Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 66, 1 December 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Trimble will hold a stock sale at Ilalcombe to-morrow. We me glad to hear that Mr Mauson, of the Pines, is recovering from la grippe. A savrmill hns beon started at Bunnythorpe by Mr J. Jensen. Our local Mrs Malaprop says the Tories would like to skin the unemployed to make paupers' hide leather. Captains Boileau and Butcher, of the Ghooikas, have been removed from the Army, consequent ou their conduct during tho Marnpur disaster. Lieut. FreemanMo, who was courtmartinlloiJ in connection with the shooting of fishermen off Plymouth, has beon acquitted owing to mirage. The Hon. A. J. Balfour, speaking at Glasgow, said he was convinced that Ireland would never get autonomous government on any conditions. An Irish geologist predicts that within fifty years a convulsion of nature will sink the whole of New Zealand fifty feet below the surface of the sea, residents of the

The Borough Council will meet on j Thursday and the Manchester Boad Board on Saturday next. The sequel to " Old Grumble's" adventrires with a " Tree Fiend" will appear in oitr next issue. Old Grumble has " shook off the grippe." At a conference of Irishmen in New York it was resolved not to send any more money to Europe until the schism in the Irish Party was healed. We are glad to see Mr Giesen has so far recovered as to resuhie his duties. All the members of his family, however, are yet prostrated with la grippe. We understand a sacred concert will be given in the Assembly Booms on Christmas Eve, under the auspices of Mr B. F. Haybittle and the Wesleyan choir. The elections to the London School Board have resulted in a victory for the Moderate and Economical Party. The Radicals are much, chagrined at the result. While Mr John Jefferies, of Bunnythorpe, was shearing the other day, the sheep, in struggling, drove the blade of the shears into Mr Jefferies' hand, inflicting a painful wound. A Hibernian fisherman lying alongside a ship looked up and said " Captain, can you give me an empty barrel with some flour in it, to make a hen coup for the pig ?" He got it. A new industry has been started at Auckland. That is, filling up forms under the new taxation. The men who can do the .puzzle are making money hand over fist. La grippe, as they call it, says a victim, seems to me to be a combination of ague, billiousness, feyer, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, and a bad cold with a few sharp pinches of the cramp thrown in. Horse owners are reminded that nominations for the Hack Hurdles, Manchester Handicap, Flying Stakes, and Local Handicap, in connection ■with the Feilding Jockey Club Raoes close with the Secretary at Feilding to-mght at 8 p.m. A curious accident, to which bushfellers are very liable, befel Mr Page whilst engaged last week. The axe struck the timber in such a way as to jar his elbow, and actually parted the flesh from the bone. It is more painful than an ordinary fracture, and generally longer in healing. The Governor and the Countess of Onslow have accepted the invitation of the Mayor-elect of Wellington to. meet the City Councillors and leading citizens at a banquet to His Excellency on his return to Wellington, which is expected to be about the beginning of February. His Excellency will not sail from Wellington before the end of that month. The cheerful and industrious burglar has commenced business on the West Coast goldfielda, and we learn by tele • gram that the Bank of New South Wales, at Charleston, was broken into late on Friday mght. The only article stolen was a six-chambered rovolyer. An attempt had evidently been made to remove the safe. As the Feilding Athletic Club's programme for Boxing Day contains two athletic events, Mr Kelleher has written to the N.Z. Athletic Association asking permission for the members of the Manawatu Club to contest the events. The Club has rapidly increased in membership of late, and there is no doubt it will have a prosperous career. — Palmerston Standard. A representative of the Oiago Daily Times who has recently been travelling in. the North Island to report upon its farming capabilities, writes as follows : — " The west coast of the North Island especially presents a splendid opening for practical men who are skilled in flocks and herds, and in details of breeding, general management, and fattening of stock." Mr Nix and others employed with him at Apiti have seen several specimens of a beautifully-marked moth of enormous size. One person, who has been in America, says it is undoubtedly that known as the mammoth moth in that country. It ig described as being banded with gold on wings and body, about four inches long, and five inches across the wings. Mr Nix hopes to secure specimens, which will be submitted to Mr T. W. Kirk, of Wellington. According to an exchange the so-called Liberal party, not being as a rule pro-perty-holders, or paying rates, have miserably failed in their attempts to influence the Mayoral elections in various Boroughs. At Petone their candidate was beaten, and at Woodyille 80 votes were given to Mr Burnett as against 18 for Mr Syms, who was recently made a J.P. by the Liberal Government, and who was proposed by the principal Knight of Labor. At the District Court, Palmersfcon, on Saturday afternoon Judge Kettle fined Mr E. O. Jelhcoe £10, in default 10 days' imprisonment in the Wanganui Gaol, for contempt of Court. At the conclusion of the case, Mr Jelhcoe, amidst laughter, asked the Judge if he had any particular partiality for Wanganui Gaol, as he him. self preferred to be in Wellington. To this sally His Honour gave no reply. Mr Jelhcoe gave notice of appeal, and asked that proceedings should be stayed