The Fielding Star, OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23, 1895

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 174, 23 January 1895, Page 2

The Fielding Star, OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23, 1895

Local and General News. There are in England and Wales 14,960 football clubs. The comfortable cummerbund is now very popular in New South "Wales. Mrs Sarah Grand has already received over £1000 as royalties on the sale of " The Heavenly Twins." The Manchester Rifles will parade in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening. Splendid weatlier prevailed yesterday throughout the province for the various outdoor amusements. The Manawatu County Council office at Sanson was burned down this morning. No other particulars are to hand. The Bulletin says :— A long glass of beer almost everywhere for 2d in Melbourne now. Oh, ye happy holders of brewery overdrafts. The owner of a valuable sporting dog come astray can have the same on application at the Manchester Hotel and paying expenses. Miss Lilian Smith's Variety and Burlesque Company played in the Assembly Rooms last evening before a small attendance. Mr A. J. Parsons, a well-known resident of Wanganui, leaves next week to take up his permanent residence in Victoria. The Feilding Primitive Methodist Sunday School picnic was held in Mr Coker's paddock, Watershed road, near Colyton, yesterday, and afforded a pleasurable outing. The half-holiday conference of city and suburban delegates at Invercargill has unanimously resolved to adhere to Wednesday. For six years past this day has been observed. Four Dunediu residents, who a short time back went to Cooigardie almost penniless, and who are now located at White Feather, Western Australia, are said to have made nearly £1000 betweeu them. There is a probability of Madame Melba giving four concerts in the colony, one in each of the large centres, and it ib proposed to charge half a guinea for the privilege of heariug the ex-Australian sing. Harvesting in the Eangitikei is now fairly in full swing. The crops this season, on the whole, are earlier than last year, and in the majority of cases good yields are anticipated, especially iv wheat. A picnic in connection with the local Presbyterian Church was held in one of Mr C. Bull's paddocks on the Awahuri road yesterday. The gathering was a large one, and nothing occurred to mar the pleasure of the day's outing. The member for Palmerston has been strongly urged to become a candidate for one of the vacancies on the Wanganui Education Board, but his Parliamentary and Land Land Board duties occupy so much of his time that he has been compelled to decline. Stoddart, the captain of the English Cricket team, at present playing in Australia, is a London stockbroker ; Phillipson, who is also independent, follows no occupation ; Ford is a private tutor, McLaren has a post in the office of a Manchester manufacturer, while Gay teaches the young idea how to shoot at Brighton. The following rates are now in force on the Government Railways for fresh New Zealand grown fruit, packed : — For any distance, not exceeding 561bs, 6d ; over 561bs, but not exceeding 1121bs, Is ; for every additional 561 bor fraction thereof, 6d. Larger quantities will be charged at rate per ton as heretofore. There is matter for the moralist to philosophise upon in a table of statistics just published, giving the number of sui cides that have been committed in France since 1889. In four years no fewer than 26,000 men and women have taken their own lives in the " happy land of France." This formidable total makes an average of 6500 suicides a year. With regret we announce the death of Miss Ada Beatrice Crease, second daughter of the late Mr E. H. Crease, the well-known Wellington merchant. Miss Crease was most charitable to the poor, and was greatly beloved for her generosity and many deeds of kindness. She died at the Wellington Hospital on Monday at the age of 28 years. — Times. Mr W. Pearson has just purchased a traveller's samples of English -made boots and shoes, which he is now offering at prices that cannot fail to attract a ready sale. Some of the goods, which comprise a large selection, principally of ladies' boots and shoes, are displayed in the window, and the tickets attached will give an idea of the bargains to be obtained. The Colyton branch of the Primitive Methodists held a public tea and meeting yesterday evening, the attendance being large. At the meeting Mr Sherratt presided. The speakers were the Rev. G. Clement, J. Gould, C. Lucas and T. A. Smith. The choir, under the conductorship of Mr Pearce, rendered several choruses, Miss Fraser presiding at the organ. Some bush was set on fire near Bunnythorpe yesterday when a strong wind set iv from the south-east and the fire travelled at a great rate through grass paddocks until it reached Taonui, when the wind went down and as the shades of evening fell the fire ceased. The whole of the west side of the line of railway from Taonui to Buunythorpe seemed to be on fire. Another hero of the Balaclava Charge has passed away Sergeant James Donaghue, whose death has occurred at Penkpth, near Warrington, claimed to be the trumpeter who sounded tbe order to charge. He held several Crimean clasps with a medal for long service and good conduct. Donaghue had a email pension, but was in such reduced circumstances that a few years ago he was an inmate of the Warrington Workhouse H« has left a widow, who is practically destitute. It has been truly remarked " that it is a fallacy to imagine that anything will sell well because it is well advertised*" How many nostrums have been started in glare and snuffed out in gloom. The fact is a man is not easily gulled a second time, and every dissatisfied purchaser does ten times more harm than one satisfied does good." Now, the Empire Tea Company's blended teas are remarkably well and widely advertised, but it is not because they are advertised that they sell, it is simply and solely because they are absolutely good and pure. The public have found this out and . purchase accordingly. A recent test made by the Empire Tea from samples procured from two of the largest, wealthiest, and most skiful tea blending firms in London conclusively proved that their own teas actually show better value to the consumer, and this conclusively proves that the Empire Teas »re second to none anywhere.