Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 103, 21 February 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Gorge Railway will be formally opened on Monday, the 9th of March. The ball in the Munsjaone Public Hull on Thursday night was a success. The Wairarapa Rabbit Board are importing more stoats and weasels. The appointment of Mr E H. Crabb to be postmaster at Waituna Wost, is gazetted, Waituna West is a now Post Office. Tlie Palmerston North Foot bull Club have rejeivod a c^iilien^e from the Wei-li.-ig'on Afhletius to jJiiy a rnatcli «t Pulmerstou ou liasttr Moudaj,

Mf^T. Ward, of Feildiug, has purahased the horse " Kissing Cup." The funeral of the late W. E. Mellish will take place at Palmerston to-morrow it 3 p.m. The Kiwitea Eoad Board was holding an ordinary monthly meetiug as we went to press. A full report of the proceedings will be published in our next. News received at Auckland from Calcutta announces the death of William Woodyear, circus proprietor, well known in New Zealand. He died of cholera after two days' illness. The Tonganro which left Wellington for London on Thursday takes 329 bales of wool, 1 720 boxes butter, 200 cases cheese, 1277 bales flax, and over 5000 carcases meat. Burning was commenced in the Apiti Block on Wednesday and Thursday, rather soon perhaps after the wet weather, but still on the high lands and gentle slopes the fallen bush is 'possibly dry euough. A meeting of Mr B. C. Bruce's friends and supporters is to be held at Marton on the 28th instant to make arrangements for entertaining him at a public banquet as some kind of recognition for his public services. Those who desire to IL secure the shadow ere the substance perish "are specially requested to note that Mr Shailer wiil take portraits in Mr G. W. Fowlesstudio every day until further notice from Wednesday, the 25th instant. Watta : " Now, if I understand correctly, the first principle of socialism is to divide with your brother man." Potts: "Then you don't understand it correctly. The first principal of socialism is to make your brother man divide ' with you." Mr G. Grants "of Sandon, is to preach in the Primitive Methodist Church on i Sunday evening next on the occasion of the Sunday School. Annivsrsnry. Mrs Douglas will preach in the morning, and address Children and friends in the afternoon. Writing of the defeat of Mr Bruce at Egmont the Norman by Star says :— The influences against him were too strong, and, though he has been beaten, it would be difficult to imagine a defeat, which carried with it more credit for manliness and political honor. The Libel Bill, which has already twice passed the Legislative Council, only to be numbered with the innocents in the other Chamber, will be taken up by the Government and pushed forward amongst their earliest measures next session. In the Feilding Small Farm Block Mr Oldharn has made the Owl's Boost quite picturesque. The garden is enclosed in a bow fence, and neatly sub-divided into ornamental plats, which give the place a home-like appearance. No doubt this example will be followed by other settlers. In these times of depression the following is a startling evidence of how people are " sweated " The Melbourne Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company, Limited, have just declared a dividend of 22£ per cent, with an added bonus of 22^ per cent for the year's transactions. Comment is quite unnecessary. The Manchester Rifles paraded last night for drill and inspection. Sergt.Major Macrnillan was present. As the attendance was not large Lieut. Kirton said the names of those willing to attend the Easter Encampment would, not be taken until at the parade on Friday next, when Colonel Stapp would be present. It is announced that Frank P. Slavin, the Australian, has accepted a challenge from J. L. Sullivan for a prize fight in America. Sullivan offers 1000 to 100 that he will knock Slavin out in six rounds. Slayin accepts these terms and annouuees himself willing to reverse the wager if Sulliyan desires it. . Three Frenchmen who were studying a volume of Shakespeare in their native language endeayoured to translate into English the well-known opening to Hamlet's soliloquy: "To be, or not to be." The following was the result : — First Frenchman : To was, or not to am. Second ditto; To where, or is to not. Third ditto : To should, or not to will. Yesterday at the R.M. Court a middle aged woman named Mary Watts, was charged before Mr Kirton, J.P., with being drunk in Fergusson street on the night of the 19th instant. Accused said she was making her way to Weodville. As it was her first offence she was discharged with a caution, on the understanding that she left the town forthwith. Mr Gilbert Kin?, who has been acting as Assistant Inspector to the Bank of New South Wales for the last four jears with residence in Christchurch, has been appointed to the Managership of the* Auckland branch of the B ; mk of Mew South' Wales. Mr King has been a member of the Christchurch Liedertafel f-ir some time, and will be missed from amongst us here. Sunday School Superintendent : " Who led the children of Israel into Canaan ? Will one of the smaller boye answer ?" (No reply). Superintendarit (somewhat sternly) : " Can no one tell ? Little boy on that seat next to the aisle, who led the children of Israel into Canaan ?" Little Boy . (bably frightened)- "It wasn't me. I — l jist moved yere last week f'm Bruuswick." The Press Association notify us that an error was made by Ihe telegraphist in the transmission of the summary of the Hon. John McKenzie's speech from rlawera on Monday. The little but important word "if" was omitted from an essential sentence, which should have read—" If a small loan, was necessary for the opening up of lands, the money would be taken out of trust funds." The immigration and emigration returns for January show the arrivals to be 1358 persons and the departures 1745, the balance against the colony being IS7. The arrivals were from the United King don 231, New South Wales 689, Victoria 456, Tasmania 82, other places 100. Departures to the United Kingdom 91, New South Walea 100, Victoria 359, South Australia 1, Tasmania 225, other places 69. A contemporary says : — " Wanganui is only a small town, but it has earned a distinction. Three times it has been represented by the Premier of the colony — first by Sir William Fox, then by Sir Julius Yogel, and now by Mr Ballance. Five times it has produced the champion rifle shot of the colony — Lieutenant Owen in 1863, Private Churton in 1884, Sergeant Remington in 1886, Captain Purnell in 1888, and Private Kruse in 1891." There was a large attendance at Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co.'s Palmerston sale on Thursday, and the results were very satisfactory. About 5,500 sheep and 150 head of cattle were yarded, and nearly every line was sold at ruling rated. Following were the prices realised for sheep :— Two- tooth ewes, 10s 5d ; four tooth ewes, 11s 9d ; shorn lambs, 5s to 6s; woolly lambs, 6s 8d to 8s 3d ; fut wethers, 11s; mixed ewes, 9s 3d to 10s 4-1. A special liiio of INO Lincoln ewes, belonging to Mr E. J. Riddiford, were cold at 13a id.

