Local General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 79, 6 December 1883, Page 2

Local General News.

, -■' ♦ : ■ The English Mail, rim Saa FraacU"e, doaet here to-morrow. Sir George Grey » inrited to dflirer •ddranei it Melbourne and Sjdnej on Federation ami Annexation. • • W« have to acknowledge receipt of a member'f ticket for the Palmeratan Itaeei on Boiiaf Daj, oouTteo»Bljr forwarded I ■bj.Mr WaltOTi, the lion. wwetaTy>

An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock. Four of the eggs exhibited by Mr Retemeyer at the show last night, weighed 24 ounces. The Methodists hare 134 chapels and preaching stations, and own property to the amount of £55,000 in France. Three families of refugee Jews from South Russia arrived in Auckland by the barque An tares. Chang, the .Chinese giant, who some years ;>go was in New Zealand, was a visitor recently to the House of Commons. Tenders for metalling North street must be lodged with the Town Clerk at the Borough Council office to-morrow, at 4 p.m. A weekly steam service betweea Auckland and Sydney was initiated today by the Union Company's steamer, Ringarooma. The British are rapidly spreading a Detwork of railways over India, About £6,000,000 will be spent this year in the construction of new roads. United States spinners used 108,561 bales more of cotton during the past 12 •months than" during the lite period proceeding, or 2,073/96 bales in all. The Americans are dissatisfied with the postal arrangements between England and the States, and therefore propose to start a daily mail with a penny postage. A mew steamer, the Oregon, built at Glasgow for the Union line, on her trial trip attained a speed of over twenty knots, or over 23 miles an hour. If Cardinal Manning attends the Queen's levee this season, as it is said he will do, his health allowing, it will be the first instance iv some centuries of a Catholic Bishop going to Court. The Daily News' Geneva correspondent says an ascent of Mont Blanc was made by a girl named Quonessen, aged 16, the youngest of her sex, it is said, who has yet reached the summit of the mountain. Bishop Luck, of Auckland, thinks that under the State sjatem children are being educated on an unnecessarily high standard. We want servant-maids to scrub the floors not to play on pianos. We re»ret to learn that Mr F. Y. Lethbridge was taken somewhat suddenly ill yesterday. Dr Johnston was sent for and slated that the patient was suffering from an acute attack of neuralgia. The prospectus has been issued in London of the New Zealand Loan and Mortgage Company with a capital of two millions, of which it is proposed to raise two humdred thousand pounds im the firist instance. In certain parts of Norway the girls are not allowed td be betrothed, to say nothing of being married, until they can spin, knit, and bake bread. It would be & good idea to introduce this custom into New Zealand. We understand the residence for the Rev. Father Carew at Falmerston, is rapidly approaching completion, and will be of a very appropriate (design ; inleed, it will be one of the most tasteful villa residences in the Borough. The grounds are also receiving attention. A meeting of the committee ef the Horticultural Show mil be held at the Manchester Road Board office on Saturday evening next at 7 o'clock sharp, for the purpose of clos ng accounts and settling other business of importance. A full attendance is requested. Several Hawera farmers (say* the Hawera Star) who went to the Auckland show have returned. They complain that business is very dull, and though tbe weather in this district may hare been bad, they say it could not have been worse t half what has been experienced in the north, where the rain has been excessive. Yesterday there was oh view at Mr Pollock's shop window a magnificent three-decker bride-cake. An a " thing of beauty" it is very creditable to the builder, and we hope that the happy bride and bridgegroom will be a " joy for ever" to each other. The respective names of the happy couple are kept profoundly secret, but they are very generally conjectured. A New Caledonia convict named Adeline hns received so many cumulative sentences that, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, his time for liberation does not arrive till the year 2036, after which he is condemned to 105 years police surveillance. Iv all he has received condemnations amounting to 153 years hard labor. It in feared he will not live to complete his sentence. ' To-day's Chronicle says:—- It is reported that Mr Dawson, Manager of the Bank of Australasia at Feilding, is about to resign, and that he will be succeeded by Mr Webster, accountant of the Wangnnui branch, who has been in temporary charge at Patea. If this rumour is correct we heartily congratulate Mr Webster on his well-deserved promotion. And the Feilding people on gaining fuck an acquisition to their business and social circles. Last night's WanganuL Herald says : — It is quite marvellous to see the speculative tendencies of our contemporaries with respect to the political intentions of Mr Ballanee. The Manaws>tu Times solemnly expresses its opinion that if he is not pretty Bare of the Wanganui seat, he will probably run for a West Coast (>o»th Island) constituency. Mr Ballanee, we can inform our contemporary, received the promise of a numerouly signed requlI rition from a West Coast conntitueaey once before, so it may be inferred he bai no intention of seeking teats away from *■■# ■ ' . " '

A cricket match will be played at Bulls on Saturday next between the Feilding and Bu Is clubs. Wickets will be pitched at 11 o'clock. The following are the names of the Feilding team : — Messrs Bartholomew, Hudson, I'e&ron, Nix, Rowley, Roe, Taunt, Thompson, J. Fowles, W. Stevens, and W. "Jackson. Emergencies— Baker and Halcombe. In addition to the prizes given in tht prod ice class at the show yesterday, two glasses of honey exhibited by Mr Wilcock, of Awahuri. and 12 eggs by Mr Frank Berry, ot Feilding, were awarded certificates of honorable mention. A very pretty and artistically executed wax bridal bouquet, made and presented as a special prize by Mrs H. Bennett, also a lare* and elaborately up floral device in the shape of a cross of the legion of honor**by Mr Knight, were specially admired.