Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 145, 30 May 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

;- - /* .; . , • j Efforts are being made to establish a telephone exchange in Palmerston North. -Huntley John Harry Eliot, is gazetted ' Under-Secretary of Mines. H. Luhdius has been appointed a Ran- | ger of Crown lands for the District. -•...' ' . , v At -Napier the other day a witness in a * Court case said he would not touch a glass ' of beer for £1000. . Mr-James Hopkins Stevens iis gazetted as Registrar of Marriages, Births, and Deaths and Vaccinatioh "Inspector at Feilding. ■ "Forty-eight patcels 'Of land in the land district of Wellington are gazetted as temporarily reserved for sale for various purposes. >. Mr W. Wheeler; printer of the Lyttel- I ton Times died on Wednesday of heart disease. He has been 44 years in the em* . ploy of the Times; V" . The local agents haye received advices , that: the R.MS.; Doric left Hobart at lo'clock oh Thursday. morning, and should arrive at Wellington oh Monday next. ■Complaints have been made that when football practice'is being held in the Corporation paddock the ball is often kicked into Fergusson street, with- the result that horses attached to vehicles have been . heedlessly alarmedy We trust this notice will. pro ye sufficient*, Large/ consignments of earthern-ware drain pipes of all sizes continue to arrive in Feilding for the various local bodies; many hundred pounds, worth every year, with an increasing demand-. Why are they not made locally ? This is an excellent opportunity for a small syndicate to establish a profitable industry.' The following team has been chosen to represent Palmerston in the Senior Gup match with Feilding to-day:- — Full-back t J. Jackson ; three-quarters : . Luxford, G. Newtb, „.'a nd Sinclair ; halves : vStallard, Irsherwbbd.f- Key ■-;■.. forwards : Olipbant, Hanha, Mdwlem, Weston, Peterson, Guy. Manning, and Carroll ; emergencies : Rakena, Williams and Innes. The Mangaone Public Hall is being greatly imprbved in appearance. An addition of two rooms has been made at the rear 6f the* building in , order to add the necessary, apartments to the stage. The outside is being painted which. makes tbe Hall look much better. Mr Frederick Andrew is doing the work. . We congratulate the Mangaone people on their enterprise* : . Tlie promoters of the jVfasonic Lodge in Ashiirst' are to be congratulated on the progress they have so far made- They have secured a section tor ihe Hall, purchased the timber and let a contract for the building which is expected to b»> finished by the cud of July. The Lod«e wdl be under the New Zealand Constitution The founders. have also purchased .the,'. furniture and ; jewels; of the Foxton Kilwinning, — ManaWufcu Time*. It is' with deep regret that we (Advocate) have to record the. death of Mr James McDonald, second son of the late Mr James McDonald, of Marton. The deceased was well-known and highly respected in this ; and the surrounding districts; having been a teacher under the Wanganui Education -Board for about nine or ten '■years, and i in that capacity did good Bervice4h the Western Rangi- • tikeij Mangaone, Manutahi v \ and Momo : haki Schools. He was only 26 years of

Mrs B. : " Johme broke a pane of glass,, but, as he told me about it at once, I gave bim an apple." Mrs. 0. : " That will teach him a lesson." Mrs. B. : "I'm afraid not. As soon as be had eaten the apple he went and broke another window." J jha L. Sullivan is to leave America in June under engagement to M icMnhon Bros., and w .11 appear in Melbourne in Jul., . It is on the card* that h<> wi 1 come lo ■ew Zen land with the dramatic company which -st) play- the pioce in which lie appears— Honest hearts and Willing Hands, - . The following advertisement appears in the Christciiurch Press; — I, being a Kegistered Pharmaceutical Chemist and Drugizist, ' desire to inform the inhabitants of-Sydenham that I will, on and ail er m June 10, 1891, endeaveur to study iheir crenture comforts and future wants, inasmuch as clause 3 of '.he Licensing Act, 1881, enables me to supply them with spirits, etc., bul only in medicinal doses. Full particiil rs on application to Prohibitionist, Prohibition " street, Sydenham. On Thursday night, Mr Rogers, agent of the Government Life Insurance Department lectured m the Assembly Rooms to a moderate but appreciative audience. Tbe Mayor, Mr W, G. Haybittle, occudied the chair. Mr Rogers secured the attention and interest of his hearers for an hour and a half. A intervals he gave recitations and sougs which went far to enteitain his hearers. At the conclusion., of his address, on the motion of Mr F. V, Lethbridge, an unanimous yote of thanks was passed to Mr Rogers, and a similar compliment was paid to the chairman. Mr Tolley advertises that he has commenced business as a carpenter and joiner, also contractor for general repairs to buildings. He will undertake work also in Birmingham.