LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 31, 30 September 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• Mr John McKelvie is reported to be dangerously ill. This gentleman is one of the oldest settlers in the Rangitikei. The new railway time-table comes into force on Monday next, the 2nd October. The time-table will appear in our next issue. A case of considerable importance to insurers will be heard at the next sittings of the Peilding Resident Magistrate's Court. Mr G. S. Graham, Manager and Inspector of the Colonial Insurance Company, visited Feilding yesterday, on his tour of inspection. Messrs Corpe and Sou, of the Makino Saw-mills, have sent by rail and disposed of by local sales during September 261,638 feet of timber. The Insurance Association at Chris '- church hare resolred to make a reduction of 25 per cent, on old rates. We would like to see this example followed in the Manawatu. The Rev H. M. Murray has announced that his usual monthly lecture would be given on Sunday, Bth October. The subject will be " Ihe Ribbon Armies of England, or *he Red, White, and Blue." The Waipawa Mail states that two ships specially fitted up for frozen meat will shortly be despatched from England for Napier, to load with frozen cattle during the coming season. Among other gentlemen whose names appear on the list we notice Messrs Hugh Lind Sherwill and Hector Booth have been appoited Assessors under the Property A ssesment Act for the Wellington Property Assessment district. On Sunday last two dogs, belonging to residents in Feilding, killed seven lambs on the estate of Messrs Leth bridge and Downcs. One of the dogs was caught and promptly shot. The other escaped for a time, but was subsequently hung by his owner. A full meeting of the committee of the Horticultural Society was held on Wednesday evening, Mr H. Worsfold in the chair. The schedule was submitted and passed for printing, after being amended. The Secretary reported having met with considerable success in collecting special prises, and receiving advertisements for insertion in the schedule. The meeting then adjourned till the first Saturday in November. The following has appeared in the Waipawa Mail as an advertisement : — " Notice. To the kind friends and neighbors who have persistently made attempts to burn me out. — This is to give you notice that I have taken out a policy of insurance for my property, and that should a fire now take place, the loss will not fall upon me, but upon the Insurance Company." We learn from the Wairarapa Observer that a inorement is on foot to amalgamate the two Wairarapa Counties, and establish the head quarters of the one at Masterton. It appears that the large holders on the Coast find that they will, through the altered circumstances of the Colony, be obliged to pay rates for roads md bridges, and desire to get ratepayers in the West County to assist them. The Observer advocates the most strenuous jpposition of the settlers in the West bounty against the movement.

I A local in oar last Wednesday's issue referred to a sale of land in the Makino district to Mr Holden. The name of the vendor was Mr Baker, not Mr Barber, a.« reported. The Manawatu Daily ' r imes states that a proposal will be made at the next sittings of the County Council, to appoint a new arrival at Fox ton as ratecollector, and also that a junior clerk is to be appointed for the County office. The Auckland Free Lance has declined to join the Press Association, and declares its intention of providing its own telegraphic intelligence. The specimens given of "local industry" are far more amusing than the genuine article, though perhaps, not quite so truthful. The net proceeds of the Promenade Concel, held in the Town Hall, in aid of the funcis for general purposes of the Anglican Church, Feilding, amounts to £13 16. This ought to encourage the promoters to give a second entertainment of a similar character. The united services in the Presbyterian Church were brought to a close last evening, when addresses were delivered by Revs Griffith of Palmerston, and Doull of Bulls. The attendance each evening was very good, considering the stormy weather which prevailed. The concert given at Sanson last night was a great success. The choice of pieces was excellent, and were well rendered by the performers. The Sanion Musical and Literary Association were the promoters, and were assisted by performers from Feilding and Palmerston. We have already called attention to the fact that the Wesleyans at Palmerston intend to erect a new church. We now learn that plans have been decided upon for a building capable of seating 400 persons, and that the probable cost will be £500. Tenders are to be called for immediately, so that Palmerston will not be long before it receives another acquisition in the shape of a handsome public building. The residents of Feilding and the surrounding districts may safely anticipate a treat on the advent of the Woodyear and Ross circus, which will open here on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The show is spoken favorably of by the paper of the various towns in the Colony where it has been exhibited, and crowded houses have invariably rewarded the efforts o£ the company t>> give an amusing and exciting entertainment. The Wellington Post is of opinion that the Colonial Records preserved in the Government Building, Wellington " the | biggest wooden building in the world" are not by any means safe from a fire. The (so-called) fire proof safes are too small and ridiculously inadequate to the legitimate demand upon their accommodation. Grave doubts are entertained whether if the building were burned the strong rooms would not fail, and so commit their contents to the mercy of the flames. The present provisions for night watch are not what they should be. It is to be hoped that the Government will take this broad hint. The " ironclad train," so often referred to in the war telegrams, seems to have been a singular affair. In front was an empty waggon. This was intended to shunt on ahead — (he train stopping suddenly from time to time — to explode any mines which might hare been laid beneath the lines. Then came the first iron-clad truck, with the Norfeldt barrels p-ojecting in front like the horizontal pipes of an organ. This truck was followed by three others crammed with blue-jackets, ensconced behind sandbags. Then came the engine, behind which were three more ironclad trucks filled with men. Close behind the train followed another with the reserves. — Post. The quarterly meeting of the Feilding Wesleyan Church was 'held on Monday last, Rev W. Worker, of Sanson, in the chair. Owing to the hour being an inconv' nient one, there was a rery small attendance. The balance sheet was satisfactory, rery handsome contributions being received from Taonui. Numerical returns were about the same. This quarterly meeting is the most important of the year, it being the one at which arrangements for the ensuing year are recommended to the Conference which meets in January. The meeting accordingly took the state of the Church into consideration, and determined to request the Conference to re-erect Feilding into a separate circuit, with a view to having a probationary minister appointed to succeed the Rev R. Fennel next April.