Local aud General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 117, 3 May 1888, Page 2

Local aud General News

Titokowaru now lies at the point of death.

Mr W. B. Retemeyer has been appointed agent for Mr James Laird, nurseryman, of Wanganui.

New premises are now being built by Mr W. D. Nicholas, in Fergusson street, for Mr John Prior, solicitor.

E. R. Jackson and Co. will hold a stock sale at Feilding on the 10th instant. List of entries, with additions since last issue, appears on our third page.

Our esteemed contemporary, the London Punch, condemns the present namby pamby style of boxing in gloves, and compares it unfavorably with the old mode of fighting with bare knuckles.

Mr William Summers is advertising fine malt vinegar, hi bulk or in bottle, for table or pickling. This vinegar is made from the best material and is guaranteed to be of the purest quality.

At the R.M. Court yesterday, Mary Toughill was charged with having taken ! away certain articles the property of Annie Currie, a fellow servant at Mr Hastie's Hotel. Accused was arrested in Wellington on Monday at one o'clock by Detective Campbell, who deposed the articles mentioned m the information had been consigned at the Wellington railway to plaintiff in Feilding at 10 o'clock a.m. on the same day. . A letter was read showing they had been put into accused's portmanteau in error. The case was dismissed, .

New sensations experienced by New Zealand artisans in Victoria — hunger and thirst.

The return football match between the Englishmen and Otago, took place at Dunedin yesterday, and resulted in another victory for the Englishmen by four points to three.

Mr Lyne has left at our office a few splendid samples of the French crab apple. They are the only real specimens we have seen in Feilding. His parcel also contained fine samples of the northern spy, stone pippin, and magician.

Mr Peter Thomson has just received a lot of ironmongery, tinware, lamps, &c, particulars of which will appear in a future advertisement. In the meantime he wishes the public to know he has marked them at prices to suit the times.

The Bank of New South Wales has declared its usual dividend of 15 per cent, and a bonus of 2\ per cent, equal to 17£ per cent per annum, and carried £10,000 to the reserve fund, which amounts to £910,000.

A special announcement is made to-day. «by Mr Fagan, who is holding a bootsale in Glasgow House, to the effect that he is selling off the balanco of his Feilding stock at ruinous prices, and in order to mark off the various items at reduced figures, business will be closed to-morrow and re-opened on Saturday.

An old Scotch woman very fond of a gossip and a dram was induced to sign the temperance pledge. Galling apon a friend one day, the bottle was produced, and a glass handed to her. "Na, na, Mrs Mitchell!" said the gossip. "I have signed the pledge ne'er to touch nor handle a glass again, but, if yell put a wee drap in a cup, I'll tok' it."

On Thursday the 10th instant after F. R. Jackson and Co.'s stock'sale, Mr Snelson will hold a sale of furniture and effects at the residence of Mrs Cottrell, Hobson street. As the whole of the articles are new, or in good condition, a splendid opportunity will be offered to those who are desirous of securing real bargains. We understand there will be no reserve and the things must be sold. ,

Gkatkfttl Womew. : None, receive so much benefit, and none are so profoundly grateful and show such an interest in recommending Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters as women. It is the only remedy peculiarly adapted to the many ills the sex is almost universally subject to. Chills and fever, indigestion or deranged liver, constant or periodical sick headaches, weakness in the back oc kidney;, pain in the shoulders and different parts of the body, a feeling of lassitude a n> l despondency, are all readily removed by these bitters. "Oourant,"

The Closing Scene of W. Clark and Co.'s great salvage sale is announced in another column. During, the. past four weeks bargains have been the order of the day and when it is stated that further reductions will be made, we can only advise all in want of first-class drapery and clothing to visit this sale. We notice that the premises will be closed on Friday (to-morrow) for the purpose of marking down and re-arranging stock, and opened again on Saturday.

Some of the interjectional remarks made at the fire meeting last night were yery amusing, one man wanted to know if the night watchman would be provided with a dark lanthorn and a big dbg. Another wanted to know who was going to teach Jack Pawson to play the bugle. A third said he had put out all tne fires in Feildmg for the last six months and had not received a cent, he therefore wanted to know how much a week the Fire Brigade was going to get. A fourth was painfully anxious to know if everything was going to be done legally, because he thought, if it was, there would be a devil of a mess. He said he wanted common sense — and nobody contradicted him. Altogether the chaff thrown about was thoroughly good humoured, and each piece of fun was greeted with sympathetic laughter.

A well-known doctor says that the fumes of kerosene when a lamp is turned low, are likely to cause diphtheria. The New York Board of Health a few years ago decided to this, more than any other cause, the prevalence of this disease was to be attributed. This is given as accounting for the fact that diphtheria generally begins to spread with the advent of short days and long nights. Children dislike to go to bed in the dark, and the kind mother lets the lamp remain in the bedroom,, usually turning down the flame so that the light will not keep the child awake, "Many bedrooms are thus semilighted all night, and the windows being closed or raised but slightly, the atmospheric condition is simply deathly. A turned-down kerosene lamp is a magazine of deathly gas that the healthiest lungs cannot be safely exposed to.

Thkbe is one title th»t should certainly be applied to the Proprietor of Te Aro House, Wellington, and no one has a better claim to it, and that is " Universal Benefactor," and a tery striking proof of this is to be seen at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.

Bking a successful tenderer for the Bankrupt Stock of P. A. Rive, Draper and Clothier, it has been decided to offer tho whole of it amounting to over £4000 worth on Tuesday, May Ist, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.

It is in this way when times are somewhat depressed, when economy has to be practised, that true and honest benefits to society at large accrue, and the present opportunity of buying cheaply is offered to the masses by the Proprietor of Te Aro House, Wellington.

These will be wonderful bargains in Calicoes, Sheetings, Flannels, Blankets; Dress Fabrics, Mantles, Ulsters, Costumes, Millinery, and a thousand other things too numerous to enumerate, at the sale of Rive's bankrupt stock, at Aro House, Wellington.

Countbt residents would find it to their advantage to come earlj to this sale which commences on Tuesday, May Ist, and the railway or steamboat fare would be a mere bagatelle in comparison with the extraordinary advantages to be gained at the Te Are House sale of Riye's bankrupt stock, Wellington.

Oub Refreshment Room will be open during the hours of business, and tea, coffee, cocoa, arid a variety of edibles may be had at any moment during the sale of R.ve's Bankrupt Stock, at Te Aro House Wellington/.'' „ *