LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 75, 6 March 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

* The nominations for the Feilding Races close to-night at 9 o'clock sharp. Mr and Mrs Halcombe arrived from Wanganui by the noon train yesterday. We have to acknowledge receipt, from the Government Printer, of a copy of tho Crown Lands Guide, No. 5. The 9.45 a.m. train from Foxton brought up four jarra piles for the Rangitikei Bridge, also a number of tiinberlad -n trucks. An agricultural show will be held in Sandon some time nex' month. It will be open for farmers from all parts of the West Coast to compete. ' The February number of the Australian Brewers' Journal is lo hand, and contains its usual quantity of __teresting matter.. It is understood that the amount of Property Tax already received is over £152,000, as against an estimated yield of £150,000. j We hear that a little boy named Holmes, while jumping pver some logs near his parents' premises, on Saturday afternoon last, fell and broke his right arm. The well-known Native chief, Hoani Pihama, has been elected Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Upper Wanganui to sit on the Licensing Committees of Waverley, Hawera, Waimate, Otoia, and Ngaire. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co have commenced business as land and estate agents in Wellington. Mr Arthur Warburton was for some time manager of the Bank of New South Wales, in Feilding, and of tbe Te Aro branch of the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington. We ■■ wish him every success in his new venture. The social re-union of the Palmerston and Feilding Good Templars held on Saturday night last was a very pleasant one. In our opinion there is nothing that will have so good an effect in" forwarding the objects of this admirable society as a continued display of unanimity and cordiality between sister Lodges In our Saturday's report of ihe special meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday last, on the loan question, we inadvertently omitted the name of Cr Wor.fold from the list of Councillors who were present. We should also have stated thatthe resolution empowering the Mayor to take the necessary preliminary steps for raising the loan was carried unanimouily. Our attention has been called to a danger that exists on the Kimbolton road opposite the Feilding Hotel Some of the planks of the old bridge have become rotten,- and fallen in, leaving dangerous holes in portions of the surface of the road. The Borough roadmen should see to the matter at once, otherwise a serious accident may be the result to. some unlucky horseman or footman. A young gentleman in Scotland has "declinedto support his" mother on' the ground of his having 32 brothers and sisters who have etaded the responsibility If they would each contribute but ld a week there would be 2s Bd, His mamma admitted in court that she had on three, occasions given birth to' twins, twice to triplets, and on one occasion to four children at a" birth/ b'tft that the defendant was born all by himself, and, so far.' was under an individual obligation. Mrs Kirby advertises that she] has taken over from Mr _>avy the boarding establishment known as Wellington House Ridgway street, near the old railway station, Wanganui. The business is to be conducted on the. same principles as have hitherto characterised this wellknown house. The accommodation pro- : vicieel for 'families as well as other private boarders is of an excellent _ihd> tfliilethe cuisine is all -that can be desired. Mrs Kirby will doubtless be well patronised by persons desiring the quiet and" comfort of a private;, respectable home.

Navigator won. easily the St. Leger at the Autuum Meeting of the Melbourne Racing ( lub on Saturday last. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday afternoon :— Bad weather approaching' between north-east and north and west. Tliere is a further fall of the glass, ; and indications of rain within 12 hours. v ' A small section of land changed hands yesterday. The land in question has' 33ft frontage to Bowon-street, with a depth of 132_ty and-was purchasedby Mr Pollock fiom Mr Svendsen. The price given was £60. .. --.-•.- The Foxton Herald of March. 2 says:— In reference to the dispute about the grants to the Manawatu County Council, Mr John M'Culloch received to-day the following telegram -.irom- the County •Chairman who is at present in Wellington : — " Blunder arose here ; everything rectified*."^ "", '_■ "T .\ A," ; . '. . . It is formally notified by .the Registrargeneral that " the name of the -Rev. Edward Litton Cards- Wilson has been removed from the list of officiating ministers, under the Marriage Act, 1880, belonging to the Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the i hurch of England, at the request of the Right l.everend the Bishop of Wellington." Sixteen trucks' laden with sleepers and white pine went up by train this morning. I he sleepers are for Waverley, and the sawn timber for the Augusta, loading for Rockhainpton. Mr Henry Adsett, of Taonui, and Mr L. Caldwell, of Makino, supplied 2i\ooo feet each towards the loading of this vessel. A very wise regulation has. been issued in Adelaide which we commend to our own military authorities, prohiting volunteers from smoking when proceeeing to or from parade. Nothing detracts so much from soldierly smartness as the tobacco pipe or cigar, accompanied as it often is' with the helmet pushed back, and possibly the stock unfastened. Two horses, belonging to a, German; at Kiwitea, bolted yesterday from -near Mr Bishop's blacksmith's shop, with a dray laden with store goods', _nd ran into the yard of Hastie's hotel, where coming into contact with one of the stables, they were brought to a sudden stop, and thedray was much damaged, one of the shafts being broken short off. Fortunately the driver though thrown out, escaped unhurt, and neither of the horses were injured. Speaking at the banquet to. the Governor in t'ristchuroh, Mr. Meares said — It is only 12 years, I think, since the first ship laden with wheat left Lyttelton for England. It was then thought a hazardous and foolish experiment. Events have proved the contrary, and the crop of wheat has increased to that extent that we shall require no -less., than 100 ships this season, and we shall be proud to think that the export will be £10 per head of the population of this province. T^e apple crop in A.merica, in Britain, and throughout Europe is a complete . failure. The same may be said respect- ■ ing all the hard fruits. So se verely is the failure of the crop felt that fruit mer- : chants have written to Victorian fruit growers to see if a, supply cannot be obtained from this*sid^o_ ; t_e world, j This indicates probable opening of the European markets for. our fruits so soon as. >we can produce them in sufficient abun- . dance to pay for them Archibald Forbes left for Foxton by , train this morning. "He will lecture therethis evening,' and to-morrow morning will leave by the Jane Douglas for Welling-, ton. Mr Forbes speaks in high terms of the kindly reception he received at Marton and Feilding. It is probable that he will again visit New Zealand, in about two years, with a view to settling down. If, happily, he should do so, he will probably select the West Coast as his future home, as he considers it to possess advantages over any other part of the colony he has visited. A serious accident happened to two gentlemen on Saturday evening last, while driving to Feilding from Palmerston, to take part in the Good Templars' re union. When about three-quarters of a mile this side of Awahuri the horse they were driving suddenly shied, and caused the vehicle to capsize into a drain.. Both occupants of the buggjrwere thrown violently to the ground and sustained some severe bruises, notwithstanding which they managed to walk on to feilding, after leaving their horse ! at .the Endymioh Hotel. The horse' succeeded in kicking itself free from _ the buggy, slightly damaging the harness and breaking one, of the shafts of the^buggy. •