The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1889. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 80, 10 January 1889, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1889. Local and General News

We have to thank the Government Printer for a batch of Parliamentary papers. On dit a new firm of drapers will shortly commence business in Fetlding on a very extensive scale. The New Zealand football team beat the Bright House Bangers by a goal and a try to nothing. The Boomerang sends us Christmas and New Year's greetings to which we cordially respond. The Sydney Bulletin of December 15 has the following : — " It is reported from Victoria that Mr C. 0. Montrose, a wellknown New Zealand journalist, is dead." Fair prospects are being obtained at White Pine Gully, Mahakipawa. All the available creek claims are pegged off, One share in a creek claim changed hands i at £5. i It is a matter of surprise to flockowners that no enterprising firm of auctioneers has ever started a ram fair in Feilding. That it would pay handsomely is without question. It is stated that as one result of the drought in Australia one gentleman has purchased .£20,000 worth of produce in the Auckland district to be forwarded to Sydney. At the moment when the warship Warrior recently rescued a party of French balloonists they were casting lots as to who should throw himself out, to lighten the balloon. The New Zealand Times of Tuesday stated that no bill was found against Charles Henry for fraudulent bankruptcy. The Post and Press, however agree in the statement that a true bill was found, and the subsequent proceedings show tin's must have been the case. Bush fires were raging in the North Ruataniwha district, near Norsewood, in the early part of this week. Three settlers named Bolt, Seversen, and another were burnt out. It is also reported that a large area of cocksfoot grass, the chief product of the district, was destroyed. A Wellington jury has decided that it is perfectly excusable for a man to present a loaded gun at a constable to prevent his arrest. We do not think the jury arrived at this conclusion because they were born idiots, but because they had a deep sympathy with the accused. Juries are like that sometimes. The rumour is current that a Wellington firm of merchants recently made a nice little " pot" over a flax venture. A member of the firm journeyed to Manawatu, purchased 80 tons of flax, and sold the consignment in the Empire City at an advance of no less than i' 4 per ton, thus netting the respectable sum of £'620 over the transaction. — Times ! The case of Dickey v. Brown was heard at the Paeroa, Auckland, Eesident Magistrate's Court yesterday. This was a claim for £100 damages for the death of the racehorse Libeller, caused by trespass on the part of the defendant, who brought some horses to a box adjoining that in which Libeller was fastened, and startled the latter animal, death resulting. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for the full amount with costs £16. Mr John Matson, of Christchurch, by the Manapouri yesterday sent to Melbourne a consignment of sheep of extraordinary size as specimens of stock reared in New Zealand. They consist of five merinos, bred by Mr Leonard White, of South Bakaia, varying from 1431bs to 1581bs in weight, and averaging 1481bs ; ten Hampshire Downs, bred from stock imported from Australia by Mr C- T. Dudley, weighing from 1971bs to 2331b5, averaging 2101bs. Mr Jackman, of Feilding, has imported a light steel reaper and binder made by McCormick, of Chicago, U.S., which has excited a good deal of attention among firmers here. Mr Jackman has been using the machine for cutting oats in Mr Belfit's paddock, on the Makino road, and the way it has done its work has excited general admiration among capable judges. One of its many features of excellence is the fact that in tying hardly a sheaf is \ missed by the machine. We understand ! the machine is the first introduced into this district. On Saturday next Professor Hickton will give an exhibition of his wonderful powers as a horse tamer, in Mr Daw's stables. A contemporary writing of the Professor says "he is quiet, determined, very patient, and neither by voice or gesture does anything to alarm the horses under treatment. His system appears to be one that no horse — however wild or vicious — could escape from." We anticipate the Professor will be well patronised on Saturday night as he appears to be from the reports we have read, in every way deserving of it. Visitors to Palmerston are respectfully invited to inspect the displaj- of new goods just received and now opened out at The Bon Marche. Embracing what is admittedly the largest stock between Wellington and Wauganui, of mantles, millinery, straw goods, dust cloaks, sun shades, cotton and stuff dress materials, and fancy and general drapery of every description. The firm being direct importors are in a position to give their pati'ons equal value to anything obtainable in the colony, they invite inspection and comparison of their season's imports quite independently of any purchases being made. C. M. Boss & Co., the Bon Marche, Palmerston North. — Advt.

