FEILDING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1674, 14 February 1913, Page 6

FEILDING NEWS.

Commencing on March 1 Mr. John ! Cobbe's establishment will observe tho weekly half-holiday on Saturdays ia place of Wednesdays. An employees' picnic at "Almadale will lx> held'on tliat day. •• ■ Charles Henry'Hewitt, a lad about 13 joars old, was brought before Mr; J. W. Poynton, S.M., at tho, Court tliii week, and charged with attending a parado without wearing tho prescribed uniform. The magistrate asked the toy what was tho matter with tlio uniform. Did ho object to tho colour, or what? Hewitt stated that ho did not mind' to colour, but tho, trousers were too big—-/ they wero big enoush to fit Sergeant Bowden (tho prosecutor). Subsequently Hewitt promised that lie would 1 wear tho uniform at futuro parades. Ho was fined 10s.. with 7s. costs, * > Tho chaplains' of tho Wanganui Pres. bylery nro" making every effort to render good ecrvico 'ot tho coming territorial camps. A marquee and 60 folding chairs aro being scoured for the work. A suitable supply of magazines is also to b« obtained. Tho Tcrraco End (Palmerston) Tennis Club is sending a team to Feilding on Saturday for n challenge match for tho Country Cup. Tho W.C.T.U. mado n profit of JC4O out of tho afternoon tea-room which the mem. bers conducted at ithe Feilding A, and 'P, show.

Messrs. A. L. Wilson, Ltd., Brandon Street, havo received instructions from Mr. F, Diamond to tell at Mr, Burke's Btablos, Abel Smith Street, 'a number of horses and drays, ctc., by public auction, on Saturday, February 15. , The ealo commences at 1 p.m. Mr. B. Chambers has instructed tho Farmers' Co-oporativo Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton, to sell by public, auction. 300 well-bred bullocks at tho To Kuili yards, Hamilton, on Monday, February '24, at 11.30 a.m. Tho Miramar Municipal Band will play in the Scatoun Park on Sunday aftehiona at 3 o'clock. A . collection in aid of the Wellington Hospital will be taken up, Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Rangilikci Street. Palmerston North, h«v« been instructed by'the Registrar or tho Supreme Court, Wellington, to sell by public auction a series of plots of lahd in Wellington on Saturday,.March 15, at 12 o'clock. Full particulars : niny be had from the auctioneers or from Messrs. Cot. terill and Humphries,'solicitors for tha mortcaeees-