The Kiwitea Road Board was sitting as we went to press. A report will appear next issue. THe Woodyille Examiner records that the slip at the north cud of the Gorge line brought down a coffin which lies exposed among the debris. In our next issue we shall publish particulars of the performance of the Dodson-Kennedy Dramatic Company in Feildinsr on March 2nd and 3rd. A precocious lad of 14 summers, named Darcy Pisrcent, was ordered to pay a fine of 5s and costs 9s at Pahnerston recently for setting a dog on to another boy. The tender of Mr Prank Owen for surveying and laying out the township of Pohaiigina has. been accepted by the Wanganui Harbour Board. In our wanted column Mr A. W. Me ■ \ Ferran desires everybody to know that his stock is going fast at the great reductions, and his great cash sale is still goiug on. Wellington Woollen Factory share holders have voted the chairman, Mr T. K. Macdonald, £"250, in recognition of his seryices during the past five or six years. The annual tea meeting of the Presbyterian Church will be held on Wedups-s day next at 6 p.m. A meeting will afterwards be held at which, various ministers I will speak. The fleeces of two Hampshire Down wethers sold at the recent Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Show have turned the scale at 211bs and 17lbs respectively. The weights are the .more remarkable when the fineness of the wool of this particular kind of sheep is considered. They were bred and exhibited by Mr Max Friedlander, of Ashburton. Among the matters which are engaging the attention of the Government is the question of an uniform system of school books for the colony. The plan which finds most favor at present :s the appointment of a commission to draw up the necessary books. The printing will be done by the Government printer, and provision will probably be made for free distribution by the local committees in cases where they are satisfied that parents are too poor to pay for them. Nothing definite, however, has yet been settled, and the proposals so far are quite tn embryo.

To any lady requiring a really firstclass silk dress at a great reduction from ordinary prices, there is now a magnifi cent opportunity at the Te Aro House "Fair," Wellington, this day. For instance, full dress lengths of shot merveilleaux silk, originally 52s 6d for 30s ; handsome combination silk dresses, rich faillee silk dresses, choice striped silk, merveilleaux dresses, m full dress lengths;, original prices, 8 guineas, 'reduced to 2 guineas ; original price, 10 guineas, reduced to 3 guineas, at " The Fair," Te Aro House, Wellington. And then there are several lots of coloured gross- gram silks and evening shades in handsome broche silks, for Is 6d per yard, and some superb dark coloured broche silks, reduced from 7s ', 6d to 2s 6d per yard, at " The Fair," Te Aro House, Wellington. The above are really superb bargains, and can be seeu in our windows this day,; : To any lady who can appreciate a first class -silk dress of- superior qiialiiy and excellent in style and coloring, this is an opportunity that, we may safely assert, will never occur again.' We have only a few of them on hand at Te Aro House, Wellington.