Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 85, 25 January 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr R. K. Shaw has just received a quantity of new jewellery.

Parliament will probably meet for the despatch of business on the 6th of April.

The Jews in England are talking of transferring: their Sabbath to our Sunday, beginning with the year 1900.

Mr Hastie is about to erect commodious sample rooms attached to the Feilding Hotel.

The Manchester Rifles will parade for Government Inspection on Friday the 4th and Friday the 25th of February.

A notification re the Valuation List appears elsewhere. We understand there is a very small appreciable increase this year.

Several additions are made to-day to the catalogue of Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co.'s sale, at Palmerston, on Friday next

The cotton, woollen, iron, and steel trades in England are improving, and there is a remarkable industrial revival in America.

The National Rifle Association urge that teams throughout the Empire should compete for the Queen's prize in tho Jubilee year.

Yesterday morning the grass on tho Feilding side of the Oroua Eiver was set on fire, and destroyed a quantity »f valuable timber and fences.

It is announced that the British force m Upper Burmah will, in March next, be reduced to 10,000 men.

Sir F. D. Bell, Agent-General for the colony, has accepted the invitation of the Prince of Wales to join the Committee of the Imperial Institute.

In consequence of the improved prospects of several mines, the share market at the Thames has again become animated.

Messrs Pringle notify to-day that they will apply for a slaughter license, at tho next meeting of the Manchester Road Board.

Eecent fires in the Wairarapa have done serious damaire. Several houses have loeon burned flown, and much fencing has beeu damaged or destroyod.

Additions are made to-day to Messrs Stevens and Gorton' next stock sale here,

The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection on Friday next, January 28th, at 6 30 p.m., at the Public HiiH.

A notice appears to-day from the Kiwitea Road Board of considerable importance to the ratepayers.

Yesterday was the hottest day we have felt this summer. The thermometer registered 101 in the shade.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to«day — Warnings for gales after from 12 to 16 hours have been repeated to all places.

Mr Young has just received a consignment of delicious fresh fruit, particulars of which appear m our Wanted column.

An alteration m the railway timetable was made this morning. The morning tram for Wanganui now leayes at 7.35 and the train for Palmerston at 11.5 a.m.

A number of people have been looking out for the new comet for the last few nights, but the heavens have been too obscured with smoke from the bush fires for it to be seen.

If the organs ol articulation are not mal -formed, stammering may be curedby reading aloud with the teeth closed for two hours every day. The practice should be continued for 2 or 3 months.

• A fire was raging m Marlborough street as we were going to press. A whare belonging to Messrs Bartholomew, and a quantity of grass seed, fences, &c, the property of other settlers, were destroyed.

The prisoners who were arrested in connection with the Newtown (Sydney) outrage were brought up at the Police Court. The case for the prosecution broke down, and the prisoners were consequently discharged.

It is said in Auckland that an exMinister of the Crown contemplates proceeding against a County Chairman for £2000 damages for libellous statements printed in a letter in a Northern paper.

The Duke of Marlborough, one of the co-respondents in the Lady Colin Campbell case, has been three times before the Court in that capacity. He is maintained in immense wealth because an ancestor of his was a great general.

Lord Melbourne, on be.aj; pressed to do something for a journalist, on the ground that he always supported his lordship when in the right, retorted : " That s just when 1 don't want his help. Give me a follow who will stick by me when I am in the wrong."

The Revs Boss, Doull, Murray, Gordon, Duncan, Wright, Treadwell, Allsworth, McLean, and Neville, and Messrs A. Ferguson, and Morrison have been appointed Commissioners on behalf of the Wanganui Presbytery to the General Assembly to be opened in Wellington on the Bth of February.

The well-known local boxer J. Pettengell is now in Sydney. We see by the Sydney Evening News of the 3rd inst. that he has issued a challenge to box any middleweight in Australia for the championship for from £50 to £100 a side. I'eitengell is under the protecting care of the redoubtable Foley.

Mr J. Newman has been appointed agent for the Nelson Hematite Paint Co. , and announces he is prepared to take orders. We may mention that Mr Newman has had his private dwelling house, in Manchester street, painted with this material, and it looks very well. There are eight different shades. We might add that this paint is much more enduring than ordinary paint, is an excellent preservative tor timber, and also possesses fire-resisting properties. These paints should command a great sale.

Information has been received in Hawera of the death near Stratford of a girl named Jessie Bonner, under very peculiar circumstances. She was a girl of about nine years of age, and was living with an uncle named Mr Blair, who sent her to another Mr Blair's, who lives a few chains off, for a pot. The Mr Blair, by whom she was sent, thinking she was a long time away, went to see where she was, and discovered her quite dead with her neck under a window sash. The people to whose house she was sent were away at church, and the supposition is that she was getting in or out of the window when the sash came down.