Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 18, 11 August 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

. <E> A poem entitled "Emperor, Give us Bread," has been confiscated by the German authorities. The Times, m referring to the English harvest, considers it will be late and bolow the average. The Sportsman thinks Lord Sheffield's team is probably the strongest which has ever left England. Sir Augustus Harris, lessee of Oonyent Garden Theatre, if offering .Madame Melba an engagement next season at £250 per night. Mr Rudyard Kipling, the well known author, is arranging a trip to New Zealand and Samoa for the benefit of his health. The McKinley traffic, in vogue in the United States, is having an almost ruinous effect on the tiuplate industry in Wales. William Souter, a middle aged man, while cutting chaff in a barn at Dairy Flat, Auckland, fell down and expired. He has no relatives in the Colony. A wealthy syndicate has been established ia the Uuited States for the purpose of exporting meat from Canada to Europe. The Bishop of London will shortly hold a service of recousecration in a church which was lately desecrated by the suicide of a woman. It is estimated that General Booth's first Farm Colony on the banks of the Thames, will, when fully oc2upied, sustain between 4000 and 5000 people. The balance-sheet in connection with the Fire Brigade's recent sports and concert will be published in onr next issue. The net proceeds of the undertakings are £50 6s. Leng Kee, grocer and fruit dealer, is having his shop at the corner of Manchester and Grey streets altered and enlarged. John sa,ys : Business wellee goods and he no keepee behind the time. We haye received from Mr Lankshear of Mangaone, a most singular piece of fungus taken from a hollow log. It is very like a skill of chamois leather, of the ordinary light brown color of fungus Mr Macarthur left for Wellington today to resume his Parliamentary duties. We congratulate Vl r iviacattliur on his almost complete restoration to health, and hope Le may continue to improve. The Cologne Gazette states that His Holiness the Pope looks to the restoration of the temporal power by a European war, which the alliance between France and Russia is believed to be furthering. A man named North has committed suicide by shooting himself, at Makuri, Woodville. He left a note 6aying he was tired of life. It is supposed he was one of the unemployed, but there are no further particulars to hand. The sneak thieves are at work now on thefirewood b(.lougui!> to tho State School, in Manchester street. The mode is to put tho wood iv ii bag and carry it as if it was anythißtf but stolen property. No doubt they waned tho wood to make a fire to boil the corn buef annexed a fow nights ago. As the foreqnarters of beef are useJ«ss for the E i^lish ma ke , the attention of our local beef growers is now ilnvciad to I tho production of a, suitable amiunj, so that by a process of evolution ilu-v can breed oxen something in the form of leanKaroos with a minimum of liirnlmvirtcr* ! . and a maxiianni of foivquarters. Tliw ia { : L-aly a progressive age. '.

Mass will be held in St. Bridget's, Feilding, next Sunday at 8 a.m. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to day — Telegrams to expect frost haye been sent to all places. There are 500 Salvation Army Officers in India, Katiye aud European. Labour Bureaux have been started in Bombay and Madras, where scores of " out-of work " have found employment. The Feilding Club has purchased a section containing 132 feet frontage in Manchester street, which will be fenced at once, and planted with ornamental trees and shrubs. Mr Je'licoe has decidpd to appeal against the decision of Judge Kettle in sentencing George Albert Tapper, bankrupt, to six monihs' imprisonment at Palmerston .North. The Hawera Star states that the Waitara Freezing Works have been converted into a limited company under the name of the Mount Egmont Freezing Company, with a capital ot £20,000. Messrs Richards and Co. have held a most successful clearing sale, which will be continued this week, and finally be concluded on Saturday by an auction sale, full particulars of which are published in another column. Th<» Commission now sitting in Pal* merston for the purpose of allotting the cost of maintenance between the loral bodies interested in the Awahuri bridge continued its sitting on Saturday last, and ad-journed till next Friday. Mr E. D. Browne, the popular proprietor of the Occidental Livery and Bait Stables, at Palmerston, has a business announcement elsewhere, in which the comfort and convenience offered by his stables to the travelling public, are duly set forth. At the last meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge it was unanimously resolyed: " That the congratulations of the lodge be given to P.M. Bro. Macarthur, on his elevation to the high position of Deputy Grand Master ; also on his restoration to