Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 6, 24 June 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

There is not a habitable house vacant in the Borough of Feilding. Mr Pearson, the member for Ashley, wants the members railway passes abolished, and so do the electors generally. Mr Robert Bruce has announced himself as a candidate for the Rangitikei seat. Messrs Atkins and Clere invite tenders for the erection of a house at Halcombe For particulars see advertisement. The value of hops is daily increasing in the English market, owing to the presence of vermin in the Heme crops. The resignation of Frank Y. Lethbridge, Esq., as Captain of the Manchester Riles has been gazetted. Messrs Lethbridge and Dowues forwarded by train to Foxton to-day about 360 sheep for the Gear Meat Preserving Company, Wellington. Mr Young, of Kimbolton road, has jnst received a large consignment of fresh fruit, consisting of oranges, apples, Ac, all of which are of a first clans character. . Drivers of cattle and sbeep complain th*t when their mobs are met by vehicles of any kind, the latter are neither pulled np nor drawn on one side to allow the former to pass qnietly. The consequence is that the mobs are divided and occasionally individual eattle or sbeep are separated from their companions and only lecovered with a deal of trouble. i Mr J. H. Bethume, of the Bank of Australasia, who has on various occasions : been in temporary charge of the Feilding ; Branch of the Bank, has been promoted , to the management of the Marton branch i of which he took eharge of yesterday. \ Mr Bethume is to be congratulated on : his well deserved promotion, and will take with him the good wishes of every , client of the Bank in Fedding. , To foster tbe cultivation of the orange ! in North Auckland. Government have , agreed to defray the cost of obtaining a ■ report on orange culture in New South I Wales. Mr Alderton,>f the " Northern \ Advocate," wbo was the first to go in for " orange cultivation in Whangarei 'having j laid down two acres three yean-ago), has 1 made a special stndy of the subject, and 1 is conversant with- the- matter in all - its I bearings -and he has 'undertaken to go I to Parramatterand make the desired ] report after full Inqinry.- Auckland Star. <

Mr Chamberlain is at present visiting j his relations in the Wairarapa. The determined opposition of the Advocate to tbe candidature of Mr John Sterens, will end in tbat gentleman beine returned for the Rangitikei. -, „ A new advertisement from Mr Bapiey, saddler, harness maker, &c, appears in another Column. In his new premises, to j which he has just removed, he has opened c up a new, varied, and choice stock of i saddlery of all descriptions, which he is t offering at most reasonable charges. ( We are requested to state that after the Kiwitea Bachelor's Ball on May 20th a small black fan, aud after the Feilding ( Assembly on June ISth, a black shawl ] were left in the Public Hall. The owners ± can receive the same on application to 1 Mr E. Goodbehere. ] Owing to pre?sure on our space we are . compelled to hold over our sporting con- , tributor " Procyoa's " notes, bnt publish hjs tips for the Hawke's Bay Bteeple- i chase9, Ac : — Handicap — Batunn I, , Chandler 2, Morning Star 3. Maiden — f Parnell 1, King Arthur 2, "bolition3. j Ladies' bracelet — Lady Artist 1. < In our advertising columns to-day * appears a notice from Mr Kendrick, of * the Marton brick and drain pipe yards, : intimating that he can supply drain pipes from two inches to a f uot in diameter, delivered on the trucks at the railway station ] Marton. The prices are remarkably low, and put them within the roach of j everyone. Tbe small sizes are admirably t adapted for garden diainage, and for side c walks, and the medium and lartje sizes t for field and street drains. At the division last night on the pro- j posed reduction of the honoriaum paid f to members, all of the so called "friends of the peoplo" voted «vith the " noes." Tbe whole of the members will therefore draw £210 for the session. Among the r members who voted for ths reduction are, , W. W. Johnston, Stevens and Wilson, ■> all members for constituences on this coast. Mr Watt, of Wanganui, voted for the full amount, and it will probably be the last time he will have the pleasure of drawing this allowance. Those who are desirous of obtaining J a supply of excellent bulbs, flowers, or c fruit and ornamental frees to plant this ■< spvinj-, will have an opportunity of doing \ so to-morrow, when Messrs Hnlcombp 1 and Sherwill will offer, at their sale room, c Forgusson street, the trees and shrubs j which were to have been sold on Satur- j day last, but which did not arrive in i time owing to a delay caused by the steamer. Tbey have now arrived, in splendid condition and will be sold as above, and are now on view at tho sale rooms. One of the best built and neatest look* ing vehicles ever manufactured in Feild- ( ing has j ust been turned out by Mr Rees ] to the order of Mr L. V. Horrocks of 1 Bulls. It is a deg-cart, in the English { style, painted in brown lake, picked ont, j and fine lined with pale Vermillion. It ] has plated mountings and lamps, is furnished with blue cloth cushions, with lace J to match. The workmanship and finish are both of an excellent character, and tbe capital style altogether in whieh the vehicle bas beeu turned out proves Mr * Rees to be a first-class tradesman. < We learn from Mr Macarthur, ('hair, man of thc Oroua County Council, that ■ the proclamation of tbe suspension of the ' Counties Act, in the Oroua County, conld not be issued in last Friday's Gazette. * We are informed that the Executive j Council would meet to-day and the mat- i terbedea't with finally. The proclamation ' may therefore appear in the next issue . of the Gazette. A meeting of the Conn- ( has been called for Friday next to meet j any hitch which may occur in the suspension, as that is tbe last day on whieh , applications nnder the Roads and Bridges j Construction Act ean be sent in. Ac* i counts to contractors and workmen 'Will • also be passed for payment. Should the < suspension be gazetted before Friday ( the meeting will not be held. j A few days ago two of a surrey party | visited a pert of the Otamakapna Btook, ■* on the east side of the Oroua River, to clear some ground for a trig, stqfjg^, . 1 They took with them sufficient provisions ° for two or three days, bnt the rivers rose and kept them prisoners beyond the a estimated time, and their stores were s soon exhausted. For three days they eked ont an existence on eight ounces J of flour. They tried to get to Ash- i, urst, bnt the country was too rough, and the streams were too flooded. * They caught and killed a wild boar, bnt , he was evicently " out of season," for ", both of them were made very ill after having eaten a portion of the pork. They J managed to cross the river on Saturday •nd return to camp very hungry bnt very little the worse for their adventure. Writing abont the New Zealand foot* . bailers, tbe Sydney Telegraph »ays: — £ The humiliation of defeat after defeat i» t somewhat softened by the reccollcetion ,w that Rugby football is the game of New Zealand, as cricket is the game of Aus- j, tralia. The Victoria winter is more favourable to football than the same sea »on in '- ew South Wales and Queensland. Experience proven that it will be. difficult to thoroughly acclimatise the. game in these Northern Colonies. We shall probably have to be content with what su periority we can win in the cricket field. a The best team of cricketers we could send to New Zealand would be as irium phant there a* the vixitmg footballers are "g nere. It is not pleasant to be beaten at j anything, bnt. the splendidly-trained » young fellows from across the water bare D not had reason to complain that "heir - skill and powers are not keenly. arid : heartily appreciated. • They give an exhibition of football sneh as bas neveV *" been witnessed in Australia before. And a they are an ocular demonstration of th'e * physical manhood which is being deveb n oped in New Zealand/ P