Local and General News J

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 36, 22 September 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ Mr J. E. Henry has been appointed handicapper for the Egmont Racing Club. "We haye received Typo for August, which is as usual, full of items interesting to the trade. Phylloxera is spread ins in S-Mithern Eussia, and the vineyards in the Crimea are hopelessly ruined. The tie between the Palmerston and Feilding football clubs for the Senior Cup will be played on October 3. Mr John Bartholomew has presented llie Fire Brigade with a cheque for £5 in recognition of their services at the late fire. The bull to be given by the Feilding Football Club will take place on Friday the 9th of October. The advertisement will appear in our next issne. A meeting will be held to-morrow night at Glasgow House, at 7.30., of persons interested in the formation of a^ Young Mens 1 Mutual Improvement Society, for Feilding. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day-Telegrams to expect strong westerly winds hold good at all places. Messrs J. C. Morey and Co., of the Bon Marche, Fergusson street, announce to-day in our wanted column that their first shipment ot spring goods will be ready for inspection on Saturday next. The firm invite the public to inspect these goods, and judge the quality for themselves. The marriage is announced to-day of Mr Clissold to Miss Bamfield, which took place at Timaru on the 16th instant. Archdeacon Harper was the officiating clergyman. We congratulate the newly married couple, and wish them many long years of mutual happiness and prosperity. An interesting case was heard at the Christchurch E.M. Cuurt on Saturday morning, in which Matthew Sherman, licensee of the Star Hotel, was charged under the Licensing Act, with having refused to take in a dead body brought there for the purpose of inquest. The case was proved and the defendant was fined £3 and costs. A Telegram from St Petersburg to the Paris Matin says that a strange suicide has just taken place in Dubbeln, a sea»side resort in the province of Livonia. The victim, a baron, was a million uire, and unmarried. The reason for the act is given in a letter, in which he corn--plained that life was " too monotonous.'' On Sunday last when Mr James Carrnody, a resident ot Campbelltown was schooling a young horse, the animal ran of the course, and putting its foot in a ditch fell, and rolled over Mr Carmody with the result that the latter sustained a fracture in his left collar bone. He rode in to Feilding in the afternoon, and had his injuries attended to by Dr Johnston. At Bishops Stortford, England, Charles Clarke was fined £1 and c sts for misbehaviour in Birchanger church. Defendant was being married in the church, and pulled a bottle of spirits from his pocket, from which he drank before the altar, in spite of expostulations of the clergyman, who, however, completed the ceremony. We have to acknowledge receipt from the Secretary, Mr Danvers, of the Napier Park Eacing Club's programme for the season 1891-2. Without exception it is the neatest and best printed we haye seen in the colony, and reflects infinite credit on the Daily Telegraph office. The stakes are on the most liberal scale. A sweepstake race for threequarfcers oi a mile, between Mr Benson's Hermit, Mr Graham's black horse, and a pony belonging to Mr Gibson, took place on the old racecourse on Monday last, and resulted in a easy win for Hermit, the black horse being second. There was a fair number of spectators present. Yesterday afternoon it rained hard within half a mile of Feilding, and afterwards cleared up to the disappointment of people in the Borough whose watei tanks were empty ; but this morning their hearts were gladdened by welcome showers of rain, which will also do an enormous amount of good to the pasture lands. The favorite Dobson-Kennedy Company will appear this evening in the Assembly Rooms, when " Sweethearts" will be presented for the first time in Feilding. This has proved one of the most successful plays in the repertoire of this talented company, and has delighted every one in Australia as well as the New Zealand. The representative football match between the Wanganui and Manawatu Rugby Unions was played at Palmerston on Saturday afternoon last, when the former were defeated by 10 points to nil. The Manawatu reps had the best of the game, which was a fair exhibition of football. Speed, Matravers, Gregory, Isherwood and Mowleru each secured a try, the latter of which was converted into a goal, and Jack Eobinson kicked a goal from the field. Everybody has read of the wonderful verdict brought in by a .sympathetic coroner's jury in "an Francisco, in the early days, as narrated, by that veracious historian Mark Twain, and been sur» prised thereat, but the following as told in an English paper is nearly on a par with the American incident. On July 25th it was sworn in a coroner's court that four men, seeing a woman holding a man by the leg from an open window, jeered at her when she screampd out to them for help. It seems too cynically brutal to be true ; but it r-ally happened in the case of Walter Underwood. He was a quay foreman at the Victoria dock, and the scene of the tragedy was 26. Ordnance-road, Stratford. For some days he had been strange in his head, faucyin<» certain men were following him. His wife had great difficulty in getting bim home from his mother's, where he had strayed. In his mad fit he hurled a flower pot through the window, and, overbalancing himself, fell out His wife was able to seize him, but the four men refused help, and he fell from the top floor on his head, sustaining faial inj uries At the Poplar town-hall, where Mr Baxter conducted the inquest, tli jury first grnm bled at the doutor, und brought in the extraordinary verdict of '* Suicide." The ladies of Feildins; and the Sur« rounding districts will be pleaded to learn that Mr J. B Hamilton has already opened up his first Soring shipment of new season's goods, which are now ready for selection, comprising one of the larg» est and most yaried stocks of Fashionable Drapery ever yet imported into Feeding. One glance into .Mr Hamilton's well arranged Drapery Emporium is a S'Te proof thai lite varied tastes of the Ladie-s have been studied m ever) degri'p. Full details of this • splendid new stock will appear in fclie course of a few days. Meanwhile one air! all are freely iaviied to call and inject the J goods.