Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 39, 29 September 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Thore was a sharp frost here yesterday mo -ninsj. The Payne Family will be hme on Thursday, Ootohor 29th Mr N. Gorton's' Rum'uii won the Piunt-to-Point-rfteeplechutie at Marton.

1 Volunteer Officers may now frank unsealed notices to^yoluiueers of date when drills are to be held. Mr Grove will lecture on " The Taber ttm-Ic' m Ik* G.i.sp^l null, un Friday evening next, u» 7 o clock. \ Members of the Manchester Rifles are vFtninflpd of the meeting to be held in the Barracks to morrow m»ht. A borne for friendless boys, and a home for Salvations sailors are amongst General Booth's latest schemes. Mr Slipper has been appointed telephonist and postmaster, at Bnnnythorpe the offices for both to be at his store. A statistical inquiry has brought out the curious'fact that in England a brunette has ten chances of being wedded to nine chances if she is a blonde. Captain Thomas, who played a prominent part in the Chatham Islands affair when Te Kooti escaped, died sud denly at Auckland on Saturday. A case of typhoid fever in a mild form has been reported. Dr Charlton is in attendance. We are glad to see that the doctor is now well enough to resume his practice. A beery gentleman fell into Mr A. Ead'e's window on Saturday, but as Mr Eade secured the co-operation of Constable Tuohy, the damage was paid for without any further trouble. No less than 742 lost, stolen or strayed people, were traced in one year by the ' hallelujah deteotiyes engaged in the Salvation Army's Australian Enquiry Department. Mr Scobie Mackenzie said that the reason why Government want to abandon the Land Bill is because they have more to gain by the abandonment of the Bill than by carrying it. . A London cablegram informs us that Sir F. D. Bell declined a banquet which the other Agent-Generals wished to offer him-, on the occasion of his retiremdnt. He had to draw the line somewhere. A rumour is current in Wellington that ■ two of the Public Trust Commissioners will not accept the £3 3s per day offered them by the Government and intend to 1 take action to recover expert fees of .£lO , 10s a day. ; The proposed new International Head- ' quarters of the Salvation Army m Lon--1 don will embrace halls to hold 1200. 3,000 ■ 5000, and 10,000 people, aud also a Salvation Array Hotel, Restaurant and p Boarding house. , Mr J. C. Hill, head master at the 1 Feilding School, has forwarded a cheque > for £5 to the Captain of the Feilding Fire r Brigade in recognition of the Brigade's services at the late fire at his premises in 1 Manchester street. I A young man named Berry, employed as a carter on Tripp's Orari station (Tirnarn), was riding on the shaft of his ! dray, when he fell and a wheel passed 3 over his chest. He just liyed to tell how > the accident happened. 1 We notice that Mr W. G. Shearer, of • the Furniture Warehouse. ' has iust commenced the erection of a > comm dious show room in Manchester 1 street. We hope Mr Shearer wiil reap the reward his entet prise deserves. l Three hundred and forty nine situations haye been found for the men who } have passed through the Australian Sal- \ vation Army Prison Gate Homes in the twelve months ending May 31st, while sixty -six have been restored to their friends. J To-day we publish an advertisement ' from Mr Broadbent, the successor of k Messrs Ratliff Bros., of the Makino t Stores. Mr Broadbent has replenished ) hi? stock from a " needle to an anchor " '■ in all departments, and asks everyone to ; rally round him. > The Wellington v MaDawatu Junior ! representative match took place at Palmerston North last Saturday, and resulted in 11 drawn game, each side scoring four points, after a yery exciting game Pudney (2 tries), G'ooney and King scored--1 tries for Weli'ngton, and George io\ , JVlanawut'i, while Roache potted a goal 3 The weakness shown by the Wanganui r Metropolitan Club in allowing the Pal--1 merston Club to take the Feildmg day, ' 27th December, for their second day's . race meeting, has been condemned by '•. all the principal spotting writers in the 3 colony. This of course reflects on the c greed of the Palmerston Club, indirectly . 1 A bed of valuable clay h^s been discovered on the Salvation Army farm at j Hadloigh, Essex, aud the manufacture of bricks, tiles, drain pipes and all sorts 1 of Ton a Ootta goods is to be commence 1. 3 Ten thousand tons of London dust to be delivered on the farm has been contracted ' for,, from which everything useful will be extracted. f Lambing is very good in the Carnarvon : district. Mr R. McKenzie has a small , flock of stud ewes, vcliieh ran with (he 1 champion ram " Rifleman, ' and from the i 63 ewes he obtained 76 lambs. We want ' MrTravers" opinion on this sort of farinj ing. A settlor can enjoy " sitting on a ; rail and smoking his pipe " if the profits i were always this sort -Herald. We learn fr >m the Palmerston Standard, ' dard, that the head of one of the most notorious bogus financial swindles in Australia, namely the Australian Mercantile ' aud Loan Quarantee Company, was Mr ' A. H. %lalcolm, well-known at Makino 1 and Sandon. He was the Lond n Mana- • ger, and besiles hid " screw " managed 1 to secure advances to himself amounting ■ to £10,140 without