Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 86, 27 January 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

• i Mails for Europe via San Francisco will close to-morrow at 7.15 p.m. Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co will hold a stock sale at Palmerston to-morrow. Mr James Bull was a passenger by train from Wellington to-day. A cart whip, found in Manchester street, has been left at the Star office. The Preussen's passengers will be released from quarantine on Sunday next. Dr Monckton is about to commence the practice of his profession in Palmerston. We are glad to hear that Mr J. H. Blackmore is making steady progress towards recovery. The Fisk Jubilee singers are coming down this coast again, and will probably pay Feilding another visit. The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection to-morrow at 6.30 pm, at the Public Hall. We have to acknowledge receipt of press tickets for tho Catholic concert on Friday the 4th inst. Mr Edward Wakefield, M.H.R., is one of the witnesses in the Cain murder case now heing tried in Dunedin. Mr Bruce, M.H.S., for Rangitikei, has gone to Otago to address meetings, in the large centres of that province, on Freetrade. Tenders are invited by the Chief Surveyor, Mi Marchant, for stumping and clearing about 5& miles of the Otamakapua road. We regret to observe that Mr Towler, the porter at the railway station, has. had to he relieved of his duties owing to serious illness. The adjourned meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held at the Feilding Hotel, on Saturday night at eight o'clock. A grand concert, ia aid of the funds of St. Bridget's Cathelic Church, will be held in the Public Hall on Friday, the 4th of February. Stevens and Gorton's sale to»day was, comparatively speaking, quiet, owing to the tremendous heat. A report will appear in our next issue. Freeman R. Jackson will sell, on tho Palmerston show yards, on tho 4th. February, a quantity of Romney Marsh rams, bred by R. Cobb, Esq. The catalogue of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's rum and fdieep fair at tlieir sale yards. Bulls, on Tuesday, tho Sth o£ February, appears elsewhere. The sawmill of Messrs Warne and Beard, at Ashurst, which was burned down a few weeks ago, will he in full working order in a few days. Yesterday morning the Maoris at Ngawapurua pulled down the toll gate and house now in course of erection for tho Wairarapa North County Council. The Jaya Government has passed a law against the enlistment of laborers, and thus virtually stops the importation of Javanese labor into Queensland. One pound reward will be paid by Mr Thomas Stewart, of Awahuri, to any person who returns to him a horse, particulars of which appear m advertisement. We learn from the Herald that Mr Bryce has gone North to consult with his chief Major Atkinson, on matters of party interest before addressing his constituents. The statement published by the Daily News that the Imperial Government had apprehensions of war between France and Germany being imminent, is generally discredited. Showing how the Caffrey and Perm case is taking hold of everybody in town, big and little, we (Auckland Bell) came across a group of children who were playing at trying Caffrey and Perm. Not the least significant part of it was the uumber of applicants for the role of Grace Graham. We understand J. Clarke hae decided to accept the challenge of J. Willis, issued in the Mauawatu Times, to walk for six hours for £16 aside. It is probable place and time will be settled at Hastie's Hotel on Saturday night. One pound reward is offered for the return of a saddle and bridle the property of Mr Voght, to Mr Jensen. Mr Voght informs us his horse was hitched up at the Denbigh Hotel last night, and was either cut or broke adrift. The horse was found by the poundkeeper, but the saddle and bridle had previously been removed. The fire< started on the river bauk has done a considerable amount of damage. Besides burning valuable forest trees, a large quantity of fencing has been destroyed on the property of Mr Manson and Mr H. Johnston. Mr Edward Hughes has lost a quantity of grass seed, and Mr Curran a number of cords of firewood which had been cut and stacked ready to haul out of the bush. In the Resident Magistrates Court yesterday, during the hearing of the case against Richardson for a breach of the railway bye-laws, Mr Pattle, the Feilding stationmaster, said the offence of entering trains when in motion was on the increase, and it was the fixed determination of the Department to put a stop to the practico in order to avert the possibility of acoidents from that cause. The Napier Evening News has been increased to the size of tho Wellington Post, and is now one of the largest papers published in the colony. The News j is a monument of what a newspaper may j become when it has tho loyal support of the people, whose causo it advocates. Wo | congratulate our contemporary on its ! success, and hope that so long as it is a leader in the great army of Liberals its triumph will never fade. When persons destroy dogs in ordor to avoid paying the tax, they should dispose of thorn in such a way as not to be a nuisance to, and endanger the health of tbo public. In the lower end of Warwick street, jußt bolow tho salo yards, there now lies the dead bodies of two largo dogs in an advanced state of decomposition, and the stench from them is horrible. We think the Inspector of i Nuisances should look after the matter,