health after his severe illness," The business card of Mr W. T. Watts, proprietor of the Albion Hotel, opposite the railway station, Palmerston North, appears in another column. Mr Watts is well known in this town and adjacent districts, and will be happy to receive calls from visitors and travellers at his new and commodious hotel. A Sydney telegram informs us that the conference between the pastoralists and the shearers has concluded satisfactorily, and an agreement has been dratted, which includes the pastorahsts' definition of freedom of contract, and permits nonUnionists to work without molestation, favour, or intimidation from either side. A competent authority informs us that farmers will be acting contrary to their own best interests if they send frozen meat to England on their own account, in place of selling their stock to the local companies. He considers that the latter are offering much better terms than the farmers can get themselves. A certain class of tradesmen in Wanganui have made a combination. They are to charge only fixed prices for work done in the town — but they are " free lances " in the country. A Wanganui man " got eyen with them" the other day by the aid of a friend in the country, who got the job dove at " country prices," which was a sell for the combination. Mr Alexander Dundas, surveyor, of Palmerston North, is reported as having been missing for about a week. He came into town last week as a witness in the compensation case of the Manawatu Road Board against the Wellington Manawatu Eailway Company, and has since di^aps peared. His friends are feeling anxious about his absence, and the police are try* ing to discover traces of him. — Post. The Salvation Army's Labour Bureau has obtained employment in the North Inland for a number of Canterbury men, afc bush felling and road making. Two batches of eleven and fourteen men respectively were last week despatched from Chnstchurch to Wellington, from which place they were conducted to their employment by the Army's agent. This officer reports : ' ' Prospects for men magnificent. ;> Many of the men are engaged at bush felling at a shilling an hour, with a prospect of six months work. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement inserted over the leader by Mr. E. B. Pearce, of the Land Mart, Palmerston North. Mr Pearce issues a monthly Register and Investor's Guide, which is got up very attractively and is circulated very extensively throughout the provincial district of Wellington, being sent to all the leading hotels and places of business throughout New Zealand. Investors and purchasers will do ■well to consult Mr Pearce, who will answer all correspondence promptly. Mr Edmund Goodbehere, land agent, reports haying disposed of the following properties during the past fortnight : — Section 62, sub. E, 300 acres, to Mr W. Baker ; part of section 103, Manchester street, Feilding, 44 feet frontage, to Mr W. Brandt ; balance of section 103, containing 132 feet, to the members of the Feilding Club ; section 84, suburban, one acre, with cottage, to Mr Huddleston. Mr Goodbehere also arranged the sale last month of section 124, opposite the Denbigh Hotel, to Mr Hugli. On Friday evening last a farewell social gathering was held in the Sandon Town Hall for the pr-pose of showing the esteem in which Mr Grant, the schoolmaster there, is held by the people in the district. Mr Grant has been in the district for two years, and is now leaving on a trip to Scotland, where bis parents live. During his residence in Sandon he has made many friends, who met on this occasion to give him a hearty farewell. During the evening, wbich was taken up with speeches, songs, &c, the Chairman, Mr Sanson, on behalf of the settlers, presented Mr Grant with a purse of sovereigns. Nothing succeeds like success. The Feilding Fire Brigade, emboldened by the success which attended their recent "sports and concert, announce by advertisement in another column, that a grand plain and fancy dress ball will be held in the Assembly Rooms on Thursday, August 27th. The ball will be under the patronage of Mr Macarthur, M.H.R., the Mayor and Borough Councillors, the Manchester liiiies, Feilding Hunt and Football Clubs, and the various Fire Brigades in the district. A strong cornrnitt.ee has been formed, and no efforts will be spared to make the ball the greatest success of the season. The Empire Hotel at Palnierston, which is close to the post rind telegraph offices, is now open for business, find is one Oi the best appointed and handsomely furnished hotels on the coast. Mr W. Dor re en, the proprietor, is possessed of I:ir^e hotel experience in the South Island, and is exceedingly popular with all classes. He hay with him as manager Mr I' 1 . Fi'iiiuje (a host in himself), who is well and favorably known among travellers and visiliors in the coast il trade of the oology- The biibii.ess notice of Mr Dorreen will be found iv another column.