The Feilding Star. Published Daily. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 300, 28 April 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1894. Local and General News.

A quantity of reading matter will be found on the fourth page of this issue. The shooting season for native and 1 imported game commences on Tuesday next, May Ist. "We have to acknowledge receipt of a parcel of papers for the Palmerstou N. Hospital, from Mr W. F. Jacob, of Kiwitea. i The Waipawa Mail roports that the j cost of the tangi over the remains of the j Maori chief, Retimana, at Moawhanga, waa ±'3000. A meeting will be held in the Cheltenham Hotel at 7.30 this evening to make | arrangements for the Cheltenham Sports to be held on May 24th. We learn from the local papers tho feeling is very bitter in Hawke's Bay between the supporters of the rival candidates for the Bishopric of Waiapu. The firiug match between the Palmer - ston Mounted Rifles and the Manchester Rifles was proceeding at tbo Ranges as we went to press. The driver of the coach from Pigeon Bay to Akaroa found a man named John Keenan lying dead on the road on Thursday. The deceased was an old resident of Little River. To-morow tho Rev Mr Birks will hold farewell services at Birmingham and Kiwitea. During the evening service at Birmingham solos will bo sung by Miss Lowes and Mr Stevens. An enormous flow of water has been struck at Woolareua, near Collon township, in the Cunnamulla district, Queensland, at a depth of 2500 feet. The flow is estimated to be over 3,000,000 gallons daily. The bonus certificates for the past three years are being issued from the Government Insurance Office. The Feilding portion should reach hero on Monday. The cash value distributed is X' 140,000, or if applied as additions to policies £'277,000. During the storm on last Tuesday night a dead tree on Mr Jones' farm at Cheltenham was struck by lightning. The bole was smashed into splinters, many of which were scattered for a distance of nearly a hundred yards, in all directions. The stump was literally torn out of the ground. An additional room is to be erected to Messrs Braniwell Bros, store, at Co'yton, for the use of the mail and telephone business. The erection of the poles to Colyton will be commenced on Monday week, 7th May, and the telephone will probably be open for public use on the following Monday. Tenders will be received by the Engineer to the Kiwitea Road Board, up to noon on Thursday, 3rd May, for the supply and delivery of about 600 yards of metal on the Kimbolton road, north of Birmingham. Specifications may be seen at the Board's office, Feilding, and at Mr Lowes' hotel, Birmingham, where tenders close. A Cartertou settler named N. Neilscn very nearly lost his life by drowning on Wednesday. While crossing a small creek, which was in flood, his horse and conveyance were swept from under him. He escaped a watery grave by snatching at a submerged bough. The horso was drowned, and the conveyance was carried.into the Waiohine. At the Dunedin Police Court on Thursday a publican was fined for selling liquor to a child. William Robertson, against whom a prohibition order was in force, was lined £*2 for buying drink, and sentenced in default to a fort* night's imprisonment, and the publican who supplied him was fined a similar sum. Tbere are said to be at present 70,000 bags of oat* in Btore in the Southland district that have been bought for specu latiye purposes. We (Tuapeka Times) also understand that a grain buyer in the Tapauui district has made lar«e pur^basrs of outs at from lid up io 13d per bushel m. expectation of an early rise* A nest made of feathers and grafts, in which were an old rat and eight young OD6B, was touud in the top of a large walnut tree hi Nelson, The large rat jumped out when the ma a approached the nest, but the young vermin were secured This is tbo first instance recorded of rats having nests at the top of The trees. At a sitting of one of the criminal courts lately, the convicted one was inked if be had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, Addressing the judge the criminal eaid, [ hope jou will be lenient with me, sir ; I have a good many dependant on mo for their support." " Children ?'' queried thd judee. " No." was the reply, '• tho police, Yer Honor !" j It will be seen from an "inset" with this issue that Messrs Ross and Sandford, the popular drapers, of Palmerston North, have secured for net cash the entire stock in trade in the estate of Messrs H. Wickett and Co., amounting to £1956 9s lOd, for the sum of -£«77. The goods are now beiu« disposed of at The Bon Marchc, Palmerston, together with the firm's recent importations, at prices favourable to buyers. A replace advertisement appears today from Messrs A. Pallaut and Co., boot and shoe manufacturers, who announce that they have commenced a monster stock-taking sale. The stock is all new, no job lota of bankrupt stock being kept by the firm. It is the desire of the firm to reduce the stock, so that bargains may be expected. For other particulars sec advertisement on the third page. Merriment 13 made by the Aberdeen Express of Mrs Yntes aod the Onehunga Town Council. It remarks that Mrs Yutos ovidontly Leli«vea firmly in the poet's words.,. " The hand that rocks the cradle is the pand that rules the State," hut that in this case an amended version is needed : — " All women rock the cradle not with the hunrl, but with the foot, and horp we have Mrs Y»tes. first kicking cut her opponents, and then jumping on the remainder of the unfortunate Town Council of Onohunga." A Birmingham correspondent writes: — There is some talk of upsetting the School Committee election here.- The Rev Mr Richards will preach his first feernjon at Pemberton to-morrow. He has made a favorable impression among us already.~»-At the farewell services to the Rev Mr Jtirkk, iv the Wesleyau Church to-morrow evening Mian M. Lowes will sing, " Clod bu witli you" and Mr Stevens, " Nazareth." — The social on Wednesday next will be a welcome to the Rev Mr Richards and farewell to the Rev Mr Birks.

Mr Joseph Chamberlain addressed v crowded meeting of Unionists at Edin burgh on March 22. In the course of his remarks, he said that Mr Oladstone had left bis successor an heritage of woe, and that he concurred with Mr Timothy Healy in the belief that the House of Lord;might be dissolved. Says the Otago Daily Times ; — An action to recover £501 damages for alleged breach of covenant, which is to cnue <>v for trial at the sitting of th« Siiprem* Court in June, is of unusual interest to brewers, hotelkeepers, and owners of publichouse property. The plaiutiff is Mr Thomas Oliver, the owner of the Sussex Hotel, in George street, and the defendant is Mr David Joseph Scott, late tenant of that Hotel. A material issue will be the sale of whisky on Good Friday, i for which the defendant was convicted in the Police Court and the license endorsed. Some time before the boom, in Melbourne, a man bought a piece of land in a citj street for £8,000. He presently sold it for £45.000, but the purchaser failed after paying £8,000, and forfeited. Consequently tho original holder had recovered his outlay, and still held the proportv. Next he let it at a £1000 a year rectal, and the tenant put up a block of buildings, which cost £15,000. But tbebuildinge wouldn't let, and the ground reut went in arrear, and the lease and the £15,000 building were both forfeited. ADd now tho ground landlord has got the money and the ground and the building, but the revenue from rent doesn't cover taxes and repairs, and the £15,000 building ia a dead loss, and it ia an open question if bo isn't really poorer than ho was at first.