Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 107, 28 February 1893, Page 3

Gable Brevities

The comments of the English Con* servntive press are generally averso to the appointment of the Hon R. W. Duff ii a Governor of New South Wales. The St James Gazette states the Government failed to get a Liberal peer, and were not patriotic enough to appoint a Conserrntive. Therefore, they perpetrated a job. The French Court-of Cassation has rejected the appeal of AIM. Charles Do Lessop*, Fontaines, Cottu and EiftVl against the indictments for bribery framed by the Chamber of Deputies, and the cases are to be tried next assize*. The Enrl of Meath, in an article in I lie Nineteenth Century on the Australasian colonies, states that the working man is a despotic king in New Zealand, where capital is weakest. He states he has never heard of good work being done m any colony possessing mauhood suffrage, but there were frequent complaints that the legislators were of an inferior tjpe as compared with those of the early days. The Earl adds that a clergyman in New Zealand informed him that ho lm<) to submit to the most foul language fr\m the members of his vestry who held thY purse strings. The yew York Life Insurance Society has appointed Mr F. W. Frank land, formerly head of the New Zealand Government Insurance Department, as Associate Actuary in New York at a | nigh salary. A man named Rateliffe shot^ Air Mackay, the American 'Silver Kins.' in the back, at San Francisco, nnd then o immitted suicide, Mackay, who is only slightly wounded, declares that he has no previous knowledge of Rntcliffe. Gigantic sale of Melbourne bargains will commence on Saturday, February 25th, at the Te Aro House branch, near the Fkildino Stab office, Feilding. A splendid lot of striped flannelettes, worth 6/6, forl/ll the dozen yards. Fust come will be first served. Full dress lengths of black nnd colored easbiaeres, worth 10/fi, for o/G. Cant sell more thnn one to each customer. A grand lot of superior summer prints in 12-yard lengths, worth G/tf, you can luiTe for eighteen pence. Call early or you will miss these Any quality of strong unbleached calico for 1/11 the dozen yards. Buy your dozen while you may Strong check Cheviots for men's and boys' xhirts and women's dresses (will not run away on washing day), worth 8/6 the dozen, for 4/ii. The very thing for country wear. i Hundreds of other bargains equally good. Rush to the gigantic sale. Open ing day Saturday next. February 25th, at the To Aro House branch, near Fkilh i kg Stab, Feiklins For continuation Of Reading Matter see fourth pave.)