Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 106, 5 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to press. The first meeting of the United Hunt Club will be held at Miramar, near Wellington, on April 2nd. It is rumoured that the Courts will shortly be occupied with the hearing of a local breach of promise case.— Manawatu Times. There will be a sitting of the B.M. Court on Monday, at 11 a.m. The bench will be oecnpied by Justices of the Peace. The result of the Wanganui Cup Race and 2-year Old Stakes was published by us in Thursday evening's issue. The Star was the only journal in this district which pubhshed this information, the came not appearing in our contemporaries till the following day (Friday). An information has been laid against the Hon J. B. Whyte, M.L.C., and Mr Ethridge late Receiver of Land Revenue of Auckland, for alleged conspiracy in connection with obtaining moneys from the Land Office bj means of land orders. TKe case will be heard on At the annual session of the Wesleyan Conference, which opened at Wellington last Thursday, the following amongst other appointments were made:—-Wan-ganui, W. Morley ; Rangitikei, C. Griffin ; Sandon, Watkin ; Palmerston North, W. Keall. Tho Rev Mr Cannell has been transferred to Nelson. Farewell services will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church tomorrow on the occasion of the departure of the Rev W. Harris, and Mrs Harris. Mr Harris will for the next three years reside at Waimate, in the South Island. As this U the last occasion Feilding people will have of hearing Mr Harris we expect there will be a good attendance. The tea will be on Monday evening. Yesterday Mr E. P. Amesbury, with his family, left for Sydney, where he will reside for the future. Mr Amesbury informed us that he will return to Feilding for a brief visit in about three months. His only reason for leaving is that the health of Mrs Amesbury demands a change which she has been recommended by her medical attendant to find in a warmer climate. We hope the object of the voyage will be attained. In our report of the prizes awarded in the Fire Brigade competition eyents we inadvertently ascribed one or two prizes to the wrong donors : the jar of whisky was presented by Mrs Hastie not Mr W. Light ; and the pair of spurs by Mr W. Bellye, not Mr M. Belfit. We might also state that the officers of the brigade were m command, Captain Morey, Lieut. Shearer and inspectors Bray and Carthew ; Mr Scott acted as timekeeper for the events. We also omitted to state that at the Horticultural Show during the evening Mr F. Y. Lethbridge presented the prizes won at the Fire Brigade competition. The most noticeable features in Wellington at presont are tho large number of empty bouses and the immense quantities of fruit. A 7- roomed houso in a good position was let for 4s a week ; and at the jam factory they are offoring ls for 401 b cases of plums, the fruit to be picked by the vendors. Numbers of the j empty houses are surrounded with trees . kd&u with fruit of tlic most tempting j description The town possesses a Iwlh- | iug place which receives but scant patronage The institution couduotod by tho Murjst Bros is very successful. Thero ar.o 100 bops hi tho establishment at present who am twined to provide for thenown wants in fche way oi cultivating tho land uud milking cows, etc. Tho institution has an endowment of 400 acres m the yicimty.

Mr Trimble's drapery sale to-day was well attended. On dit that a co-operatiye store will shortly be opened in Feilding. The Hon W. P. Reeves has been appointed Managing Director of the New Zealand Times Company, The Commissioner of Crown Lands held sales of land here yesterday and today. Owing to pressure on our space our report is held over. At the Wellington Supreme Court in bankruptcy on Thursday, T. K. Mac* donnld's application for discharge was granted. There was no opposition. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- dayWind between south and east and northeast at all places. Barometer rise everywhere slowly. The thrice-weekly mail service to Pemberton will begin from next week. Mails will reach Pemberton on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, returning on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The promotion of Mr J. H. BakerChief Surveyor, Wellington, to the post ot Assistant Surveyor General in the Department of Lands and Survey is gazetted . According to the Committee of the Wellington Free Public Library, the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News is " unsuitable for the library." The committee men are wrong-minded asses. The Government contemplate taking action in the matter of short weight bread. It has been represented that customers would sooner suffer tban be at the trouble and expense of prosecuting. Our readers are reminded that the foundation stone of the convent to be erected in Palmerston North will be laid to-morrow' by His Grace Archbishop Redwood. The Government have appointed Mr L. Hanlon, of Whangarei, Auckland, to instruct the settlers of the colony in the art of growing and preserving fruit. Mr Hanlon is no doubt " of the right color." The hop harvest has been disappoint, ing in some parts of the