Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 66, 20 November 1890, Page 2

Local and General News

«. Mass will be celebrated in St. Bridget's on Sunday morning at 1 1 a.m. The annual spring meeting of the Feilding Horticultural Society will be held on Wednesday the 26th instant. A meeting of the Committee of the Horticultural Society will be held at Mr E. Goodbehere's office on Saturday night at 8 o'clock. Mr Macarthur had a most successful meeting at Bulls or Tuesday night. 001. Gorton proposed a vote of thanks which was carrier! unanimously. A meeting of Mr Macarthur's Election Committee will be held this evening iv Mr Owen's survey office at eight o'clock. A full attendance is urgently requested. A special train will run to Palmerston North on Sunday December, 7th, on which day the new Roman Catholic Church will be opened by Archbishop Redwood. The first wool sale of the season will be held at the Wellington Wool Stores of the Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company on Saturday, the 6th of December, or thereabout. A meeting of the Stewards of the Feeding Jockey Club was held on Tuesday night. After the usual formal business the tender of Mr Ralph Heald was accepted for the erection of the grand stand on the new race course.

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day : — Barometer rise everywhere. Mr Chamberlain's letter, and several advertisements are held over owing to pressure on our space. We see Mr Trimble intends holding another of bis popular Horse Sale early in December. We notice the sale will be held on the Square opposite Mrs Hostie's Hotel. A notice appears to-day that the United Assembly of the Kuights of Labor will meet in the Foresters' Hall on Saturday evening next at 8 o'clock for business as set forth in advertisement. At the R.M. Court this morning, Messrs Monckton and Thompson, J.P.s, occupied the Bench. John Rush, of Pulmerston North, was charged by Thomas Foster with assault at Taouui on Monday the 10th instant. Accused did not appear. He was fined £5 (half the fine to go to plaintiff) and costs 365. Fine and costs to be paid m one week, or in default one month's imprisonment. We hope to see a large numbor of buyers at Mr Tumble's Auction Mart on Saturday next when there will be offered a. large lut of suitable goods »n I n> reserve. Also two valuable ]>ro,orties beautifully situated in Warwick street. It is stated that Sir George Grey intends shortly to ask the New Zealand legislature to adopt a measure " throwing open " the medical profession. Wo suppose (sayH the editor of the British Medical Journal of August 30th, 1890) this means the establiehmont of free trade in the practice of medicine, without the vexatious restructiona as to education, deplonias, and so forth at present imposed by a tyranuical law. Sir George appears to think that the great heart of the people may be trusted to distinguish quacks from ture men among professors of the healing art with the same unerring lDStinct as it chooses its political guides ; in any case he would probably argue that it is better a nation should be free than healthy. One clause in the Bill will provide that eyery prescription shall be written English ; of course spelling and grammar will be entirely optional. It is to be hoped, however, that the " openuess" of practice may not extend to dosage. Cobbe and Dabragh have purchased from the Colonial representative of an English manufacturing firm, his entire set of Hosiery, Corset and Towel Samples. These goods have been bought so much under ordinary rates that Cobbe and Darragh are able to sell them, for cash, at exact Colonial wholesale prices. The Stockings range in price from 3d to 2s 6d per pair, the Towels from 2d to 2a 6d each, the Corsets from Is 6d to 10s 6d per