pending the hearing, which was granted. Donald Grant, a J.P., and several other gentlemen in Court offered to pay the fine, but Mr Jellicoe refused to allow it. We haye to acknowledge, with thanks, the subjoined excerpt from the Catholic Times ; — " Nothing succeeds like success. The Feilding Star, which, a decade of years ago, was named the Feilding Guardian, has from day to day justly earned for itself the honest role of being one of the most outspoken and straightforward papers m tho colony. As a reward and return for this integrity the proprietors have (during the past few days) enlarged thej paper by six columns, and have added to the printing room a double royal printing machine, and when suitable paper, which is now on its way from England has arrived, the proprietors will have to make another enlargement, A good publication deserves to get on." Writing on the " Irish Diamond " to|be staged here on Thursday next, the Wairarapa Star said : — The title role, taken by Mr Foley, was splendidly pourtrayed, and his acting inimitable. Mrs Blake was well sustained by Miss Laurie Bloom, whose brogue, make up, and acting was the success of the evening. The part of Mary was taken by Miss Doris Marlowe, who has a good voice and whose song " Dear Little Shamrock " caused hearty applause. The part of Mulrooney was taken by Carl Leider, who as an eccentric old man was well got up. The other parts of Dick Daly, (Mr Ginders), General Daly, his father, (Mi? E. D. Campbell), and Lady Mountjoy, (Mrs Foley), in the second act, kept things lively, between the irate old General and his sister, concerning Dick the scapegrace, which is not a big part, but was made the most of by Mr Ginders. The piece went went well, and is no doubt one of the prettiest Irish comedies seen in Masterton for a long time. Gloves, gloves, gloves. — By the sleamsliip Tongariro from London I have opened a special shipment of my famous largs button Kid Glores, direct from the manufacturer, in four and six button length. Also, a beautiful lot of ladies' and Rents' driving gloves with the new wrist gauntlet; every pair bears my name inside. I guarantee these gloves the best value ever placed before the ladies of Feilding. A trial purchase of one pair is respectfully solicited, — J, B. Hamilton.

The next 'Frisco mail closes at Feilding to-morrow at 3.45 p.m. Wellington papers report the sndden disappearance of a chemist doing busi* ness at To Aro, and a commission agent named Thompson. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- day — Telegrams to expect strong easterly winds have been sent to all places north of East Cape, Taupo, and Gisborne. Nominations for the vacant seat for tht Waitnna ward, in the Kiwitea Boad Board, must be deposited with Mr E. Goodbehere, at his office, by noon tomorrow (Wednesday). The election takes place on Thursday, December 10th. This afternoon a man named John Nichols, of Awahuri, was charged with being of unsound mind, and on the evidence of Dr J. Sorley, X>r D. Johnston, and his brother, he was committed to the Asylum at Wellington. Messrs Haybittle and Kit'ton, J.P.s, occupied the Bench. On Friday evening a fire broke out in an unused shed at the back of Mr A. Lindsay's (late Colville's) boot store in the Square, Palmerston North, and for a short time considerable alarm was felt lest the flames should spread to the valu* able properties adjoining. However, the fire brigade was quickly on the spot and all danger was averted in a very few minutes. The Wellington Herald is responsible ! for the following:— A Christchurch | clergyman, whose name we suppress on account of his sacred calling, was absorbed in thought a few Sundays ago I just before divine seryico began, when ( he was approached by the organist, who asked, referring to the opening hymn : " What shall I play " P " What kind of hand have you got'? responded the absent-minded clergymanThe Wellington Acclimatisation Dis» trict has been defined to include the counties of Hutt, Horowhenui, Wairarapa South and North, Pahiatua, Manawatu, Orouo, and any others constituted under the counties Act; the city of Wellington,, and the Boroughs of Carterton, Feilding, Foxton. Greytoirn. Harori, Lower Hutt, Mnsterton, Melrose, Onslow, Palmerston North, and Petone. Last Jpriday a" j oUin" cation was given by Mrs and Mr Pollock to celebrate the anniversary of their retirement into private life on their farm on the Harbour Board Block. The affair was held in Mr Brown's woolshed where neighbors and visitors from Feilding were hospitably entertained. Dancing was kept up until " the wee sma' hours ayont the twal " when the party broke up, everyone wishing the host and hostess a happy and prosperous future. We have to hand ex s s. Tonganro a shipment of our celebrated Kid Gloves, manufactured especially for us from carefully selected skins, by one of the most distinguished glove manufacturers in the world. Every pair bears our name and address and are guaranteed to giye satisfaction in wear. Prices— 4 ClaSpor Harmonic Button, 3s lid and 4s 9d ; 6 Clasp or Harmonic Butfcon,-5s 6d. Ask for our own make at The Bon Marche, Ross and Sandford, Palmerston North.— Advt. Mr William Macmillan, of Awahuri and Palmerston North, fellmonger, .desires to contradict a report which has been circulated to the effect that he had sold out of his Awahuri business. This is not correct, because Mr Macmillan still carries on the Awahuri business, notwithstanding that he has a branch at Palmerston North. Mr Wm Trimble is his Feilding Agent. — Advt. An eminent physician says if the pub« lie would drink less tea and more Coffee there would bp a great many Jess sufferers from that troublesome complaint — indigestion. Crease's AI Coffee is the best. Sold only in 1 and 21b tins.