Nelson district, owing to the presence of tbe red spider. Some growers, it is stated, intend to burn their hops. From other parts of the district good samples are coming in. In Wellington last Wednesday morn« ing a seaman named Charles Treffry, when drunk, drew his knife on the second mate and attempted to stab him, Treffry was brought before the R.M, and sentenced to six months hard labor. Shooting season 1892! Cock pheas" ants, Californian quail, and hares, may be taken and killed in the Wellington Acclimatisation District, consisting of the Counties of Hutt, Wairarapa North and South, Pahiatua, Oroita, Horowhenua, and Manawatu, from the 15th of April to tbe 31st July. The license fee is £1. The Earl of Leicester, alone of all Elizabeth's court, declined to enthuse over the gallantry of Sir Walter Raleigh in throwing his cloak into the mud so that Her Majesty's feet would not be wet. "Why are you so glum over it, Leicester?" asked" Ben Jonson. " Not jealous, I hope ?" " Not at ali," returned the Earl ; •'but it was my cloak." The Empire Tea Company have a new advertisement in another column, calling attention of the public to the merits of their well-known blends. These teas have gained a well deserved popularity, and the proprietors Messrs W. and G-* Turnbull and Co., have determined to maintain it by using only the best teas procurable. Tea blending is an art, and the firm pride themselves on producing "Tea up to date.' Iv connection with the Harvest Thanksgiving Service held at St John's Church, Feildiug, last Sunday, the Rey Mr HerI mon has handed us the subjoined letter for publication: "Dear Sir, I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 25th ult., and in doing so beg to thank you for your very thoughtful "donation " of fruit and flowers for the Hospital patients, which arrived in due course. — Yours truly, A. C. Richie, Secretary." Many years since a very thriving business was carried on by two remarkably energetic women at the corner of Cuba and Dixon streets, the site now occupied by Te Aro House. The Misses Smith were well known and highly respected in this city, and upon coming into considerable property in Glasgow, left New Zealand, and have since resided in Scotland. The eldest of these sisters died three years ago, and the notice of the death of the younger appears in our obituary column this evening. — Press. At a meeting of A. W. Brown's creditors, the total debts proved to amount to £1720. Mr Travers said that no warrant had been taken out as directed at last meeting, as there would be gieat difficulty in proving that Brown had absconded with more than £20 of his creditor's property. It is not probable anything further Will be done in the matter. Mrs Brown was granted £25 worth of furniture in addition to that allowed by law, and some private property, valued at £71. THe estate ia to be formally wound up. At the recent Band Contest held at Dunediu it was decided that the next contest should be held at Wellington, provided the necessary funds could be obtained. In order to carry out this design a meeting of representatives of the various Wellington bands was held on Saturday night at Bowley's rooms, Cuba street, The Mayor (Mr H, D. Bell), who was present, consented to act as president of the movement. Something like 24 bands, coming from all parts of the Colony, will compete, thus making one of the largest and best band contests on record. The appeal from the Resident Magistrate's Court in the case Burgess v. Drury in which Mr A. S. Baker appeared for the plaintiff and Mr J. Herbert Hankins for the defendant and in which judgment was given for the defendant was heard in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. It will be remembered that Mr Burgess sued Mr Drury, of the Endymion Hotel, for an amount paid for fire insurance, The Supreme Court has upheld the decision of the Magistrate. Mr Gully, m* structed by Messrs Baker and Cooke, ap peared for the appellant and Mr Skerrett, instructed by Mr Hankins for the respondent, who bas therefore succeeded.— Manawatu Times. The announcement of the 9th sale of the lands of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, appears in another column. The sale will be held by Messrs T. Kennedy Maedonald and Co., Limited, in their Exchange Land and Mercantile Auction Rooms, Panama st., Wellington, on Tuesday the 22nd March, Tho block to be offered comprises some 60,000 acres, subdivided into sections varying in size from 150 to 2,220 acres. Guides are advertised to be in attendance on specified days. The terms of sale are 10 per cent cash, and balance in 7 years at 5 per cent interest. Plans of the land will be posted to any address on application to the auctioneers, Messrs T. Kennedy Maedonald and Co., Limited. Cobbe and Darragh havo purchased a big lot of wholesale samples of towels, umbrellas, carpets, corsets, underskirts, pants, and hosiery, These goods have been bought at a big discount off regulai prices, and will be sold cheap for oash. —Adyt, Our first shipments of new goods foi the Autumn and Winter soason havo now come to hand by the latest mail steamer and we have been busily employed in opening them out and preparing then; for inspection at Te Aro House, Welling ton.