Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 34, 23 August 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

There is a slight upward tendency in '.he demand for fal stock. Messrs Halcombe and 'Sherwill sent: down overland to Wellington a faw days ago, 43 hes'.d of prime beef. The Palmerston football team will visit Feilding on Saturday. Practice wil! commence at 3 p.m. on the oval. A raiher novel order is being executed in Feiiding in the shape of an anchor. It is for a fishincr Ho.it at Foxton, and is being ni/jdc by Mr Gordon. T'n' railway line will be opened thro ugh to Manutuhi oa Tuesday next. Extensive preparations aye being mada to c'lebr.-ite the occasion in Patea. There will be no business for the Feilding Licensing C<uirf, the quarterly sitting or which wonld otherwise have been *>tt Sept-umber tho Ist. In our report uf the Orona bounty ouueil meeting hold on Monday, a typographical ornia.-iou or the n;iine of Mr ji'oßeth was mii.de ia the list of Council-' iors present. The Ashburton water races are 732 miles in', length. The cost of niaintenauce is less than the sixteenth of a penny in the pound on the rateable value of the property of the county. It is not improbable that the New Zealand agency for the fi reworks of Mr Brock, the renowned pyrotechnist of London, will be established iv Feilding. The population of Queensland at the «sd of last year stood at 248,285, of j whom 102,663 were* feznata. Th» addi- ] tiou to the population by immigration was 17,043. The old cottage iv Warwick street, formerly occupied by Mr Hoskings, and which stood on the section belonging to Mr Holland, was blown to the ground by the recent gale. It may be useful to know that hoarseness may bo relieved by using the whit© of aa egg thoroughly beaten, mixed with lemon juice and sugar. A teaspoonfull taken occasionally is the dose. Messrs Sandilnads and Warburton, solicitors^have taken tha premises forming the right hand frontage of the Town Had, wkich they are having fitted up and furnished as offices. Mr Sandiland's 'private reiidence is in Queen strest. At the annual meetiEg of the Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation, the Chairman (Major-General Feilding) said that the Manchester block, ; which at the beginning of 1874 was almost uninhabited and whioh cost the corporation £75,000, was now valued at nearly £600,000, to which might be added the value of stock, &c. » One of the pr.ssengers oa board the Rotomahana, when she struck, is said to have arrayed himself in two life-belts, and, when remonstrated with, urged in extenuation "that he had a wife and family." This gentleman retained both hia safeguards until the vessel was again in deep water, when ho relinquished one, but prudently continued to we»r the other until she was safely moored alongsido the pier at the Bluff. Probably the smallest amount of business ever brought before the regular sitting of the Feilding Resident Magistrate's Court was that of yesterday. The programme contained eight items, six of which were sottlvd out of Court, and one adjourned. Only one case was .dealt 1 with, and. the whole business was over in about Gve minutes. The next sitting" of the Court "ill be on Wednesday, the 12th September.. Ou Monday a waggoner, employed by Messrs W bibley Bros., was taking •some sleepers, along the Ashurst, rpad.f rom, Jhe mill, when the driver had occasion to' stop and deliver, a- -letter- at' tlie-re'sitlwnce of one of the u-itlers on the roadside; Dining the delay, which only occupied a minute or, two, & large pine was, by the force of the gale, blowniacroso the road immediately in front of the waggon' and horses. The stoppage made was apparently the cause of a most miraculous •scape from the driver and horses being killed on the spot. ' ( .', < > Th» sterabara of the Manawatn Racing Club met in Palm«rs:on on' Tuesday last. A. large number of members were pre. rent. Jt, Jeiiscen, Esq., oocupied tba chair.' A moat favorable repot t of last year's transactions were submitted and adopted. Tbo following stewards were elected :— Messrs Pratt, 1 Akera, Russell, Perkins,' Captain Walker, J. King, A. McDonald. Mr Thomas Knight wa*' elected Judge, Mr J: Natn.m. Starter. 'Mr Cotter Clerk of "the Course,' Mr ,' J. Leigh Clerk of the Scales. A number of gentlemen were proposed and: elected membars of the club. In reply. to % a quefction it was stated that a members ticket gave admission to the Grand Stand and all parts of tho course except ' th* saddling paddock.

An adjourned ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will meet this evening, at 8 o'clock. At nn entertainment given in Foiton last night in aid of the Rowing Club the gross proceeds were £6, expanses £5 oddl Messrs Wodehouse and Armstrong, the patentees of a new system of electric lighting, which has been successful at tho Fisheries Exhibition, tbe Reform Club, and several theatres, are about sending an agent out to New Zealand vis Frisco, to explain thej'process and push their wares. After their stock sale on Tuesday, 28 th inst, Messrs Stevens and Gordon will offer for sale at the Donbigh Hotel, several town and suburban sections in tbe township of Halcombe, further particulars of which properties appear in their advertisement. Persons in want of desirable holdings in Halcombe will do well'to attend tho sals. The Flower of Feilding Lodge, T.0.G.T., held its annual meeting on I Saturday evening in the Good Templars' I Hall. It was reso{yed to support tho j "Temperance Reformer," and after an amount of other routine^, business had been transacted, the lodge adjourned at-9 p.m., after which a degree meeting was held, when three members received their second degree. It will be interesting to Presbyterians in New Zealand to know tbat tho instrumental music question, supposed to have been settled at the Assembly of the Free Church, it is to be immediately revived. An influential meeting of the minority opposed to tbe organ in Church have resolved to form a Purity of Worship Defence Association, with branches throughout the country, and to adopt measures with a Yiosr to secure the reversal of what is described as the unsound decision of the General Assembly. Dr Begg, Edinburgh, is at tho head of the new movement. A curious case was decided ia. the ; Hon ho of Lords recently. It appears ! that a number of shares of a company : were fully paid up, whilst others were paid up 5 s only, the value of the share being £1. The articles of association directed that dividends should be paid to the members in proportion td thoir shares. The Scotch Court decided that the shareholders must participate equally ia the dividends without regard to the amoaat paid up, and tha House of Lords unanimously upheld this decision. The Wanganu* TTeraid ta7»:— Work is busily proceeding at Mr Murray's foundry sine* the Ta Aroha bridge ha* leffe the premises. , Th© men ars now engaged in the construction of a powerful 10-horje power boiler and engine for the establishment of Mr Bartholomew, saw - miller, of Feilding, who, witk his rapidly increasing basin©* i, has louad it necessary to estaad the capabilities of his . plant. Tha work is proceeding rapidly, and both tha engine and boiler will soon be ready for transmission to Feilding. In addition to this Mr Murray has an order for easting a oouple of new cylinders for Mr Riddiford. at Halcombe, which will keep him busily engaged for soase time.