security. ' Wiliiam Thompson, a retired publican, committed suicide at Dunedin on Sunday morning by shooting himself with a revolver, the muzzle of which he placed in his mouth, and then fired. He was a 1 widower,- with no family, but he had adopted two boys, whose father died some years ago. He was in very comfortable circumstances, though it is understood he had sustained losses recently. To-day Mr M. Keen, who is the oldest and best known boot and shoemaker in this town and district, has an advertisement in to which the attention of his numerous friends and customers is specially requested. Every line is of the very best material and workmanship, and the great demand for the high classed items, with their established merit, makes further remark unnecessary. On Sunday afternoon when one of the chimneys in Glasgow House was on fire, a gentlem in was seen standing at the foot of Manchester street with a pensive look in his eye. V friend approached him and aske.l. Why so sad sweet one ? He gently murmured in .reply " One more tongue of flume, aud I'll bj up that boom.-' ing bell tower liks a possum." But that tongue did not come so the tongue of the h'rebell remained silent, and the gallant Fire Brigade were left to enjoy their afternoon slumbers. The .Spring and Summer goo<ls of Miss Stewart have now arriyud and she is shi. wins? a large assoitmßnt nf new hats and bonnets together with all the necess.iry flowers, feathers, ribbons, lfices, nets, areophanea, ornaments, &c. Her collection of new gloyep. fallings, and hosiery is urisunia^aeil. The dressum king department unfli-r the able supervision of Miss Scott 1^ >i pronoun cod success, and ladies are roq.ieuted to pluce their orders at ouce. — ADVT.

The Mar.tou Mercury appears in an enlarged form. Mass will be celebrated in Sfc.Bridget's next Sundny at 1 1 am. Sir M. ORorke has definitely declmed to contest the Wrtifca^o seat. •We have to ack-ao ( \yled<*e receipt, of a batch of Parliamentary papers,?'" Mr A. FTannett to-,d.ay,. fp.9feite.wellknown liorsp Diomedesjto Haweca,, where he will stand the season. Owing to the deathof one of his daughters, Mr Gr. W. Shailer, photographer, will be unable to pay his customary visit to Feilding to-morrow. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- day — Telegrams to expect strong northerly gales have been repented to all places. T'.fre ire some mean 1 1 x yes-ab^ut. To-day a widow complained to us that the flowers planted on her Imsbgnd's gravp at the Feilding Cemetery hare l^en stolen, and the urn placed at the head of the grave broken. The moral in regard to chimnies pointed out in our columus a few days ag , evidently did not receive due attention, for on Sunday afternoon considerable excitement was caused in the vicinity of GMas gow House, by one of its chimnies taku g fire, and for a short time the flame emitt d was fas!^ and furious; rain had just com menced to fall however, and coupUd w.ih the measures taken by the occupants 1 o danger resulted. . . The quarterly circuit meeting of tne Saodon-Feilding "Wesleyan Church, was held in Sandon yesterday. The meeting decided to invite the Rev. "W. Can n ell to continue as Superintendent for a fourth year. The Feilding representatives considered it would be advisable to ascertain if it was possible to separate and havea young man stationed in their district in order to meet the needs of the ever-in-creasing population. It has been pointed out to us that the conditions under which assessors are to be appointed for t'»e valuation of landed property, slijulate thut the valuatois must personally inspect each property included in their returns and that to do so will be difficult if not quite impossible within the time it is understood the returns are to he handed in r£ilh.erto,this has not been done by the valuators, many of whom based their returns on the valuation rolls of tlie local bodies of tne districts they contracted to yaluate. — Wangnnui Herald. The following will represent the Feilding Football Club against Palmerston on Saturday next, at Palmerston : — Joe Bobinson, Parr, Dyer, Jack Robinson, Harmer, Udy, Strachan, Whisker, Gregory, Keightley, Campbell, Oldham, Watts, Nicholson, and Matrayers ; emergency : 0. Aitken. Mr Daw's brake will leave at 12.30 sharp, and any of the above or other members of the Club, sufficient to make a load, will be taken free of charge. Those wishing to go by brake in order to secure seats are requested to let the Secretary know by Friday. We hear that a new feathered bipod has arrived in Manaia in the form of a carrion crow. He signalised his advent by killing and eating a whole brood of yonng chickens ; but one of the family no led Mr Crow's roost in? place, and. after a. tough n'sht, captured him after nightfall on his perch. That crow is now cooped up, and this experiment in acclimatisation is not likely to be carried further A carrion crow chiefly differs from a rook in having a black, si ghtly curyed beak, whereas a rook's bill is white and wedge shaped. — Kawera Star Grand Window display now on at J. B Hamilton's, the very latest craze in svijsh and- lovely ni"w"- Millinery. Hundreds of the most, fashionable straw shapes to choose from. Wanted all the Ladies in Feilding and district to comn and se^ tiiis charming display of .New Spring Millinery .-t-Aj/vt.