Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 32, 12 September 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

-+—■ : — A morticing chisel, found on Manchies--3 ter street, has been left at the Star office. The San Francisco Mail arrived m Feilding yesterday afternoon by the may.l . train from the north. s Tenders are myited in our wanted _ column for 1200' stabs. Address Box 15, y P. O. Feildmg. The next regular monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held on the 21st inst.^ ,: Mr W. Bellve is. about to open a branch I of his business as a saddler in the rising township of Birmingham. i The glare of the fire which took place in Falmerston early this morning was . distinctly visible in Feilding. There will be a meeting of footballers at Mr Donnelly's to-night to arrange for 1 winding up the season in a suitable mau. ' ner. An old man named R. C. Bull, an in» mate of the Salvation Home, Fanmure, . (Auckland) drowned himself on Thursday morning in a well. On Thursday the Sandon Licensing Committee met and granted a transfer j of the license of the Awahuri Hotel from • Mr Burgess to Mr Drury. The death is announced of Mrs: Nicholas, at Bulls. The deceased lady was the : mother of Mr W. D. Nicholas, oi" Peilding, and Mr C. Nicholas, postmaster, Bulls. It is rumoured that the Government i will call to the Upper House, the Hoo W. Montgomery, the Hon J. A. Tole, and • the Hon E. Richardson. This is too . good a selection to be true. Mr Tom Mann, Labour Agitator, in England, refused the secretaryship of the Engineers Union. Too much like earn- ' ing an honest living to suit a professional agitator. Yesterday Mr Bassett had on view in his shop in Fergusson street, the carcase of a locally grown bullock which, when dressed, turned the scales at 1060lbs. The meat was of prime quality. We regret to haye to announce to-day , that owing to serious illness Dr Oharlton is unable to practice his profession. We ■ hope to see him about again in robust . health in a very short time. Yesterday Mr Carthew started a-penny--1 in-the-slot machine in aid of Dr Barnardo's Home, and this morning the recept acle was nearly full of coppers. The " man at the door " is well worthy of the ! attention of everybody. An elderly woman, named Mrs Agnes Thompson, was charged yesterday before ; Messrs Bull and Kirton, J.P.s, with being of unsound mind, and on the certificates of Drs Johnston and Sorley she was committed to the asylum at Wellington. Mr John Fletcher, who has lived at ; ( the Thames since 1871, died on Thursday, ; aged 60. He was a native of Durafrie- . sliire, Scotland, and was a member of the I expedition organised by Dr Eane to , search for traces of Sir Jehu Franklin m ■ , the Arctic regions. f It is contemplated by the benedicts of '■ '• Colyton Clate Mangaone) and the adjac- > ent districts to givft, at an early date, a ■ return ball to the bachelors. A meeting ' to make all necessary arrangements will i be held at the Mangaone Hall on Wedi uesday evening next. The annual home mission services of , the Primitive Methodist Church will be conducted to-morrow, when the Rev. H. 1 Williams, missionary deputation (recently from England), will preach in the morn- ' ing, and the Rev. W. Harris in the evening. The annual missionary meeting is advertised for Monday night. In our report of the Feilding Hunt Club meeting, we omitted to mention . that Mr Joseph Smith did the catering, i and every thing necessary and requisite was provided in abundance. The hotel i booth was supplied by host Light of the i Denbigh Hotel which was a sufficient , guarantee that nothing but the very host r liquors were Tended. A human skeleton was discovered on ' Thursday by some men engaged in stumping on Mr Donald Grant's pro- ' perty at Kairanga. The scull only was • uncovered and appeared to belong to a 1 European, who had been dead some ten years. It was lying between the roots of ' a large white pine tree. — Manawatu Standard. ; The following have been selected to j. play for Wanganui against Manawatu on ; the 19fch instant: — Full-back: Robinson; three-quarters: Peak; McLean; Leys; ; halves : E. Woon, Bullock, i'aterson ; forwards: W. Whiteman, Glasgow, Humphries, Grogan, J. Blair, Harrison, Corn- ' thwaite, H. Clark ; emergencies : McLean and D. Blair i The local Fire Brigade had an excellent wet practice last evening on the , square, under the command of Lieut. Shearer. At a meeting afterwards the question of providing members with uni- '[ forms was discussed, and the matter will be dealt with definitely at a meeting to be held on Friday evening next, when all members are requested to be present. Today a man named O'Reilly was sent from Feilding to the Wanganni Hospital. It appears that he was hurt at Woodyille some time ago, in the back and shoulder, and apparently was quite recovered, but yesterday when he was walking towards Cheltenham he fainted on the road. He was brought down in Mr Daw's b>-ake ; and was taken to Mi Halley's, where he received every atten tion.

The arrivals ia tue colony for August were 989, and the departures 1145. The final match between Feildmg and Paltnereton Football teams was being played on the Oval this afternoon as we went to press. ■ The fallowing is the report of the Labour Bills Committee upon the Workmen's Lien Bill.—" The Labour Bills Committee 6nd it impossible to make the Bill a | ractic.il measure. Tlu-y think the Workmen's Wages Ac-t, 188J-, pro- , ridea the necessary protection for workmen's wages ; and that the Bill before the Council, dealing as it floes chiefly with contracts, would discourage the undertaking of work under contract They think- such unnecessary restrictions would diminish the demand for labour, nnd would increase the difficulty of obtaining work. Tin. Committee report the Bill wiili amendments, but consider n-z tliaLtue results of the law, if passed, would increase litigation and restriction of labour, are not prepared to recommend its passing." In connection with the notice given to dn.y that "My Sweetheart " is coming to Feildmg on Tuesday the 22ud mst. with the Dobson-kennedy Company, we may quote the following extract :— Speaking of Mr C J. S. Palmer who has just joined the Dobson Kennedy Company for the production of "My Sweetheart," the Bulletin says :— " A good man Mr Palmer ie ; excellent m his art as an actor, and gifted with a powerful yet unusually sweet tenor voice which has been well cultivated. The part of " Tony Faust," 18 naturally associated with the name ol Charles Arnold to local Playgoers who, though they may not prefer Mr Palmer to Mr Arnold, will be pleased with the former's impersonation of the character and must admit that as a vocalist he far exceeds their idea "Tony." Our own verdict is, that while the character loses nothing in dramatic treatmeut from the change of actors, it gains considerably from Mr Palmer's exquisite rendering of those pretty airs which form such an at tractive feature of the piece. It will no doubt be expected that there will be a manifest improvement in all our shipments, that all goods will be bought wt«li and at the lowest cash prices, that all goods will be the best oE their class, nod that all will be in accord with the pve>'ailing fashions of the reason. These vie* a will be amply corroborated by the displ ay we are now making of spring fashions, at Te Aro House, Wellington.