Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 52, 4 October 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

« The assets of Mr F. W. Evans, publican, of Wanganui, are set down at £7,731 17s 3d, and liabilities £6,061 Os Bd. J. T. Stewart, Esq., District Engineer, inspected the work at the Oroua Bridge, Aorangi, to-day. An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will take place this evening at 8 o'clock. The first cricket match of the seasonMarried against Single — will be played ou tiie ground near the Denbigh Hotel, on Saturday next. Wickets will be pitched at 2 p.m. We would call attention to the fact that the first general meeting of shareholders of the Feilding Cheese and Butter Factory takes place in Roe's Sample Rooms to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. It is to be hoped that there will be a large attendance. We are glad to announce that the Public Library will be open on Saturday next. The Reading Room will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and books will be issued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, ani Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturday evenings from 7 to 8. We have to acknowledge receipt of a pamphlet entitled "Science and Religion," a review of Judge Higginbotham's lecture (delivered before the Dunedin Freethought Association) by T. t'heyne Farnie, M.A. The publisher is Mr Joseph Braithwaite, of Dunedin. Tenders for certain wor''S as advertised in another column, are inviLed by the Manchester Road Board, at whose office plans, specifications, &c, may be seen, and at which place tenders addressed to the Chairman must be lodged by noon on Saturday next. The delivery of the Rev. Mr Murray's lecture entitled " The Bible, the Charter of Nations," has been postponed till the first Sunday in November. The Rev. Mr Stewart, of Marton, will preach in the Presbyterian Church, Feilding, on Sunday next, the Rev. Mr Murray officiating at Marton. We notice that the local wheelwrights are very busy just now making new vehicles, especially drays, &c, to order. No doubt the many new public works which are about to be done throughout the district accounts principally for the liveliness of the above branch of business. The Resident Magistrate has, not a moment too soon, appointed an office cleaner for the Feilding Courthouse in the person of Mr James Morris. The place has undergone a thorough cleaning and will in future have a much more decent and comfortable appearance than it has presented for a long time past. We regret to learn that Mr Macarthur, the County Chairman, is at present confined to bis room from a fracture of the bone of his left elbow, sustained by the accidental upsetting of a tricycle, which , he was riding on Tuesday last. The injury is not very severe, although peculiarly painful, but it will render him unable to move out out for at least a fortnight. It is seldom that such a lengthy precis of correspondence is brought before a local governing body as was the case at the meeting of the Oroua County Council on Monday last. The mere list of letters, memos, telegrams, &c., occupied no Jess than six pages of foolscap, many of the items being of a minor and routine character, but still requiring attention. The time of the Chairman jusfc now must be pretty fully occupied. A new advertisement appears elsewhere from Mr Morris, at the Public Hall/who has been appointed agent for Mr A. Laird, and can now supply all sorts of seeds and other garden requisites. Smokers' requirements, toys, and useful and fancy ariicles of various descriptions are also included in his stock of trade. Clocks, umbrellas, lamps. &c, are still repaired by Mr Morris, wbo will also supply thirsty souls during the coming summer with refreshing drinks. The introduction of new tilings of any kind or description, however innocent they may at first appeal in a greater or less degree, to either directly or indirectly be the cause of a new danger to tbe human body. A tricycle, tbe advent of which was duly chronicled in these columns but a few days ago, has already endangered the lives and limbs of two well-known Feilding residents. One gentleman was thrown out on to the road and his neck nearly broken, and the other was also thrown out on a kirbinj* with the result of a fractured elbow.

The Ei.glish mail, via San Francisco* iloses at Feilding to-morrow. It seems prohable that the interest of he public debts of New South Wales. Victoria, and New Zealand will, ere lone, be met by the receipts of the respective railways over and above their expenses. The following are the amounts allojated out of the Government grant to the respective Ridings of the Manchester Road Board district :— Fitzherbert, £491; Taonui, £1,644; Kiwitea £750; Waituna, and Ashurst together, £2,100. Rechabitism is making good progress in the district, and we learn that a new Tent of this useful Order will shortly be started in Halcombe, where a goodly number of persons have already expressed their intention to join. Mrs Brown has handed to the chairman of the School Committee her resignation as assistant Mistress of the School. We understand that Mrs Brown has been compelled to take this step on account of the bad state of her health. A meeting of the Court Loyal Feilding, A.0.F., was held last evening at the Good Templars' Hall. There was a good attendance of members. Four new members were admitted, hve nominated for admission, and the meeting then adjourned. W r hen O'Donnel landed on the jetty at Port Elizabeth, heavily ironedand guarded by constables, dead silence reigned until a few hisses were heard, and then there was a loud outburst of cheers, completely drowning the manifestations of disapproval at his act in killing the informer Carey. Mr Boness is planting an additional acre of hops at Awahuri. They are of a quality said to be far superior to all others, and known as the East Kent, whence the cuttings have been directly imported. Mr Boness has, we understand, been one of the first to introduce this variety into the colonies. A new settler in this district, viz., Mr Henry Johnson, of VVaveiley, took up his abode on the Makino road yesterday, having leased the property of Mr Flaval for a term of five years. He has a wife and family, and brings a good number of valuable horses and other stock. Mr Flaval removes to his section of lend on the Mangaone road. Farmers and settlers will be interested in an ad vertisement elsewhere from Messrs Reid and Gray, Dunedin, of their "latest improved disc harrow." The agricultural implements of this firm are well-known throughout the district, and doubtless the disc harrow, which has the latest improvements, will meet with that patronage which, from what we learu, ifc is entitled to command. The Wellington Post states that the vessel belonging to Captain Williams's fleet at present iv port were gay with bunting on Tuesday, on tho occasion of the marriage of Miss Toms, one of the nieces of the worthy owner, with Mr George Crichton, of tbe Government Insurance Department, organist of the Baptist Church, Vivian street. The newly-married pair arrived in Feildiag last evening on a visit to Mr George Crichton, the bridegroom's father. It is understood that tenders will be called in a day or two for the Tongahoe contract, which is for filling up the 65 miles still unlet, of the cap between Hawera and Manutahi. Unfortunately there will be a considerable interval between the invitation of tenders and the completion of the contract. There are some very heavy works on the Tongahoe section, and it is estimated that the con* tract will occupy at least a year in carrying out. In fact it is not anticipated that the through line of rail from Foxton to New Plymouth will be opened for traffic much earlier than Christmas, 1884. Some amusing incidents are related in the Scotch papers of the fishermen and women who went to the Fisheries Exhibtion in London. When the fisher folk were at the Mansion House the daughter of the M ayor struck up a scotch reel on the piano, and his Lordship led off the dance with Jeanie Wilson. His Lordship also danced an Irish jig with Sophia Main, another of the girls. When Mrs Mills, wbo asked the princess Beatrice " How is yer anther keepin?" described tbe Lord Mayor of London waltzing with a fisher lassie, and the Mayoress •dmilarly engaged with a fisherman, while a young lady supplied pianoforte music, words appear to fail her, for she concluded the narration by saying, " An' there were five hunder fishermen looking at them ; it was awfu' !"