Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 53, 14 October 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The Wanganui Borough , Council has declined to grant a Salary to the Mayor. Tenders for the New Zealand Loan will be opened in London to-day. . The Manchester Kifles Will parade for Government Inspection this evening; We have to acknowledge receipt of the volume of Statutes for the year 1886. Mr Macarthur, M.H.R. will address his constituents in Palnierston to-morrow eyening. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold a sale of furniture at their sale-rooms, Fergusson Street on Monday next. Mr Charles Henry advertises to-day that he has received his November shipment af new saddlery and harness. A notice appears to-day that it is the intention of the Manchester Road Board to adopt the Local Bodies Loan Act. The entertainment at St. John's school- ! room last night was well attended nearly one hundred persons being present. A notice appears in our Wanted column to-day from Mr Train of the, Cash Exchange. The new advertisement of the Wholesale Drapery, Clothing, and Grocery Company appears to-day, and is worthy of special attention. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Warning for gales and heavy rain hare been sent to all places. _ A challenge from a local pod will be issued to Willis, another ped now resident in Palmerston, in a few days for a walking match. . We learn from the Manawatu Herald that the buiness people of Otaki think the time has now arriyed when that place should have the accomo Nation of a branch bank. . The Jubilee Municipal gathering in Sydney on Tuesday was a brilliant success. The Mayors of the several colonies present had " a high old time." Mr C. 0. Bowen, a Canterbury gentleman formerly M.H.R. for Christchurch and the author of the present Education Act, was a visitor to Feilding to-day. An inquest was held yesterday on the remains of a child found by the police at Oamaru. Suspicion points to a woman, named Sal Sorgensoß. A warrant has been issued for her arrest. Cheymol the Wellington forger of bond warrants has been committed for trial. There are fourteen separate charges against him. - The Colonial Secretary has been served with a writ for £65,110 7s od by MiHenry Bancke being an old Chatham Island claim. Similar writs have been served on previous Ministers. We understand an arrangement has been entered with between the Feilding store-keepers and their assistants, to close their business premises at six o'clock each evening except Saturday's Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.'s sale tiiis afternoon was very well attended, but the bidding was somewhat dull. However, a number of lots were disposed of, both under the hamm«r, and at the conclusion of the sale. The Herald . says:— There has been nothing definite yet decided as to the site Si the next Easter Encampment, the difficulty just now being with the Auckland men who seem inclined still to hold out for a separate Encampment. In order to meet the demand of the public of Feilding to inspect the new goods, Mr Watts, contractor for Mr S. J. Thompson's new building, is pushing on the work with all possible despatch. The cases are now in the Show Room ready to be opened. To day' » Chroniole says s— A stiff price paid for a country hotel is £4000, which is the amount at which Mr Watts is stated to have become the owner of the Gorge Hotel. There are frur Wanganui pubs would hardly fetch that figure especially siace Mr Burnett's visit. A man named William Johnston a native of Birmingham, England, who lately arrived here 'from Aucklank, was badly injured yesterday in the bush by a tree falling on him. His left arm was broken and the base of his skull fractured. He is not expected to recover. | Dr Johnson is now in attendance on him. On Thursday night a passenger from'j Wanganui by train, after stopping on the i railway platform and walking a few paces towards the engine, staggered and fell among the* wheels of the goods trucks. He was promptly lifted out of the way of danger, and put off the station. The report and balance-sheet issued by the South British Insurance Company for the year ending 31st August, and which is to be submitted to the shareholders tq-morrow, shows the income to be £246.700, and the «ehtTal expenditure £246,048. The balance t# the dejjit of profit and loss account at the closing of the books was" £9348. - Mrs Mary W. Coon, of New York, ha« juftt brilliantly passed her examination for a certificate, wilj, it is announced, take" command of the steam yacht Eliza beth This lady i«, it is said, not tiie first of her sex who has b en in command of a vessel. Mrs Miy M. Vliller, of New Orleans, obtained a master's certificate in 18H4. and is now captain or the merchant steamer Soline. Whoever is responsible for the highly daugerous state of the road over the iron ! rails, which lead from the railway line at j Aorangi into Mr Bull's' old mill, stands a I daily chance of apprehension for man- ; slaughter. At any rate it is quite on the \ cards thai an action for damage? against | the interested local body by a damaged traveller may be taken. It is rathei" curious that no one seems to have attributed the heavy falling off in customs revenue to its true source, that of the tremendous output of colonial goods froth -the different factories during the last six months. It is not a year since merchants, at least: on this coast, have absolutely ceased to buy imported woollens, boots, preserved meats, fruits, fish, &o. The solution of tho Treasurer's JiEaculty is apparent.