Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 51, 1 May 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

9 The fine of £100 inflicted on Mr Harris, of Marlon, in the R.M. Court, has been remitted by the Governor. Mr Dawson, of Ashburton, Canterbury, father of the late Mr A. Dawson, formerly nmnager of the Bank of Austialasiahere, is now visiting Feilding. The first practice match of the Feilding football loam, will he held on Saturday next in the paddock adjoining Iloc's Denbigh Hotel. Out of respect to the memory of the late Henry John Tancred, the public offices, excepting Customs, Postal, and Telegraphic, were closed in Clmstchurch yesterday at noon. Messrs < lapham and Co., tailors, have removed from the shop in the Avenue to premises in Ridgway Street, latrly occupied by Mr S. H. Drew as a fancy bazaar. An adjourned meeting of the Borough Council will be hold this evening, and as some important questions have to be deciilcd, no doubt each member will make up his mind to be present. Messrs Halci'inbeand Sherwill havedisposed of section 40, sub-division V, in the Manchester Block, of 150 acres, at £4 per acre. The purchaser was Mr Mai, of Makino. The Advocate has intimated that it wi'l support Sir Win. Fox, should he contest the Rangitikei scat during the next general election. The reason of the sudden coolness of that journal to Mr John Stevens is well-known to the initiated. Owing to a typographical error the bankruptcy notice calling a meeting of the creditors of George Watts, was called for Monday the 6th instant, whereas it should have been for Monday the sth instant. We publish the corrected notice this issue. Dr Sinclair desires to intimate that he will return to Feilding on the 6lhof June next, in order that he may make any slight alteration incases where necessary. In order to prevent any disappointment, due notice of the return visit will le published in our advertising columns. The N.Z.L. and M.A. Company report : — Nelson — Hop picking is now completed, excepting a few isolated gardens. The yield is very small, but the quality is first class. The market has opened fairly well, large quantities having already been sold at Is. An advance on this is almost sure to take place shoitly. Mr Perry, of Kiwitea, forwarded by rail to Foxton to-day half a ton of bnt<"r. made on his farm, for shipment to the Sydney market, via Welling!^. Thisu an initial attempt to open up a regular market for this article in New South Wales, where prices for good butter rule very high. The annual meeting of the ratepayers of the Manchester Road Board, advertised to be held at the Town I [.ill at 2 p.m. to-ilay lapsed for want of the attendance of the number of ratepayers (C) required by the Act to make a meeting. The Chairman, with all the official.-., were present, but only one rateyayer put in an appearance. The Feilding Town Band will perform (weather permitting) on the Square, on Saturday, the 3rd inst. The following programme will be rendered :— l. Quick March — " Does your heart beat true to me." 2. Valse — " Boccaccio." 3. Slow March — "Kin? Christmas." 4. Quad rilles — " Echos from the West." 5. Quick March — "The Old Flag." 6 Polka—" Snow Bells." 7. Quick March — " Sing to me, the old Scotch songs. 8. Valse — "Silver Rhine." 9. Galop — "Never Scop." National Anthem. — S. Daw, Bandmaster. Some of the settlers who attend the stock sales complain that the lots in which the sheep are generally put up are too large for their requirements and resources. They say that while cattle are frequently offered in lots as small as one animal, sheep are generally in hundreds, or the least number offered as a rule is tne " run out" of 50. It has been suggested that if they were to be offered in lots of from a dozen or a score and upwards, many small farmers would " go in" for such lots. At Messrs Stevens and Gorton's sale on Tuesday last, one or two settlers said they would have liked a small lot, but the larger ones were to them out of the question. We again call attention to the important announcement in another column of the auction sale at Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill's rooms, on Saturday next, of the property of John Whitcombe, Esq., ' situated on the Kimbolton road. This ' property consists of a valuable and highly improved farm of upwards of 469 acres, with a substantial dwelling- house, orchard, outhouses and all the etceteras ©f a; large (arm. There are 240 acres cleared and in grass fenced and divided into paddocks. There is a quantity of good standing timber 'for milling and otherpurposes, and 60 head of cattle may be taken at raluation. The property is well watered, having the Oroua river for the back boundary. Altogether the property is a very desirable one, and as it is to be sold absolutely without reserve an exceedingly favorable oppor tun ity is presented to persons desirous of acquiring improved laud either for the pu pose of settlement or investment.