Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 282, 7 April 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

Wellington defeated the Hawke's Bay cricket team by 110 rans. A special meeting of the Wellington Land Board will be held on Friday, the 13th inst., when the Minister of Lands will be interviewed with regard to the sale of tho Momohaki village settlement. The fresh election for Waitemata, owing to the unseating Mr Monk, takes place on Monday, the candidates being Mr Jackson Palmer, who was the unsuccessful candidate at the general election and stands in the Liberal interest, and Mr Massey, who was also a defeated candidate for Franklin seat and represents the Opposition. Arc flockowners aware of the 43rd clause of the Stock Act of last session V It runs as follows : -If any Inspector is satisfied that any shoep in a flock are affected with lice or ticks he may give the owner notice to clip sucli ilock forthwith. . . Every owner who refuses or neglects to comply with such notice is liable to a penalty not exceeding .1*50." We congratulate the residents on the Wellington -Taranaki railway lino, that tho Directors of fhe Wellington-Mana-watu Railway Company have arrived at the knowledge that on tho Government 1 lino the convenience of say twenty thousand people is made subservient to that of say twenty persons who want to travel to or from Auckland by that route. We direct the attention of our readers to an " inset " published with to-day's issue by the purchasers of Morey's bankrupt stock, Messrs Spence and Spence. They have secured 20 cases miscellaneous goods, bought a job lot at such a figure as will enable them to sell the same at half the usual prices. The sale will therefore be continued for twentyone days so as to enable them to clear out the wloe. This is a good opportunity for securing warm winter drapery and clothing which is seldom offered. We have read of " beer and the Bible," (s.ays the Taieri Advocate) but until this week we never thought there was any connection between licensing elections and susfcentation fund. But it would seem that there is. A collector of sustentation fund called upon a West Taieri settler the other day, bttt met with a refusal on tlie grounds that a, reduction in hotel licenses rendered probable an increase of county rates, aud the money hitherto donated to the susteutatiou fund would henceforth be required to pay the increased rate.

The Manchester Road Board met this afternoon. The artesian well in Manchester square is now down 165 feet. Mr W. Pearson, bootmaker, has just 1 received a consignment of ladies' evening • shoes. A feature of attraction at Mr Milaou's ( shop is a glass case filled with the latest novelties in fancy goods, etc. Articles of interest to farmers, temperance advocates, and all other classes of ; readers will be found on the fourth page '. of this issue. The Rev W. H. Judkins -will occupy the pulpit of the local Wesleyan Church to-morrow evening. The preacher's text is announced iv another column. It is reported that there are iv the Auckland province amongst the children educated in the public schools some 300 who are either afflicted with stammering or stuttering. In our report of the tenders accepted by the Borough Council on Thursday night, 6Jd per 3'ard for gravel was mentioned as the price Mr Charles' contract was for. It should have been Is 6kl. At a meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board yesterday, Mr H. T. Jamieson, of Pohaugina, made an application to be allowed to throw up certain sections ho takon up in tho Pohangina township, but the Board declined to grant the request. The Town Clerk, Mr G. C. Hill, gives notice that the Burgess and Defaulters list is now open for inspection at the Council office ; also, that Mr J. H. Blackmore has been appointed ponndkeeper and ranger, aud Mr J. T. Foster, assistant ranger. We are requested to draw attention to the magnificent display iv the window of Waruock and Adkius establishment at the corner of Manchester aud Fergusson streets. The new dress goods consisting of Cheviot serges, hopsacke, and whipcords are very attractive and should commend themselves to our readers. Whilst bushfelling at Cheltenham yesterday a man named John Gray met with a nasty accident. In using his axe the implement slipped, with the result, that Gray received an ugly wound in one of the feet. The sufferer proceeded to the Palmerston hospital by the eleven o'clock train this morning. The members of the Primitive Methodist choir intend giving a social on Tuosdaj\ the 17th instant, with the object of raising sufficient funds to pay off the debt which exists on the church organ. A capital evening's amusement has been arranged for, and as the small charge of sixpence only is to be made for admission it is expected that there will be a large attendance. We would direct the attention of the ladies in this district to a new advertisement which appears to-day from Mr John Cobbe, of the brick store. An exceptionally choice lot of English and French dress goods, of quite the latest patterns, have recently been imported, and Mr Cobbe who's judgment iv this line is now well known by the general public - claims to have the largest stock iv the district to select from. Harold Melville, one of Raaf's rangers in a letter h'om Matabeleland to his father iv {Wellington, after statiug the terrible havoc done with the Maxim guns, and that had it not been for them the British party would have been cut to pieces, writes : — Of course you have beard of the fate of Major Wilson and his party. Well, my idea of it is that Major Forbes was to blame, because I was standing alongside Major Wilson when Forbes ordered him off in pursuit of Lobengula. .Major Wilson said ' Major Forbes, do you know that you are sending ns to certain death ? ' Major Forbes turned round and said, ' You have your orders. Go.' Ten minutes after Wilson and his men were crossing the river and that was the last we saw of them, An octogenarian and an early Wellington settler drew his last breath Ibis morning — Mr James Fabian Wills, who bad reached the ripe age of 81. In earl; life Mr Wills was Harbourmaster at Portsmouth, England, but he came to the colony in 1850, landed in Wellington from the ship Phoebe Duubsr, end has lived in this city ever since. His first employment here was in the dapacitj of accountant to Messrs Bethune & Hunter but he soon embarked in business on his own account. For many years he carried on the work lightering the vessels tradiag to the port. Since the necessity for such operations has disappeared through the provision of proper wharfage accom modation, Mr Wills' connection with business life has been confined to giving his services to some firms as an account•nt, and ot late years he has withdrawn altogether from active life. Mr Wills leaves a widow and a family of eight children - three sons and five daughters — most of them in Wellington — Post. What would we do without tea ? The prospect is appalling ! Yet it is only a few years since we had to content ou reel yes with the vilest qualities of that mo<t refreshing beverage, and infused, too, after the crudest methods. Now how different ! Steam has bridged the ocean's gulf, and the choicest products of India and Ceylon are laid in profusion at our ftet. It is wonderful, also, what dehciously pure teas can now a days be obtained, and at a cost only half of that of former times. Our readers should study the little hand bill published with to»day's issue. It will bo a revelation to them. A firm of teamerchants, practical men, good business people, having a thorough knowledge of the tea trade as growers and as tasters offer to send the finest tea practically direct from the tea gardens to everyone's door, delivered free at Wellington Bail* way Station, absolutely first cost prices — Is 8d to 2s 2d per lb the figures run — and the quality is undeniable. Indeed, ProFeosor Kirk, selecting a sample from bulk, has publicly stated that Messrs Lattey, Livermore & Co's Teus are clean, bright, and pure, and are exceptional quality. This firm, associated as it is with some of tho leading growers in India and Coy* lon and profiting by years of experience and a thorough knowledge of the trade, has absolute confidence in the superior article it veuds and in the wonderful values given. Samples will be sent post free on application, and everyone is invited to test the unprecedented advantages of dealing direct with the importers under the satisfactory eye tern set forth in the handbill. —Advt.