesterday, Mr Carson premium Questions raised In committees witti reJurd to ihe procedure at certain election-, and the r.-ilidity thereof was referred t.> the solicitor For his opinion thereon. In cases where no election at all took plaer the Secretary was instructed to give the househoulders another opportunity to elect. Application to appoint Dor? Reid cadet at Stone.y Creek was granted sub ject to the usual certificates being fur nished. — Chronicle. On Monday next the Dobson — Kennedy Company appear in Little Lord Fauntleroy. Referring to the performance at Blenheim, the Express says: — Never has Blenheim seen E wart's Hall more packed than it was last night, when " Little Lord Fauntleroy" was produced for the first time. The play was one we'l worthy of the patronage it received, from beginning to end it was something worth seeing, and one simply revelled in good things. First and foremost conies the Little Lord himself, or herself, whichever is liked best, and as played by Ruby Kennedy, it was one of the best displays of histrionic talent we have ever winessed. Artless in the extreme, and yet from her very simplicity full of art, full of tender stnypathy and quaint expressions, she remains a child all through, and never attempts to go beyond her defined limits in this respect. Our Ashurst correspondent writes : — " I have to record a bad accident that happened on Tuesday afternoon at the Victoria saw mill. Mr Alfred Gardiner had only just entered upon his new duties as truck driver at this mill, when on the second day he broke his leg, high up in the thigh — a very bad place. As the loaded trucks were coming round a curve on their way to the mill the foremost one jolted at a critical point, and the iog on which the driver was sitting rolled off, and he with it. The whole weight came on his thigh, breaking the bone and pinning him to the ground. It is a very unusual occurrence for anyone to pass that way, but, fortunately, on this day two men were coming down the tramway, at the time of the accident, and extricated him, or the poor fellow would have had to have lain till Mr Warne's bushmen returned from their work — probably 2 or 3 hours, He was taken home in Mr Coombe's trap as quickly as possible, and Dr Maeintyre summoned by telephone. Dr Maeintyre is the medical man of the A.0.F., of which body Mr Gardiner is a member, and high up in local rank. Great sympathy is expressed on all sides with him, for he is such a steady, genial young fellow that he is a favorite with all."