Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 15, 4 August 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Manchester Rifles will hold a capitation parade on Thursday next. The Feilding Borough Council will meet on Thursday next.

The Taranaki petroleum works have be^n stopped. They could not strike oil in payable quantities.

In order to push the contention of the One nan-one-vote Party to a logical conclusion, no man owning property (ihould be allowed to yote at all.

The retail price of butter in Melbourne is 2s 6d per lb during the summer mouths The maker considers himself lucky if he gets 9d.

Mr Wachsman, the representative of Messrs Murray Robert's and Co., wool and stock merchants, of Wellington, has been a visitor to this part of tbe country lately. He considers it the finest district in the colony.

The Deputy Official Assignee, Mr G. J. Scott, gives notice to-day of the bankruptcy of James McHardie, of Mar ton, storekeeper. The firßt meeting of creditors will be held in the Court House, Marton, on the 14th instant.

Mr. G. Hutchison has received what seems to be reliable inFormation from Sydney, to the effect thut in four years prior to 1889 no less than £260,000 was sent from New Zealand to Australia in subscriptions to consultations, and out of that only £'37,00(J came back in prizes.

It was st.'ited by Captain Russell in the Hou-e recently thiit when hs was Colonial Secrutary clergymen were continual^ inciting him to break the law in order \o allow art unions to be heLl in regard to all sorts of thinss that could not be c« lied works of an, such as hideous oleographs patchwork quilts, &c.

It is rumoured in Wellington that the Hinemoa is now being cleaned and repaired with a view to enforcing the resolution of the House, with regard to the persecution of the Jews by the/ Czar of Russia. As it is well known that Captain Fairchild wont stand any nonsense, when the Czar hears that gallant shellback is on the war path he will cave in at once.

Government have obtained 100 copies of Mr Tregear's " Maori-Pol ynesian Comparative Dictonary," which have been supplied to members of the Legislature. A vote to cover the cost will be placed on the Supplementary Estimates. This is qm'te a waste of money. An English grammar and Rogefcs Thesaurus would have cost less, and done far more good.

It is e^tim'ted (soys ihe Manawatu Times), that if all t)w finfs and penalties fn the new Kills are made lawful, it «ill be ii perfectly ensy matter for any orduinry man, during ti period of six minllis only, lo render limiscif liable tn fioes ;iiiioi.iiiiintj lo f;:>OOf), nnd terns ohmpnvjiimcir expending over the r?st of]\i« rmlurul i.'fe ; "-.nil this wi'ho'it commuting asia«le crime. sxc>Dt statutory ones uiado by rabid i.e^isljti.>r.->.

Notes by "Vigilance" will appear in our next issue.

A point to point steeplechase will be held at Marton to-morrow.

Th<- usual assembly dance wi'-l be held in the Formers' Hnll to-niorrow evening

The general manager of the Colonial Bank has applied for a share of the banking business of the Goyernrnent.

Captain ErKvin te'eg'apbs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Warnings for gales and rain have been sent to all places.

We understand fchat a grand Fancy Dress Ball will be held in the Assembly Rooms iv the course of a few weeks uuder the auspices of the Feildiug Fire Brigade.

The death is announced of Mr James Fraser, which took place on Sunday last, at the residence of his brother. The funeral took place to-day. Mr Shearer officiated as undertaker.

Mr Wollerrnan has purchased that block of buildings now occupied by Mr F. Richards, and Mr Trimble's auction room, at a satisfactory figure. Mr G. C. Hill negociated the sale.

When " Carbine" was rushing up the ball at the match on Saturday, a Pal* rnerston young woman said. "I would like to tear his liver out." She was evidently a strong partisan.

Tbere was a land slip on the Manawatu Gorge yesterday which will take a few days to clear. Passengers and mails will go through as usual, but goods traffic is stopped.

Under rhe one-man^one vote clause in the Counties Bill, according to Mr R. Thompson, it will be possible for a small section of an electorate to appoint a lot of shilling yoters, put them on the roll, and carry a proposal to float a loan against the wishes of the large majority ot the local voters in the country.

Mr R. R. Collins, saddler, of Feilding, has just completed, to the order of Messrs Someryille and Uo,, a set of pair horse buggy harness which was much admired by those interested. The harness is mounted in solid nickle silver, the material good, and the workmanship firstclass.

The name of "Daw's Stables" has been changed to the " Feildmg Horse Bazaar " by the new proprietors, Messrs Sommerville and Co. The stables at the Feilding Hotel are also leased by the same firm who have thereby secured two of the best possible sites for their busi ness in Feildmg. They hope by strict attention to the requiremeuts of their customers, to merit a fair share of the patronage of the resident and travelling public. A new advertisement from the firm will appear in our next issue.

On Saturday night a contemptible robbery was coinuiitted at a private dwellinghouse in Feilding. It appears that the owner was in the habit of placing, to be corned, pieces # of beef in a pickle tub which stood outside in the yard. On Sunday morning when the domestic went to the tub to select a piece of meat to boil for dinner, it was discovered that the primest cut had been annexed by some person or other who was not too particular as to how he gained his living. These mean thefts are very disgusting, especially when it is remembered that there is abundance of work to be got, so that no one need go hungry.