Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 86, 22 December 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

The banks will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 25' h and 26th insts., Christmas Day and Boring Day. As will be seen elsewhere a dance will be held in the Town Hall at 8 o'clock on Monday evening next. Tuesday next being rhristmns Buy, there will be no issue of this journal on that day. The new Foresters' Hall is now pompleted all but finishing the painting of the exterior. We shall refer to it in a future issue. Members of the Jockey Club are reminded of the general meeting at Plastic's hotel at 8 o'clock this evening for receiving auditors' report and other business. A meeting of the Oroua County Council is summoned for Monday, 31st insl., at 12, noon, at the offices of the Manchester Road Board, Feilding. We learn from the Chronicle that the cause of Father Moreau's death was cancer in the stomach and Bright's disease of the kidneys. Our local wheelwrights and coach builders are all very buny finishing off various kinds of vehicles to order, preparatory for the forthcoming holidays. The American Bible Society cannot supply the demand for Bibles, although they are making arrangements for issuing 2,000,000 next year. The building of a dwelling house near the corner of Denbigh and Grey streets has been commenced by Messrs Watts & Bilderbeck to the order of Messrs Hoots and Co. The tidings that the Chairman of the Oroua County Council received from the Government yesterday an imprest for works under the Bonds and Bridges Construction Act of £4,600 will be welcomed by all interested. - Mr E. Thynne, J.P., and Chairman or the Manawatu rounty Council, was fined Is, without costs, at the Palmerston Court, on Thursday last, for using lan guage to Mr G. E- Hawkins provocative of a breach of the peace. Much to the satisfaction of thrifty housewives, John Chinaman made his appearance in Feilding this morning accompanied by baskets of beautiful vegetables. In this connection we may look upon the Child of the Flowery Land as a " sweet boon." Yesterday was the " longest day " and therefore midsummer in New Zealand. As it was also the solstice we were favored with an unusually heavy gale of wind. It is to be hoped that we shal now be permitted to have a little summer weather. It is reported that the representation of Selwyn, vacant through the death of Mr E. J. Lee, will be contested by either j VI rE. Richardson or by Mr E. Wakefield. It is not known yet if anyone is coming forward as a Ministerialist candidate. Among other interesting items received by the last 'Frisco mail, was one to the following effect : — "A fire having occurred in a bootmaker's shop' in the neighborhood of Windsor Castle, Her Majesty the Queen was thrown into a state of nervous excitement, and manifested great anxiety as to the condition of the royal fire engines !" At the R.M. Court yesterday, before H. L. Sherwill Esq. J.P., William Cook pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk in a public place on the 17th instant. The Constable said it was the first offence. His Worship, with expressions of regnt and caution, said he had no alternative but to inflict a fine of 5b which accused at once paid. We need scarcely call attention to the Sports and Trotting Matches to take place at Cheltenham on Monday next Considerable interest i* attaching to the various events, the Burnt of which comes off at 11 o'clock. Should the weather be fine there is a prospect of , a good attendance, and the affair promises to be in every way a snecess. We should mention that the proceeding will be enlivened by the music of the. [folding Brass Band Messrs McDowell 'Bros. . direct thr attention of residents in the borough, and visitors from the country during the Christmas Holidays, to their stock of new goods, at the premises opposite Hastie's Hotel, which they have now to place before those who favor them witha; visit. As the sale is now on, and will close on Monday, we recommend intending purchasers to pay a speedy visit in order to secure articles of clothing, jewellery, <fee, at fabulously low prices. ;

No business will be done at the Feilding Post and Telegraph Office on Christmas Day. On Boxing Day the office will be open from 9 till 10 a in., and there will bo one mail despatched each evening to Wiinganui and Wellington only. At Warwick. Ensland, ia connection with volunteer prize-shooting, n barrel of beer bus been won two years in succession by a teetotaller. vv c are not, however. | informed as to what the winner did with it. We again draw attention to the B»zanr in aid of St. John's Sunday School building fund, which was opened this afternoon, just before going to press. It will be open again this evening from 7 till 10, and alargeattendance-is'expected. Music will be introduced at intervals, including that of the Feilding ßand. The stalls are presided over by ladies of the congregation as follows :— No 1, produce of the Ladies' Sewing Bee, Mrs Van Steinvelt ; P?o 2, china, glasses, &c, Mrs Shrrwill ; >o 3, toys, &c. Mrs Goodbehere ; ]So 4, refreshments, Mrs Jones. At Christmas-tide, when everyone is lookine about for suitable purchases to make for presents, Mr Carthew is generally able to suit the most fastidious. This year is no exception, and the wonderful collection of Christmas cards, besides toys of all descriptions and books for gifts, is simply magnificent.