Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 7, 16 July 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ " Old English Tea " in the Assembly Rooms this evening. We have to acknowledge receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers. A Masonic Lodge will be opened at Ashurst in a few weeks. The Kiwitea Road Board will meet on Saturday next. Mass will be held at St. Bridget's next Sunday at 8 o'clock. The Maori prophet, the great Te Whiti, has been declared a bankrupt. The potato is cooked. How art thou fallen, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage's new Tabernacle at Brooklyn, was opened on a late Sunday for the first time. The collection for the day amounted to £10,000. A pleasant entertainment was given at at Palmerston, on Monday evening last, by the children attending St. Patrick's school. During the evening presents were given to the Rev. Father Patterson. A man of much observation remarked the other day " How calmly placid is the expr--«sion on the face of even the most sViftish hm-so, whon ifHs hitched up outaide of a public iiuuee."

We hive to acknowledge receipt ot a press ticket for the "Old English Tea " to-night. The direct English mail arrived by the mid -day train to-day, and was promptly sorted and delivered. Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Warnings for gales and rain have been sent to all places. Mrs Searie, wife of an Ashurst settler, accidentally broke her leg yesterday morning by slipping upon the wet ground outside the house. The members of the Feilding Football Club are reminded of the practice to be held on Saturday afternoon, when all are requested to attend. We learn from the Manawatu Times that a protest has been entered by the Awahuri footbatl team against the try scored by Palmerston on Saturday, There are now forty thousand people out of work in Victoria, so we may expect thf reiurn of many of those wanderers who leftour shores to "better themselves" in that imagined more favored land. An interesting article in the form of a dialogue on "The Expected Liberal Land Law Administration," appears on our fourth rage to day, for wnich we are indebted to the Napier Telegraph. The boys in the tipper standards of the Boys' School in Wanganui, have given formal notice that if their wrongs are not righted they intend to strike. The Chronicle advises, as a remedy, that the teachers also strike. The growth of fruit trees here since last season is surprising. Mr Towler has shown us some shoots grown m twelye months, between five and six feet in length, cut from pear and plum. tree. We are glad to learn yesterday that M r Macarthur was much better than he had been for some days, and that a decided improvement in his general health is now becoming apparent. At a meeting of the Hunt Club Steeplechase Committee held on Tuesday afternoon, it was decided that nominations would be receiyed on Aug. 22nd, weights declared September 3rd, and acceptances September 7th. To-day we publish a preliminary notice that on Wednesday next Mr and Mrs J. W. Foley will commence a series of their grand drawing-room entertainment in the Feilding Assembly Rooms. Further particulars will be published in our next issue. The only way to check the wind bags who waste so much time in the House, is to bring in a Bill to authorise the deduction from the "salaries" of the cost of compiling and printing Hansard. Even the threat to do this thing would have a beneficially deterrent effect. A shipment of 91 stoats and 258 weasels, to the order of the Wairarapa Rabbit Board, is to arrive by the Aorangi in a few days. This will be the last ship« ment of what the Daily calls "the natural enemy," by the Board under the existing arrangement. The Sports Committee of the Fire Brigade had a good time yesterday. They canvassed a large part of the town" ship, and every person responded by giving a contribution, either in the shape of money or goods. The total already realised so far is estimated at about £24. As Mr Daw will give up possession of the stables he has occupied so long to the new lessees, at the end of this month, he desires that his many patrons and friends should know that he has leased the section near Mr Parr's farriery, where he will have erected suitable stables to meet all the requirements of bis extensive connection. Ti e late Dr Beaney, of Melbourne, ten days before his demise, forecast the circumstances of his own dissolution. He described to his housekeeper his disease, and the symptoms that would develope, including the time when he would become comatose. All this was accurately ful» filled. At the .same time he said he woulfl die at 4 o'clock on the morning of 30th June, He died at 5 minutes to 4. By a circular from the Defence Office, dated 9th July, officers commanding volunteer corps are informed that a karkee uniform has been approved for mounted rifles, and infantry corps, and sealed pattern suits are now being forwarded to Officers Commanding districts, and on application to the Defence Office all particulars as to how the material can be obtained, will be given. The N.Z. Times Hayelock correspondent says : — I have reliable authority for stating that the Gorge claim, at Deep Creek, has at last struck it rich. Several dishes of wash were panned off, and the results were very satisfactory, as there was a residue of about sdwfc of erold in each dish. The dirt is not at present above a foot thick, but the lay of the wash would indicate some heavy yields ahead (hot in that conntry Ed. F.S). Mr J. B. Hamilton has a yery inyitmg price list in to-day's issue quoting extraordinary low prices for drapery etc., i during this month. Mr Hamilton having secured at very substantial discounts from wholesale houses, several large clearing lines which he is offering direct to the public at enormous reductions of usual whosesale prices, town and country residents are specially invited to inspect these extraordinary cheap lines. The Manchester Rifles will parade this evening, when every man is expected to attend. There is a good deal of business to be done and punctually is requested, so that those who desire, may get away afterward to the concert to follow " The Old English Tea " in the Assembly Roomß. It is understood that the corps will be asked to appoint a committee to consider ways and means for the erection of a drill shed, gymnasium, etc. At a meeting hold last evening of the Feilding Court of Foresters, Dr Sorley was appointed Surgeon. The election of officers took place at the same meeting as follows :— Bro. J. Fraser, 0. R ; Bro. R. Bowler, S. C. R. ; Bro. F. Petherick, S. W. ; Bro. J. McAhster, J. W. ; Bro. W. Pearson, S. B. ; P. C. R. Bro. P. Thomson, J. B. The 0. R. was installed by the retiring C. R., P. C. R. Bro, P. Thomson, the C. R. elect installing the other officers. At the Red House, Mr S. J. Thompson hae now in stock some of the most beautiful silver-plated and glass ware goods ever imported into Feilding. The pendant jardinier globes are quite novelties, tasteful in design, made of elegantly coloured glass, with suspending brackets mounted in. colored plush. If only to see to what perfection the manufacture of this class of goods has been brought, every person of taste should pay a visit of inspection to the show case at the Red House.