Nothing tires a smart man so quickly as seeing a lazy man resting himself. Our report of to-day's sitting of the Manchester Road Board is unavoidably held over. Cobbe & Darragh have for sale, cheap, a new double Buggy, made by Rouse and Harald, Wellington. A report of F. 11. Jackson and Co. 'a sale to-day will appear next issue. The sale wa3 well attended, and fair prices realised. Look out for the annual stock taking sale at the lied Hou.°e which will take place shortly. Every article marked down in price. — Advt. The Feilding witnesses in Charles Henry's case "came back from Wellington by the mail train to-day. At the inquest on Tuesday on William Kells, storekeeper, Waitotara, the verdict was death from natural causes accelerated by the excitement of being assaulted by a Maori. The Wanganui police have summoned the Captain of the Salvation Army for obstructing the thoroughfare in Victoria Avenue. The case comes off on the 16th instant. Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold an auction sale ot drapery (without reserve) at their rooms, Fergusson street, on Thursday, the 17th inst., the sale will commence at 1.30 sharp. Gloomy accounts as to the financial prospects of the Midland Eailway Company have been received by the last mail, but the promotera are said to be still sanguine of being able to raise the necessary capital. At Dunedin the Coroner, in reply to a juror, has laid it down that there is nothing criminal in a medical man refusing to attend a case. It was only a moral duty. He was no more bound to sell his advice or knowledge than a lawyer. To-day's Times says : — Ministers were hi Cabinet all day yesterday, and sat till well on in the evening, but no decision has been come to as yet respecting the two important appointments which have to be made. The Cabinet will resume its deliberations to-day, and will again, hi all probability, have a protracted sitting. We have to congratulate Mr Atkins on the fact of his having been elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Institute of British Architects, an honor which is no empty one, and one which we feel sure no one better deserves. Mr Atkins is also an Associate member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, and is said to be the only person in the colony claiming membership of both bodies. As an instance of the coat of education in the colony, and the way in which the funds have been administered by the Boards, the Minister for Education has had a return prepared showing their expenditure upon architects' fees during the period of nine years extending from 1878 to 1887. The total outlay under this head for the term indicated was no less a sum than £37,958— more than enough, the department find, to provide for the school building requirements of the whole colony for a year and a-half. — Post. On Saturday week last a rather uncommon accident occurred alongside the San Francisco mail steamer Alameda, lying in Feutral Bay Sydney. A package containing £1600 gold specie was being passed from a waterman's boat to the steamer, when the package slipped and disappeared beneath the water. Sinct then a diver has been engaged at work searching for the parcel, but so far without finding it. It is said that the bottom of the harbour at the place the accident occurred is many feet deep in thick mud, in which the thousand sovereigns have doubtless been buried. A semi official German letter published by the Auckland Star says : — " Both whites and Samoans are anxious to know what will be the final restilt. The next movement must be a forward one. It is impossible to go back to the old state of things. The '• action already commenced by Germans must be carried through to a successful termination." Admiral Fairfax received official intimation of German aggression in Samoa from Captain Hand, of H.M.S, Royalist, and forwarded the the news by cable to the Admiralty. The Royalist is to remain at Samoa to protect British interests until relieved. Mr Wm. Simpson, the well known special artist of the Illustrated London IS ews, was duly installed in the chair ol tne Quatuor Corouati Lodge, of Freemasons on Nov. 8. This Lod^e, of which Sir Charles Warren was the first Master, and Mr Walter Besant (who has been since annually re-elected) the first trea surer, requires either a literary or an artistic qualification of its members. The Correspondence Circle, a literary society attached to the Lodge, and consisting of subscribers to ;is "Transactions." has reached a total of 44 7 members, being an increase of nearly 300 during the past year. A writer in Melbourne Town. Talk says : — "From carefully- compiled documents in the possession of the banks, I gather that sine million pounds of bills, given in connection with land transactions, fall due during the first quarter of this year It may also be of interest to state that on October 22, when the associated Banks of Melbourne raised the rate of interest, there were eighty-three millions sterling of bills afloat in connection with land, whilst the cash deposits on these gigantic transactions amouated to three millions. Even a tyro in financial matters can understand that the banks have acted rightly m stopping upstarts from recklessly gambling with other people's money." Certainly tbe best medicine known t? Sandbb and Sons' Eucalypti Extbact. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza; the relief is in« stantaneous. In serious cases, and ac« cidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swelling — no inflamation. Like surprising effects pro* duced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swelling, &c. ; diarrhoea, dv sentry, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others. — Advt. During tie progress of a meeting of the creditors of Thomas Stout, clerk, in Dunedin on Monday, Borne uncomplimentary remarks wore levelled by the bankrupt against Mr Kimball, who was asking him questions of the ordinary nature. Eventually the bankrupt called Mr Kimball a " skunk," upon a repetition of which epithet Mr Kimball walked round tho table and " landed" the bankrupt a sounding* whack on the nose, which drew blood profusely. The bankrupt, theugh evidently taken aback by this summary treatment, exclaimed, " Wait till I get i outside." Mr Kimball and the other creditors then left, the meeting, and the only waiting appeared to be done by the bankrupt, who remained in the office until several minutes after his aggressor had left. The creditors remarked that the scene they had witnessed was better than getting a dividend.